—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 8,1978
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Farmers are harnessing more gasoline engines
TOLEDO, Ohio - Over the
last decade, the number of
gasolme-powered engines
per commercial farm in the
United States increased by
13.5 per cent
According to a study by
Champion Spark Plug
Company, the average farm
in 1966 had 7.4 gasoline
engines Ten years later.
Fertilizer producers
up energy efficiency
WASHINGTON, DC. -
Major U.S. fertilizer
producers improved energy
efficiency in fertilizer
production during 1977 by an
average 12 per cent above
1972, according to a report
submitted to the US.
Department of Energy by
The Fertilizer Institute The
energy efficiency average is
based on a survey for results
fiom July through
December, 1977, compared
to 1972 base year date for the
industry. Included are
reports from companies
designated by the govern
ment for filing energy ef
ficiency figures, and also
companies who are filing
voluntarily in the Institute
sponsored report.
Edwin M. Wheeler, TFI
president, while explaining
the report, pointed out that
energy use per ton of fer
tilizer produced during July-
December, was 3.65 million
BTU’s, excluding oper
ational changes.
“Had there not been im
provements since 1972 m
energy use efficiency,” he
said, “4.16 million BTU’s per
ton would have been used.”
Thus, the efficiency gam
was equivalent to 0.51
million BTU’s per ton of
fertilizer,” he added. Ap
plied to 51.6 million tons
consumed m 1977, this gam
represented an energy
Northeast
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closed steady to $5 lower,
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finished $1 lower in a limited
test
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there was an average of 8 4
engines on each farm. The
statistics are even more
significant because diesel
powered tractors are not
included in the study (A
commercial farm is defmed
as one that has an annual
gross income from farming
of $2,500 or more).
According to the recently
savings of about 26 trillion
BTU’s - equivalent to about
26 million mcf of natural gas,
or 4 5 million barrels of oil
With fertilizer production
requiring nearly one per
cent of the nation’s total
annual energy consumption,
fertilizer producers are
making major efforts in
energy conservation and in
converting from scarce
forms of energy to more
abundant sources.
Sheep club
learns fitting
CARLISLE-The 4-H
Sheep Club of Cumberland
County held its June meeting
at the home of Robert
Holtry, the group’s leader.
Holtry demonstrated how to
prepare the sheep for
showing. Shearing, blocking,
hoof trimming, and
showmanship were shown.
The July meeting will be
held at the home of Mark and
Tom Lebo.
Time To Rise
The draftee was rudely
awakened by the sergeant
“It’s four-thirty,” was the
roar “Four’thirtyreplied
the recruit “You’d better
get to bed, surge, we’ve got a
long day ahead of us
tomorrow
550 to 700 pounds, brought
$86.50 Boneless cow beef, 90
per cent lean, sold at $lOO to
$lOl Prime special fed veal,
hide on, 180 to 225 pounds,
went from $l3O to $l4O Good
and Choice boning veal, 34
pounds and down, were
priced $BB to $9O, with a few
late sales going down to $B6
Fresh pork loins, 14 to 17
pounds, moved at $lO3 50
ZIP
completed study-the eighth
farm spark plug survey
Champion has performed
over the years-the number
of commercial farms in the
U.S in 1976 totaled 1,711,318,
a reduction of nearly 38,600
since 1966
However, gasoline-powe
red vehicles and equipment
on U.S. farms grew from
13,034,00(j in 1966 to 14,459,000
just a decade later
The only category where
the number of gasoline
engmes decreased - a drop
of 11 per cent - was tractors,
although there are still more
than 3.1 million m use.
But dramatic mcreases
were noted in all other
categories of farm vehicles
and equipment The
Champion study showed that
there are 11 per cent more
automobiles on farms than a
decade ago, 12 per cent more
miscellaneous engmes, 32
per cent more trucks, and 52
per cent more self-propelled
vehicles
Paralleling the increase in
the number of vehicles per
farm should be an increase
in the concern for proper
maintenance of these
vehicles
The Champion survey
discovered that 71 per cent of
the spark plugs in farm
vehicles are installed by the
farmer or a farm employee.
This represents a much
higher proportion of do-it
yourself maintenance than
found in non-farm sectors m
the United States.
The benefits of such
periodic tune-ups for all
vehicles have been brought
into focus m recent years
with higher gasoline prices,
predicted shortages of fuel,
and increased concern about
emissions.
Another Champion report,
which may have become
dusty on its shelf, contains
findings on the benefits of
keeping a tractor in tune that
seem as accurate now as a
decade ago when the test
was conducted
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The conclusion from the
test - that the gasoline
powered, internal com
bustion engine performs
better and with greater fuel
efficiency when it receives
periodic tune-ups-has been
substantiated through the
years by other Champion
testing programs
The program, conducted
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unique tests ever performed
by Champion It involved
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United States and Canada on
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in “as found” condition and
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The findings reached were
that periodic farm tractor
tune-up will benefit the
farmer by increasing the
acreage covered for the
same working time period
For an eight-hour working
day, the tests demonstrated
that a farmer could cover an
average of two additional
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acres after a tune-up, tor an
increase in productivity of
nearly 5 per cent. Computed
another way, the findings
showed that a tractor tune
up provided an average fuel
savings of nearly 10 per cent.
Although the number of
gasoline-powered tractors
has dimunshed in recent
years, the benefits of tune
ups are still important to the
farm owner, who operates a
growing fleet of vehicles that
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