Tomato growers
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for your crops can be ban
ded.”
He recommended banding
fertilizer whenever possible.
Sweet com and snap, bean
suggestions were two inches
to the side and two inches
below the seed. Recom
mendations for tomatoes
were to use double bands,
four tq six inches out on
seeder plants.
Dr. Earl Meiser,
EVERY
WEDNESDAY IS
m* dairy
0T day
AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
Consignments for Wednesday, February 21 Sale
Herd of 50 Holstein Cows from Butler County, fresh
and springers. Some cows due July, Aug., Sept, and
Oct. Iliese cows are averaging 50 lbs. milk per day.
Also 8 head heifer calves, some purebreds. This is a
top herd of cows consigned by Kelly Bowser.
SALE STARTS -12:00 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday;
Hay, Straw & Ear Com Sale -12:00 Noon.
All Dairy & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact:
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
- 717-354-4341
Norman Kolb
U 717-397-5538
FEBR
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CASE 995,58 h.p., 12 speed - *9400
COMPARE, YOU'LL GO CASES
OPEN HOUSE
NEW EQUIPMENT INTRODUCTION AT 10 A.M.
AND 1 P.M. FEATURING THE CASE 90 SERIES TRACTORS
- LUNCH SERVED FROM 11 A.M. TO 1 P.M. -
A. L.HERR&BRO. Quarryville, Pa.
b
hydrogeologist, reported
that Pennsylvania has
recently developed a method
of spray irrigation for high
organic wastes with a
minimum of pretreatment.
“At first, 85 per cent of the
biochemical oxygen demand
(organic waste) needed to
removed. The same can now
be achieved by spraying the
organic waste on a field of
cover crop.
Meiser said there were two
lARY TRACT
objectives when field
spraying. You can not spray
more than a field can take,
and the waste should be
treatable. The purpose of
the cover crop, as an
example, grasses, is to
decrease the surface run off.
With seasonal application
the fields can be harvested.
In Pennsylvania, DER has
certain criteria that must be
followed in order to spray.
There is a limit to a four per
cent slope, with penmnent
sod cover the limit is a eight
percent slope. In a forest
area, a 14 per cent slope is
allowed. It also depends on
the drainage and thickness
of the soii. The usual
maximum on spraying is two
inches of liquid per week.
In loamy soils, with three
to four feet of top soil, and no
drainage problems, the
permeability of the soil will
R SPECIALS
be rapid to moderately
rapid.
When dealing with thinner
soils, two to three feet deep,
the spray rate has to be
lowered because of the
seasonal increase in water
supply.
Meiser said the ideal soil
for spraying is deep
weathered bedrock with the
fractures closed and thick
soil, or, bedrock burned
under thick deposits of soil.
Limestone terrain was
described as among the most
sensitive soils It is very
sensitive due to the nature of
the soil with sink holes and
lime. It is very easy to
contaminate the ground
water in a limestone terrain.
When “waste eventually
reaches the water table, it
tends to move sideways until
it reaches points of natural
discharge. It would be ideal
to have the water table 10
feet from the land surface.
Consequently, heavy spray
loading at Spring and the
rising of the water table
The great all-weathi
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with the scientif
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shred and spread m.
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GEHL
Gets into your system
from the Spring thawmg of
snow will saturate the land
and water table causing a
swampy situation.” Meiser
said that the direct ground
water flow must be iden
tified and it must be
determined where the water
is moving He suggested the
LANCASTER - The
Lancaster County Swine
Producer’s Day will be held
February 27 in the
auditorium of the Farm and
Home Center, Lancaster,
starting at 8:30 a.m.
Topics throughout the day
will include: Hog and feed
outlook by Louis Moore,
Penn State Extension
economist; managing swine
waste, by Roger Grout,
Extension engineer; feeder
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DESIGNED,
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 17,1979
Feb. 27 is Swine
Producer’s Day
layout of the field to be
sprayed be set up on a
rotating basis, dividing the
land into seven sections and
spraying one section per day
per week. The rate of ap
plication should not exceed
one-quarter inch per hour.
pig health, by Larry Hut
chinson, Extension
veterinarian; large-scale
swine management, by
Melvin Huber, manager of
Habegger's Mountain View
Farm, Myerstown Rl; and
swine reproduction, by Dr.
Daniel Hagen, Penn State.
A number of local swine
business concerns will be
displaying their products
and equipment.
Dairy meeting
ELKTON, Md. - A series
of special dairy meeting will
be held at Frock’s Sun
nybrook Farm Restaurant,
in Westminster, Md. on
February 27, March 6, and
13, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
On 27, the
meeting will ''deal with
nutrition with Or. Hemken,
University of Kentucky, and
Dr. Murley of VPI, as
speakers. On March 6, Dr.
Hansel of Cornell, and Dr.
White of VPI will talk on
reproduction and selection.
Management will be covered
on March 13.
Lunch will cost $3.50 per
day and there is a $5 fee for
regristation. Those in
terested should call im
mediately to Janet L. Shank,
Ext. Agent, Cedi Co., Md.
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