ew silos bo (Continued from Page 14) a company from Sioux City, heavy work. But we u lowa. - that they recruit local “Normally, the con- crews, and most of the auction company would dozen or so laborers v bring along a crew of un- college kids home from jjoUed laborers to handle the summer. We even had TROY-BILT® a ROTO TILLERS /Tj) Biggest Saving's of the Year Now in effect A Free Killer Furrer With Purchase of Troy bilt Tiler ALL MODELS IN STOCK, READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY TROY-BILT FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER WE TRY TO FOLLOW FACTORY DISCOUNTS NUTRI-SIL SILAGE INOCULANT “Nature’s Way To Better Silage” For years, it has been known that the secret to silage success is bacterial fer mentation of a very special kind. Until economic considerations focused attention on the specific process by which good silage is produced, it was not realized that Livestock Producers could CONTROL the development of silage even during its most critical stages of refinement the first 36 hours. Nutri-Sil is safe, easy to apply, and adds to what you can expect to gain from this year’s silage. FERTRELL COMPANY BOX 215 BAINBRIDGE, PA. 17502 717-367-1566 “Leaders in Animal Nutrition" ECO’ SOIL SERVICES Box 252 Blue Ball, PA 17506 717-354-0867 Produced By Distributors: WEAVER HURST R D. #2 Narvon, PA 17555 717-768-3296 or six women in the crews.” like the feed mill, the slipform crews worked around the clock. Concrete trucks from the Kurtz Brothers plant in Bphrata rumbled over a continuous day-and-night route for a month while construction was going on. The concrete was poured over a skeleton of in terlocking steel reinforcing bars placed inside the form, a double-walled steel ring as big around as the silo. As the concrete at the bottom of the form har dened, the form was remedies to aid iron problems WEST CHESTER—Iron in water can interfere with household cleaning and grooming routines It can cause staining of plumbing fixtures, washers and dishwashers; discolor fabrics during laundering; impart a yellow cast to dinnerware and give water an objectionable taste. There are permanent solutions and temporary remedies to these problems. 1. Cutting the crop. Feeding silage offers you the advantage of being able to cut your crop before protein digestibility and palatability are reduced by overmaturity. Use this to your advantage by cutting near the following recommendations: Product Corn Forage Sorghum When leaves begin 70-74% to turn Clover Alfalfa Cereal Grains milk to soft dough 70-80% High moisture ear corn Grass 2. Moisture Content. Moistqre is essential to the ensiling process; it provides water for lactic acid-forming bacteria and it promotes compaction. On the other hand, excessive free moisture or heat will result in excessive run-off and silo wall pressure. Silage approaches an ideal state when essential moisture is kept high but free or run-off moisture is held to a minimum. Since moisture and lactic-acid forming bacteria work together in the ensiling pro cess, Nutn-Sil can help you approach the right moisture level by improving moisture tolerance...reducing heat and run-off. Many operators use the “squeeze test” to determine when cut forage has the proper dry matter/moisture balance. This test consists of giving a handful of forage a good squeeze with both hands. Moisture is about right when the result ing ball expands slowly—if it pops open or crumbles, it is too dry for good silage. If it remains a tight ball, it is too moist. EDWIN M. MARTIN RD #2 Quarryville, PA 17566 717-786-2815 gradually slipped up, hence ' the term “slipform”. The form moved upward at the rate of an inch every five minutes. In all, the new silos con sumed some 1,700 cubic yards of high density con crete, with another 500 yards used in the pouring of a massive underground pad which serves as a foun dation. Slipforming was some 30- percent cheaper than the more usual methods of construction, Greenwood said, with no sacrifice in structural strength. Household As a chemical constituent of water, iron comes from both natural sources and manmade sources—rusting of pipes, water heaters, other objects of cast iron and steel, and industrial wastes. Iron-is present in water in two forms—ferrous or ferric. In the ferrous form (dissolved), the solution is nearly colorless and generally causes little Maturity Moisture Early dent Vz heads in bloom 70-80% 1/10 heads in bloom 70-80% milk to soft dough 40-42% when first stems head 65-75% (Turn to Page 38) 68-72% Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1979—27 Hallowell calls qg districting “key element" for land use (Continued from Page 1) monwealth could well be the foundation upon which Pennsylvania’s efforts to preserve agricultural land is built.” The Agriculture Secretary added that Agricultural Districting “will not be the final answer, but only a step toward the final solution” of this highly important issue. Hallowell said that with the concept of agricultural districting, flexible and aggressive farming ac tivities should be permitted. “The nght to farm after Agricultural Districts are created is mandatory if we are to preserve agricultural land. Unless we preserve the farmer and his right to farm, any legislation to preserve agricultural land will only lead to failure,” he said. “Pennsylvania’s farmland is under increasing pressure from urban growth and expanding needs for supporting facilities such as highways, airports, power plants and residential, in dustrial and recreational areas. Demands for food and fiber for domestic and ex port needs add to the crisis facing a nation with a shrinking supply of good land,” he noted. Agricultural districting is a variation of the farm zone concept, with a critical difference, according to Hallowell. “Participation in agricultural districting is voluntary and usually for med via petitions' on the part of landowners or local governments. It combines the positive incentives to encourage fanning, such as preferential assessment and relief from nuisance regulations, with negative • BARN PAINTING • ROOF PAINTING • BIN PAINTING • We sandblast barns before painting them so that paint will stick to them and last longer. • Also, RESTORATION ON BRICK AND STONE HOMES - sandblasting, repointing and water proofing. All work is guaranteed satisfactory. “Call the Country p oys with the Country Prices” GEBHfIRTIS Box 199, R.D. 4 Hanover, PA 17331 Ph: 717-637-8183 or 637-0222 disincentives to discourage non-farm activities.” Hallowell also noted,that agricultural districting has the advantage of good political and public ac ceptance, since districts can only be created based on the will of a group of lan downers. It is imperative that local officials be given the tools to use their own initiative in farmland preservation efforts, as they are best suited to determine the optimum usage of local land resources. The first step in any land preservation program, Hallowell said would require an inventory of the areas which ought to be preserved as well as an expression of the willingness of the lan downers involved to par ticipate. “By the simple fact of establishing themselves in an Agricultural District, landowners will have an swered those two questions for us. Local officials will then be able to enter into a dialogue with the individuals to establish an appropriate preservation method,” he said.
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