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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
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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.
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BOX 215
BAINBRIDGE, PA. 17502
717-367-1566
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Blue Ball, PA 17506
717-354-0867
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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%
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68-72%
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 1,1979—27
Hallowell calls qg districting
“key element" for land use
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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.