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FULTZ EQUIP RDI, Spring Mills, PA (814)422-8805 EDWARDS FARM EQUIP. 291 West Moorestown Road (Rt 512 Clearfield) Nazareth, PA (215)759-0240 $ V BALTIMORE, Md. - Baltimore county’s Hereford high school FFA chapter narrowly earned top honors in Maryland’s 1979 official com yield contest with a mark of 187.57 bushels per acre. A hair-breadth behind were three entries from the upper Eastern Shore: J.S. Quimby and Sons of Centreville, Queen Anne county, finished a close ») ' COMMITMENT TO QUALITY - at Case means dedication to quality from engineering through purchasing, manufacturing and marketing. It follows the tractor right to the farm. It also includes a free “fix-it” policy (at 90-day or 200-hour post-delivery check up) for all repairs not resulting from neglect or misuse. All this is in addition to the warranty E. W. BILEWICZ NEVIN N. MYER EQUIP., IRC. & SONS, IRC. Elmer Rd , Richwood. NJ RDI, Chester Springs, PA (609)881-2692 (215)827-7414 Baltimore again tops Maryland corn contest fl : T Ll¥ doing something about it. BINKLEY S HURST BROS. 133 Rothsville Station Rd Lititz, PA (717) 626-4705 second at 187.5 bushels per acre; Olan H. Simpkins, 17, of Millington, Kent county, placed third with 187.0 bushels per acre; Michael C. Cohey of Chestertown, Queen Annes county, was fourth with 186.2. Alan W. Baynard of Trape, Talbot county, placed fifth at 181.15 bushels per acres. He and the other winners have You want quality tractors. As the Trac tor Specialist, we’re doing something about it. JI Case A Tenneco Company Agricultural Equipment Division 700 State Street Racine, Wl 53404 U.S A PEOPLES SALES & SERVICE POHIATOWSKI BROS. EQUIP. been honored at banquets during the past two months for achievements within their respective county com yield contests. The official state com yield contest has been conducted since 1952 as part of the crop improvement programs of the Extension Service at the University of Maryland in College Park. Yield measurements are supervised bv Extension agricultural agents in participating counties, and awards to state winners are presented each year by the Maryland Crop Im- Md. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. Southern Maryland’s tobacco farmers can lay claim to the oldest exporting tradition in the state and figures for fiscal 1979 show that $15,679,000 of then- prize leaf was exported. This represented an almost $2 million increase from the year before period but did not exceed the $l7 million Maryland tobacco \\ Case builds nothing but tractors BAER’S GARAGE INC. 2407 Marsh Pike Hagerstown, MD (301) 733-8226 Oakland Mills, PA (717 J 463-2735 provement Association. An official state soybean yield contest is operated m a similar manner. The 1979 state com and soybean yield champions will be honored during an evening banquet on February 26 in the Tidewater Inn at Easton. Those awards will be presented m conjunction with the seventy-third an nual meeting of the Maryland Crop Im provement Association. This is the fifth con secutive year that a Baltimore cou"*y tobacco exports rise during 1979 shipments overseas recorded in fiscal 1977. Ronald L. Johnson, Director of the Maryland Department of Agriculture's Division of Marketing commented on the tobacco export figures noting, “American agriculture has set an all time record of $32 billion m exports m fiscal 1979 resulting m a net for the farm. Km C. H. WALTZ SONS, INC. RDI, Cogan Station, PA (717)435-2921 Rt 31 at Church St Flemington, NJ (201)782-3514 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,1980—C25 representative has won the annual state com yield contest. And it is the fourth time m those five years that the winning entry was produced by the no-tillage method. The top five producers in the 1979 official state yield contest achieved field populations averaging 22,360 com plants per acre at harvest time. They applied an average of 131 pounds of nitrogen per acre to their contest fields during the growing season, and all used at least three different pesticides for agriculture trade surplus of $15.8 billion. “These export earnings from the farm benefit the entire American economy by helpmg earn the money needed to pay for such vital imports as oil. Agriculture, as exemplified by the tobacco farms right here in Maryland, leads the way when it comes to positive economic news on the world trade front,” Johnson ■ concluded.. The quantity of Maryland tobacco exported for the fiscal 1979 period, according to figures compiled by USDA, was 3486 metric tons which at 2200 pounds per ton, translates into 7,669,200 pounds which is a more familiar measurement to CUSTOM BUILT HIGH PRESSURE WASHER Portable or Stationary Detergents or Soap Fluid Injection Available WE MANUFACTURE • Custom Built Hog, Cattle Gates and Head Gates to Your Specifications • Coal Fired Bucket A Day Stoves ■ • Machine Wort rw Farm Supplies tJßsgy&j Hardware —r ★ Suburban Wood & Coal Stoves ★ New & Used Structural Pipe ★ NOW We Can Repair Worn Shafts With a Special Powdered Steel Build Up Torch D.S. MACHINE SHOP 3816 E NEWPORT RD . RDI GORDONVILLE, PA 17529 1 Mile East of Intercourse on Rt 772 Write or Try and Call 717-768-8569 (Outside Phone) Dealer Inquires Invited chemical control of weeds, and soil insects. Row widths averaged slightly less than 33 mches, and three of the top five utilized 30-inch spacing between rows. With a cool, damp spring, the average planting date for the top five entries was May The official Maryland state corn yield record has stood since 1965. That mark is 207.59 bushels per acre. It was set by an Eastern Shore partnership which included Edward H. Boyd of Wye Mills. tobacco growers on the farm. Maryland tobacco, known all over the world as “Type -32”, is the state’s oldest exported product, having moved in foreign trade since the state’s founding m 1633. Some 13 foreign countries were listed as destinations for the FY 79 Maryland tobacco shipments: Swit zerland, Ecuador, West Germany, Belgium-Luxen bourg and the Netherlands being the five leading takers. Other nations receiving the tobacco during the period were: Panama, the Bahamas, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Nor way, France, Australia anc New Zealand.
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