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COLLEGE PARK The
Cecil County Cooperative
Extension Service an
nounces two winter meeting
dates.
On Tuesday, February 19,
there will be a Dairy Day
held at the Calvert Grange
Hall beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Joseph Manspeaker,
D.V.M. from the University
of Maryland will give
dairymen some pointers on
raising replacement heifer
calves for their milking
herds. He will outline herd
health tools that will make
raising heifers easier and
better. The causes,
prevention, and treatment of
AGRISPON is a non-toxic, biological soil
inoculant that converts nitrogen from the air
into nitrate nitrogen in the soil to supply crops
with most or all the nitrogen they require for
growth and maturation, in addition, AGRISPON
multiplies the life in the soil, helps build humus
and improves the root structure of plants.
GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS - A study using
orchard grass on 20 Pennsylvania soils showed
that in 14 out of 20 soils, AGRISPON treated
samples yielded better than the untreated
samples. The overall yield increase was 6.2%.
Where nitrogen was used in addition to
AGRISPON, the AGRISPON treated plots yielded
3.9% greater than nitrogen alone. In a test on
beans, AGRISPON increased the dry weight of the
bean samples. Agrispon also increased the
average height of the beans.
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Cecil Co. to hold Dairy/Agronomy Days
mastitis will also be on his
list of topics.
Robert Lidums, attorney,
will discuss the pros and
cons of reorganizing a farm
operation. He has had ex
perience working with
farmers in setting up part
nerships, incorporating, or
retaining sole ownership.
Lee Majeskie, dairy
specialist, from the
University of Maryland, will
wrap up the day by leading a
panel discussion on various
management practices.
Panel members will include
Joe Ayres, Billy Kilby, Sam
Orr, and Ronnie Underwood.
Agronomy Day will be
PENN STATE TESTS PROVE
AGRISPON WORKS IN PENNSTLVANIA
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS Lab studies conducted by Penn State confirmed that
large numbers of viable aerobic micro-organisms were present in AGRISPON. Several
nitrate studies on AGRISPON were statistically analyzed and showed that the in
creases produced by AGRISPON were statistically significant. Results from repeated
experimentation showed;
* AGRISPON treated samples increased 31%and 43% in nitrate-nitrogen levels
in just 6 days.
★ AGRISPON increased nitrate-nitrogen 44.3% and 78% in 15 days.
★ AGRISPON increased nitrate levels 33% in lab samples, but showed a slight
decrease in soils which had been treated with sewage sludge.
taken from
data
and
from
subpoenaed
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held on February 21 at the
same location.
There will be a presen
tation on the Little North
East Watershed project by
Dave Wilson, Soil Con-
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Proposed changes in
regulations governing the
Agricultural Foreign In
vestment Disclosure Act
which would alter the
reporting requirement for
foreign investors—were
announced Monday by Ray
Fitzgerald, administrator of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Agricultural
servation Service and Mollie
Ivins,
Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service. They will
also provide an update on
water quality management.
Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
Fitzgerald said one change
would raise from five to
twenty percent the
aggregate
foreign interest in a com
pany that would constitute
“significant interest or
substantial control,” and
make clear than when
regulations refer to a
In 1977, the Pennsylvania Fertilizer, Soil
Conditioner and Plant Substance Law was
passed by the State Legislature. As a result of
this Act, AGRISPON and other products were
tested by Penn State University to determine
their effect on Pennsylvania soils. Below is an
outline of the results from these tests con
ducted in the years 1978-79.
FIELD TESTS - There was an 11% increase in
grain yield where one application of AGRISPON
was applied. Side by side, plots showed an in
crease of 26% in protein where AGRISPON was
used. The second application was never applied as
it was supposed to have been. The plots were not
limed and had a PH range of 5.2 to 7.3. Plots had
previously been used for testing the effect of
sewage sludge and were not uniform in crop
history.
On another side by side plot, AGRISPON
treatment showed a 21% greater soil nitrate
nitrogen level and 23% greater protein in the
corn.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16,1980—€
Trooper Rudy from the
North East State Police
Barracks will discuss the
laws and regulations for
farm truck licensing.
Other speakers will in-
changes
“combination,” they mean
only a group of individuals or
governments who are acting
in concert.
The other change would
generally exempt all
agricultural, forestry and
timber land not exceeding 10
acres in the aggregate from
reporting requirements.
However, if products
grown on these under-10-
Send Me □ More Information
□ Gal. AGRISPON @ $70.00
ADDRESS
CITY
PHONE NO
SEND TO: AGRISPON
2205. wnd St., Dillsburg, PA 17019
elude: Allan Bandel, no-till;
John Gird, gasohoi; Lester
Vough,
management; and Norman
Collins, energy used for
various tillage systems.
in act
acre tracts yield annual
gross sales of more than
$lOOO, the land must he
reported to ASCS, Fitzgerald
said.
Comments should be
addressed to the ad
ministrator, USDA-AtfCS,
Room 218-W, P.O. Box 2415,
Washington, D.C. 20013.
STATE
ZIP
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