ATTENTION FARMERS Now Is The Time To Think About Getting Rid Of Those Pesty Flies BEEF & DAIRY SPRAY CREUTZBURG, INC. Livestock Supplies On The Farm Service - PH: 717-768-718 r Open Daily - 8 to 5; Saturday 8 to 12 ★ PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE BY MAIL CREUTZBURG. INC. | Lincoln Highway East, Box 7 | Paradise, PA 17562 I Send For FREE CATALOG NAME STREET CITY STATE FOR GRAIN g Snowco High Perfofnnonce ■ Top Drive ? Augers 'H This new line of augers—the result of years of expenence in the design of high performance augers offer features that maximize capacity, plus high lift transports with wide axle stability, safety shielded intake guards and safety grain release doors on the discharge end Available in 35' to 55’ lengths (6" diameter) and 35' to 70’ lengths (8" diameter) Three-Way Rotating Grain Cleaners Removes Large, Coarse Materials as Well as Fines, Cracked Kernels, Weed Seeds, Other Small Materials At any pnce, it pays to clean your gram and SNOWCO offers an improved way to do it You can do it in a hurry, too Capacity will run from 500 to 2,000 bushels per hour, depending upon the kind of grain being cleaned and its moisture content CAN BE USED WITH ALL CROPS Interchangeable screens available for com, milo, soy beans, edible beans, cereal grains, and other crops. £ PYRENONE DAIRY AEROSOL ZIP 6" and 8" Diameters */ Snowco Model 23-067 Cleaner shown with optional equipment, including cleaner transport loading auger, auger hopper and hopper dolly NEWARK, Del. - Little research has been done concerning the effects various tillage practices, have on insect pests of field crops. University of Delaware extension pest management specialist Mark Graustein thinks this is an area where farmers could use some enlightening. Over the past few years he and fellow entomologists at the University have noted a number of ways m which cultural practices appear to influence insect populations m crops like corn and soybeans. In the case of soil insects, for instance, he says it’s generally felt that the less tillage there is, the more favorable the environment for soil insect pests. Ap parently there’s something to be said for the physical movement of the sod in their supression. Cultivation kills some, while it bunes others. It also eliminates weeds and other hosts which can encourage pest build-ups. This is one reason why extension AND HAY BALE ELEVATORS '7 I f * S 4 / Sturdy square tube construe tion. Basic 16' unit tional so that other se< can be inserted for gr lengths With this unit as thi basis, complete bale handling systems can be tailored for use in the field or in the mow. Center Drive Augers move Drain Fast Snowco s center drive design has been farm proven it is particularly effective in moving high moisture gram Center drive augers offer features that maximize capacity, plus high lift transports with wide axle stability, safety shielded intake guards and safety gram release door in discharge end Available in 35 to 55' lengths (6 diameter) and 35 to 70 lengths (8' diameter) West Springfield, MA 01089 1314 Union St. 413-739-5607 How cultural practices insect control help farm Distributed by L S. WOODHOUSE CO., INC. ‘‘Serving Northeast Agriculture Thru Equipment Dealers Since 1843" Syracuse, N.Y. 13206 111 Baker St. 315-463-5201 specialists often recommend interrupting a no-tillage regimen with a conventional planting every few years. As far as insects that live above the ground are con cerned, no-tillage or minimum tillage appears to work against the buildup of pests like the European com borer and the Mexican bean beetle. “There is evidence,” says Graustein, “that no-till in terferes with the increase of these populations. ’ ’ With the bean beetle this may be due to the planting date when soybeans are double-cropped after barley and wheat. In this case the beans are planted late enough to miss the first beetle infestation. With early com, growth is a little slower in no-till plantings at the early stage of development. And since early planted conventional com gets off to a faster start, the com borer is attracted to it first. Though this isn’t the total answer, the entomologist says it may be one ex- i- r- w 6" and 8” Diameters Camp Hill, PA 17011 2310 Gettysburg Rd 717-737-0591 Waterville, ME 04901 Sanger Ave. 207-873-3288 Lancaster FaraMCf Satartfay, Hay 10,1990—€ planation for the greater pressure on such early, conventional plantings. Row spacing also has an effect on insect populations. In com, narrow rows may favor dispersal of European com borer larvae. Once plants touch, and borer is freer to move about and spread. On the other hand, m soybeans, the quicker the canopy doses the less egg laying there’ll be by moths of pod feeding insects especially the com ear worm. As suggested earlier, tuning of plantings is quite important for exposure to most of our major pests - especially the com borer and bean beetle. The earlier the crop is planted, the greater it’s chances of suffering economic damage from either pest, says Graustem. This is because it’s exposed to overwintering populations of these insects. Weed control is another factor that can make a Order 4 Class I price up ALEXANDRIA, VA - Middle Atlantic Order Market Adminstrator Joseph D. Shine Monday announced a Class I milk price of $14.46 per hun dredweight for June 1980. This price is nine cents above the May price and up $1.50 from last June. Order 4 prices are an nounced for milk testing 8.3 percent butterfat, f.o.b. plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia, and also within 75 miles from the nearer of Washington, DC or Baltimore, MD. There is also a 6-cent direct-delivery differential applicable to producer milk received at plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia. Wednesday is Li DAIRY CT DAY AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. New Holland, PA If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price. Mostly fresh and close springing hols tems. Cows from local farmers and our regular ship pers include Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite, Kelly Boser, Bill Lang, Blaine Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, H.D Matz, and Jerry Miller SALE STARTS - 12:00 SHARP Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw & Ear Corn 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 717-397-5538 W difference in insect pressure. With both soybeans and corn you can run into trouble when annual grasses are allowed to develop. These are a favorite egg laying site for the fall armyworm as well as cer tain other related pests. For the same reason, it’s important to get good kill of a small grain cover. Besides rapid canopy closing, weed control can be favored by tillage in soybeans where row spacing permits. If your herbicide has been applied properly, cultivation helps remove weeds - particularly annual grasses with herbicide stunted roots - so you get cleaner ground around your plants. One cultural practice which shouldn’t be overlooked is seed treatment with an insecticide, as well as a fungicide. On soybeans, m particular, this is a cheap form of insurance against seed com magot and other soil insects that attack the germinating seed. As you prepare for the coming growing season, keep these cultural factors in mind. Where they fit into your production schedule they can help you reduce insect pressure on your crops this summer. Shine announced a Class 11 milk price of $11.61 per hundredweight for April 1980 and a butterfat differential of 15.4 cents for the month. The Class II milk price was up five cents from the previous month while the butterfat differential in creased four tenths of a cent. These class prices are based on the April 1980 Minnesota-Wisconsin man ufacturing milk price of $11.68 per hundredweight adjusted to a 3.5 percent butterfat content. The USDA reported that the wholesale price of Grade A butter at Chicago for April was $1.3426 per pound and the nonfat dry milk price was $.8711 per pound, f.o.b. plants in the Chicago area. 117
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