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For The Following:
Barley
• Pennrad
• Henry
• Barsoy
• Maury
We Also Have
• Vetch • Timothy
• Alfalfa • Pasture
• Clover Mixes
• Rye
Get your order in early so you can be assured of
varieties you need. You can pickup or we'll
deliver when you’re ready to plant.
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Wheat
• Hart
• Redcoat
• Abe
• Arthur
• Potomac
• Pennoli
• Logan
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BETTS EQUIPMENT COLUMBIA EQUIP. CO.
New Hope, PA
215-598-7501
BIG VALLEY SALES
& SERVICE INC.
PO Box 548, Reedsville, PA
717-667-3944
CANYON IMPLEMENTS,INC.
RDI, Rt 6
Mansfield, PA
717-724-2731
CLAPPER FARM EQUIP.
RDI, Alexandria, PA
814-669-9015
NEWARK, Del. - Many
fanners are buying small
grain seed now to plant this
fall after corn and soybeans
are harvested. It’s
sometimes hard to choose
what varieties to plant, since
performance vanes a lot
from year to year.
For this reason. Univer
sity of Delaware extension
crops specialist Frank Webb
urges farmers to look at
three to four year averages,
rather than single year
results, when selecting a
small gram variety. This
way you’re more likely to
have a good crop regardless
of the vaganes of the
weather.
Bloomsburg, PA
717-784-7456
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RT #2, Marion Center, PA
412-286-9606
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EXCHANGE, INC.
East Petersburg, PA
717-569-8756
GUS FARM EQUIP.
RT 616 Box 85, Seven Valleys. PA
717-428-1967
How to
GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE MAIDENCREEK FARM
RD #2, Box 36, Quarryville, PA SUPPLY
717-786-7318 Blandon. PA
215-926-3851
ROBERT 0. HAMPTON INC.
Route 49, PO Box 109, Shiloh, NJ
609-451-9520
choose fall small grains
Webb suggests growers
take a close look at some of
the new wheat and barley
vaneties that have done well
in local performance trials
over the past few years.
Results are now available on
the 1980 trials. These were
conducted by the Delaware
Extension Service at two
locations - the university’s
Georgetown Substation and
the Wesley Webb farm near
Sandtown.
“If some of these varieties
look good to you,” he says,
“try a small lot of seed on
your own farm this fall. It
will give you a chance to
evaluate some of the newest
releases on the market and
I.G. SALES
Silverdale, PA
215-257-5136
LEISER’S INC.
3608 Nazareth Pike
Bethlehem, PA
215-691-3070
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13,1950—C29
may give you a year or two
jump on a variety that’s not
yet commercially available
in large supply.”
If you find something that
does well under your par
ticular growing conditions,
you may want to save some
of the gram to plant next
year. This way you won’t
have to compete with
everyone else for seed of a
highly desirable new
variety.
Wheat varieties that
looked good this year were
Delta Queen, McNair 1003,
Pioneer S-76 and S-78, and
Titan.
Potomac and Coker 747
were omitted from the 1980
REED BROTHERS EQUIP.
Petticoat Bridge Rd , Columbus, NJ
609-298-3441
ROORKS FARM
SUPPLY INC.
RD3, Hwy No 77, Elmer, NJ
609-358-3100
WENGER’S, INC.
S Race St, Myerstown, PA
717-866-2138
Delaware trial by mistake
but performed satisfactorily
in University of Maryland
tests. Though Abe, Arthur
and Arthur 71 are still doing
fairly well, if seed of some of
these other varieties is
available, Webb suggests
giving them a try.
At Georgetown both wheat
and barley were planted in a
loamy sand soil October 25
last year at the rate of 1.5
bushels per acre (wheat)
and two bushels per acre
(barley).
Plots were top-dressed in
the spring with 70 poungs of
nitrogen per acre.
Potassium and phosphorus
were applied in the fall
according to soil test
recommendations. Plots
yielded an average of 36.8
bushels (wheat) and 39.7
(barley).
The Sandtown planting
date for both grains was
October 29, using the same
population rates as at
Georgetown. Soil type was a
sandy loam. Plots were top
dressed m spring with 700
pounds per acre of 10-10-10.
There were four replications
of each variety, none
irrigated.
Delta Queen, a southern
introduction, gave the best
yielding performance this
yer, ranking second out of 19
varieties at Georetown with
42.5 bushels an acre and
fourth at Sandtown with 49
bushels an. acre. Most of the
lines that outranked it are
not yet commercially
available.
Another variety that
continues to look good is
NcNair 1003. This was
commercially available for
the first time last year. It
yielded 37.8 bushels at
Georgetown and 47.4 at
Sandtown this summer.
Pioneer S-76 gave 33.3
bushels at Georgetown, 48.8
at Sandtown. Pioneer S-78
had a similar performance,
with 42.8 bushels at
Georgetown and 42.4 at
Sandtown. Both these lines
showed fairly good disease
resistance.
Titan, a southern release
being tested for the second
time in these trials, looked
very good again at both
locations, says Webb. It
averaged 42.0 bushels an
acre at Georgetown and 49.8
at Sandtown.
Since southern varieties
don’t always do well in
Delaware’s more northern
climate, however, he
recommends caution before
committing yourself to large
acreages of either Delta
Queen or Titan until they’ve
proven themselves in further
testing.
Barley varieties that
looked good were Volbar,
Boone, Henry, rennraa,
Hamson, Jefferson, Maury
and Surry, depending on
location.
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