0 Indiana farmer is up in the air about Pioneer BY SHEILA MILLER TIPTON, Ind. - Allen Baird is one farmer from Tipton, Indiana who is up in the air about Pioneer seed. Read Steel Products announces an Inventory Clearance of a selected number of discontinued model Farm Grain Bins. During this special sale, Read Farm Grain Bins are available to you at substantial savings. New model bins will soon be available through authorized Read Dealers at regular prices, so don’t miss this opportunity to save on bins currently in stock. You can buy a Read Grain Storage system at special prices direct from our factory warehouse at Garner, North Carolina. Call Barry Hoke, your Read Division Sales Manager COLLECT at (717) 665-2009 for Read’s Special Offer! HURRY —Buy now while supplies last! Baird, who farms about 3000 acres around and about Tipton, the Eastern Division headquarters for Pioneer Hi- Bred International, Inc., is ATTENTION AREA FARMERS! the captain of an unusual “ship” that advertises the seed company he likes best. In May of 1979, Baird became the proud owner of a hot air balloon that sports Pioneer’s xogo. Baird’s wife, Rachel, explained this balloon, made in England, cost about as much as a brand new Cadillac. Most of them have a price tag between $BOOO andslB,ooo,'shesaid. She told how Baird became interested in ballooning after he watched the balloon races at the Indiana State Fair. After that he was hooked, she said, and he was trained by a local ballonist on the intricacies of flying the bag of hot air. Now, Baird flys the balloon and is sponsored by Pioneer. He is paid for his floating advertising as be drifts across acres and acres of Indiana corn fields. For a 45 minute flight, about ten gallons of propane Goose hunting applications due MILLBACH The October 18. The last day for Pennsylvania Game goose hunting this year at Commission reminds would- Pymatuning will be be waterfowl hunters on the Decembers. controlled shooting sections Hunting for geese on the of Pymatuning and Middle controlled section at the Creek to be sure their ap- Middle Creek Wildlife plications are postmarked Mangement Area will begin no later than September 20. one half hour before sunrise Hunting for geese will on October 20. Goose hunting start at the Pymatuning at Middle Creek will end on Waterfowl Area at 8 a.m. on December 23. gas is needed to heat the air inside the balloon to around 212 degrees Farenheit, Rachel said. The gas costs somewhere in the neigh borhood of $1 a gallon. Rachel, who is in charge of driving the chase car, remarked that Allen has already taken the balloon up over 10,000 feet in altitude. His longest flight, she said, was about 40 miles in one day. “Sometimes, dependingpn the wind, you can only go a couple miles in a day,” Rachel explained. “But there is no better way to see the com than from the vantage point of the balloon’s basket.” Her worst experience since Allen began ballooning was when she completely lost his balloon during a race, Rachel said. “We have radio contact between the chase car and the balloon. And usually I can keep up with him as he Read’s Authorized Dealers are fully aware of this special warehouse bffer. They will be offering Read’s 1981 model Farm Grain Bin in the very near future! Steel Products Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 20,1980—P13 Alien Baird, an Indiana farmer, floats along with Pioneer seed. goes cross country and I balloons. That was em drive down the country harassing. roads. “Well, they finally found “But that day I totally lost Allen and hours later we got * him. I looked up and down to the party where we the roads for over an hour learned that Allen had won and finally bad to call the the race. I haven’t lived that telephone number for lost one down yet.” "Agn Products for Agn Industry' RO. Box 7343-A Birmingham, Alabama 35253 (205) 595-2181 RO. Box 325, 1308 Bobbrt Drive, Garner, North Carolina 27529 (919) 772-6130 V’ % 4 < fv ' ( if
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