C 20 —Lancaster farming, Saturday, February 7,1981 YORK In a year beset with drought. New Park R 1 fruit and gram grower Paul McPherson topped other contenders for the top yield in the 1980 com growing contest He and other competitors were honored during York County’s annual com clinic, held last week at the York 4-H Center. McPherson’s five-acre test plot grew an average of 170.1 bushels per acre from Pioneer 3184 seed. That plot had the lowest estimated population of the county’s twp dozen contest entries, with an average of 14.4-mch spacmg and 14,562 plants per acre. Total available plant nutrients, from applied fertilizer and soil carryover, was an estimated 212 pounds nitrogen, 469 pounds phosphorus and 533 pounds Penn Stater’s looking for experience on farms UNIVERSITY PARK - Need some help on the farm this sum mer? Can’t afford to hire part-time help for haying, combining, milking, and other chores? Penn State students are looking for on-farm experience, according to Grant Sherntt, Associate Professor of Animal Science. “We have an increasing number of students in our agriculture program who lack farm ex perience. Many of these students [ TS.XTX tt=:t ,t ■ ■ HS/Tills; Coolers® USED TANKS AVAILABLE... • 300 Gal. Mojonnler • 500 Gal. Tank • 400 Gal. Sunset * 500 Gal. Zero * 500 Gal. Milk Keeper • 400 Gal. & 800 Gal. Mueller McPherson potassium. Second high yield was on the plot entered by Harold Miller, Jr., with a 165.7 bushel per acre yield of DeKalb XL23. Miller’s was a narrow-row planting of 20,278 plants per acre, with 8.6 inches spacmg and available fertilizer of 365 mtrogen, 479 phosphorus and 575 potassium. Kevm Holtzmger, Wmdsor, took a close third place, with a yield of 164.3 bushels on a stand of 25,349 plants per acre. Nutrient levels were estimated at 83 pounds of mtrogen, 263 phosphorus and 48 pounds potassium. Holtzmger planted Pioneer 3382. Other top-ten yield winners were: Hughes Manifold, Stewartstown, 159.4 bushels of P-A- G SX9B; Donald Meckley, Brod becks, 157.8 bushels of Doebler’s would be most appreciative of any opportunity to work on a farm in the summer with little regard to pay. In other words, experience is much more important than pay,” he said. Any farmer interested in “hiring" a Penn State student for the summer should contact Grant Sherntt at Penn State by writing: 324 Animal Industries Buildings, University Park, PA 16802, telephone 814/865-1362. tops York com contest 70XSS; Lester Luckenbaugh, Spring Grove, 155.6 of DeKalb XL7I; John Marstellar, Sr., Stewairtstown, 153.6 bushels of DeKalb XLSS; Robert Ragland, Stewartstown, 147.0 bushels of Top York corn growers, from left, are, Paul Donald Meckley, Richard Luckenbaugh, and McPherson, Harold Miller, Hughes Manifold, John Marsteilar. 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