Sod empire (Continued from Pace A2O) promptly dispatched to visit the Godfrey show’s singers with a gift of Zoysia plugs and sod in tow. Godfrey learned of the incident and put the turf salesman on the air during his morning show. Reaction was immediate and so favorable that he asked the IT PAYS TO STAY WITH THE TRACTOR SPECIALISTS! [JJJ] Case Pioneered The Way ... e Original Manufacturer Of The Steam Traction Engines To Todays Leader In The Reid! CASE STEERS RIGHT FOR THE ROWS Exclusive electronic 4 way system makes it easy. Many 4-WD tractors are designed tor tillage but just don’t do a .good job in row crops Case 4-wheelers, on the other hand, are right at home in the rows. Our standard 4-way solid state steering and straight body, non-articulated de sign make all the difference in the world. With Case, you can work the rows, steering with front wheels only. It’s as easy as driving your familiar 2-wheel drive models not at all like trying to avoid the - - - - . crop while the tractor’s front and rear ends go this way and that. { You can turn short at head- <3 lands. In the Case 4-wheel * _ coordinated steering mode, .'• i,' short turns are easy. Then •Niff’s engine rating *> V s s mm Check With Binkley & Hurst Bros. And Let Them Show You Why Cose Leads The Way As A Tractor Specialist! salesman to return for the weekly Wednesday evening show. Summit Hall Turf Farm’s Meyer Z-52 Zoysia, was on its way. What seemed to Wilmot like half the frustrated lawn growners on the East Coast began trying to make contact with him. He still chuckles when he See Page B-21 For Our Tractor Special remembers: “The Gaithersburg phone system was still on a manual switchboard and it was tied up for three days. Traffic got heavy as people began driving in off the main road hunting us. And the post office was swamped with mail orders.” In retrospect, Wilmot speculates the 12 to 15 minutes of prune time television free advertising for the Zoysia was worth something like you switch, on-the-go, back to front wheel steer. Case crab steering controls drift on hillsides, and rear wheel steering makes implement hook-ups easy. All four steering modes are electronically actuated. Steering response is very fast, precise and easy. Case steering is not one-way, ifs 4- way... so you have easy handling with heavy tillage plus acpirate steering with planters, even row crop cultivators. ♦♦ * A BINKLEY & HURST BROS. /J§4\ 133 Rothsville Station Rd.,Lititz, PA 17543 Ph: (717) 626-4705 * Business Hours: Mon. - Fri. 7 AM to 5 PM; Sat. 7 AM to 11:30 you ready for row cropping ' 4-WD? Case is... with three rugged, easy-handling proved the rows tractors (210; 261, 'OO hp*). Let your Case dealer arrange a 4-WD row crop demonstration soon JI Case A Tenrwc* Company Agricultural Equipment Division 700 State Street Racine, Wl 53404 USA. We’re the Tractor Si ASK US ABOUT: NO INTEREST, NO PAYMENT FINANCING Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 9,1981-A2I SWf HO ii ; ..si tunc, or at least seven million dollars in today’s inflated market. Although Summit Hall was then growing Zoysia in just a small acreage, it was an extremely labor-intensive crop. But the returns were impressive. Plugs sold for a dime each, with 50 plugs removed from each * < J ■’***'„ *‘l"* '.iafist square foot of sod. With 43,560 square feet to each acre, Zoysia was a crop that could gross about $220,000 per acre. Machinery to harvest the crop wgs non-existent and hand harvest was tedious. So Summit Hall engineered and patented a hand guided plugging machine to : r„{, „ t V (Turn to Page A 22) Beat the Heat with Eggs mattmt {Kills MATS mmt/MKH End O’ Rat Co. Rd 1 Box 668 New Holland. PA 17557 717*354-2340 ' v . N <■ \/,.. ■ \ JH. - -Jtfialk stovemon
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