New no-till booklets available for Md. farmers v pr COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Two no-tOlage “primers” for com and soybean production have just been added to the inventory of free publications available from county offices of the Cooperative Ex tension Service throughout Maryland. One is titled 12 Key Steps to Profitable No-Tillage corn Production (Agronomy Mimeo No. 33) r the other is 10 Key Steps to Profitable Double-Cropping No- Tillage Soybean Production (Agronomy Mimeo No. 48). Both publications came off the presses in November. They are being made available free to Maryland farmers attending county and regional winter educational meetings sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service for crop farmers around the state. Five Extension specialists and research workers from the University of Maryland’s agronomy department at College Park were involved in preparation of the no-tillage mimeos. Three of them spoke at the I pcent five-county Southern Maryland Crops Conference held Recently in Mechanicsville. They were James R. Miller, agronomy E.M. HERR'S HAS PRICES YOU CAN SWARM UP TO; - * ---- - - ~ /rA/sr* • Automatic Thermostat - Set It And Forget It • Instant Fan-Forced Heat Up to 5118 BTU's...Where You Want It, When You Need It! • Pump House • Shop • Milk House • Camper ■ Garage • Home Reg. 27.95 $ l9" SALE CORDOVAN TRACTOR BATTERIES As Low As $ 34 95 Car & Truck Batteries available with 4 & 5 year warranties • 6 volt • 36 mo. warranty • w/trade-in RUCK LOAD SALE ON BALER TWINE - CALL FOR PRICES SMITH-GATES HEAT TAPES with automatic thermostat AS LOW AS $ 5. 89 ' NO MORE SMITH-GATES r WVv ELECTRIC HEATING TAPE GUARANTEED Available with Thermostat Control and Pilot Light SEE US NOW department chairman; V. Allan Bandel, Extension soils specialist, and Ronald L. Ritter, Extension weed control specialist. Miller devoted most of his presentation at the southern Maryland educational event to reviewing basic concepts of no tillage grain production, as spelled .out in the two recently published mimeos. He emphasized that “you have to do things right when you use no-till crop production.” For instances, lime application is even more important with no-till than with conventional tillage. A pH (measure of soil acidity) of 6.5 is imperative for no-till com production in order for surface applied herbicides to be most ef fective. Miller commented that no-tillage work got under way about' 20 years ago on the University of Maryland research farms. He admitted that “15 years ago, we really did not know how to grow no-tillage com. One problem was that we let the rye cover crop get too high. Now we know that it should be killed (with herbicides) at about 18 to 30 inches in height, before the com emerges ” UTILITY AND MILK HOUSE HEATER Size Sale ©’ *5.89 io’ *6.09 12' *6.39 16’ *6.99 24’ *9.49 (Turn to Page A2O) IMPLEMENT SPRAY PASNT Original OEM Colors, Rust Resistant p* New FROSTEXII Heating Cable oc o o 00 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0b CM t Ct H l’x3’ l’x4’ 16”x24’ NELSON automatic LIVESTOCK WATERER 8" High Reg. $83.95 Pasture or SALE Confinement For Hogs, s7o*s Steer, Sheep # * • 24”-High SALE • Reg. $108.99 $ 102" .Double-cropped Essex soybeans stand like rows of soldiers in barley stubble on the Eastern Shore. In 1976 about 25.5 percent of Maryland's 290,000 acres of soybeans were produced in this fashion by the no-till method. 200 amp safer won’t overheat even when overlapped use on any pipe, even plastic more reliable new design for long life, regulates its own heat output without a thermostat cut it to any length HEAT PADS FOR PIGS . CAM-LINE s 29°° *36 40 2’x3’ 2’x4’ l’xs’ wisußn® m < 6 AMP BATTERY CHARGER s2|" SALE *2B" *35.79 • 6Vott/12Vott • Solid State • Automatic circuit breaker protected 44JS 83.79 *94“ 111.99 $135 ■ Ft ’SO 80 ’59" $ 37 95 WE UPS ANYWHERE - JUST CALL 717-464-3321 SALE PRICES GOOD THROUGH JANUARY 9 DIRECTION! FARM A HOI TO EM HERR IE SUPPLY.. x 299 W. TTX IASTtS lANO ■ss* wiuow smnj HmviusaoAD 1-MILf SOUTH Of ★ EMI HIM FARM A HOME SUPPLY X HIM/ n wc R AM " OUAMTVU.U BUCK IF WILLOW STREET 1 MILE SOUTH Ol Store Hours Mon.-Thurs. Sat. 7:30 A.M.- 7:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M Fri. 7:30-9:00 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 2,1982—A17 By 1981, the figure had risen to an estimated 35 percent on 360,000 acres, according to William J. Kenworthy,, associate professor of agronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, PA'. L.B. WHITE Jmm\ heaters • 60,v • Port • Gas I inclu; • Theri FARM&HOME SUPPLY m 1, Rfe. 272 South, HermHe Rd. «Mki» Street, P* (Tin _
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