D6— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Way 1,1982 Farm Business i . w The Avco New Idea Model 868 Forage Harvester features a precision eight-knife cutterhead. New Idea adds harvester COLDWATER, OH. - A 16-year veteran m the design and manufacturing of self-propelled forage harvesters, Avco New Idea has introduced the Model 868 Forage Harvester for Uni-System Power Units. The 868 accepts the exclusive Avco New Idea 3-row row crop bead which cuts and feeds corn planted in row spacuigs of 28 to 40 inches without a row width ad justment. The Model 868 Forage Harvester also accepts a 4-row narrow row crop head or a hay pickup built by Avco New Idea. In many areas ear corn grinding in the field is gaming popularity. This new chopper can be used with a corn head adapter and Avco New Idea’s 4 and 6-row corn heads to Barn features removable sidewalls KENNEDYVILLE, Md. - A new dairy barn that features removable aluminum sidewalk for summer ventilation has been constructed by Agn, Inc., of Epbrata, at Fair Hill Farm. Major design characteristics contained in the barn’s con struction are labor efficiency and energy conservation. The Fair Hill Farm operation includes a milking string of some 500 cows on a three-tunes-a-day schedule. The operation includes eight workers. Ed Fry, owner of Fair Hill Farms, Inc., a family owned and operated business, notes that the Large dairy barn at Fair Hills Farm, Ken- stresses labor nedyville, Md. features removable aluminum servation. sidewalls in the building's design, which News 1 make high energy ear com feed. At the heart of the 868 is a precision eight-knife cutterhead with three rugged cast spiders to rigidly support knives. A new parallel bar linkage makes shearbar adjustment convenient and fast Helical cut knives with a steep rake angle and a new trapezoidal shearbar design provide uniform cutting with minimum power requirements. The Model 868 can be mounted on Uru-System Power Unit models from the 703 through 802 and it’s part of the Avco New Idea Uni- System that offers farmers the economy of one power source to operate a forage harvester, combine, com shelter, ear corn harvester, or snow blower. people at Agn were very cooperative about incorporating his ideas into the bam design. ‘Td give them my ideas, and they would work them into the construction,” Fry said. It was one of these energy conserving ideas that led Agn to select Reynolds Aluminum Ramlock painted farm sheet for both the roof and the sidewalls. Fry requested that the sidewalls be removable in the summer months for complete ventilation. The lighweight aluminum siding particularly suited this application because of “its ease of handling; (Turn to Pace D 7) J Officials of Phillip Morris Tobacco USA and Phillip Morris International present a $lO,OOO check to scientists and administrators for the University of Maryland's Agricultural Ex periment Station to study tobacco harvesting. Shown, left to right, are Eftimios Andriotis, of Phillip Morris International; Barry C. Frey, assistant professor of agricultural engineering and chief research investigator for the tobacco CHAMBERSBURG - A faster, more efficient, economical alternative to conventional boom and aenal spraying of rowcrops, vegetables and orchards is now available through Ryder Supply in Chambersburg, according to sales manager Dick Faust. The Automatic Micro-Mist Concentrate Sprayer, a product of Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Co., Pender, Neb., takes mist blowing techniques a step further by giving the operator the ability to control the diameter of the spray droplets and choose the diameter best for each par ticular spraying application. Controlling droplet diameter results in increased effectiveness and reduced materials cost. According to test results, larger, heavier droplets produced by conventional spraying methods unevenly coat the target, and due to their large size, tend to run off. The smaller droplets of the Micro-Mister coat aU sides of the target evenly, due to the powerful turbulence produced by the unit. The Micro-Mister effectively coats the undersides of leaves, reaches inside trees, even coats the back sides of fruit. The compact size and the iency ai Md. sets tobacco L Micro-Mist sprayer controls droplet size The Automatic Micro-Mist Concentrate Sprayer can be powered by the tractor pto for use on rowcrops, vegetables and orchards. utilization of chemical con centrates by the Micro-Mister offers many advantages. The unit comes in models that can be powered by PTO on small tractors, or a gasoline powered skid unit that slides into the bed of any pick up. Because the Micro-Mister eliminates the need for cum bersome water hauling equipment that requires additional manpower and time-consuming stops for refilling, the Automatic Micro- Mister saves both time and money. The Automatic Micro-Mister can offer effective coverage up to 250 SBM automates brooder system LEOLA S.B.M. recently has guesswork with individual heater added automatic controls to its controls, which cause overheating, infrared heating line, according to controls, which cause overheating Agri-Equipment, Inc., 2754 Creek or underheating. HUIRd., Leola. Electronic ignition eliminates fuel The new controls are designed to wasting pilots and labor involved save from 10 to 25 percent of fuel m lighting individual brooders, bills, SBM claims By automating Additional information is the controls the operator can dial available from S.B.M. Infrared into the master control the tem- Heating, Box 3437, perature that is desired. Fredericksburg, Va 22402, or tel’ This system eliminates costly 1-800-336-2779 ant harvesting studies; Billy Riggan, of Phillip Morris International; James Miller, chairman of the University's department of agronomy; Larry Stewart, chairman of the University’s department of agricultural engineering; Claude McKee, in charge of the University’s Tobacco Research Farm; and W. Lamar Harris. director of research for the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. . • feet, depending on application, and can operate at speeds up to 12 m.p.h., with no dangerous over spray or drift. Automatic has the Automatic Micro-Mist Concentrate Sprayer priced at about half the cost of a conventional boom system. More information on the Automatic Micro-Mist Concentrate Sprayer is available from Dick Faust at Ryder Supply, Cham bersburg, PA. 17201, or by phoning Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Company toll free: 1-800-228-9289. ' V ' ' r*