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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
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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