Better
WOOSTER, Ohio Applying
insecticides with modem equip
ment and only when and where
heeded reduced the amount of
chemicals applied to high-value
row crops by about 50 percent.
T.L. Ladd, Agricultural
R
Research Service research en
:omoiogut, used a sprayer turned
in and off automatically by a
photoelectric control. The in
termittent sprayer was developed
and tested by Agricultural
Research Service agricultural
engineer Donald L. Reichard.
It projects an infrared light
beam across the plant row as the
machine moves across the field
Plants interrupting the bght beam
automatically trigger the unit and
get sprayed. When the light is not
interrupted, no spray is applied.
Ladd and Reichard have been
working with various intermittent
sprayers and application systems
for several years For the first
time they have used the
photoelectncally controlled
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RALPH HALL DISPERSAL
Savocool Hills Rd. off Cobb St., Broton,
Thompkins County, NY
WED. EVENING JUNE 2 at 7 P.M.
70 HEAD HIGH GRADE AND REGISTERED CATTLE
19 JERSEY COWS, 12 REGISTERED, BALANCE ELIGIBLE
2 Registered Guernsey cows, 17 Holsteins,
about hi Registered, DHIA Records, 30 head of
young stock, Holsteins and Jerseys.
FARM MACHINERY
AC Dl9 tractor, NH 315 baler, like new, NH
489 haybme, NH 56 rake, Oliver 575,4x16 auto,
reset plow, 16’ Bnllion sawtooth field cultivator
and other full line of equipment.
Watch next week’s paper for full listing.
MR. AN) MRS. RALPH HALL
Owners
607-898-3847
Howard W. Visscher
Sales Manager and Auctioneer
Nichols, NY
607-699-7250
PUBLIC SALE
Having rented his farm, the un
dersigned will sell on farm located in
Prince George Co., south of Upper
Marlboro - (Directions from beltway - take
exit 11A - Route 4 east off Route 95 to
301 south 3 miles to Route 382, left 3Vz
miles to St. Thomas, Church Rd.. left Vz
mile - Ist barn on left
WEDNESDAY EVE., JUNE 2
at 6:30 P.M.
Tractor, Combine & Machinery
Ford 7700 diesel tractor w/air conditioned
cab, W.F., load monitor, dual power, turbo
charged, front & rear weights, only 208 hrs.;
Massey Ferguson 800 combine w/#24 two row
corn head & grain table, Int. 120 tandem axle
silage wagon w/root, like new, Allis Chalmers
4 row no till corn planter w/gandy & fertilizer
boxes, New Holland 352 portable grinder
mixer, good, Ford 3pt 7 ft. mower, M.J. 81 cut
ditioner; N.H 256 rollabar side rake, 2 yr., Int.
46 baler; Int 350 forage harvester w/1 row corn
head & grass head, Int 16-7 disc gram drill;
Case 100 hopper blower, John Deere transport
disc, J D 8 ft. fertilizer & lime spreader;
Flemstofte 3 pt. PTO spreader, 3 pt. 8 row field
sprayer, J&M gravity grain wagon, 3 pt
PTO snow blower, Cyclone tractor seeder, 1
HP air compressor, l l z HP portable air
compressor, Lincoln 225 amp portable
welder, P.T.O log splitter, Arreo 5 HP tiller;
metal 4 hole call creep feeder; few small items
Ford F 350 one ton farm truck w/dump body.
Northland 8 ft. tilt trailer
Terms: Cash - Not responsible for accidents.
GLENN TWIGG
14700 St. Thomas Church Rd
Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772
Phone (301) 627-8272
Auctioneer: Robert C. Mullendore
Boonsboro. Md.
Clerk: C.L Metz
Lunch Rights Reserved
insecticide sprayer sprays
sprayer in conjunction with insect
population counts.
Ladd checked both spring- and
summer-transplanted cabbages
for signs of cabbage loopers and
imported cabbage worms. When
numbers reached a potentially
damagmg level, he applied an
insecticide treatment.
The researchers, including Ohio
Agricultural Research and
Development Center entomologist
Donald E Simonent, are all
stationed at the Center, Wooster,
Ohio They compared the amount
of chemicals used by their system
with a weekly insecticide ap
plication by a continuous spray
system typically used in
production of commercial fresh
market cabbage
“We used less than half as much
insecticide on the summer planting
with our system as we did with the
weekly, continuous spray
method," Ladd says “When we
used the intermittent sprayer
weekly, regardless of the insect
Annual Heifer Sale
Located on the Robert Mullendore
Farm, 10 miles south of Hagerstown, Md.
on the Boonsboro-Williamsport Road
(Route 68), 3 miles west of Boonsboro,
Md. or 2 miles east off Sharpsburg Pike
(Route 65) at Lappan Crossroads
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28
at 7:00 P.M.
300 Head of Livestock 300
Consisting of from 200 to 300 head of Holstein
heifers ranging started calves to some good
close springing heifers. Also selling will be
some beef type & Holstein steers to be sold
before the Holstein heifers. These will be good
quality cattle with all the necessary cattle
being Bangs & T.B. tested within 30 days of
sale.
P.B. Arabian Stallion #116166 - 8 yr old -
beautiful grey.
Leister 9 ft. cattle body for 1 ton truck in mint
condition.
Truck body & Stallion sell first.
Terms: Cash. Not responsible for accidents.
Sale Managed & Conducted By:
ROBERT C. MULLENDORE
Phone 582-0546
Farm 582-2039
Clerk; C.L. Metz
Sale held in tent
with Lunch available
EQUIPMENT
AUCTION
SATURDAY, MAY 29
I 9:00 A.M.
I Equipment inventory Reduction
I for Herman Panacek Inc.
I & others
I Rt. 31 Ringoes, NJ
I Well-maintained construction equipment in
I good working condition including In-
I ternational 1973 2 speed axel 18’ Stake Dump,
I International TD-8-C Bulldozer with 4 way
blade & power shift, 1977 Inter. 1500 A hydraulic
backhoe-loader, 1978 Inter 260 A hydrostatic
backhoe-loader, 1973 2 speed axel C-90 Flat
body 20’- GMC, 1977 GMC Sierra crew cab
pickup, 1968 Inter. 2000 gal. water truck. Inter
1965 model 1890 9’ dump with 2 speed axel, 1972
Inter, model 1800 9’ dump with 2 speed axel,
Asplundh 16” Chipper, 12 ton trailer, Howard
rototavor, Snapper 21” mowers, Yazoo 20”
mower, 8 hp Giant lawn vacuum, Electric
motar mixer, Backpack gas operated power
blower, Vail; snowplow with hitch & pump,
John Deere 3 point hitch 3/14” bottoms, loader
frame for 3500 backhoe, Wacker 4 h p walk
behind tamper. Hydraulic Danhauser Auger -
augers 30”. 24”, 8”, 6”, Utility box trailer &
more consignments still coming in
TERMS: Cash, certified funds, or bank letter
of credit. For further information call 201-782-
8392
JOHN HEDGEPETH, Auctioneer
Ringoes, NJ
201-782-8392
population, we still used 40 percent
less msedlicide.
“The chemical amounts used
clearly demonstrate the advantage
of basing applications on
population counts or other
evidence of insect activity Even
with the continuous sprayer, when
applications were based on
population counts, 26 percent less
insecticide was used compared to
the weekly spray schedule,” Ladd
says.
Insect infestations in cabbage
transplanted in the spring were so
small and late that both the con
tinuous and the intermittent
treatments based on population
evaluation used 75 percent less
insecticide than the weekly,
continuous spray treatment The
intermittent treatment, applied
weekly, used 21 percent less in
secticide than the continuous
sprayer
“No significant differences
existed in the numbers of insects or
in the quantity or quality of cab-
produced under any of the
spray' systems,” he says. “All
treated plots of summer cabbage
yielded at least 50 percent more
less
than untreated plots In fact, for
the fresh market, nearly all the
untreated cabbages were un
marketable.”
The differences in the amount of
insecticide used are largest while
plants are small After plants grow
to fill in the entire row, the in
termittent sprayer applies in
secticide most of the time anyway,
the same as the continuous
sprayer, Ladd adds
“It seems to me that
photoelectncally-operated in
termittent sprayers, used in
conjunction with ' ulat:
Three spray nozzles like this one are activated when a plant
interrupts an infrared light team. Photoelectric transmitter
and receiver are mounted slightly in front of the nozzles.
USOA technician Charles R. Bur iff tests the sprayer on
young pepper plants at the research center at Wooster, Ohio
The insecticide is applied intermittently so that only the
plants are sprayed.
USED STORAGE AND
HOLDING TANKS
' SAL.
J SIZE JHA LEN6TH COWOmOX R«ICE
;<2) 25,000 10'8” 38'10" Good for holding tank *2,250°°
5.000 6’ 23’10" Good, clean *Boo°°
3.000 5’4" 18’1" Good *6oo°°
4.000 5’4" 24’ Clean *6oo°°
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(2)2,000 5’4” 12'1” Good *3oo°°
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counts, could well reduce the
amounts of pesticide needed to
control pests in a numb-jr of
situations, particularly where
small transplants or newl>
emerging seedlings are subject to
early or massive attack by insect
pests or plant disease organisms,”
Ladd says
The amount of chemical that can
be saved depends on the crop,
planting date, spacing within the
row, pests of the crop, tune of
appearance of the pests, rapidtv of
population buildup, and the speed
if plant' vth thf he adds