AlB— Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, April 9,1953 Crop associations (Continued from Page Al) planning with the county extension office and Penn State, 10 fanners designated 2000 acres for survey purposes and hired their first technician to take soil '"unples and aid in crop planning ince then, the program has £ rate 9000 acres and a seconc mployee is expected to-be hired uly. Brown likened tl< program to the Dairy Herd improvement Association because the CCCIA is also a farmer owned and operated organization. Also, a service is provided by the technician, at the farm, not in the office. Similar to the DHIA tester, the technician’s responsibilities in clude sampling die soils in each field and keeping an eight-year record of the field. The amounts of fertilizer, lime and herbicides or pesticides applied to that field are recorded. During the summer months the technician visits the farm each week to check for weeds, insects and disease. By winter, the technician frequents the farm every other week and recommends a cropping program for the coming spring. Several fanners have found that they are spending less money for fertilizer and spray and getting better yield from their acres since the program was implemented. Four members of the CCCIA, who individually grow about 250 Ag Progress dates set UNIVERSITY PARK - August 23 to 25 are the dates for Penn State’s annual Ag Progress Days, to be held at the Rock Springs Agricultural Research Center, 9 miles southwest of State College on Route 45W. Demonstrations will include machinery, field and forage crops, livestock and dairy cattle, and conservation practices. Tours will PL. Z*r JT ■P& v ’LI ~ Z*** o * o * .J* / £ . ' * ** i For Yoiir Nearest Dealer, Please Contact: iC acres of alfalfa, reported that they did not use any chemical measures to control potato leafhopper in 1960 because fields were monitored. They figured that two applications of spray would have cost them |7.50 per acre, which amounted to a $3,750 savings among than. Most other members reported that they sprayed their alfalfa crop once, but that if their crops hadn’t been monitored, they would have sprayed twice. Collectively they realized a savings of about $14,500 in spray alone. One member reported that he treated 175 acres of com for rootworm during 1960, but because of monitoring fields, he would only need to treat 15 acres in 1961. Another farmer found that he harvested three times the amount of corn in 1960 as compared to 1979, which he credits to the technician’s advice. Al Homan, Extension Agent in Bradford County, reported that fanners are similarly pleased with their Sulbra Crop Management Association which has been operational for one year. Homan also anticipates even tually adding a computer at the Extension Office to aid technicians in their eight-year planning schedule. 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