D2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18,1983
Farm Business j
News i
Soviet expert is
PennAg speaker
EPHRATA Malcolm Toon, the
former American Ambassador to
the Soviet Union, is the featured
speaker at Penn Ag’s Convention in
September at Seven Springs
Ilesort, Champion.
The advent of the PIK program
and the approaching expiration
date of the current grain pact with
the U.S.S.R warrant Toon’s
comment and expert advice. With
some thirty years experience in
the U.S. State Department, Am
bassador Toon is one of the best
analysts of the effects of Soviet-
American interactions on
American business and public
interests.
Ambassador Toon has a
reputation as an outspoken hard
liner matched with an ability to
foresee crises and analyze trouble
spots. His eloquence as a
diplomatic speaker is matched
only by his impeccable
background in Soviet affairs and
his fluency in the Russian tongue.
His ambassador posts are
numerous. Proceeding his tenure
in Moscow, Toon served as the U.S.
Ambassador to Israel (June 1975 to
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Sire Power promotes 2
TUNKHANNOCK - Sire Power,
Inc., of R 2 Tunkhannock, has
named two lab personnel to new
positions and has selected three
area bulls to enter the Gold Sire
Development Program.
Named to new responsibilities in
the lab are Jim Martin, who in
addition to being manager of
quality control has also become
responsible for the supervision of
all phases of semen production,
and Leland R. Riker, who has been
named Distribution Manager.
Martin began working for the
NEBA Cooperative in May, 1977,
as a technician in Susquehanna
County. From July through Oc
tober, 1978, Martin was employed
by Sire Power as an over the road
liquid nitrogen and semen
distributor.
In November, 1978, Martin
advanced to the position of a
laboratory technician with Sire
Power.
Martin was then promoted to the
position of Quality Control
Manager in September, 1980. His
increased responsibilities include
maintaining the semen quality
standards of the Sire Power
product. He also monitors the herd
health status and prepares health
documents for international semen
sales. He is involved in the
research of new techniques for
maintaining the high standards of
semen available from Sire Power.
December 1976), to Yugoslavia
(October 1971 to May 1975), and to
Czechoslovakia (June 1969 to
October 1971). Also, he has served
assignments to our Embassies in
Warsaw, Budapest, Rome, Lon
don, and Moscow (twice). In the
late 60’s, be began his sojourn in
the State Department as Director
of Soviet Affairs (1965-68) and later
as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State and European Affairs (1968-
69).
Notwithstanding that his
diplomatic career was proceeded
by a strong education, he received
the Bachelor of Arts degree from
Tufts University in 1937 and the
Master of Science degree in 1938
from the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy. His graduate work
includes study at Middlebury
College in 1960 and Harvard
University from 1950-51.
Military service as a PT boat
commander in World War II led to
Malcolm Toon’s diplomatic ser
vice in 1946. Honorary acclaim was
awarded him in 1965 when Toon
received the State Department’s
Superior Honor Award.
Leland Riker
Effective March 1, 1983, Jim has
additionally become responsible
for the supervision of all phases of
semen production.
As a graduate of Penn State,
Martin received his Bachelor’s of
Science degree in Animal Industry
in March, 1977. He and his wife,
Laurie, reside in Dallas, Pa.
Riker, has been named to the
position of Distribution Manager
for Sire Power. He had been a
technician for NEPA and NEBA
from 1959 through 1973, having
bred in excess of 35,000 first ser
vices. He received the 35,000 cow
award from the NAAB for this
achievement. He also served 12
years as Manager of the
Suswyanna Unit of NEBA. In
October 1973, he accepted a
position in the lab at Sire Power.
He will be responsible for the
inventory and distribution of
supplies to 125 professional
technicians, 6 Direct Herd
Representatives, and 12 District
Sales Managers.
Riker and his wife, Marge, hav
one daughter, who is in high
school, and two sons.
The three area bulls selected by
Sire Power include:
A young Holstein bull bred by
University of Md., Ellicott City,
Md.
9H862 Terrapin NOD-ET 1881562
is located at Sire Power
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NEW HOLLAND - Today’s
large-capacity Sperry New
Holland Whirl-A-Feed forage
blowers need large pipe and
goosenecks to keep the crop
moving. Because they push so
much more material into the
blower than previous designs, they
are loading the pipe and
goosenecks to capacity. In the case
of large diameter center-fill silos,
the gooseneck is sometimes the
capacity bottleneck for the whole
silage making operation.
When this happens, the solution
is a larger capacity gooseneck.
Everything is connected to
something else, it seems, and so
one change demands another, says
Howard Wmey of Sperry New
Holland. This is especially true in
silage and haylage making.
The forage harvester took over
from the corn binder as the
primary silage harvesting
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7G211 Fre Lyn Telestar REVELATION, a young Guernsey
bull bred by Fred and Evelyn Crider, of Nottingham, has been
chosen to enter Select Sires’ Program for Genetic Ad
vancement (PGA) sire sampling system.
The dam of this young bull is Fre Lyn Kelloggs Prince Sue,
daughter of Kellogg Nances Prince. She is an Excellent (92)
Gold Star Dam with four records over 21.100 M, and a best
record of 26,684 of milk and 1,209 of fat. The sire of 7G211
REVELATION is Maurana Wis Telestar, a high PD bull at
+1,523 PDM and +64 PDF.
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Today's forage blowers push crop into the silo much faster
than previous designs. Sometimes the crop flow rate is too
high for the capacity of the gooseneck at the top of the silo.
Goosenecks are being sized up from 9-inches to 12-inches to
accommodate the crop harvesting capacity of large-capacity
harvesters.
Goosen
silage
machine at the end of World War
11. There were some forage har
vesters before that buy they
weren’t m general use. Capacity
was very limited. Horsepower
available to operate the machines
was even more limited. If you had
a 35HP Farmall "M” or 2-cyUnder
Deere Model G, you had a large
tractor. Chances are your silo was
a IB’ x 50’, or smaller. Six-inch
diameter blower pipe was an
accedpted standard size.
Actually, the late 40’s were a
miserable time for forage har
vesters because tractors didn’t
have the low gears they would
have needed for PfO harvesting.
That’s the reason most choppers
had engines.
Things improved in the 1950’5,
says Winey, who is product
manager for forage equipment at
New Holland. Among other things,
blower pipe size went up to ft-mch
Guernsey bull
being sampled
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eck may be
bottleneck
diameter to accommodate the j
larger crop volume of the im
proved harvesters. Haylage
making started then, too.
Haylage was a worse problem
for blowers because it’s so gummy,
compared to corn or sorghum ]
silage, Winey notes. But higher j
blower fan tip speeds and 9-mch
blower pipes kept the crop
fast enough until recently. Now*
larger capacity harvesters need
more blower capacity to keep the (
operation on schedule.
Part of the current problem u> ,
the increase in silo size. 80-foot
silos aren’t hard to find now-a
days, and a few 100-footers.are
spotted here and there. Some are
even taller. Silage is being pushed
up twice as far as the average not
very many years ago. Larger
diameter towers compound the
problem because many silos are
twice as large in diameter as the
ordinary silo in use during the
Depression.
It’s these very tall, 20-foot-and
wider towers that are sometimes a
problem to center-fill. There can
even be a problem with a new
blower where and older, smaller
capacity blower got by. The |
problem shows up when the center-, |
fill gooseneck doesn’t have enougOT
capacity to handle the extra
material being pushed in by the
new blower designs.
The end result is that you plug
the gooseneck at the top of the silo.
Most people try speeding up the
blower lit works some of the tune)
to overcome the unrecognized real
problem causer at the top of the
silo.
If you have this problem, Wmey
suggests you take these steps:
1. Check blower adjustments,
tractor etc*
2. Drop the adjustable baffle or
the Whirl-A-Feed table down. Now
go to the top of silo.
3. Is the air escape hole open".
Make sure.
4. Is the gooseneck secured with
supports on the bottom side on
which material can bridge and
then plug? This is important.
If these steps don’t fully solve th 4
pluggmg problem, it may be tunw
to update the gooseneck from the
standard 9-mch size to the new 12-
inch sizes now being developed.
Several silo pipe and accessories
manufacturers are already of
fering the larger volume capacity
designs on special order. Others
are under lest.