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Have your seen a Gleaner combine like this? If you have,
tell the owner to enter is in Allis-Chalmers’ "Oldest Working
Gleaner Combine" Contest
AC seeking
oldest Gleaner
MILWAUKEE, Wls. - To
commemorate the 60th an
niversary of Gleaner combines,
Allis-Chalmers wants to honor the
owners of the oldest working
Gleaner combine units. Owners of
these older working models are
invited to enter the “Oldest
Working Gleaner Combine”
Contest.
Allis-Chalmers will fly the
winner and the winner's spouse to
Kansas City for a weekend holiday
which will include a Kansas City
Chiefs football game and a tour of
the combine manufacturing
facility in Independence, Mo. The
winner will also receive an Allis-
Chalmers lawn tractor. Two
contest runners up will receive a
weekend holiday trip. In addition.
IH dealer salesman
wins district honors
HERSHEY International Hann from Syracuse, N.Y.
Harvester Co.’s top dealer On hand to assist with the honor
salesmen were honored recently, ceremony was Del Reynolds, local
here. territory manager for IH.
Representing Erb and Henry Throughout the past year, In-
Equipment Inc. in New Berlinvilie, ternational Harvester dealer
was Barton. Ziegler winning the salesmen have been competing for
total territory annual sales award top honors. This year’s banquet,
in addition to top district award by held on May 15 was highlighted by
International Harvester’s district a Loretta Lynn Concert in the
marketing manager, Dennis M. Herahey Arena.
award from Del Reynolds, local territory manager, for IH, and
Dennis M. Hann, district marketing manager from Syracuse,
N.Y.
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the 25 oldest combine entries will
receive a specially engraved
replica of the new Series 3 rotary
Gleaner combine.
To enter the contest, the owner
should send a photo of his or her
Gleaner combine along with the
model number and year, and
owner’s name, address and phone
number. The name of the owner’s
nearest Allis-Chalmers dealer also
should be included. All contest
entries must be received by Aug.
31,1963.
For more information and
complete contest rules, write to
“Oldest Working Gleaner Combine
Contest”, Allis-Chalmers Cor
poration, P.O. Box 512, M>vaukee,
Wisconsin 53201.
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WALPOLE, N.H. ~ Hubbard
Farms boated the New Hampshire
Poultry Growers Association at its
Headquarters recently.. Ap
proximately 165 members o! the
association turned out for their
Spring meeting held at Hubbard’s
Walpole, N.H. corporate offices.
Poultry growers and egg
producers from across the state
and agricultural instructors from
the University of New Hampshire
toured the hatchery, research
laboratories and administrative
offices Wednesday afternoon.
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Visitors were also treated to a
tour of additional Hubbard Farms’
facilities which included several of
the research farms and
laboratories located nearby. After
a social hour and dinner, Hubbard
presented a short afterdinner
program.
Wentworth Hubbard welcomed
the group and related a short
history of the company. He
described the first branch
operation which was opened in
Lancaster County, Pa. by Les
Hubbard in 1932. In the fifties and
in 1967, hatchery and breeding
facilities were started in North
Carolina and Arkansas respec
tively. Alabama was next in 1974.
In describing the operations in
Europe, Hubbard said that the first
operation was set up in Belgium to
serve the European Common
Market. Known as Hubbard
Europa, they operate seven
separate companies in France,
Italy, Holland, Belgium. West
Germany, the United Kingdom
Cutworms can thrive in reduced-till corn
WARRIORS MARK - Reduced
tillage has become a popular
practice in Pennsylvania in recent
years. Unfortunately, reduced
tillage com can be as popular with
insects as it is with growers.
In many instances, reducing
tillage saves time, fuel and soil.
But university and crop consulting
specialists report that leaving
plant residue on the soil surface
also can serve as an invitation to
soil insects - particularly cut
worms. Over the last five years,
cutworm outbreaks have hit com
acreage more frequently
throughout the state, causing
substantial damage to unprotected
com.
Fritz McGrail, general manager
of Webb’s Super Gro in Clinton
County, has tracked the upsurge in
cutworm reports in Penn
sylvania’s Appalachian region.
“We’ve had a tremendous
number cf farmers reporting
cutworm outbreaks in the last few
seasons,’’ McGrail says. “Cut
worm moths, which fly up from the
south each spring, are attracted to
surface trash you find in reduced
til) fields. Crop residue offers an
ideal place for the moths to lay
eggs, which hatch into cutworm
larvae in the late spring or early
summer.”
McGrail notes that the problem
is becoming much more
widespread, largely due to the
trend toward less tillage. He
estimates that 60-70% of the com
produced in his area is grown
under no-till or with very little
tillage.
Farmers who follow reduced
tillage practices can control
cutworms, but in essence they’ll
need to rely more heavily on
chemical control using an in
secticide registered to control
cutworms. There are two ap
proaches that will cover most
situations. The first is an at-plant
preventative treatment using a
granular insecticide applied with
the planter. The granules are
banded over the row and may
provide dual protection against
both cutworms and com root
worms, providing the product used
is labeled for both insects.
Rescue treatment is recom
mended by most universities. To
be effective, this must be com-
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Assn, at corporate headquarters at Walpole.
and Ireland. ita on the world martet.
Expanding its market
throughout Europe. the Mideast,
Far Bast and Africa, Hubbard
opened franchises in many other In '
countries. Hubbard chides are now
addin nearly ev«y counby in tbs “Jgi STd«SSd te
Stepben Taylor, New HampatiiFe M»?<» «» Kew Ham*to
Commissioner of Agriculture, is having^
addressed the group and expressed S^nnnm^
his enmpHmenta to the Hubbard U “ t I th ® efficient and economic
its contribution to CoUld te key
NewHampsWre agriculture and * world hunger.
cornfields. The pest responsible is the black cutworm,
shown in the lower left corner.
bined with an aggressive, on-going
scouting program to detect cut
worm feeding early in the growing
season. A disadvantage is that
cutworms can be difficult to find
and severe crop losses can occur
before the problem is identified. A
rescue operation is recommended
as follows: at the two leaf stage, if
three percent or more of the plants
are cut and there are two or more
cutworms per 100 plants, rescue
treating is called for; at the four
leaf stage, three percent cutting
and four or more worms per 100
plants will warrant treatment.
Jim O’Bryan, manager of
Helena Chemical in Warriors
Mark, favors the at-plant ap
proach. “We’ve seen some
growers cut soil insecticides from
their programs because of low
com prices, but we’ve also seen a
lot of evidence that it’s the last
place they should cut back,”
O’Bryan points out. “That’s
particularly true in this area
around Huntingdon County,
because there’s a very high per
centage of no-till com, probably in
the neighborhood of 75-85%. The
risk of insect damage just can’t be
ignored."
Paul Dotterer, of Clinton County,
agrees that preventative treat
ment is good insurance and well
worth the investment. “My sons
and 1 grow 550 acres of no-till com
for our dairy and beef herds,”
Dotterer says. “We apply Lorsban
15G in a band in front of the press
wheel of our Allis-Chalmers no-till
planter. That way some of the
insecticide gets dropped down into
the seed furrow and gives us some
protection around the germinating
seed and the roots of seedling
plants.”
Applying insecticide in front of
the press wheel or closing wheels
in a band application is known as
"T-ban ding.” This places most of
the granules in a band wide enough
to protect the developing roo|
system from rootworm and cut?
worm feeding, while some
granules drop in around the seed
for protection there against in
furrow insects, too. For this type of
application, the insecticide must
have a low phytotoxicity or seed
germination may be damaged. The
product should be registerd for a
broad spectrum of insect species
as well.
Currently, several insecticides
can be used to protect reduced
tillage corn from a cutworm in
festation. For at-plant band ap
plication: Lorsban 15G is
registered for cutworm control;
Dyfonate 20G for suppression of
black cutworms only; and Mocap
10G for control of moderate in
festations of black and sandhill
cutworms. All are labeled for com
rootwonn control. For rescue
treatment, a broadcast application J
of Lorsban 4E or Sevin 5% bait
have proved effective in stopping
cutworms, providing the ap
plication is made'at an early stage
of cutworm larvae growth.