D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 11,1984
BUSINESS NE
Farm Hardware opens branch
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT -
Farm Hardware, a division of G.P.
Fasteners, Shoemakersville,
recently opened a brach store in
South Williamsport.
“We have had a great interest
from farmers in the Northern tier
of Pa. and New York in taking
advantage of our wholesale prices
on bolts. This is why we opened the
branch. Our feeling is that farmers
sell wholesale so they should be
able to buy wholesale,” explained
Wes Pace, president of the com
pany.
Deutz-Fahr
announces hay tools
ATLANTA, Ga. A new 8%-ft
wide turbo disc mower, a simple,
easy-running mower-conditioner,
a higher-capacity square baler and
a round baler that ties
automatically will be introduced to
the North American market this
spring by the Agricultural
Equipment Division of Deutz
Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.
The new Deutz-Fahr SMSO Turbo
Disc Mower is a rugged, easy
running mower that cuts an 8%-ft
wide swath. This versatile mower
is strong, but light, and can be used
with either Cat. I or Cat II 3-point
hitches.
A new cable strut suspension for
all Deutz-Fahr turbo disc mowers
provides flexible cutterbar
flotation and mowing is smooth
and clean in all terrain. Oval
shaped discs give overlapping
cutting paths and uniform stubble.
The Deutz-Fahr SM4OCR Disc
Mower/Conditioner is a 7-ft rotary
disc mower equipped with a single,
finger-conditioning rotor that picks
up hay immediately behind the
mowing disc and conditions it
before it touches the ground.
“This is the hay conditioner of
the future,” says Mike Branham,
product representative - hay
equipment. Rotary conditioning
fingers, mounted in rubber, are
-arranged in a spiral design for
uniform flow of the crop and for
mation of uniform windrows. The
rotor has two speeds, high for
grass hay and low for leafy
legumes. The rotating fingers rub
off the plant’s protective, waxy
stem coating, permitting rapid
evaporation of plant moisture and
speeding drydown. An “over-the
Conditioning fingers on the new Oeutz-Fahr Turbo Disc
Mower/Conditioner rubs off plant’s protective waxy stem
coating to speed evaporation and drying.
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The company warehouses 25
million fasteners including hex
bolts, clevis pins, screws and plow
bolts. The fasteners are sold at
dealer prices or lower.
The bolts are sold by the pound.
Last year, thousands of pounds
were sold out of the Shoemaker
sville store.
Farm Hardware will ship bolts
UPS anywhere in the Northeast.
The farmers can call toll free
numbers to order or request price
catalogs.
top” design rotor lifts and'lays hay
in fluffy, high-profile windrows for
efficient air drying. The con
ditioner can be removed in a few
minutes for regular mower
operation.
Two new balers, the HD49O
Square Baler and the HD22O Round
Baler, are included in the 1984
Deutz-Fahr hay equipment line.
The HD49O Square Baler suc
ceeds the HD46O introduced to
North America in 1982. The HD49O
features an extra-wide (77-in)
hydraulically-controlled, positive
drive pickup and a virtually
maintenance-free knotter
mechanism that requires
lubrication only once a week.
Like the HD46O, it has a 100-
stroke-per-mmute plunger earned
on 10 roller bearings for smooth
operation and long life, carries up
to 8 balls of twine, and has an
automatic cross-feed mechanism
that delivers full capacity to the
bale chamber without clogging.
The GP22O Round Baler, field
tested in North America in 1983, is
Deutz-Fahr’s entry into the round
baler market in the U.S. and
Canada. It produces a 4-ft by 4-ft
round bale in a baling chamber
equipped with 16 coated steel
rollers. The bales have a soft core
and an extremely tight outer wrap
to assure maximum quality and
minimum leaf loss. Tie-off is
automatic; the baler honks a
warning hom when the pre
selected bale density is reached
and the cycle is underway. THe
operator simply waits until the
cycle is complete, hydraulically
opens the rear door and eject the
bale, closes the door and continues
baling.
Agri-Equipme
Agri-Equipment, Inc., 2754 Creek Hill Road, Leola, received a “President’s Award”
during Chore-Time Equipment's annual distributor meeting held recently in Lexington,
Ky. The award was presented to distributors who had total 1983 Chore-Time product
sales of between $500,000 and $1 million. Receiving the award from James Evans, left,
President of CTB, Inc., the parent company of Chore-Time, were Bud Buch, President;
Leon Martin, Vice-President; Dan Buch, Manager; and Leon Goshow, Chore-Time
distributor sales representative.
Chore-Time Equipment manufacturers automated equipment for the care and feeding
of poultry and livestock with world-wide distribution from its plants in Milford, Ind.;
Modesto, Cal.; and Maldegum, Belgium.
Can aeration help improve
alfalfa stands & yields
CARTHAGE, N.Y. Aeration of
alfalfa and other hay fields on
dairy farms in Lewis and Jefferson
counties of Northern New York is
providing some significant
benefits, according to Jim Mar
tindale, of North Country Ag-Gro
Consulting, Cathage, N.Y.
The aeration, common for a
number of years in the turf in
dustry but still relatively new in
hay crops, improves root growth of
alfalfa and other hays and helps to
correct soil compaction problems
caused by wheel tracks, secondary
tillage and normal silting or
segregation of soil particles due to
water percolation.
Aeration has made it possible for
alfalfa plants to grow larger than
usual root masses prior to first
cuttings and thereby increases
stands which may be in com
petition with grasses or weeds.
The aeration affords better plant
utilization of topdress potash
fertilizers found in the top three
inches of soil which normally are
quite compacted.
The aeration also provides ad
ditional atmospheric nitrogen for
rhizobia and azotobacter and
oxygen for the aerobic strains of
bacteria. These beneficial strains
of bacteria then are available to
metabolize harmful compounds in
the soil.
Results in this area go beyond
higher yields and better stand
survival, Maryindale said.
Research in Canada and Ger
many has indicated that harmful
pathogenic bacteria such as
pseudomonas find their way into
feed stuffs grown on poorly
aerated soils. This, its possible that
aeration could change the
populations of such organisms
making their way into the feed of
ruminants.
Aeration penetrates up to six
inches in the tightly compacted
shallow layers of silt and clay
particles. This permits better
percolation of water into root zones
and helps prevent perched water
tables, waterlogging and
anaerobic soil conditions.
It can also possibly help improve
frost-heave problems.
nt gets award
iry .. jgory,
to aerate alfalfa. Crop was seed in late July and aerated in
mid-September to loosen compaction caused by planting and
fertilizing equipment. Practice also broke stems of red-root
pegweed plants.
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vertically to help improved compaction without massive
injury to roots of plants.
The rooting environment of the
alfalfa or other hay plants, ac
cording to Martmdale, appeals to
be a major factor in establishing
and maintaining proper stands.
This rooting environment is at its
best at planting time and steadily
deteriorates due to compaction,
unless changed by aeration.
And improved soil health
depends directly on continued
growth of plant root systems, he
said. The plant root growth im
proves soil tilth, organic activity
and enhances the soil.
Aeration through the use of an
Aerway piece of machinery opens
and moves soil laterally not ver
tically and small amounts of air
are admitted without massive
destruction of root systems.