COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Livestock and dairy farmers in
northern Maryland’s Piedmont
area are invited to take an
educational break this month.
They’ll have a chance to chat
with neighbors, watch field
demonstrations, and learn what’s
new during two forage field days
on successive Tuesdays in central
and northeast Maryland. Dates are
July 17 and 24.
Both events are being sponsored
in part by the University of
Maryland’s Cooperative Extension
Service. Here are the details:
July 17
The second annual Central
Maryland Forage Tour and Field
Day is scheduled July 17 in Howard
County. It will start at 10 a.m. on
the Mark Clark dairy farm in the
Elioak area at 10572 highway 108
(Clarksville Pike), just north of
Columbia. The farm lane is about
one-half mile or the second
entrance west of Centennial
University schedules
tobacco field day
COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The
University of Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
(UMAES) will hold its annual
Tobacco Research Field Day
Wednesday, July 25.
The field day will be at the
university’s Southern Maryland
Research and Educaton Facility
(the university’s Tobacco Ex
perimental Farm) near Upper
Marlboro, Md.
Each year, the field day features
the latest research findings in
tobacco cultivation and
management.
It is free and open to the public,
beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing
into the early afternoon.
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OBIE SNIDER, SINGING BROOK FARMS
RDI, Box 15-A Imler, PA 16655 (814) 276-3095
We at Singing Brook Farms feel that the Roskamp Silage Roller
Mill is a definite asset to our feeding nroeram. Since we have in
stalled the Roskamp Mill, which tears the hull of the kernel and
breaks up the cob in our com silage, our cows are eating approx.
10% less feed, leaving no cobs in the feed trough, have no kernels in
their manure, and have given us an average of .1% higher butterfat
test in the 4 months that we have used the mill. In light of these
results we are convinced that the Roskamp Silage Roller Mill is a
good investment that will pay for itself and bring us a sizable
dividend in the near future.
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL DEALER
PENNSYLVANIA
Barrett Equipment Co.
Smiefcsburg, Pa.
814-257-8881
Clapper Farm Equip., Inc.
Alexandria, Pa.
814-669-4465
Fred Crivellaro
Easton, Pa.
215-258-7584
Tom Dunlap
Jersey Shore, Pa.
717-398-1391
Erb & Henry
New Berlinvilte, Pa.
215-367-2169
Md. to hold 2 forage field days
Lane, on the north side of the
highway.
Visitors will be able to see one of
the top-producing dairy herds in
the state, which has won numerous
Dairy Herd Improvement
Association awards for increases
in butterfat production. The 155-
cow Holstein operation has a DHIA
rolling herd annual production
average in excess of 20,000 pounds
of milk and more than 750 pounds
of butterfat per cow.
Cows at the Clark farm are fed in
two groups, based on milk
production. The feeding program
includes corn, soybean and
sorghum silage, as well as timothy
and alfalfa hay.
Tour participants will leave the
Clark farm in private cars and
proceed to the University of
Maryland’s agronomy-dairy
forage research farm nearby at
4234 Folly Quarter road for noon
lunch and a short afternoon
program. Box lunches will be
available at nominal cost.
After lunch, tour participants
will be able to visit research plots
at the University of Maryland
farm. They will also hear
presentations by university Ex
tension and research workers on
forage establishments, alfalfa
fertilization, species evaluations,
chemical hay conditioning, and
organic acid hay preservatives.
The program will end about 3:30
p.m., according to Dr. Lester R.
Vough, Extension agronomy
specialist at the University of
Maryland in College Park. Co
sponsor is the Maryland-Delaware
Forage Council, organized in 1982.
The council had originally
planned a follow-up Delmarva
Forage Field Day on July 18 at the
University of Delaware’s Hickory
Hill research farm near Cheswold,
Del. But that event has been
cancelled because of the con
tinuing threat from avian in
fluenza, a dread poultry disease
FickesSiloCo.
Box 7
Newville, Pa. 17241
717-776-3129
Harclerode's Dairymen
Specialty Co.
New Paris, Pa.
814-839-2790
Hines Equipment
Cresson, Pa.
814-886-4183
i & M Machinery Co., Inc.
Greensburg, Pa.
412-668-2276
S.G. Lewis A Son, Inc.
West Grove, Pa.
215-869-9440
jmmer field days offered by the Cooperative Extension
Service give farmers a chance to take an educational break, chat with neighbors, watch
field demonstrations and learn what's new. Those attending the Cecil County Ag
Showcase forage field day on July 24 will be able to see and compare no-till drills, like the
one shown in this picture during a 1983 summer farm tour on the Sparks and Hare
partnership farm in Baltimore county. Farmer David L. Sparks leans on drill in
foreground as he speaks to the group, while county Extension agent G. Richard Curran
(second from right) looks on.
which has caused concern for the
large Delmarva broiler industry.
July 24
The third annual Cecil County Ag
Showcase field day is scheduled
July 24 in conjunction with the
county fair at Fair Hill. This year’s
emhasis will be on forage equip
ment. Registration, with free milk
and doughnuts, will begin at 9:30
a.m. Field demonstration of round
and conventional baling will run
from 10 o’clock to 12:30.
Lunch will be available on the
SPECIALISTS
David Harper
Singing Brook Farms
Imler, Pa. 814-276-8012
R.T. Markle
Farm Equip., Inc.
State College. Pa.
814-237-3141
Marshall Machinery, Inc.
Honesdale, Pa.
717-729-7117
MKS Enterprises, Inc.
Hanover, Pa.
717-637-2214
Northeast Equipment Co.
Northeast. Pa
814-725-1888
North Penn Sealstor Swope & Bashore, Inc.
Bloomsburg, Pa. Myerstown, Pa.
717-387-1422 717-933-4138
fairground at moderate cost. An
air show and display of ultralight
aircraft is scheduled during the
lunch break.
The afternoon session, from 1:30
to 2:30 p.m., will feature demon
stration of no-till drills and con
servation tillage equipment.
Farm equipment dealers from
three states will participate in the
forenoon and afternoon demon
strations. Most of them also will
have equipment on display, ac
cording to Theodore A. Haas,
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Atlee Robert
Littlestown, Pa.
717-359-5863
Rovendale Supply
Watsontown, Pa.
717-538-5521
Sollenberger Silos Corp.
Chambersburg, Pa.
717-264-9588
Stouffer Bros., Inc.
Chambersburg, Pa.
717-263-8424
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Zip Phone
Tam Agri Corp.
Dtllsburg, Pa.
717-432-9738
Terre Hill Silo Co., Inc.
Terre Hill, Pa.
215-445-6736
Uniontown Farm Equipment
Uniontown, Pa.
412-437-9851
MARYLAND
Arnett’s Garage
RR 9 Box 125
Hagerstown, Md.
301-733-0515
Tri-State Farm Automation Ed Lipscomb’s Equip.
Hagerstown, Md. Eglon, WV
301-790-3698 304-735-5239
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Extension agricultural agent in
Cecil County. There will be a
drawing for door prize money at
the conclusion of the field day.
Haas says that this will be the
largest forage equipment
demonstration event ever held on
the Demarva peninsula. All in
terested persons are invited.
Acitivies of the Maryland
Cooperative Extension Service are
open to all citizens without regard
to race, color, sex, handicap,
religion, age or national origin.
NEW JERSEY
Brookhill Equipment
ft Supply Co.
Pittstown, NJ
201-735-4142
NEW YORK
Sharon Springs Garage, Inc.
Sharon Springs, NY
518-284-2346
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