D6-Lancaster Farming Saturday, May 9,1987
BUSINESS NE
Hamilton Handles Stump Cutters
distributor of Ashland stump cutters, land levelers and
earthmovers. The Stump Master (pictured) mounts on 3-
point hitch tractors and can remove hundreds of stumps a
day. Earthmovers are available in 2Vt- to 16-cubic-yard
models. For information contact Hamilton Equipment, Inc.,
567 S. Reading Rd., P.O. Box 478, Ephrata, PA, 17522.
Phone: 717-733-7951.
Seed Treatment Gives
Wheat Healthy Start
SALISBURY, Md. - One of the
first systemic seed treatment
fungicides on the market, Vitavax
-200 (R) Flowable Fungicide, today
remains the most popular and one
of the most widely used by wheat
farmers across the United States.
“With Vitavax-200, farmers
choosing to have their seed treated
get the best of both worlds,
because it contains a systemic and
a contact fungicide,” says Frank
Welch, marketing director for
Beachjey-Hardy Seed Company.
The surface action of the contact
fungicide, Thiram, protects the
seed from soil-borne disease and
decay. The systemic fungicide,
Carboxin, is absorbed through the
seed coat and translocated into the
developing seedling.
“The systemic action provides
protection for up to three weeks,
allowing your plants time to
develop healthy root systems and
hardy foliage,” says Welch.
Welch says university tests show
not only an increase in yield from
treated versus untreated seed, but
also increases in germination
percentages in diseased seed.
The popularity of the systemic
fungicide comes not only from its
effectiveness to control disease,
but also from the cost effectiveness
of using it versus an in-furrow or
broadcast application of a
fungicide.
“The field application of a
fungicide can cost three to five
times what a seed treatment costs
Guide To Washington Available
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The
100th Congress edition of
“Agricultural Guide to
Washington” is now available for
distribution according to Elanco
Products Company, publishers of
the Guide.
The publication lists all mem
bers of Congress; Congressional
committees and federal agencies
relating to agriculture; and
and still not offer the assurance
that the fungicide will come into
contact with the seed,” says
Welch.
Lebanon Chemical Celebrates 40th Anniversary
LEBANON - Vernon Bishop,
founder and president of Lebanon
Chemical Corporation, has an
nounced the celebration of the
company’s 40th year of service to
the agricultural and turfgrass
industries of North America.
Established in 1947, Lebanon
Chemical began as a small fer
tilizer business operating out of a
renovated drop forge plant in
Lebanon, Pa. Founded on service
to production agriculture, the
company's reputation for quality
grew, bringing prosperity and new
opportunities for future growth.
While strengthening its position
in the agricultural marketplace,
Lebanon branched out with new
product lines for the turf and
horticultural markets. It started
supplying Sears and Roebuck, as
well as many other customers,
with its own brands of private label
fertilizers.
Today, Lebanon’s branded and
private label products reach out to
homeowners and professional
users from coast to coast, and
represent almost 50 percent of the
company’s total volume.
Much of Lebanon Chemical’s
agricultural trade associations. In
addition to names, addresses and
telephone numbers of legislators,
committee members and key
staffers, as well as key agency and
association personnel, are in
cluded in the Guide. Also included
is a fold-out map of Washington
detailing the location of major
buildings and agencies.
To obtain copies, contact M. S.
Deere To Celebrate 150th
Anniversary With Tours , Displays
MOLINE, 111. - This year Deere
& Company celebrates a corporate
milestone that few American in
dustrial companies have attained
the 150th anniversary of con
tinuously doing business under the
same name.
The event that led to the found
ing of the company in 1837, while
unheralded at the tune, changed
the course of an important
segment of U.S. history: the
agricultural development of the
bountiful midwestem prairies by
eastward moving frontiersmen
and women.
Working in a small blacksmith
shop in the tiny village of Grand
Detour, Illinois, a “smithy” from
New England named John Deere
set out to solve a problem that was
plaguing the farmers who were
arriving in the midwest from the
east in increasing numbers. The
problem was simple: the fertile
midwestern soil was so sticky that
it gummed up on the farmers’
plows. This meant they had to stop
their teams of horses every few
steps and scrape the plow blade
clean.
This was a laborious task and
was so discouraging to some
frontier farmers that they were
beginning to pack up and return
East. John Deere had been in
Illinois for less than a year in 1837,
having migrated from Vermont,
when word of this dilemma caught
his attention and his craftman’s
imagination. He set out to find a
solution to the problem and, by
changing the material used in the
plow from cast iron to steel, he
succeeded.
Deere soon showed he had as
much talent as a marketer as he
did as an inventor and his new self
scouring plow became a hit with
farmers. Within 10 years, the farm
equipment business of John Deere
had grown at such a pace that he
decided to move it to the
Mississippi river town of Moline,
Illinois, to take advantage of the
water power and better tran
sportation facilities.
growth m the past 40 years can be
attributed to Vernon Bishop’s
successful practice of growth
through acquisition. The purchase
of New Jersey’s Dayton Fertilizer
plant in 1965 was the first of many
acquisitions which proved to be
profitable in choice and operation
Broad Pan Distributor Increases Silage Quality
DOYLESTOWN, Ohio - The
broad pan Easy-Up Model 1604
silage distributor, a high capacity
member of 3-J Manufacturing
Company’s powered distributor
family, is now available from the
manufacturer and at silo service
companies and farm implement
dealers in the U.S. and Canada.
The Model 1604 features the
company’s patented gear-driven,
self-cleaning race design. Its new
design incorporates a large 16-inch
diameter assembly. A precision
cast aluminum race is driven -
rack and pinion style - by a
completely sealed, burn-out
resistant motor. This allows the
stainless steel broad pan deflector
to produce a near-flat distribution
pattern in silage materials like
haylage and high moisture ground
ear corn without spillage, flow by
or plugging - even from today’s
newer, higher capacity blowers.
The importance of a near-flat
distribution pattern in silos has
been stressed recently in a new
study from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Howard J.
Crowder, Elanco Marketing
Services, Elanco Products
Company, Ully Corporate Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46285
Deere's blacksmith shop has been recreated at the John
Deere Historic Site in Grand Detour, 111.
During 1987, Deere & Company
will engage in activities to
celebrate its 150th birthday.
Events such as antique tractor
competitions, factory and office
open houses, displays of farm
machinery that John Deere
produced over the years and
special events at the John Deere
Historic Site at Grand Detour, will
mark the anniversary year.
Special activities surrounding
the 150th anniversary of John
Deere’s business that are open to
the public include the equipment
museum at the Deere & Company
Administrative Center on John
Deere Road in Moline, Illinois. The
special display shows an evolution
of equipment produced throughout
the history of the company. The
display is open year-round daily
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Large groups
should call in advance 309-752-4208
or 309-752-4235.
Also of special interest is the
John Deere Histone Site at Grand
for the company.
Once a single plant in Lebanon
County, Lebanon Chemical now
operates 48 producing locations in
seven states and employs over 700
people. Its products, distributed
throughout the continental United
Easy-Up Silage Distributor
Larsen found that silage
distribution patterns in silo filling
are directly related to silo capacity
and quality of the resulting feed.
He concluded that the nearly flat
pattern produced by a well
managed broad pan distributor
could increase the capcity of a silo
by as much as 30 percent. Silage
Detour, Illinois. The site includes
John Deere’s original Illinois
home, a replica of his first
blacksmith shop, an ar
chaeological exhibit supplemented
with audio visual programs at the
location of the original blacksmith
shop and the restored home of a
former neighbor of John Deere.
For information call 815-652-4551.
The John Deere Historic Site is
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
from March 1 to November 30. Fee
is $1 for those 16 and older.
On July 16, 17, 18, and 19, hun
dreds of collectors of antique John
Deere tractors from 48 States and
from other countries will gather in
Waterloo, lowa, the home of
Deere’s tractor manufacturing in
North America, for a major show
of their restored equipment. The
display will include Waterloo Boy
and John Deere tractors and some
implements produced between the
early 1900 s and 1960. For in
formation call 309-752-5030.
States, are marketed under a
variety of brand names, such as
Lebanon, Greenview, Green Gold,
Glonon, Country Club,
Homestead, Greenskeeper,
Lebanon Pro, Green Pro, and
Turf master.
materials pack in a uniform
fashion, rapidly exhausting air and
promoting good quality feed.
The Model 1604 weighs less than
20 pounds and can be easily moved
from silo to silo. Equipped with
mounting brackets specified for
hatch size and silo type, it simply
drops onto the hatch mounting
ring. These are provided by the
manufacturer to fit most popular
silos.
Easy-Up Model 1604 Silage
Distributor is manufactured by 3-J
Manufacturing Company Inc., 437
South Portage Road, Doylestown,
Ohio 44230, telephone (216 ) 658-
2529.
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