E6-Lancaster Farming, Saturday* February 17,1990 Farm Credit Reorganizes Finance BALTIMORE. Md. The Farm Credit Bank of Baltimore announces the re-organization of the Finance Division to better serve the banks’ 17 affiliated associations. Thomas H. Fischer has been promoted to vice president and will head up the audit department. He continues to play a key role in coordination and execution of the annual independent accountant examinations and financial state ment preparation process. A Cockeysville resident, Fis cher graduated from Gettysburg College and recently received his master’s degree in business admN nistration with concentration in finance from Loyola College. He is a CPA and is married to Susan Harris Fischer. Larry Keckler, a 13-year veter an of the bank, has been promoted to vice president, financial sys tems and accounting support. This new department was created Hamilton Bank Presents Ag Ed LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) “A New Global Perspective” is the topic of the ninth annual agri education seminar presented by Hamilton Bank at the Lancaster Farm and Home Center. Developed for members of the agricultural community to provide information about financial aspects of farming and agribusi ness, the event is scheduled Thurs day, February 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The featured speaker will be ILK. Ag Equipment Manufacturer Will Display At Kentucky Show WILTSHIRE, England—Kidd Farm Machinery Ltd., one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of agricultural equipment, will be showing a full range of bale chop pers in its first appearance at the Kentucky National Farm Machin ery Show (stand 8027 in the Pavi lion Area). The versatile Kidd Big Bale Choppers are used by North American farmers in many appli cations, including chopping hay for feed, providing cattle bedding, chopping and spreading litter for poultry houses, spreading straw for fruit crops, and landscaping. The Kidd Show lineup includes the latest 7-16 Big Bale Chopper as well as the 6-10 and 4-5 models. Designed specifically for the North American market, the 7-16 has completed final field test trials in the USA. It is a fully trailed machine with a 7 foot diameter tub capable of handling full-size and misshapen bales or up to 16 con ventional bales with equal ease. The tub is hydraulically driven via tractor spool valves, and final drive is via roller chain. The tub speed and operation are controlled from the tractor seat. To ensure low start-up torque, fine control of discharge times and chop length, Kidd has designed Division because of the need to provide support to the associations in the areas of automated financial sys tems, accounting, and tax issues. The department will serve as a focal point for certain data pro cessing projects. Keckler graduated from Pen nsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He received his CPA in 1983. Keckler resides in Fallston, Maryland, with his wife Patricia B. Smeton Keckler and their three children. The Farm Credit Bank of Balti more services associations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virgini a. West Virginia, Delaware, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. More than 49,000 farmers, rural homeowners, aquatic harves ters, producers, and agribusines ses are provided with long- and short-term credit in excess of $2.8 billion. Seminar Terry N. Barr, vice president for agriculture and trade policy of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. His topic is “Eco nomic Challenges in the 19905.” Other speakers include H. Louis Moore, professor of agricul tural economics at Penn State and David M. Kohl, professor of agri cultural finance at Virginia Tech University. . Additional information about the seminar is available from Dar vin Boyd, Hamilton Bank, 717 291-3313. and patented a hydraulically oper ated center-lift disc as an integral part of the chopping rotor. After the bale is loaded, the center disc is raised, lifting the bale clear of the rotor; the rotor drive can then be easily engaged and run up to the operational speed before the bale is gently lowered onto the knives. The hydraulically driven tub then co-roiates the bale over the chopping rotor. For ease of operation and com plete versatility, the 7-16 has three discharge ports, one to either side and a third to the rear. One, two, or all three ports may be used with tractor seat rope control of the two side ports. By increasing the PTO input speed from 540 rpm to 1000 rpm, the machine’s cutting rotor per forms a dual function chopping and blowing. By affixing a plastic flexible hose to the rear discharge port, the machine is capable of blowing material through SO ft of hose with ease. Alternatively, the company’s ‘Kobra’ high dis charge kit can be fitted for Oiling mixer feeders and similiar work. Kidd equipment is available through a network of North American dealers, including Cum mings and Bricker of Batavia, New York, (716) 343-5411 and Cummings and Bricker of Car lisle, Pennsylvania, (717) 249-6720. Deere C-Springs Provide Rock Protection MOLINE, ILL. Two load sensitive C-springs have been combined with John Deere’s strongest disk components spools, gang bolts, blades and bearings—to provide rockprotec tion on the new John Deere 635 tandem disk harrow, company officials said recently. C-springs provide flex to the disk gang when a blade strikes an obstacle such as a rock, yet are rigid enough to hold a consistent depth for complete disking action, officials said. The new disk added to the 600 series disk line introduced last year provides gang protection in rock-infested fields. The 635 is available in 10 sizes ranging from 12 foot-two inch rigid model to a 32 foot-one inch flex-fold model. One C-spring is tapered from a cross section at the top to a 2 in. x 9/10 in. cross section at the bottom. A second C-spring has a 2 in. x 1-1/4 in. cross section over its entire length. The combination of C-springs have fine-tune the gangs to match the disk’s weight distri bution and now provide consistent depth and gang flexibility at the recommended disking speed of Del . NEWARK. Del. The 1989 Delaware hybrid field com perfor mance trial results have been com piled and are available in bulletin form. The trials, conducted by the University of Delaware agricul tural experiment station and coop erative extension, are designed to supply growers with information they need to select suitable hy brids. Dr. Jim Hawk, plant geneticist; Janet Burris, research technician; Julia Klapproth, research asso ciate; and Bob Uniatowski, exten sion assistant conducted the trials, which evaluated 164 hybrids in five maturity groups. The re searchers conducted the trials at three locations in Delaware: the university’s Research and Educa tion Center in Georgetown, the Philip Cartanza farm in Little Creek, and a university demon stration research site in Middle town. The traits measured include yield in bushels per acre, percent grain moisture, percent early stand, final population per acre obtained after thinning, percent stalk lodging of plants broken be low the ear, percent root lodging of plants lodged more than 30 de grees, and percent ear-drop (ears found on the ground before har vesting). At Middletown, significant dif ferences were found among hy brids within each maturity group for grain yield, percent grain moisture, and percent stalk lodg ing. The researchers also found significant differences between hybrids for percent early stand for all but the late-maturity group. Averaged across hybrids, yields in Middletown were 139.5,139.6, 141, 133, and 121.5 bushels per acre for early, early-medium, me dium, /medium-late, and latc-ma- 4-1/2 to S-l/2 mph, officials said. Other components which com plete the rock protection system incloude; S-l/2 in. diameter steel fabricated spools with 1/4 in. walls, 1-1/4 in. square gang bolts, 22 in. x .256 in. solid spherical blades on 9 in. spacing and Dura flex bearings. The bearings have a two-year warranty. The 635 has the same features as other 600 series disks. A cush ioned disk middle breaker allows the disk to get double offset design performance in cutting out the cen ter balk of soil while achieving the Corn Trial Results Available ~ - * lurity groups, respectively. Creek ranged from 37 to 78.5 pe*M ‘The lower yields of the later- cent (early-maturity), 29.5 to 77.2 season hybrids compared to early- percent (early-medium). 18.7 to to mid-season hybrids in 1989 78 percent (medium), 11.4 to 58.9 may be attributed to the later percent (medium-late), and 5 to,; planting date and slightly higher 47.5 percent (late-maturity). percent stalk lodging,” Hawk said. At Georgetown, the researchers “Differences in stalk strength and found significant differences resistance to European com borer among hybrids within each matur and stalk rot fungi account for the ity group for grain yield, percent large differences among hybrids grain moisture, percent early in percent stalk lodging at Middle- stand, and percent stalk lodging, town.” Averaged across hybrids, yields At Little Creek, significant dif- were 169.3, 172.1, 173.7, 172.3, ferences among hybrids within and 170.3 bushels per acre for ear each maturity group were found ly, early-medium, medium, me for yield, percent grain moisture, dium-late, and late-season hy and percent early stand. Signifi- brids, respectively. Hawk notes cant differences also were found that although anthracnose stalk rot among hybrids for percent stalk was severe at Georgetown, the lodging and percent root lodging low amount of September rainfall for all but the early-season matur- prior to harvest, compared to the ity. Yields averaged across hy- other two locations, resulted in a brids were 110.9, 125.4, 138.3, lower amount of stalk lodging. 124.1, and 130.3 bushels per acre Hawk encourages growers to for early, early-medium, medium, look at the data for all traits, as medium-late, and late-maturity well at the relative yield ranking hybrids, respectively. across locations and years when “Heavy European com borer choosing their hybrids. Included feeding, stalk rot damage and in the bulletin arc instructions on heavy rains the week prior to har- how to best use the performance vest contributed to high levels of trial information to select com hy stalk lodging and root lodging at brids. Copies of the bulletin are Little Creek,” Hawk said. available, free of charge, at county Percent stalk lodging at Little extension offices in Delaware. Prune Trees General pruning of apple trees mg of young trees should involve should be in full swing at this time just enough cutting to maintain a of year, according to Edward J. healthy central leader and to deve- Woods, Penn State extension spe- lop the desired number of well cialist. Especially if there is a lot to spaced scaffold branches, do. Branches that are either poorly spaced, or ones making very narrow-angled crotches should be removed, he said. “Keep in mind, when you start pruning early, start with your hard ier trees; the apple and pear, with plums, sour cherries next. Leave your peaches ’till near the end. They're quite lender,” he said. “I’d like to remind growers and homeowners not to overprune young trees or those which haven’t yet started to bear fruit,” Woods said. “There is a tendency to either prune the small trees too heavily, or simply to leave them alone. A middle-of-the-road course is best” According to Woods, the train- straight-pulling characteristics of a tandem design. An exclusive hydraulic fore/aft leveling option lets the operator level the disk on the-go for varying soil conditions. Other features include single point depth control, self-leveling hitch, crank fore and aft leveling, combination scrapers, integral fur row filler and optional hydraulic wing control. The tine-tooth harrow and addi tional finishing blade are two attachments available for the 630 disk which can be used on the 635. i! •” *
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