Ag Showcase Day Provides EVERETT NEWSWANGER Managing Editor FAIR HILL, Md. —For the 15th consecutive year, one of the major farm events at the Cecil County Fair was the Ag Showcase Day at Fair Hill Farm Tuesday. Once again, farmers had the opportunity to see competing brands of equipment working side by side in the field. ‘This is better than other field days or fairs where you only get to see the equipment on display,” said Dave Wilson, Cecil County exten sion agent “Here the equipment is i W~. Brian Read, gives tne oh J 36 Case RL a crank as Andrew Barczewsk, 10, works the throtle. Both boys from Pleasant Hill, were having a great time running the old trac tor around the field at Ag Showcase Day. i SH@W(iisM? i I mMmmohmmml Marketing Fresh Produce Through Mid-September Watermelons, Cantaloupes, Sugar Babies, Tomatoes and More Opening July 11 9AM “No buyer too big or small- Pickup loads to tractor trailer loads sold- Buy your own - No fee for buying No broker needed” Please call for more information 302-875-3147 302-875-5136 Education And Fun working, and if you are interested, you can even drive the piece of machinery yourself.” A full schedule of events and educational demonstrations were held. Gary Cottman, John Deere Product Rep., spoke on Global Positioning Systems, and Dr. Wesley Musser, extension eco nomist University of Maryland, gave guidelines for selecting the proper size of equipment on your farm. The manure spreader calibration demonstration showed fanners how to figure the rate of applica- tion with the equipment on their own farm. Hughy Salfner, Cecil County nutrient management agent, demonstrated with a sheet of plastic laid in the path of the spreading manure. You take two 10’ x 10* square sheets of plastic at two different locations in the field. Weigh the manure caught on the sheets, and get the average number of pounds per sheet. Then take the number of pounds times 21.78 and divide by the square feet in the plastic sheet (100). This gives you the rate of application per acre. “This is a very simple equation P.O. Box 633 Laurel, DE 19956 To find the rate of application by your manure spreader, you first weigh the pounds spread on a 10’ x 10’ plastic sheet. Demonstrating are. from left, John Purdue, Hartford County nutrient management consultant; Dave Wilson, Cecil County agent; and Hughy Salfner, Cecil County nutri ent management consultant. to obtain a very important answer,” Salfner said. “If you know the soil test, the nutrients in the manure, and the crop you want to grow, you can figure how much manure you need to apply.” ■ /*: Salfner also showed that often more than half the nutrients are lost if the manure is not incorporated into the soj.l immediately after Mahoning Outdoor Furnaces Cut Your Heating Costs With Our Outdoor Furnace • Standard Model Bums Wood, Coal or gr Wood by-products ~ B • Multi-Fuel Model Bums Wood, Coal, Oil y* or Gas • Coming Catalytic Combustor Option Available on all Models ™ Clyde K. Alderfer / Box 246, RD #1 1 f Mt. Pleasant Mills, PA 17853 Adapts to any existing heat system (717) 539-8456 Installation & Accessories Available Lancaster Firming, Saturday, August 5, 1995-A25 application. Some of the other demonstra tions included: round bailers; TMR mixer, bale chopper; conservation tillage; compact tractor, and deer fencing. Participating equipment dealers were listed as: Ag Industrial. Ris ing Sun; Biggs Inc., Rising Sun; (Turn to Pago A2B)
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