Craftsmen Demonstrate
During July Celebration
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) The Pennsylvania Guild
of Craftsmen will be celebrating
its 55th annual State Craft Fair
at the Franklin & Marshall
Sports and Fitness Center July
27-29.
The Guild members’ work is
featured in elite museum cata
logs across the country. Their
crafts have appeared in Holly
wood films such as “The Pa
triot,” featuring Mel Gibson,
and Oprah’s movie “Beloved.”
They’ve been showcased on
“Lynette Jennings Design” on
the Discovery Channel. They
have even decorated the White
House Christmas Tree.
Some of the Guild’s finest
craftsmen will demonstrate their
art live for all to see. Featured
artists include basket weaver
Vivian Aron, whose traditional
weaving style stems back to the
Liquidation Auction June 29
CHAMBERSBURG (Frank
lin Co.) The Franklin County
Area Development Corporation
(FCADC) has announced a
major liquidation auction of its
remaining assets at the Letterk
enny Army Depot, Chambers
burg.
The auction will be Friday,
June 29 beginning at 8:30 a.m.
at Lctterkenny Building 41.
A partial listing of the inven-
Two Farmers Win $l,OOO
In Hytest Promotion
SHIREMANSTOWN
(Cumberland Co.) With a
check for $l,OOO from Hytest®
Seeds in their hands, Barbara
Schenning, of Bel Air, Md., and
the Yautz Brothers, of Easton,
are among the delighted winners
of the Hytest Seeds “Hybrids
Built To Feed/Hybrids Built To
Yield” promotional contest.
Schenning, whose farm pro
duces grain and silage com and
alfalfa for a 300-head dairy op
eration, and the Yautz Brothers,
who produce Hytest alfalfa,
along with com, soybeans and
wheat, were randomly selected
Land Pride 25 Series Disc Harrows
SALINA, Kan. The newest
additions to Land Pride’s Disc
Harrow line, the DH2S Series,
are the 60-inch, 72-inch and 96-
inch harrows ready to tackle
your toughest conditions. From
produce farms to conservation
plots and even roadside work,
these harrows are built to give
excellent results.
Designed for tractors up to
100 HP, the Cat. 1 and 2 hitch
will fit a variety of tractors, for a
variety of uses. The four-inches
by three-inches gang tubes and 1
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days of the Gettysburg War;
James Barnett, who will demon
strate the art of tinsmithing; Art
Stilson, will bring Saint Nicholas
to life through clay sculpting;
Sandra Coldren, who was fea
tured on “Lynette Jennings
Design,” will demonstrate the
old art of Theorem painting;
Bob Dewitt, also featured on
“Lynette Jennings Designs,”
will hand-carve wooden spoons
and bowls; Marge Erickson, who
will weave “wearable art;” Ned
Foltz, whose redware pottery is
collected by Hollywood stars,
will demonstrate Sgrifitto;
Linda Horn will demonstrate
the ago-old art of com husk doll
making; and Barbara Miller will
demonstrate wheat weaving.
Cost of admission is $6, and
new to this show is the option of
purchasing a weekend pass good
for both days for only $9.
lory being sold at the auction in
cludes construction equipment,
trucks, vehicles, trailers, mate
rial handling equipment includ
ing cranes and forklifts,
machine shop and specialized
equipment and tools, welders,
ground maintenance equipment,
warehousing equipment, office
furniture, specialized electronic
and mechanical calibration
equipment and many other re
lated items.
from hundreds of entries in the
Hytest Seeds direct mail promo
tion. The third winner in the
contest was Jim Scheele, from
Oglesby, Texas.
Hytest Seeds is a widely re
spected as a leading producer
and marketer of high yielding
forage and grain seed products,
including com, sorghum, al
falfa, legume and grass varieties.
Research trials show that the
company’s “Built To Feed”
forage products can signifi
cantly increase milk production
from dairy herds and increase
daily rate of gain for feedlot
cattle.
1/8-inch square axles easily
handle the heavy torque load the
disc blades can be put through.
The bearing hangers feature Vi
inch plate and s /s-inch U-bolts.
The 25 Series Disc Harrow is
available with 20-inch or 22-
inch notched disc blades. Avail
able in 7 Vi-inch spacing, the
front and rear gangs can be
angled up to 21 degrees for opti
mum aggressiveness. Angling is
simplified with an adjustment
handle on the front and rear
gang. Optional disc scrapers are
available.
Corn Fields Should Be Evaluated Now
DES MOINES, lowa
While walking your corn fields
this summer to scout for insects
and weeds, take a look at the
actual stand in each Held. Eval
uating this year’s stand could be
the start of a better crop in 2002.
“A field walk now is a good
idea,” says Gregg Carlson, pro
fessor of plant science at South
Dakota State University.
“While there’s no chance to fix
any problems, evaluating the
stand as it’s growing does allow
producers to clearly identify
problems and solve them for
2002.”
Problems can include the
presence of skips (missing
plants) and doubles (two-plant
hills) caused by poorly cali
brated or out-of-condition
planter meters. Poorly spaced
com can deliver lower yields,
while research has shown that
equidistant plant spacing can
have a positive effect on yields.
In studies conducted by
agronomists at Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc., plant spac
ing was measured and standard
deviation was calculated. The
lower the standard deviation,
the more uniform the stand and
the better the yields. Pioneer’s
research showed a 4-1-bushel
ASAE Tractor Design Competition
Bridges Gap Between
Good Student And Good Employee
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. Expe
rience gained by students partic
ipating in the International
Student Design Quarter-Scale
Tractor Competition of the
American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers (ASAE) goes
well beyond honing their techni
cal competence. It also enhances
the nontechnical skills employ
ers look for and don’t always
find in prospective employ
ees.
ASAE Past President Gale
Holloway, CNH-Case Corp., ex
plains, “It’s an excellent way for
students to prepare for and gain
exposure to what they are going
to be facing when they get out
into the professional world
technical challenges, problem
solving, a team-player environ
ment, and the need for project
management and communica
tion skills.”
To participate in the competi
tion, teams must not only design
and build a quarter-scale trac
tor, they must use written and
oral communication skills to
convince a panel of judges (play
ing the role of ‘upper manage
ment’ in a fictitious equipment
manufacturer) that their design
is the best. The team must also
secure funds for components
and for travel. For one of this
year’s competitors, a team trav
eling all the way from Malaysia,
the latter will , total some
$35,000.
That commitment to meet nu
merous challenges is a sharp re
flection of the caliber of the
students that participate in the
Quarter-Scale contest. “The
competition draws the most am
bitious and goal-oriented stu
dents. This project is extremely
demanding and stretches the
students’ knowledge and capa
bilities to new limits,” says event
co-chair Kelly A. Detra, of
CNH-Case Corp.
Former Kansas State team
member Andrew Grollmes, now
with John Deere Harvester
Works, agrees. “The Design
Competition gave me an under
standing of very real-world situ-
per acre increase for each one
inch improvement in standard
deviation. Similar research at
Purdue University showed a 2.5-
bushel per acre yield increase
per one-inch of standard devia
tion improvement.
To determine the standard
deviation of a corn stand and the
estimated impact on yield, take
30 consecutive corn plants and
measure the distance between
each corn plant. Repeat this pro
cess four times in randomly se
lected areas throughout the
field. These spacing figures are
then used to calculate the stan
dard deviation, which can be
done using any standard spread
sheet software. Keep in mind in
a perfectly planted field where
all plants are 7.0 inches apart,
the average spacing is 7.0 and
the standard deviation 0. If 50
percent of the spacings are 6.0
and 50 percent are 8.0, the aver
ages spacing is still 7.0, but the
standard deviation is 1.0 inch.
In the Pioneer research, sites
showing only a slight improve
ment in standard deviation (less
than 1.0 inch) had an average
yield increase of a modest 1.8
bushel per acre. Conversely,
where the standard deviation
improvement was moderate (1
to 2 inches), yields improved by
ations,” he says. “The process of
fund raising, designing and
building our 2000 tractor was
excellent training for the skills
that 1 now use daily.”
The Quarter-Scale Tractor
Design Competition is made
possible by Briggs & Stratton,
Case Corporation, Caterpillar
Inc., Cub Cadet, Deere and
Company, and New Holland,
with additional support from
Bridgestone/Firestone, Camp
bell Scientific Inc., Digi-Star,
Grasshopper, Midwest Super
Cub, Milwaukee Tool, and
Callisto™ Corn
Herbicide Registered
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.
Syngenta Crop Protection has
received registration for Cal
listo™ corn herbicide, a new
post-emergence product that
controls nearly all the major
broadleaf weeds in com.
Developed from a naturally
occurring herbicide in the Cal
listemon citrinus plant, Callisto
Wile Joins White Oak
Mills Dairy Division
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lan
caster Co.) White Oak Mills
Inc. has announced the addition
of Larry Wile, of Lancaster, to
its management and dairy
teams.
Wile will serve as White Oak
Mills’ vice president, Dairy
Eastern Division. Focusing his
expertise and sales efforts in
southeastern Pennsylvania, he
will concentrate specifically on
meeting dairy producer’s nutri
tional and management needs.
His responsibilities will also in
clude overseeing and providing
strategic direction to White
Oak’s eastern dairy team.
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5.0 bushels per acre. In more ex
treme cases where standard de
viation was improved by more
than 2 inches, the yield improve
ment averaged 15.9 bushels per
acre.
While many things can influ
ence stand quality and profita
bility there are three key
planting objectives to stride for:
• Uniform depth and spacing
of seed placement,
• Correct number of seeds
per acre and,
• Creating the best possible
environment for seeds to germi
nate rapidly and emerge uni
formly.
“Experienced corn growers
know they benefit from uniform
stand establishment,” says Hall.
“The most effective way to
achieve this uniformity is to use
sound agronomic practices
along with quality seed and a
well-calibrated planter.”
Hall recommends growers
visit with their local Pioneer
sales professional or agronomist
for assistance with stand evalua
tion this season and for help
with planter calibration and
maintenance before planting
next year’s crop. They can also
visit www.pioneer.com/
metermax for more information.
Snap-On.
The American Society of Ag
ricultural Engineers is a profes
sional and technical
organization dedicated to the
advancement of engineering ap
plicable to agricultural, food,
and biological systems. Founded
in 1907 and headquartered in St.
Joseph, Mich., ASAE comprises
9,000 members representing
more than 90 countries. For fur
ther information about the Soci
ety or its Student Design
competitions, contact Dolores
Landeck at ASAE, (616) 428-
6339, landeck@asae.org.
brings a new mode of action to
broadleaf weed control in corn.
It offers post-emergence and re
sidual control of the toughest
broadleaf weeds in corn, excel
lent crop safety, a favorable en
vironmental profile, a wide
window of application, and a
low use rate.
Wile graduated from Pennsyl
vania State University with a
bachelor of science degree in
management/marketing. Em
ployed by Purina Mills for the
last 19 years, he served most re
cently in the areas of product
formulation and nutritional con
sulting services.
“We’re excited by the oppor
tunities, experiences and techni
cal proficiency Larry will be
bringing to our organization and
by the contributions he’ll make
to our dairy team,” says Mark
Wagner, White Oak Mills presi
dent. “He’ll be an asset to our
company, our dairy team, and
our customers.”