Wheel Track Corn Planting Promises Aid to Yield and Erosion Control
Wisconsin researchers A E Peterson and A M Strommen report wheel-track corn planting paired with alfalfa interseeding improves soil conservation and maintains yields, with field tests reaching up to 180 bushels per acre. They describe wider front wheels for four row planting and note weed control and dwarf corn potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Peterson
A M Strommen
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Peterson and Strommen
Wisconsin
Peterson
Strommen
Peterson and Trommen
Pent a cin Tube Penicillin Formulation Highlight
A seven and a half gram Pent a cin tube is noted for its outstanding formulation containing 500 000 units of penicillin.
Holstein Herd Records Mark 1956 Crop in Lancaster County
The Holstein-Friesian Association of America completes Herd Improvement Registry records for Lancaster County cows. Entries include Paul H. Eby Cochranville with Highland Admiral Sally Ann yielding 17 518 pounds milk and 626 butterfat, and J Mowery Frey Fultonway Rag Apple Lucy producing 12 084 pounds milk and 499 fat, among others.
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Brattleboro
Holstein-Friesian Assn of America
Lancaster County
Paul H. Eby
Cochranville
Highland Admiral
Sally Ann
J. Mowery Frey
Lancaster
Fultonway
Apple Lucy
Henry Hess
Mr. Joy
Clovena le Winter Ivy
Steven K. Stoltzfts
Christiana Smyrna View de Kol Betty
A. W. Wickenheiser
Garwood Homstead
Bessie
Eggs Set Up 14 Percent Increase in December
Fourteen percent more eggs were set in the 22 main broiler producing states in the week ending Dec. 22 than in the same week a year earlier.
Three Counties Cup All Poultry Prizes at Farm Show
Harrisburg York Berks and Lancaster FFA members swept vocational poultry judging prizes at the State Farm Show. Prizes ranged from five dollars for first to one dollar for lower awards. Winners included New Hampshires First Laudenslager New Tripoli Berks County and White Leghorns First Ronald E Newhard Kutztown Berks Second Dale A Pensinger Topton Berks Third Richard Spahr Dover York Fourth Glenn Fetrow Dover York Fifth Gerald Gremer Manheim Lancaster Sixth Keith Eisenhart Dover York. Miscellaneous Trios First Carl Seifert Dover Second Donald Frone Dover York County.
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Harrisburg — York
Berks
Lancaster County
Future Farmers of America
White Leghorns
Ronald E Newhard
Kutztown
Berks County
Dale A Pensinger
Topton
Carl Seifert
Dover
York County
Donald Frone
Pennsylvania Fairs Conventioneers gather in Reading
The 45th annual Pennsylvania Association of County Fairs meets January 23 to 25 at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel Reading. Central Fair Circuit meetings, addresses by officials Duane Carter Dr William Henning Louis Shannon and Elmer Faber, a banquet and presentations mark the sessions.
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Pennsylvania
Reading
Midway
Pennsylvania Association of County Fairs
Abraham Lincoln
Charles W Swoyer
State Association
Central Fair Circuit
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Duane Carter
US Auto Club
Speedway City
Ind
William L Henning
Louis P. Shannon
E I DuPont de Nemours’ Co
Wilminngton
Del
Elmer Faber
Swoyey
US Trotting Association
Lawrence B. Sheppard
Hanover
Hanover Shoe Farms
John S. Giles
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New York
N. Y
University of Wisconsin
Rockland
Hee
Borkiend
Rockland Chemical CO
West Caldwill
WN. J
Co. Holsteins
New Hampshires
Forrest Laudenslager
New Tripoli
John P Bloom
Cambria County Potato Grower
Daniel F. McDevitt
CROS
Penna
U. S
Keystone Poultry Breeding Farm
Old Mill Road
Ephrata
Wheatland Auto CO
S. Prince ST
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