Do Green Chickens Lay Green Eggs
Edward W Heffner of Bartonsville collects eggs from his hen house in green and blue colors. He keeps Japanese Laying Hens that supply the colored eggs and reports last week 20 eggs blue and green were ready to hatch. Heffner, 30 years with chickens, notes a two headed chick in a single egg.
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Amd
Edward W Heffner
Bartonsville Hd
Heffner
Vohickens
Homer
Edward W. Heffner
Marg Fouche
Shortage of Phosphorus in Dairy Feeding and Ratios
Extension agent notes phosphorus is scarce for feed and fertilizer with steamed bonemeal largely unavailable. Advises using commercial mineral mixes and prioritizing dicalcium phosphate to stretch limited supply. Recommends a calcium to phosphorus ratio of about 2:1 unless legume-rich roughage dominates.
Farm Notes on Calcium Phosphorus and Garlic Control in Crops
Alfalfa has a calcium to phosphorus ratio about 6 to 1, so no calcium supplement is needed with heavy alfalfa feeding. Phosphorus is still required, hence monosodium phosphate. For mixed hay up to half alfalfa, a 2 1 ratio in minerals works, except for dry cows. Grass hay without legumes has CaP around 2:1 or 1:1. Wild garlic in pastures and in wheat and barley can be controlled with specific doses of 2 4 D ester or amine forms. No-till corn weed control relies on surfactants to improve paraquat efficacy. residual herbicides like atrazine are needed for new weeds. For more details call Extension Office at 520 North Market Street, 663 5300.
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Heffner
As Prudential Insurance
Patricia
East Patrick Street
North Market Street
Farm Credit
Farm Credit Office
East Street
Maryland runner wins 1973 National Corn Yield title
John Myers Jr of Westminster wins the 1973 National Corn Yield Contest with 157.00 bushels per acre. Produced from Trojan Seed TX5113 and TXS1L9, the event drew 1380 farmers from 43 states under NCGA rules requiring 25 acre fields and 10 percent yield checks.
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Maryland
John Myers Jr
Westminster
Trojan Seed Company
USDA Publishes Energy Conservation Checklist for Farmers
The USDA with the Federal Energy Office and EPA releases an Energy Conservation Checklist to help farmers certify fuel and energy programs. The pamphlet, due April, outlines three ways to save fuel fertilizer and electricity and includes a certification statement for suppliers. Farmers may read the pamphlet at local ASCS offices to certify early.
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Raymond F. Jaeger
Maryland Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
ASC
Federal Energy Office
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection Agency
Jaeger
ASCS
National Grange outlines agricultural concerns and opposition
The National Grange based in Washington outlines views on farming issues. It supports farm parity programs, low interest loans, stricter food imports inspections, and revised meat and dairy rules while opposing pesticide overreach, non farm corporate investment in farming, and bans on mechanical trapping of predators.
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National Grange
Washi D.C
The
Grange
Commodity Exchange Authority
Farmers Home Administration
Syrieeere
United States Department of Agriculture
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Allen B. Bryant
Dairy Science
IER
Southern States
Union Bridge Co-Op
Union Bridge
Southern States Cooperative Agency
USDA
Energy Conservation Checklist
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