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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-05-09, Page 20A CHAMPS — The Zurich Rockets were awarded the men's A championship trophies at a bowling banquet in Hensen. Shown (back left) are Gord Smith, Ed Smith, Howard Finkbeiner, Phil Overholt, Wayne Pearce and (front) Orlen Schwart- zentruber, Glen Overholt, Jim Bedard and Carl Finkbeiner. Missin . : Ron Smith. TOP INDIVIDUAL DARTERS — Trophies were presented to the best individual per- formers -in the Eketer ladies dart league. From the left are Marg Wragg, Terry Heywood, Lynda Parkinson and Kate Bierling. T -A photo BEST MIXED BOWLERS — The topindividual bowlers in the E1xeter E eter Sunday mixed league are shown here. Back, left, Charlie Elson, Bruce McKichan and Jim Smith. Front, Glens Tripp, Kathy Mason and Norma Galloway. T -A photo "Drained Fields Increase Yields- CLAYBERT FARM DRAINAGE Clayton Martin Phone 236-4766 R.R. 2, Zurich, Ontario NOM 2T0 "Let us help you with your drainage needs" FREE ESTIMATES Clay and Plastic Tile (Open Trench Method) Restrict Stephen council has impos- ed a weight restriction of 4t5 tonnes on the Concession 5 drain bridge. Ron Pickering has been hired as full time employee on the towkship's road department. A bylaw has been passed establishing a Centralia- Ifuron Park parks and recreation committee. A grant of $2,000 has been made to this group. Gord Rook has been named to fill a vacancy on the Stephen township arena board. FARMERS "Soybean Seed" • Certified Maple Arrow • Registered Maple Arrow • Foundation Maple Arrow • Registered Maple Amber • - Certified Hodgson • Registered Hodgson • Foundation Hodgson • Canada No. 1 Soybeans • Golden, Harvest Granular Soybean Inoculant • Forage Seeds We are also buyers of your feed barley, feed oats, feed mix grain and seed oats, barley and red clover. Don't delay 9 CaII today 235-0770 GOLDEN HARVEST FARM SEEDS 151 Thames Road East, Exeter 4 Huron Farm and Home news. Last minute tips for planting corn crop The last week of April brought many phone calls from farmers regarding last minute corn planting decisions. I thought for this press release I would discuss some of the most asked questions about corn. Should you switch corn rootworm insecticides? I think common sense should help dictate your choice of rootworm insecticide. If you have used an insecticide for two or three years and are satisfied with it, don't switch. .However, if you have been growing corn on the same field for a number of years and using the same insec- ticide on that same field, you should switch insecticides. I have been asked, "Can I apply my rootworm insec- ticide in the furrow on top of the seed?" Ontario resear- chers are quite adamant that for good rootworm control the insecticide must be banded on top of the ground. Do you need rootworm in- secticide on first year corn? Definitely not. Should you use a rootworm insecticide for cutworm con- trol? No. Only a small acreage of Ontario corn has cutworm problems any one year. For this reason, and because corrective sprays are available, - granular treatments applied at plan- ting are not recommended. Should you use a DL type of treatment if you are using a rootworm insecticide? This issue is a little grey. You use D & L (diazinon and lindane) to control seed corn maggot and wireworm. Wireworms tend to be bad in fields that are second year out of sod, and sometimes first year out of sod. - On first year out of sod, you do not need a rootworm insec- ticide and therefore you should use a D & L treatment. On second year` out of sod, I would still recommend us- ing a D & L seed treatment. If you have wireworm pro- blems after planting and receive very little rain, you need insecticide on the seed. If there has been very little . rain, the rootworm insec- ticide will still be on top of the ground, not with the seed where you need the protection. Herbicides The main questions I have received are about rates. When you read the label the rates are, of course, in litres per hectare or kilograms per hectare. Many of you are quite conversant in litres and kilograms but still spray by the acre. To convert Iitres/hectare of kg./hectare to litres/acre or kg./acre multiply the Litre or kg. per bridge Two tile drain loan applica- tions totalling $20,000 were approved. Deputy -reeve Ralph Weber and councillors Ruth Miller and Tom Tomes will be representing the township at a floodplain meeting May 23 in Exeter. Purchase of a small hand mower for lawn trimming has been approved. A grant of $40 was made to the Huron County Road Superintendent's Association. hectare rate by .4. For in- stance, 5.0litres/bectare is 5.0 x .4 or 2 litres/ acre. This factor of .4 works because an acre Ls .4 hectare. Another conunon question is, "How much atrazine do I use to get 1 lb. active atrazine per acre?" If ybu use atrazine 500 at 1 litre per acre this is equivalent to 1.1 lbs. active atrazine per acre. That means to get 1 Ib. actual atrazine per acre you should apply .9 litres/acre of atrazine 500. I have been asked many times about comparable rates of comparable products, e.g. how much Lasso is equal to how much Dual? You cannot make direct comparisons between these two products. For instance, some growers are comparing the price of 2.51itres/hectare of Dual (1 litre per acre) to 6.25 litres/hectare of Lasso (2.5 Iitres/acre). You cannot compare herbicides this way. One reason is, at those rates you are getting more work from one herbicide than the other. As well, each herbicide has different strengths and weaknesses. You must choose the herbicide and rate to fit your specific need. Again I suggest you choose herbicides by what they are labelled to do and not on their cost per acre. • Another cost comparison that is being made is between two different brand names of the same chemical. I am referring to liquid forms of linuron (really suspensions). In this case, 1 litre of one of these products gives you about 6 percent more active ingredient than the other pro- . duct. In this case where the same product is marketed by two companies, you should compare costs. But remember, one_ products gives about 6 percent more chemical than the other. What Rate and Source You should adjust your Nitrogen rate depending on the expected yield of a certain farm or field. By expected yield I mean•the yield the field is capable of producing - not what you hope it will yield. For instance, there is no point in fertilizing a field for 140 bushels per acre because that's what you hope the field will yield, when it only has the potential to yield 100 bushels per acre. Ontario research indicates that for most soils in Perth and Huron you should be ap- plying about 1 lb. of nitrogen per bushel of yield. Therefore a 100 bushel crop would need at least 100 lbs. of actual N. I think there is good justifica- tion for applying more Nitrogen than what the average of the field will yield. For instance, if a 100 acre farm is yielding 100 bushels per acre there will be areas yielding 20 percent more than the average. For this reason I think you should "lead feed" a field with nitrogen. In this case I suggest you would be putting on about 1.2 lbs. of ac- tual N. per bushel of expected yield. On some soils some years you should apply more nitrogen (about 30 kg./ha.) if you areapplyingnitrogen ex- tra early, say the last week in April or the first week in May. However, two out of three years a corn crop will yield the same with the same rates of nitrogen if this nitrogen is YOU CAN COUNT ON THESE PIONEER PERFORMANCE LEADERS 3950 Planted on more acres in Canada than any other hybrid. 3950 is a consistent dependable hybrid easily out yielding competitors of similar maturity. Yields best at high plant populations. 3925 A leader hybrid with tremendous seedling vigour. 3925 is an excellent yielding hybrid offering fast drydown and excelleht standability. 3906 An outstanding hybrid having excellent stalks and roots. 3906 yields best at 22,000 - 26,000 plants per acre and is excellent for grain y silage. PION EER •(46)k) , BRAND e SEED CORN Your Moneer Representatives are: Geo. Sereda, Exeter 235-0273 Wm. Coleman, Klppen 262-5031 Manisa Is a Mend norm; mention Identify wrist-. R INWebred trademark licensed to Pioneer Ht-S.ed limited Chatham. Order% sidedress or preplant. Ontario research also shows that some years preplant nitrogen outyields sidedress. So for Perth and Huron counties, establish a rate of nitrogen and apply it when it's convenient. What about Sources Ontario research indicates that anhydrous consistently outyields the other forms of nitrogen by about 5 percent. The exact reason why is not known. There is no yield dif- ference between urea and ammonium nitrate or 28 per- cent U.A.N. (liquid nitrogen). Of course, liquid nitrogen has the advantage of being used as a carrier for herbicides. I have heard many stories about the availability of the nitrogen in Urea ys..Am- monium Nitrate. 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Weigh Scales 0 Your new Area Dealer for Westeel-Rosso Storage and Hopper Bottom Bins Call us for oll your material handling and storage needs DOINALL CONSTRICTION Exeter 235.1251 i tion in the soil between these forms, there is no difference in yield. (1 guess the corn plant doesn't read the adver- tising, claiming the more or Tess availability of the nitrogen sources). What about incorporating dry Nitrogen fertilizer? There is no big panic to incorporate nitrogen fertilizer. under hot, wet conditions it is possible to lose some nitrogen to the air. However, it must be the heat of a July day and the moisture of an April day. We normally do not get that type of weather in May. Further- more, have you ever seen anyone incorporate their dry nitrogen fertilizer when they top dress winter wheat? N -Serve is a product used with nitrogen fertilizer, generally anhydrous, in a form that will not leach. Space in this column does not allow a full explanation. 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