Light And Production (Town and Country Tips by Dave Plocher) PAGE 9 - PLAINDE ALER - FRIDAY, APRIL 4, I960 THE MARKi ISKET Evangelistic Crusade Planned Early research suggests lighting your dairy barn in winter may increase your herd's milk production and weight gain. When Michigan State university researchers provided 16 hours of ar tificial light with eight hours of darkness for dairy herds, growth rates improved 17 percent and milk production increased 7 percent. Michigan dairymen ex perimenting with sup plemental light have reported similar im provements. Fluorescent and mercury vapor light sources were used. With an intensity of 20 lux - each $.04 of electricity produced an addition $.41 of milk per cow. Feed intake however also increased. Additional effects of the added light include shorter winter hair growth and a hastened puberty in heifers? Last Freeie--We had several callers last week asking when we can expect the last hard freeze in McHenry county. May 5 is the average of the last freeze. Ther_ _ M 50 percent chance that a freeze will occur on this date. Know Your Herbicide--The number of herbicides available to farmers makes it difficult to keep up with all of the facts on each. The situation can be simplified somewhat by putting the herbicides into classes or families. There are 13 such families. Chemicals in the same family generally work in a similar way. Following are the classes with trade name products: (this list may not be com plete and is not an en dorsement of any one product): Acetanilides (amides) - Lasso, Ramrod, Bexton, Propachlor, Dual, Antor: Benzoics - Amiben, Banvel; Bipyridiliums-- Paraquat; Carbamates-- Furloe CIPC; Diazines-- Basagran; Dinitroanilines- Surflan, Treflan, Tolban, Basalin, Prowl, Sonalan, Rydex; Diphenyl ethers- Modown, Goal; Phenols- P r e m e r g e , D y n a p ; Phenoxys-Butoxone, Butyrac, 2,4-P; Thiocar- bamates-Suntan+, E r a d i c a n e , V e r n a m ; Triazines-AAtrex, Atrazine, Bladex, Princep, Sencor, Lexone, Evik; Ureas-- L o r o x ; U n c l a s s i f i e d - - Roundup. Remember that with most herbicides too much will cause crop-injury symptoms similar to the results the herbicide has on smaller weed seedlings. Contact me for specifics on how each herbicide class works. Nitrification Inhibitors--The University of Illinois has been studying nitrification inhibitors for five years. In 1978-79, two products were looked at: nitrapyrin (N- Serve) now on the market and terrazole (Dwell) a new product not for sale. Both are compounds that slow down the conversion rate of ammonium to nitrogen by inhibiting the Nitrosomonas Bacteria. In response to several major questions, resear chers have found that the inhibitors do delay the conversion of ammonium t h u s l e a v i n g m o r e a m - imtbmseHuac the professional do-it-yourself carpet cleaning system First Hour of Rentol $1.00 por hour . . . for every hour thereafter. (Example 2 hours . . . total charge $1 plus tax.) NO MINIMUM Speciol Rental Rate Good Monday thru Thursday RINSCNVAC cleans the way professionals do. at a traction ot trjAcost f i ts 00 MM OVERNIGHT SHCIAll • :00 P.M. • 9:00 A.M. »• $10.00 0 HORNSBYS 4400W.RTC. 120. McHENRY. til. monium in th6 soil. They do protect, to a degree, the nitrogen from being lost. The protection time depends on soil type and temperature. Results point out thai fall use of the inhibitor should take place after soil tem peratures drop below 60, degrees. The value of an inhibitor depends on soil and climatic . conditions. The first four years of research did not result in a significant yield increase when applying normal amounts of nitrogen plus the inhibitor. In 1979 at DeKalb though a significant yield increase was seen. Spring weather in 1979 was very favorable to nitrogen loss. So the factors of time, soil conditions, climatic factors, and nitrogen use may make an inhibitor a good nitrogen management tool for you. Ask me for the complete n i t r a p y r i n r e s e a r c h i n formation. Surviving the Electrical A t t a c k -- W i t h b e a u t i f u l spring weather, also come thunder storms. Each year we hear of human and livestock deaths due to lightning. To avoid injury the best place to be when a storm hits is indoors. The safest spot is a metal frame building. Following, in order o f p r e f e r e n c e , a r e : a building with lightning protection, an automobile-of truck, a large unprotected building and a small un protected building. (Don't put your livestock in the family car.) 7 Even though you're safer indoors, electric currents find their way through an tennas, wires, chimneys and plumbing. Stay away from wiring and telephones during the lightning attack. If you are outside avoid hilltops, beaches, isolated trees, small exposed shelters and boats and don't go swimming. In a wooded area the best place to be is under a thick cluster of small trees. If you're outside in a storm, and your hair begins to tingle and stand on end, you m a y b e a b o u t t o b e h i t b y . lightning. If this happens, drop to your knees and lean forward; try to keep as little of your body as possible from touching the ground. If somebody is hit by lightning, give him mouth to m o u t h r e s u s c i t a t i o n a n d heart massage. Apparently "dead" victims have been revived. In fact, one person was revived after 20 minutes o f m o u t h - t o - m o u t h resuscitation. Eggs are one of the most versatile foods on the market. They can be fried, baked, scrambled, poached, soft boiled, hard boiled or com bined with other"foods. The color of the shell makes no difference in the taste or nutritional value. The brown and white shelled eggs are equally good sources of pro tein, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B-l, vitamin D, riboflavin, phosphorus and small amounts of copper and calcium. Many of the basic guide lines for preparing eggs are completely ignored. Always buy fresh eggs and keep them covered in the refrigerator. The most common mistake is overcooking them which pro duces tough, spongy eggs. To avoid this always use a low heat. Another mistake is made when the cooked eggs haw an odor. The odor is caused by improper storage. Eggs have pores that absorb strong odors from the area where they are stored. 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Crystal Lake Rd. 385-0420 'Rebate available from participating dealers while supplies last. S e v e r a l c h u r c h e s throughout the McHenry county area will be uniting ' this summer to sponsor a r e g i o n a l e v a n g e l i s t i c crusade, Aug. 17-24, featuring evangelist Wayne Bristow of Lubbock, Texas. Though the location of the crusade is yet to be finalized, < the crusade chairman, Dr. V Marshall Werry of McHenry's First Baptist church, has announced a kick-off banquet for Friday, April ll, 7:30 p.m., at An dre's in Richmond. The purpose of the dinner is to introduce cooperating churches and interested individuals to Wayne Bristow and his crusade teaqy. Bristow will be present to speak. ( Tickets are available t h r o u g h t h e . p a r t i c i p a t i n g McHenry county churches up to April 9. Advance ticket y it information may be obtained from Mrs. David D. (Judy) Page, 909 Allen avenue, M c H e n r y , s e c r e t a r y - treasurer of the crusade. Bristow is a veteran of more than 400 evangelistic crusades throughout the nited States, Canada, ndia, Portugal ang Africa. A n a t i v e o f T e x a s a n d graduate of Wayland Baptist college, Bristow is an or- dained minister who served in the pastorate prior to e n t e r i n g f u l l - t i m e evangelism in 1963. The Wayne Bristow team, which includes music director Felix Snipes and y o u t h d i r e c t o r J i m m y Hodges, ministers in area crusades, church services, B i b l e c o n f e r e n c e s , y o u t h retreats and on radio and television. Especially popular with, student groups, Bristow DRAGON 7:00 5th FLOOR 9:00 gives one night of each crusade to a youth emphasis. During a recent Crusade the evangelist, who is married and the father of one son, made the following o b s e r v a t i o n : " M a n ' s greatest need is not for reformation, but for tran sformation. Men do not need a new way of life, they need a new life. Our society can only be changed by changed men. Christ always shows his first concern for the individual." The area churches already participating include: the Alliance Bible, McHenry; Chain O'Lakes Evangelical C o v e n a n t , P i s t a k e e H i g h l a n d s ; F a i t h Presbyterian, McHenry; First Baptist, McHenry; First United Methodist, McHenry; Mt. Hope United M e t h o d i s t , P i s t a k e e Highlands; and, Wonder Lake Bible, Wonder Lake. 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