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Show Have Your Good Soil Sample Analyzed rhosphorous and Potash Take a good soil sample. Have it analyzed by a reputable soil testing laboratory. Request a fertilizer recommendation to produce your yield gsal. A good practice is to broadcast and plow down the amounts recommended from the soil test. In many instances, the phosphorous and potash requirements of the corn crop can be satisfied by banding at planting. Micronutricnts If your soil test indicates a high soil pll or lime content, make sure you have an adequate supply of micronutri- - ents, especially zinc. Corn is sensitive to low levels of soil zinc. If corn follows sugar beets in your rotation, and your soil is high in lime, it would be wise to plow down ahead of planting about 10 pounds of actual zinc per acre. Tremendous yield res- - Get The Jump On Wild Oats With Use Of Chemicals To get the jump on wild oats, use of chemicals is advisable, according to Robert Higgins, Agronomist of the University of Idaho Extension Service. Timing of applications to fit certain stages in the growth of crops and the weed is important for effective control, he says. Cultivation is recommended. Crop rotation also has an essential role. Kinds of agricultural chemicals to use on wild oats in various crops and when they should be put on are told in a leaflet, "Control Wild Oats," just published by the college of agriculture. In spring wheat and barley, the agronomists suggest that, farmers apply and incorporate Avadex BW before or after planting. Less injury to the crop will occur if application is made after planting but before the sprouts are half an inch long. Carbyne may be used when most of the wild oats are in the two-lestage. Here are other recommendations: In peas, apply and incorporate Avadex BW before or after planting. Apply Carbyne when oats are in the stage. In alfalfa and clover, apply and incorporate Eptam before planting. In potatoes, apply and incorpor ate Avadex or Eptam before planting. Incorporate in the soil above the seed piece af-af two-le- af ter planting. Apply Carbyne when wild oats are in the two-lestage or apply Dalapon before sugar beets are in the six leaf stage. The wild oat is an annual grass similar to tame oats. Wild oats have a long, black, twisted awn and a sucker mouth where the oat breaks off the plant. Tame oats do not. Young wild oats can be distinguished from wheat by a papery growth at the base of the leaf. Wheat does not have this "ligule." Young wild oats can be told from barley because they do not have ear like projections around the stem at the base of the blade. Barley does. Another method is to dig up seedlings and check the seed. af ponses have been from zinc on corn. Starter Fertilizer April obtained in many western areas, a goid method of application is to plow down about half of the nitrogen fertilizer that the starter balan-.-sheet shows you need. The fertilizer containing nitrogen remaining portion can be ed after the corn is and phosphorous or nitrogen, t 8 inches tall. 8 will and potash phosphorous often get corn off to a fast Another effective method is start on soils which are de- to broadcast or plow down all ficient in these elements. Use the nitrugen the corn crop a low nitrogen, high phosphor- will require. By plowing or low a us nitrogen, high down, the fertilizer is placed phosphorus medium potash deep out of the reach of surmixed fertilizer. face germinatine weeds, hut located to promote .ideally Fertilizer Nitrogen deep root development by to It is impractical attempt corn. to meet the crops total nitro- of An application siili-dress- with row gen requirement fertilization at planting. The additional nitrogen requirement of the corn crop can be or supplied as a plowed-dowbefore planting. If your corn is short of nitrogen, though too late for additional nitrogen can be added by bubbling anhydrous ammonia into your irrigation water. To insure uniform fertilizer distribution, the water application must be carefully controlled. When nitrogen is the only limiting element, as is true side-dressin- g n side-dressin- g, Summary Idaho and Utah farmers can reach very high yields of silage or grain corn provided good management practices are used. The secret is to set a high yield goal for every field and then plan a total operating program to achieve that yield. Special emphasis must be placed on good soil fertility practices. High rates of nitrogen together with an adequate supply of phosphate potash and as needed are absolutely necessary. THE CITIZEN 4. 196S Warm Temperature, Pre- - Budding Time To Spray For Oyster Scale County Agent DeVere Tovey says that when the temperature is above freezing and before trees bud is the time to spray with dormant oil plus a phosphide chemical for control of oyster shall scale, other scale insects, aphid eggs, mite eggs, twig borers and some other pests. Control measures recommended by Roland Portman, Extension Entomologist, are spraying for complete coverage with 2M gallon of superior mala-thiooil and 1 pint of 57 in 100 gallons of water. Green ash, other ash species, lilac, willow, pink flowering locust, apple, pear, apricot, raspberry, currant and some other trees and shrubs may be infested with scale in the Franklin county area. Pruning and spraying can relieve a lot of the damage done to ornamentals by leaf spot, mildew and cankers, according to Harry Fenwick, Plant Pathologist of the University of Idaho Extension Service. Cankers are discolored, shrunken or swollen sections on a shrub or tree. They are often gray or greenish brown and have rough bark. If the branch is small. Fenwick said, remove it about an inch from the edge of the diseased tissue. Large branches need not be removed, but a generous amount of healthy tissue surrounding and including the canker should be cut away. Paint the wound with a dressseal. ing to form an air-tig- ht Burn prunings immediately to prevent reinfestation. Periodic spraying with Zin-eManeb, Ferbam, or Cap-ta- n will help prevent future infections of cankers and lea spots. For mildew, apply sulfur or Karathane as soon as Milthe condition appears. dew looks like white powder on leaves and branches. Rake up and burn infected leaves because mildew will live through the winter on dead leaves. b, n micro-nutrien- ts (3MESfflBIillBBlIiBIBiBB Healthier Animals Mean More Profits There are several strains of wild oats. They vary in resistance to herbicides. SAVE AT NOW JOHNSON'S County Agent DeVere Tovey reports that Avadex BW and Avadex as incorporated terials and Carbyne as a ma- post-emergen- ce treatment have proven successful in Franklin county if applied according to label instructions. THATCHER BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. Randall Smith and daughter left last Friday to return to their home in Oakland, Calif., after spending two weeks in the area with relatives. Mrs. Harris Stephenson and Mrs. Adarin Callahan visited last Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Bob Mendenhall. Claude Mendenhall attended an American Oil meeting in Blackfoot last week. 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