12 Lancaster Farming; Saturday, January 23, 1960 Lancaster County s Open Space W. H. Whyte Is Doomed, Says Lancaster County has on ly “one year or so” to save her open space from urban sprawl, according to William H. Whyte, Jr, Editor of For tune Magazine and author of ■Several articles and books realing with life in Subur ban America. The speaker at the forum on Monday night sponsored by the Conestoga Valley As sociation, stressed that we still have most of our space free from development but we must act quickly to pre vent urban sprawl from ■ spoiling the entire character of the county. White pointed •out to the more than 500 ag ricultural and industrial lea ders in attendance that the problem of urban space is not one of too little land, but of too little space Many areas near towns and cities appear to be built solid with dwellings and industrial es tablishments, but because of the “leapfrog” methods of acquiring sites for building developments, sometimes 5 acres are needed to do the job that two should do. Whyte said that in many cases a very small fraction of the total land area in a coun ty withheld from develop ment as building sites is en ough to preserve the scenic and aesthetic character of the entire county. He sug gested that m some areas the purchase of easements by Farm Women No. 8 See Demonstration “Picture Party Loaf” the demonstration which won seventh place in state com petition at the Farm Show for the Donegal FHA was one of the features of the January meeting of Farm Women Society No. 8 The demonstration, presented by Evelyn Esbenshade and Hel en Musser, followed the re port on the state convention by Mrs. Paul Witman as the group met in the home of Mrs. Clinton Eby. Mrs, Roy Fomey, Jr., Mrs Christian Miller, and Mrs Lloyd Derr were Co-hostesses, and Mrs. Warren Heisey had charge of the-devotions Fallowing the program an auction sale was held with Charles Shaub serving as FREE! ROHRER’S | NEW 1960 S COLORFUL ' SEED ANNUAL AVAILABLE KOW featuring Farm-Garden Flower Seeds a Write or phone for your JJ 2 tree copy now 5 | ignrnnTil •SMOKETOWN. PA-5 8 Ph. Lane. EX 2-2659 £ fHHHIIIIIIIHIiam'r the county or city govern ment might be needed to preserve open space, but this must be proceeded by a strict zoning ordinance He was quick to point out how ever that zoning laws are not enough in themselves to prevent urban sprawl from swallowing up the open space around centers of population. In answer to a question from the audience. White said that easements and zon ing ordinances on a small acreage would not prevent sprawl on the surrounding area, but would control the character of the area. In his preliminary remarks Amos Funk, president of the Conestoga Valley Associa tion, said that the association does not wish to slop the progress of the bulldozer but only to direct it, to prevent the polution of streams and develop desirable recreation al areas. We judge ourselves by what we feel are our capabil ities the world judges us by what we accomplish. 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As a rule, at about 6>years when she stops producing or breeding, un less she dies first of disease, infection, broken bones or from eating a few too many nuts and bolts. Would it be profitable to vity Evaluation of the Belts concentrate on efforts to ville herd disposal records lengthen a cow’s life? Some showed that cows were re. think it may have possibili- moved for various diseases, ties for improving the herd, infections, and udder troub- A longer life would theoret- les. Easily the largest num ically mean more calves and ber, however, were removed more milk. as nonbreeders — 41 percent But a study of 40-year of the Holsteins and 24 herd records at USDA’s Ag- f e J ce t nt of the . Jerseys. This ricultural Research Center, indicates the importanc f ducers tend to stay i n # Beltsville, Md , shows that exnectencv of herd longer 111311 IoW prodt automatic selection for long otl tlie P t y ers even w hen no select! life—incidental to selection cows - j s practiced for products for high production and oth- The large percentage of >j^ s findings should be er qualities—is already so in- nonbreeders removed may S p ec j a i significance to sil tense'that it would be prac- have resulted because more section committees -wlj tlcally impossible to exceed detailed disposal records are ey evaluate progeny ttj It by deliberate effort More- kept in the Beltsville herds primarily on first-!! over, the heritability of than- are made in most:,Dairy j. at i 0 h records. i long life appears to be so Herd Improvement Associa- These evaluations don't i low that the effectiveness of tion herds. The Beltsville da-, t r act fr om the importance deliberate selection for this ta may reflect more accur- jj r i a ging about longer a characteristic is questionable ately the importance of poor through improved mans] anyway. " reproduction performance as men t, say the scientists | Longevity Influences Studied an , on hm sease and injury prevent! were made than practtces and proper feed] by ARS dairy husbandman High Produc s Tend io La t and management can bn J. B. Parker and associates A positive relationship —> about longer life and i to determine environmental low but significant was prove the efficiency of ht and genetic influences on found between long life and operations long life in nearly 1,000 Hoi- first-lactation production in stein and Jersey cattle. None both Holstein and Jersey of the herds load ever been herds This suggests that culled for low production or cows that are high producers poor type during the forty in their "first lactation don’t years. “burn out” or stay in the Reasons for disposing of herd for a shorter time than cows are important in judg- other cows In fact, the data mg the overall herd longe- indicate that the higher pro- The Way The Twig Is Bent...! Do it right! call Lancaster EXpress 2-2145 Miller & Bushong, he. ROHREHSTOWN. PA. Manufacturers of Poultry and livestock Feed Since 2875 9 c/> $ V - Ph. Lancaster Express 2*2145 Hatchery Name Representative Paul Metzler, New jj, land, Pa. has been app oln(| Sales & Service"Manager j ( Eastern Pennsylvania | Amctutz Hatcheries, % minister, Maryland. -Mr neth' lies, Manager of j hatchery explained that tl is a move to improve scrvi to the poultry men in tl area. 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