—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 9, 1962 6 Soil Conservation Wages The War Against Waste Editor’s Noti This is the first ol fne articles describing how the Lancaster County Soil Condonation District came in to hemg The othei articles will be printed in following weeks. Dust stoi ms sweeping top soil olt the Cleat Plains in the eailv I‘ijo s blew light in to Washington, D C , and help ed awaken the nation to the need for wise hind use Congressmen looked at the great, Swirling dust clouds and THAT WALL AGAIN ... Dead end is Red end, two West Berlin mothers discover on a stroll in the sunshine, as they reach the fcuge concrete wall dividing the city. Call Today.. .to SAVE MORE HAY! Thetei sfif/ time to pul the feMtrei csapcacitif of the NEW AUCORMICK* NO. 46 BALER to work for you'. • Knoffer has less parfs and fhey are chrome piafed. Ask for a demonsfrafion We invife Comparison! Infernafionai Harvesfer s cind v i\ h v i phi: \ r.v f < nation program The story Eveij taimer didn t allow saw disastrous conseciuences began with stopping uncontrolled innott to cairy foi thousands of lainieis ftullies in the South in 1933 his soil seed and tertilizer Some looked even tuithei and eventually led to the ere- away In tact, some of the saw economic losses tor the a * loll the Lancastei County earliest eftoits to fight erosion ent.io nation Conservation District ,in with stnp cropping were made Many rememheied what lb ,l dramatic, one. One in Ljconiing County, Pennsjd- Hugh Hninniond Bennett had e,l,el B ,n S tact is clear soil vania, over 100 years ago pleached for the last decade consei ration no longer begins Educational agent les em ourag ahout tlie national disgrace ot yll ( lb °» the faim It ed changes in raiming practic soil eiosion A blunt, vigoious, ltM< bes ou t >nto the economic es But fanning habits' and South Caiolina soil scientist, ' lte of eve,v uibau and sub- the mggedly individualistic ‘Big Hugh” was bending e\- community as well. thinking ot farmeis pioved to oiy ear he could leach to tell , . be tough obstacles II became the stoiy ot waste and neglect *' ! ' ,<)l oust i vation. obvious that a concentiated that was Hushing Amenca’s idundeiing of Amei ica’s fight would have to be waged natural lesouices is a familiar against soil eiosion stoiy Our lorefatbeis saw on The first major step was this continent an inevhanstable the oigamration ot the US souice of wealth Thev cut and Soil Conservation Spiv ice Op burned the torest and cleared eiatmg fust in the Intel mr the bind for farms In place of the blanket of trees and grass that sponged up ramtall, they cieated a patchwoik ot law, earthen fields, ignonng the lav ot the land Faimeis mined the soil with little thought foi the futme Smgle-cioppmg and soil ex haustion caused bj ignonng ciop icitation aie sad chapteis in the histoiv ot Amencan ag iictilluio At the same time, plowing scuiaie fields up and down lull built a tiadition ot soil eiosion into the tanning system Eveiy plow tin iow and cultivatoi maik channeled a mixtnie of tain and soil sw itt ly down the slopes. In Pennsylvania, tanning up and down hill has cost us 50 to 75 pei cent ot oui topsoil tlnough sheet and gully eios ion by water The silt washed from fauns has filled countless Ki: .J-228.J C. B. Hoober INTKIM'OUR^K ".O S-3501 J. Paul Nolt GAP HI 2.4193 top soil—the foundation for stream channels, clogged city much of her national wealth — water intakes, buried fish down the creeks and rners, spawning beds and filled up The dust storms', Hugh Ben- reserviors Hugh Bennett was nett and the stark facts of light The'squandering ol our the depression all helped start soil vesouices has truly been America’s unique soil conser- a national disrate Com In and see thd McCORMICK* UtolmY ( /tv 1 Soo how you con make, bettor hay. .50% FASTER# \ J ' Crush hay stems gently» i completely, uniformly— and get 50% faster drymgl Exclusive rubber rolls crack entire length oli 'stems . . . give you morel , nutritious, higher quality j i hay. “* Kauffman Bros. MOl NT\ im,t: at 5-9151 C. E. 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J|W l( / lr witll op wlthwut liaj ronditiouor. Cope & Weaver Co. WILLOW STREET EX 3-2824 Department and later n lej paitment of Agncnltu,,, first chief was Hugh i;,,,' Research began on the of eiosion and a w or]fi, w search for cures that < scientifically adapted t(l meric,in conditions vv.k tuted ns A body of scientiin ], n ledge was developed on pievention of eiosion ami use of engineering to classify soil dram wet lands, impuu, ~ getable cover and wildlife cover on faium -i big problem then became to get tarmeis to ufili/r. tl knowledge and lemodel ri>, cropping systems The Social Pioblem Agricultural leadeis in. 11 tmd wavs of tianslating new soil conservation K now ledge into action on the ur* ci’s land Field, days won> ., 5( (Continued on page 7) ssss i. B. Hostetter &Scns MOUNT JOY OL
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