6—Lancaster Farming,
Friday, March 21, 1958
Conestoga Farmer
Finds Strips
Are Money Savers
The steeply rolling hills in Con
estoga Township, southern Lan
caster County, are covered with a
loose soil that is especially pi one
to wash in heavy rains Not only
aie gutters a fairly common sight,
but more important, sheet erosion
is gradually washing away land
on the top of hills.
John C. Kendig used to see
much -of his good topsoil on the
road after each ram. It bothered
him. As a matter of fact, it bother
ed him doubly
First of all, that topsoil was
his, and when it was gone, it
meant that his crop yields would
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Phone today!
THIS IS THE farmstead of the John C. Kendig
Conestoga. You can see some of the strips in the fore
ground and in the background. The pond is used for fire
prevention and for recreation. The soil conserving strips
were put on the farm in 1942.
go too. Secondly, it cost the high
way department some $4O or $5O
a rainfall to clean the,mud and
dirt from the road. This added
to his tax bill.
That was in 1940, just after he
had started to operate the family
farm.
Now it’s a different story. Of
the 117 acres in the farm, 90 are
in contour strips. An additional
22 acres are in permanent sod
pasture and the remaining acres
are in the farm homestead, lanes
and a new pond.
The strips have been in some
16 years now. Kendig said that
he was one of the first in the
neighborhood to start using con
tour strips. From the way he talk
ed, he is still one of the most
to Serve You With
satisfied and proudest
The Kendig farm is operated
largely as a dairy enterprise with
32 head of Guernsey cows in the
milking barn. A few head of hogs
are fattened and he keeps 400
layers.
The rotation followed then, is
one to provide most of the feed
and forage needed by the cows. A
strip is kept in a legume mixture
hay crop for two years, and is
then followed by corn and a
small gram. Then back to hay
again.
Barley is being used as the
small grain more and more. This
summer Kendig expects to cut
his corn acreage somewhat to
make way for a sorghum-soybean
mixture to be used as silage.
(Continued on page twelve)
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