—Lancaster Fanning. Saturday, November 29, 1958
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Soil and Water Conservation
Study Group Named by USDA
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson has an
nounced appointment of a
group to make a study of
the soil and water conserva
tion activities of the US.
Department of Agriculture.
The group’s stud.es will in
clude evaluation of the soil
and water conservation ac
tivities, clarity and adequacy
of applicable policies, pro
gram-inter-relationships, ad
ministrative organizations,
and other matters.
In announcing formation
of the group, Secretary Ben
son said “We believe the
evaluations of the group will
help us toward our goal.
which is to achieve the max
imum contribution to con
servation of the Nation’s soil
and water resources from the
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz
Hempfield Mills
East Petersburg
A. L. Herr & Bro.
Quarryville
Musser Farms, Inc.
Columbia
Brown & Rea
Atglen
Jobbers
Herr & Co.
New Holland Supply
Miller & Hartman
operation of the soil and wa
'ter conserva) ion progtamsr
administered by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.”
The group met first on
November 25 and 26. Mem
bers are:
■ Dean D. W. Colvard of the
School of Agriculture, Uni
versity of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N. C.
William Irwin, farmer, of
Bourbon, Ind. (Mr. Irwin
has been honored as an
“Outstanding Young Farm
er.”)
John Scott, farmer and
president of the Valley
Bank of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks, N D.
Ralph Taylor, former ex
ecutive secretary of the Ag
ricultural Council of Calif
ornia, now of Colfax, Calif.
Roderick Turnbull, editor,
Weekly Star Farmer, Kan
s’s City, Mo
Staff director of the group
will be Miles Horst, Staff
assistant to Secretary Ben
son in the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
GATHER EGGS OFTEN
Eggs should be gathered
m cold weather just as often
as during the summer, re
minds Carl Dossin, Penn
State extension poultry spe
cialist. A small room par
titioned oil in a corner of the
house cellar makes it possib
le to provide excellent con
ditions for keening these eg
gs at top quality.
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ing Advertisers.
SIMPLICITY
Garden Tractors
Snavely's Farm Service
NEW HOLLAND EL 4-2214
• .Guernsey Club
cles averaged 11,566 lbs. of
nrlk and 585 lbs. of butterfat
per cow during the test per-,
lod.
Melvin Stolzfus, Eonks,
was recognized for having
entered the high-score Guer
nsey milk sample during the
1958 State Farm Show, com
petition.
Principal speaker for the
program was Prof. William
J. Frey, Franklin and Mar
shall College; who d ; scussed
'the Pennsylvania Dutch.
William Jusi, Penna. Guer
nsey Cattle Club representa
tive, reported to the group
on state activities. '
Small Tree Stands
Are Big Item
The small tree farmer is a
pretty important person in
the timber industry. In fact,
he makes up a dominant
part of the total number of
farm and other private own
erships of commercial forest
lands.
Robert A. Powers, Jr.,
Chester County Agent says
a review of the Nation’s
timber resources by the US
DA’s Forest Service holdings
of less than 100 acres ac
count for 86 percent of all
private holdings.
These small hold'ngs in
clude about 121 million ac
res, representing one-fourth
of all commercial forest
lands approximately as
much as all public holdings
combined.
The study shows 64 per
cent of the holdings of less
than 100 acres are found in
the Northern States. Only 14
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MONTHS PRODUCTION...
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PAUjI. iwAST, Morgantown, is congratulated by Adam Mc-
William on his winning of Reserve Champion honors in the
junior Hereford steer class competition during the Eastern
National Livestock Show at Tunonium, Md. recently. Paul
won Reserve Champion of the Junior Steer show with this
steer at the Keystone National the week before.
per cent of the small farms this the Pennsylvania State
are found in the West. Department of Forests and
Medium and large farm Waters and Game Commis
forest beddings of more than sion own 2,752,405 spates.
5,000 acres are concentrat- Lumber and paper compan
ed in the West. ies own about 800,000 acres
Of the 28,828,800 acres and the rest is owned by
that constitute Pennsylvania, farmers and other small
15,188,600 are forested. Of ownerships.
74.25% production average
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