12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 15, 1981
0 Conservation
(From page 1)
thus do not give adequate at
tention to whether the road
is clear of traffic.
“Some even feel it is the
duty of the traffic to look
out for them. The ground,
corn stalks, and sod clumps
that fall off the pows are a
hazard to moving traffic.
After a rapi the roadway be
comes slippery from the mud
on the pavement,”
Plowing too close also hits
the pocketbook according to
John Detz, County Superin
tendent of Highways. When
farmers plow to the road
they may cut off drainage,
he said. Many drainage ditch
es are completely ruined in
one plowing and the Depart
ment must then send equip
ment and men to open the
road ditch, he added.
“All this is paid for by the
taxpayer ” said Detz. “Every
year it is necessary to send
out equipment and men to
clean out road ditches which
have -silted with soil from
farm fields. Soil conservation
- practices such as contour
strips and diversion terraces
would reduce the frequency
with which these ditches
must be cleaned.”
A Highways Department
study in York County has
shown that road 'mainten
ance costs ate 16 times as
'high in areas where farmers
do not use conservation prac
tices as in areas where farm
ers plow carefully and use
soil conserving practices.
Hourly earnings of food
marketing workers is up 70
percent, but the labor cost of
a pound of food has risen on
ly 34 percent. Increased ef
ficiency has held down costs.
New Strawberry
Is Available
Midway, a new high-yield
ing strawberry, resistant to
ledstele disease and virus
free, is commercially avail
able from nurserymen for
the first time this spring-
Midway has produced good
yields of high quality straw
beiries in tests by tbe Agri
cultural Experiment Station
at the Pennsylvania Statq
University.
The new strawberry var
iety is a cross of Dixie-land
and Temple. It ripens late
in the season and produces
medium-large, deepred ber
ries with glossy surface, firm
flesh and skin, and yellow
seeds. It is rated a good de
ssert-type strawberry and
freezes well.
The new variety has yield
ed nearly 500 24-quart crat
es of strawberries per acre
in tests at Beltsville and
Salisbury, Md.
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j in has grown to be the largest hibitors whereas the Penn*
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the Exposit.on was advanced , . North America. open to exhibitors from
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