—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6, 1961
16
Soil Stewardship
Secretary Asks
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman this week
called attention to the an
nual observance of Soil Ste
wardship Week, May 7 - 14,
1961, sponsored by the Na
tional Association of Soil
Conservation Districts in co
operation with church groups.
Secretary Freeman em
phasized importance of soil
stewardship in view of ex
pected future demands on
the Nation’s natural resourc
es.
“Soil stewardship, as ap
plied to passing our produc
tive land on to future gene
rations in as good or better
condition than we received it
cannot be over emphasized
when one is aware of the de
mands (both home and a
broad) that will be .placed on
our land in the future,” the
Secretary said. As we think
of President Kennedy’s Food
for Peace program, relief for
distressed areas in our home
land, and the expected in
crease in population, we in
the Department of Agricul
ture, as well as the farmer
and rancher, become only
too aware of the importance
of the land to the future well
being of the Nation,
“For many years I have
been familiar with the con
servation programs being car
ned out by soil conservation
districts, and in watershed
projects, and I would urge
citizens everywhere to join
them >in this special observ
ance of Soil Stewardship
Week
“It is fitting that a week
• Soil Stewardship
(From page u
terest in this observance was
fostered in the United States
by the publishers of Farm
and Ranch magazine. They
suggested to a few re’igious
leaders that one Sunday in
each year be recognized na
tionally as a time to remind
all church congregations of
man’s obligations to his
Creator in being a good, ste
ward of the soil.
This idea was so warmly
received by ministers and
laymen that by 1954 the ob
servance had grown to na
tionwide proportions. Among
the leading laymen who
worked for this goal were
the non-salaried Soil Conser
vation District officials in all
the states. That year, the
publishers of Farm and
Ranch magazine offered to
relinquish their sponsorship
of Soil 1 Stewardship Sunday,
later Soil Stewardship Week,
to the National Association
of Soil Conservation Districts
an organization whose prime
purpose is the conservation
and development of land and
water resources of the nation
through organized communi
ty effort.
Lancaster County Soil
Conservation District is a
member x>f the National As
sociation of Soil Conserva
tion Districts and is in
charge of Soil Stewardship
Week activities in this coun
ty. Elmer V Good of Lititz
Rl, heads the District’s Soil
Stewardship Week Commit
tee
THR
WARD
SWARD
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Farmers had only one g 00(
Farm Work Still In Arrears
But Growth Is Beginning
Observance Harrisburg Chances aper southern counties. Some in the north caused some fo
pear good'for a full show of frost damage is evident in cal flooding and damage
should be set aside emphasi- apple blossoms in Adams the peach bloom, but the real recently planted fields.
zing man’s responsibility as a County,on May 7, the date damage cannot be evaluted ing in orchards and vin e
steward of the land. We who of the annual Apple Blossom until later in the season, yards and spraying
0 Festival, the Pennsylvania The cool wet weather that trees was pushed when po,
, , i Crop Reporting Service said persisted in Pennsylvania last sible. Lifting of tree se^
need to Pause and retie o Tuesday in lts weekly crop we ek retarded plant develop- lings in nurseries and f le)c
our fortunate state. We d weather summary. ment and limited field work. (Turn to page 13)
to renew our awareness of J
the permanence of the land Peaches, cherries and pear
as compared to the short are in full bloom in extreme
time we may devote to the southern Pennsylvania and
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