6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 23, 1962 Working With Nature In The War Against Waste Editor's Note: This is the third of five articles describing toow the Lancaster County Soil Conservation Disti ict came in to being The other ai tides •will be printed in following weeks. JThe Kcj •‘Working with Nature” Soil consei vation is not a Bimple mattei It hinges on a vast airay of complex tacts and relationships that can best toe understood by the concept of a Community. In modern society we all depend heavily on our com munities. We get food from the corner grocer, medical aid from the doctor, police and fire service from their respec tive departments and countless cervices from others to pro mote the welfare of our fami llies. The community is tied together by inter-relationships between each, member. Plants and the soil in which they grow form a community too. Some plants depend on others for protection against the wind and sun and all de pend on soil for food, water and a place to anchor then' roots The plants in tum hold the soil in place. When man settled untour li ed land he became a member of the plant-soil community but too often plajed the lole Of mtiuder rathei than help ful paitner He tailed to un derstand the mter-ielation ehips between plants, soil and bimself. A chilling example of such K failure can be seen in the area which Mdses reteired to as the “promised land” in Bib lical passages Today this land bolds little promise for man’s PROVED! BIGGER CROPS WHERE NEW DACTHAL 9 CONTROLS WEEDS Oacthal W-75 has been registered by USOA for us in growing: CABBAGE enoccou * # ■ strawberries S?“*TS V Dacthal increases your yield by controlling annu el grasses, lamb’s quarters, purslane, Florida pussley, common chickweed, carpetweed, redroot, pigweed, nodding spurge and other competing weeds. Dacthal is a pre-emergent herbicide, tested and proved in four years of experimental work. Will not leave residue on mature crops, thus registered label is on a non-residue basis. Spray will not injure the newly seeded or newly transplanted plants. We feature Dacthal. Ask for it... improve your yield and profit. Dacthal is a product of Diamond Alkali Company, Cleveland 14, Ohio. Disfubuted bj: MILLER CHEMICAL & FERTILIZER CORP. ALCO CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Phila. 34, Pa. Buy DACTHAL W-75 at your MILLER DEALER survival. Neglect of land and water management lesulted in a desert devoid of the fer tility of Mosses’ time. The Laud-Community or Slum What have Amercians done pith the virgin land they nu hented a mere 310 yeais ago? Have we turned our laud into v ell managed communities or a slum? Hugh Sennett, foi mer chief of the U. S. Soil Consei vation Semce, leported that at one tune America was wasting its soil lesources at a faster rate than any race or nation, civilized or baibanc The Soil Conservation Ser i ice now estimates that ero sion cost $750 million each >ear throughout the United States. The nation has already lost an estimated three of its original nine inches of top soil. Here In Pennsylvania dur ing nineda>s in March, 1960, two million tons of soil wash ed down the Susquehanna Riv er past Harrisburg. This was equivalent to a 40-acre farm going down the rivre every six hours. Of course, some erosion has alwavs taken place It is a natuial phenomiou But when soil disappeais faster than it can be leplaced, it indicates f hat natuie’s community has been senously disturbed. Teaming up with natuie is the job soil conservation woik eis face It is unieahstic to consider letting our land re vel t back to its vngm, un managed condition. Our prob lem then, is to manage land so that it will produce man’s needs and at the same time i emain an undamaged, pro ductive community. SNAP , BEANS EPHRATA, PA. Subsidiary of ONIONS <£L ,0§) LIMA 1 BEANS This, in a nutshell, is .the job of soil conservation dis tricts. Their success is meas ured by the amount of conser vation applied to the land. A district's goal is a complete conservation prccgiam on ev ery acre of land in their co unty—a big order to say the least! District directors think they have the key to success in scientific land and water planning. How can you, a landowner, join the 30,000 farmers who are now improving their soil WHY SETTLE FOR LESS? BY ANY MEASUREMENT THERE IS NOTHING "JUST AS GOOD AS" • . . . GENERAL ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC WASHER DELUXE 12 LB. CAPACITY WITH FILTER-FLO ACTION FOR ALL TYPE FABRICS CHOICE OF SMALL - MEDIUM - FULL LOAD SELECTION. SAVE HUNDREDS OF GALLONS OF WATER A YEAR. 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