16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 29, 1963 HEAVY EQUIPMENT TOILS 1)0 REMOVE MUD and silt from the bed of Little Chickies Creek near Becker’s Bridge. Cost of operating the machinery runs to about $275 every day. Topsoil from farms upstream had clogged the streambed and caused high water to spill out onto pasture and cropland above the bridge. The same area was cleaned six years ago at a total cost to taxpayers of $7,200. L. F. Photo. • 1,700 Tons (Continued from Page 1) and spilled over Into pasture and farmland above the high way. One of the bridge foun dations was in danger of be ing undercut by wafer out of its regular channel. Shenk said this week, “I have been on this 30b for eight years, and this is the second time we have had to clean this stream. It was done ab out six years ago, and it was O K till two years ago Once it started, it closed up fast, and it will close again!” He said most of the sand, silt, and muck under the bridge is the type of soil on the farms around Mastersofmlle, a good five miles above the bridge. Unless farmers in that area put contour strips and other conservation practices on their farms, we will have this 30b to do again in a few years, he said Soil taken out of the creek bed this week would make more than two acres of good Lancaster County farmland six inches deep, and much of fhe soil that washed away 1 is light weight organic matter and plant food. When the job was done six years ago, the state picked mp the ta)b for $7,200, but the cost of removal this time will be less because the dirt does not have to be hauled any great distance Last time, it took 1,700 truckloads, averag ing 12 tons per load to haul away the accumulated debris, but the present owner gave pei mission for the soil to be used to All in low places in the pasture and along the stream banks Very little trucking was required, but several pieces of heavy equipment have been on the project for two weeks. When the work started, Shenk said, soil was so close to the bridge that the equip ment could not get through o work A man had to crawl un der 'the bridge with a cable which was hitched to a bull dorei. The bulldozer pulled the bucket of a dragline under the bridge, and the scooping out began. As soon as there was room, the bulldozer began pushing the silt on a pile and the drag line crane lifted it out of the stream'bed A payloader pushed it around, leveled it off and loaded some of it on a truck. Martin Muth, Work Unit Conservationist in the Lanc aster office of the US. Soil Conservation (Service, said much of the expense could have been saved and the soil would have been left on the farms if soil conservation practices had been aipplied up stream. Any farmer wishing to sign up for a free conservation plan for bis land may do so by calling the Lancaster office,’ MUth said, t' 1 > D. E. Horn & Co., Inc. “Homco Feeds” The feature at right is reprinted from Eastern Feed Merchant Maga zine, August, 1959, with slight modi fications to bring it up to the pre sent, 1963. As the article points out, DAN VAN PELT is a consultant for our com pany and is 100% responsible for the development of the Hornco Uni- Pel Dairy Program. Dan feels the Uni-Pel program is the finest dairy program he has ever developed. Uni- Pel stand for universal pellet pro gram and includes pelleted Dairy Feed from the Calf Ration to the Dry Cow. Feel free to call our com pany for Mr. Van Pelt’s services at any time. York, Pa. June 1, 1963 1 U IN HIS SERVICE to dairymen via the feed supply route, Van Pelt pioneered a number of new approaches for feeding dairy cattle, among them being formulation of the first prefreshen ing feed, the first special feed for dairy sires, the first calf program combining a complete milk, pellet and grain ration, a new concept for dairy feed of coarse or open-type texture' flakes and pellets and his latest method complete pelleted rations. He applied nature’s 'way to drying up cows, formu lated and developed a natural purge program, and originated the Van Pelt method of appraising milk production ability by physical characteristics of the animal. Many top dairy breed production records resulted from his feeding program. DEATHS AND FEEDERS always had a warm welcome for Van Pelt. They liked his congenial disposition and good humor, his enthusiasm and his willingness to help solve feed ing problems. He personified service and sales to a degree' seldom found among feedmen. As long as he lives, he’ll love to talk about cows and methods for feeding, them. He is truly a great dairyman and a great feedman—A’. -W. C. , .vOiT>« j 1 J~*»* H'l*-*' - A NATIVE* OF Audubon, la.. Van Pelt secured his advanc ed education at lowa State College, and moved into dairy farm management. Within the period of 1906-14, he served as manager of the dairy department of the Hartman Stock Farm, Colum bus, 0., the Van Camp Con densery, Perry, la., and the , I •fr'.tl ',-J 1 ~T" ' i. i*V '-1,0 f i i r »"-* f