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
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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'
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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
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A Great DAIRYMAN
and FEEDMAN
ALTHOUGH HE retired several years ago as manager of the
dairy feed division, of one of the National Feed Co., D, H.
(Dan) Van Pelt, of Kinderhook, N.Y., still closely observes
the pulse of the dairy and feed businesses as consultant for
D. E. Horn & Co., York, Pa.
IN MY 37 YEARS of work with people engaged in the feed
business, Van Pelt is one of the very few who possess a gifted
knowledge of dairying and salesmanship. Over a span' of
45 years of service with four
nationally known feed manu
facturers, he built an envi
able record of sales upon a
background of ingenious
work with dairy cattle.
D. H. VAN PELT
Hilltop Farm, Spartanburg, S. C.
IN 1914, WITH characteristic foresight, and visioning a great
future for the livestock feed business, Van Pelt made the
quite natural transition to that field. In the years that fol
lowed, many well-known feed manufacturers benefited from
his services. >
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. ,
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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
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