12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 5, 1966
Depts. Of Forests & Waters And
SCS To Combine Conservation
Efforts For Better Forest Mgt.
tnry Maurice K Goddard ot
the Pei' 1 i’< ut ol KoroMi
and ’» mi and State Con
sqi vntio’usi Pan McKeevcr
ol the Soil Consei \.l tlon
Sei'Mce recently signed a
Memorandum of Understand
ins? which should be a boon
to foresti y conservation ac
tivities throughout Pennsjl
tama
The Soil Conservation Serv
ice will encourage all pi i
\ato lorest land-owners to
apply the latest and most
scientific forestry piactices to
then torest lands. The De
paitment of Forests and Wa
ters thiough its extensive
start ot protessional forest
ers throughout the state will
give professional and techni
cal advice and assistance to
the pmate torest landown-
Farm Woodlot;
A Liability Or
An Asset?
In these cost-oonsclous days
of h.igh land i allies and low
piofit margins many fanners
■aie tarred with the decision
of what Ho do with their
farm woodlot. Should it he
converted to other purposes,
oi would the fanner be jus
tified in his wood
lands more mten'&n elj ’
An article appearing in the
January issue of Soil Conser
vation rima'gazine published
hy the Soil Con'servaFon
Senvice of the U S Depart
ment ot Agnailituie discus
ses some ot these questions,
and suggests methods of an
alyzing costs and leturns to
find out whethei anv pait'icu
lan woodlot i® an asset or a
liability
First of all, the farmer
needs intoi ovation on soil
tvpes and chaiaotenst'ics ot
his woodlot atea, and he
needs to know to what alter
native use he can put that
land
Tn this area m'o'st woodlots
maj be used only for farm
firewood, plus peihapis. some
small local fiiewood sales
But some tann income may
be stopping away umiotibevl
If the wooded areas are ex
tensive enough theie may be
some income-producing rec
leahonal use toi the land
pfii'vate hunting camping, etc
All these benefits should be
figmed m the total value of
the woodland Any income
from sale.-? of pulipwood,
poles, 01 siaw logs i« credited
as 1 iii'eo'me as it o ecu is
In the traditional econonTic
analysis, land is nonnallv
fallied at its bale cost (with
out timber covet) At har
\e-d, it is ci edited at the
same value as ongmally
Land prices however have
been stead,il\ me leasing In
many instances, land pi rces
have incieased seveial bun
dled peicent dm mg a long
pot) to 100-jeai) timber 10-
tatiou
In effect SCS saap if the
accumulated \alues aie gieat
©i ith'an ft h e accumulated
coMts the owner lecaptuies
hm in\estment
Using a t>pi'cal woodlot e\-
ample the amide illusliates
the methods used in comput
ing all cods and i etui ns and
shows how to piouect these
figure- when considei wvg oth
er possible uses loi the wood
ed area
A fiee copv of the Janu
ai’> issue can be obtained be
wilting Soil Consenation
Sen-fee. USDA, Room 6110
S Washington. DC. 202'50
ers upon request.
The Memorandum ot Un
derstanding. as agreed upon
by Goddard and McKeeVer,
will Increase the efficiency of
both agencies and avoid any
possible duplication of ef
forts.
It Is believed that this
move Is tin* most compre
hensive of its kind through
out the nation mid it is ex
pected that it will be a
nationwide pattern for oth
er .states.
Goddard and McKeever vetennary toxicologist,
pointed out that there are plains that hogs are physio-
G million acres of small logically much like humans
pi irately-owned forest land subject to many ot the
throughout Pennsylvania. IE same maladies. They have
our society is to be fully about the same food require
benefited by our forests they ments, digest food in much
must be under scientific man- "the same why even suffer
Rgehnenit practices. Then they from peptic ulcers. And a
hull produce the maximum hog’s heart and major blood
amounts of wood products, vessels also resemble that of
tvatei, recreation and wild- the humans,
lite. S'm'aH hogs also require
smaller doses of costly ex
pen mental drugs, are less ex
• DHIA pensive to house, and are
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merman, Ephrata Rl. placed Jack u Taylor, USDA ge
se.ond This herd with 25 2 neticist. is in charge of de
legistered Holstein cows av- veloping the miniature hog
eiaged 1.54 S lbs. of milk, 64 herd, which ivas started 2
lbs of butterfat with a 4.1% ye'a.is ago. at Beltsville, Md.
test “Learning how selection
Miniature Hogs Being
Developed For Research
•Miniature white {logs are
being developed by scientists
qt the U. S. Department of
Agriculture and the Pood
and Drug Administration for
use as research nniminls.
Besides aiding FDA’s drug
testing program, the minia
ture animals about a third
of the weight of normal hogs
may help USDA learn
more about hog nutrition,
physiology, and biochemistry.
Any they offer some farmers
a way to increase income'by
raising research animals for
investigators at mhny re
search, testing, and assaying
la bora tomes throughout thb
United States
Why hogs as test animals’
Di Fiancis L Bail, FDA
bring* about tm’all size will con.fom'atlon, and depos/ltte*
add to our basic genetic In- of tlsaue, he aaid^
formation about hog*,” Tay- Miniature hog* were Aral
lor aald. It will, for example, bred at the Honnel Institute
provide knowledge on such of the University of Mlirne*
economically Important hog aotla, starting with various
traits as reproductive per- wild and eeml-d'omeatlctateC
form's nee, litter size, body strains.
ex-