18—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 7,1967
Changing Land Use
Can Influence Water
Changing the land-use pat
tern between forests and open
land oan influence the time
needed to produce a given
amount of water from streams,
a forestry scientist from Penn
State University stated recent
ly at the 14th Congress of the
international Union of Fores
try Research Organizations in
State Price
Level Declines
Dec 1 nmg crop and meat ani
mal puces more than offset in
creasing prices lor dairy prod
ucts, poultry and eggs, to drop
the September Index of Pric
es Received by Farmers 2
points (1 percent), according
to the Pennsylvania Crop Re
porting Service. Declining hog,
sheep, lamb and vegetable
prices were primarily respon
sible for the drop
The me’ex of prices received
for livestock and livestock
products was up from the pre
vious month despite the sharp
decline for some meat animals.
Hogs, at S2O per cwt, were
$l4O below the previous
month, and $3.40 under the
year ago price. Lamb and
sheep prices also dropped
sharply, with declines from a
month earlier of $1.30 -and 60
cents respectively Calves, at
$32.20 were off 60 qepts, and
slaughter cow pricejgjjxopped
40 cents per cwt. JgMjb and
heifer prices were |ghtly
to $25.40, with for
herd replacement, the only
other gainer, up $lO per head.
Grain and hay prices were
mixed, with corn, wheat, oats
and soybeans declining. Corn
and wheat both dropped 3
cents, to $1.38 and $1.27 re
spectively. Hay prices increas
ed slightly a result of bet
ter quality hay, not a short
supply. Potato prices dropped
sharply to $2 35 per cwt
The index of poultry and egg
prices increased 4 points de
spite another drop in broiler
prices, which were down 2
cents from the previous month.
Advancing prices for farm
chickens, turkeys and eggs
overcame the decline for broil
ers Eggs, at 35 cents per doz
en, were 2 cents above the
previous months, but 11 cents
below September last year
The prices received index
for all farm products, a meas
ure of the change in prices
received by farmers, was 249
percent of its 1910-14=100
percent base This compares
with 251 the previous month
and 262 last year
Conservation . .
A Moral Issue
In dealing with our natural
resources we have come to a
place at last where every con
sideration of patriotism, every
consideration of love of coun
try, of gratitude for things
that the land and the institu
tions of this nation have given
us, call upon us for a return
. . . Conservation is a moral
issue because it involves the
rights and duties of our peo
ple. ... A nation deprived of
liberty may win it, a nation
divided may reunite, but a na
tion whose natural resources
are destroyed must inevitably
pay the penalty of poverty,
degradation, and decay. . . .
So the noblest task that con
fronts us all today is to leave
this country unspotted in hon
or, and unexhausted in resourc
es, to our descendants. I con
ceive this task to partake of
the highest spirit of patriotism.
Summer when it is needed.
This occurs, Dr. Sopper indl-
Munich Germany oated, because streamflow Ii om
was Dr. W f . m —* ’ s pM
E. Sopper, associate professoi streamflow from forested lands,
of watershed management at to illustrate the effect of
Penn State, aescnbing his land use on streamflow, Dr.
findings in association with Dr. Sopper reported that reforesta-
Howard W. Lull, adjunct pro- tion of an experimental water
fessor of forestry from the U. shed in the state of New York
S Forest Service. speeded up by 16 days or 22
Their analysis of 17 years percent the time required to
of streamflow from 134 water- reach one-half annual stream
sheds in the Northeastern flow. This manipulation of land
states indicates that runoff is use took 23 years to re-esta!b
generally more available in lish the forest,
the southern ..urbanized areas Due to runoff from melting
at times of the year such as snows, a tremendous amount
MARYLAND BEEF CATTLE PRODUCERS, INC.
15th Annual FALL FEEDER CATTLE SALE
(Feeder Calves & Yearlings)
1:00 p.m., Thursday, October 12,1967
Baltimore Livestock Auction Market, Inc.
West Friendship, Maryland
Intersection U.S. Rt. 40 & Md. Rt. 32
25 miles E. of Frederick, Md.
1400 STEERS & HEIFERS
ANGUS HEREFORD SHORTHORN
All steer calves grading “Fancy” will be sold individually.
All animals meet health requirements for interstate ship
ment. _ .
For additional information contact: Amos R. Meyer, Dept,
of Markets, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
20740.
Auctioneers; Col. Stan Haworth Col. Charles Bachman
mw
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of streamflow comes off north- way total annual water yield
ern New England watersheds by mid-May.
In 'March, April, and May Drs. Sopper and Lull are
reaching half the annual flow experimenting to find the best
in 72 days.
In contrast, streamflow fx*om forest land to control annual
the more non-forested coastal Winter-Spring runoff and to
plains of New Jersey, Dela- create a more uniform stream
ware, 'and Maryland takes 128 flow. Their long-range studies
days’to reach half the annual in the Stone Valley Experi
flow. The runoff starts in Janu- mental Forest, Huntingdon
ary on the coastal plains County, are using clear-cut
whereas in northern New Eng- areas to simulate what hap
land concentrated flow starts pens when land changes from
in March. Both reach the half- forest to non-forest use.
combination of forest and non-