10—i-nncnstor Farming. Saturday. September 7.1968
Several states have passed legislation requiring or per
mitting the use of the “Slow Moving Vehicle Emblem”
(SMV) to protect motorists from rear-end collisions with
slow vehicles on streets and highways. The triangular em
blem, 16 inches wide and 14 inches high, combines a yellow
orange fluorescent center and a border of red reflective
sheeting. The fluorescent center “glows” vividly in day
light. The reflective border “bounces” light back to
oncoming cars at night. The SMV was developed after
three years of research at Ohio State University on a
grant from the Automotive Safety Foundation. It is design
ed to be placed on the rear of all vehicles that regularly
operate at speeds of 25 miles per hour or less.
• Pa Price $23 50, and sheep were down a
(Continued from Page 1) dime to St t ee f and * eife > s
was down 1 cent Alfalfa hay «ere up 20 cents to $2050 and
was unchanged at S2B 00. while calves were up 40 cen's to $33 00.
the all hay price increased 50 The pi ices received index for
cents to 325 00. all fam pioduets, a measure of
Prices leceived for meat ani- the change in puces received by
mals weie down 3 percent. Hog farmers was 255 percent of its
puces weie down SI.IO to $l9 90; 1910-14=100 percent base. This
cows were down 40 cents to $lB,- compares with 262 the previous
00, lambs were down 90 cents to month and 251 for August 1967.
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Soil Erosion Problems
Covered In New SCS
Ag Publication
For years soil erosion has been
considered a menace to the wel
fare of the nation with emphasis
on the damage to farmland.
What has, perhaps, been over
looked by many is the damage
eroded soil docs, to everyone,
everywhere. As we clean our
drinking water, as we dredge our
harbors, as we watch our reser
voirs diminish in their capacity,
we are reminded of this prob
lem.
You can read more about this
in a new publication of the Soil
Conservation Service, U.S. De
partment of Agriculture, called
"Sediment It’s Filling Har
bors, Lakes and Roadside Ditch
es.” Ask your local Soil Conser
vation Service representative for
a copy. He is Orval A. Bass,
Work Unit Conservationist lo
cated at the Farm & Home Cen
ter, 1383 Arcadia Rd., Lancaster.
The publication points out
that more than a half billion cu
bic yards of eroded soil is
dredged each year from streams,
navigation channels, estuaries
USD A BUYS CANNED
TOMATO JUICE
The U.S. Department of Ag
riculture has bought 1,752,000
cases of canned tomato juice.
USDA’s Consumer and Market
ing Service said the purchase is
for distribution to needy fam
ilies.
Shipments of canned tomato
juice, in cases of 12 No. 3 cy
linder cans (46 ounces), are to
be made from September 16
through December 18. Cost of
the purchase, exclusive of trans
portation, amounted to $4,315,-
236.
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and harbors at a cost of 40 cents
a cubic yard. Cost of keeping it
out of these places through prop
er conservation practices would
be only a fraction of that.
Not only is sediment produced
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from farmland it comei from
building sites, along roada, and
slrcambanki. Conservation work
can reduce icdimcntation by us
much as 90 percent, uccoiding
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