!>—Lancaster Farming. Saturda;
Hardin Announces Allocation
Of Special Hunger Funds
Scnctiuy of Agrlcttlluic Clif- food assistance program nor
ford M Hardin announced today plans for one Many of these say
that an additional SIS million Is a leason they have not started a
being specially allocated to Slat- piogiam is that they could not
c» this fiscal year to expand and affoid to pay the administrative
improve the Commodity Distil- costs.
bution Program to help to gel a The special assistance funds
family food program Into every announced today arc being re
county and independent city be- leased through Section 32 author
lore June 30, 1970. ity. They arc being made avail-
Sccretary Hardin said the able to States. Puerto Rico, Vir
funds are being released specifi- gin Islands, Guam. Samoa, and
cally to help State and local gov- the American Trust Territories,
ernments to meet the costs of in releasing these funds, US
opening new programs for low- da’s Food and Nutrition Service
income families, as well as im- defined four priority areas where
proving the operation and admin- me funds will be applied:
istration of on-going programs m LTq gtait a commodity dis .
their areas. tnbution progiam for low-in-
At present, UtK) counties and come families in areas where
independent cities do not have a there 1S neit h e r a Commodity
Distubution Progiam nor a Food
Stamp Program.
• Chemicals 2. To improve and expand ex
(Continued from Page 13) isting Commodity Distribution
Piograms to better serve partici-
“Properly-managed farmlands pating families, through such
contribute little sediment to the means as establishing additional
nation’s waters And, when com- distribution points close to the
pared with forested regions, they people, distribution at more fre
contnbute little if any moie nu- quent times during the month,
trients to streams or under-
ground water.”
The scientist cited seveial fact- - evolve
ors outside agriculture which amounts dloX ide,
could cause increasing steam nu- the ° constituent usua n y
tnent levels For instance he lim growth faJ Wlth
noted, nitrogen additions from n » f carbon dlox ° id al
the air, from livestock, soil or- i * pro[usel y t and give s rise
game ma ter, and from improved - wh / eeologl ' ts refei f to as un .
municipal sewage treatment desirable algal bloomS-
When raw sewage is dumped into
■streams, explained Carman, Research has shown, said Gar
stream nitrate is kept at a low man, that when farms are man
level by organic-decomposing ba- aged to control erosion, little, if
cteria which use the nitrogen as any, nutrients will be lost to
quickly as it becomes available streams or ground water beyond
As the organic burden of effluent losses naturally occurring
entering the stream is lightened throughout history from forest
by improved sewage treatment, or prairie lands He stressed that
bacteria activity subsides and the without some nutrients from the
naturally-occurring nitrate level land surfaces of the world thre
of the stream may rise would be no fish or other marine
When organic matter level of life.
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