—I ancMter Farmings'SaWddy,-' December 23, 1972
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Farmers Help
More Wildlife
America’s farmers feed not
only cattle, hogs, and poultry, but
everything else that flies, swims,
runs, or crawls on farm and
ranchlands - an estimated 80
percent of the nation’s wildlife
And, says Kenneth E. Grant,
administrator of the Soil Con
servation Service, (SCS)
U S Department of Agriculture,
his agency’s end-of-the-year
figures show that farmer en
couragement of wildlife is on the
increase
In fiscal year 1972, according to
Mr Grant, SCS assisted farmers,
ranchers and other landowners in
improving more than 7V 2 million
acres of land and water areas for
the benefit of wildlife - a 28
percent increase over last year.
Further, SCS reports, more
than half a million acres of other
rural land was converted from
crop or rangeland into wildlife
and recreation areas during 1972.
SCS helps landowners improve
food, water, and cover for
wildlife Improved habitat, says
Mr Grant, increases wildlife
populations even faster than
stocking
He points out that the 7%
million acres of habitat im
provement is only a small part of
the American farmer’s aid to
wildlife
“Such widespread farm and
ranch conservation practices a
stripcropping (alternating
banks of crops and grass),
building ponds, protecting
woodland areas, planting wind
breaks and improving rangeland
also attract many wild
creatures,” he said.
“These and many other con
servation practices indicate that
American farmers and ranchers
continue to be the ‘host with the
most’ for wildlife,” said the SCS
administrator
Wish I’d Said
That a
“An ounce of prevention
costs what a pound of cure
cost a decade ago.”—Lee R.
Call, Star Valley (Wyo.) In
dependent.
“The man who has every
thing usually has a calendar
on the wall to remind him
when the payments are due.”
—William R. Lewis, The
Lynden (Wash.) Tribune.
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H. Grant Troop of Quarryville, left, won a
$3OO William D. and Clara Calhoun Phillips
scholarship recently at The Pennsylvania
State University. A senior in agronomy at
Penn State, Troop is shown with Ms
College of Agriculture, Mary M. Lloyd of
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