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amendment, the lawmakers will
be faced with the complicated job
of defining various land uses.
Enabling legislation will also
have to include safeguards
against speculation in farmland.
The crux of any legislation that
comes if the constitutional
amendment is approved is to tax
farmland according to its
agricultural value.
Now farmland is taxed at
market value, the same as any
other property. Thus when an
industrial plant goes up next to a
farm, the farm’s value goes up
because it is assessed according
to what similar land surrounding
it is sold for.
For most of the state’s farmers
a reassessment of their property
will mean lower property taxes.
While this is what some officials
want to happen, others fear it will
mean higher taxes for non
farmers.
“If you reduce the assessment
on farm land, you have to pick up
the taxes someplace,” said
Albert Hydeman, executive
deputy secretary of the com
munity affairs. He earlier
suggested total reform of the
state’s tax system rather than a
piecemeal approach.
Rowland, while an ardent
supporter of the farm legislation,
expressed some concern over a
study of New Jersey’s farm
support legislation which showed
the state lost some $47 million in
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tax revenue that was passed on to
other taxpayers. However, he
claimed there were some
fallacies in the study.
So far, local government of
ficials who may stand to lose
revenue if the legislation goes
through have been supporting the
constitutional amendment.
Silver Spurs
Tfie Silver Spurs 4-H Horse
and Pony Club held its monthly
meeting on Feb. 2 at the home of
Beth Robbins. The meeting was
called to order by the vice
president Wylie Baker. Dues and
roll were taken by secretary Rick
Rehm, and Junior treasurer Jim
Click. The secretary then read
the minutes which were approved
as read. Sixteen members, 8
visitors and 9 adults were
present.
Project reports were given
followed by a reading of the
changes in 4-H Showmanship
Rules by Mrs. Rehm. Discussed
under new business was an ice
skating party. Beth Robbins also
showed a film on her project.
The next meeting will be held
at Roxanne and Roberta Stein’s
on March 2 at 7:30 p.m. The
meeting was adjourned and
refreshments were served.
Pennsylvania dairymen
defeated referendum a proposal
to put a levy on their milk
production to promote milk
products.
With all 15,866 ballots counted,
the vote was 9,894 against and
5,972 for.
The prdposal, supported by
State Agriculture Secretary Jim
McHale, would have levied 5
cents for each hundred weight of
milk and would have brought in
an estimated $2 6 million a year
for promotion.
Some observers felt failure of
the proposal could be interpreted
at least partly as a no-confidence
vote in McHale.
A department spokesman
NEW Uni-Loader
Inc.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. F<
by Cherri Gochnauer
and Patti Nauman
Referendum Fails
By 2-to-l Margin
Name the time and the place. We’ll demonstrate!
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Quarryville, Pa.
sbruarv 10.1973
Pa. Broiler
Placements
Up 10 pet.
Placements of broiler chicks in
the Commonwealth during the
week ending February 3, 1973
were 1,242,000 according to a
report this week from the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service.
The placements were 10 percent
above the corresponding week a
year earlier, and 7 percent above
the previous week.
Average placements during the
past 10 weeks were 6 percent
above a year earlier.
Settings for broiler chicks were
1.849.000 - 5 percent above the
previous week but 4 percent
below the comparable period a
year earlier. The current 3-week
total of eggs set is 9 percent below
the same period a year ago.
Inshipments of broiler-type
chicks during the past 10 weeks
averaged 8,000 compared with
19.000 a year ago. Outshipments
averaged 211,000 during the past
10 weeks, 6 percent below a year
earlier
Placements in the 22 States
were 57,495,000 - approximately
the same as the previous week
but 4 percent below the
corresponding week a year
earlier. Average placements
during the past 10 weeks were 3
percent below a year ago. Set
tings were 70,436,000 - nearly the
same as the previous week but 9
percent below a year earlier
denied this and noted the same
referendum failed m 1969 during
a different state administration.
Actually the failure, the
spokesman said, was “a com
bination of things—high prices of
hay and feed in recent months”
because of bad weather and other
economic factors
“Somewhat suspect are the
grain export deals” which hurt
the farmer, he added.
The referendum came at a time
when dairymen statewide are
complaining of high production
costs that are threatening their
very existence Private statistics
show continuing rising costs per
hundredweight on an average
statewide basis —$5.97 in 1970,
$6 32 in 1971 and $6.57 in 1970.
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