aag G*&@i WAS FOUUOEP ■M DgQff //■ 9 3 easy ways to handle sloppy manure ... any of these low-cost ways: Hydraulic Endgate, fits all 11 New Idea PTO spreaders; finger tip control; standard 8" single or double acting cylinder. Pan Attachment, fits any 'New Idea single beater spreader; - lowest cost way to handle semi-liquid manure Mechanical Endgate, fits any New Idea cylinder/paddle or flail spreader; closes with hand crank, opens from tractor seat. A.L.HERR&BRO. Quarryville KINZER EQUIP. CO. Kinzer STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE Cochranville, Pa. CHAS. J. McCOMSEY &SONS Hickory Hill, ?a. FREE SAMPLE COPIES Copies of LANCASTER FARMING ore not always easy to find they are not sold on newsstands and perhjps some of your friends may not be acquainted with our weekly service. We'll be glad to send, without charge, several copies of LAN CASTER FARMING to your friends or business associates. Just write their names and addresses below (You'll be doing both them and us a favor!) Street Address & R. D. City, State and Zip Code (You are not limited to two names. Use separate sheet for additional names.) / □ CHECK here if you prefer to send a Year’s (52 issues) GIFT subscription for $2 each to your friends listed above If so $ enclosed, or □ f)r tECK here if you would like to subscribe to Lancaster Farming. □ Bill me later. Please mail this form to: LANCASTER FARMING All New Idea Spreaders are backed by the famous Warranty on Wood in addition to a Full Year Warranty. N. G. HERSHEY & SON Manheun LANDIS BROS., INC. Lancaster LONGENECKER FARM SUPPLY Rheems A.B.C. GROFF, INC. New Holland ROYH. BUCK, INC. Ephrata, R.D.2 Your Name P.O. BOX 266, LITITZ. PA. 17543 The first cloud-free maps of the United States based on imagery received from a satellite are now being prepared and released to the public by the Soil Co nservation Service (SCS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. They will provide planners and others with an unparalleled overview of the physical features and natural resources of the nation. The maps, technically known as “mosaics,” offer the first image of this country not ob scured by clouds asd distortions. The maps are being made by SCS under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from images sent back to earth by the ERTS-l (Earth Resources Technology Satellite). The satellite obtained the images by scanning the earth 565 miles below with sensing devices which measure reflectance in four different bands of the spectrum. SCS selected images from two of these bands-the red and infra red-to construct four mosaics of the United States. Two mosaics show summer imagery and two show winter. The images ob tained from the satellite in.its passes over the earth are selected and blended to obtain cloud-free “pictures.” Propor tions are adjusted by SCS mosaic makers to conform to a standard map projection. The resulting mosaics provide a view of earth features of this country from a perspective never before possible. Clearly visible aremountains, lakes, reservoirs, rivers and their tributaries, and geologic features such as faults and escarpments. Vegetation, or the lack of it, shows more clearly Street Address & R. D. City, State and Zip Code Address USDA Issues Satellite Maps Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 1.1973 on the mosaics made from the red band imagery. Water and drainage patterns are clearer on those from the infra-red band. “It is possible to see the United States as even the astronauts never saw it,” said William M. Johnson, deputy SCS ad ministrator for soil survey, “since the view from space is always partially obscured by clouds. The Soil Conservation Service will use the new mosaics as base maps for showing the location of j»ils on a statewide and regional basis, and many other public and private map makers are going to find them equally valuable.” Mr. Johnson said he also ex pected the mosaics to be used by scientists concerned with con servation and the environment; geographers; land and water resource planners; geologists; foresters; and teachers at all levels. “These are the most in formative base maps that SCS has ever had,” the soil scientist pointed out. “All the land features are there-if you know how to read them-and, more importantly, they are there in proper spatial relationship to one another.” Three basic sets of the 48 contiguous states are being released: at a scale of 1 to 5,000, 000, there is a set of six 20-by-24 inch sheets; at 1 to 1,000,000 there are sets of 17 large sheets or 54 smaller sheets. Other scales will be available from enlargements of these. A separate series of Alaskan maps will be available in infra-red summer imagery only. Hawaii will not be available. The maps are highly accurate. The maximum locational error of any feature shown on the mosaics should be one mile-- approximately l-16th of an inch on a map of the U.S. that measures 10 feet by 20 feet. Sheets of the summer mosaics are mow available for the West Coast, Rocky Mountain, and Great Plains states. Sheets showing the Mid-East, the Atlantic Coast, and New England will all be available by April Ist. - The 1:5,000,000 six-sheet mosaic is being sold for $7.50 a sheet. The 17-sheet 1:1,000,000 set will be sold for a total of $285, and the 54-sheet set of the same scale will be sold for $405. Orders or requests for information should be directed to the Cartographic Division, Soil Conservation Service, Federal Center Building No. 1, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782. Check, money order, or draft should be made payable to the Soil Conservation Service, USDA. 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