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that a farmer could spread
manure every day if he had
enough land to handle the
quantity, and if he kept
manure out of any streams.
“If you have strips and are
doing a good Job of con
servation, you shouldn’t
have any problem,” he said.
Another questioner wanted
to know if fanners would be
required to fence off the
streams running through
their properties in order to
keep livestock out of
waterways. “Under the
present law, you don’t have
to keep your cows out of the
stream. But if we don’t do a
good job of policing our
selves, that could change.”
Bass told about a dairy farm
he’d seen where cows had to
stand in a stream to eat from
a feeder. “That guy was
using the stream to haul his
manure away, and if a lot of
this goes on, we’ll see some
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stricter laws.”
A conservation plan; Bass
said, would indicate how
intensively a farmer could
use his land without running
afoul of the law. “The plan
costa you nothing when you
get it from us,” Bass pointed
out, “and it doesn’t obligate
you to anything.”
A listener wanted to know
how long it takes to recoup
the cost of a conservation
plan. “Strips don’t cost very
much at all, and they don’t
hurt yields in the beginning.
Terraces should pay their
way after seven to ten years,
and they could lower your
yields for maybe two or
three years.”
Another farmer in the
back of the room shouted,
“Why should the guy who
works five days a week tell
the farmer who works seven
days a week what to do?”
One man wanted to know
why the farmers shouldn’t
sell all their cows and let the
city folks go hungry. Still
another asked what was the
use of trying to save topsoil if
the East was just going to get
built up anyway.
The questions revealed an
underlying air of frustration
which the farmers feel as
they face 1977 and the costs
of complying with a law they
don’t understand. The
audience, for the most part,
was quiet and attentive, but
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there were some hostile
challenges issued and there
was some grumbling from
time to time.
Afton Schadel,
representing the Penn
syvlania Department of
Environmental Resources,
took the podium after Bass.
Schadel began his talk in
Dutch, and told the farmers
that he had- run a 500-acre
truck farm in Schuylkill
County for 20 years until a
Rose DHIA
Officers Elected
Red
The Red Rose Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
held its regular quarterly
meeting Monday night at the
Farm and Home Center.
Officers and board members
for the coming year were
elected. The board approved
an increase in DHIA testing
fees, to be effective June 1.
The-new schedule will be
explained at a later date.
It was explained that an
increase was necessary
because the association had
been operating at a loss for
the past few years. Pay
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personal tragedy caused him
to leave the farm for a Job in
Harrisburg. “I believe in
conservation and erosion
control,” Schadel said. “We
worked for eight years to get
good laws for erosion con*
trol, and now that we’ve got
them I think they should be
obeyed by everyone."
Schadel pointed out that
many 6! the erosion control
increases to the testers and
an anticipated retirement
program were also cited.
Plans were made to attend
the Southeast District
directors meeting on March
8 in Montgomery County.
Robert L. Kauffman, Jr.,
Peach Bottom RD2, was
reelected to another term as
president of the association.
James G. Kreider,
Quarryville, was chosen
vice-president, and James
Eshelman, Mt. Joy was
named secretary.
regulations were aimed at
builders, but that it was not
right to impose restrictions
on industrial earth-movers
without imposing the same
restrictions on agricultural
earth-movers.
Schadel said that an SCS
conservation plan wouldn’t
cost farmers anything, and it
would automatically exempt
them from the provisions of
the Clean Streams Law.
New board members
elected at the meeting are:
J. Robert Kendig,
Conestoga, John B. Groff,
Mt. Joy, Elam J. Stoltzfus,
Narvon, and Roy C. Neff,
Paradise. Directors ap
pointed to represent the
various breed associations
are: James Martin, Stevens
(Ayrshire), Arthur
Breneman, Willow Street
(Guernsey), and Robert E.
Landis, Lancaster
(Holstein). In all, there are
19 members of the local
DHIA board.
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