22—Lancaster farming; Saturday! Maf/2.‘1974 Thoasands of Daffodils to Mark 1974 Cancer Crusade When you plan to order fresh cut flowers you usually think in terms of a bouquet or a dozen, but when the American Cancer Society in Pennsylvania makes out its flower order they talk in tons! The society’s flower order is for daffodils, and for this year’s Daffodil Day event the figure is eight and a half tons. "The daffodil was chosen because as one of the first flowers of spring it brings a sense of hope and renewed life,’’ according to Clement Lichty, Lancaster, chairman of the Society’s 1974 Crusade in Pennsylvania, “The Society will accept donations for the daffodils to raise funds for programs of research, education and service against cancer,” Lichty explained. “The First Flower of Spring, The Flower of Hope” is the theme of Daffodil Days, which will be con ducted late in March. Thousands uf beautiful field grown daffodils will be shipped to the State by commercial airlines from the West Coast and distributed by ACS volun teers on Daffodil Days. The flowers will be available individually or in bouquets of a dozen. They will also be available in quantity for those wanting large orders. According to Lichty, Pennsylvania’s flower order makes for some rather impressive statistics. For example, more than 650.000 flowers or more than 54.000 dozen are in the shipments. Among the biggest boosters of the program are the florists, who are providing expert assistance to ACS volunteers scs Nearly half of the “new” land going into crop production during 1974 will be subject to excessive soil erosion, ac cording to forecasts from the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. An JSCS field survey shows that 9.5 million acres of forest, grasslands or set-aside acreage will convert to cropland use this year, and that erosion losses on 5.2 million acres of this will be within the allowable loss limit of four tons per acre per year, or less. Erosion losses may be much higher, however, on the remaining 4.3 million acres, according to SCS. The 9.5 million acres of new cropland are part of the estimated 16 million additional acres that USDA officials predict will be planted this year. The other 6.5 million acres are cropland that was fallow or for one reason or another was nst planted and harvested in 1973. The SCS survey was primarily designed to pinpoint newly converted cropland where critical soil erosion or related land use problems are expected to occur. The most critical of these areas, say SCS officials, is the high plains of western Texas and Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico, where un protected land and lack of rainfall could produce soil losses from wind estimated at from 50 to 300 tons per acre per year. In the Com Belt, about 1.7 million acres newly converted to crops in 1974 may erode severly, mainly from water action. Soil losses on this new cropland could run from 15 to 30 tons per acre per year. Many other parts of the country also have new cropland acreages that are prone to erosion. They range from the Palouse, in the northwest, to the piedmont and coastal plains of the Carolinas; and from the northern Great Plains to the Rio Grande Valley. Commenting on the field survey, SCS Administrator Kenneth E. Grant said: “Local conservation districts and USDA technical people are going to have to redouble efforts Wash Your Own Cage House and Save sss i WITH OUR High Pressure ] Rental Washing Rig. 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