County, SCS Retain Conservation Planner The U.S. Soil Conservation farms. Service and the Lancaster Orval Bass, district County Conservation conservationist, explained District entered into an there is presently a backlog agreement Wednesday night of 300 applications for to provide for the joint hiring agricultural conservation' of a soil scientist to aid plans, primarily in preparing This is a direct result of the conservation plans of county Clean Streams Law which ■ I I I I I I I NEW JAMESWAY Rugged Chain Barn Cleaner { Frees You for Better Things j BSQB * Heavy Forged Link Chain J ■ I * Galvanized Steel Elevator ! ■ pH 1 * Powerful Transmission I • LAPP ; Gap, Penn. 17527 | Phone: 717-442-8134 ! ENRY I R.D.I-Cains FREE SAMPLE COPIES Copies of LANCASTER FARMING are not always easy to find they are not sold on newsstands and perhaps some of your friends may not be acquainted with our weekly service. We'll be glad to send, without charge, several copies of LANCASTER 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 Your Name _ Address □ 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 □ CHECK here if you would like to subscribe to Lancaster Far ming. □ Bill me later. PLEASE MAIL THIS FORM TO: LANCASTER FARMING (You are not limited to two names. Use separate sheet for additional names.) P.O. BOX 266, LITITZ, PA. 17543 requires all Pennsylvania farms to have a conservation plan implemented by July 1, 1977. In addition, explained Bass, the local SCS staff has been cut from four persons to two, including Bass. The other conservation technician is planning to retire within a couple of months. It is the Soil Conservation Service that is the local working arm of the District. SCS employees, following District guidelines, prepare the various conservation plans. The agreement signed Wednesday night provides for the county to pay 51 per cent of the cost of the ad ditional man with the SCS picking up the tab for the remaining 49 per cent. The new employe, Dale Burns, who is currently working for the SCS in Bellefonte, will start his duties here on March 18. The district board also laid the groundwork for ob taining a replacement for the retiring worker, Abner Houseknecht. A job description was approved by the board which will allow the county to rehire Houseknecht upon his retirement from the SCS. His functions will remain the same. This will then put the number of conservation workers at three. It is then expected that the SCS will replace Houseknecht with another worker bringing the staff back up to four. Street Address & R.D. City, State and Zip Code Paul Paes, chairman of the Lan caster County Commissioners, looks on as Aaron Stauffer, left, and James Olson sign an agreement which will add an additional soil scientist to the local Soil and Conservation Service staff. The new man will be working primarily with farmers in the The district should receive a little additional help, too, as it has agreed to par ticipate in a career elective program with Donegal High School. The program would provide for a student in terested in conservation to work with the SCS during Maj instead of attending regular classes. Upon the encouragement of Afton Schadel, chief of the division of soil research and erosion control of the state Department of En vironmental Resources, the board also agreed to accept inspection responsibilities formerly handled by state © A CUT £ ABBVS THE MEET Lawn and Garden Tractors make short work of work! Anens Lawn and Garden Tractors help you get your chores over with fas ter and move on to what you really want to do Take a test drive, and take it easy, at; _ * SERVICE 700 Woodcrest Ave. Lititz, Pa. 626-7766 Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Mar. 9.1974—: preparation of farm conservation plans. Stauffer is chairman of the Lancaster County Conservation District, while Olson is the SCS district director responsible for Lancaster and 17 other counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. workers when they were a special request by Hack available. man. As it iwas explained, the “I think you can correct 80 district presently does per cent of the problems just nearly all of the inspection by letting the person know he work anyway. Henry Hack- has a problem,” explained man, executive assistant, Schadel. agreed to handle the in- In other business, the spection duties. board also agreed to sponsor Under this arrangement, DER would not come to the another plowing contest and county for erosion and Conservation Field Day. The sedimentary control date and location will be problems unless called in as announced later. Rumor has it that Queen Elizabeth ol England gambled, or rather didn’t gamble, with loaded dice' * k • fp/
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