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Eastern Lancaster Co
Melvin Herr
RR2 New Holland Pa 17557
Ph 717 354 5977
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Earl B. Cinder
RD2 Manheim Pa 17545
Phone 717-665-3126
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Lebanon Co
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RD2 Box 157
Annville Pa 17003
Ph 717 867 1445
Conservation
Banquet is Held
“We’ve got to accept the
fact that we are soon going to
have land use planning
legislation,” Pennsylvania’s
State Conservationist Benny
Martin told some 200 people
attending the annual
meeting of the Lancaster
County Conservation
District on Thursday night.
“But to make it work, we’ve
got to see that we get local
citizen involvement in the
planning. Citizen in
volvement is the only way we
can be sure that land use
laws will serve agriculture,
open space and planned
orderly development.”
Martin also said that
Americans must be careful
not to over react to over
whelming environmental
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Cy Arnold ’ James L Yoder
739 Rosewood Drive Regional Manager
Oouglasville Pa 19518 RR 1 Box 81
Ph 215 385 6249 Chambersburg Pa 17201
Call Collect 717 264 9321
Chester Co
William Wmdle
RDI
Atglen Pa 19310
Ph 215 593 6143
Northeast Berks Co
Roger Heller
RD#l
Robesoma Pa
Ph 215 693 6160
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challenges, "We won’t be
able to solve all our
problems overnight,” he
noted. “We've got to think of
the costs of solving en
vironmental problems.
We’ve got to guard against
environmental plans that
benefit only a few of our
citizens. And we’ve got to
make sure that the restric
tions we place on ourselves
are worth the environmental
returns.”
On the subject of soil
conservation, Martin said
that Pennsylvania has
traditionally been a leader.
He pointed out, though, that
an all-out effort to produce
food this coming year will
put a strain on farmland, and
that only with very careful
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Gettysburg Pa 17325
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15.1975
management can the state’s
farmers avoid tremendous
soil losses from their fields.
Some 250,000 more acres arc
expected to be planted in the
state this year, and most of
that acreage is sloping or
otherwise less than Ideal for
agriculture.
Martin said it should be
possible to meet the
challenge of feeding the
world while at the same time
maintaining sound con
servation programs “If we
concentrate only on
production, with no thought
given to protecting the
land,” Martin said, we'll
wreck the tremendous
strides we’ve made in
conservation in the last 30
years.”
Also addressing the group
were County Commissioners
Paul Paes and Jean Mowery.
Both praised the work of the
Conservation District, and
Cumberland Co . Pa Area
Marlin E Ebersole
RD#5
Carlisle Pa 17013
Ph 717 776 7324
Franklin Co Pa Area
Eldon Martin
RDiilS
Waynesboro Pa 17268
Ph 717 762 3576
Franklin Co Pa Area
Mark H Yoder
2004 Philadelphia Ave
Chambersburg Pa 17201
Ph 717 263 1808
Washington Co . Md Area
Earl H Moyer
RD#5 Box W
Hagerstown Md 21740
Ph 301-739 5199
commented on the need to
preserve the unique
character of Lancaster
County.
Henry Hackman,
executive assistant for the
district, reported on his
duties and activities for the
year, and Nancy Burkhart,
secretary-treasurer, read
the annual report.
Commissioner Paes
presented awards on behalf
of the district to a number of
people attending the
banquet. John B. Groff,
Mount Joy Rl, was
recognized as the district’s
outstanding cooperator of
the year, and was presented
with an aerial photograph of
his farm by Paes. The photo
was taken by Grant
Heilman, Lititz, one of the
country’s premiere
agricultural photographers.
Robert Brubaker, a
district board member who
resigned to move to Min
nesota, received an award to
recognize his contributions
to the district while on the
board. Robert K. Rohrer,
Quarryville, was honored for
his work as a conservation
contractor, and Robert Herr,
Narvon R 2, winner of the
Pennsylvania Outstanding
Conservation Educator
award for 1974, was
recognized by the district for
his work in conservation.
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barn cleaner plus a
spreader. Actually, I figure
this way I saved money.”
In the bam, manure falls
into gutters at the ends of the
stalls. These gutters are two
and-a-half feet deep at ore
end and slope towards the
pit. Where they enter the pit,
the bottoms of the gutters
are five feet below the
grates. Once a week, Groff
flushes these gutters out with
water from a pond below the
bam. This job takes about
ten minutes. “At first, I was
concerned about flushing the
gutters just once a week. So
were the milk inspectors.
But we don’t have any
problems with odors or
anything else, so I’ll just
keep flushing them out once
a week.”
Besides the manure, all
the waste water from the
milk house goes into the pit.
Once a month, Groff hooks
his irrigation system to the
manure pit and sprays the
manure onto the fields. It
generally takes about four
hours of pumping to empty
the pit.
generally takes about four
hours of pumping to empty
the pit.
Groff uses a nozzle type
sprayer. When he’s pumping
manure, he adds water from
the pond, and figures the
mixture that goes through
the nozzle is about half
manure and half water. He
sprayer in one
spot for about an hour, then
moves it. In this way, he
generally gets over the
entire farm in a year’s time.
During the winter, Groff
sprays all his cropland with
the manure. In the growing
season, though, he sprays
only on two acres. These two
acres are covered with rye
stubble, the aftermath of the
rye he allows to mature into
seed every year.
The Groff farm is not only
logically planned and
smoothly run, it is also a
very picturesque farm and a
pleasant home for Groff, his
wife Marian and their five
daughters. Another Groff
had yet to see the farm when
Lancaster Farming visited
there on Monday. He was the
Groff’s first son, born early
Monday morning
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