—Umc««f r Farming. Saturday, August 23. 1975
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Berks conservation tour held
By Lucy Trexler
Under the auspices of the
Berks County Conservation
District, Soil Conservation
Service, Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service,
Cooperative Extension
Service and the DER Bureau
of Forestry, Berks County
sponsored its annual con
servation tour.
First on the scheduled
stops was the Blue Marsh
Dam being built by the Army
Corps of Engineers. Robert
Jagard, supervisor of the
project, spoke briefly of the
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dam construction and
eventual outlook when it is
finished. The dam will be
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Out of the 5500 acres bought
for the dam, 1,000 will be
actually covered by water.
Included on this stop was a
brief trip through an
historical exhibit portraying
the background of the Blue
Marsh area.
Cannon Laboratories,
Reading, was the second
stop on the tour. Cannon
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Laboratories' investigations
span the full range of the
biological and chemical
sciences testing for trace
elements in plant and animal
tissue. Their clients include
leaders in the phar
maceutical, food,
agricultural, chemical,
cosmetic, and toiletry in
dustries. The tour included a
trip through the various
animal buildings housing
pigs, rabbits, quail,
chickens, ducks, dogs and
monkeys, plus a complete
view of all the various
testing laboratories. This
look at the scientific aspect
of agriculture gave the tour
goers some idea of all that is
New animal import
center selected
NEW YORK - Stewart
Airport near Newburgh, NY,
has been selected as the site
for a new animal import
center for the United States,
according to a joint an
nouncement made by the U.
S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) and the
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (MTA) of the state
of New York.
The new animal import
center, to be operated by
USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS), will replace a
similar facility that has been
in operation at Clifton, NJ,
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involved during the testing of
various farm & home
chemicals.
Before lunch at the Bern
ville Grange, a brief stop
was made along route 183 to
see the timber stand im
provements work being done
by the Bureau of Forestry.
Lunch was followed by a
tour of three county farms.
Berks County Conservation
Director, Donald Duncan
showed the group the
manure storage area on his
farm which can accomodate
waste from over one hundred
cows for a period of four to
five months.
From there it was just a
short trip over the hill to the
since 1903. APHIS Ad
ministrator F. J. Mulhern
said the Clifton center has
become too small to handle
the large volume of animal
and poultry imports coming
into the United States.
APHIS proposes to build a
$5.4 million facility on the 74-
acre site at Stewart Airport
to handle yearly imports of
some 1,800 cattle, 800 horses,
300 zoo animals and 4,000
poultry more than triple
the current capacity at
Clifton. APHIS operates two
smaller import centers at
Miami, Fla., and Honolulu,
Hawaii.
farm of Edwin Gelslnger. analysis wIU be made in the
Gelsinger is running com fall when the yield of each
fertilization tests with the group can be determined,
cooperation of the Berks Harold Heck was the last
County Extension Service host for the 1975 Con
and Conrad Weiser FFA. servation Tour. He explained
The com has been fertilized the use and advantages of his
with several types of organic new haystacking machine
and chemical fertilizers and feeder,
including sewage sludge,
liquid and solid cow manure Examples of contour
and commercial fertilizer, farming and a diversion
So far the organic fertilizers terrace can be seen on
are doing quite well. A final Heck’s farm.
Fresh sausages such as Back to school means back
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bratwurst and fresh pork millions of children. The 200
sausage are the most types of sausages produced
delicate of all sausage in this country provide an
products. Refrigerate them endless source of sand
inmediately and use within a wich possibilities and they’re
few days of purchase. For packed with nutrition, too.'
best results in preparation, One serving of sausage or
never boil them say home skinless franks with
economists for Union Car- enriched bread will provide
hide’s Food Science In- more than one-fourth of the
stitute. They recommend 55 to 60 grams of protein
gentle simmering, broiling, required for the day.
baking or frying.
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I. G.'s Ag Sales
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