68 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Nov. 15. 1975 Earl Butz urges farmers to get on WASHINGTON Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz last week called on farmers and ranchers to make a “personal com mitment" to apply soil and water conservation prac tices during the coming crop year. “Soil erosion from wind and water is still a serious threat to stepped-up food TIPSY... An old Navy floating dry dock 81 feet was squeezed through the 80-foot wide Government Locks be tween Puget Sound and Lake Union recently by tipping it at a 38 degree list. It will be used to build a fleet of ecology vessels. 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Though hundreds of thousands of farm operators already have become voluntary “conservation cooperators” with their local conservation districts and applied conservation practices “thousands more ( R D #2 East Earl, Pa Ph 1215) 445 5767 farmers and ranchers need to take this step this year," he said. The Secretary pointed out that “the personal in vestment a farmer makes in conservation usually in creases the value of his farm. It’s money well spent by the farmer.” The Secretary warned that “if we don’t find a way to get the job done on a voluntary basis, somebody is going to try to make soil conservation a mandatory thing - and that could turn into a bureaucratic nightmare.” “The goal for the nation,” Secretary Butz said, “is to preserve and improve our capacity to produce food and fiber and to help clean up our lakes and streams.” He added that a “com mitment to conservation” also is needed from land developers and builders, “Since construction projects also are subject to servre soil erosion if left uporotected.” Secretary Butz declared that “a conservation crusade would require no new agency to put it into effect, since leadership is already there” in some 3,000 local con servation districts. “The research, ex perience, and technical help also is there Soil Con servation Service scientists and technicians, county extension agents, and others. “What is needed now is the determination of the men and women who use the land to apply conservation practices - minimum tillage, * Spreads e Uniformly As You Fill CARL L. SHIRK R.D#5 teoanon, Pa Ph 274 1436 LLOYD E. KREIDER R D #1 Cochranville, Pa Ph 1215| 932 2934 stripcropping, contour plowing, terracing, range reseeding, and the like. Farmers also need to keep land in grass and trees that can’t be adequately protected as cropland. “Our farm and ranch lands are the most valuable asset in this country,” the Secretary said. “From them comes the food on our tables and the shirts on our backs. They also provide us with our most important export commodities.” But he warned that billions of tons of topsoil continue to be washed or blown away annually through careless farming and construction practices. “A lot of that soil ends up as sediment in reivers and lakes, polluting water and resulting in expensive dredging bills. We’ve known for many years how to keep the soil on the land - but too many people haven’t bothered to apply the knowledge.” He praised many soil conservation “cooperators” who already practice con servation farming and ranching and asked them to join “in urging their neigh bors to get aboard the conservation bandwagon.” “Farmers are always more willing to listen to toher farmers than to so called experts anyway,” the Secretary said. A voluntary conservation drive of the dimensions the Secretary has in mind could keep an estimated 1 to 2 billion tons of soil on land that might otherwise be eroded away each year. WENGER'S FARM & INDUSTRIAL * 'feL. 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