V01.21N0.15 Bn this issuel Barm Calendar 10 lO ■bring hog sale 14 25 Notes 42 Corner , 42 Calendar 4s on the Range 50 ■'Red Fever” tour 54 report 58 dispute gi 74 ■orkDHIA *2 ■gneasterpmA 78 Outlook 861 Sales Registergg p lO3 p Grain sales to Russia expected By DIETER KRIEG JEFFERSONVILLE Penn State extension ag economist Louis Moore was telling farmers here on Wednesday that the possibility for more grain' sales to Russia was very real and sure enough, on Thursday the government announced that more grain Farmers face amended laws By MELISSA PIPER LANCASTER - Within two weeks the final revisions for manure and sewage disposal under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 will be announced and farmers all over the country its recom mendations will probably have widespread effect. Termed as the most Ag program unique in area - By MELISSA PIPER MANHEIM - Within two generations education has spanned the gulf from the one-room school to a school with no walls at all. And while education has ‘ em ployed many unique methods of teaching, the vocational agriculture education has remained conservatively structured - that is until now. Governmental bureaucracy hit By Dieter krieg HERSHEY - The National Peach Convention, returning to Pennsylvania after a 20-year absence, met 'here this week to discuss policies and problems. Pennsylvania, which ranks third' in national peach production, also furnished the NPC with its president Authorities issue fire alert MECHANICSBURG - State Police and local police in and around this Cum berland County community have issued an alert warning residents - especially far-, mers • about an arsonist being in the area who has caused nearly $500,000 worth of damage during the past two weeks. State Police have set up a command post for - the Servmg The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Southeast Pa. Com Clinic held sales to the Soviet Union had become a reality. According to USDA, it was Soviet agricultural officers who contacted the U.S. for more sales not vice-versa. Moore had said in his talk on Wednesday that the Russians were extremely short of grain and definitely embarrassed by their crop “comprehensive en vironmental control law” ever written, “90-500” will have provisions for many more small farmers then it did before amendment. The federal law was spawned from consumer and legislative interest for the concern of keeping all waters in the United States clean and free from pollution. In its original At the Central High School here, the ag classroom has expanded far beyond the physical limits and for 14 senior students, is currently bouhded only their imagination and the Manheim area. Somewhat comparable to the work experience program for students in other curriculums, Manheim’s ag cooperative At National Peach Convention for 1976, He is Paul Mc- Pherson from New Park, York County. One of the major topics of discussion at the convention was the crop outlook for 1976. Most states reported losses due to exceptionally cold weather, and at least one state - Georgia - expressed concern over premature Arsonist setting fires regularly purpose of thwarting any more attempts at arson and have supplied the media with the following telephone numbers: 717-697-2441 717-249-2121 717-243-4121 Anyone seeing anything suspicious is asked to con tact any of the above numbers. “We are con sidering these fires to be a Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 28,1976 which came up to only about two-thirds of expectations. On top of that, Moore said the Russians were flab bergasted that USDA’s estimate of the Soviet crop had actually been much more accurate than their own. Rumors in commodity markets on Thursday in state, the law was somewhat lenient towards the farmer and their means of manure disposal or storage; however, following suggestions by a number of consumer groups, the small farmer has come under its tenacious inspection. Gerald Bodman, extension engineer for Penn State, discussed both the federal education program has allowed seniors to spend four - one half days per week working, not only in ag business but on the family farm or in similar produc tion work situations. The venture is totally novel in the area and in the state as it provides the student with an opportunity to learn the occupation of their choice while becoming involved warm weather. The Penn sylvania crop, according to McPherson and several other growers from the state who were present for the convention, is expected to be about 75 to 80 percent of production-potential. It was noted that some frost kill always takes place and the figures aren’t really major crime and need the cooperation of citizens,” a police officer said. The fires occurring in the area to date, with the ex ception of one on Wednesday night, have been set every third night since Feb. 14. It has caused residents to load their shot guns and police patrols to roam the area in greater numbers. Most of the fires have been occurring in cheated that a 3.5 million metric ton sale had already been concluded, but the reports could not be con firmed. Details on the newly initiated grain sales to the Soviet Union which have President Ford’s approval [Continued on Page 12] Streams Law in conjunctioi with his address on manun utilization at a swim management meeting belt here on Tuesday. Bodman cautioned that the new laws now coming inti effect, would probably b< more stringent concerning the handling, storing and utilization of manure. “Good [Continued op PafU7J, r v with community concerns. The students must spend five one-half days in academic work but the af ternoons are for the students to spend at their jobs which range from swine production to truck driving. Teacher develops program For Jess Erway, ag in structor . and coop coor dinator, the exchange [Continued on Page 13] unusual. “One of the things about this business,a moderator exclaimed, “is that one .grower’s loss is someone else’s gain.” The peach crop in Maryland is rated • at 70 percent. New Jersey reports a 66 percent crop and New York reported that there will and around Silver Spring Township and that locality is now being patrolled by 14 police cars. ' Since all of the fires set so far have involved barns in which cattle, equipment, feed, and antique cars went up in smoke, farmers in the area are spending much of the night inside their bams [Continued on Page 12] $3.00 Per Year ___ | never forget I that the | cultivation of | I the earth is : . I the most £ I important | rlabor'ofman.l
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