V0i.21N0.18 This spot was once a soggy nuisance in K.D. Unde’s pasture. Tired jof the sloppy mess, and conscious of the need for water for his cows, the dairyman-farmer-conservationist decided to have the area tiled and concreted. Fresh, clean spring water now flows on a definite path, and the entire area around the spring is dry. The innovation was Unde’s own. Pa. Poultry Federation cites its achievements A little over two years small group of Penn* 'lvania pouttrymen with le innocuous title of 'lanning Committee sat own at a table and did some In this issue Calendar 10 Commentaries 10 ■“Exposition 12 -iasstfieds 30 Homestead Notes 42 'WJnfcry Comer 42 tejßJfcatnre 44 :<mens’ Calendar 44 lime on the Range 46 pluming. They envisioned their organization, the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation, becoming one of the most effective and [ContaMd mi Page 12] Bicentennial farm ' 54 Poultry meeting 60 Cloister FFA 70 Metric feature 71 Cattlemens’ meeting 74 Snow-how good? 75 Conservation ‘imperative’ 80 Public Sales Register 97 Sale Reports 110 Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 20,1976 1976 conservationist By DIETER KRIEG Editor’* Note-. This is the flrstof a two-part series on conservation of. agricultural resources, as practiced by the Kail Dieter Linde family of Oxfordßl. The lindes were recently- named Oatstanding Conservation Cooperators for 1978 by the Lancaster County Con servation District “ ' UNION - 1 ‘Fanning is observation from top to bottom - • the same in the field as. in the cow stable,” Karl Dieter T.inde remarked last Monday in reference to bis being Steers fed recycled waste By MELISSA PIPER LANCASTER Although t northerners like to talk about “yankee ingenuity” a visiting rebel from Georgia talked a note of interest' during a recent educational Manure management discussed By JUDY MITCHELL j ' Berks Co. Reporter LEESPORT {—March 11 was Day at the Agricultural Center and close to 'lOO dairymen took advantage of the educational program offered by A; the i - Cooperative- Extension- Service. Topics of the day included livestock Waste Grain exports mostly favored ByJUDYMITCHELL of bread or the possibility of dustty on the farm end Berks Co. Reporter a shortage of wheat here in during the past couple of " BERKS COUNTY Ask - our own country. But if the weeks, I realized that the the average consumer if he person you are talking to matter ofthe Russian grain thinks the United States happens to be a fanner, the sales is not a simple one. As should sell grain to Russia answer you get may not one feed mill operator I and the chances are his come quite so easily. • talked to said, “It’s not an answer will be a quick “No.” Tailring to many area easy question for file fanner Ask why and he will fanners and people con- to answer. The ones who sell probably mention the price nected with the grain in- want to get the best price An unhappy farmer speaks up By DIETER KRIEG DILLSBURG - Milk prices aren’t anywhere near high enough as far as Leland Stanford is concerned. He inrists that dairymen should be receiving a price equal to Labor unions threaten farms PARK RIDGE, ILL - Implications of a California Supreme Court ruling giving labor union organizers wide access to farmers’.property, “reach well beyond a Sacramento .courtroom to the far corners of U.S. agriculture,” according to Allan Grant, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. meeting" held at the Farm and Home Center here; "Samuel Hay, a past national director of" the Holstein - Friesian Association and presently a successful cattleman visited the county late last week to Disposal, The Economics of the Dairy Business and . the Challenges of Calf Raising. ACciSiaering the-revisions for manure and sewage disposal under, the Federal Water Pollution Control AcC of 1972 that are expected to -be announced any day now, -, the program gave" dairymen atimely view of the waste disposal problem and some 100 per cent of parity, which would mean a Class H support price in the neigh borhood of per hun dredweight based on an average butterfat test. Furthermore, the 37-year old dairyman and outspoken , Grant, a Visalia, California farmer, and former president of the California Farm Bureau, warned that the precedent set in die narrow 4-3 verdict of the California court could have extremely damaging effects'in' property rights cases “in every part of this land”-if it is left standing. A direct appeal to the U.S. named the Outstanding Conservation Cooperatorfor 1976. He and his family received that honor and a handsome color aerial photograph by Grant Heilman to go along with-it, at the' 25th annual meeting and banquet of the Lancaster County Conservation District, held this past Thursday night in Smoketown. Unde’s remark about “observation from top to bottom” is quite appropriate, even though he himself was too discuss his method of feeding steers on a ration of solid waste mired with corn. Hay’s ta||i was in con junction with a meeting sponsored hv the Weaver Star Silo-Company. 1 practical aoht&uis to them. The “Environmental Ap proach toManure Handling” ; W|(s presented "byGewld Rodman, extension engineer, Penh State UniverStyAMervin R. Ice, State Conservation Engineer, USDA Soil Con servation Service spoke to the group about practical waste disposal structures member of the National Farmers Organization claims he’s entitled to have a full-time hired man for his farming operation which includes 94 acres of cropland and 45 milking cows. His reasoning, in part, is: “I Supreme Court is pending. The California case grew out of an executive order by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board - (CALRB) granting union , organizers free access to farm properties to confront workers and seek their recruitment. The CALRB access order was then held unconstitutional tty a U.S. $3.00 Per Year named A salty southerner, Hay began his talk by explaining the woes of rebel fanning, “you most remember that down south our soil is very poor,” he stated. [Cenlimed on Page 62] ' available depending on in dividual economic and site On hand was *pand of County dairymen who ' explained their individual disposal problems and showed slides of the systems they have installed. ' Donald Duncan of ' Robesonia Is unable to haul they can and those who feed want to buy as low as possible.” But it is not so easy to draw a line between die opinions of fanners as “buyers” or “sdlers” of grain. Some fanners I ap proached did not want to IContinued on Page 13] want nothing l«s» than my fair share -1 don’t want to work for any less than I should.” Stanford also says he I Continual on Pagt 64] District Court in Fresno last year. On appeal, hcwever, a UJS. Courted Appeals In San Francisco sent the case bade to California state courts as . a matter for their primary jurisdiction. , , Grant aaidfheiaw a bright ' , spotin anotiwrcourtruUng- --' A: a recent UJS. Supreme Court " '
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