Land
By JOYCE BUPP
York County Reporter
' YORK, Pa. - About 120
The Patz Slurry Manure Pump provides the ultimate
solution to the moving of slurry liquid manure from dairy,
beef, hogs or poultry installations to manure
storage facilities.
The new Patz Slurry Pump can move slurry and liquids
up to ISO feet. The manure is supplied to an underground
hopper with a gutter cleaner or scraper and is forced
into a 12 inch P.V.C. pipe by means of an 8 inch by
.15 inch plunger.
The Patz exclusive
roller chain drive unit
drives the plunger
at a rate of 21 strokes
per minute.
get the PATZ FACTS FIRST
Call the dealer listed below for costs and availabilities.
George Heath, District Manager 261 S Arcoiu Road, Mechamcsbwr, PA 17055 697-5466
ALEXANDRIA
MAXISENBER6
669-4027
BALLY
LONG ACRE ELECTRIC
845-2261
BELLEFONTE
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814-383-2806
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CAMP HILL
LLOYD SULTZBAUGH
737-4554
EAST EARL
ZIMMERMAN EQUIPMENT
445-6409
HAMBURG
H. DANIEL WENGER
488-6574
HONEY BROOK
IK’S FARM STORE
273 9730
KIRKWOOD
.ANOIS & ESBENSHADE
786-4158
use meeting leaves unanswered questions
farmers and business people
who attended the second
public meeting on land use in
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The 8 inch by 15 inch
plunger forces the
m enure through a
PVC pipe to
storage facility.
York County on November 22
at the County Vo-Tech School
still have questions con
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Plunger sleeve can be
removed from sleeve
chamber for servicing
without breaking
out concrete.
LEBANON
MARVIN HORST
272-0171
McALISTERVILLE
SANER FARM SYSTEMS
463-2606
MILLERSBURG
LANDIS LABOR SAVERS
692-4647
MILTON
LiftDlS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION
437-2375
NEWVILLE
FRED B. McGILLRAY
776-7312
PIPERSVILLE
MOYER FARM SERVICE
776-8675
STREET MD
WALTER WEBSTER
452-8521
THOMASVILLE
KENNETH L.SPAHR
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cernlng Pennsylvania’s
Interim Policy Report on
this subject. For instance,
they wonder, why it includes
legislation covering tar
reforms, centralized
financing of education, and
the attempt to reduce class
disparity through residential
zoning reforms.
Representing a cross
section of farm and in
terested urban individuals,
the speakers at the meeting
held to obtain citizen input
into land use generally
agreed that the Interim
Policy leaves much to be
desired. They see it as
leading in , the direction of
centralized government
becoming more involved in
areas where it does not
belong.
Speaking for the York
County Fanners Association
was Roger Perry, York RB,
the organization’s president.
In a detailed statement,
Perry indicated that the
farm group appreciates the
need for far-sighted land use
planning and will work for
whatever they feel is “best
for the fanner.”
“But we are opposed to
centralized planning,” Perry
Emphasized.
The Fanners Association
plan would allow fanners to
sell easements, or
development rights. Once an
easement on the property
was sold, the land could only
be used for farming or sold
for that exclusive purpose.
The York Chamber of
Commerce spoke for the
urban business people of the
community. Their
representative was
Executive Vice-President
Carl Neu, who predicted the
program will run into con
flicts of interest. He, too,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec 4,1976
making within local
municipalities.
Some speakers came from
the southern portion of the
county where one rural
township was recently faced
with an application for a
large housing and apartment
complex. The township
residents turned out in large
numbers at meetings and
organized petition drives to
ultimately have the plan
rejected.
Giving the viewpoint of the
county’s membership in the
National Farmers Union,
Fred Sprenkle, York R 6 said,
“If commodity returns had
kept pace with other costs,
farmers would not be under
the intense pressure to sell
for development.” The
Fanners Union was opposed
to the policies presently set
up in the Interim Plan.
York County legislator,
John Hope Anderson, New
Park, attended the meeting
and was asked for bis
comments after all other
speakers had finished.
Applications accepted
for education contest
HARRISBURG, Pa. -
Pennsylvania’s 66 con
servation districts will ac
cept applications until
March 31 for a national
environmental conservation
education contest honoring
teachers who have in
corporated environmental
conservation education into
their own disciplines.
The contest is sponsored
jointly by the National
Association of Conservation
Districts and AUis-Chalmers
“We pass too many laws,
and then pass im
plementation of them onto
departments,” aaid the
legislator, who is also a
fanner. “I believe the time
is coming when legislators
will have to write every
chapter, every verse, of a
law, rather than let some
department head do it.”
Anderson cited the problems
with OSHA as a prime
example.
“Bombard us with ideas,
suggestions, complaints,” he
urged.
Only a few months remain
for citizens to do just that.
The Extension Office and the
Planning Commission who
sponsor the program along
with the League of Women
Voters are eagerly waiting
for recommendations, in
writing, on the published
Iterim Policy. All
suggestions will be
duplicated and sent on to the
overseeing committee in
Harrisburg.
Candidates are judged on
the basis of their ef
fectigeness in creating a
favorable climate for en
vironmental conservation
education in the classroom;
in organizing meaningful
conservation field studies; in
assisting in development of
facilities to enhance en
vironmental conservation in
the school system; in
creating an awareness of
conservation and en
vironmental problems and
solutions with the com
munity; and in motivating
students to undertake
studies and action projects in
conservation for community
improvement.
the national prize for the
winning teacher is $l5OO and
an expense-paid trip to the
1977 National Association of
Conservation Districts
convention in Anaheim,
Calif. The runner-up
receives a cash award of
$3OO. Winners in each NACD
region receive $2OO.
Applications forms are
available from local con
servation districts or from
the Division of Conservation
Districts, Department of
Environmental Resources,
Bor 1467, Harrisburg, Pa.
17120
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