—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 18, 1976 84 Kerstetter urges HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Raymond J. Kerstetter last week joined Governor Shapp in urging Pennsylvanians to par ticipate in discussion of land use issues, problems, and solutions relating to the preservation of prime agricultural lands throughout the state. Kerstetter said that the retention of farmland is a key component of any land use policy, and urged Pennsylvania’s farmers and farm organizations to present their views on far mland preservation to the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Development (OSPD). Governor Shapp designated OSPD as the lead Omelet making taught NEW YORK, N.Y. - Sixty graduate students of New York University’s School of Home Economics recently got a taste of omelet demonstrations, AEB style. The teacher of the course in Demonstration Technique for these Masters degree candidates is Mrs. Carol Brock, food editor of the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, a supplement circulated to the nearly 4 million readers of the Sunday New York newspaper. Mrs. Brock had seen Howard Helmer, AEB’s Eastern Representative, present an omelet workshop and program for the national media editors in New York City this Spring and invited him to conduct a session for her New York University class. She said that an actual audience par ticipation demonstration is the “ultimate” in demonstration techniques and wanted her students to experience pne. Helmer presented AEB’s “Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Eggs But Were Too Chicken to Ask” program in its entirety and had the students turning out picture perfect omelets, many for the first time. agency for land use planning in the Commonwealth in 1973. OSPD is holding a series of public meetings through May 1, 1977 to in form people of land use issues and to get their opinions on ways to solve the problems we face, including an Interim Land Policy Report which was completed in late 1975. Citizen input from these meetings will determine the kind of land use program that will be developed for the Com monwealth. Kerstetter pledged the Department of Agriculture’s support for OSPD in the conduct and publicity of the public meetings. He noted that the department would continue, as in "the past, to seek alternatives to the loss of farmlands within the Commonwealth. land use participation by farmers “Almost half the prune farmland in the state is located in southeastern Pennsylvania where rapid urbanization is underway,” Kerstetter said. “New developments are taking their toll on these soils which are among the finest in the nation for agriculture. The Commonwealth’s efforts to preserve farmland date back to 1966 when Act 515 enabled certain counties to covenant with landowners for the preservation of land in forest, water supply, farm or open space use. Only five counties have made any significant use of the Act. The Open Space Act, 442 of 1968 was intended to broaden the Commonwealth’s methods for acquiring land The Gehl model 4400 skid-steer loader s full hy drostatic dnv6 means smooth power, low main tenance, fast turning and time saving speed Dual T-Bar controls make operating this little giant so easy you II have to do it to believe it Water or air cooled engines also diesel Varie ty of optional buckets and attachments (including back-hoe) make the 4400 a year around per former for the toughest jobs Ask, too, about the 25 HP model 2500 Gehl skid-steer loader - ZOOK’S FARM STORE N. G. HERSHEY & SON HONEY BROOK, PA MANHEIM.PA 215-273-9730 717-665-2271 NISSLEY FARM SERVICE WASHINGTON BORO, PA 717-285-4844 S. 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CENTER CHAPMAN, PA 215-398-2553 CHAS. J. McCOMSEY & SONS HICKORY HILL, PA 215-932-2615 WERTZ GARAGE LINEBORO, MARYLAND [301) 374-2672 LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO., INC. RICHLAND, PA 717-866-7518 CLAIR J. MYERS Lake Road R 1 Thomasville, PA 717-259-0453 WILLIAM DAUGHERTY R D No 2 FELTON, PA 717 244-9787 “preferential assessments are a stop-gap measure that is most likely to make a difference in conversion for land that is owned by far mers who want to remain in farming in anyway and are not in areas of urban ex pansion.” Kerstetter said that the meetings are part of a year long public participation program aimed at making the land use issues visible to LANCASTER SILO CO., INC. 2008 Horseshoe Road - 2436 Creek Hill Road LANCASTER, PA. 1760! >• vt*' Ce € 'A RITCHIE CATTLE WATERERS STARLINE ROLLER MILLS FOR SHELL CORN & SMALL GRAIN Produces a crumbled, fluffy feed that’s more digestible, more appetizing, preferred by livestock over ground or ham* mered grain... han- FOR INFORMATION CALL 299-3721 GUY ROHRER-LANCASTER 872-4411 LARRY HIESTAND-LEBANON 273-7394 the people. 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