—Lancaster Farming' Saturday, August 26,1978 108 Walker hill gives tax credit to keep land in agriculture WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Bob Walker (R-16-Pa.) last week in troduced legislation aimed at providing a “new direction in the Nation’s efforts to preserve far mland.” The Walker legislation would provide tax incentives to farmland owners who Angus contest held Diane Krause, Slatington, (left), and Carol Krause, Slatington, (right), represented Penn sylvania in the 12th National Junior Angus Showmanship Contest, July 20-21 in Oes Moines, lowa. Diane and Carol won an honorable mention award in the contest. The contest was sponsored by the American Angus Association, and featured 70 state showmanship winners from all over the United States. THINK EW HOLLAND BEEF SALES MONDAY 1:30 P.M. THURSDAY 11:00 A.M. Sale Order - Fat Bulls, Steers, Stockers and Beef Cows Veal Calves 4:30 Thurs. NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Phone: 717-354-4341 Daily Market Report - Phone: 717-354-7288 Abe Dlffenbtch, Manager Field Representatives - Alan Diffenbach 717-658-9806 Lake Eberly 215-267-6608 Sealcrete can paint your farm buildings quickly and inexpensively HYDRAULIC AERIAL EQUIPMENT agree not to use or permit their land to be used for a purpose other than farming. He explains: “This proposal represents an effort to do something positive and forward-looking to keep agricultural land from being developed irresponsibly without initiating programs in- if you have fat cattle or need feeders. .. for £,ree * 7 e%timate volving the ‘big brotherism’ of national land use policies. “I have introduced this legislation to assure that farmland would be preserved but on the basis of individual landowner initatives and not on the basis of bureaucratic decision-making in Washington. “Our farmland is such a precious and highly valuable natural resource that it must be adequately protected from encroachment of development but we must do so without jeopardizing the properly rights of individual of Americans,” Walker said. 1978 PULL SCHEDULE STOCK & OPEN CLASSES BIG TRACTOR GARDEN, MINI &4 WD Sept. I Sept. 15* *PTPA Sanctioned STARTING TIME 6:30 PM BIG GARDEN, MINI TRACTOR & 4 WD ADMISSION ADMISSION *3.00 $ 2.00 Children under 12 - FREE. Children under 12 - FREE. 2 Miles West of Chambersburg * on Rt. 30,6 Miles South on Rt. #995 to Chambersburg Rod & Gun Club. PTPA Rules On All Classes. Contact Amos Gehman y Salesman Scbl OrctCp Inc. RD #2, Ephrata, PA Phone 717-859-1127 * Robert Walker Under Walker’s proposal, a tax credit equaling five pet cent of the fair market value of a farm would become available to the owner of the land if he or she agreed not to permit its use for any other purpose than farming. The amount of the, credit would be allotted in one-third shares over a three-year period. The owner of the farmland would be eligible forcredit on a one-time basis by signing an agreement with the secretary of agriculture formalizing a permanent commitment to keep the land in agricultural production. Walker listed three principle advantages of bis approach to farmland preservation. 1. It would provide for Double copocily, double efficiency The Gehl 99 forage blower ends silo bottle necks Two hopper feed tables throw materia! into the fan for a fast start. And 12 staggered blades, six_on each side oi the blower fan, move silage to the top in a hurry Stop in and talk to us today Waiver of Finance until March 1,1979 On All forage & hay equipment. EEH l_ FARM EQUIPMENT ZOOK’S FARM STORE N. G. HERSHEY & SON Honey Brook, PA S. JOHNSON HURFF Pole Tavern' Monroeville, NJ 609-358 2565 or 609-769-2565 STOUFFERBROS. INC. Chambersburg, PA 717-263-8424 ARNETT'S GARAGE Rt. 9 Box 125 Hagerstown, MD 301-733-0515 NEVIN N. MYER & SONS, INC. Chester Springs, PA 215-827-7414 UMBERGER’S MU Rt. 4 Lebanon, PA (Fontana) 717-867-5161 A. L HERR & BRO. Quarryville, PA 717-786-3521 BINKLEY & HURST BROS. 133 Rothsville Station Road Lititz, PA 717-626-4705 pronto'llK ERNEST SHOVE* PEO .¥JI A r IES FARM EQUIPMENT 19 W. South St Oakland Mills, PA Carlisle, PA 717-463-2735 717-249-2239 individual decision-making rather than governmental decision-making with regard to farmland preservation. 2. It would compliment rather than complicate local zoning provisions. 3. It would permit local units of government to have defined areas of farmland which could be assessed for taxation on their value as farmland rather than on their developmental value thus decreasing the property taxes on prime agricultural land. “I fully realize that this legislation will not be enacted in this Congress,” Walker said. “However, the legislation does provide a new vehicle to permit Congress to focus on a key environmental issue in very specific terms.” Manheim, PA 717-665-2271 ABWAY, INC. Chapman Equip. Center Chapman, PA 215-398-2553 CHAUMcCOMSEY & SONS Hickory Hill, PA 215-932-2615 WERTZ GARAGE Linehoro, MD 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. #2 Felton, PA 717-244-9787
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