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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7,1979
Chester Co. seedling sale
WEST CHESTER The
Chester County Con
servation District will
sponsor its fifth annual tree
seedling sale on Friday,
April 20 and Saturday, April
21 at locations throughout
the county.
According to Robert
Hodge, district chairman,
the groups selling and their
locations are: Great Valley
Ecology Club at the Acme
Market m the Exton Mall
and at the Shop 'n Bag at the
401 Shopping center;
National Secretary’s
Association at the
Honeybrook IGA (Friday
only) and the A & P in the
Oxford Mall (Friday and
Saturday); League of
Women Voters of Central
Ches Co. at the West Goshen
Shopping Center and
Marchwood Shoppmg Center
on Rt. 100, Lionville. Also the
Red Clay Valley Watershed
Association will sell on
Saturday only from their
usual location in Kennett
Square at Tunis Bros, and at
the Greenbank Station of the
Wilmington and Western
Railroad on Rt. 41 north of
Paces’ Corners. The Craig
Ridgeway Elementary PTA
will have a sale at the
Coatesville Dairy Queen, Rt.
30 in Coatesville; Boy Scout
Troop #7O will locate at the
Downing Center A & P, the
Thrift Drug in Thomdale,
Cropper’s Market in
Guthnesville and the C&C
Landscaping in Marshallton.
All Sales will begin at 6:30
p.m. Fnday, April 20, and
9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April
21, unless otherwise in
dicated.
Those needing more in
formation may watch for
advertising in local
newspapers the week
proceeding the sales. Or,
they may call Betty Dunkel
at the Conservation District
office in West Chester at 696-
5126.
The District organizes the
sales, purchases seedlings
from a Pennsylvania nur
sery and sponsors various
service and civic groups who
actually do the selling as a
fund raiser.
“This year we’ve ordered
44,000 evergreen seedlings to
be sold by six groups at
thirteen locations,” ex
plained Marshall Haws,
executive conservationist of
the District. Chester County
has its erosion problems and
land areas that are in need of
reforestation just as most
other counties Trees put
roots into the soil that will
help to hold it in place. That
way it’s not so likely to end
up in the nearest stream,
said Haws.
Of course there are many
other reasons people plant
trees. Recent studies have
shown the great value of
landscaping to conserve
energy and cut fuel costs in
both heating and cooling
homes. A well placed wind
screen of mature evergreen
trees can cut up to 85 percent
of the winter winds In
summer a mature tree
provides the equivalent
cooling power of five 10,000
BTU air conditioners. Wind
screens are generally
planted on the north and
west sides of a home, with
deciduous trees for shading
on the south where they will
set for April 20-21
drop their leaves and allow
the sun to warm in the
winter. Tree roots absorb
large amounts of water that
can compensate somewhat
for the roof top, driveway
and roadway runoff during
periods of heavy rain. In
addition planting trees
provides wildlife protection
and habitat and adds greatly
to the beauty of an area.
The variety of seedlings
available will be white pme,
blue spruce, Norway spruce
and Douglas fir. All will be
packaged in bundles of 10 of
one kind to a bundle that will
sell for $2.00. There is no
limit to the quantity that
may be purchased but may
depend on how long supplies
hold out.
The white pme, a native of
Pennsylvania, is a beautiful
and useful tree. It will do
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Livestock Marketing
Association (LMA) will
sponsor legislation in this
Congressional session
providing for stiff criminal
penalties for marketing
fraud, it was announced,
here.
The “Crime Prevention in
Livestock Marketing Act of
1979” will be introduced
“because of the mounting
increase in embezzlements,
thefts and fraudulent
practices in livestock
marketing in 1978,” an LMA
spokesman told House and
Senate agricultural ap
propriations subcommittees.
This Act, LMA Executive
Counsel Robert M. Cook
testified, “will make it a
crime, punishable by five
years in prison or by a fine of
$5OOO, or by both, for a
livestock market, livestock
dealer or livestock broker,
or for any other person to
knowingly and in connection
with livestock marketing in
commerce, to commit any
act of fraud, or to embezzle,
steal, purloin or convert
livestock or money to his
own use, or the use of
another.”
The Act would be ad
ministered by the Justice
Department It would shift
the enforcement of
fraudulent marketing
practices from the Packers
and Stockyards division of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
LMA will also sponsor the
“Freedom in Livestock
Marketing Act of 1979,”
which would greatly limit
the criminal and in
vestigative powers of USDA,
powers that more ap
propriately belong to the
Justice Department, LMA
said.
This legislation will be the
continuation of LMA’s 1978
“Freedom” campaign,
which resulted in the
deregulation of marketing
rates and tariffs
The statement cited both
legislative proposals as
reasons for Congress to deny
well in a variety of soil types
and is a fast growing tree
obtaining heighths of 100
feet. It makes a good wind
break and is a lovely
Christmas tree.
Blue spruce is also ex
cellent for windbreaks and is
a beautiful tree with blue
green and silvery coloring. It
will obtain heighths of forty
fedt and is a fairly slow
grower domg well m or
dinary soil with average
moisture and lots of sun.
Norway spruce is a very
valuable tree used for or
namental plantings as well
as for a wide variety of
products including Christ
mas trees. It is a fast
growing tree that obtains a
maximum heighth of 125 feet
with gracefully drooping
branches of dense growth.
Does well in average soil and
prefers moisture to keep its
dark green color.
Marketing fraud
bill sponsored
proposedbudget increases to
USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS)
and its Office of the General
Counsel.
Under the proposed bills,
the Justice Department
would handle many of the
areas listed by AMS and the
General Counsel as
justification for the ad
.ditional money. AMS had
asked for an increase of
$596,000 and the General
Counsel requested an ad
ditional $621,000.
Concerning this latter
amount, LMA said it saw no
need for the Office to hire an
additional 18 attorneys and
four clerical personnel,
MULTI-PURPOSE,
STEEL REINFORCED
FILM
Key-Lite, a steel rein
forced film manufactured by
Keystone Group, is adap
table to a wide variety of
uses around the farm. Use it
year ’round to construct
windbreaks; winterize
animal confinement areas;
or to cover stockpiled
materials, says the
manufacturer.
In the garden, Key-Lite
can be used to build inex
pensive cold frames to
protect seedlings.
Rust resistant Key-Lite is
made of 20-gauge multi-
Intemational trade
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s annual statewide
conference on international
trade, the Pennsylvania
International Trade Con
ference, is scheduled for
April 29 through May 1 in
Hershey. Stanhope S.
Browne, PITC Chairman,
stated that both the new-to
export company as well as
the intemationally-expene-
has already been relieved
unnecessary tasks”
related to rate making by
last year’s tariff
deregulation bill.
The statement was
delivered on behalf of LMA
President Richard L. Nock,
Transactions Risk Board
Chairman Loran Casey and
General Manager C. T. ‘Tad’
Sanders.
directional wire, fully
laminated between 2 layers
of ultra violet stabilized
polyethylene film giving it a
5 iml thickness.
Available in convenient 25
and 100-foot rolls, the film
cuts easily with ordinary
utility scissors. And, it’s
reuseable.
Key-Lite is a registered
trademark for Keystone
Group’s steel reinforced
film
For more information
contact Michael A.
McLmtock, Keystone Group,
7000 Southwest Adams,
Peoria, 111. 61641, (309) 697-
7576.
conference set
nceu company would profit
by attending this fourth
annual PITC.
A special session on the
People’s Republic of China
will highlight expanded
trade opportunities in that
country.
The three-day program of
workshops and panels is now
designed to involve all levels
of international business.
Douglas fir is the most
popular Christmas tree in
America due to its fme shape
and ability to hold its
needles. It will grow to 200
feet and likes moist, well
drained soil and full sun
best.
When trying to determine
quantity of trees needed for
a site, one suggestion from
nurserymen is to figure on
approximately 2700 trees per
acre using 4’ x 4’ spacing.
For 5’ x 5’ spacmg usually
used for Christmas tree
planting, it would take about
1700 trees per acre. For
windbreaks a double row
planted 6 to 8 feet apart with
offset spacmg is best. A
hedge type planting 12 in
ches to 15 inches apart will
close nicely after the third
year shearing.
especially since the Office
In addition, LMA will
support legislation which
would greatly lessen time
spent by attorneys in the
General Counsel’s office on
intra-agency appeals of
matters involving marketing
businesses.
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