—Lancaster Faming Satarday, October 13,1979 14 DER to sell firewood starting Monday HARRISBURG - The Department of Environmen tal Resources’ pilot project to bring firewood to the peo ple begins on Monday, Oct 15, when the first of 1,000 cords of prime oak goes on sale at the Farm Show park ing lot. The firewood, which is seasoned, split and stacked in cords or in fractions of cords, will be available form 10 ann. through six p.m., Monday through Saturday, through Dec. 31. DER Secretary Clifford L. Jones, who will be present on Monday when the sale begins, said the department initiated this experimental program for a number of reasons. “We want to encourage the use of wood as a fuel, both in homes and in business and industry,” be said. “Wood is abundant, it is renewable and it is available at reasonable prices. “We also want to en courage private contractors to get into the business of cutting fuel wood on state forest land by demonstrating that there is a market and showing bow it can be done on a large scale. “And this wood comes from a section of the Bald Eagle State Forest in Clinton County where the trees were killed by repeated gypsy moth defoliation. So we are using a resource - dead trees - that would otherwise go to waste.” The wood will be cut into lengths of 16 inches, 20 in ches and 24 indies, to ac m RESULTS FROM GMS MATINGS STAR-ROCK BOOTMAKER MAIDVG-87 2-3-347 d 2x 23.932 M 815 F Projected over 24.000 M present lactation. A Bootmaker from a VG dam (also selling) with 24,351 M 1084 F Maids daughter by Monitor will sell due in Feb. Maid has a son in A.I. She is con tracted now & due in Jan. to Chip. If, frr , *■ * I ' % STAR-ROCK BLACK BART PRINCESS A Black Bart heifer due Jan. Her Dam Brook Lodge Monitor Print VG-lst calf also sells, a Monitor with 2-3- 2x 17.130 M 4.1% 695 F Bangor, PA Baptistown, NJ Columbia, PA Ephrata. PA Hottwood, PA Lebanon, PA Leola, PA Newburg, PA commodate different sized wood stoves and fireplaces. Prices will be: —s3o for one-third of a cord (a stack of 16 inch logs four feet high by eight feet long). - $3B for two-fifths of a cord (a stack of 20 inch logs four feet high by eight feet long). - $45 for one-half of a cord (a stack of 24 inch logs four feet high by eight feet long). - $B9 for a full cord (a stack of 16,20 or 24 inch logs or any combination of sizes which totals four feet wide by four feet high by eight feet long). “We will also sell small bundles of wood for those who want just enough to use their fireplaces a few times during the season,” Jones said. He said that in all cases, buyers will have to pick up their own wood. “Officials from our Bureau of Forestry will be on hand at all time during the sale to sell $3 permits that enable people to cut their own fire wood and state forest land,” Jones said. The $3 permit entitles peo ple to cut 100 cubic feet of wood, which is slightly less than a cord. “This fuel wood sale can be viewed as an extension of our fuel wood permit pro gram,” Jones said. “It’s designed to help those who, for whatever reasons, can’t get to our state forests to cut their own.” Virtually all of the wood sold will be red, white, black, STAR ROCK FARM DISPERSAL MILKING HERD and BRED HEIFERS Enc Heinsohn Cindy Gordeuk James Charles Damn Yoder Paul Herr Paul Martin Lynn Gardner Jerry Baboms scarlet and chestnut oak. These species rank just behind hickory as the best fuel for fireplaces and wood stoves. “According to Bureau of Forestry calculations, a cord of oak fuel wood has about the same BUT output as 162 gallons of fuel oil, 24,006 cubic feet of natural gas or one ton of coal,” Jones said. “Oak is especially good for wood stoves because it burns with a uniform flame and produces steady, glowing coals, which is particularly important if you want a hot fire that burns all night or all day without stoking.” The trees that are being cut have been dead for a least two years, so they are well seasoned and contain far less creosote, which can coat chimneys and cause fires, than green wood or wood that hasn’t been allow ed to dry properly. The wood is being cut, split and delivered to the Farm Show by Wood Chips, Inc., of Jeff Largent, 14, of Kremmling, Col., has earned his college education money through one good lamb in his 4-H club project. Largent’s 7- month old lamb won grand champion honors at the Middle Park Fair in Kremmling and then became the object of a bidding war as two food Conestoga, Pennsylvania (Lancaster Co.) THURSDAY & FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 & 26, 1979 500 HOLSTEINS - 85% REGISTERED 440 COWS - 60 BRED HEIFERS July RHA 400 head 15,700 milk 3.6% 569 fat Route 30 west of Lancaster to exit 441 south (last exit before Sus. river). Follow Rt. 441 south and continue on to River Road. Turn right onto Chestnut Grove Road. Farm BV2 miles south of Rt. 30. The Barleys have been ABS customers for many years and have many daughters of ABS bulls in their herd. They have been on the ABS GMS Program for 6 years. Many daughters are the results of the GMS Program. Service sires: H 2873 Lee +sl22 + 1.374 M +.B2PDT H 2785 Milestone +1.527M+1.74PDT H 2775 Triple Threat+.l3%test+2.34 H 2510 Demand +1,899M +sl3B + 53 H 2694 Bud +sl4o +1322M +.00% +.99 H 2669 Standout Star +1354M + .68PDT H 2477 Sunshine+s92+.ls% +.83 H 2655 Bouquet+sl4o+l3oo+.ol% H 2719 Boot-Nick +94BM +1 91PDT H 2851 Valiant +1587M +2.3OPDT +S67TPI H 3200 Chip +sl2B +1489M +.75 H 2417 Art +slo4 +.10% test +.41 PDT H 2679 Blackstar +99BM +.86 PDT H 2770 Gemini +slo2 +.06% +1.03 PDT H 2592 Lmdy +sl2B +1461M +I.2BPDT HlBBl Bootmaker+sll9+l267M+lo2 215-588-4704 201-996-2088 717-898-8694 717-733-0966 717-284-4592 717-944-2381 717-656-6509 717-423-6451 Market lamb nets over $l2 grand , 10:00 A.M. both days DIRECTIONS TO FARM Avis, Pa. which submitted a low bid of $84,748 for 1,000 standard rough cords of fuel wood. The contract calls for Wood Chips to deliver to the Farm Show a minimum of 100 cords per week for 10 suc cessive weeks. Only dead trees which have been mark ed by DER foresters can be cut. “Pennsylvania has more than two million acres of acres of state forest lands that are being underharvested,” Jones said. “We grow far more wood each year than we cut and thousands of acres of trees are allowed to grow past their prime. “We hope that the fuel wood program can help us use our state forest lands more efficiently, can help up promote healthier, more dynamic forests and can help us ease the energy crunch and our reliance on foreign oil.” stores vied for the prize lamb. The Safeway store and City Market, both of the Silverthome-Frisco area in Colorado, went mid when it came to bidding on the 117- pound lamb. Safeway finally' won out at $lO5 ner oound. netting $12,285 for 14-year old Largent. USDA approves Nicaragua WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has advised Nicaraguan officials that they could resume meat ex ports to the United States. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Tucker Foreman said, however, that imports from Nicaragua will be subject to intensified residue testing to assure that the product meets U.S. Stan dards for wholesomeness. The department’s periodic reviews of the plants will also be increased, she said. Foreman said the rate of sampling for residues will be doubled and all imports will be held at the port of entry until residue samples are analyzed and the product is found to be in compliance with U.S. requirements. She said the intensified testing program will con tinue until the department is assured that the Nicaraguan program is adequate to con trol residues. Until then, she said, department officials will make monthly visits to review the Nicaraguan plants instead of the normal quarterly reviews. The Nicaraguan meat plants were removed from the list of approved ex porters June 15 because un safe travel conditions in the country prevented depart ment officials from making the required quarterly reviews to asure that plants were in compliance with the department’s meat inspec tion regulations. Foreman said that prior to RESULTS FROM QMS MATINGS STAR-ROCK MONITOR KATE GP-2y 2-3 2x214d 17.577 M 498 F (me) Proj. 22,850-657 A Monitor from a GP-81 19.585 M 739 F due Dec, Threat No. Bred 27 22 18 14 14 12 11 11 A terrific young Kit Builder fresh July 19 She gave 651 lbs Ist test at 2y Om. Her dam over 650 fat. Port Deposit, MD Port Murray, NJ Reading, PA Stewartstown, PA Thomasville, PA West Grove, PA Monroeville, NJ Taneytown, MD Mt. Airy, MD STAR-ROCK KIT BUILDER IRENE nc R. James Benjamin ill 301-378-3540 Robert Kayhart 201-689-2605 Robert Greider 215-378-1212 Tom Engle 717-993-6836 Ira Boyer 717-225-3758 Maurice Stump 215-869-9187 Cindy Hetzell 609-769-2791 Jack L. Kiing Allan Pickett imports re-instating export approval, department inspection of ficials visited the plants and reviewed the Nicaraguan government’s inspection program, which has been strengthened and through the addition of strigent measure to prevent the presence of chemical residues in ex ported meat. Nicaraguan plants shipped nearly 70 million pounds of meat to the U.S. in 1978, or 3 per cent of the total imports to this country. The meat, shipped frozen and uncook ed, was used primarily in processed products, such as cooked sausage, hamburger or convenience foods. The Federal Meat Inspec tion Act assigns the depart ment the responsibility for the wholesomeness of all meat moving in interstate and foreign commerce. COMMCT! Kubota mid range diesel tractors maneuver small, work big FARMERSVIUE EQUIPMENT —INC. RD4 EPHRATA, PA 717-354-4271 DBS dam with to Triple 301-447-2742 301-663-4191
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