28—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 27,1979
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Clifford Holloway, left, welcomed State Senator Patrick Stapleton, D-indiana,
to the State Grange meeting in Williamsport. Holloway is chairman of the Grange
Executive Committee. Stapleton is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee.
State
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are presently required to
pay the capitol franchise
tax. An exemption from this
tax would allow the farm
family to pass on farm
ownership to sons and
daughters without excessive
taxation.
The exemption of
cooperative agricultural
associations with gross sales
of $lOO,OOO or less from the
certified audit requirements
of the act would go a long
way toward relieving undue
financial burdens on family
farms. Certified audits for
small cooperatives are often
more expensive than the
savings incurred from
forming the cooperative, he
said.
“Family farm preser
vation initiatives will form
the core of our legislative
efforts,” said Hallowed.
“The incredible jump m the
valve of farmland, caused by
development pressure must
not force our sons and
daughters off the land.”
Hallowed said the family
farm preservation program
would include new
legislation to promote
agricultural districts and
“right to farm” proposals,
amendments to the state
Clean and Green Act and the
inheritance tax, and
exemptions from current
law of famdy farm cor
porations from the capital
stock franchise tax and
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certain cooperative
agricultural associations
from the certified audit
requirements.
Agricultural districts, a
voluntary program to be
initiated at the local level,
would encourage com
munities and farmers to
retain agricultural land even
when some urbanization has
occurred.
“Right to farm”
legislation would permit
farmers in agricultural
districts to carry out
essential farming activities
that, in some cases, are
being prohibited by local
ordinances.
Hallowell announced the
Administration’s “fairly
firm idea on the kind of
legislation” needed to create
a Milk Producer’s Security
Fund.
Hallowed advocated a $3
million fund as a minimum
to protect from 40 to 60 days
cash flow of a dealer.
He stated three ways milk
money could be protected for
the milk producer should a
dealer default on payment.
A bond in an amount equal
to an average 40 to 60 day
cash flow; a letter of credit
issued to a dealer by a
banking institution; or a
Milk Security Fund which
would be held in trust and
administered by the Milk
Marketing Board.
“The reality of getting
such legislation passed
seems to indicate that our
hopes would nde on a
provision that everyone
would help to share in the
cost of the fund,” Hallowell
said, “... dealer, handler,
cooperative, and producer
alike.”
In closing, Hallowell
emphasized that the
“proposal is not set in
concrete.”
He asked the Grange to
strongly consider the
alternative, and to inform
him of its feelings.
John Walker Scott, Master
of the National Grange,
criticized Congress for
“failing to get off dead
center on energy
legislation.”
Scott reported that
Congress has failed to move
meaningful energy bills for
the past two years.
“If we were to get involved
in a military engagement in
the near future,” Scott said,
“we would be at the mercy of
our enemies because of our
dependency on foreign
energy sources.”
“Environmentalists,” the
National Master claimed,
“have practically put us out
of business in burning soft
coal.”
He related to the delegates
that the U.S. now imports 50
per cent of its energy needs,
while paying for crude oil at
$2O per barrel.
“This price is causing a
great drag on our economy,”
Scott stated.
On agricultural issues,
Scott criticized the increases
in dairy imports that were
brought about by the multi
lateral trade negotiations,
saying the increases would
depress the domestic
market.
Grangers
elect
officers
Charles E. Wxsmer, jr.,
Trappe, Montgomery
County was elected State
Master at the conclusion of
the Grange’s 107th annual
session. Wismer, a dairy
farmer mayor and police
chief of Trappe, succeeds
Robert E. Steese, Grove
City, Mercer County.
Other officers elected to
posts within the organization
include: William T.
Reichart, Hanover, york
County, State Overseer; H.
Carl Deibert, Bedford,
Bedford County, state
secretary; Lloyd Craft,
Waynesburg, Greene
County, executive com
mittee; and Henry T. Huber,
West Chester, Chester
County, finance committee.
The executive committee
was enlarged to four men.
Clifford Holloway, Peach
Bottom, who normally would
have left the committee, will
serve another term.
Dog training
HARRISBURG -
Restrictions on the training
of dogs by sportsmen in
Pennsylvania have been
eased under legislation
which was enacted recently.
Formerly, dogs could be
trained only from sunrise to
9 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time, except that the
training of raccoon dogs
could be continued until
midnight.
Now, dogs may be trained
at any time, day or mght,
from August 1 through
March 31.
Previously, dog handlers
were permitted to run fox
hounds for two months of the
closed period (April 1
through July 31), if enough
hunters in a county
petitioned the Game Com
mission for the extra
training period. This
provision applied only to fox
hounds.
Now, the raccoon dog
handler has the same
privilege formerly reserved
for fox hound chasing. If
sportsmen or farmers in
sufficient numbers petition
the Game Commission, the
limits eased
running of raccoon dogs for
two months of the four
month closed period may be
permitted. A two-month
closed period is still required
to protect young wildlife.
In another change in the
law, the penalty for chasing
small game by dogs during
the closed period has been
increased from the former
$lO fine to a stiffer level of
$25.
Trainers are reminded
that to tram dogs legally on
Sunday, the consent of the
owner of the property where
such training is planned
must still be obtained in
advance, except in the case
of state-owned and national
forestlands.