• Farmers get woodlot tips at Berks forestry meeting
BY LARUEL SCHAEFFER
Staff Correspondent
LEESPORT - The
growing interest in forestry
and woodlot improvement
became very evident as
close to two hundred people
turned out last Wednesday to
the Berks County
Agricultural Center, here,
for a program devoted to
forestry improvement and
firewood.
Sponsored by the county
extension service and ASCS
offices, the program ex
plained the services avilable
to woodlot owners towards
improving woodlot
productivity and also em
phasized the proper usage of
a chain saw and the safety
precautions needed in
sawing trees for firewood.
An untended forest or
is similar to an
untended garden, the large
audience learned. It must be
thinned out for maximum
productivity.
John Bearer, Berks
County State Forester,
explained how his office will
evaluate a stand of timber
and in accordance with the
owner’s wishes and future
intentions, recommend the
best alternatives for it’s
improvement.
Bearer explamed that
woodlots are categorized in
two phases; a precom
mercial stand and a
traditional or commercial
forest stand.
In a precommercial stand,
a state forestor will mark the
trees which should be
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thinned out to allow the
remaining trees more room
and sunlight to grow to their
potential.
In a commercial stand the
state forester must supply a
list of professional con
sulting foresters from which
the landowner may choose to
consult.
A conusltmg forester is a
self-employed professional
who works for a fee. He can
provide a stand analysis
make an appraisal as to the
worth of the timber, do
thinnings, market the
timber, map the area, make
a conservation plan, reseed,
or provide for stand con
versions.
The large audience also
learned that cost sharing
programs for timber stand
improvements are available
through county ASCS offices.
These cost share
programs may go as high as
covering 75 percent of $65
per acre for improving
woodlots, through the
Forestry Incentive
Program.
In thinning a woodlot, the
foresters explained they
remove the trees that won’t
amount to much, leaving
space for more productive,
healthier trees. This space
for which the trees are
competing for sunlight is
called the crown space.
When the crown space is
rated at lOC percent, that
area is growing all it
possibly can, Bearer ex
plained. Those woodlots are
then stagnate and can’t
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than already there.
Usually the state foresters
will trim a woodlot back to 70
percent, leaving the rest of
the crown space open for
tree growth. Careful con
sideration to cutting trees is
given during the thinning.
Damaged trees and big old
‘wolf’ trees are usually
culled, depending on the
purposes or uses intended
for the woodlot.
Woodlots can be used for
recreation, habitat, scenery,
fuel-wood or timber pur
poses, each needing to be
managed a different way.
With the present interest
m fuelwood, a film stressing
safety when using a chain
saw was also shown to the
audience. It explained the
proper procedure in felling a
tree and pruning branches.
The care of a chain saw was
highlighted as well.
Loose hanging branches in
trees called “widow
makers” also were men
tioned. Foresters advised
everyone to stay clear of
such trees. Emphasized was
the use of a hard hat and
tight fitting clothing that has
less chance of being snagged
on a tree or branch.
Following the film and
discussion the program was
moved to woodlot located in
the Blue Marsh Dam Project
where everyone had the
opporutnity to see the dif
ference in a thinned woodlot
and natural, unmanaged
stand.
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John Bearer, State Forester for Berks County told a large audience how to
turn their farm woodlot into some extra money with a bit of help from several
agencies.
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HARRISBURG - Jay
McCarrell of Eighty Four,
Washington County,
exhibited the grand
champion hay sample at the
64th Farm Show. His entry
was a heat cured later
cutting of alfalfa.
The reserve champion, a
field cured later cutting of
alfalfa and grass mixed, was
exhibited by Duane E.
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Columbia County.
Class winners are:
Class 1 Alfalfa First Cutting 1 Milton
Hershey School Founders Hall Hershey
2 Paul Bollinger R 2 Myerstown 3
Donald Bollinger R 3 Myerstown 4 A L
Orner Sons Rl Rockton 5 John R
Sankey R 2 Clearfield
Class 2 Alfalfa Later Cutting 1 Paul
Bollinger. R 2 Myerstown 2 Donald
Bollinger R 3 Myerstown 3 Albert Hack
R 2 Berwick 4 Floyd & Barry Ott R 2
Bangor 5 George Ott R 4 Bangor
Class 3 Alfalfa Grass Mixed First
Cutting 1 Duane Shuman R 8 Bloom
sburg 2 Donald Bollinger R 3 Myer
stown 3 AL Orner Sons Rl Rockton 4
Don K revel Cherry Tree 5 Leßoy F
Rowles Rl Olanta
Class 4, Alfalfa Grass Mixed Later
Cutting 1 Duane Shuman R 8 Bloom
sburg 2 Michael Reich R 1 Beaver
Springs 3 Fredßrodzma Warriors Mark
4 Dan Gearhart RX Clearfield. 5 Steve
Smith R 2 Mansfield
Class 5 Clover 1 Daniel H Schlegei
Rl Otey 2 Daniel Brubaker RI Ephrata
’3 Paul Bollinger R 2 Myerstown 4
Donald Bollinger, R 3 Myerstown, 5
Ashcombc Dairy Dover
Class 6, Clover Timothy Mixed 1
Daniel H Schlegei Rl Oley, 2 A L Orner
Sons Rl Rockton 3 Paul Jacobs Dover,
4 Joe Stump RlOYork 5 Paul Bollinger
R 2 Myerstown
Class 8 Brrdsfoot Trcfoilmixed 2 Tim
Kunes Frenchvtlle
Class 9 Grass First cutting 1 Daniel
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state hay show
H Schlegel R 1 Oley 2 Tim Kunes
Frenchville 3 Lcßoy F Rowles R 2
Olanta 4 Galawn Farms Dover 5 Nevin
Lambert Jr R 3 Stoystown
Class 10 Grass Later cutting 1
El wood t Bruce Fox R 2 Bangor 2 Daniel
H Schlegel Rl Oley 3 Nevm G Rice R 1
Blam 4 Dan & Tim Aldarfe- Harleysviile
5 Nelson Narehood Rl Beavertown
Class 11 Mixed More than 50 percent
of legumes 1 Penn Smith, R 2 Mansfield
2 Paul Bollinger R 2 Mycrstown 3
Daniel H Schlegel Rl Oley 4 Carper
Acres Dairy Fm , R 2 McClure 5 Donald
Bollinger R3Myerstown
Class 12 Mixed More than 50 percent
of grasses 1 Darnel H Schlegel RlOley
2 Carl J Pearce KyJertown 3 Fred
Long Rl Curwensville 4 Tim Kunes
Frenchvtlle 5 Donald Bollinger R 3
Myerstown
Class 13 Summer annual grasses
Sudangrass 4 Donald Bollinger R 3
Myerstown 5 Paul Bollinger R 2
Myerstown
Class 14 Alfalfa First cutting 1 Milton
Hershey School Fm Founders Hall
Hershey 2 JayMcCarrell Eighty Four
Class 15 Alfalfa Later cutting 1 Jay
McCarrell Eighty Four 2 Milton Hershey
School Fm Founders Hall Hershey 3
Donald Bollinger R 2 Myerstown
Class 16 Alfalfa Grass mixed First
cutting 3 JayMcCarrell Eighty Four
Class 17 Alfalfa Grass mixed Later
cutting 1 Jay McCarrell Eighty Four
Class 18 Clover I Jay McCarrell
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Class 19 Clover Timothy mixed 1 Jay
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Class 22 Grass First cutting 1 Jay
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Class 23, Grass Later cutting 1 Jay
McCarrell, Eighty Four
Class 24 Mixed More than 50 percent
of legumes 1 Jay McCarrell_Eighty Four
2 Paul Bollinger R 2 Myerstowjv
Class 2s. Mixed Morelhanso~percent
of grasses 2 Jay McCarrell, Eighty Four
Class 26 Summer Annual Grasses 1
Jay McCarrell Eighty Four
Class 27 Alfalfa First cutting 1 Dan 4
Tim Alderfer Harleys.ille 2 Hughes
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Class 28 Alfalfa Later cutting 1
Nevm G Rice R 1 Blam 2 Glenn & Barry
Hicks R 2 Dußois 3 Albert Hack R 2
Berwick 4 Danny Shaw R 2 Cur
wensville 5 Daniel Schlegel Rlole>
Class 29 Alfalfa Grass mixed First
cutting 2 Dan t Tim Alderfer
Harleysville
Class 30 Alfalfa Grass mixed Later
cutting i George N Rice, R 1 Blam 2
Owen Hofecker R 4 Johnstown 3 Daniel
Schlegel R 1 Oley
Class 31 Mixed hay More than 50
percent legumes 1 Glenn & Barry Hicks
R2Dußois 2 DamelH Schlegel R 1 Oley
3 Owen Hofecker R 4 Johnstown
Class 32 Mixed Hay More than 50
percent grasses 1 Nevm G Rice. R 1
Blam 2 Daniel H Schlegel R 1 Oley
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