Land preservation first needs a good definition BY DICK ANGLESTEIN WEST CHESTER - There’s a lot of difference between just rural land and farmland. Likewise, there’s as much' difference in referring to it as merely land or as soil. This became readily apparent at the Rural Preservation Conference held by the Chester County Historical Society on Friday and Saturday. There was a sprinkling of farmer speakers before the predominantly non-farm conference audience. At tunes, they talked with each other and even questioned each other, but didn’t appear PUBLIC SALE Farm Machinery, Household Goods Antiques, Etc. 3 miles N. of Turbotville, 10 miles S. of Muncy near Comely. Auction Arrows off Rt. 54 at Turbotville. GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 4 Starting 10 AM 5 row crop tractors; M.H. 333 w/3 P.H.; Farmall M; Oliver 70; Case SC; M.H. 44 Special, motor froze; M.H. 7’ pull combine w/bin; Picker; JD 290 planter; plows; rotary mower; 2 riding lawn mowers; Line of Household Goods & Antiques Including Full Size Brass Bed; Etc. Various Used & like new Tools, Various Size Tarps; Etc. Owner, JAMES DAUGHERTY Auct. Max Fraley & Son 546-6631 Lunch PUBLIC AUCTION PERSONAL PROPERTY - ANTIQUES SATURDAY, APRIL 5,1980 Auction at 1734 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, Pa. Located on the corner of Ten nyson Dr. and Rt. 30, just Vi mile east of the traffic light at Bridgeport. PERSONAL PROPERTY Mahogany bedroom suite w/twm pineapple beds; Mahogany bedroom suite w/poster bed; Duncan Phyfe drop leaf table; 2 pc. living room suite; comer cup board; cedar chest; china closet; dinette set w/4 chairs; Coldspot F/F refrigerator; GE automatic washer; Norge gas dryer; small upright freezer; kitchen base cabmet; living room chairs; rediners; stereo; coffee table; floor and table lamps; metal utility cabinet; Eureka vacuum cleaner; 5000 & 10,000 BTU air conditioners; record cabinet; coal bucket; bird cage; fireplace tools; screen and andirons; linens; blankets; crocheted bedspreads; various rugs me. hooked; Coming ware; Bissel hand sweeper; small appliances; silverware; pots; pans; Christmas decorations; Jacobsen self-propelled mower; lawn sweeper; push cultivator; wheelbarrow; ladders; vise; garden tools; garden hose; lawn chairs; bird bath. Virginian sofa; Oak including: 3 library tables, chest of drawers, cane seated rocker & chairs, commode, New Home treadle sewing machine, table & washstand; upholstered Victorian chairs; Empire chest of drawers; arrowback chairs; 6 pc. floral pit cher & bowl set; camel back & flat trunks; baskets; picture frames; stoneware water cooler; crock; hair receiver; hat pin holder; Occupied Japan figures; pressed glass toothpick holder; opalescent glass; tea set; Eng. dishes; iron skillets; and other items too numerous to mention. Auctioneers: ira Stoltzfus & Son 442-4936 or 442-8254 Jay Leary 354-0423 FOOD AVAILABLE Not Responsible for Accidents “List Your Sale Today - With Ira, Dale, or Jay” to really get through to each other. In all, five of the 48 scheduled speakers spread across the two-day con ference were billed as having any fulltime active affiliation with production agriculture. This attendance of invited agriculturalists amounted to slightly better than 10 percent of speaker representation, winch ad mittedly is more than twice the four-percent minority role that farmers now hold in the country’s total population. Despite the conference’s general misnomer as At 10A.M ANTIQUES Sale By: PAULINE H. REYNOLDS dealing with rural preser vation and the sparse agricultural attendance, the program appeared to be centered primarily with soil, not merely land, largely owned by farmers and used by farmers to grow food and fibre as a means of their familys’ livelihood. The difference in the approach to the question of how rural preservation should be accomplished was illustrated by the farm and non-farm speakers. Agricultural spokesmen stressed individual freedoms and the economic aspects of their enterprises, while non farm speakers talked of such things as open space, scemc vistas and environmental protection. Charles E. Wismer, Jr., Master, Pennsylvania State Grange, gave his farmer oriented answer to the problem. “Farmers need some governmental protection,” he said, “but primarily they need to be left alone.” “With the right type of PUBLIC SALE SPECIAL DAIRY COW & HEIFER SALE PENNS VALLEY LIVESTOCK AUCTION Center Hall, Pa. THURSDAY, APRIL 10 Selling one herd of 50 Holstein cows and heifers, 10 heifers open and near breeding age, artificially bred and pregnancy checked. 20 to freshen now to August. Consigned by: MRS. NICK SATUR Clearfield County Also Consigned For This Sale; 50 Holstein heifers and 20-25 fresh and dose springing cows. Health Charts Furnished For More Information: Clearfield Co. 814-345-6137 Centre Co. 814-238-8032 CONSIGNMENTS WELCOMED yoooe<eeoscooooeooeooeccoccoaococoaoooo<a| | Rawlinsville Vol. Fire Co. § 12th ANNUAL ALL DAY SALE I SATURDAY, APRIL 12 S 9:00 A.M. SHARP b Located - 8 miles South of Lancaster, on Rt. b 272. Turn West at Truce on Rawlinsville Ave. FARM EQUIPMENT Tractors, Plows, Cultivators, Disk Harrows, Spring I i Harrows, Gram Drill, Corn & Tobacco Planters, Wagons, Tobacco Ladders, Lots of other Implements, 8 not mentioned. RIDING & PUSH MOWERS Variety of other Lawn & Garden Equipment. BUILDING MATERIAL & SUPPLIES Lumber, Paneling, Doors, Windows, Accessories, Locust Posts. NEW & USED TOOLS GOOD USED CARS & TRUCKS DRYGOODS LOADS OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES 0 HOUSEHOLD GOODS & ANTIQUES 8 NEW & USED FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES X Many Items Not Listed 1 0 Items sold on Commission basis o Donated items appreciated x Pick - up Service available for donated items. S For Information Call: b 284-4530 284-4362 b No Hucksters Allowed! X Local and well known Auctioneers fi Good Food Served by the Ladies Auxiliary 8 NO GOODS RECEIVED ON DAY OF SALE 8 Terms by: $ RAWLINSVILLE FIRE CO. economy, you won’t have to worry about land preser vation because it will naturally remain m far ming.” Wismer claimed that farmers are facing a 30 percent hike in the cost of inputs for the 1980 planting season due to inflation. The state grange head also lashed out at the Soviet gram embargo. “Just don’t single out only the farmer,” he said. -- “Let’s have a total em bargo. All you’re going to see is the big fellow get bigger and the little fellow forced out of business.” Ernest Miller, a dairy farmer from Perry Town ship, Berks County, called for an end to laws and studies on land preservation since any of them have yet to help fmd any answers. He said that legislation such as those forming ag districts just play into the hands of the developers. “Easements or deed restrictions are the only way 7:30 P.M. I 284-4383 8 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29,1980—D23 to go to keep the land in agriculture,” Miller said. “Let the land be assessed at its real value and get rid of some of the nuisance laws that interfere with daily farming operations.” The beauty of this, he added, is that the govern ment doesn’t get involved. “Or else, you’ll just end up with some more studies,” Miller said. Marshall Haws, of the West Chester Conservation District, called for a return to the “private property ethic.” “Get the government out of the agricultural credit business,” he said. “The government only subsidizes mediocrity and hurts the farmers who are doing a good job.” Among the non-farm speakers at a workshop entitled “An Economically Viable Alternative for Rural Lands” was Darryl Caputo, Executive Director of the Upper Raritan Watershed. He spoke on the topic of why open space is economically sound. He talked m terms of cluster design, construction on flood plains and protecting the dunes on the coastline of New Jersey. Caputo said that residential development doesn’t pay its own way. The only communities in New Jersey with lower taxes are those with nuclear power plants, he said. An opening address was given by Robert Gray, Executive Director of the Hunterdon Sheep Club to hold dinner FLEMINGTON, N.J. - Breeds for Special Wools”; The March meeting of the by Kimberly Crommelm and Hunterdon County 4-H Sheep Karen Horvath. Club was held at the Mon- The club’s annual April tencourt farm in Pat- dinner will be held on tenburg. Demonstrations given were “Fencing” by Denise Holman and Jessica Rieveschl; “Parasites” by Frank Kolandra and John Sebastiano; and “Special PIRRUNG’S ONCE A YEAR AUCTION OF FARMER OWNED EQUIPMENT TUESDAY. APRIL 1 9:30 A.M. Sharp! COHOCTON, N.Y. Sale at the Terry Wilkins Farm located along Rte. 371, midway between Cohocton and North Cohocton, N.Y. Selling in this large and established sale will be a full line of virtually every kind and description of farm machinery, consigned to us by local farmers, financial institutions, estates, etc. You will find Tractors; Trucks; Combines; Hay and Gram Eqmpment; Planting and Tillage Tools; Field Harvesters; Blowers; Manure Spreaders; Livestock Equipment; Potato Equipment; and again virtually everything ever made for farming! Expecting 400-500 lots of all big equipment No small items! Plan to at tend as buyer or seller and bring in what you have to sell anytime Mar. 26 through Mar. 31 from 9-CO A.M until 4-00 P.M. Loading dock. Front end loader. Lunch available Sale by PIRRUNG AUCTIONEERS, Inc. Waytand, N.Y. 716-728-2520 National Agricultural Lands Study. This is an 18-month study into the impact of the ao celerated loss of farmland. A report is scheduled in January, 1981. “This is an m-dofilh look at the problem,” Gray said. “We expect to get something that will even be helpful to state and possibly local governments.” A question from the audience before Gray rushed back to Washington to testify at a hearing asked: “Is there ever going to be a study that will be of use to the individual farmer’ ’ ’ A non-commital answer followed. A total of 15 workshops were held during the con ference and were designed to look at rural preservation from the many different viewpoints. Sessions were held on the campus of West Chester State College. The conference was sponsored by the Chester County Historical Society in association with the Penn sylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The room containing the conference office had a varied display of preser vation literature, including a number of Commission publications that were of fered for sale. These covered diverse subjects from Blacksmithing and Homespun Textile Traditions of Pennsylvania Germans to Indian Paths of Pennsylvania and Regimental Organization and Operations 1776 -1783. Saturday, April 12 at the Three Bridges Firehouse The Deadline for purchasing tickets will be April 5. Reported by Frank Koldandra.
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