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
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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
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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.