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Dear Editor;
1 i- The article entitled Air
of' port Zoning leaves Lebanon
:i| farmers up in air By Sheila
4# Miller in the April 5 issue of
Lancaster Fanning contains
1 some statements which need
clarification.
“If a farmer wants to
expand his farm, he has to
p buy more land. If a man
V* wants to expand an airport,
$ he should have to buy some
V, more land too,” commented
4 Joe Eckenrode, a South
Londonderry Township
' farmer. The truth is airport
zoning does not call for land
l^l&xpansion.
Letters To
The Editor
Pennsylvania State Laws
Relating to Aviation, Act of
April 17, 1945 P.L. 237 states
that an airport hazard area
means any area of land or
water upon which an airport
hazard might be established
if not prevented as provided
for in this law. The
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There's an Agway feed that's right
for every horse...incfaiding yours
Which feed for your horse?
You're concerned about health and condi
tion, of course, but you should also take into
consideration the kind of life your horse leads,
and match feed to job
Feed requirements for the athlete horse are
different from those of the nursing mare
different for the show horse different for
the horse that's ridden only a few hours on
weekends
While high quality forage can meet the
needs for maintenance, grains and supple
ments must be fed to supply energy needs
for growth, condition, and work.
newspaper article states
that fifty acres of the Brandt
farm lie in this area. This
statement is in errors.
Runway approaches must
be kept clear on the basis of
a 20:1 glide ratio. The planes
do not fly directly above the
farm buildings. The farm
buildings are not in the
direct path of either landing
or take-off and no planes at
an altitude of 35 feet ever fly
near the buildings.
The noise of the single
engine airplanes present no
competition to the con
tinuous grating hum of the
highway traffic of trucks,
cars, motorcycles and other
vehicles; or to the chop- chop
of the helicopters which
operate out of Fort In
diantown Gap and land at
the National Guard Building
south of Palmdale and
Palmyra. Donald Hoffer
need not worry about the
noise of small airplane
engmes causing his cattle to
stampede.
Airport zoning will not
affect the height of silos
possibly to be constructed m
the future. As it is presently
zoned the height limit is 35
feet. This fact again nixes
Donald Hoffers concern.
In regard to Joe
Eckenrode’s remark about
lighting, the runway lights
are on during hours of
darkness with special
threshold lights.
Harold Brandt has voiced
opposition to Reigle Airport
through out the past forty
years - ever since the airport
was built and put into
operation. His latest venture
was to solicit and collect
signatures for his support
against a zoning change.
The farmers are confused.
Eckenrode, Hoffer and
others expressed concern
that a zoning change might
encroach on the agricultural
use of the land. No so; the
truth is it would serve to
preserve farm land. Airport
zoning is in effect in Bethel
Township. It poses no ad
verse effects on surrounding
land.
Another correction:
Reigle Airport is a com
mercially licensed public
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That's why Agway provides a full line of
feeds to meet varying protein, vitamin and
mineral needs. There are Agway feeds de
signed to be fed along with forages, as well
as complete feeds to be fed alone.
working horses, non-working horses,
mares and foals . Agway supplies each of
them with the feed that's just right for their
needs
Agway Horse Feeds are
available throughout
the Northeast
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TANGENT, Or. - An
Oregon seed company,
Nomarc, Inc., has paid $l5OO
to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to settle a case
of alleged violations of the
Federal Seed Act. The act,
administered by USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service, is a truth-in
labelmg law that protects
farme s and consumers who
buy seed.
The firm, located in
Tangent, Ore., agreed to the
settlement but neither ad
mitted nor denied the
charges.
The case involved four
shipments of tall fescue,
perennial ryegrass and
white clover seeds into
Connecticut and Florida m
1977. Three shipments mto
Connecticut were reshipped
by another firm into
Massachusetts and Rhode
Island where they were
officially sampled.
The alleged violations,
while not the same for all
shipments, were: false
use airport; not a private
airport.
Ada M. Reigle
Reigle Airport
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$l5OO fine
labeling of purity, ger-
mination and hard -seed
percentages and
presence of noxious weed
seeds; failure to properly
label grass seed mixtures;
mislabeling of the kind of
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Conservation Society of
America, examines the
current state of affairs m soil
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efforts over the past four
decades, an evaluation of
how effective existing
training programs are, and
possible strategies for
shaping more effective
programs in the future.
The book is based on
material presented at the
supply of reasonably priced
milk to consumers,” he said.
Those at the meeting all
said they would encourage
farmers at home to contact
their congressmen and take
what Stoner called “a
gentleman-like approach” to
kill the CNI hearings.
They said they felt a
hearing on the CNI proposal
is neither required nor
necessary.
They said the purpose for
the federal milk marketing
orders is as valid today as it
was in 1937 when they were
established.
They also said milk is
being marketed under
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Conservation book
Dairy leaders meet
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in seed case
vanety name and failure to
keep required records.
Seed regulatory officials in
Massachusetts, Florida and
Rhode Island, cooperated
with AMS on the in
vestigations.
November 1979 National
Conference on Soil Con
servation Policies sponsored
by the Society in cooperation
with the National
Association of Conservation
Districts and the U.S,
Department of Agriculture.
Its 20 chapters present a
cross-section of current
thinking about soil con
servation efforts from the
federal, state, and local
points of view.
Single copies of the book
are $6.50, postpaid. A
discount is available on
purchases of 10 or more
copies.
federal milk marketing
orders in accordance with
the Act of 1937 and charges
that a lower-cost alternative
to fluid milk is being
eliminated from commerce
by federal milk marketing
orders can not be sub
stantiated.
Future meetings of the
dairy committee probably
will center on problems
other than the CNI proposal.
Among the hot topics
which probably will be
raised at the summer
meeting are dairy prices and
the potential for one giant
federal order for the whole
United States, Sidles said.