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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - As
the Maryland Agricultural
Land-Preservation program
approaches its first an
niversary some eight
counties now have voluntary
preservation districts
established, totaling 10,500
acres of productive farm
land.
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your crop and soil.
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ture to give fast and slow release of nutrients, with secondary
plant nutrients that are vital for plant growth.
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Phone: John D. Weaver - 717-768-9006 or 768-7111
or Answering Service - 717-354-4374
Land preservation moves ahead in Md.
The 41 districts
established so far are in
Anne Arundel, Caroline,
Carroll, Dorchester,
Frederick, Harford,
Howard, and St. Marys
Counties.
Petitions requesting the
establishment of additional
districts are now in the
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works in Baltimore, Calvert
Charles, Garrett, Mon
tgomery, Talbot, and
Washington Counties.
(These additional districts,
if all approved on the local
-and state level, would in
crease the acreage in the
program to as much as
18,000 acres.)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 3,1980—A19
Carroll County is the
leading county for district
establishment with districts
now formed comprising 3,350
acres.
The Maryland
Agricultural Land
Preservation Foundation,
which administers the
program on the state level,
has now begun to acquire
development rights
easements; some initial
option contracts have been
signed, and by June the
Foundation should have
acquired, or be moving
toward settlements for
development rights on 15 of
the 16 farms for which
develoment right easement
sale offers have been ten
dered upon request of the
owners.
Broiler placements rise
HARRISBURG -
Placements of broiler chicks
in the Commonwealth during
the week ending April 19
were 2,314,000, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service.
The placements were one
percent above both the
previous week and the
corresponding week a year
earlier. Average placements
during the past nine weeks
were four percent above a
year earlier.
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The Foundation, part of
the Maryland Department of
Agriculture, has received
easement funding from the
i General Assembly totaling
$5 million. The latest funding
appropriations were
allocated by action of the
1980 session of the
legislature and totaled $3
million coming from the
state’s open space program.
Earlier sessions of the
legislature had provided $2
million in easement pur
chase funding.
In addition, local gover
nments have tentatively
committed more than $2.5
million in matching funds for
easement acquisition in the
coming year.
Placements in the 21 key
poultry producing states
were 83,373,000, two percent
above the previous week, but
about the same as a year
earlier. Average placements
during the past nine weeks
were three percent above a
year ago.
Broiler-fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection during the
week ending April 9 totaled
1,959,000, with an average
liveweight of 4.21 pounds.
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