SCS celebrates 45 years of
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Soil Con
servation Service marks 45
years of fighting soil erosion
and conserving water in the
United States, Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands.
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“Our pioneer
vironmental agency was
created in the desperate
days of depression and dust
bowl,” said SCS chief
Norman A. Berg. “The South
was gullied, much of the
Midwest was washing down
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Southwest was blowing
away.”
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Berg added that more than
the land was being stripped.
“Farmers were being
stripped of hope for the
future.”
Today, the SCS chief said,
much of the land has been
healed and some form of soil
conservation is practiced by
most farm producers.
A law establishing the Soil
Conservation Service as an
agency m USDA was signed
April 27, 1935, by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. It
was the first soil con
servation law enacted by
any country m the world.
Dr. Hugh Hammond
Bennett, described by Berg
as “a fiery apostle of con
servation,” was named first
chief of the Service. Bennett
stumped the country
speaking to farmers, ran
chers and lawmakers about
the menace of erosion to the
nation’s future productivity
and the necessity for con
servation measures.
So that land users could
take the initiative for local
conservation programs, one
state after another passed
laws to allow the creation of
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easier, saving time and labor
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sod conservation districts
directed by farmers and
other local people. The laws
also established state soil
and water conservation
agencies to help with the
task.
SCS, along with other
Department of Agriculture
agencies, provided the
technical conservation help,
research and educational
and financial assistance.
“The whole face of
Agricultural America
began to change,” Berg
recalled. “Spnpcroppmg,
contour plowing, and
terraces began to replace old
timeworn farming systems
so destructive to the land.”
Overgrazed rangeland
began to show im
provements. Watersheds
were protected. Ponds began
to appear, even in the old
Dust Bowl. Farmers and
ranchers signed up as
voluntary conservation
cooperators by the hundreds
of thousands.
“Today,” said Berg,
“there are some 2,950
conservation districts in
every state and the Carib
bean area and more than 2
million land users are
cooperators.
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“As we search for new and
more efficient ways to
deliver USDA’s soil con
servation help today, as
directed by the Soil and
Water Resources Con
servation Act, we should
never forget that a virtual
miracle has taken place on
the American landscape
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BY LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Staff Correspondent
LEESPORT - In
acknowledgement of Farm-
City Festival Day, sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Far
mers Association, last week,
Berks County Farmers
Association Women’s
Committee hosted a group of
news media wives for a day
of education and en
tertainment.
Held at the Berks County
Agriculture Center, the
women were given an ex
tensive tour of the many
departments housed in the
agricultural building by
James Haldeman, County
Extension Service Executive
Director.
Haldeman explained that
the extension service was
first instituted m 1914 as an
informal education ap
proach by which new in
formation could be passed
from land grant colleges to
people at the grass roots
level.
It supplies assistance for
problems concerning far
ming, landscapmg, nutrition
and home economics and is
the center of 4-H youth
programs throughout the
county
Broiler placements increase
HARRISBURG -
Placements of broiler clucks
in the Commonwealth during
the week ending April 26
were 2,475,000, 11 percent
above the corresponding
week a year ago and seven
percent above the previous
week, according to the
Pennsyvlania Crop
Reporting Service.
Average placements
during the past nine weeks in
Pennsylvania were four
percent above a year earlier.
In the 21 key poultry
producing states,
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program.
“Billions of tons of soil
have been kept on the land
and out of our air and rivers,
most of the credit goes to the
farmers and ranchers who
have taken the tune and
trouble to get the job done.”
new
wives
Presently Berks County
has 2,500 enrolled 4-H
members. Plans are un
derway for a 4-H center
located behind the
Agricultural Building.
Haldeman toured the ten
acre tract of land on which
the 4-H center will be located
with the women, showing
them the completed show
mgs and sites for the
proposed livestock and
exhibition buildings.
Also toured were the
maintenance areas for
county equipment and
storage, and offices of the
Agricultural Stabilization
Conservation Service,
Farmers Home Ad
ministration, and Soil
Conservation Service.
Lunch was held at Lin
coln’s Restaurant, RDI,
Leesport and a craft session
was held in the afternoon.
Caroll Kopfer, Rl, Fleet
wood, explained how she
collects materials and
makes arrangements for
home decoration. Each
person m attendance had the
opportunity to make a door
decoration from dried
flowers, and gram for their
own enjoyment.
placements of broiler chicks
totaled 82,507,000. This
figure is one percent below
the previous week and two
percent below the same
week in 1979. Average
placements in the 21 states
during the past nine weeks
were two percent above a
year ago.
Broiler fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection during the
week ending April 16 totaled
2,151,000, with an average
hveweight of 4.09 pounds.