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DAIRY EQUIPMENT
1950 S. sth Avenue, Lebanon, Pa. 17042
Phone: 717-272-0871
Sevin
LITITZ A controversy
has arisen in Pennsylvania
and adjoining states as to the
safety of the insecticide
carbaryl, which is sold under
the trade name Sevin.
According to University of
Delaware extension
pesticides specialist John
McDaniel, Sevin is widely
used for control of gypsy
moth larvae - those cater
pillars which in great
numbers sometimes denude
oaks, pmes and other trees.
Those on one side of the
controversy have claimed
that the insecticide causes
birth defects in human
said safe to use as labeled
beings. Radio and television
reports on the controversy
appear to have added fuel to
the fire.
Sevin has been under
review by the U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency for several years,
says McDaniel. This past
May the EPA wrote a letter
to the New Jersey Depart
ment of Agriculture in which
it stated that the information
available on the pesticide
leads the agency to believe
that Sevan does not present
any imminent hazard.
EPA scientists have
reviewed all the data
derived from tests using
Sevan. They believe, on the
basis of this data, that the
chance of Sevan causing
birth defects m human
beings is very low. There is
more information on Sevan
SCS says not enough farms on conservation
HARRISBURG - Soil
erosion is like dropping your
contact lens down the
bathroom dram. It is vir
tually unpossible to retrieve
and it is expensive to
replace.
Last year, three billion
tons of America’s topsoil
was lost—literally down the
dram.
Every year, enough soil to
fill a freight tram from here
to the moon and halfway
back washes into streams
and rivers robbing farmland
of fertility and polluting our
waterways.
The problem with soil
erosion is that it is an in
sidious process,” says a
spokesperson, for the
USDA, Soil Conservation
Service. “Often you cannot
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and birth defects than there
is for most other chemicals,
notes the specialist, whether
these chemicals are
pesticides or not. And EPA
has reviewed all of it.
EPA points out that one
must never conclude that
risks from exposure to any
chemical are zero. The
agency suggests that men
and women of childbearing
age should avoid un
necessary exposure to any
chemical. McDaniel goes
even further.
He feels that people of all
ages should avoid un
necessary exposure to
chemicals.
Proving a negative is
almost impossible. A truck
occasionally runs into
a house, though doubtless
the homeowner involved
would have bet anything
see it happening so you don’t
worry about it.”
The effects of erosion can
be seen m any stream after a
hard ram. Muddy streams
and their effect on the en
vironment led Congress m
1972 to call for a national
effort to stop nonpoint
pollution.
Nonpomt pollutants are
those contaminants con
tamed m rainwater that
runoff the land. Sources
mclude just about any type
of land use agriculture,
mining, construction,
highways, and urban land.
However, the largest single
source of nonpoint pollution
is sediment and 40 percent of
it comes from cropland, ac
cording to SCS.
In Pennsylvania, about 60
percent of the sediment
polluting waterways comes
from farmland, 20 percent
from urbanland, and the
remainder being natural
geologic erosion.
Erosion and sediment
pollution affects everyone.
It takes 100 to 500 years for
an inch of soil to form.
It costs American tax
payers $125 million a year to
dram sediment from harbors
and waterways.
Sediment in reservoirs
Delaware Co, EFNEP
personnel honored
MEDIA Franceha
Bradley, Rosetta Jones,
Hilda C. McNear and Joan
Shavers all from Delaware
County’s Expanded Foods
and Nutrition Program were
honored recently in Allen
town with ten year service
awards.
The occasion was a
regional conference for
EFNEP personnel working
before hand that such an
accident would never
happen.
A philosophical scientist
once wrote an article
pointing out that each of us is
in danger of being hit by a
watermelon falling from an
airplane. The possibility
may be there, but the chance
is so remote that you’re not
likely to find anyone scan
ning the sky for falling
melons.
So it is with certain other
hazards. Tests are made.
Results are evaluated and
conclusions drawn as to
reasonable risk. “The EPA
is not noted for making
mistakes on the side of
hazard,” concludes the
specialist. “Those people
usually decide well on the
side of safety.”
accounts for about $lOO
million of lost capacity each
year for hydropower, water
supply, flood control, and
recreation.
Although these figures
have been around for years,
the public generally has
remained indifferent to the
loss of valuable topsoil
they could substitute high
energy inputs, such as
fertilizers and other
chemicals to make up dif
ference in productively
while still making a profit.
While fuel costs
skyrocketing and the
reserve of farmland dwin
dling by as much as three
million acres per year, that
difference is no longer
justifiable, nor is the public
willing any longer to see
water quality continue to
decline, says SCS.
What can be done to
reduce the loss of topsoil?
Farmers and landowners
are practicing soil and water
conservation in cooperation
with local soil conservation
districts and the USDA, Soil
Conservation Service. About
40 per cent of Pennsylvania’s
farmland is operating under
conservation plans, but that
is not enough, concludes
SCS.
m 59 Pennsylvania counties.
EFNEP, a program
designed to help families
with limited resources
improve their diets through
education and unproved use
of resources, has been part
of the cooperative extension
program smce 1969.
Also attending the con
ference from Delaware
County were: Ethel Carroll,
Marva Hunt, Beatrice Pitts
and Mildred Robinson.
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