A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November -5,1980 Kaylor BY SHEILA MILLER LEBANON This year’s Outstanding Conservation Cooperator in Lebanon County is Marvin Kaylor, a North Annville Townslup farmer. Kaylor was presented with the award here on Tuesday evening during the monthly meeting of the Lebanon County Conservation District The recognition Kaylor received is the result of over five years of implementing a sound conservation program on his 165 acre farm. Kaylor stated his move to a con servative method of farming was the result of witnessing erosion in his cropfields After Kaylor purchased the farm from his father, Irvin, in 1972, he farmed some of the sliding lulls that had formerly been used as pasture “I just got tired of dragging wagons over gutters,” he said So in 1975, the first of the truly contour strips were laid out on the farm Since then, a total of 35 acres of strips have been established on his cropland fields. Kaylor pointed out the entire farm has been planned for strips “It’s just a matter of working them into my crop rotation over a period of years ” Then, in 1977, Kaylor began to work on some of his low-lying land that borders the old Union Canal bed along the Swatara Creek Over the next two years, more than 12,800 feet of subsurface drainage was buried in the flat, turning the formerly 27 acres into Kaylor’s best corn ground The flats were further pr otected with the in stallation of 2150 feet of diversion in 1979 The Marvin Kaylor, right, receives the plaque for jutstanding Lebanon County Conservation Cooperator from Conservation District Chairman Donald Bollinger. American Royal continues through Nov. 22 KANSAS CITY, Mo - It been called the greatest show in the nation, a ,eant of the top beauties >nd beasts - of the four ged variety - in the world s the American Royal 'stock, Hoise Show and eo, now in its 82nd yeai 1 in the heartland ot i ica • Royal whi< li ipi m d .lav iNovenihei / ..ml is Lebanon's Outstanding Conservation Farmer diversion intercept the excess surface water that runs down the slopes of adjacent cropfields The runoff is carried by the diversion around the flats and empties into the old canal bed Kaylor, like many other Lebanon County farmers, experienced a reduced corn yield this year Instead of his normal 100 bushels to the acre, he said he was lucky to get 40 bushels per acre this year But, said Kaylor, he did get 100 bushels to the ac re in one field - the flats •.‘lnstalling that tile and diversion made the dif ference of 60 bushels to the acre Without the diversion, it would have been too wet to get in the field this spring to plant the corn “Figuring corn prices at $4 a bushel, it won’t take too many more years for that field to pay for the con servation work ” After Kaylor harvests his field corn in the fall, he explained he either sows a rye cover crop m the strips of stalks or he turns in his 25 commercial sows to glean any fallen corn The strand of electric fence is well respected by the swine, he said "They won’t even cross the fence if it goes down, once they learn it’s there ” Each year, Kaylor said, he raises about 100 feeder pigs He breeds his sows and any home-bred replacement gilts to purebred boars, either Yorkshire or Hampshire 1 try to have mostly white pigs,” he said In past year, Kaylor pointed out, he also raised some feeder pigs But with grain prices the way they are, I’m not sure I want to put it into cattle,” he remarked 1 runs through Saturday, November is now receiving international acclaim The American Roval Center here last yeai showed more than I.UUO cattle and ,5 UUO hoi ses Intel national exhibits in I'h'i diew lid louign mines Moin 18 t outlines making it tl.< hugest exhibition 1 ,1' kind n. i tic u n Id His future opeialion may eventually expand into a cow/calf rather than feeding setup. “It will all depend on what my son, Brent, decides to do after he graduates from Penn State,” Kaylor said. One of three of the Kaylor children, Brent is a fresh man agriculture engineering student at the university The Kaylor’s other two children are daughter Cindy, married to Dennis Funk, and son Cliff Kaylor’s wife, Grace, plays a key role in the conservation program , sometimes quite ac cidentally ‘This past summer when things were so dry, my wife and I went for a walk along the diversion She noticed dark green Jines running across them and wondered whether that could be the tile lines causing the grass to be so green ‘That’s what it was alright And so I marked the tile line with flags Now if I ever need to extend the drainage, I'll know where to tap into the old line.” How much did all Kaylor’s efforts to practice sound soil stewardship cost him? After a moment’s pause, he said, Probably it cost me somewhere between $9OOO and $lO,OOO - let's say $9500 ” " But, as most conservation farmers have found, Lebanon County s Out standing Cooperator has found that conservation doesn’t cost, it pays Through his efforts, he is setting an excellent example for others to follow SBMBI I; ‘ - -f Sunnypig 3 for a ambient heating of a farrow ing pen or 20 to 30 wearier pigs SBM has been making Brooders for more than 20 years. Nearly 100,000 brooders are sold every year. Sunnypigs are made of stainless steel. Their three-level radiating sur face (a patented combination of ceramics, nickel chromium mesh and directional fins) is an efficient generator of radiant heat. They come equipped CHOOSE A DOWNGOING HEAT CHOOSE SBM BROODERS CATTLE - HOG POULTRY EQUIPMENT 2754 Creek Hill Rd., Leolo, PA 17540 PHONE - 717-656-4151 J- T .< Kaylor surveys the conservation accomplishments on his farm in North Ann ville Township. 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