D24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13,1980
What if you woke up some
morning to the newspaper
headline that the last farm in
the state had just been
purchased for a develop
ment - the last green acre
was being subdivided and
the entire place was now one
great big suburbia
That sounds far-fetched,
but it’s a real possibility
I heard farmers at a
farmland preservation
meeting in Dover recently
say that half the farmland in
Delaware is for sale light
now for the right price, and
that most of the rest will be
for sale eventually
I also heard farmers say
that there are already
thousands of acres in all
three Delaware counties that
are owned by developers
with subdivision plans
already approved Thej also
said that unless something
specific is done, Delawaie
wih jontinue to lose far
mland to development down
to the point where the last
faimis gone
COMPLETE DISPERSAL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27,1980
Located 1 mile from Route 220, just south of
New Albany, Pa. New Albany is between
Towanda and Dushore, Bradford County.
Arrows.
92 HOLSTEINS AND A FEW GUERNSEYS
Registered and High grade Holsteins, 7 Registered
Guernseys, 50 mature cows, 12 bred Heifers, 12
yearling Heifers (some big enough to breed), 18 started
heifers, 16 fresh since October 6, to freshen soon,
balance in various stages Presently making a ton
daily On DHIA test and AI breeding A young dairy - 5
years the oldest All raised by Mrs Sayman and
selected from the best neighboring dairies This free
stall dairy is very quiet All broke to lead Vet
examined and Inter-State Charts
Ford 5600 Diesel Tractor, air conditioned cab w/948
hours, AM-FM and CB radios and load monitor system,
has snow blade (this tractor looks about new), Ford
4000 gas w/front loader, Speedex 16 h p 3 pt #1632
tractor and front blade, Ford 140 3B 18” semi-mtd
spring reset plow; MF 10’ transport disc; Hesston 10’
hydra-swing wmdrower; NH #7lB chopper w/1 row and
pickup heads used 1 season, NH 56 rake; NH 3 pt
mower; NH 328 spreader with hydraulic end gate,
Gehl #l5OO big baler, Gehl bale forks, McKee 5 bale
hydraulic self-loading transport buggy, Gehl
unloading box and wagon; Hustler 56 PTO hopper
blower, MF back blade; MF 2 row planter, 3 pt fer
tilizer spreader; NI fertilizer sower; 2 flat wagons,
concrete mixer
• Badger 16’ Silo Unloader
• Badger Feed System w/80’ Conveyor & 30’
Distributor
• 2Mi ton steel pellet bin w/magnetic feeders
• 1968 Chevy Suburban 4 wheel drive 32,000 miles
• 30’ Corn and Alfalfa Silage
• 2 Ritchie double heated waterers
• Gemerac 30,000 watt PTO Generator
MILKING EQUIPMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS
Girton 650 round tank washer, Alamo 4M> h p
vacuum pump, fertilizer, seed oats, grass seed,
twine, air compressor, plow points, etc, etc, too much
to list
Only reason for this sale is Mrs Sayman’s poor health
Terms Cash or approved checks
Owners
FRED AND DOROTHY SAYMAN
Jim Adnance & Sons, Auctioneers
Montrose, Penna
717-278-1574
Farm
Talk
Jerry Webb
That’s frightening when
you look out ovei Delaware’s
open spaces and think about
the loss of food production,
open space and wildlife, and
the prospect of evei
widenmg spheres and strips
of suburbia That’s
Delaware, but it could be
any state, any county
Every time I lead about
another shopping center
being approved I cnnge,
because in my simple
agrarian mind 1 can t
imagine why consumeis
would be willing to give up
the productivity of a fertile
farm in exchange lor
another place to shop
It s particularly noticeable
in upper New Castle County
as you think back over the
past 10 or 20 years about the
open land that has been
developed
With present tiends in
Delaware it’s not at all hard
to project a futuie wheie the
open fields of lowei New
Castle, Kent, and even
Sussex will go the same way
11:00 A.M
MACHINERY
i’he governor’s advisoi y
committee on tarmland
preservation has issued a
draft copy of a report with
some recommendations on
preserving Delawaie far
mland
Public meetings were held
as a way of getting ad
ditional input before final
copy is turned over to the
governor But I heard far
mer members of the
governor’s committee say
that all they were hearing at
those meetings was the same
kind of talk they had already
heard among themselves as
they prepared the plan.
They feel more citizen
imput is required and that
the task of preserving tar
mland should be a broadei
one than it now seems to be
perceived
As I looked around that
Dover meeting I saw
familial taces, tanners who
are active in all kinds of
farm organizations The
presidents and board
members of almost eveiy
farm group from the Grange
and Parm Bureau to the
Delaware Swine Producers
and the Delaware
Agricultural Museum
Association
But where was the league
ot Women Voters ' The civic
association heads' The city
council presidents and the
real estate association
members'
It seems to me that
preserving Delaware s
farmland is tiuly
eveiybodys business and
it s in every body self interest
to see that a good job is done
A preservation plan must be
fan to the people who now
own the land and to the
people with urgent needs tor
that land But I just can’t see
how the job ean be put oft
SPECIAL HORSE
SALE
OF DRIVING HORSES
MONDAY, DEC. 15th
AT NEW HOLLAND
SALES STABLES, INC. IMS, *
12 Miles East of Lancaster,
Pa. just off Rt. 23 n
New Holland, Pa. j
These horses to be sold at 12:00 Noon
1 Load Saddlebred Driving Horses consigned
by Don Boring
1 Load Saddlebred Driving Horses consigned
by Milton Potter
1 Load Slandardbred Driving Horses consigned
by Bud Leonard
For more information Contact:
Abe Diffenbach. Mgr. Norman Kolb
717-354-4341 717-397-5538
much longei 01 left to
someone else
The tarmeis themselves
attending those meetings
were adament in at least one
point, and that is they want a
tarmland preservation act to
be administered at state
level They don’t seem to
trust county government to
do a tan and equitable job ot
adininisluiiig the pioposed
agucultural zones over a
penod ot time
Reflecting on cut rent
county zoning actions,
several fanu spokesman
said that it just wasn t
woiking, and there was no
leason to think a county
administered tarmland
pi eservation plan would
work any bettei
There needs to be a sti ong
and continuing dialogue
among all those interested
and concerned with
Delawaie s farmland,
culminating in a law that
will assuie a viable
agucultural base in that
small state A plan that w ill
allow toi good commeicial
farming units and the
needed commeicial and
residential development that
a thi iving economy requires
People don t want to be
cooped up in high-use
buildings or row houses, and
yet aguculture cannot
continue to accommodate
the i ural residents who want
two to five acies in the heait
ot agncultuial aieas Some
compromise must be
reached, and that s what the
advisoiy committees
preseivation plan is all
about
Maybe as one observer
pointed out, the nontarm
critics aie just waiting until
some kind of legislation is
dratted before they make
their feelings known, but by
then it may be too late A
legislature could draft and 1"^?
enact a bill that wouldn t /. A \| 11 *—J p, 4 *)
really please anybody unless
it gets plenty of imput . *
BEEF SALES
MONDAY -1:30 P.M.
THURSDAY-11:00 A.M.
Sale Order - Fat Bulls, Steers, Stockers and
Beef Cows
Veal Calves - 4:30 Thurs
NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES. INC.
Phone: 717-354-4341
Daily Market Report - Phone 717-354-7288
Abe Diffenbach, Manager
Field Representatives - Alan Diffenbach 717-656-9806
Luke Eberly 215-267-6608
PUBLIC SALE
OF NEARLY NEW 81-LEVEL HOUSE
Location; In village of New Danville, 3 miles
South of Lancaster off Route 324 at light to
Schultz Road to Krissy Drive on Donna Ave.,
Pequea Twp.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20
On lot app. 110x200 built in 1979. Bi-Level house with
brick front and balance with vinyl siding, 3 or 4
bedrooms, 2 baths (1 with double-bowls), dining, living
room & kitchen. All nice size. Stove included in kitchen.
One car garage w/macadam drive Elec heat
w/provisions for 2 wood stoves Carpet throughout
house Thermopane windows, and shade Rec room in
basement with room for expansion Well water & dram
field on lot
MELVIN J. GRAVER
10% down, bal. in 90 days. Inspection of property by
appt. 687-6544.
J. Everett Kreider “
Steve Petersheim, Aucts.
Peter Honaman, Atty.
Beautiful Country Setting
ROBERT GABLE AND FAMILY
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN SALE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18
Chaffee, NY. 35 mi. south of Buffalo, 5 mi
northwest of Arcade, 9 mi east of Spnngville on
Route 16,
85 Holsteins Sell, 79 Registered, 6 Grades
1 Excellent, 11 Very Good, 32 Good Plus, 11 Good. An
exceptional dairy of Registered Holstein cows
featuring a ‘VG-85” Pawnee Farm Arlmda Chief,
M.E. over 27,000 m 1,085 fat at 2 yrs., and bred to
Roybrook Starlite and under contract to a major stud.
Also a “GP-81” 3 yr. old with 271 d 24,440 4 5% 1,095 and
due back in 11 months to Breezewood Cadillac. An
“EX” cow with 237 d 15,147 3 6% 551 f and due to Triple
Threat Two VG-87” young cows, one M E over
19,000 m Two Pawnee Farm Arlmda Chief calves from
a tremendous cow family
Sires represented Elevation, Chief, Hilltop Apollo
Ivnnhoe, Bootmaker, Milu, Conductor, Pacemaker,
Whittier Farm Apollo Rocket, Apache, Willow, Flame,
Double Triune, Astronaut King, Ned, and Triple
Threat
20 head sell with records over 20,000. Herd average
10-26-80 86 5# 16,334 m 3 5% 576 fat.
TERMS: Cash or good check day of sale, nothing to
be removed until settled for.
CREDIT Available by contacting Ernie Morns,
Genesee Country Bank, Warsaw, NY Phone 716-786-
3195 prior to the sale
Owner, '
ROBERT GABLE & FAMILY
Chaffee, NY
WILLIAM KENT, INC.
Sale Manager & Auctioneer
Bergen, NY Ph 716-494-1890
if you have fat
i Cattle’or
need feeders...
THINK
lEW HOLLAND
1 P.M
Terms by,
at 12:30 P.M