A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3,1981 Lebanon ASCS names 1981 comity committee LEBANON Farmer have recently selected representatives from their respective communities to serve as community com mitteemen for the Lebanon County Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation Service during the elections. Community committee POTTSTOWN - When a bragging relative or neighbor tells you about the money he saves by heating his house with wood and urges you to do the same, do some serious thinking before you do. According to the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Environmental Resources, although the possible savings may look great, wood heat may not be for you. Let’s look at costs first. Cheap stoves can be bought for |lOO, but to be safe a good airtight stove or fireplace insert will cost $3OO to $BOO. A chimney is required. It is possible to use the fireplace chimney or the chimney for your present furnace if you Farm Calendar (Continued from Page AlO) Dover Young Farmers, High School ag room, 7:30 p m Speakers are Steve Fisher, FMC, on insect control; and John Mit chell, Ciba-Geigy, on weed control. Wednesday, Jan. 7 Farm tax meeting, Lan caster Farm & Home Center, 9:30 a.m -3 p.m. Maryland State DHIA, Sandy Cove, North East, Md.,10 30 a m. Manor Twp., Lancaster County, ag preservation meeting, Hambnght Elementary School, 7:30 p.m. Pepper growers meeting, Union Grove School, Terre Hill, 7 30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 7th Annual Mid-Atlantic No- Till Conference, Host Farm Resort, Lancaster, 9:30 a.m Southeast Pennsylvania tax members serve for a term of one year. The committee members inform farmers of programs, policies, changes of program provisions, report disaster conditions, damage assessments, recommend emergency measures, verify in formation, and assist the county committee in any Does wood heating really pay? discontinue using it for the use of your furnace. For safety reasons, furnaces and stoves should have separate chimney flues. If a new chimney is needed, this will cost $3OO to $5OO minimum. If you expect to cut the firewood yourself, a chain saw is needed. The smaller saws cost about $BO and can be used for cutting and trimming small trees, but for cutting larger trees, a saw will cost $l5O to $4OO. Needed with the saw are such items as extra chain, sharpening files plus the gas and oil to operate the saw. Once the wood is cut, it must be hauled home. It can be earned in the trunk of a car or m the back of a station meeting, Collegeville Inn, Collegeville, 9 30 a.m -3 p.m Friday, Jan. 9 Farm tax meeting, Country Cupboard Restaurant, Rt. 15, Lewisburg, 9 30 a.m.-3 p.m Pa. Farm Equipment Manufacturers’ Farm Show meeting, Harding’s Restaurant, Gettysburg Rd , Camp Hill, 6 p.m. Pa. Egg Marketing Association, Sheraton Conestoga, Lancaster, 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10 New Jersey Holstein, Watchung View Inn, Somerville, N.J. other duties assigned to them. Following election, the community committee serve as delegates to elect the county committee. They serve a three year term For 1981, they have elected John Stick, R 6 Lebanon as chairperson; Edward Krebs, R 1 Grant v>!!e, vice-carman: Henry wagon, but only a small amount can be carried safely. Some type of truck or trailer is recommended. Once it’s home, it will be necessary to split the wood. This can be done with an axe or wood maul with the aid of a splitting wedge and sledge hammer. The cost for these items is another $5O. If you own a woodlot or if you have a relative or good friend that owns a woodlot, you may not have to worry about a wood supply. Otherwise, getting low cost firewood may be a problem. VR Seeds Leave Bin beans are jusHm bastes., B out losers. In the long and ihott Eower and management control. F ave no way of Knowing how many v acre. How many will even germinate or perform and under what conditions. How could you sibly know what your crop is costing you per acre '. jO, the best thing is to sell your bin beans ancTget your money. Then start fresh with vigorous VR Seeds. Every single lot of VR Seeds is tested in our own laboratories (how many soybean seed companies even have laboratories) under the growing conditions preva lent m your area. That’s how we determine VR Seeds vigor rating. And that’s why, when we say 90% germination, that’s what you get. And our recommended population per acre is somethingyou can count on even if it seems too good to be true. Remember, VR Seeds only have to out-yield bin beans one bushel per acre to pay for themselves. It’s no contest. VR Seeds set the standard for the soybean seed industry ten _ ago when we introduced Vigor Rated® Seed and we’re setting them tot Vigor Rated®. What do you think the “VR” stands for? Call 800-348-2405, Toll Free, (Indiana 800-552-2326) for the name of your nearest VR Dealer. And, if we don’t have one in vour area, we’d like to talk to you about becoming a VR Seed Dealer. VR SEEDS o /^^■SF£os ***** Royer, Prescott Rd., Lebanon, regular member; Mark Ruhl, R 1 Lebanon, first alternate; and Ken Blatt, R 1 Jonestown, second alternate. Community Committee members are as follows: Community 1 Heidelberg Donald Bollinger Millcreek Vernon Balmer Walter Heisey Warren Bucher Richard Haller Community 2 So Lebanon Cyrus Wood can be cut on public lands such as State Forest lands, however, the closest areas of State Forest land are in the Poconos or west towards Chambersburg. If the wood is bought on the market, it will sell for $BO to $l2O per cord, depending upon where you live. It is expected that this price will increase in the coming years as the demand increases and the supply changes. The average home will require five to eight cords of wood for total heat. The average woodlot in this area m Bomberger N Cornwall Frank Reist Jr W Cornwall Elwood Houser Cornwall Boro Ivan Parker Ronald Kelchner Community 3 So Anmville John Alger S Londonderry Ealr Weidler Timothy Tyson Henry M Berger G Elmer Ungemach Community 4 N Annvtlle Elvin M Hostetler N Londonderry Lawson Hemperly Sr Lynn J Struphar Eugene C Hostetler David Finkbmcr Community 5 N Lebanon Kenneth W Blatt Swatara Dame! H Light Jeffrey Werner Michael J Arnold J Edgar Gish Pommi mt} 6 Unmn Clair H Ger will grow about one-half cord per acre each year. This means that if you expect your woodlot to supply your entire heating needs for many years to come, you will need 10 to 15 acres. However, if using wood as a supplement to gas or oil, then less wood will De needed. One final aspect should be considered. No matter what your neighbor says, cutting, hauling, splitting and lifting firewood is very heavy and tune consuming work. If you have access to the bench Cold Spring Anthony Baal George Rauch Clair D Wagner Jason Propst Jr Community 7 Bethel Delmas Hernley Ray Sattazahn Earl Ziegler £earl Swemhart Dennis Seyfert Community 8 Jackson J Clyde Bowman Harold Grumbme Roy Miller Warren Krall Gordon Layser Community 9 E Hanover Dennis Hetrick Thomas Shuey David Hostetter Richard J Batz Community 10 Mtllcreek Marlin Bennetch M Luther Bennetch Malcolm Sonnon HaeuEberly Paul Bollinger wood, can afford the stove and die accessories needed, are in good health, and have tune to cut and haul wood, heating with wood can be very beneficial and rewarding. If you cannot meet these demands, the Bureau of Forestry warns that trying to heat with wood could be a costly and painful mistake. For more information, contact the Department of Environmental Resources, Bureau of Forestry at Route 23, R 4 Potts town, 19464, Area Code 215/469-6217. / „ * s' f
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