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
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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
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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.
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