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Carroll SCD receives presidential award
WESTMINSTER, Md -
The Carroll Soil Con
servation District in
Maryland received an award
for energy efficiency from
President Carter Monday, at
a White House ceremony
Wilson Eippy, board
chairman, will accept the
award in recognition of the
district’s outstanding ac
complishments in promoting
no-till farming, a fuel and
soil saving practice
The district is one of 128
organizations in
agricultural, residential and
transportation areas to be
recognized under the
President’s energy ef-
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717 656-4151
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Rt 113, Box 200
Silverdale, PA
215 257-5135
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Rte 519-N off Rte
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ficiency awards program It
was nominated by the U S
Soil Conservation Service
According to Gerald
Calhoun, SCS state con
servationist, the Carroll
District is an outstanding
example of conservationists
who knew a good thing when
they saw it, practiced it on
their own farms and
promoted it in the com
munity ’
Basically no-till is
planting without plowing A
hay or small grain crop is
killed off by a herbicide in
the spring Then a special
no-till planter is used to slice
an incision in the ground
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deposit seed and fertilizer,
and then cover it back up
with soil The hay stubble
protects the soil from
erosion and conserves
moisture
Because fewer trips are
needed across the field, no
till can save up to 80 percent
of the fuel needed with
conventional tillage Erosion
can be cut by up to 90 per
cent
The District began
pi omoting no-till farming in
the early 1970 s Since then
the amount of cultivated
land in no-till has jumped
from practically none to
over one-third of the 88,000
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215-273-3131
215-273 3737
HENRY S. LAPP
RDI, Cams, Gap. PA 17527
717-442 8134
215 593 6731
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RD2, Watsontown, PA 17777
717-538-5521
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RFD 2, Chambersburg, PA
717-254-9588
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Rt 2, Newville, PA
717-776 7533
acres cultivated for corn,
soybeans, and small grain
last year Another ap
proximately 37,000 acres
was planted using minimum
tillage techniques
In the past three years
alone in Carroll County, the
switch to no-till has resulted
in a savings of ap
proximately 268,000 gallons
of fuel worth about $282,000
Minimum tillage can save
about half the amount of fuel
as no-till
The board first started
promoting no-till in 1974 with
an article in its newsletter
and at farm meetings The
real shot in the arm came in
Box 121, RDI
Myerstown, PA
717-933-4758
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981—D21
1976, however, when they
bought a Zip strip no-till
pasture seeder The Zip
planter was rented for a
nominal fee so farmers could
try no-till on a limited
acreage before investing m
the equipment.
So successful was that
venture, the District pur
chased and began renting
out a 10-foot wide no-till
seeder for planting small
grains, pasture and hay
crops, and soybeans in May
1980
The District board also
nrnmotf'd through
Drought emergency
kit available
HARRISBURG - To aid
residents of areas in Penn
sylvania where drought
emergencies have been
declared, the Department of
Environmental Resources is
making home water con
servation kits available at
cost to public water sup
pliers tor resale to their
customers
Delivery began last
Wednesday, ot JOOO kits
ordered by water suppliers
after DER announced in
November that they would
become available DER has
an additional 5000 kits in
stock to help till tuture or
ders
DER is mailing sampling
kits to drought area water
supplieis that have not yet
taken advantage of the otter
The kits include a tlovv
lestnctor tor the shower,
two water displacement
devices tor toilet tanks, two
dye tablets tor detection of
leaks in toilet tanks, and
instructions on installation
and use ot the devices and
tablets
Installing these devices
will save the average
customer from 12 to 1J
gallons ot water pei peison
daih without requmng any
example. For instance,
Lippy, who farms 6000 acres
with his father and three
brothers, uses no-till and
chisel plowing extensively
on his com and soybean
acreage
The Lappys also use other
soil and water conservation
practices including contour
strip-cropping, grass
waterways and tile
drainage
They cooperate with the
state wildlife administration
in allowing the public to hunt
free by permit on their land.
change in water use habits,”
explained John McSparran,
director of DER's Bureau of
Resources Programming.
Under most rationing
plans now in effect,
customers are limited to 40
gallons of water daily per
person. Since the average
per capita use is about 50
gallons per day, using these
conservation devices is a
painless way of reducing
water consumption while
coming into compliance with
rationing restrictions,
McSparran noted.
in addition to saving on
water usage, the devices
should result in a savings of
about $65 annually on the
typical household energy bill
from reduced hot water use
Customers should contact
their local water suppliers
tor more information on the
kits