C3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 21,1981
Farmers fighting to hold soil
WASHINGTON, DC - This
time of year, farmers watch the
sky closer than usual on the Great
Plains of Colorado, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas and Wyoming
They’re looking for signs high
winds might kick up
In the wmter months and on
through May, the strong winds do
their worst to the land, sweeping
tons of topsoil away. It’s
sometimes called the big blow
season, a time when a replay of the
killing Dust Bowl of the mid-1930’s
is most likely to happen—if it ever
does.
There’s reason to believe it
won’t
Many farmers and agencies of
the U S Department of
Agriculture are trying to prevent
Adams Holstein Club
sets meeting plans
GETTYSBURG “The Adams
County Holstein Association has
made its 1981 membership goal of
125 members”, according to
Marvin Brown, State Director for
the club in his report to the Board
of Directors at their meeting last
Saturday at the home of Mr and
Mrs. John Hess, R 5, Gettysburg
President Adam Lobaugh
presided at the meeting He read a
letter of appreciation from the
Gettysburg Area Chamber of
Commerce, acknowledging par
ticipation in the Community Night
on Gettysburg College Campus,
January 31
He appointed Larry Mummert to
head a committee to prepare a new
exhibit for future use
Marvin Brown was named to
recruit a delegate to attend a
planning meeting for the 1981
South Central Championship Show,
held Friday at Carlisle
The Board agreed to support the
Adams County Fruitgrowers in
their effort to expand the Apple
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A special team effort of farmers
and the USDA’s Soil Conservation
Service is called the Great Plains
Conservation Program USDA
records show their achievements
are considerable, but they know
they have to do more
People still remember how
swiftly the country’s first national
dust storm turned the Great Plams
countryside into a Dust Bowl
nearly 50 jears ago The
catastrophe caught the victims by
surprise, although a Jack of
adequate conservation practices
had been laying the groundwork
for trouble a long time
Huge clouds darkened by Great
Plains topsoils headed east Sparse
rainfall in parts of Texas scarcely
slowed the soil’s flight to the
Atlantic Ocean, 2000 miles away.
Millions of acres of land were
stripped of plant nutrients Farm
Blossom Festival to Saturday and
Sunday May 2 and 3, at South
Mountain Fairgrounds.
County Agent Thomas E. Piper
read a letter from Kenneth Wisner,
Extension Agent, Frederick
County, Maryland, outlining a
possible dairy tour A committee
headed by John Hess will visit
these farms on March 11, to
organize the tour for July 30
The Dairy Princess pageant set
for Saturday, June 13, at Bigler
ville High School will be organized
by Dawn Bodenberg, Dons
Wilkinson and Cindy Zepp
A twi-light meeting is scheduled
for Tuesday, July 14, at a place to
be determined
President Lobaugh announced
that dairyman Harold King is re
building a barn destroyed by fire
He called for volunteers to assist in
placing the rafters
Plans were advanced for the
York-Adams Calferama Sale to be
held Tuesday, March 17, 7 30 p m
at Avalong Farms, York.
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families by the thousands packed
what belongings they could
salvage and left the Great Plains
“The Dust Bowl need not be
repeated,” said Norman Berg,
chief of the USDA’s Soil Con
servation Service With modem
conservation methods and ad
vanced agricultural technology,
farmers can put up a better fight ”
Berg said the Great Plains
Conservation Program
specifically aims to restore land
damaged by the dust storms of the
1930’s and to prevent a return of
the Dust Bowl
Under this program, Berg said,
469 counties in the Great Plams
states voluntarily practice ex-
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from the USDA, and local units of
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eligible for the assistance, Berg
said To qualify for the help, a
county must be designated by the
secretary of agriculture as
susceptible to serious wind
erosion.
Farmers taking part in the soil
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conservation plans to meet the
needs of each farm and move
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servation practice ranges from 50
to 80 percent. The landowners pays
the rest
President Eisenhower signed the
program into law in 1956 In 1980,
Congress extended the program to
September 30,1981, and authorized
$6OO million in overall cost-sharing
funds Altogether, cost-share
payments cannot exceed $5O
million for any program year
This program, said Berg, is
coordinated with other federal,
state and local governmental
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