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Calendar
Today, April 18
National Trotting Pony Sale, Farm
Show Complex, Harrisburg.
Monday, April 20
Pa. Sheep & Wool Growers
Meeting & Pool Sale, Penn
State, concludes tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 21
Delmarva Poultry Boosters
Banquet, Wicomico Youth &
Civic Center, Salisbury, Md.
Solar & Wind Energy Meeting, 8
p.m., Myersdale Area High
School, 8 p.m.
All-Grange Banquet, 7 p.m.,
Hershey Convention Center,
meeting begins at 1:30 p.m.
Blue Mountain 4-H Club, 7:30 p.m.,
Adams Electric Co-op Bldg., 204
W. King St., Shippensburg.
Penn Manor Young Farmers
meeting on fly control.
Bradford County Conservation
District, 7:30 p.m., Ulster Fire
Hall.
Wednesday, April 22
Northeast U.S. 4-H Conference,
AUenberry, Boiling Springs
N.Y. State Calf Sale, State
Fairgrounds, Syracuse, N.Y.
FFA Area Speaking Contest, Penn
Manor High School, 1 p.m.
Thursday, April 23
Pa. Poultry Federation Fund
Raising Banquet, 6 p.m.. Host
Farm, Lancaster.
Quarter Horse Sale, Farm Show
Complex, Harrisburg.
Brownstown FFA Banquet, school
cafeteria.
New York State Holstein Sale,
State Fairgrounds, Syracuse,
N.Y.
Bradford-Sullivan County Far
mers’ Assn., 7:45 p.m.,
Monroeton Fire Hall.
Friday, April 24
PFA political action committee
meeting, 6 p.m., Sheraton
Harrisburg Inn.
York County Farmers’ Forum
Meeting, 7 p.m., Rutler’s
Restaurant, Red Lion.
Saturday, April 25
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Letters To
The Editor
Dear editor:
Your recent comments on
confinement housing for livestock
were, to say the least, disap
pointing. For an editor with a gang
buster’s and grab the bull by the
horns approach to writing, your
April 11th editorial barely slapped
the issue with a wet dishrag.
I’m still reading your article and
trying to figure out whether you’re
walking down the fence rail or,
having chosen an unpopular view,
are skirting the issue.
If you’ve been bitten by the
nostaliga bug fine. I find
galloping through green meadows
and spring's breeze fragranced by
warm earth a lofty high even
though the meadow’s in housing
lots now.
However, if you’re a Dr. Fox
disciple, what can I say? The Fox
mentality supposes an ability to
translate an animals “feelings”
into human terms. The ability to
understand an animal is indeed a
true gift and as such, I will ha u e
to see Fox interacting with
livestock to even believe he knows
what he thinks he knows.
It’s not easy to trust a Doctor of
Animal Science who likes his
veggies better. I strongly suspect
Fox is a Wolf m Sheep’s clothing.
Using lobster farming in Utah as
an example was a mce touch. You
Livestock Exposition, 8 a.m.,
Beef-Sheep Center.
Berks County Dairy Princess
Banquet, 6:30 p.m., Ag Center,
Leesport.
10th Annual Wayne County Calf
Sale, Wayne County
Fairgrounds, Honesdale, noon.
Huntingdon County Holstein Club
heifer sale, Huntingdon County
Fairgrounds.
Lancaster County tree seedling
pickup, 9 a.m.-l p.m., Long
Park pavilion.
University of Delaware’s Ag Day,
Agriculture Hall, 10 a.m.-10
p.m.
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really scraped the bottom of the
ideal barrel. I can only assume the
initial was to tread lightly one local
farmer’s footsies, considering the
relevance of lobster farming to
your readership area.
By the way, do you think if the
caged lobsters were shown films of
scows dumping garbage etc. into
New England waters that the
lobsters would feel more at home?
You know there may be a time in
the future when farmers live in
condominiums. We’ll raise
chickens & rabbits on the balcony.
Anything larger would require a
spare den or bedroom (Hey Mom,
Bossy’s in the bathroom again!).
Forget about herds or the pasture
to graze them - as an old
philosopher once said “As goes the
hamster, so goes the caretaker." It
never made much sense ‘til now.
So, I’m urging you to speak your
mind and make it plain. What we
don’t need are more spineless
speakers for agriculture.
This letter is not just to the editor
but to all the fanners who are at all
concerned about their financial
future.
When President Reagan won his
first “great victory” in his war on
inflation by cutting the April first
price increase, I thought, well
that’s okay. We are producing too
much milk anyway. Maybe this
will be allnght.
However, I have had second
thoughts. 1 thought how did we get
in this mess anyhow 7 We had a
fairly good milk marketing
system.
We had a government subsidy to
stabhze the market when we had
surpluses from tune to tune which
not only protected the dairy far
mer but the consumer as well with
adequate food at reasonable cost.
So what happended? Food for a
weapon is what happened.
President Carter started the gram
boycott against Russia. Now
President Reagan continues this
same policy.
Therefore, where did the gram
go? Well, it has filtered down to the
dairy farm now. On its way it
fouled up the chicken, beef and hog
business.
Now our wise government of
ficials are going to write a new
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farm bill. They are saying cut the
price of milk still more, maybe
down as low as 60 percent parity.
We don’t want to pay for all this
surplus milk. These greedy far
mers must be controlled. Maybe
this is not what they are saymg but
from what I read it appears this is
what they are saymg.
If our government is going to use
food as a weapon, I don’t think we
the “weapon makers”, the far
mers should have to foot the total
bill.
While farming is a specialized
business and becoming more so,
you can’t severely penalize one
segment without eventually
hurting all segments of farming.
Cur farm exports have been
carrying our nations floundering
economy for the last several years
anyhow.
In conclusion any farmer who is
concerned about his financial
welfare should be writing his
congressmen and President letting
them know we are fed up with
being treated like vasals and serfs
by an arrogant and thoughtless
master.
Dear editor;
In reference to Mr Fasnacht’s
misstatements and distortions
concerning your editorial “Enough
is Enough,” which could have been
entitled “Enough is too Much,”
Mr. Fasnacht’s first distortion is
giving the impression, if not for the
Commission’s action of con
fiscation of these lands they most
assuredly would have disap
peared.
The truth is these lands would
not now be under dictatorial
power. Yes indeed, every acre
would still be here and in the Free
Enterprise System.
Next Mr. Fasnacht points to the
Pocono, Bedford and Somerset
areas as being developed on, shall
we say, marginal land. Whatever
he means he does not make clear,
clear.
Any wonder developers are
building where they are? The
Commissions’s confiscation
policies have to a great extent
forced them to these very areas.
Of course, according to Mr.
Fasnacht people need outdoor
recreational activities. To heck
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with housing needs. Housing is
only a luxury. Recreation is a
necessity.
Fasnacht tells us several statues
have been enacted as incentives to
keep land in agriculture. In spite of
this land is still being taken out of
production and developed, he
states. This of course contradicts
his earlier statement, concerning
the development of the hilly and
brushy Pocono, Bedford and
Somerset areas.
In reference to the Commission’s
Policy being supported by
Federation of Sportsmens Clubs,
this is merely a case of I’ll scratch
your back, you scratch mme-We
the Commission have the Power to
condemn and confiscate for those
who scratch our back.
Mr. Fasnacht’s line concerning
in-lieu-of-taxes is indeed
disgraceful. He best would have
zipped his lip on this. While private
owners are paying $2 per acre for
mountain land, I’d be dog-gone
embarrassed disclosing a paltry 39
cents per acre as a defense.
Users of Game Lands use the
roads leading to such lands and
these are services indeed. Stating
no services is a Fabrication.
Fasnacht cites the fact the
Commission sells timber. There
really is no great merit in that.
Private owners sell timber also,
adding income to the community.
Gene Kilby
R 1 Peach Bottom
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the plankton algae. When these
algae are overabundant we refer to
this condition as “bloom” in the
water. A bloom makes water
appear as pea soup. Then the
filmamentous (stringy) algae
show up as long strands or green
nets of plant material that often
form floating mats. Sometimes it
gets so thick as weather warms
that the name pond scum is ap
plied. The most effective acquatic
herbicides against the algaes are
those containing elemental copper.
With all chemicals applied to
ponds consider costs, precautions
and any required permits.
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