A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 23,1981
Soil stewardship panorama
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Recently turned earth in the foreground, a of Soil Stewardship Week. During the coming
farmstead on the horizon and work on the land week, everyone should pause to recognize
between them. What does it all represent? It's these stewards of the soil and the contribution
a Lancaster County panorama of the meaning they make to the sustenance of life itself.
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Foliage appearing on the trees frames this mankind. While only one week in the spring
pastoral setting of a country church. As Soil commemorates this most important of toils,
Stewardship Week begins Sunday, many «>® stewardship efforts and their results can
messages will be directed in honor of those be found throughout the year.
who work the land for the benefit of all
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Shropshire ram
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ram was entered on test by Mrs.
Paul Kelly, Hartstown. This ram
was the second fastest growing
Suffolk on test. Dana Kelly had the
second high indexing Suffolk.
The fastest gaining record for
this year’s Suffolks was turned in
by a ram owned by William
Abrams. This ram’s record of 1.33
pounds ADG tied the record for
gains in the breed set in 1977 by a
ram owned by William Gardner.
Ovine Alley had the top indexing
and second fastest growing Dorset
in this year’s test. The ram is
owned by Kenneth and Ann Staver,
Palmyra.
The second high indexing Dorset
and the fastest gaining ram is
owned by Brian Zerby, Knoxville.
The record high gain for Dorscts
was established by a Penn State
ram in 1979 with a gain of 0.89
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included installation of the steam
fired generator to provide
processing plant electricity. Heat
from the generator’s turbine
produces steam for cooking the
apple products.
During the second drying phase
for the pomace, to which the DER
grants are being applied, the firm
also hopes to recover food products
and processing materials for
reuse.
The final phase of the project
involves conversion of the
cogeneration system to use the
pomace as a non-critical,
renewable fuel source. The
company has said that it intends to
seek federal, funding from the
Department of Energy to help"with
financing.
According to Jones, the second
Photo contest
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second prize and $2O honorable
mention. That’s a total of nine
prizes worth $3OO.
The contest continues from now
until Friday, June 26 To be
eligible, photos must have been
received in the Lancaster Farming
Office by that date. Winners will be
selected by an independent
professional photography
representative and announced in
the first issue in July.
Content of the photos will be the
primary consideration in the
judging. But the photos must be
clear enough to permit
reproduction. Both black and white
and color photos are eligible. They
must be at least snapshot size.
Winning photos will be published
in Lancaster Farming. Entrants
Nature conservancy
elects officers
PHILADELPHIA - The
Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of
The Nature Conservancy, a
national land-conservation
organization, announced the
election of new officers and
trustees.
At the Chapter’s annual meeting,
held at the Conservancy’s
Lacawac Sanctuary near Lake
Wallenpaupack, Thomas Dolan IV
of Philadelphia was re-elected
chairman and Fred R. Studer of
Lackawanna County was re
elected vice chairman.
Also elected were Edmund
Thayer, Jr. (Chester County),
secretary; and Dorrance R. Belin
(Lackawanna county), treasurer.
Newly elected as Trustees were
Thayer, William L. McLean 111
(Montgomery County), and
Richard L. Erdmann (Delaware
County) Incumbent Trustees were
pounds per day.
Of the Corriedale rams on test,
top indexing and fastest gaining
entry is the ram owned by Joseph
M. Stowell, Holidaysburg. The
ram’s ADG is 1.12 pounds. Coming
in second is a ram owned by
Charles McCrae, West Reading.
Gary Kwisnek, Clarksburg, was
the only breeder entering a
Southdown ram on test. The ram
demonstrates the scale and size
Southdown breeders are looking
for, according to Bob Kimble, head
of the Test, Station. The ram’s
“excellent” ADG was 0.88 pounds.
Participating in the test were 18
Suffolk rams, 5 Dorsets, 4
Corriedales, 3 Shropshires, and 1
Southdown.
The rams will be sold at the
Performance Tested Ram Sale on
June 6, Meat Animal Evaluation
Center, 651 Fox Hollow Road, State
College at 2 p.m.
DER okays
grant otfer to Adams County on
behalf of the Knouse project is
being made from interest funds
which have accumulated from the
investment of the $4 million that
had been appropriated by the State
Legislature.
Six resource-recovery projects
have been funded thus far by DER.
If this second $300,000 Knouse
grant is accepted, Jones said,
available funds would total only
$700,000.
In signing the new grant offer,
Jones called the project “a perfect
example of how industrial
research and know-how can join
with government efforts to solve
environmental problems.
"If this system works,” he said,
"it could be adopted by other food
processors to help alleviate a
serious waste disposal problem
while also cutting fossil fuel use.”
wishing return of their photos
should include a stamped, sell
addressed envelope with entries.
Each photo should be ac
companied by the name, address
and telephone number of the en
trant and the category in which it
is entered. Only printed photos will
be accepted - no slides or (tran
sparencies.
Please, include a Lancaster
Farming mailing label with all
entries- Youngsters should use
their parent’s label.
So, let’s see your favorite dairy
photo Send it to:
PHOTOCONTEST
Lancaster Farming
P.O. Box 366, Lltitz, Pa. 17543
re-elected as follows: John
Eastlake (Lycoming), C. Allen
Sachse (Lackawanna), and Lane
Taylor, Jr. (Philadelphia).
The Nature Conservancy is a
national, non-profit organization
dedicateid to the protection of
ecologically significant land.
Founded in 1951, the 100,000-
member group has protected 1.7
million acres of valuable natural
land through approximately 2,400
separate projects. The Con
servancy retains and manages
over half the, natural areas it
acquires, which constitute the
largest privately-owned network of
nature sanctuaries in the United
States.
The address of The Nature
Conservancy’s Eastern Penn
sylvania Chapter is 1218 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The
telephone number is 215/925-1065.
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