026—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1962
State president
keeping your lelds in
agriculture,” Wolff claimed. He
added that the farmer is
benefittmg monetarily from the
dumping because he will not have
to use as much fertilizer. He stated
that many people are concerned
with the dumping, mainly for
sanitary reasons. Reassuringly he
pointed out, The land has been a
living filter for thousands of years
and I believe it will continue to be a
filter if we let it.”
A major concern of Wolff’s is
budget cuts from the federal
government. Wolff remarked,
‘‘Agriculture is going to have a
quarter of a billion dollar
problem.” He stated that since
1979 the agriculture budget has
decreased steadily from 27.9
billion to 23 billion in 1960, 17.9
billion in 1961 and predicted to drop
to 14 billion in 1982. Out erf the
possible 14 billion, ASCS’s share is
predicted to be very low, he said.
Adding to the monetary
problem, said Wolff is the fact that
the federal money is moving away
from the northeast agriculture
areas. The money is being targeted
towards areas with extensive
erosion problems mainly in the
Midwest.
“However,” said Wolff, “we the
farmers of the Northeast have
major problems with erosion,
water loss, ground loss which are
just as extensive as the mid
western problems. Therefore, I
encourage every farmer to write
or talk to his Congressman about
this problem and urge them to
fight for Pennsylvania aind nor
theastern farm land.
On the state level, Wolfi reproted
misgivings about the State En
vironmental master Plan. He
explained that, in the Master Plan,
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land is categorized in classes with
prime land being Class 1 and Class
2. Wolff emphasized that the
classification of prime land should
be discarded from the plan
because any land v iat produces
crops should be prune. He pointed
out the present plan considers land
that is hilly and stony as incapable
of producing productively and
therefore is not classified.
Wolff was skeptical of the plan
and raised the questions ‘‘What
produces quality fruit better than a
hilly, stray orchards in Franklin
and Adams counties? Who has
been farming rolling, hilly fields
for decades and harvesting
tremendous crops but farmers in
Cumberland County?” Wolff urged
the farmers to fight such
categorizations.
Charles Hogan, ASCS district
director, reviewed the 1981 ASCS
Annual Report and gave a
program update.
Several programs will no longer
be administered by the Cum
berland County ASCS Office due to
budget and program cuts, he
announced. There will no longer be
a wheat and feed gram disaster
program, however there will be a
feed crop insurance program to
take its place. Hogan urged all
farmers who were interested in
this new crop insurance to contact
the office by April 15.
Along with the disbandment of
the diaster program, the
emergency feed program and
farm storage and dryer equipment
loans will no longer be available.
Hogan remarked, ‘‘Regardless'
of the cut backs in the mentioned
programs, the Conservation
Service still has many programs
and services to offer the fanner,
rural and urban communities.”
Now...
Programs remaining on the list *
1982 are commodity loans, gram
reserve agreements, numerours
conservation programs, wool
incentive programs for shorn wool
and unshorn lambs.
Along with the individual con
servations services and assistant
program, the ASCS and Con
servation District office work
throughout the community en
couraging natural conservation
measures in rural and urban
communities.
In 1961 the conservation district
held their fourth annual seedling
sale where they sold and planted
seedlings throughout the county.
They celebrated a Resource
Stewardship Week during which
soil stewardship materials were
distributed to churches throughout
the county. And every year the
conservation group celebrates
Arbor Day in the county with
seedlings distributed to- schools
throughout the county.
ASCS and the Conservation
District also sponsor several
awards during the year, which
were presented at the annual
banquet
Wayne Baker, chairman of the
Cumberland County Conservation
District presented the 1961 Out
standing Cooperator Award to
Marlin Rook.
Rook was selected by .the
Cumberland County District Board
of Directors for his exemplary
conservation efforts strip far
ming, conservation cropping
systems, grassed waterways and
construction of towels and terraces
on his farm located in the Newville
area.
An annual event for ASCS and
Conservation District is the poster
contest for elementary school
children. The 1961 theme of the
contest was “What Water Con
servation Means to Me’’ First prize
went to Stephanie Pawich, a third
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