A36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1982
Conservation field
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Loudspeakers blared country
music over the roar of farm
machinery while about 300 spec
tators roamed around Everett
Moser’s farm in Frederick County,
Md., last Friday watching con
servation practices being in
stalled.
The occasion was a conservation
field day, sponsored by the soil
conservation districts in Frederick
and Montgomery counties, the U.S.
Soil Conservation Service, Ex
tension Service, and Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service.
It was strategically timed, say
sponsors, to give area farmers a
chance to see what conservation
practices are and what they can do
before planting tune By the end of
the day, the practices that were
installed will decrease the annual
rate of erosion from over 20 tons
per acre to less than 4 tons.
Harry Fouche, a young, red
haired farmer, said he was
planning to install a diversion
terrace on a farm he's renting. He
admitted he waited for the field
day so he could see how it was
done.
“It’s really good to do these
things (conservation practices),”
Fouche said. “I used to do a lot of
custom work and some of them
(crop fields) needed it but didn’t
have it. We have to save our soil for
the future.
Like most farm events, there
was a feeling of fellowship and
camradene at the conservation
field day. People who came to
watch stayed to help out, reported
Catherine Gugulis, SCS in
formation officer.
Randy and Phillip Sowers, who
operate the host farm, were on
hand with equipment and labor.
Equipment dealers and other
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machines, supplies, and food. A
new quadractor, which looked like
an elevated dunebuggy, drew as
much attetnion as a 1948 diversion
plow renovated by high school
FFA students.
Volunteers on tractors with
plows hitched behind snaked
around hillsides, pushing up
mounds of earth and shaping them
into small ridges to form diversion
terraces. These shallow channels
will intercept runoff and dispense
it into a pasture below. The outlet
was nprapped with rock to prevent
erosion where the water exits.
“When I was 9 years old,” said
Fred Beachley, one of the tractor
operators,“the soil conservation
people laid out diversion terraces
on my daddy’s farm They put
those in with bulldozers. Putting
them in with tractors is a lot
cheaper.”
According to Owen Unangst, SCS
district conservationist, the cost of
plowing in diversions is about 25
cents per foot compared to $2 per
foot for bulldozing them in.
Another obvious advantage is that
landowners can install these
diversions themselves once they
have the contour lines. SCS
technicians will lay out the contour
line and supervise construction to
make sure that the grade is
correct, Unangst said.
In another corner of the field,
machines dug a trench for
drainage tile in a low, wet area. A
nearby spring was tapped and the
water fed into a new livestock
watering trough. As a result, this
once practically useless area can
be used as pasture. The trough will
provide the cows with a clean, safe
water supply. It will also keep
them from polluting a nearby
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interest at Md. farm
Fred Beachley, supervisor for the Catoctin, Moser farm last Friday. Conservation officials
Md. Soil Conservation District, helps plow in were demonstrating a number of cost-effective
one of the “island” diversion terraces installed conservation practices to encourage local
at a conservation field day on the Everett farmers to install them before spring planting.
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