Streambank
stabilisation is
• temporary procedure
WEST CHESTER “Three
bedroom colonial overlooking
meandering stream. Ideal set
ting...everyone's dream home.”
Unfortunately, even a babbling
brook can become a raging torrent
following spring snow melt and
summer’s heavy rains. And,
eroding stream banks can be a
nuisance or a nightmare.
According to Tim Smail, soil
conservationist with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Soil
Conservation Service in West
Chester, streambank erosion is a
natural phenomenon and
therefore, virtually impossible to
stop.
Small says, “Our office gets
about 50 calls a year concerning
stream bank erosion problems. 1
generally tell people that
stabilization is costly and at best,
temporary. And, I’m not trying to
them. I’m just trying to
Vie realistic. All but the smallest
brooks will require some machine
time aadUa lot of hand labor. And,
there are many different practices
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announced Bureau of Markets
chief Jim Sumner.
He explained that one committee
will be looking into the mechanics
of upgrading the minimum
standards in milk. Sumner men
tioned the possible development of
a 10 percent solids milk but added,
“We’re open for suggestions.’’
A second committee will begin
fcploring a voluntary promotion
rogram with a matching dealers
hind.
“This will offer those farmers
not in a federal order the op
portunity to participate,” Sumner
explained.
Sumner said he expects at least a
dozen people to fill each com
mittee, with a first meeting an
ticipated next month.—DT
PUBLIC ALL
DAY AUCTION
Small grocery store & ice cream
store equip. & inventory, household
goods, antiques, some garage equip.,
tools, 2 classic cars, etc. (Owners
dicontinuing business)
Sat. Aug. 21
At 9 a.m.
— 9 miles N. of Williamsport,
Pa., IVz mile N. of Loyalsockville, along
Rt 87 near last chance saloon. Lycoming
Co.
Brief listing follows:
Jordan SS refrig, meat case; 2 chest ice cream
freezers; 2 Tokheim gas pumps (full price; )
cash registers; toledo scales; SS comm, sinks;
counters tops, bar, stools, shelving, etc. glass
showcases: store inventory; household goods;
used CB items: Coats air tire changer’ bubble
balancer; sgl. cyl. 20 gal. air compressor;
spark plug cleaner; 5 guns inc. JM Smythe 12
ga. 32” full choke sgl barrel hammer gun S/N
120; some sporting goods; 56 Packard Far
tician car loade, only 18000 miles; 63 Pontiac
convertible, nice; 63 Corvair Greenbrair van;
Trains. Inc. Berkshire 736 engine; 1955
trolly; 1688 Lionel torpedo; other cars; old
broad axe signed J. underbill; old odd unusual
hand adz marked Wm. Greaves & Sons, H 7;
nany other antique items, glassware, etc.
much more.
Auct. Note: Cars sold at 2 p.m. subject to owner
confirmation, everything else sells to highest
bidder. Guns 1:30 p.m. Owners, Richard &
(Susan Bird. Lunch-tent,
rraiey Auction Co.
1546-6907.
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which can be applied-each with a
varying degree of permanence.
Generally speaking, the more
permanent, the more machine and
labor time involved and the more
toe materials cost. Most projects
require permission from the Fish
Commission and the PA Depart
ment of Environmental Resources.
Some larger projects may even
require permits from the Army
Corps of Engineers.
“Even after measures are in
stalled, they require almost
constant inspection and main
tenance,” says Smail. “1 like to tell
'people, ‘You go to work during the
'day and to sleep at night. That
stream never takes a rest. It’s out
there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
just picking and hammering away
at the bank. You’ve got to check it
every spring and fall and after
Grange asks
pavilion onto the lake waters they
were told that the study on
Raystown Lake has been con
ducted over the past three years
and was submitted to the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
last September. They are still
waiting for a license.
When a license is secured the
work continues. Osborne
estimated a year for engineering
and designing of the plant,
followed by a 3-year construction
period.
In the case of Raystown, $600,000
worth of work has gone into ap
plying for a license. It will
probably cost $36,000,000 to put the
project in operation.
Raystown will eventually have
the potential to produce 77 million
kilowatt-hours per year. That
would supply 8,000 homes with
average electricity use.
Pennsylvania Senate Majority
leader Robert Jubehrer and House
Majority Leader Sam Hayes
NOTICE
SPECIAL COW SALES
«r new mnun sales sruus
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18,1882
At 12 Noon
1 load of hand picked purebred and
grade Holstein cows and heifers.
Sires include Clinton-camp Magesty,
Nellacres Joanna Senator. These cows are all
dose or fresh. Consigned by Leroy Smucker
and Duane Richard. H.D. Matz also has a load
of Canadian cows. 1 load of Fresh cows for J.F.
Smucker, Raymond Smucker and Merl
Brenneman. Don’t forget spedal sale Friday
night. Annual Hosltein Promotion, 125 head,
mostly purebreds, cows and Ist calf heifers. All
the ice cream you can eat after 6 P.M.
Sale starts at 7 P.M.
Catalogs night of sale.
New Holland Sales Stables, Inc.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
petition charging China with
deliberately expanding its
mushroom production to increase
imports to the U.S. was filed June
30, with the International Trade
Commission on behalf of the
American Mushroom Institute.
The petition, filed by Lewe
Martin, special trade counsel for
the AMI, states that China in
creased its mushroom production
despite full awareness of the U.S.
mushroom industry’s sensitivity to
every storm, and repair whatever
damage has been done. If you do
less than a full job you’re only
fooling yourself. And, if you don’t
maintain the work to protect your
investment, it may not be worth
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wrapped up the day-long outing by
expressing- the Thornburgh Ad
ministration's support for
hydroelectric power development.
House Bill 682 was passed in
June. If it receives Senate ap
proval, “hydro” projects would be
exempt from the 3 percent Public
Utility Reality Tax Act, during
construction periods and the first
10 years of operation.
Two other hydro-related bills
will be acted upon following the
lefislature’s summer recess.
House Bill 2006 would establish a
financing authority to make
funding possible. If House Bill 2055
is approved, the state would be
land owned by the Commonwealth.
The Grange concluded the
seminar by restating their position
that the state’s hydroelectric
potential continue to be studied
and developed.
Keystone
Pride
Pennsylvania Foo
Products Month
U 3
AMI urges import quotas
on Chinese mushrooms
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 14,1982—A39
imports. The petition was filed
pursuant to Section 406 of the
Trade Act of 1974 which provides
the president with the power to
impose quotas on imports from
communist countrys if those im
ports increase rapidly and cause
injury to the domestic industry.
The ITC will report its recom
mendations on the petition to the
president by Sept. 30. In the
petition, AMI urges that a quota be
placed on Chinese imports to keep
them at a level that would cause no
doing in the first place. You won’t
fool the stream. If there is a
weakness, the stream will find it
and break through your protective
measures.’”
Farm Calendar
County,
Saturday
Annual Holstein Association of
America staff conference,
Nittany Lion Inn, State College.
Thursday, Ang. 19
continues
Middletown Grange Fair,
Wrightstown, Bucks County,
continues through Saturday.
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MNniflren
Two Great
Alfalfas
M Yields, winter-hardiness
J and Bacterial Wilt tolerance
are excellent
C r -J | High tolerance to anthracnose.
J Very fast recovery after harvest
Ask your C~> *7
Pioneer salesman V 'j
about the alfalfa /^o)
variety that’s right for pigMccp
your farm. L_ - J
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PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
EASTERN DIVISION, TIPTON, INDIANA 46072
See Us At Ag Progress Days
The Limitation of Warranty and remedy appearing on the
label is part of the terms of sale.
Pioneer is a brand name; numbers identify varieties.
trademark of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.,
Des Moines, lowa, U.S.A.
further injury to the domestic
mushroom industry.
Two months ago, in a report to
the president, the ITC said, “It is
our view that the domestic
mushroom industry continues t
suffer serious harm from import
competition.”
Rapidly increasing imports from
China are evident from govern
ment statistics. Imports of canned
mushrooms from China increased
from 17 thousand pounds in 1978 to
14.8 million pounds in 1980, prin
cipally because China was granted
lower duties under a trade
agreement effective Feb. 1,1980.
In 1981, China doubled its exports
to 27.4 million pounds by pricing its
exports to fife U.S. 17 to 37 percent
lower than prices charge by Korea
and Taiwan and underselling
domestic mushrooms by 17 cents
per pound.
Because the AMI believes that
these prices constitute an unfair
trade practice under the an
tidumping duty section of the
Trade Agreement Act of 1979, it
also will file a petition that could
lead to dumping duties being
assessed on imports from China.
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through
Mount Nebo Grange Fair, Ohio
Twp., Allegheny County,
continues through Saturday.
Garrett County Holstein Sale,
Garrett County Fairgrounds.
Friday, Aug. 20
Northeast Pa. Championship
Black & White Show, 9 a.m.,
Troy Fairgrounds.
Saturday, Aug. 12
Central Pa. Holstein Cham
pionship Show, Huntingdon
Fairgrounds.