E2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5,1983
HARRISBURG - “Effective
conservation measures need not be
expensive” explains Joel Myers,
District Conservationist with the
Soil Conservation Service in
Dauphin County.
Myers, who recently spoke to
Earth Moving Contractors at the
Pennsylvania Land Improvement
Contractors Annual Meeting, as
well as Earth Moving Contractors
in Dauphin County, points to
Dauphin County’s leadership in
innovation conservation.
During the past several years;
Myers and Sand Swank, Soil
Conservation Technician, have
been utilizing farm equipment and
ADVANCE
AUCTION NOTICE
Reserve Tues. March 29 for
PIRRUNG'S SPRING AUCTION
OF FARMER OWNED MACHINERY
at Cohocton, New York
Plan to consign your machinery to this
established marketplace!
For details contact:
Pirrun g Auctioneers, Inc.
716-728-2520
Watch For Further Ads!
PUBLIC SALE
MACHINERY - SOME FURNITURE
TUESDAY, MARCH 15
At 9:00 A.M.
Located in Mifflin Co., 3 miles Northeast
of Belleville, Pa., on Maple Grove Road.
FARM MACHINERY
I.H. 10 h.p. lawn tractor rebuilt engine w/48 in.
mower. White 2-50 dsl. tractor w/W.F. run 600
hrs.. Allied hyd. loader w/fork and 6 ft. bucket,
Oliver 1655 dsl. tractor w/W.F. run 2300 hrs.,
I.H. 300 gas tractor runs good, I.H. cultivators,
I.H. 3-16 in, auto reset plows, Oliver 10 ft.
transport disk, I.H. No. 401-12 ft. harrow, J.D.
10 ft. cultipacker, J.D. No. 8250-13 disk gram
drill like new, I.H. No. 56-4 row corn planter
w/insecticide hoppers, N.I. No. 213 beater
spreader w/gate used 3 yrs., N.I. No. 323 com
picker, Hesston No. 7020 Harvester w/single
row corn head, N.H. No. 23 hopper blower, J.D.
No. 16-A flail chopper, Papec and Clay self
unloading wagons, gravity wagon, 2 bale
wagons, N.H. No. 273 baler w/thrower, Hesston
7 ft. haybine, N.H. No. 450-3 pt. mower, N.H.
No. 258 Rola Bar Rake, N.H. 36 ft. Elevator
used 2 yrs., 3 pt. post hole digger,
Katolight2s K.W. generator, sleigh, old 1 horse
manure fork, old cutting box, 3 round bay
feeders, bam fogger, feed carts, Stewart
dippers, 2 electric fencers, fence supplies, com
shelter, 36 ft. aluminum ext. ladder, 2 hyd.
cylinders, portable air compressor, shallow
well pump, */2 in. electric drill, pipe threader
and cutter, Handy Man Jack-hyd. jack, grease
guns, digging iron, forks, shovels, some shop
tools and misc. farm items.
3,000 Bu, Ear Corn
FURNITURE & BUTCHERING ITEMS
Sale will start w/household; 2 copper kettles, 3
iron kettles, 2 sausage stuffers, hog hangers,
butchering table, butter churn, Jim Dandy
floor safe, buffet, library table, jelly cupbaord,
2 old cupboards, wardrobes, 2 dressers, chest
of drawers, school desks, 3 beds, crib and
mattress, playpen, old driving lantern, and
rrusc. items, some old.
Terms-Cash Lunch At Sale
MR. & MRS. JOHN W. SPICHER
R. D. #2
Belleville, Pa.
Mark Glick - Auctioneer
Terrace plow cuts conservation costs
. * soil losses per sere 3re costing ss fcctivG conservstion prscticcs
a new terracing plow in their ef- methods. Average costs tor much ag ?100/acre year> contact the Harrisburg Field
forts to install effective soil con- diversions were 40 terraces, diversions and water- Office of the Soil Conservation
servation practices at reduced waterways 24 cente r f f oo * v 3? ways are insurance against such Service at 75 So. Houcks Rd., Suite
costs. represented savings of over 70 tQ a farmer . For fttrth er 301, Harrisburg, Pa. 17109, or
Since a terrace plow demon- cents P er J°“ ® f t f water information concerning cost ef- phone (717) 652-7035.
stration in the fall of 1981 at the over 85 cents per foot for water
tractor and moldboa P am j some instances heavy
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plete the job. Previous con- acceptable levels throughout
struction costs had exceeded $l.OO Dauphin County The cost o f these
oerfoot practices may be surpismgly low
Myers and Swank were not depending on the actual con
satisfied with just building struction technique required. He
terraces. Diversions as well as indicated that several farmers
grassed waterways are also have been able to complete the
essential practices. During 1982, entire conservation needs on their
several diversions and waterways fa ™ by doing their own work,
were constructed using alternative Myers added that when annual
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