TERRE HILL - The Eastern Lancaster County Adult Fanner Program will sponsor three meetings during the coming week at the Union Grove School, Terre Hill. The meetings include an educational session on Guaranteed Markets for livestock and crops on Tuesday evening; a Vegetable Growers meeting on Wednesday evening; and a Farmland Preservation session on Thursday evening. Speaker for the Tuesday meeting at 7:30 p.m., will be Marlin Miller NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN FILL THE SHOES? Try A Help Wanted Ad in Classified. Phone; 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164 * * - > : * *** < -■ * £✓>•■% '-v' * < ,< « * V- Some say, if it's not a Furadan® Insecticide stand, it's not a stand at And we can take a stand like this because Furadan has the results to back it up. When you use Furadan insec ticide at seeding, you'll have thicker, higher protein alfalfa. Once you put down Furadan insecticide your new crop will be protected from leafhoppers and blotch leafminers from the time it starts to grow. ®1983 FJMC Corooiaoon 3 Eastern Lancaster meetings this week from the Pennsylvania Farmer Association. PPA offers a program of guaranteed markets for livestock and crops to fanners in Pennsylvania along with a guaranteed price for future feed grain purchased. This program is of importance to farmers now that many banks are requiring a guaranteed market price before they will lend money in todays tight farm economy. - Speakers for the Vegetable Growers meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., will be Larry Yeager, marketing specialist with the Penn State Extension Service and Mike Orzolek, Vegetable Specialist. Orzolek will be discussing the growing of carrots, a crop that will be grown in the area this year by Beachnut Foods through the Conestoga Valley Growers Association. Yeager will be discussing the marketing of vegetable crops to maximize profits. leld tests with Furadan in jyfvania, Maryland and Virginia ved an average yield increase of re than ’/b ton an acre per cutting iver the untreated acreage. This year start your alfalfa off right. Plant with Furadan. And make a stand. From FMC Corporation, Agricultural Chemical Group, 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. HFIVIC Furadan 4F is a restricted use pesticide Follow label directions Furadan and fWC are registered trademarks of FMC Corporation Consult your State Agricultural Extension Department to see if Furadan is registered in your state. Are we running out of farmland? Between 1969 and 1878, Penn sylvania lost 150,000 Acres of farmland. During that same period, Lancaster County, the most productive non-irrigated farmland in the United States lost 21,600 acres of farmland. If the loss of farmland continues at that rate, Lancaster County could be running out of farmland. The Eastern Lancaster County Adult Farmer Program meeting on Farmland Preservation will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Speakers for the evening will in clude Jim Huber, Lancaster County Commissioner; Amos Funk, Millersville area fanner who has been active at the local, state, and national level on both farmland preservation and con servation; and David Watts, Administrative Director of the Lancaster County Farmland Preservation Board. They will be discussing the programs available Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 12,1983—A23 (Continued from Page Aid) wiring and weakening and fraying the outer protective covering.” Heat lamps pose a very dangerous fire hazard, and should never be used near combustible materials of any sort. Even barnyard creatures add an element of danger. Boyle says that he has seen electrical boxes totally filled with mud from the home building of mud wasps. Rodents, such as mice and rats, can become trapped between floors or walls, and chew electrical wires as a last resort for food. Rodent caused fires, though, are more common to private homes than to barns, Boyle believes. Spontaneous combustion, from to insure the preservation of farmland and agriculture in Lancaster County. The Union Grove School, Terre Hill, is located two miles north of Route 23 on Route 625. For further information on any of the meetings, contact Bob Anderson, Adult Farmer Instructor, at (215) 445-5041. Fire dangers stacked hay or straw that is too wet for storage, is not a major problem, but the fire marshall’s office does run across it as the cause of an occasional barn fire. “If you could bottle common sense, and sell it, we’d all be better off,” philosophizes Boyle. A 20 year veteran of the state police, half of that time in fire in vestigation, he shares his offices at York State Police headquarters with partner Robert DeWire. He laments the burning of the county’s landmark barns, which are irreplaceable in their craft smanship, materials and historic value. With a sigh, Boyle admits that looking at pictures of once beautiful barns, and listening to the owners reminisce about them, is both a personally and professionally frustrating part of his job. The Insurance Federation ot Pennsylvania maintains reward fund from which up to $5,000 will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of arsonists. Persons with information on arson suspects should call the Arson in Pennsylvania Hotline, 800-462-0322. "PRE-SEASON SPECIAL" FARM & DAIRY FLY BOMB * Contains Natural Pyrethrins That ~ =s Kill On Contact * A Little Goes A L. - Long Way. 2 LB. BOMB s 6.7seach We Can Ship VIA, p SSff' UPS, Freight Pre- liinrKt/ paid On A $20.00 JROIuK Order. torirn ZIMMERMAN’S - Along Wood Comer Road Why Store Your iraln in a BROCK REPUTABLE! DEPENDABLE! AFE! 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