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
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When you use Furadan insec
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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
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iver the untreated acreage.
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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
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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.
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