Al2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7,1984
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work in saving and helping
animals.
Anyone having animals of any
kind should keep this phone
number handy White Rose Animal
Shelter 845-4221. If for any reason
you should need a tranquilizer gun
to aid an animal, don’t hesitate to
call Mr. Aaron T. Smith 848-7685
Evacuation plan raises questions
On Tuesday night, March 20, I
attended the meeting at Owen J.
Roberts School about radiation and
the Limerick Evacuation plan for
farmers. During the presentation I
became quite exasperated and
raised a lot of questions.
The things I had heard there kept
bothering me, so I talked to friends
about it and tired to figure out,
while doing my daily work and
chores, what this whole evacuation
business really meant. I tried to
figure out how I could shelter the
cows, the beef and the pigs, how to
minimize the ventilation, how to
protect the stored feed, how in the
case of an accident I would drive
off with my family amidst
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He is dedicated to helping animals
and came to my aid immediately
(after I found out who to contact).
Thanks again White Rose
Animal Shelter. I wish you success
in your search for a bigger
building.
Richard Dennis Family
R 2 Spring Grove
thousands of other people to one of
these mass care centers, leave my
family there, go to the County
Agricultural Agent to get my
certification and the anti-radiation
drug (KI), put on double clothing,
wear respiratory protection, go
back to my farm, do my chores,
return to my family being in a
pretty unstable setting, come back
to my farm twelve hours later and
do this for nobody knows how long.
I would milk and then have to
dump the milk (I couldn’t store my
milk for 60 days and the guy from
the milk truck would surely not be
around anymore!), would watch
my animals get sick (and the vet
wouldn’t be around either!), would
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see the crops get spoiled (I
wouldn’t have time to look after
them) and later even the topsou
might have to be removed. There
wouldn’t be much left, would
there?
At this point I simply had to stop,
it just grew above my head and
then I started to ask the real
question; What for? What is all this
evacuation planning for? What is it
for that they put a nuclear power
plant amidst our land and we have
to worry for the rest of our lives
about an accident and its con
sequences of sheltering,
evacuation, decontamination,
possibly even losing our land and
animals, not to speak of our health.
What do these guys from PE think
they can dump on us farmers?
They’ll have to give us a lot of
good reasons why them put up a
nuclear power plant and have us
live with the consequences.
For me, that’s really immoral to
draw up this weird scenario of an
evacuation in all its details, count
on an accident as a real possibility
(otherwise they wouldn’t plan for
it) and then still to go ahead with
the building of a nuclear power
plant.
Do we really have to swallow
this? I think we have enough with
droughts and floods, and I can deal
with them because as a farmer I
have chosen to live with things like
this. But to deal with the sort of
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Even if the responsible people in
PE might not care about us farm
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our mouth and tell our County
Agricultural Agent or our local
township people, that we don’t
NEDCO session
STOUCHSBURG - An update of
the dairy situation will be the
major topic of discussion by
directors of Northeast Dairy
Cooperative Federation, Inc.,
(NEDCO), and its member
cooperatives, including Cleona.
The meeting will be held at
Risser’s Restaurant, Route 422,
Stouchsburg, Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The session will be open to all dairy
farmers in the area.
Speaker at the meeting will be
William Douglass, NEDCO
Director of Education. Chairman
of the meeting will be Leon
Musser, Lewisburg, NEDCO
Director.
This meeting is one of a series of
about 19 that are scheduled for
New York and Pennsylvania under
the sponsorship of NEDCO to
provide an opportunity for all milk
producers to become better in
formed about the changing dairy
industry.
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Kimberton, Pa.
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Take lime to be safe and not sorry.
To Control
Wild Garlic
Dairy farmers who pasture their
milking herd have the most to lose
if they do not eliminate wild garlic
from their pasture fields. This fast
growing wild onion is alreauy
growing in pastures and other
grass areas. The young plants are
much easier to kill with herbicides
than mature plants. We suggest
that the plants be sprayed very
soon with 2, 4-D. This has proven
effective in keeping the young
plants from maturing; by spraying
early in the spring the legumes in
the pasture area will not be in
jured. Since the wild garlic plant is
very well rooted, it may take
several sprays over a period of two
or more years to eliminate the
weed from the area. Don’t wail
until the plants are mature to
make this spray application.
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GROWERS
Now is
the Time
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