A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Saptamber 15,1984 Bay cleanup (Continued from Page Al) their way into the Chesapeake Bay, lies half of the reason for the twin news conferences held Monday. The Dauphin County Con servation District also held its meeting on the Millersburg banks of the Susquehanna to launch its public fund drive for $350,000 to build a new Ag Center at the in tersection of Rts. 225 and 325 north of Dauphin. In a resolution passed by the District, a 13-member committee was created to oversee the fund drive, which will complement $250,000 already earmarked by the Dauphin County Commissioners. Members of the committee representing ag groups include RonaldKopp, Middletown; Wilmer Campbell, Halifax; Pat Baum, Elizabethtown; Bob Messick, Elizabethtown; Dwight Hoffman, Halifax; Jay Book and Richard Hann, Hershey. The new Agriculture and Natural Respources Service Center, to be built on land being donated by farmer Meade Det weiler, will contain meeting and office facoilities for the Con servation District, SCS, ASCS, Extension and others. And, following their riverside meeting, the Dauphin con servationists boarded the ferry with their counterparts from Perry and other nearby counties for the midriver address by Swartz on Pennsylvania’s approach to helping to clean up the Bay. In his talk, Swartz admitted that not everyone is in agreement with the continuation of a voluntary approach to get farmers to better manage their nutrients and prevent their runoff. A million dollars of first-year money put up by the State and Federal Government will go toward aiding farmers install Come One... Come A 11... jMfcdtjH And V\ / PICK YOUR OWN PEACHES! Available Now * Biscoe • Good Crop Available Now... 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LET MAR-ALIiN CONCRETE ‘The Concrete Specialists" ROSKAM Total Processed Rat THINK QUALITY • NOT QUANTITY Higher Butterfat Means Higher Profit For more inform*lion contact your local dealer projects will be funded. Penn State will handle research on better nitrogen soil tests and making BMP’s more efficient. The Pa. Association of Con servation Districts will handle publicity and promotion. While initial efforts will be concentrated in the critical watersheds of the Lower Susquehanna, it is hoped that succeeding efforts will be ex panded upstream, too. SOLVE VOUR PROBLEM As Shown in Picture • Installation & Maintenance of Concrete Bunker Silos • Stone Wall Repairs • PreCast Gunite Lined Water or Manure Storage Tanks Portable Ear Corn Mill • Inventory Reduction Salt • 0.2% more buttarfat • Mora profit • Mora faad par acra •» ■% Roskamp Nu«|«ii|Mi PENNSYLVANIA Barrett Equipment Co., Smickaburg.PA.. ■ Fred Crlvellaro, Easton, PA Tom Dnnlap, Jersey Shore, PA Erb and Henry, New Berllnvllle, PA Flcke* SUo Co., NewvlUe, PA S.G. Lewis and Son, Inc., West Grove, PA R.T. Markle Farm Equip., Inc., State College, PA Marshall Machinery, Inc., Honesdale, PA MKS Enterprises, Inc., Hanover, PA Northeast Equip. Co., Northeast, PA North Penn Sealstor, Bloomsburg, PA Swartz outlined a lenghty litany of figures showing ag’s respon sibility in loading the Bay with nutrients, principally nitrates and phosphates. Things like; -Sixty percent of phosphate non point nutrient runoff and 85 per cent of nitrate non-point runoff comes from ag lands. -In the Upper Conestoga area of Lancaster County, some farmers use as much as 203 pounds more of nitrogen per acre than they need. Roller Ml JBrl • Convsrt your grindor mlxor to a collar mlxar • 0.2% mora buttartat • Battar gains 814-257-8881 215-258-7584 717-318-1311 215-347-2181 717-771-3121 717-778-3121 215-84M440 814-237-3141 717-721-7177 717,437-2214 . 114-725-1184 .717-317-1422 Raskanp Block Wall Being Restored With Gunite • Dam, Reservoir & Spillway Repair • Slatted Floor Systems • Silo Repairs Feed Processing Center • Build your own ration • Control (aod coats AUec Rebert, Uttleetown, PA Rovendale Supply, Wateontown, PA Sollenberger Slice Corp., Chambenbnrg, PA . Stoufier Broe., Inc., Chambenbnrg, PA Swope and Baahore, Inc., Myentown, PA Tam Agrl Corp., DOlebnrg, PA Terre HIU Silo Co„ Inc., Terre HUI, P A Unlonlown Farm Equipment, Unlonlown, PA. Amett’i Garage, Hagentown, MD RRoskamp Mfg., Inc. 2975 Airline Circle Waterloo, lowa 50703 319*232-6444 -Problems are worse on rented land and one-third of cropland in the River Basin is leased. -About 1.8 million acres of land need some sort of conservation practices and BMP’s are needed by 60 percent of livestock farmers and 7,800 of the 13,000 dairy far mers. The Commonwealth program has been tagged “The Penn sylvania Ag Nutrient Abatement Program.” • Incraasad production • Cuts cobs Into adlblo places • Mora faad par sera MARYLAND 717-359-5693 717-536*5521 717-294-1516 717-2961424 717-9364139 717*4369736 215*445-9799 416437-9651 301-7360515
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