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explains "this is one thing I know how to do on a farm.”
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York Farmers Assn, favors
tropical fish for farm ponds
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
Dairyman & utility head
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granted, Sattazahn also remarked, program between Floyd Smith,
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hour...” Albright College, David Buffer,
Communication
"If we can communicate...if they
can see how our operation works,
educate the public on our side too,”
Smith concluded. T like this
program.”
The Berks County Extension
Service in cooperation with the
farming community will be hosting
the first annual Farm-City
Banquet in Berks County on Nov.
15 at the Berks County 4-H Com-
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AIRVILLE Toxic waste and
an unusual fish commanded policy
and beef producer, Dennis Man
beck, educated each other on their
professions while radio per
sonality, Charlie Adams, and
swine producer, Mike Moore,
taught each other. The banquet
will include presentations from
these individuals along with
judging contests and a night of
entertainment for everybody.
Reservations are needed by Nov.
10 and are available from the Ag
Center at 378-1327.
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, October 20,1984-A39
As part of the program, the film
Chesapeake Horizons, dealing
with the declining water quality in
the Chesapeake Bay and its
watersheds, was shown. Farmer
members authoring the resolution
on white amurs and their hybrids
for pond weed control suggested
that such natural predator controls
would fit with the goals of
decreasing chemical use in the
Chesapeake watersheds.
Both policy recommendations
adopted by the York County
membership will be sent for state
consideration during PFA’s Oc
tober 28 and 29 policy finalization
meeting, prior to their presen
tation for delegate consideration at
the November state convention.
York County Farmer’s president
Ellis Crowl, Airville, expressed
satisfaction with the annual
meeting, and noted that the
membership drive is now un
derway, and well ahead of last
year’s fall signup.
County farm families interested
in membership in the farmers
association may contact president
Ellis Growl at 862-3955.
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attention as York County Farmers’
Association members met last
Friday evening at the Airville Fire
Hall for their annual meeting and
election.
The 120 members attending
voted to recommend that the state
legislature phase out the use of
landfill and injection well methods
of disposal of toxic and hazardous
commercial and industrial wastes.
Instead, York association mem
bers suggest legislation and op
portunities be provided for in
dustries to implement resource
recovery products, develop
revised manufacturing processes
and alternate technologies.
Landfill controversies continue
at several of the waste disposal
spots in York County, where
residential drinking-water wells
are showing chemical pollutant
traces.
A second resolution deals with
controlling vegetative growth in
farm ponds, using the “white
amur,” a type of tropical fish. The
species is suggested as an alter
native to chemical aquatic weed
and grass controls, where
chemicals might be undesirable,
impractical or unduly expensive.
That recommendation further
suggests that the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association petition the
state legislature and the state Fish
and Game Commission to allow the
use of the white amur to control
weeds and grass in farm ponds.
White amur, say members who
developed the resolution, eat only
vegetation, and do not prey on
other types of fish. The species will
allegedly not reproduce in nor
thern climate waters.
However, white amur fish are
reported to be outlawed in
neighboring Maryland as a
“nuisance fish,” because of
potential destruction of that state’s
marshlands.