Conservationists Honored (Continued from Page Al) susceptible to compaction. As a result of their conservation efforts, the Zug’s farm could be eroding twice as fast as it is now and still be well within tolerable erosion limits, according to Soil Conservation Service calculations. But Edd Zug has no intention of relaxing his soil conservation standards. “You make more money when it (soil) doesn’t wash away,” he points out. Another southern Lancaster Countian, Axel Linde, finds no-till to be an effective way to keep the soil from leaving his Kirkwood area farm. Linde, who farms 140 acres and owns a herd of 40 registered Guernseys, received the district’s No-till Award for his success in no-tilling com, alfalfa and small grains. After three years of experience with the con servation practice, Linde no-tilled 26 acres of small grains, seven acres of alfalfa and 24 acres of com in 1986. ATTENTION TOBACCO FARMERS For ail farmers who want to sell your tobacco, bring your crop in today, Monday, or Tuesday morning. Get a price put on your tobacco and if you are satisfied, you can sell it. If not, put it in our processing program. WE ARE PAYING A 5 C PER LB. ADVANCE TO THE FARMER ON GOOD MIDDLES & TOPS THAT GO INTO THE PROCESSING PROGRAM. This is a limited opportunity so call now to schedule delivery. Processing is the best way to hold your crop for a higher price later in the season, since the quality of your tobacco is pre served. Remember; this is the best program available to you the farmer since you are receiving a 5* per lb. advance on good middles & tops. GARDEN SPOT TOBACCO AUCTION Member: Keystone Tobacco Marketing Group ' THE NEW CHOICE" -a* ■ • ■'** # *A •- A number of other awards highlighted the district’s annual meeting. Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Farm Award - Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kauffman, Jr., were recipients of this award co sponsored by the district and the Department of Environmental Resources. A former county Outstanding Cooperator, Kauff man has constructed 2,600 feet of sod waterways, 4,665 feet of diversion terraces and contour strips on the family’s 155-acre dairy farm in Drumore Township. The Kauffman 105-cow herd averages 20,400 pounds of milk and 761 pounds of fat, demonstrating the compatibility of a high producing dairy operation and far sighted soil and water con servation practices. Outstanding Storm Water Management - The New Holland Farmers National Bank was cited for its stormwater management plan at the bank’s Eden Park branch office in Manheim FINAL S Tues., March 24-9 a.m. CALL NOW! 0 Garden Spot Tobacco Auction PO Box 190 Blue Ball, PA 17506 717-354-6934 Lie. # AY-23-L * •** • ' «■ • #. Township. Constructed in 1977, the site includes perimeter swales and a large basin to control flooding. Outstanding Service - Two members of the district’s Youth Conservation School staff were honored. Mike Good of Elizabethtown attended the school in 1980 as a student and returned in 1981 as a junior counselor. Since then he has served as a counselor and assistant director. Shirley Metzler Sager of Ephrata has served as a counselor since 1981, first as a junior coun selor and finally as a senior counselor. She also attended state conservation schools for two years. Special Service- County Com missioner James Huber presented this award to Grant Heilman, a former Lititz resident and founder of Grant Heilman Photography, based in Lititz. Heilman, who now lives in Colorado, specializes in agricultural photography for use in books, magazines and other publications. His firm donates the aerial photograph presented to the district’s Outstanding Cooperator each year. LE margarines and other concoctions such as calcium tablets that have been clearly shown to have no value at all.” Patterson gave his conclusions in a calcium dinner symposium and clinic for medical professional people and farm leaders. “Simplicity in terms of health and nutrition are really where the best results appear, ” Patterson said. “It is possible through nutrition to do things with people’s health where you don’t pay a detrimental cost of side effects from drugs. However, I have found an astonishing fact that in a huge area about calcium that is very poorly understood by practically everyone. Calcium can be divided into two areas: the blood control of calcium and the other new area, about what is happening to calcium within the cells of the body.” Published information that is available to the medical profession is decidedly lacking in coverage of these important areas according to Patterson. “The nutritional problems that result in osteoporosis and many other severe problems in terms of health are readily preventable by adequate nutrition. In calcium you need to keep a constant supply in the body within a very narrow range. Some of the symptoms of low calcium levels include: hypertension, tight muscles, (Continued from Page Al) cattle sold. This money is then sent into the State Beef Council. This type of law has already previously been voted down on two separate occassions by farmerss across the country. The “policy” of Congress is that the public interest would be served by establishing a procedure for “financing” (through assessments on all cattle sold in the United States) and carrying out a coordinated program of promotion and research designed to strengthen the beef industry’s position in the market place. L. Robert Frame, Sr., president of Vintage Sales Stables, Inc., says his right to free speech is being abused because he is being forced to take part in an advertising campaign. The government, he contends, has in effect created a “trade association for the support of a private, non-public business, and then is purporting to compel private farmers to support the trade association, financially ' - • j§t z* : * 9 M ‘ Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 21,1M7-A23 The Smart Cola (Continued from Page Al) Vintage m* / spasms and cramps, feelings of numbness and tingling around the mouth and finger tips, difficulty in walking, defective vision, double vision, not mentally alert, not able to swallow, stomach spasms, psychological problems and disorders of the skin. A prolonged state of low levels of calcium can result in the sublevel of in telligence in children. In addition, when phosphate levels in the body increase, you get a forced type action that drives the calcium down to lower levels,” Patterson said. “There is definite need for nutritional intake of milk and dairy products. With proper nutrition that includes skim milk and other intelligent dairy products, these problems can be prevented. Skim milk is the best calcium product on the market,” Patterson concluded. In opening comments, James Harteis, president of the Penn sylvania Dairy Promotion Board, said that the dairy industry has received a lot of bad publicity from members of the medical profession. But Patterson came to us and said he thinks calcium is vital and asked if farmers would be interested in getting together with a group of medical people to hear the discussion of the new research related to calcium and nutrition. “Dairymen did not solicit this report. But we are extremely pleased to have it come to us and to be a part of this clinic,” Harteis said. Hearing against their will”. Additionally, constitutional violations involving unfair taxation, the taking of private property without just compensation, violations of due process, and excesses of explicate or implicate grants of power to congress are also involved. Frame wants the law declared unconstitutional, wants the court to stop the collection of money and to refund any unused amounts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture through the Department of Justice seeks to require Frame to pay back assessments and to comply with the law in the future. Supporters of Frame have organized a convoy of buses which will leave from the Vintage Sales Stables premises at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, April 3, bound for Allen town. Many farmers have already reserved a spot on this convoy, according to Frame. The hearing is opened to the public and in terested farmers are urged to attend. % *