Conservationists Honored
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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