All American
Deadlines Near
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
“Dairy cattle breeders won’t
want to miss the opportunity to
exhibit their animals at the Pen
nsylvania All-American Dairy
Show, our premier dairy cattle
exposition,” said show manager
Charles I tie. “The first entry dead
line is August 21. 1992.”
With six national show titles up
for grabs and almost $lOO,OOO in
premiums, this is a show that
breeders must include in their 1992
show schedule. Each year, more
than 2,300 head of dairy cattle are
paraded around the Large Arena in
hopes of gaining not only first
place, but the $l,OOO supreme
champion prize as well
All entries must be submitted on
forms provided by the All-
American Dairy Show. Entries
postmarked on or before August
21 will be accepted at $l5 per ani
1. For every 10 bags of any Northrup King hybrid
com purchased for 1993 planting, receive one bag
of Multißing I, Viking I or Fortress Alfalfa free!
2. Purchase one or more bags of any Northrup
King Brand alfalfa variety or blend and get one
bag of Multißing I, Viking I or Fortress Alfalfa
free!
3. Or Do Both!
For Details see your
participating Northr
dealer. Or Call Nort
King at 1-800-346-24
or Steve Shipman D'
717-726-6958
For over 40 years, Northrop King
has been the leader in Alfalfa.
Cut and dried.
mal. Entries postmarked after
August 21 through Sept 3 will be
accepted at $25 per animal. All
entries should include a production
record.
Exhibitors in the Pennsylvania
Junior Dairy Show wishing to
show their animals in the Pennsyl
vania All-American Dairy Show
open shows must submit their
entries on or before August 21 and
include a production record and
the $l5 entry fee.
For more information and com
plete entry forms please contact
the Pennsylvania All-American
Dairy Show, Farm Show Com
plex, 2301 North Cameron Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9408. The
29th Pennsylvania All-American
Dairy Show will be held Sept
21-24 at the Farm Show Complex
in Harrisburg.
Ag Progress
Highlights Conservation
the hill according to slope. There is
a perforated pipe into which sur
face water drains to a submerged
drain system.
A diversion is an open-ended
terrace with a sod backside (and
grass bottom on steeper slopes),
which allows a slow, minimally
erosive flow of surface water
across a hill, peipendicular to the
slope.
These devices are used for fields
intended primarily for hay crops,
which are then mowed.
Surface water flow is diverted to
a grass waterway, or as in the case
of the fields at Rockspring, a rock
lined waterway. Because of the
steepness and volume of flow, the
rocks were seen as superior to
grasses in preventing a flow of
(ContiniMd from Pag* A 24)
water from removing the softer
soil underneath.
The rocks also create a multi-
Jjtdc of small pockets of slower
water where heavier soil particals
are deposited. Eventually, the
deposited soils serve to foster
plants, which further aids the pro
tective strength of the waterway.
Dave Houser, representing the
fish commission, gave a brief
overview of stream crossings:
human access devices, such as a
baffle gate and fence ladders; and
various fencing alternatives.
(Also as general advice with the
stream crossings. House said that
they may be installed in a stream
after securing a DER Genual Per
mit N 0.6.)
Houser did not go into detail
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22. 1992*25
about fencing set-back distances,
though generally, the smaller the
water flow, the amount of stream
bank protection needed is propor
tionally larger, though not neces
sarily larger in acreage.
Under normal circumstances,
the huger and wider the flow of
water, the less of a swath of
streambank is needed for protec
tion because of the typical low
slope and reduced affect on the
stream which is getting a large
amount of water from upstream
sources.
This is so because the distinc
tion between streambank and main
watershed becomes less as a body
of flowing water is followed
upstream.
In effect, terraces and grass and
rocklined waterways are some
where between watershed and
waterflow there is no constant
waterflow, but after a rain, water
will flow as a body through these
areas. In proportion to waterflow,
the amount of streambank protec
tion here is probably greatest
. Similarly, wetlands are part of a flowing body
of water. They are part of the reserve areas which
maintain a more constant year-round flow in the
main stream.
Whether water is visible or not at all times of
the year, when it rains, water collects in these
areas and feeds slowly into either groundwater,
streams, other standing bodies of water, or eva
porates back into the atmospheric portion of the
hydrologic cycle.
During the general tour, wetlands restoration
was discussed briefly by Barry Isaacs, with the
Department of Environmental Resources (DER).
Isaacs discussed the restored wetlands that
was put in since last year to demonstrate what
wetlands are.
This particular restoration was actually a crea
tion, since the original soil was saturated (hydric)
and was technically and practically a wetlands
that had been drained with the use of tile fields
etc.
The restoration included a stone seep area and
a small, bullreed lined puddle of standing water.
The stone seep area was created by scooping
out a shallow depression below a naturally wet
area. Also, a drain from an uphill water runoff
collection bowl empties there.
The water seeps further down hill to collect in
the pond-like puddle.
He said the area of the standing water and rock
seep is now wetter than it was, but the surround
ing area is now drier than it was.
The value of wetlands was outlined by Isaacs;
flood control, the water cleansing attributes, the
wildlife habitat and the esthetic values, etc.
He said that while controversy exists over the
definitions of wetlands for legal interpretations,
there is a new pilot federal program which would
pay landowners to restore wetlands and maintain
them, similar to the Conservation Reserve Prog
ram, under which landowners are paid not to per
form practices which will knowingly erode soil.
He said there has already been 30 restorations
in Pennsylvania and there’s a waiting list of at
least 200 who want to restore wetlands on their
properties.
Also, during the tour, Wayne Ray pointed out
a large sinkhole adjacent to the lent city that is Ag
Progress grounds proper^
Ray explained that sinkholes arc the easiest
natural access to groundwater and surface water
carrying acids and other contamincnts can not
only contaminate those groundwaters, but expi
ditc further disolving of the limestone rockbed
which supports the topsoils, thereby encouraging
further and more rapid development of other
sinkholes.
These are concerns not just for the rural land
owner, but also of concern to urban areas where
surface water contamination by automobile
fluids and carbon residues, lawn chemicals and
pesticides are also a large problem.
On another part of the tour, almost as a second
thought, Ray pointed out a small field that had
been set up as a no-till wildlife planting.
This marginal field area was tilled with the
same equipment used in the fields, he said,
adding that landowners may be able to take wild
life pressure off of valuable crop fields by plant
ing more preferable crops on the field edge.
He said that in the demonstration plot, sorg
hum, Sudan grass and buckwheat was planted.