Conservation District Celebrates 500th Meeting
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
It’s official the Lancaster
Conservation District celebrated
its 500th (yes, five hundredth )
meeting, doing it in grand style
Wednesday afternoon with a ban
quet at the Stock Yard Inn.
It has been nearly two decades
since the first annual meeting, Feb.
3, 1953 at Penn Manor High
School, with no refreshments.
Even at the second meeting, held
in February 1954 at the Lititz High
School, the same thing no
funds, no refreshments.
But through years of coopera
tion with the county board of com
missioners, the projects and pur
pose of the district lives on. And
those former directors, officers,
and county commissioners who
served on the board from its incep
tion were in attendance.
The county conservation move
ment was organized in the south
ern part of the county back in 1938.
Although the district was officially
formed until 1950, it wasn’t until
1957 that the district office got the
first county appropriations (of
$500). In the years since, the dis
trict has expanded and increased
its scope in the county and region.
“From 1957 until today, the
county commissioners have been
very supportive of our efforts,”
said Amos Funk, member of the
disrict’s charter group of board
members.
Terry Kauffman, vice president
of the county commissioners, reaf
firmed the county committment to
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the district, despite increasing cut
backs in appopriations from the
state. “We’re trying to be frugal in
a tough year when we have at least
$4 million in deficiencies not com
ing from the state,’’ he said. “We
want to keep the programs fully
funded, but we have to be more
creative. We don’t want to just
raise takes.”
Kauffman asked the district
board to review their program
budgets to find ways to keep costs
down, but assured them the com
missioners will help them to
ensure the continuation of district
programs.
Don Robinson, of the district,
spoke of ways of of revamping the
annual stormwater award to
expand it and to show ways exist
ing systems have been improved or
to branch out to more candidates
worthy of county recognition.
The Soil Conservation Service
has compiled a record of the fol
lowing better management prac
tices implemented on county farms
to date: cropland terraces (529
miles), grassed waterways (467
miles), pipe outlets (13 miles),
diversions (130 miles), countour
strips (101,830 acres), and ag
waste storages (261 units).
The Lancaster Conservation
District’s part in the Chesapeake
Bay Nutrient Management prog
ram has 157.fanners that have
received a total of $2,342,854,
according to the district The
Pequea Millcreek project had
$730,000 to cost-share with farm
cooperators.
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Directors and guests celebrated the 500th meeting of the Lancaster Conservation
District on Wednesday at the Stock Yaixi Inn. Seated, from left, Aaron Stauffer, Bob
Wagner, and Jim Huber. Standing, Ken Depoe, Herb Myer, Don Robinson, and Amos
Funk.
Tractors Lead Accident Statistics
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) —Farm tractors continue to
be the primary cause of accidental
death among fanners and farm
workers in the Northeast and
America’s com belt, according to
a farm safety specialist in Penn
State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences.
Sam Steel, extension project
TWO SEPARATE DAYS - TWO SEPARATE LOCATIONS
TUES., NOVEMBER 10, 1992
AT: THE JOHN LANDIS FARM
COLEBROOK ROAD
EAST PETERSBURG, PA
From Lancaster Rt. 283 to The
722 Exit Turn Right Towards
East Petersburg, Make First
Right Onto Coiebrook Rd.
First Farm On The Left
PROP AGITATORS
VERTICAL PTO PUMPS
TRAIL’R TYPE LAGOON PUMPS
3 POINT HITCH PUMPS
HIGH PRESSURE MANURE
IRRIGATION PUMPS
DIRECT TO FIELD
SUB-SOIL INJECTORS
HYDRAULIC SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS
SLURRY TANKERS
AND MORE!
associate in agricultural and bio
logical engineering and program
director for the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Safety Council said
that, tractor overturns account for
a large portion of the accidental
deaths on Pennsylvania farms.
Statistic’s based on a 1989 Penn
State survey indicate that about 70
percent of all tractor-related fatali-
IN LANCASTER:
10 AM TO 2 PM
CONTINUOUS DEMONSTRATIONS!
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 7, 1992-A27
ties involve a rollover. Another 25
percent involve extra riders and
tractor operators falling off mov-
ing tractors.
‘Tractor overturns are placed in
two categories side overturns
and rear overturns,” said Steel. “In
a side overturn, which is most
common, operators have a 50-50
chance of survival.
IN FREDERICK. MD.
THURS., NOVEMBER 12, 1992
10 AM TO 2 PM
AT: THE GLENN EAVES FARM
WOODSBORO, MD.
One Mile North Of Woodsboro
On Route 194, Turn Left
Onto Oak Hill Road
MANY PIECES OF EQUIPMENT
TO BE DEMONSTRATED
FACTORY REPRESENTATIVES
ON HAND TO ANSWER YOUR
QUESTIONS!
SEE THE LARGEST,
MOST COMPLETE LINE
OF MANURE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
THAT IS AVAILABLE TODAY,
IN ACTION!