Mifflin Holstein Sale
Grosses $70 r 975
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
HUNTINGDON. (Huntingdon
Co.) Fifty lots sold during die
recent Mifflin County Summer
Classic sale grossed $70,975, for
an average of $1,420.
Held at the Mifflin County
Youth Park in Reedsville, the
highest selling lot was a cow,
Blessed-Acres Mascot Patches,
consigned by G. Sheldon Peachey
of BeUeville. It was purchased for
$3,300 by Bruce Snider of Imler.
The second highest selling lot,
Y-Brookside Queen, was con
signed by Darvin and Loren Yod
er, of Bellville. It sold for $2,600t0
Robert Peachey, of Belleville.
Kara Tussey of Huntingdon
consigned the third highest selling
cow. It was bought by Scott and
Julieann Longenbach of North
Hampton for $2,475.
$12.37 For August Milk
ALBANY, N.Y. Daily far*
mere who supplied regulated millr
dealers (handlers) under the New
York-New Jersey marketing
orders during August 1995 will be
paid by handlers on the basis of a
uniform price of $12.37 per hun
dredweight (26.6 cents per quart).
The price for the corresponding
month last year was $12.44 per
hundredweight, according to
Market Administrator Ronald C.
Pearce. He also stated that the
price was $11.99 in July 1995.
The uniform price is a market
wide weighted average of the val
ue of farm milk used for fluid and
Steven and Barbara Wilson of
Port Royal sold Rose-Edge F p
Marisa for $2,000 to Theodore and
Patricia Miller of Piiesgrove, NJ.
Ken Raney, director of member
service for die Pennsylvania Hols
tein Association, said that Paul
Neer, of the Mifflin County Hols
tein Club, should be complimented
on his efforts in selecting animals
for the sale.
Raney said he was pleased with
the local support of the sale in pro
viding consigments and purchas
ing animals.
> In addition to the sale of ani
pwls, a pre-sale chicken barbeque
and an aculion of donated items
was held to support the county
club, the county Dairy Princess
Committee, and the county 4-H
dairy judging team. Included in the
items sold was a Bonnie Mohr
print purchased by Danny Albright
for $lBO.
manufactured dairy products.
A total of 11,347 dairy farmers
supplied handlers regulated under
the New Yoik-New Jersey market
ing orders with 1,002,799.267
pounds of milk during August
1995. This was an increase of 3.2
percent (about 31 million pounds)
from last year.
The gross value to dairy farmers
for milk deliveries was
$123,687,606.91. This included
differentials required to be paid to
dairy fanners but not premiums,
deductions authorized by the far
mer, or assessments. *
Grange Provides Look
At Constructed Wetlands
LEWISBHRRY (Yoik Co.)
For several yean the Valley
Grange wanted to build a meeting
hall on its property in Warring
town Township.
However, soils on the site were
not suitable for conventional septic
tanks, and public sewers weren't
available.
So the Grange decided to build a
“constructed wetland’’ engi
neered to treat effluent from septic
tanks?/ The wetland would be
environmentally safe, provide
long service life, and provide wild
life habitat and other aesthetic
considerations.
Last week. Valley Grange pro
vided a tour of the constructed wet
lands. The Grange was able to
demonstrate the benefits of the
site.
At the location, wastewater is
first collected and treated by a
series of two septic tanks. The
effluent from the septic tanks is
pumped to a subsurface-flow,
lined wetland cell containing cat
tails and bulrushes. The roots of
the aquatic plants provide oxygen
to bacteria for treatment of the
wastewater below the surface of
the treatment cell.
Effluent from the treatment cell
is discharged to a bermcd, unlined
area planted with water-tolerant
grasses for groundwater recharge.
Evapotranspiration, occurring in
both the treatment and disposal
cells, also serves to reduce dis
charge from the treatment process.
After receiving planning
Lamm* ftmmNr 2% imw
approval from the township, the
Grange received the proper per
mits and construction was com
pleted earlier this year. A ground
breaking ceremony to celebrate the
construction was held late in July.
The wetland system consists of
cattails and bulrushes whose roots
provide oxygen to bacteria for
treatment of the wastewater below
the surface. The system was
designed by GET Engineering Ser
vices. Hanisburg.
William Traver, Valley Grange
Last week, Valley Grange provided a tour of the con
structed wetlands. Engineers and Grange members inspect
bulrushes and cattails at the wetland site. From left, Tom
Whittle and Anita Stable, GET environmental engineers,
and Earl Calhoun, chairman, Valley Grange building com
mittee and Bill Traver, Valley Grange president.
president, believes the system
meets many needs.
Travcr said. “Constructed wet
lands provide simple, low cost and
flexible treatment, independence
from site soil long
service life, and indirect benefits
such as wildlife habitat and aesthe
tic considerations, in addition to
upholding values that are precious
to Grange members.”
The new 60 by 100 foot Grange
hall will be multipurpose facility
with a kitchen and meeting rooms.
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