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Lancaster Farming

Location

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Mar 30, 1963

Page

3

Conservation program advances with 4-H awards plan

The article outlines continued efforts to use conservation for Young Farmer Associations economic progress and youth programs. At the April 6 meeting in State College, details of a new 4-H awards program will be shared, along with discussion of Project 70 and soil stewardship. Maurice Goddard and Hollis Hatfield will join John Scott to discuss the project and related bills and appropriations supported by the Pennsylvania Farmers Association and State Grange.

State College Gram Maurice .Goddard Penna Secretary of Forests and Waters Hollis Hatfield Pennsylvania Farmers Association John Scott Pennsylvania State Grange Association

Overhead Bins For Fertilizer First In East

Lancaster County builds its first overhead bulk fertilizer storage at Smoketown. A seventy foot tall structure will hold 200 tons of three analyses. Fertilizer arrives by rail car and is hauled to P. L Rohrer and Brother plant. It is dumped into a pit and elevated to bins overhead for gravity flow to a traveling scale.

Lancaster County Smoketown P. L Rohrer and Brother P. L. Rohrer and Bro, Inc L F

Plant to Begin Operations Next Week at Local Facility

Williams Rohrer states the facility will load bins directly into farm trucks or spreader trucks, with six to nine ton trucks filled in under five minutes. Weight tickets will be punched electrically to reduce human error, and the plant Nin is expected to be in operation in about a week.

Willis Rohrer

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