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' ft ‘A 4a- Junes The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday farmers have heaps of manure Pennsyh i i 19R6-- 35 LANCASTER Ta IUW tn Lancaster County where farmers boast of having more dairy rows per acre than any county in the nation something is piling up these days at an alarming rate Manure An average dairy cow produces 115 pounds of it a day — about 21 tons a year Multiply that by Lancaster’s 383000 cows add in the contributions of 5SS million chickens 400000 turkeys 340000 hogs 0200 sheep and 5000 horses and you have the root of what has become a major stink in rural southeastern Pennsylvania "We’ve got more manure than we’ve got land to spread it on" said Mitchell Woodward a specialist in manure management with Pennsylvania State University's Agricultural Extension service in Lancaster Although some of the substance is traded with other farmers who do not own livestock and some of it Is sold as fertiliser there is more than the manure market ran bear All told Lancaster County livestock produces 5 million tons of manure a year much more than local farmers are equipped to deal with Woodward said It's a smelly problem as anyone who has visited the Lancaster area in the spring can attest to It’s also increasingly an environmental haiard State agricultural officials have reported that nitrates phosphorus and other chemicals found In abundance in manure are washing Into streams and rivers and also seeping into the underground aquifers that feed Lancaster County wells "We have a big prohlem in Lancaster with quality" said Woodward "Studies show that approximately 30 pecent of the wells in the county are unsuitable to drink because of high nitrates and bacteria" The effects of levels in drinking water are starting to show up as reduced productivity in dairy cows and as drinking-wate- r high-nitrat- e in humans Woodward methemoglobinemia said which usually occurs in That ailment infants is a condition that Interferes with the ability of blood to distribute oxygen in the body It can cause tiredness and cyanosis a bluish coloration of the skin caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood A more subtle effect is nutrient pollution in local streams and rivers and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay The higher levels of nitrates cause an explosion of algae which In turn consume Increased amounts of dissolved oxygen Penn State officials said Less dissolved oxygen means fewer fish and other aquatic life So what to do with nature's abundance? "We've got to teach them that more Is not necessarily better" he said "A lot of farmers don't know how much they're putting down and they don't know how much they need to put out" The experts are not quite as certain about what to do with the leftovers Efforts to Incinerate manure commercially or use it as an energy source are still largely experimental Some have suggested selling it as fertilizer — something that Is not always easy or economical "There are problems with processing it and shipping it" said Bruce Krelder who also works with the agricultural extension service "It's not as good as artificial fertilizers and you can't adjust what's in it" There has been some success with efforts to sell dehydrated nutrient-ricchicken manure as fertilizer for use on golf courses and lawns "The only problem is" said Krelder "anytime this stuff gets wet it still stinks" For starters farmers should stop dumping it Indiscriminately on cropland said agriculture extension worker Jim Welshans whose duties Include educating farmers In the proper use of manure as fertiliser h FmHA selling repossessed substandard rural bouses WASHINGTON It'Pl) — Government farm crisis The agency is best known for lending to farmers who cannot get credit elsewhere Congress's General Acccountlng Office estimated early this year that more than half of Farmers Home's S28 billion farm loans to 270000 customers could be in jeopardy of default The agency has had to take over ownership of land throughout the nation Under political pressure officials have been cautious about selling off that land to keep from contributing to declines In land values By comparison problems with the agency's rural housing program are not so severe and officials are pushing sale of the government's Inventory of rural houses Officials have to worry about an Inventory of a dollars worth of houses the agency took over from rural Americans who failed to pay their mortgages some of whom live in bu- reaucrats are tired of being landlords of houses In ill repair in rural America The Farmers Home Administration launched a "summer sale" this week of rural houses in peer condition that were taken over from people unable to continue making mortgage payments to the agency Houses that fall to meet safety or sanitary standards are being offered for sale at 3d percent less than already depressed values Even greater discounts will be offered for houses with such problems as fire or storm damage or extreme vandalism An agency official said poor quality houses are "a heavy drain on staff time in servicing and costly in terms of maintenance and upkeep" half-billio- The moat severe problems of the Agriculture Department agency stem from the nation's n communities devastated by the farm crisis Farmers Home holds loans on nearly 1 million rural homes valued at $23 billion almost as much as its farm debt portfolio The rural housing program began financing farm houses in 1949 Eligibility for home loans was expanded gradually to Include all moderate- - and rural residents and then to residents of communities of up to 10000 people and even 20000 people if communities are well outside metropolitan areas At the same time the status of the agency's farm loans has deteriorated and the agency has reduced a repayment delinquency rate among rural home borrowers from a peak of 207 percent to a current 13 percent Nonetheless the agency each year takes over thousands of houses from people who cannot pay their mortgages faster than officials can sell low-inco- Average buyer wants quiet Last Saturday we held the £1 USU perfor- mance horse sale The hones that performed brought good prices Those 'VVfayne McArthur tnstrixlv that didn't brought what they before the sale Tbe people were were worth interested in talking to the There are still many students to find out more about mediocre hones in supply and s the hones They felt they could lack of demand for those kinds get straight talk with no hone of horses There is a strong trader taut demand for well broke gentle Some of the students rode the hones The top selling hone hones through the ring for me was a gray They had not had previous Quarter Hone fiUy with a teal experience with hone sales so athletic ability Early Banker the buyers got a good view of sold foe 2200 what the horses were like under Out of the S3 head sold there youthful riden were only eight hones that Other students were recordw ere cot sold in the ring Two of ers and runners for buyers' those were sold after they came signatures One young man out of the ting Many recent supervised the vehicle parking sales have had over 25 percent in an adjacent pasture yet the of the hones cot selling road was filled with trucks on It was tot in the arena yet bedsides there were still bujen left for Without these students we the last hone Xumber 48 couldn’t have had such a sucbrought liSV and cumber 19 cessful sale I appreciate them brought SNA all I had 18 head that we used ic There were buyers from all the Horsemanship pro- ev er Utah Idaho gram The 18 head sold One came from and Wyoming Oregon and averaged 11053 Two were cot anode torn Montana A horse soSd even though they received St from was consigned George bids higher than the 16 head a young iady from by bought I needed aveage something to ride this summer and they did niseis We filled cue mere bleacher act brig as much is I fteh they were worth dan last year and it locked like Some cf my students helped we cculi have used another put the sale ce They started There were ever ICC people w ashing horses at7Si am and attending the sale and that's then rode the herpes about as peed rf attendance as 1 four-year-ol- 30-ye- ar horse well-manner- ed have been In any of the sales I have attended over the past percent are used for ranch work or pleasure These horses need to be calm saddle horses Most race rodeo or show buyers do not go to the auction to buy their next prospect The general auction buyer is the pleasure rider or the rancher so if you're going to sell at an auction bring the kind of horse these people are looking for and you will see them paying a fair price for your stock him before he can fit the needs horse that spins or slide stops of the general buyer He doesn't know how to cue for Some trainers take a horse a flying lead change All he year From this I would conclude into a sale in a snaffle bit and wants is a calm horse that turns that the horse Industry is start- show how well he is started when he is neck reined and ing to get stronger The buyers Most people don’t want a snaffle stops when the reins are pulled are discriminating so you must bit horse they w ant it in a curb We just don't train enough have quality that can do some- bit Trainers get unhappy horses to be dependable saddle thing to sell at an acceptable because no one can see how horses This is the biggest horse that much training his horse has He demand in the horse industry price The won’t turn around just isn’t doesn't realize he is selling to There are about 8 percent of the bringing the money That horse the end user not another horses used for racing 7 permust be trained as a saddle trainer That user generally cent for rodeos and 14 percent horse and have some miles on doesn’t know how to ride a for shows The remaining 71 ex-rac- well-manner- e Sixteen reasons why you should have a Zions Bank Gold Account Intern lT-ay-i--- -- Chert Decline in land value generally from highs recorded in 2: state” vc Here are resmts re's a red last week hy region cd tie Idaho farm purvey conducted by the US Agracxhmre Department's Idaho Apmctlrcril Statrstjcs : Money tVvd VT s' WroiviIi7wi vu: ix:ur m- - 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T iv" ot vvT percent rp from J 71 percent in Idaho Average 10-ye- d rsu Service them off This fiscal year the agency has acquired almost 10000 houses and sold off only about 8000 A goal of the summer sale is to sell at least 3000 more houses than usual for the duration of the sale from June 1 to Aug 29 The houses will be offered either to Investors for 5 percent down and mortgages or to people who will live In them for no downpayment and mortgages Vance Clark administrator of the aeency has given local Farmers Home officials special instruction packages to promote sales of houses suggesting advertisements in newspapers and on radio posters flyers and news stories The agency is suggesting sales be handled by real estate brokers and it will pay half the cost of open houses — even refreshments utilities banners flags and balloons — and broker advertising of Farmers Home property ck r- rv i' v-i- - t-v- : |