Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22, 1961
FROM WHERE WE STAND -
‘Too Late. Too Late.
The luckiest man alive just lost his
pants.
Perhaps that should read, -“lost
JUST his pants”, because he stood a
good chance of losing his life.
The green chopped grass in his self
unloading wagon had bridged and was
not feeding out properly. Without
shutting off the power, he climbed up
on the wagon and pushed the forage
down with his foot. .
He said the thought flashed across
his mind, “I shouldn’t be doing this.”
but by that time it was too late.
The luckiest man alive was in luck
because he happened to be wearing a
pair of old, worn pants. The cloth
ripped and parted company with the
man before he was pulled into the un
loading mechanism. The few bruises
and scratches he got paid for the least
expensive lesson he ever learned.
A few years ago when the editor
was teaching vocational agriculture,
he had planned a lesson on corn pick
er safety. On the day the lesson was to
be presented, word came to the teach
er that the father of one ninth grade
boy had lost an arm in a corn picker
accident the day before.
In a quandry over whether to pro
ceed with the lesson or switch to
something else, the teacher decided the
punishment to the boy might be justi
fied by the value of the object lesson.
The lesson was scarcely started
when the boy put his head down on
his desk and sobbed through his tears,
“Too late. Too late. Too late!”
This concerned us for a consider
able time. If the lesson had been pre
sented a day earlier, the father might
still have his complete limb instead of
the empty shirt sleeve. If the presen
tation had been a little more dramatic
the year before, or if a safety cam
paign had reached the father the pre
vious week, this needless accident
might not have happened.
But the safety-conscious can not
continuously hold the hand of the ma
chine operator to keep him from put
ting his hands or feet in places they
were never ment to be put. Safety ed
ucation is all around all the time, but,
it can not save the man who takes
foolish chances.
Tho man lost his arm under a big
sign on the picker which warned, “Do
not adjust while machine is running’.
Both these accidents, and most
others on the farm, happen because
Best Food Buys
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Everywhere in America,
in towns, or country on pat
io or picnic grounds, the
outdoor barbecue has be
come’ a part of living, and
so, food buying succumbs
to outdoor living, reports
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tension Marketing Agent.
If you’re searching for a
tasty and exciting new way
to barbecue chicken, which
is an excellent buy this wk ,
try using this easy-to-pre
pare sauce Water, 14cup,
vinegar, 1 cup; butter, 14 lb
salt, 1 tablespoon. Merely
baste the halves or pieces
of broiler meat every now
and then for about an hour
and you’re ready for dehci-
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machines are doing the job they were
designed to do. Machines cripple and
injure and maim, and take life doing
the things they were built to do. They
can not be held responsible because
they have no power to make judg
ments, and no ability to differentiate
between flesh and crop.
Machinery manufacturers build in
to machines all sorts of safety features
and devices. Who is to be held respon
sible if the operator short-circuits these
safety devices for the sake of exped
iency.
Some safety experts will tell you
the corn picker is a dangerous mach
ine. We contend no machine is any
more dangerous than the man operat
ing that machine.
Just a few years ago, the major
cause of accidents and accidental death
on the farm was the horse. Now we
have traded the horse for horse-power,
but we still need horse-sense to control
it.
When the horse kicked his owner,
it was of his own violation and at the
dictates of his own will, but when a
piece of machinery causes injury or
death, the only will responsible is the
will of the operator.
The figuers continue to mount up.
Will you be one of the 3,400 survivors
who will be saying before the end of
this year that for their loved-one it is
“Too late. Too late. Too Late!’*?
You may be unless you and your
entire family believe in safety, think
safety, talk safety, and take time to
practice safety every minute of every
day of your lives.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
The American Medical Association
News points out that “seemingly inno
cent objects can be hazardous to very
small children.” It quotes a Public
Health Service report on 5,605 drown
mgs that occurred in a recent year.
Three-fifths of those thus killed were
less than five years old. _A number of
them were drowned in 5-gallon cans,
buckets and crocks.
In Sum, home can be a mighty haz
ardous place for smallfry and con
stant precaution is essential.
State Corn Crop
Above Average
ous eating. This recipe will Harrisburg Pennsy'van
take care of two chickens. j a > g corn grain crop is ex-
You may wish to double the pec ted to total about 56.4
quantity of each ingredient rninion. bushels this year, the
for larger weekend parties state Crop Reporting Ser
or family gatherings. Inci- v j ce j n a wee kend re
dently, cold barbecued chick port
en will be a tasty unch box y ‘ , , ,
treat If realized, this wul be a
■ T . , „ smaller crop than was har- i
New potatoes fresh from vested last yearj but wm be TO USE CAUTION IN GRAZING "
the Eastern >_hore and a few per cent more than the MAX - *-i GUMES—Livestock that are al owed
early Irish Cobblers from lo- iQ-year average. This rela- graze on straight stands of alfalfa, red clover, or la® 1
+n vnnr tive V high production is an- clover should be given very special management attcnfi®
can bake them in the char- tlc ' pated despite a sharp six these legumes, especially when wet, may bloat animals ve
coal fire after first greasing ce Q nt ac J ea Se reducTon. quick y Herd and flock owners are urged to graze tM
and then wrapping them in . e ac [, ea ® e drop is due areas on iy w hen the forage is dry and after Jthe a®®*
alumnium foil.
Other vegetables in this Grams Program since March will Produce more rank growth of these forage ciops
weeks value list on produce p i antm g intentions md ca'.ed TO DRENCH SPRING LAMBS—FIock owners that
counters are and yel- « a flight corn acreage increase ~raising spnng lambs for the market or for flock ie P a
tomatoes 3 ’ C ° rn ’ a ” this year ments are ur § ed to pay some attention to internal P a! J
, , .. ~ , , Ch’ef’y responsible ? or the control. Stomach worms are responsible for enormous 0
tuce, peppers “ cucumbers' b ggest f° p is .. P r ° s P. et * of es each N car * n the younger animals. With wet. hunid^
radishes, omons and celery a ” a^_ erag ® yield °f bu f, ther it is sed to drench the lambs monthly with * 1
are leasonably priced an aCI6 ’ the second h'ghe«t thiazine or some other worm control treatment T®
Topping the fmit economy of The h ’ Story llon o: tne flock to several pastures is also a good P> 1C
1-st this week -re watermel- Wheat yield is exnec ed to to reducs eternal parasite trouble JC
ens, bluebe—s cherries, avernge a record 31 bushels TO BU/ CERTIFIED SEED Many farmers au‘ al!( |f
and cantalounes Local ap- an acre t g .1 placing their orders for fall gram planting, tins r ' CIJ t .
oles for cnovms purposes 16 j m Son buSel crop portam ,f he desired type and quality of seed m ’<>
L^di^M^TranTiarSit 1 Ire Harve ted acreage is 3 per ' tamed Tae use of ccrtlfied seed is ai ways a good F’
Vically grown -nd they mark Under la ?f yaar - bu , the to preve; - ae 3pread of w -" ds snd dl S eaFe m
the entry of what promises £ rop VVill , be ° n ya ' wlth chc L > result in very expensive expe-wo-c
in bean excellent apple sup- boat 2 P er cem be ow 1960. TO ACCLIMATE THE FIRST-CALF HEIFER—M® I '.
ply in 1961 A few, early a as in ‘south- o wner_ w be handling first-ca i heifers in li' l ' 3
peaches from ’oral orchards 1^ s , a sevca months T 1 ese animals are entering into an cnURh ,
'vill arrive this weekend in phase of ex » ance and should be broken m graao 1 $
nearby stores and in spite gng ' as hcen ser om. m , f k „ bert j Handing ihem
ram _ rmahtv ic localized areas, but . not ex- aauy rouJ '- e 01 me mx Klng ncrct wanahn g tnem ~1
veiv good Peom P ected to lower y ie l d s great- milking cows and working with them daily at ens' “ a je
S.„ J% ha™o h"gh y- ttashentng w.U result ih easier trauune *
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Too Late!’
Danger At Home
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11.1 44, 12 1-3
Devotional Heading: John 13 I II
Women Friends
Lesson for July 2J, 1961
IT IS a big mistake to suppose
that a man cannot make
friends with a woman without
getting tangled up in tomance
Too many good men have had
long-trusted women friends who
never wanted romance. A prime
illustration is m
the stoiy of Jesus
Our Lord seemed
remarkable to his
contemporaries In
many ways, and
among these was
the fact that al
though a teacher
of religion, he did
not hesitate to
Dr. Foreman make friends ol
women a§ well as men. The offi
cial teachers of religion, the
Pharisees, leaned over backward
never to be friendly with women.
Some of them were even called
“bleeding Pharisees,” getting
their foreheads banged up by
running into trees and poles
with their eyes shut tight for
fear of seeing a woman!
H* Gav* Them Tim*
Jesus, let it be said again, never
was “entangled” with any woman
His worst enemies would have
liked, no doubt, to smear his rep
utation, but he never gave them
the least chance But Jesus did
have some warm fi lends who
v. ere women, among these the
best-known to us being Mary,
and Martha of Bethanj. He nevei
brought them flowei s nor any
usual presents Yet he did give
them what friends always desne,
and so made his fucndship with
these two women a kind of model
for friends evexywheie and al
ways. Fust of all, he gave them
time. He had nothing to get out of
them, he did not need to convert
them for they were alieady his
loyal believeis and fucnds He
spent time m their home just sit
ting and talking, he went 4 to at
least one dinner paity there
Friendship calls for leisine, it will
not upcn m a huny.
Now Is The- Time ♦ . .
BY MAX SMITH
i Barvr Th*m UndartUndini
MpiS^' wSrfVbn and ohilclr e "*
aliice Ift wanting to bo u J'i
lock Understanding snip. “1
ie is simply '(only ,f
uplo.O a matter of
iirsclt in the dther Per j
ide. seeing and feeling
~‘SL and feels This is pai u cl ,i
ifficiilt when a man (;, es ::
understand a woman, and
versa, just foi the icjc on *
man can never really bo ,i Vlols ‘
nor she' a man. Men, to save«
trouble'of tiymg to understj"
too often Hunk that lomanc,' 1
a fair substitute, which of coj.'
it isn’t. Even lomance vuk
understanding "goes
soon enough Now Jesus
stood Mai tha and Maiy. 'i| ICJ
different temperaments,
sisters. Jesus never sug ge , ([
that Martha should bo anou, (
Mary, nor Mary another
Jesus knew what they tv ere
he knew what to say to eac’.i®,
tn the most embarrassing S!la *'
tions, as w hen Mary biokt *
ointment over Jesus’ head, o',
people might laugh or feci,,
dignant, but not Jesus, He 0
understand why it had been dor
he knew’ what was 211 jfaij
heart.
He Gave Them Help
Jesus gave these two Xilejid 1(
his what cannot well be
without understanding.—ran-f
help. Trying to help some on t ,
do not undei stand is v,a ; ; ;
effort. Jesus did not help u le
women with money. They v l(]
evidently better off than he, n
had “no place to lay his head
But he "gave them help that
longer-lasting and no doubt %
cheushcd than financial i
physical help could ha\e b;,;
How can the poor help the he
They can help only if they t,;
something those they wish tote
do not have. This was the c.
there at the home of Martin j
Mary. Then time of soio trot 1
came with the death of their k
brothei, Lazarus Jesus guest
sisters help on the deepest let
It would have been astountc
news, and most welcome be<i4
if Jesus had said to them suin'
“Do not cty Youi brolw
going to come ba”k to liii
Instead of telling them hf
about to peifoim a mi a .
miracle, possibly the only one
that town,—mstead of <ai.
“Your bi other will bo b
again.” ho says, ’“I am (hr
rectum and the Ule.” To
what that meant, and to itsp:
to it as Maltha did is to nee
help that never grows le s
(Based on outlines tonjnhiffl
the Division of CM'stnn rJ«J
National Council .of t‘ic ('uu sc !
Christ in the V K S A UeicJan)
Community t’ic&s Service)
TO ADJUST FIRE INSURANCE COVER
AGE—Property owners are reminded d
the danger of being under-insured, the
placement value of all types of shuctuit
changes wi h the increases.m cost of hb«
and materials. Some buildings may & 11
sured at the same figure as they were W
ed 20 or 30 years ago All owners are tt(
ed to check with their insurance agent I 1
be properly protected
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