—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, IJ/Tay 23, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... Baby Animals Are Nature is pretty uncanny in tak ing care of her own. Every year about tills time many people pick up young wildlife, birds and animals, in the mistaken belief that the youngsters have been abandoned by their parents. In the vast majority of cases, these young animals and birds are not aban doned but are actually under the watch ful eye of their parents. Wild animals and birds are pretty resourceful at hid ing their nests and resting places from human beings, but sometimes the young are accidentally flushed from hiding and are easily captured by humans. With larger and larger numbers of vacationers roaming the woods during spring and summer, and with less and less land not under cultivation, the ability of wildlife to hide their young out of the reach of human beings is sorely tested. We laud the motive of anyone wanting to protect young animals, but we can not agree with the most common method picking up the young animal and taking it along home. Usually a wild animal can not be raised successfully in an artificial en vironment and will eventually die any way In the case of young animals actu ally abandoned or orphaned, a quick death in the wild is more merciful than a lingering death under the watchful eye of a human foster parent. But to repeat most of the young animals seen without their parents are not abandoned. Wildlife parents normal ly leave their young unattended much of the day. They feed or rest nearby and return to look after their offspring only occasionally. Furthermore, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials point out that it is a law violation to disturb the nests of all protected birds and animals. Game officials urge all persons who find nests of birds or the young of wild animals to avoid touching them and leave the vicinity immediately. Pennsylvania law provides for a penalty of SlOO for the illegal possession of a fawn deer, $2OO for a black bear, 525 for game birds and $lO for songbirds and small animals. In the few instances where it is definately known that wildlife parents have been killed and the young desert ed, persons are asked by .the Game Com mission to mark the nest or location and immediately contact any Commission County Hogs »^ ne ,n s t ck Arrive Safely 1 In Bombay, India Ostone Creek - OhK,) Ed, Note; The following is a • 4-H nl^ l . fr ° f m rr e ° f - th ! Unit f (Continued fiom Page 1) Church of Chnst ministers who accompanied a shipment of fieshments will be served, hogs from Lancaster County to Miss Virginia ‘Wivell, Colum- India as reported in Lancaster bia HI, said, Farming, May 9, 1964. ‘What’s jammed with excite- Dear Su You will be happv to know that all the pigs made the tup veiy well In exactly 33 horns and 3 minutes we leached Bom bay The pigs weie taken by tiuck to a government faun wheie 74 will lemain The iest will be divided between thiee othei fauns We saw them the day aftei oui amval and they looked excellent It is \eiv hot 110 degiees F heie but soon the lam will begin The\ get all of then rain at one time foi the entne ° „ O PS \eai Heie tney get about 100 am st inches in two months The big 11 z ’ ‘ l lob is to hold the watei Gieat pll ° ne - Lancaster stndes aie being made 31 1-3047 or Thank you so much foi help- Latalz G 2 3-2191 field officer, If a farmer accidentally destroys a pheasant or other bird’s nest during harvesting operations, he can usually get permission from the game protector to hatch the eggs if he agrees to free the birds as soon as they are large enough to care for, themselves. The conservation of wildlife is a project we all need to work toward, but displacing young animals and birds is not a good conservation practice. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. If the work week is getting short er all the time, why are we so busy? Every few years another “labor saving device” comes along to make our work lighter or quicker, but it seems we put in more hours than before. Automatic devices take much of the labor out of a job, and new methods eliminate many of the tedious processes and backbreaking chores, but it seems we are busier than ever. Household appliances have taken much of the drudgery out of housework, but still it seems that “a woman’s work is never done”. But we suppose that we just “seem” busy. We all know that business es catering to leisure time activity are growing by leaps and bounds. Numbers of people working for charity groups are larger than ever before, and volun teer groups are increasing in number and size all the time. Many of us feel that these organiza tions are worthy of our time, and we feel that we are not living up to our civic responsibilities if we do not don ate some of our freed time to one or more volunteer group. Some times we feel that we are so involved in “extra” work that we hard ly have time to do our jobs, but some how it all gets done. We believe in the old addage “If you want something done, give it to a busy man”. It is not the person who is always looking for something to do that gets things done. If they could accomplish the job, they wouldn’t have to look for something to do. The job seeks out the man. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. impiove their ■ment, “Coloiful and fiee? “Spoils an ougmal nanny' It’s the Spring Jamboree 1 ” Lancaster Farming jack Owen, Editor Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P 0 Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna Established November 4, P. O Box 20G - Lititz, Pa. 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- Abandoned Not ★ ★ ★ ★ Why So Busy? OIL INDUSTRY The petroleum industry was born in Pennsylvania when George H. Bissell and Jona than G Evelebh organized the Rock Oil Co. After months of dulling, Col Edwin H Drake struck the first oil well at Ti tusville on August 27, 1859. To day, Pennsylvania has thous ands of producing oil wells. It is the close observation of little things which is the secret hoot- of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit 1S P ro 'bl em is pres in life Samuel Smile. on ' mos * livestock farms and is one that needs atten tion several times during the summer season. In the first .place, a good sanitation pio giam will remove the bleed ing places of many flies and ic duce the population Where we find manure, iunk piles and other kinds of filth, we usual ly find largei numbeis of flies. Fly spiays should be used as an aid to reduce numbers. In the bains and buildings this yeai, the use of spiays con taining dimethoate should give good results New leaflets are available for controlling flies in both dairy and beef cattle barns. , Advertising Director iu, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of IMarcli 8, 1879. * ■ \ SPEAKS 15) E Christian Citizens Lesson for May 24,1964 Background Scripturo: Judges 9 7-15; Luke 20:19-26; Romani 13:1-7; I Peter 4:12-16. Devotional Beading; I Timothy 2:1-1. «rpHANK GOD for the police- A men!” “Thank God for the soldiers!” you might not expect to hear such remarks, hut they have been uttered, with the deepest sincerity, by many desperate peo ple. A city in China, deserted by the govern ment’s troops, and not yet with in reach of the rebel army, might for two or three dreadful days be without govern ment of any kind. Mobs did what they pleased. Dr. Foreman Likewise in Amer ica, citizens of certain southern towns have had to live through nights of terror when the state police were nowhere and again mobs did what they pleased. So people who never even noticed policemen or soldiers, before, thank God for them once they have had the experience of living without any government at all. The Government Wherever human Beings live in settled communities, there you will find government of some kind. Historically there have been all kinds, and we can see all kinds in the world today at the same time. At the time the New Testa ment was being written, all of its writers lived under the Roman Empire, though no Bible writer was a citizen except Saint Paul. Now the absolute monarchy which was the form of the Empire at that time, was not what an Amer ican would like. There was no possible way of changing the Em* peror. Then and Now So there was nothing much then that an individual could do about the Roman government. For the common man, politics did not exist. The only thing he could do was to accept the government^ Now Is The Time ... Farmers who had weevils on their fus< cutting of alfalfa and did not spray this spring, should spray the stubble soon after removing the first crop. The weevil will con tinue to live on the stubble and eat off any new growth Use either methoxychlor gu* thion, or diazinon If the first cutting was sprayed, during April or May, this stubble spray should not be needed. To Control Flea Beetles This small black insect may be a pi O' blem on various vegetable plants, corn and tobacco. It will eat small holes in the leaves MAX SMITH of the plant Control may be obtained by using a 1% Rotenone Dust or any Rotenone spray, or by using a DDT spray or dust Do not use DDT on Corn that is to be fed to livestock. The flea beetles will riddle the leaf and slow down plant growth. To Control Flies , obey the !»w», pay the tens, ail live u much of a Christian hfea the aituatlon permitted. Paul y speaking about government did not speak .to government. Thai would have been of no use. iS advice was intended to he praeffl cal. He counseled people in Roma to obey the Roman authorities aid pay their taxes and be glad thi government bad a big sword t| keep down mobs and criminals. ] Does this advide, given under a government harsher than that oi Hast Germany today, have anpi thing to say to us today? It can tainly has much to say to Chri« tians living under dictatorship! today. But what about free Amen ica? Here the government is you you-and the officials you elect. I you get a Tiberius by mistake y« can correct that mistake at the ra E M next election. You can write to your representatives in govern ment, you can get attention if nol immediate action. And of courau you, like the ancient Romans can pay taxes cheerfully and obey thS laws and respect the law-enforoJ ing arm of government. In g short sentence: As a Christian] you have a responsibility to youa community to do all in youa power to see that your cityj county, state and nation are well and effectively governed. Wha! about Tyrants? ’ ** Almost ever since the days of Paul, his words about obeying the “powers that be’* have been used to defend tyrants from criticism and attack. Kings in the Middle Ages thought they had a divine right to be kings. Political bossei today are less- religious than ancient kings, but just as greedy for power, to get and to keep it, as any Roman Caesar or any mod ern dictator. Did Paul mean, by his exhortation to obedience, that we are to take meekly any Na poleon or Hitler or Mao who comes along? Does Christianity support tyranny? No; said the early Christian martyrs, who died horrible deaths rather than obey the government’s depiands that they bum incense to Caesar or to pagan gods. No, said the Puri tans to King Charles I. No, say the Hungarian freedom fighters. A tyrant is one who by his tyran ny has lost the right to be con sidered a power “ordained of God." (Bued on outline* eopyritMed hr tie Dinsion of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in tfct u. S. A. Beleued br Cornmnaitr Pint seme#*/ BY MAX SMITH To Spray Alfalfa Stubble Be Careful with Weed Spray* During •the next few nee® many acres of corn ground vul! be sprayed for weed conti oL When using 2,4-© mateualS spray operators should 1)8 aware of the greater danger* of the ester forms and also* not to apply the spray "’hed air tempeiatuies are oiei 9® degrees Atrazme will ’> vor " very good on grass conti ol uj coin but extieme care should be used in not getting to® much mateual per acre to two-and-a half pounds P®? acre is enough We ma' harmful residues at gi eater amounts Wanting to work is so rare* merit that it should be encou ‘ aged. Abraham Lincoh*
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