—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, IJ/Tay 23, 1964
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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
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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
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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.
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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*