—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 24, 1965
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From Where We Stand,..
WANTED! FARMERS
Alive, Not Dead!
Do you thank of fanning as a dan
gerous occupation? If you don’t, then
perhaps you are one of the extra care
ful ones who doesn’t have accidents on
his farm because he avoids setting-up
accident-producing situations. If you
are in that very small group, we con
gratulate you!
But chances are you are in the ma
jority group, even though you may not
realize it. Figures show that fanning
accounts for more occupational deaths
each year than any other single industry
in the United States. In fact, agriculture
is the only major industry to show a
gradual increase in injury and death
per number of workers during the past
15 years During 1964, 2400 men and
women lost their lives while working
on U. S. farms. And fatal accident fi
gures comprise only a small portion of
the total injuries sustained For every
fatal accident there are probably 100
serious, crippling injuries sustained, ac
cording to the National' Safety Council.
This is a grim subject to talk about
on a race summer’s day, but not talking
about it isn’t going to make it go away,
is it? And with Farm Safety Week being
“celebrated” next week perhaps this is
a good time to start a campaign on
your farm that will protect you and
your family throughout the year It- is
up to each individual farm family, you
know, to safety-proof its own farm
There is no government 'agency to come
around to force you to do it thank
goodness'
Danger on the farm lurks in many
forms machinery, electricity, chemi
cals, fuels, structural weaknesses in
buildings, debris apd other booby-traps
around the farmstead A general cleanup
campaign might be a good place to start.
Old bits of baling wire, broken glass,
rusty nails, rickety stairs, loose boards,
etc.
This time of year the greatest dan
ger may be the tractor and other pieces
of heavy machinery you operate from
dawn to dusk, or longer. The power
takeoff unit is one real hazard in tractor
operation, especially when the shield
provided by the manufacturer is left
hanging in the equipment shed where it
can’t help anyone Some farmers still
operating the pull-'type corn pickers are
in peril when they get down off the
tractor to remove a clog from the pick
er’s moving parts without first turning
off the machinery.
A tractor can also kill by bucking a
rider off its back right into the path of
following equipment These riders are
usually children who wanted to ride
along to “help Daddy work” Unless
children are old enough, and are actual
ly operating the tractor, they should be
kept awav from the site of field work
There was one child killed in the county
this week bv a tractor we understand,
in spite of the fact the father had ap-
• Regional Contest pu , bhc 3peakmg contest He
(Continued from Page 1) spoke on "How Much Educa-
Manetta Rl, learned up to win tion Do I Need 9"
the livestock conseivation di- Othei county entiants wm
vuuon with a demonstration rung blue iiibbons, hut not
called Shape Up and Ship qualifying for the state finals
weie Barbaia Gockley, New
John Frey, Quanyville R 2, Holland Rl, Sara Roden, Eph
was the winner in the (boy’s ra ta R 3 Both competed in
the clothing selection division.
Lancaster Farming Earning led ribbons were
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Re ' be T cca , Kbng ’ “° un *
Weekly and Lmda 'Marietta Rl,
P. 0. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. in clothin § construction; and
Offices: ’ Gerald Wagner, QuarryviUe
22 E Mam St
Phoned Lancaster h Pres ? ntec l „ whlte J lh ~
394-3047 or bons were Robert Henry, New
" Lititz 626-2191 Providence Rl, forestry, Den-
Don Timmons, Editor nis Allen > Quarryville R 2, for
Robert G Campbell, Adver- P°ußry pioduction: June
fiiing Dueetor' Smoker, Goidonville Rl, poul-
Established November 4, try foods, Daniel Rohrer,
1955 Published every Satur- Manheim Rl, and Pat Roberts,
'day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- Mount Joy Rl, tractor main-
P*- tenance.
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parently taken every precaution to be
certain the children were out of the
way.
Some accidents are going to hap
pen regardless of precautions, but so
many could be avoided if each farmer
would systematically develop a safety
program for his farm, and would edu
cate the rest of the family to follow
it, allowing no deviations. The few
seconds sometimes saved by grabbing
the wrong tool for the job just because
it’s handy, or by just plain thoughtless
ness, can be the most costly few seconds
of your life and perhaps your last!
What Do-YOU Think?
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Great- Grandma Was About
25 Percent Clothes
Assuming Great Grandmother was
a lady of the Victorian era, one of her
biggest and heaviest problems was
clothes. According to the Maytag Ency
clopedia, ladies prior to the turn of the
century wore as much as 40 pounds of
clothing. The fashion of that day called
for a wasp-waist, bustled in the back.
To achieve this magnificent effect, the
ladies wore whalebone corseting, bustle
padding, petticoats and dresses that
weighed altogether about 40 pounds!
No wonder washday earned its pre
sent ugly reputation. Although condi
tions may not have been quite so primi
tive in those relatively recent times to
require the beating of clothes on rocks
down by the creek, at least not in the
towns and cities, neither were there any
fancy automatic washing machines. The
encyclopedia tells us the job was done
outdoors, usually in a kettle of boiling
water. A clothesline, fence, or bushes
were used for drying.
Now these old gals didn’t have
any of the jingle-singing, do-it-all deter
gents that modern housewives depend
on They used such materials as lye
soap (usually homemade) shaved into
flakes in the wash water, starch, bluing,
a flour-and water plus “elbow
grease” compound for dirty spots, and
a broomstick for stirring and retrieving
garments from the bubbling kettle
Wow!
And today? Well, the report sug
gests that the modern American wo
man may not wear much more than two
pounds of clothing including founda
tion garments, dress and shoes. And in
stead of spending a full day at launder
ing as her Great Grandmother did, she
averages less than one hour now.
While this general comparison is
interesting, and undoubtedly true to
some degree, it probably doesn’t help
the farmwife too much She still has to
snsnd if not full time —at least more
than an occasional hour in keeping Dad,
her self and the kids in clean clothes But
she seems to be gaining nerhans in
another 100 years the job really will
be reduced to one hour’
R 2, horse division.
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• Farm Calendar
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Homes Faun, Elizabethtown.
1-5 pm and 6 30-8 30
p m Corn Clinic at P L.
Rohrer & Son, Smoketown.
630 pm Vegetable
glowers meeting at PSU
Southeastern Field Research
Farm near Landisville.
645 pm (foul weather,
745 pm) County beekeep
ers meet at Daniel M Fitz
kee’s, Manheim R 2
July 31 9 am. County 4-if
Horse Show at Click’s ShoV
Ring, Leola
.4-8 p m Drumore 4H
Club Chicken Barbecue at
Holtwood Athletic Field.
Quarantines for hog chol
era put a “fence?’ around tihe
disease and help keep it
from spieadung to healthy
herds Observe quarantines—
help eradicate hog cholera.
THE A Not Ilk* ordinary books
To}f?fr)T? TSI /1 Those who best know the Bible
■* *>3/ U / have discovered that it Is not
JmV CDC* A any other book. As J. B.
\ ~5 Phillips, a modern translator of
. jthe Bible into everyday English,
' ''jhas said, working intimately with
LV :T ~
_ —*Uj !•*-
the Bible is like repairing an old
house and suddenly getting a
shock because the electricity is
still on. There is a flash of die*
covery, a personal meeting be
tween the reader and an unseen
Spirit, a surge of power, a rebuke
that reaches behind our stupid
_J excuses, our pretenses and dis
f«ekgi«um4 Scriftum Act* 17 10-12: honesty, reaches in and wounds
flomanj 15 <-6,i Timothy 4 J 3-16; our pride where it hurts the most.
S«T*ti«nd Pmim 119.33-to. The stories of persons who have
. been turned around, their whole
egg-head religions, lives revolutionized, by simply
- but Christianity is not one of reading the Bible, are too numer
them. There are, to be sure, some ous an d too striking to shrug off.
things in Christian theology what the readers of the Bible
i 1 j e Sg-head« can under- through the generations have dis
- • sre5 re *** som ® things covered, in short, is that the Bible
in Christian experience which j s inspired. Paul may have said
' even an egg-head this first, but a great chorus of
bannot under- Bible readers agree with him.
stand. Now there is nothing magic about
But. the main the Bible. Reading a few verses
feature of Chris- before going to bed, like a charm
tian life is being won’t work. It’s not the mechani
and doing rather cal reading of the words that
than merely counts; it’s humble contact with
knowing. Very .the truth within the words, that
Seldom is know- has transforming power.
Dr- Foreman tog praised or re- Food for the man of God
commended to the Bible for its _. . „ , -
own sake. The general viewpoint . T £ e expression man °f God
of the Word of God is expressed ’ s oft f , us f to describe a minis
in a phrase out of a long tradi- ter-, ® ut »t should describe any
tlon: “Truth is in order to good- Chnstian - y° u aren t God s
ness.” Not that knowing Is un- man > than whose are ou .
important! Ignorance never was ™ en and women are all who have
a virtue, and it can be quite dan- the I s P l f lt of God and try sin
gerous for all concerned. ffrey to do what Jesus called
the “weightier matters,’ justice,
The Religion of a Book mercy, faith, the love of God.
We may well be grateful that Such persons, whether children
Christianity is the religion of a or grown persons, poor and ob
book. Not the only one of that scure or gifted and influential,
kind; there is not one of the all who desire to do God’s will
great religions of the world which are missing a great source of
does not have its own book. (By spiritual health, missing the in •
the way, if you want to compare dispensable Book of “encourage
leligions, why not compare their ment and hope” as Paul calls x*
sacred books? You will likely elsewhere, if they do not study
come back with relief and grati- (not just read) God’s Word, A
tude to the religion of the Bible.) Christian ignorant of his Bible is
The point here is that if this is a shrunken, half-fed Christian
true, if we Christians are taught robbing himself cf the spiritual
to listen for the voice of God in vitamins his spirit needs. The
our Scriptures, then there is no study of this book prepares a mar.
substitute for knowing what the of God for “every good woik ”
Scriptures say and what they For contact With the living God,
mean. The Bible is not a spe- for service to living men, there
cialist’s book, though specialists is no resource that takes the place
help us all to understand it. It of the Book wheiem God speaks
is not a book for preachers only, to all men.
InloraiUotl
Sunday School Louono
The Book to Study
Lesion for July 25, 1965
though as teachers and preachers
of the Bible ministers ought to
have special skill in interpreting
and using the Bible. This book
is for every one.
Now Is The Time * . .
To Get Livestock Handling Equipment
The county is well known for its cattle
feeding piocluction, we have over two thou
sand faims that fatten cattle and many of
these have cattle twelve months of the year
Many feedeis are increasing the size of their
opeiations and theiefoi e-have to handle moie
cattle They need pioper handling equipment
such as a small pen leading into a nairow
chute, and at the end a head gate in which
to lestiam the animal Many animals may
need individual treatment and these pieces
of equipment will i educe the excitement and
the amount of labor needed A loading chute
is also very essential on livestock farms We
call attention to these pieces of equipment
as necessaiy foi an efficient opeiation
To Inspect Self-Feeders
Many poultry, hog, and cattle producers continue to use
self-feeding methods to reduce labor. The self-feeder must be
built properly and adjusted correctly to let the feed down as
it is needed, many feeders be expected to do their part
are guilty of wasting from 3 in the milking line this fall
to 5 percent of the feed; this or a year 'from now, it is im
is poor management and portant that they have plenty
should not be allowed. Check of forage and water during
the feeders often to observe the hot summer months. In
their operation and to notice some cases, a hay rack may
any waste of feed. be needed in which good hay
_ „ , _ , is placed several times each
To Not Forgot the Heifers on W eek. The important' thing is
Pasture . . . The months of not to forget them and to ex-
SLrun s r-7 •rrS' pn
heifer raising program, this Vlae ®e feed autn
is the period that many heifers ents; many pastures will fall
are away from the barn and short of this demand during
the pasture might get too the hot, summer months.!!
short If the heifers are to
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