Fawning, -Saturday,. December. 3, >1966 ■
From Where We Stand...
Two Good Men, Tried And True
, , We were very pleased to read re
cently that Governor-elect Raymond
. Shafer had asked Scranton-administra
tion secretaries Lee Bull and Maurice
Goddard to stay on as members of his
cabinet.
These are two men who have serv
ed Pennsylvania well. Undoubtedly,
there were many other worthy men in
Scranton’s cabinet, but these two
Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary
of Forests and Waters, respectively
. are perhaps best known to those of us
concerned with agriculture.
Goddard, nationally known conser
’ vationist, will be serving with his four
th governor. He was named to the for
ests and waters post in 1955 by Gover
nor Leader and reappointed by the three
successive governors.
Leland H. Bull was appointed by
Governor Scranton in December, 1962,
and has been both popular and effective
a difficult combination for a public
figure to carry off, incidentally.
Bull came to his post with a solid
agricultural background of nine years
as Centre County agent and several
years as assistant agent in other coun
ties. He has administered his secretarial
duties well. We think Shafer has made
- two excellent choices.
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Around Livestock Too Long?
Human beings have been suffering
from “foot-in-the-mouth” maladies pro
bably since time began, but we heard a
new twist on that ancient problem this
week. An Associated Press report out of
England told about a farm worker who
e had apparently contracted the dreaded
hoof and mouth disease of cattle.
On learning that he had the dubious
honor of being the first known Briton to
suffer from the disease, farm worker
Bob Brewis roared with laughter.
“My only worry was that I might
have to be destroyed,” he quipped. Guess,
it’s convenient to have a good sense of
humor under such circumstances.
An epidemic of hoof and mouth had
raged through the county where Brewis
land; Fanners Home Admin-
Animal Accommodations At State fS,
Farm Show Face Standing Room £“ ‘ST2 So
HARRISBURG Not even quarters for a relaxed atmos- P m - m high school agri
standing room accommodations phere. culture room,
were available this week for Mann was confronted with Part 11 °* Farm Financing
an overflow of dairy and live- the task of paring the entry 15 scheduled for the following
stock entries for the 51st Penn- list down to size With dairy Tuesday evening, and will fea
sylvama State Farm Show, Jan- cattle this was not difficult ture a discussion of invest
uary 9 to 13 Hoi ace L Mann, since they are accepted on a men, t of farm profits, and buy
director, said surplus horses, “first come” basis Swine in S selling real estate
cattle, hogs and sheep would breeders were assisting with classes will be held on
have to be scratched He was adjustments in that depart- Tuesdays and will begin at
“juggling” stalls and pens to ment Sheep were more of a 1 30 P m
accommodate a maximum num- pioblem because of laige en-
ber. _ tries in several breeds * *jr i , •
Entries totaled 2,382 Horses, Less difficulty was expected AFCJI JriOlSk6lH
at 130, were 35 over their quo- in other departments where f 1/ TT p •
ta Dany cattle exceeded a 640 entry numbers have conformed DCfltS /2“ 1 Oil T clt
"quota by 167 head Beef cat- moie neaily to available space. IVI—mL. tTi.l. Ti a
tie stayed within limits at 311, In some of them, entries will IVidlK oIH 11X116
but both hogs, 347, and sheep, not close until nearer show ... ,
. 387, far exceeded a combined time Anotner official production
■ 250-pen capacity, with the ex- r f ° rd exceeding a half ton
' act number of acceptances still of , buttermt has been complet
to be determined. Garden Snot Farmer £ y Caernai T n J Gr t en l '? od
Unlike spectators, for whom T Ellen, a registered Holstein
“standing room only” is the C,asses Starting; To cow owned by Andrew D.
rule, all livestock that gams Feature Finance Talks tzfas ’ Elverson ;This IS the
” admittance will have ample „ , tim ® .I 135
The Garden Spot High achieved the 1,000 lb. butter
■ —— School Young-Aduit Fanner fat production level in a sih
, HA.XCASTSK takhiito classes will start next week, ac- gle lactation. “Ellen” is the
" , . „ . , - _ cording to vocational agncul- 18th Registered Holstein cow
£»caater County’* Own Farm ; ° , _ , , ™ , ,
- < Weakly “ ture instructor Robert Elmer, to have completed this feat.
p,o Box 26G - Lint?, Pa 17543 The first meeting, set for This record ranks among 2,154
office '22 k M.nn st, December 6, will feature a similaiiy completed by Regas-
Pa ithi panel of financial experts who tered Holstein cows on official
Phone; lamaster 394-3047 or n
Lrtitz 62fi-2i9i will Fin3ncin|£ txlG x6£l
Don Timmons, iiditor Farm Business—Part I”, and The Elveison Holstein’s of-
R °Dnefior Campbell, AcU ertlsln s' answer questions’ on. {he s,ub- ficial record 6f production -to^
Subscription pi ice ?2 per \ car, in J6C-t. taled 21,213 lbs Of milk. 1,019
? Established 7 'xo"ember 11116 P anel will consist of rep- lbs of butterfat and 1,859 lbs.
\ Published saturdae ' b'\ resentatives from the Blue Ball solids-not-fat m 365 days. She
| Lancaster Farming, Litii/., Pa National Bank; Farmers Na- started her lactation at the
i Second Cla-st. Postage paid l at . , „ , . rr. _
r Diulz; pa XT343 ‘ tional Bank & Trust, New Hoi- age of 13 years and 5 months
worked on his brother’s farm. Some 45,-
000 sheep, cattle, and pigs had been shot
as a result.
Brewis broke out with blisters on
his hands and in his mouth, and a lab
oratory test later confirmed his doctor’s
diagnosis. The only other two cases of
humans infected with the disease known
to experts occurred in Germany and
Denmark, the report said.
We knew a poultry professor about
16 years ago who actually contracted
Newcastle disease while vaccinating pul
lets, There have been occasional such
cases reported, especially in the early
days of vaccinating for Newcastle when
vaccines were often carelessly handled.
Did you ever think what a
mess civilization might become if hu
mans suddenly developed susceptibility
to the many animal and poultry
diseases?
The veterinary labs would be so
crowded we not only wouldn’t be able
to get our vets out to visit sick livestock,
we probably would have to start taking
our small animals to the medical doctors
for treatment.
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More Women Vets
According to the American Veter
inary Medical Association, the trend to
ward more women enrolling in U.S. vet
erinary schools and colleges is continu
ing.
AVMA said that for the 1966-67
school year, about 18 percent more
women enrolled. While this percentage
sounds quite high, it only really rep
resents a gain of 45 students nationally.
But it does reflect the trend.
Women presently represent about
six percent of the nation’s total veter
inary student enrollment, but they’re
gaining.
There are now a record.43BB stu
dents studying veterinary medicine in
the nation’s 18 schools and colleges,
AVMA said. Other sources of informa
tion predict a continually increasing
need for more veterinarians.
' So,' girls and boys, too if you
like working with animals, perhaps this
is a field you should consider.
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Some thing To Change
Lesson For DeccmlKr 4, 1966
lockgravrul Scnptura Isaiah 9 2 7.)! 19.
D«v*(i«nal Reading 'loiah 92 7
Standing before the congre
gation ot a small church near his
summer home in Heath, Mass.,
one summer morning in 1934,
theologian lleinhold Xiebuhi
prayed: "0 God, give us seren
ity to accept what cannot be
changed, cou
rage to change
what must be
changed, and
wisdom to dis
tinguish one
from the other."
At the close
of the service,
H. C. .Robbins, a
summer neigh-
Rev. Althouse bor, asked if lu
might have a copy ot the praj ci
and was handed Hie oiiginal
with these words "Here, takt
the prayer. I have no further ust
for it.” What Niebuhr discarded
so casually, Christians every
where have reached for grate
fully and today its three petitions
are frequently repeated and
paraphrased.
The Uninevitable
Three petitions for serenity
to accept, for courage to change,
for wisdom to distinguish. The
most crucial of these today, per
haps, is the "wisdom to distin
guish” between what can and
cannot be changed. Too many ol
us are engaged in a frantic quest
for serenity in a world we
assume we cannot change.
Among the "given things” of this
world which we accept with
fatalistic resignation is WAR-.We
talk about s 'the~next war” as if it
were an inevitability'.. "
A minister of a large church
recently scheduled a Sundaj
evening, forum on the subject;
"The Christian And The Race For
Peace.” Five people were all
who came and three of these
were people who had forgotten
the nature of the subject, coming
out of loyalty to the minister.
Explained one absent-member
of the official board, "I didn’t
come because there didn’t seem
to be anything to discuss: it’s out
Now Is The Time .. *
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Mulch Strawberries
Severe winters are often very hard on
strawberry crops, but applying a mulch late
in the fall will help produce a good crop of
berries for next summer A covering of 2 to
3 inches of wheat straw, or some other light,
weed-free material, applied when the ground
begins to freeze will help control ground
temperatures and prevent heaving from in
termittent freezing and thawing Some of the
mulch may be left between the rows next
spring and thus produce cleaner fruit
To Care For Heifers
Dairy herd replacements are getting more
expensive and the real good ones are hard to
find We suggest that the best of care be pro- SMITH
vided for the heifer calves be- of a complete set of farm rec
oause they will be the milking ords is very important Farm
herd in just a few years. Spe- mg today is a very complex
eial quarters that are. warm, business and accurate records
dry, and di aft-free are very are essential. If the farm rec
important for the first several ords of the past years have
months. Some attention to bet- not been satisfactory, we sug
ter calf growing practices is ap- gest that special attention be
propfiate on-many dairy farms, given now to impioved rec-
To Keep Farm Records ords so that they will he start-
In planning for the 1967 ed the first of the year,
farming program the keeping
The value* of jade 1 ' found in
and was milked two' 'times 'the,U S. is about tithes'that
daily- », - of diamonds arfpttrfd I '-here.
“Ellen” was bred in the herd ——4-r —''
of Naaman Stoltzfus, Morgan-'** ciewihi can be re
town. She was sired by Green- moved' from most everything
woodmaster, a bull that has by tossing the article into the
earned Gold Medal Sire rec- deep freeze. After it’s frozen,
ogmtdon. gum comes off in a wink.
'cf jburjhnndi. If war commit
lcbmei,'‘“«nd If It'‘doesn't, It
doesn’t there’s nqthing wg cun
do one way or the other. This
man chose to prny for serenity
In the face of something he was
sure he couldn’t change.
This is probably the majority
view. From the perspective <•{
immediate action or response,
it is true. Nothing I do today w ill
persuade the North Vietnamese
to remove their troops ftom
South Viet Nam, nor influence
the reunion of Her many, nor
end the persecution in South
Africa. No deed I could do, ro
word I could say will case the
threat of atomic destruction that
hangs by a thread over the
world. Neither I nor my nc\t
door neighbor can constiucth cly
change tne 'world today, tomor
row, or next week. So how can
the individual Christian have
any responsibility fur world
peace?
Saving Face, Losing Soul
Someone has said, "Mv neigh
borhood is the world in mini
ature.” What he meant, oi
course, is that the world reflects
at large the specific human piub
lems and resources which pro
vide the dynamics that opeiate
betwreen people in a local com
munity. Basically, both a y com
munity and my world arc
governed by the print.p'e ol
returning evil for e\il. hhis
principle goes by maiv names:
"honor,” "face,” "courage,” "self
preservation, ’ "justice,” etc, but
the essence is always s,fme.
My desire is lor peace, rry lell
gious convictions counse lo\ e,
but my "honor’ requires that J
return the blow I receive
Peace among nations can
hardly be achieved so. long as
individual men live be the law
of "eye for eye” and ' tooth for
tooth.” Almost daily we read the
letters-to-the-editors of loose who
w'ant to salvage American honor,
return insult for insult, threat foi
threat, bomb now pray later.
If ever the way of Christ is to
prevail we must begin to witness
to the conviction that love is
more powerful than retaliation,
that it is necessary to. ' bless
those who curse you,” to.'repay
no one evil for evil,” to leave
vengeance to God alone. We
will never-overcome evil with
more evil.
Paul says, "So far as it de
pends upon you, live peacably
with all . . God gr e us the
wisdom to understand the extent
to which responsibility for world
peace does rest upon us and tc
know that war is something wt
can change.
•n •uHmts capyrighlMl by thaOivifian
•f Christian Education, National Council of th#
Church#* of Christ m tha U, S. A by
Community Prasi Strvrca.)
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