4— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11. 1967 From Where We Stand ♦.. The Solution To Pollution Is Everyone's Concern Pollution, like conservation, begins at home. Every pollutant has a source, and we all make our contributions some substantial, some small. Pollution needs to be separated in to two kinds: Air and Water. Although each is important, we’re concerned here primarily with foul air. Yes, even in Lancaster County. And the closer you live to the metropolitan area, the more you will agree, we are sure. On the grounds that air moves freely from state to state and across wide regions of the country, the federal government is probably on the verge of a sweeping control measure. Maybe this will be the ultimate solution to this growing problem. For certain it will un-_ less local and regional communities get on the ball real soon. A federal law is already putting pressure on the automobile manufac turers requiring new cars to be equipp ed with air pollution control devices on the exhaust systems. This is one area in which the federal government can act meaningfully, and must. We’ve seen very little written about controlling excess exhaust on buses and trucks. With most of these emitting huge clouds of incompletely burned diesel fuel, controlling car ex hausts and not truck and bus fumes would be an inadequate measure. But air pollution is not someone else’s problem. It is ours, it is here, and it has no wav to get but worse. But we do have a choice we can wait for Uncle Sam to step m with general solu tions for specific cases, or we can make a beginning in each community, and en courage and support efforts at the state level If we continue to wait, the decision PANEL OF LOCAL DAIRYMEN at Tuesday’s County Dairy Day are from left: Rohrer Witmer, J Mowery Frey, Jr , William Arrowsmith, and Mrs Herbert Royer All panelists had herds averaging over 500 pounds of fat last year. Stand ing is Harry Mumma, president of the Lancaster County Guernsey Breeders Assn , who served as toastmaster. L - P Photo • County Dairy Day 'Continued trom i) said he had a somewhat lower conception late than that last yeai, but had since corrected the problem , All waited between 60-90 days after calving for lebreed- LAIfCASTER PARKING I.»nca»ter County’* Own rat'ji Weekly PO Box 2IjG - Lotus’, Pa 1754.1 Office 22 i: Mam st, Lilit/, l'a 1T742 Phone: Lancaster Litit/ 530-2191 Don Timmons, Jalitor Robert O Campbell, Advertising Director < Subscription price J 2 per viar In Lancaster Countv , T 3 elsewhere Established November 4, 19^5 Published even Satin (lav bv Lancaster Farming, Litit/., f?k Second Class Postage paid.'kt Xait iiz. Pa 17543 ," Ing, and allowed an eight-week cliy period Although panelists reported induidual cows might have a ‘ bad quartei ” now and then, none felt mastitis was a par ticulai problem in his herd. HOUSING SYSTEMS While each dairyman listed some degree of automation m his operation, none was auto mated to a high degree One Holstein breeder reported plans lo expand held size and to in stall extensive labor-saving equipment. , - ; l 194-4047 »r outlook; In loolufig; to the* future of- 5 cl any fanping /■ an Lancaster ‘ County, the group feR. strongly that the family farm operations that have been so important to •will be made for us, and we won’t like it! ★ ★ ★ Congratulations, LCFAI Our congratulations to the Lancas ter County Farmers’ Association mem bership committee for scoring another first for Pennsylvania’s number one agricultural county. According to a recent announce ment by the state farmers’ association, the county group became the first m Pennsylvania to reach the 1000-member level. This magic figure represents appro ximately 20 percent of the commercial farms in Lancaster County. It is fitting that so many farm families in the Gar den Spot should support this associa tion which believes in freedom of deci sion for the American farmer. The independent views of state and county associations of farmers are reflected on the national scene through the American Farm Bureau Federation. Detractors have labeled these views too conservative, and have charged AFBF with being in cahoots with large food chains, processors, and other industry giants, whom it is said will eventually enslave the American farmer. AFBF and its state and county branches feel, on the contrary, that if any single force seeks to enslave and manipulate our farmers it is the federal government. These organizations figure farmers are better off taking their chances in the market-place than in Washington. They prefer that decisions effecting farmers be made by farmers, not by an entrenched bureaucracy. We heartily applaud that stand, and believe it may be the salvation of the American farmer. In fact, couldn’t the whole country use a shot of that independent spirit about now? this area will continue to dom inate the dairy scene Most thought they would need to increase herd size mod erately, and would have to au tomate somewhat in the future There was general agreement, however, on the merit of con tinuing the effort to improve individual cow performance, lather than simply increasing herd size HERD HEALTH Another speaker. Dr Samuel Guss, Penn State University ex tension veterinarian, told the dairymen that the disease In fectious Bovine Rhinotrache itis, called IBR, or “Red Nose”, i r an increasing problem among dairy cattle. “There as no .good treat ment,” the veterinarian said. live and Justice Leiton for March 12, 1967 SaclfraunJ S<nptur* i.uW 19 21 through 213 V, Dav»h*r»| RM4m|‘ 2 Imiothy 4 I -I. A woman vat counselling with her pastor and admitted that she was nursing a long standing grudge against her neighbor. The neighbor had done something which she felt she could not forgive. "But don’t you think God has forgiven her?” the clergy man asked, "Yes,” repliedthe woman, "but then it is much easier for him to forgive!” Many people seem to share Rev. Althouse assumption that forgiveness is an easy task for the Deity. In W. H. Auden’s Christmas oratorio. For The Time Being, a character remarks "1 like committing crimes. God likes forgiving them. Really, the world is admirably arranged.’ But it is not so: forgiveness is not easy for God or man not if w< take sin seriously. Another Way How does one handle the fad of sin? One response to sin is to refuse to forgive it. Another is to give the appearance of forgiving without really forgiving (to "for give” without "forgetting”). Still another response to sin is to over look it. The first and second re sponses take sin too seriously and the third doesn’t take it sen ously enough. Surely there must be anothei way to respond to sin. There is to pay the cost of sin in redemp tive love. This response takes sir seriously, but it takes love ever more seriously It acknowledge* the terrible power of sin and doe* not overlook it, but it also recog mzes that long-suffering love i* even more powerful. Someone has said, "You can not learn to forgive until yoi learn to judge ’ This may sounc strange for many of us mis Now Is The Time . . . By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Plan For Strawberry Plantings The planting of a new strawbeiry patch 01 held includes the vei.v early setting out ol the plants, in this aiea we refer to late March oi early April depending upon weath er conditions Early set plants get a better stait and develop more runner plants early in the season that aie more productive than runners set late in the summer An exten sion cncular is available on strawberry pro duction To Graze Cautiously Livestock should be introduced to lush spring growth of forage glasses gradually: m the very near future some fields of winter rye 01 other grasses that come early in the spring will be making some suDt if allowed too much of giuoiwith Good management the new growth eaiily m the stotos 'Unit the hsi'd or flock season should b’e allowed to glare these annas foti not moi e than a hallf houi for the first sev- emal times and than only aifte'.i It is difficult to say itha't one consumiing day malter s'lioh as feii.liuzer element is mode im hd'y or silage Serious bloaluing poutainlt than the others, but 01 digestive trouble may ie- Silnice l nitrogen is 'neicponlsible for plamt cell development and greater plabt size. I'd Like to adding that “wheie IBR is con- point out the impomtamee of cerned, a health ceitificate is proper placement amd usage, meaningless " PlteirJ'is such as the grasses amd Guss advised any dairymen conn depend considerably upon bringing new animals into their the amount of nitrogen avail herds should isolate them for able In most oaSes nitrogen 30 days to be certain they wall not i amain m the soil v’eren’t carrying IBR. from-year lo year as otheir ele ments -do, 'this meatus that sup- NEW MILK p]|jei 5 should be furnished an- QUALITY PROGRAM busily for to'p yields. Grawens The veterinarian also told a | lte lwl g e d to become familiar dairymen about a new milk W1 jtjy place of sufficient (Continued on Page 6) nitrogen for expected y^lds 1 . (akenly understand forgiveness as the act of overlooking tin, of failing to fake it seriously. This kind of forgiveness is little more than an Indulgent pat on the head and an assurance that "it doesn’t matter,” It is, however, a worthless forgiveness. If my sin against you "doesn’t matter,’* than your forgiveness is not worth much because it didn’t cost you anything to give it. Only when my sin really matters, when it is painful to you, when it costs you something in pain or loss, is your forgiveness to me a precious thing, a gift I do not deserve. What Justice Demands So it is with the forgiveness oi God. He does not "like forgiving" our sins. They are painful to him. He cannot overlook them. We sin so brazenly, flaunting our will so rebelliously before him, that he cannot fail to know and care. He does not smile indulgent ly and tell us not to worry. It is judgment he gives us and it is only because he judges us that his forgiveness is precious to us. We see the pain of our sin re flected in the parable of the vine yard. There is pain in the failure of the tenants to acknowledge the owner of the vineyard. It does not belong to them, yet they act as if it did. ("This is my Father’s world,” we sing, but we act as if it really belonged to us.) There is pain m their constant refusal to heed his messengers. Even when he gives them every chance to do the right thing, they reject him. There is that greatest of pain in their rejection and fatal violence to his very oun son.. Miracle of Forgiveness God cannot overlook sa much pain. He cannot make believe it never happened; his sense of righteousness will not allow him to do that. He must pronounce his judgment: ”He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others.” It is at this same point, how ever, that God performs the greatest of all his miracles; having pronounced the judgment, he takes the price of that judg ment upon himself and pays it. The destructive reality of man’s sin is staggering; it cannot be denied. But the redemptive reality of God’s love is even greater. God gives us no cheap grace. It is a forgiveness that is precious because its price is great. Be cause he loves us, he judges us. Because he judges us, his love has the power to save us. (ftasod on outlmos copynghtod by tho Owtsion of Christian Education National Council of tho Churchos of Christ in tho U, S. A. Rtloosod by Community Pros* Sorv/ctJ To Recognize ( The Value 0£ Nitrogen SMITH
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