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
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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-
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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!
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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
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(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