4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 15.1967
From Where We Stand...
Poultry Lob For Lancaster County?
Following a meeting of interested
poisons with state agriculture secretary
Lcland Bull this week, the chance of gett
ing poultry diagnostics services here
whore the chickens are would seem a
good possibility.
Although no commitment was
either sought or made, the Secretary ap
peared willing to thoroughly explore the
matter. He suggested that facilities might
already exist here for such a center.
In addition it was pointed out that,
to make the venture more economically
attractive, a well-located diagnostic cen
ter could serve southern York County
poultrymen, as well, via the proposed
Holtwood bridge. The two counties com
bined represent 29 percent of the state’s
total poultry revenue; Lancaster County
alone accounts for about 23 percent.
While this effort to get a diagnostic
lab located here is not a new one, it
hasn't received any all-out attention re
cently. The Lancaster County Poultry
Association has taken the matter under
its wing as a project, and directors ini
tialed this week’s meeting with Secre
taiy Bull.
We feel the Secretary’s proposed al
ternative to building a completely new
laboratory by investigating the potential
facilities already here, has some merit.
Millersville State College would
probably be the best choice because of
its biological laboratories. Another pos
sibility would be one of the three voca
tional-technical schools which are sche
duled for completion in the county by
1969.
Your poultry association could use
some support on getting this project
sold In addition to becoming a member
of the association and making yourself
heard as the collective voice of Lancaster
County’s poultry industry, you could
give the association some factual am
munition such as How often do you
require diagnostic services for your
flock 9 Where do you take your birds
now’ How much time a year would it
save you if there were a lab available
here? How big is your poultry opera
tion ’
The time may come when this in
formation and your support could be
vital to the efforts to secure a diagnostic
laboratory for Lancaster County Let
your association know how you feel
on this important question
Permanently Temporary
“It is an age-old Washington and
bureaucratic axiom”, says Senator Wal
lace F Bennett of Utah, “that there is
nothing quite so permanent as a ‘tempor
ary government program ”
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consei vation foi that week was
on the way and would be dis
lubuled to newspapeis, and
othei communications media,
and aiea chinches
A tour by the nortnein and
southei n Lancaster County 4-H
conseiration clubs will beheld
Satuidav Apul 15, and will
leave liom the 4aion Stauffei
faim Ephiata RI, at 8 am,
it was announced The 4-H’ers
will see ten aces and water
ways in use on aiea taims, and
will visit the Miles W Fiy &
Son hybud poplai nuiseiy at
Ephrata R 3
FARM-CITY WEEK
CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK
It was also noted that a
roundup for the two 4H con
sei ration clubs will be held in
conjunction with the Distuct
duectois’ next meeting Penn
sylvania Faim & City Week
chan man Chailes Slaton will
be the featured speakei at the
joundup, scheduled foi May 8 Apul 20-1 30 pm, Aiea FFA
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at Ephiata High School Slaton,
who is public relations officei
lor the Soil Consei vation Seiv
ice, will be one ol the project
judges at the loundup The
othei judge will be Mac Hind
man, field lepiesentative loi
the State Soil & Watei Con
sei vation Commission
In other business, the direc
tors approved 14 new coopeia
tor agreements involving 1113
ici es SCS work unit conser
vationist Oival A Bass noted
that agieements are piesently
coming in “faster than the op
eiatois can do the woik”.
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-7 30 pm, Organizational
meeting, Garden Spot 4-H
Community Club, at Smoke
town Elementary School
Apul 19-7 30 pm, Lanchester
Landowners Assn, at Paul
Z Martin’s Sale Bain, Blue
Ball
The First 100 Years
They say the first 100 years are the
toughest, and that once you get those be
hind you the rest is a sleigh ride. We
may dispute that a little later, but first
we’d like to extend congratulations to
the Grange on completing its first 100
years.
Governor Raymond Shafer has
proclaimed April 17-23 Grange Week
in recognition of this milestone.
In doing so, the Governor noted the
“significant contributions to the develop
ment of rural America and an informed
citizenry . . . the Grange has provided a
vigorous voice for legislation to improve
conditions in rural Pennsylvania . . . the
Grange promotes the realization that
American agriculture must play a vital
role in the world’s war on hunger. . . .”
The Grange, since its 1867 organiza
tion as a family fraternity designed to
“create a better manhood and woman
hood" in the rural areas of America, has
grown tremendously and has been ef
fective in the social and legislative
arenas
kclf r«un4 Scnptur* Acts? U 47
Utvshanal Reading tsaiohsdl 13
Do you ever have any of those
days when, tired and troubled,
your normal defenses down, the
very worst in you bubbles to the
surface and has a field day?
When it is all over and we view
the wreckage wrought in a few
short minutes or
hours, we are ap
palled to think
that we had con
ducted ourselves
"like that.” The
sound of angry
words continues
to resound in our
ears and visions
of our childish-
Rev. Althouse ness linger to
haunt us. "How could I have
But as the number of farm folk con- done those thin S s9 ’
tinues to decline, the Grange and . A 1! of u ® have those days
, j. „ • ° n sometimes. Humamtv as a whole
ether such farm organizations will ’ nac j suc j. a day more than ranleen
have to turn its effectiveness more to- hundred years ago. On this day
ward the marketplace if they are to re- in one reckless afternoon, man
tain strong memberships. More and s j ind dropped his mask and
r ! £ • . . dared to be his worst self for a
more, we feel, farmers are going to sup- while. To consider tne cmci
port organizations helping to get them a fixion as the work of evil men
better price in the marketplace. long ago is one thing; to see it as
We certainly hope the Grange something in which lam m
n . , j .. ~i,„i „i. „ solved as a part of mamcmd is
will not abandon its idealistic philoso- £on else
phy of the social betterment of rural So it has always been On the
mankind, but feel it will have to move f is; day of Pentecost a crowd o 1
more positively in the economic areas, as c ? riou4 ’ people, startled by th'
11 j. , i , 1 i . , +l , „„ strange behavior of tire fohow art
well, if it is to look back with as much 0 f j esuS) wanted to know "Wha.
satisfaction on its second hundred years, does this mean?” Simon Peter. «
But taking one century at a time, we tall Galilean fisheiman, stepped
again say “a job well done” to Penn- forward to give an answer \U
i ■ / /-orr ... r, „,„i can imagine what he mav have
sylvania s 625 community Granges. felt. There was no prepared sei
Jf. Jf. mon in his hip pocket. He had nc
experience in addressing crowd;
Think Tall All he had wa ! tnc ?' ,1 7 w '-'
--hrring within hiui. Ana it v. as
Did you ever stop to think about the enough!
relationship between posture and atti- What Je3us Dd
tude? Its been well demonstrated that AUI , „, . .
, . i . ir Although Peter lenev nothin'-
the two travel together. about three-pemt sermons, h.s
One authority commented this answer to "What does this mean 1 ’
week that a child’s attitude toward his was thieefold Fust oi au he ie
school work, and toward the world in mmded f*? 6111 JcsUS ancl '•
, Vi , , ~ t- e had done ... a man v ,tl
general, can be observed by the way he
sits, stands, and walks One of the tell-
tale signs of deteriorating attitude, he
noted, is the so-called “teen-age slouch”.
While good posture is important to
one’s appearance, and is a reflection of a
person’s whole attitude, we wonder if
that would work in reverse That is, can
attitude be improved by first improving
posture?
Sounds like it might be worth a try,
so come on, you teenagers and adults
too, hold your head up high, breathe
deeply, and THINK TALL'
• Baby Beef Show
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Lestei Burdette, A 1 Dugan,
Dauphin County leader, Ken
neth Millei, Noithampton Coun
ty leadei, Elvm Hess, Ji , Lan
caster County leader, and M
M Smith, Lancaster County
agent
Repoits by counties of 4-H
steei s now on feed showed
Lancaster, 130, Chester, 33,
Dauphin, 30. and Northampton,
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The planning committee ap
proved the 14 rules and regu
lations governing the annual
event, including the new mini
mum weight figure of 750
pounds, fiist applied last year
A meeting for beef club
leaders will be held at
Soled Farms, Pottstown R 2,
in the latter part of May
Land Judging contest at Dal
lastown, York County, at the
Howard Fitz farm
Apul 21-21st and 22nd, Annual
4-H Play at Manheim Twp
HS , Neffsville curtain time,
8 pm.
Everyone 1
Lesson for April 16, 1967
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Plow Cover Crops
As soon as soil moisture peimits, it is ad
visable to plow down most any type of covei
crop for best results Excess top growth may
be a problem in getting decomposition and in
having good moisture movement in the soil
later in the season Also, in case of dry weath
ei later in the spring, most cover crops will
create a plowing problem and more difficulty
m getting the giound leady for planting Most
of the value in a cover crop is in the root sys
tem and there is little to be gained in permitt
ing excessive top growth.
To Handle Machinery Carefully
The spring rush will soon be heie and
many pieces of fai m equipment will see inten
sive use Opeiators aie remind
ed of the need to practice safe- S0) l A few minutes to chech
ty at all times and insist that this system may return bigdiv
all hired help and members of idends In many cases tha
their family do likewise It is ground cable or rod is not into
not modem farm machinery the earth far enough and it>
that is dangeious and presents extreme dry weather there
safety hazards, it’s the opera- ma y not be sufficient moisture
tor of the equipment that is of- to ground the system Immedi
ten guilty. All safety shields a te inspection is recommended,
should be kept in place and
high rates of speed v/ith any
equipment should not be al
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mighty works and wonders and
signs which God did through him
in your midst ...” This Jesus
h'Ul done only what God had
directed him to* do. The works of
Jesus had really been the works
of God.
Next, he reminded them of
what in on had done. Whereas
Jesus had dune his best to be
faithful to God, "lawless men"
had done their very worst to de
stroy this Jesus. In doing so, they
had actually defied God. They
killed the man Jesus, but it was
really God against whom they
had raised violent hands! For
centuries Israel had awaited
God’s annointed one and then
they crucified him. Their one
great hope had been horribly
bungled.
What they had done, however,
had not been decisive. Two pow
erful words change the picture:
"But God . . . " This is his an
swer to man’s worst. The decisive
act was not what men bad
but what God did. Peter s power
ful "But God ...” changed
tragedy into victory. His power,
greater than man’s evil, raised
Jesus from the dead "and made
him both Lord and Christ, thiS|
Jesus whom you crucified.”
Not Humanity, But Me
Suddenly the people listening
to Peter were aware that he was
no longer speaking merely of
what had been done by "evil
men,” but he was saying thatthey
themselves had had a part in it.
"Whom you crucified,” Peter said.
Surely you don’t mean us, Peter?
We weren’t at Gethsemane or the
hall of Pxlate or Calvary. We
didn’t press down the crown of
thorns or drive the mails.
Yet, when we are honest withl
ourselves, we know that we do]
share in this tragedy. When thel
spiritual asks; "Were you there!
when they crucified my Lord?”,
we know the answer is really
"yes.” We too cannot help but ba|
"cut to the heart.” Our share ol
this guilt stabs us until, like them,
we cry out: "... what shall w<
do?”
Peter’s answer told them whal
Jesus did, what men did, whal
God did, and now he speaks ol
what we must do if we are "cul ;
to the heart.” "Repent and be -
baptized every one of you ... *
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Everyone'!
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