4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 22,1967
From Where We Stand...
Seven Doys' In July
A campaign to wage SAFETY on
America's some three million farms will
be underway for the next seven days.
While all eyes will be focused on
SAFETY, and everyone will be talking
SAFETY, only YOU can practice SAFE
TY on your farm. As we stressed in an
earlier comment of the subject, real safe
ty on the farm, or elsewhere, is a habit.
It’s a habit that can be developed and
perfected over the years. To be safe, you
have to THINK SAFE.
In proclaiming Farm Safety Week,
July 23-29 Governor Raymond Shafer
noted a leading reason for practicing
farm safety was to protect our food-pro
ducing strength. This is undoubtedly a
factor nationally, with farming rated the
third most hazardous occupation in the
U.S. Statistics are one thing, but we’re
interested in Lancaster County farmers
as individuals. We don’t want to see a
single one maimed, or worse.
Thinking and practicing safety dur
ing one week of the year won’t do the
job, but it is a place for the accident
prone person to begin. And the most im
portant place to begin is with farm ma
chinery, especially during this season of
the year when farmers spend long hours
in the fields. Carelessness often sets in
when you get weary, and no accident
takes more than one, careless, split-sec-
GOVERNOR RAYMOND P. SHAF
ER designates July 23-29 as Farm Safe
ty Week in Pennsylvania With him as
he signs official proclamation are James
A Conrey, Harrisburg, president of
Pennsylvania Rural Safety Council;
right, Mrs. O. Walker Shannon, Camp
Shafer Urges Prevention Of Farm
Accidents; Sets Farm Safety Week S'JfpreieSS' * hr ° usl>:
HARRISBURG—Greater em- satisfy these needs, all per-'Q,^ 16 -. / p*'f n ® e ’ T I f cc0 ’ rdin S t 0
phasis on farm accident pre- sons in agricultural l occupations „ v Mast6 £ Jo ™i_ w Scott,
ventiion was urged this week must be physically able to con- Harrisburg, has made safety on
by Governor Raymond P Sbaf- tribute at their full capacities. ttie ana in ™e form home
er in a proclamation designat- “Unfortunatelv accidental & F art of l,t s program through
mg July 23-29 as Farm Safety death?
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vital requirement and is need- at a minimum, he urged that dlsabled
ed in greater quantities than a n efforts be exerted to ehm- 0f 8,000 farm res ident acci
ev e r before in history ” To mate hazards and unsafe prac- deaths in the United
tices States in 1966, Scott said 3,000
LANCASTER Farming! Heading the Farm Safetv from work injuries
ianca.ter County’. Own Farm Week program Will be the mOSt ° f theSe W6re
weekly vvet?K prvgi am wuii qo me caused by m'a'chiiuerv tynn/vmaii.
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Phont. Lancaster 394-3047 or gyivania State Grange. i 6 ™I®’ 1 ®’ accident losses are un-
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Director burg, president of the council, they run into billions As Hie
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Published every Saturday by 31S, families and Whole com- stuffs increases, farm safetv hA.
st^ t ci.l? r “"JJ 68, « He * lvo '® tod <**a* comes an increasingly Lite
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ond. So, when you’re tired, be doubly
careful.
We’d like all of our readers who are
with us at harvest time to still be around
in good shape come next planting season.
Your families will also appreciate your
added efforts to accomplish this feat!
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Why Not A Milkmobile?
We noted this week that one of the
soft drink manufacturers has a drinkmo
bile touring many of the community
playground areas “throat-washing” the
kiddies. Free drinks were handed out,
and the kids nearly mobbed the wagon.
Why nof a milkmobile to compete
with this type of “unfair” competition?
Sure it’s expensive giving away your
product—who should know that better
than farmers who’ve given away many a
crop. But the kind of national advertis
ing that the soft drink manufacturers,
and the milk industry, do is also pretty
expensive. And giving away “free sam
ples” to potential consumers is not the
dumbest form of advertising in the
world.
We hope some bright reader will
write to tell us we’re way on behind
that the dairy associations have been us
ing this approach for years. We’d like
very much to think this was the case.
But, if not, then why not a MILK
MOBILE?
Hill, council secretary, and Mrs. W. F.
Dummer, Thomasville, president of
Pennsylvania Society of Farm Women.
Conrey is with the Pennsylvania Na
tional Insurance Group. Mrs. Shannon
is on the staff of the Pennsylvania State
Grange.
Souse Other Door
Lesson for July 23, 1967
ScelgrvuMl s<n»lvrr ; ct> 15 36iHrougn 16 !2o
r *n'.l p.cjnl > I II
Sneaking of a decisive period
in his life, Robert Louis Steven
son wrote: "I came about like a
well-handled ship. There stood at
the wheel that unknown steers
man whom we call God.”
All of us experience similar
times in our lu es
when we change
course. Yet, un
like Stevenson,
we may be una
ware that there is
anything orAnj
one at the helm.
If may seem that
we have been
n < merely caugnt .n
Rev. Ahhouse some W ajv.ard
current has swept us unwit
tingly in some new direction. We
may call this "the breaks of the
game,” ''the odds, ’ or write it off
simply as "the way tire ball
bounces.”
When Doors Close
For Paul the Apostle life was
not that haphazard - He saw in it
the hand of God. In the m dst of
the so-calhd "second missionary
journey ’ throughout what today
.s modern Turkey, Paul and his
party experienced some formida
ble obstacles as they prepared to
visit the province called "Asia.’’
Later, as he attempted to enter
Bithynia, he encountered the same
difficulties again. The writer of
Acts does not tell us what these
obstacles were, but, whatever they
were, Paul did not dismiss them
as "tough breaks" or "rotten
luck.” In each of these experiences
Paul saw the guidance of God
through the Holy Spirit.
We might suppose that this
brought some disappointment to
Paul, perhaps even bewilderment.
Didn’t God send him on this jour
ney to minister in these areas?
Why then should he experience
these obstacles? Why should the
door be slammed m his face? For
Paul, however, there was a faith
that saw the closed doors as rep
resenting the w ill of God.
This assurance was soon con
firmed when in a dream he saw a
man of Macedonia beckoning to
him and calling: "Come over to
To Spray for Corn Earworm fire that is burning is danger-
Sweet corn growers are look
ing forward to their first pick
ing and many of us are awaiting
to enjoy this most popular vege
table One of the marks of qual
ity in vegetables is the freeness
of insect damage, worms in the
tips of sweet corn lower the
market quality and the market
value Spraying with DDT or
Sevin when the first silks ap
pear and repeat sprays every 5
to 7 days for several times will
prevent this trouble.
To Use Caution with
Charcoal Burners
The season of picnics and
cookouts is at hand; many ac-
Wv,i S result from the care
less handling of hot charcoal or
lighter fluid. The gray color to
charcoa! conceals intense heat
ean give serious? burns. Us
mg additional starter fluid on a
Macedonia and help ua.” Then it
was that Paul learned one of die
lesson* that all followers of Christ
must learn: God closes doors in
our lives In order to open others.
Instead of the province of Asia
and Bithynla, God wanted Paul
and his party to cross over onto
the continent of Europe. Had he
not closed these two doors u
Paul, the apostle might never
have made what was to become
one of the most decisive moves of
his life and ministry.
To Gst Our Attention
Sometimes this is the way God
must work. Perhaps we become
so engrossed in what we are
doing at the present, that when
God cells us to move on to some
tiling else, we cannot hear him. In
order to get our attention, he
must close a door or two so that
we will begin to open both our
eyes and our ears to some new
task or possibility. Often it is only
when we are faced with closed
doors that we can begin to see
those which he has opened.
The cities of Asia and Bithynia
were important cultural ana eco
nomic centers and it is unlikely
that Paul would have beenwihmg
to gi\ e up his plans for these two
areas. He could not have known
then, as we do today, that some
day soon the center of civilization
would move from Asia into Eu
rope and that this continent would
become the key mission field lor
cenbar.es to come.
The Third Door
So God closed two doors and
opened a third. He still worts in
this manner in our world today,
we will see him leading us
tnus only when, like Paul, we
look for the Spirit of God behind
these situations. He will still ga.ae
us today if we will seek his guid
ance and be willing to follow it
v. hen we find it.
Look at some of the closed
doors in your life. Are they 10 be
wntten-off as merely "tough luck,”
"the breaks of the game, ’ or
"blind chance”? Or are they point
ing to some other door through
which God wants you to walk?
R LITTLE
FORESIGHT
PBEBHITS MtIDEIITS!
NATIONAL FARM
v SAFETY WEEK
JULY 23 2* IW7
InOS
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
ous; flare-ups have caused seri
ous burns. Small children "and
pets should be kept away from
the hot grill. Use only approved
starter fluids—not gasoline or
kerosene.
To Kill Canada Thistles
Far too many Canada thistles
have been allowed to mature
and go to seed. No- doubt we
will have more strict control
measures in the future. The ma
ture plants should be moved
and the new growth allowed to
get 6 to 12 inches high and then
sprayed with an herbicide to
kill the root system. Small grain
fields that are going back into
small grain, with thistle infes
tation, should be allowed to get
some thistle growth, then spray
ed several weeks before plow
ing. Thistle.cohtrol needs more
attention.