—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 20,1968 4 From Where We Stand ... Farm Safety You can name an almost endless variety of ways to get hurt on the farm. For our Amish neighbors a run-away horse might be the problem. And we know tractor acci dents kill more than a thousand people in the U.S. each year, mostly from overturns. Several years ago, Leland Bull, Pa. Sec retary of Agriculture, gave eight rules for safe tractor driving that we think are worth reviewing, 1. Drive slowly for safety and for greater efficiency. Tractors are designed for power, not speed. 2. Drive cautiously, A hidden hump or ditch can flip the machine over or pitch the operator off, 3. Drive on public highways only when absolutely necessary, and then preferably when traffic is lighter. 4. Use extra caution on slopes. Avoid those that are too steep. 5. Climb steep grades in reverse to avoid flipping the machine over backward. Going down grade keep the machine in gear, but don’t try to handle heavy loads. 6. Pull only from the drawbar. A load hitched to the axle or seat bracket can pull the tractor over backward. 7. When pulling really heavy loads, add front end weights to keep the tractor bal anced. 8. If the tractor wheels stick in a ditch or deep mudhole get help. Something must turn when power is applied. If the wheels can’t, the rest of the tractor will. Another common problem on many farms is clutter. Lots of us are collectors. We can not bear to part with old newspapers, tat tered magazines and books, broken tools, worn out tires, punctured innertubes, empty grease cans, bottles and jugs. A few days work, reorganization of stor age, a bonfire and a couple trips to a dump would do wonders for the appearance, con venience and safety of many farms. Farm fires cost 500 lives and $2OO million in property damage each year. Fire pre vention is especially important in consider ing ways to make your farm more safe. Burn rubbish at a safe distance from build ings and when the wind is calm. Check your electrical system and make needed repairs. Watch smoking in buildings. Check daily the temperature of newly stored hay. And watch firearms. The story is told of several boys who were playing with a gun they found one pretending to be a sol dier and the other the enemy. The little sol dier aimed at the enemy, not thinking the gun might be loaded. For some reason the enemy shied away and askeT,' the other boy not to point it at him. Fortu>-tely, the soldier swung around and sighted an old hen nearby. Unfortunate ly for her. he pulled the trigger and the sharp crack and flurry of feathers instantly told them what had almost happened. Many a barn, shed, garage, back porch Farm News This Week 4-H Youths Win District Demonstrations Page 1 Newcomer Now Tri-State Speech Champ Page 1 Wheat Agreement Spells more Trouble for Farmers Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancastei 3943047 or Lititz 626-2191 Everett R Nev r swanger, Editor Robert G Campbell, Advei Using Director Subscnp’ ion pi ice S 2 per year in Lancaster County. S 3 eisewhei e November 4,1955 Pub ish n d every Saluiday by Lancaster Farming Litdz Pa Second C‘ Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Asm, and basement is cluttered by little-used chemicals and containers: pesticides, fer tilizers, cleaning agents, solvents, medi cants. etc. You should provide safe storage' areas for all these. And "safe" means be yond access of children and animals, pre ferably locked up. Just this week, a report came across our desk about the dairy farmer in Western Maryland who began at 7:45 a.m. to spray 41 heifers due to calve this fall with an un labeled liquid purchased a year ago at a farm auction. At 10:00 a.m., all 41 heifers were dead. The farmer had not used the liquid when he bought it because he did not know what it was. This year he wasn’t as cautious. The extension veterinarian at the Univer sity of Maryland identified the liquid as methyl parathion, a chemical that is a high ly toxic organic phosphate insecticide. So. don’t take a chance by using any chemical in an unlabeled container. And you could go on and on with ladders, hand and power tools, silo gases and you name the hazard. The real thing to remem ber is that accidents can be prevented. They don’t Just happen; they are caused! where we stand this Farm Safety Week, July 21-27. Just A Thief An issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin included an article that tells in con siderable detail about a breed of criminals that prey on every honest consumer and re tail distributor the shoplifter. Shoplifting is big business, and shoplifters unlike other law violators . . come in a wide range of ages and represent every walk of life. They use dozens of techniques to steal merchan dise from stores varying in size from the small corner bar to items with price tags in the thousands of dollars.” According to the Bulletin, theft in the re tail industry has been estimated in billions of dollars per year. Retailers in one city with a population of nearly a million esti mated shoplifting losses at a million dollars a month. Since many stores, notably large volume supermarkets, operate on a slim one percent of net profit, a dollar lost to shoplifting means that $lOO in sales must be rung up to offset the loss. It takes no expert to figure out that with shoplifting running into the billions of dollars annually retail distributors have no choice but to cover part of the loss with higher prices. Through some weird mental process, shoplifters do not consider themselves thieves. In the words of the FBL Bulletin, shoplifting is considered by many, other wise well intentioned people, as something other than larceny, sneak thievery, steal ing, or a criminal violation. Perhaps the best way to curb shoplifting would be to brand a practitioner of the art in the eyes of society for what he is a thief. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. Across The Fence Row Little boy with report card: “I was the highest of all who flunked.” Beware of free gifts: a mouse can al ways find free cheese in a trap, but often is not too happy over the results. Local Weather Forecast (Fr< i, the U. S. Weather Bureau at the xiarrisburg State Airport) The five-day forecast for the period Sat urday through next Wednesday calls for temperatures to average below normal with daytime highs in the 80’s and over-night lows in the 60’s. Seasonal temperature through Monday and cooler Tuesday and Wednesday. Rain may total one inch with showers likely Monday or Tuesday. % any on* I* In Christ, he 1* •w creation". (2 Corinthians RSV) Taitomt ip* lut is It possible? Can men a new heart* or is this mere* iom* misty ideal? "Nol* say je who have observed that ..ople seldom change, that even their own attempts to change have been fruitless exercise* In futility. These are the people who "give up smoking forever* at least once a month, who have despaired of bathroom scales that keep going up and never down. Like H. G. Wells, they have observed that, though man is an animal who can Jump a, .hundred miles, see through brick Several years ago on one of walls, bombard the atom and those Sunday afternoon panel* analyze the stars, he nevertheless interview television programs, continues to "behave Ilk* ths a newsman asked a physician quarrelsome ape he used to be.* IT he thought It would ever be Yet people can change; Ezekiel Eossible to transplant the himself experienced that. A priest umtn heart The unequivocal ]q the Jerusalem temple, he had answer he re* had to re-evaluate his vocation ceived was "No, when he arrived a captive in definitely not!* Chaldea. What would a Hebrew Today.of course, priest do there? The function of there is no a priest Is to serve in the temples longer a ques* but it had been destroyed and tion of impossl- there was nothing to replace lb bility. It has We do not know what he did at already been first, but at the end of five year* done and is there he embarked upon an en* _ .... likely to be done firdy new vocation as a prophet, nev. Aitnouse aga i n and again, it was a difficult change to make* I Kill! miIfUHT LeMonfor July 21* 1968 rr *l --- J 'MHmEi*U*l II:3I.1MI Prrrtwl total SltlO-17. A new spirit but he made it. It is wonderful that today the BUI Sands was a prisoner In human physical heart can be re- San Quentin some years ago. He placed by a transplant How was marked asan "incorrigible* much more wonderful if we could and no one thought he would transplant the spiritual heart as ever change. No one, but Warden well. Just as that amazing muscu- Clinton Duffy who managed to lar pump transplanted from one communicate to Bill ttiat.he cmred body to another can bring it new ne( * J? “m. Toda y life, so new life could enter the Bill Sands is a free man, a re sold of man if he could find the spected citizen, who is spending means of getting himsdf a new his life helping other convicts to spiritual heart. get a new heart" One of the This is precisely what Ezekiel things he teaches them is that proposed to the people of Judah when they return to the "outside in their Chaldean exile: "Cast world,” it wiU be flie same tough away from you all the transgres- world fliey left behind. If they are sions which you hive committed going to find a place in it, they against me, and get yourselves a arc ones who will have to do new heart and a new spirit”. The the changing. ' people of Judah are like a pUe of We might wish that the wo|ld whitened bones, but if they wiU were different but it isn t. If it is get themselves a new heart, the ever to be improved, we mpst dry bones can live and rise change first and then fee world again. "Why will you die, 0 may _ begin to change too. It be house of Israel? For I have no 6* llB 118 a naw heart. • pleasure in the death of anyone, th«DjvWoi» says the Lord God; so turn and •* Ch f ,,ha " Mmi Council out., five” (Ezekiel 18:31, '3lb, 32 U ’ * KuV) i_ • v jh ■» There ii the key:"... so turn and live”! The people of Judah . , needed to change. This is what Attend The Church Of Jesus' told" Nicodemus: that he .’ i and all men would have to be Your Choice Sundoy born anew. There are frequent New Testament references to the need for rebirth, renewal, and conversion. There is. also Paul, TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! To Prepare for New Seedlngs Late summer seedings of al falfa or permanent pasture takes time and planning. The first step is to run a complete soil test on the soil Alfalfa should be seed ed early in August and the new pasture seedings made the first week in September. The lime and ferilizer needed should be worked into the soil during the preparing process; a fine, firm seedbed free of weeds should be the objective. To Purchase Top Herd Sires During the summer months many hog and sheep producers will be buying new sues. To get a ram or boar good enough for the money wanted to spend is very difficult; many producers will not be willing to pay the extra price for a purebred sire, or one with good background. NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent Since the sire will have an in fluence on every offspring, he should be the best that is avail able and one that v/ill produce desirable market animals in a short period of tune Perform ance testing and understanding of pedigree and bloodlines should be a guide. To Feed Wheat The decreased market value of wheat this summer reduces the value of this small grain as a good cash crop. Since wheat has consideiahle feed value, we’d suggest that all livestock produc ers (except horsemen) consider the feeding of some wheat' in their rations. When fed as part of the grain ration (up to 25%) wheat may be used to replace corn pound for pound. Introduce the ground or cracked wheat (not whole) into the ration gradually. 1 i
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