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Hondurans Are Starving
.Continued from Page 1) to receive help. It is not uncom-
, „ , , , , n*on for them to start arriving at
and other agricultural lechnol- wo |. k station of the agrlcul
egy and to help start a program m rn j missionary by 430 a m ,
lor developing rural agricullur* for this help. They con
al leaders. Untie to come throughout the
How does an agricultural mis- day and frequently the last of
siona y work? This is a question them is helped at 10 pm Yes,
that aaa been frequently the days are long,
of u c jince we have returned. Be- W]lat makcs lhe wor k so dif
licvt me, the days arc long, the fltult 9 For someone without
wot k is difficult. much knowledge of the native
How long are the days for an language, in this case Spanish,
agricultural missionary in Hon- communications can be a prob
dura.; 0 Hondurans are anxious lem. The intense tropical heat
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PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH
CATTLE GOING ON FEED
The sudden change in type of feed, for example,
from grass and milk to grain, silage and/or hay
and a protein supplement.
Too rapid pushing of grain concentrates
Too much protein,
Not enough roughage,
Too much high quality roughage,
Unpalatable feed.
Too much green chopped legume or grass silage
Feeding soft or immature corn. If not moldy, soft
corn is satisfactory, but animals must be accus
tomed to it gradually (Morrison).
9. Too much green chopped corn fcausing green
corn poisoning.
Green Pasture Livestock Feeds
and Good Management
“A Winning combination
for any cattleman”.
Digestive disorders and a slight transient depression in appetite
in newly-arrived cattle in the feedlot have been problems for a
number of years. There are numerous causes:
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nml humidity nlso add to the dis
comfort. Numerous biting in
sects bring their special kind of
pain. But to most, transporta
tion lakes first place as a difflcul
ty. The agricultural missionary
must learn to travel as the na
tives do. This includes walkin’
day after day, 15 miles and more
per day undoi the hot tropical
sun. This includes rulin'’ by
horseback day after day, 20 and
25 miles per day also under the
same hot, tropical sun The
horse is usually saddled with a
split, wooden saddle that has two
vines to se’vc as stirrups An
other common means of travel is
in a canoe made from a hollow-
Too much silage fed to lighter weight calves
Calves do not have the digestive capacity to ob
tain their total digestible nutrients from a full
feed of silage alone.
Digestive disorders caused by infections
In Addition, in connection with supplements con
taining an antibiotic, there is an adjustment of
the rumen microflora to the antibiotic This may
cause a slight depression in rumen function and
reduce appetite for 24 to 36 hours after the ini
tial feeding. Softer feces also may be noticed
This effect is transient and after 36 to 48 hours
the appetite should be restored to normal.
For a successful and profitable
steer feeding program designed
to minimize these problems
contact any Miller & Bushong
Service Representative or call
us direct at Lancaster 392-2145.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 14.1968— ?
ed log. Again, days and days are
spent sitting cramped in these
canoes traversing the slow, me
andenng snake and alligator in
fested jungle livcis
The Rewards
But the rewards do substanti
ally outweigh the long days and
the special difficulties The needs
ot the people arc so gicat To
work with a man, teaching him
how to uuse vegetables for the
first time knowing that what >ou
teach him will keep his childien
fi om starving, to leach a "man
how to use a shovel, a new skill
Ph. Lancaster 392-2145
(Area Code 717)
Garland E. Gingerich
Dining the 1967-68 school
year, Garland E. Gingerich
was on sabbatical leave fiom
his position of teacher of ag
riculture, Penn Manor High
School, Millersvillc. During
that period of time, Gingerich
served as an agiicultural mis
sionary in San Pedro Sula,
Honduras, Central America
He served as an -agricultural
education adviser for a coor
dinated effort by three church
groups to promote community
development on the northern
coast of Honduras.
that will help him to pioduc^
I enough vegetables that for the
1 fii st time in his life he will pro
-1 cluce enough to be able to sell
I something at market, to make
, a follow-up visit to the homes o:
! one of these men and see the
I good vegetable gaidens they are
j growing for the first time in
i their lives and then be able to
; hold one of those small, starving
. children and know that now, be
| cause of voui efforts they will
| have a better diet and will have
' a better chance at life do greatly
outweigh the difficulties. Expert
-1 ences like these repeated time
' and time again every day do
| soften the wooden saddles, coo)
the tropical sun, and shoiten th<
| long and tiring miles
Techniques
What techniques aie used *a
leach the people is anothei ques
turn that is fiequently asked
One approach to agricultural
education and community devel
opment is through Caravans A
Caravan is a team of specialists
sent out to villages to n }et the
total needs of a community and
in the words of Dr I W Moo
maw, “Knock a village off dead
center and get it moving again ”
These Caiavans are made up
of nine people a medical doc
tor with a nurse to help, a pub
lie health nurse, a dentist with a
nurse as an assistant, a literacy
worker, an evangelist, an agiv
culturlist and a Christian Edu
cation worker This team live
and works in a village for ona
v/eek During this one week each
Caravan member helps organize
and motivate the people m that
village to start community de
velopment activities
The medical doctor will trea*
500 to 600 patients The dentis!
will pull 1200 and more teeth,
up to 28 from one person The
public health nurse conducts
classes for the mothers of th°
village teaching them the impo.-
tance of boiling the water, how
to prepare balanced meals and
how to care for newly born ba
bies The literacy worker using
a phonetic method of instruc
tion can, after 45 hours of in
struction, teach a number of il
literate adults how to read wel'
enough that they are able to read
a newspaper The evangelist an
Christian Education worker con
duct evening prayer meeting 1 :
for the village members