1 Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 25.1970
Choke Off Hog Cholera
With nt least four Lancaster Count.x
fauns alreadx quarantined for hog cholera
within the past two weeks, following an out
break a few weeks ago in Chester Count.x.
Southeastern Pennsxlxamn Swine produc
ers are and should be concerned.
With outbreaks of the dreaded disease
m so mans locations, there is real concern
about how far it w ill spread before it can be
stopped.
Because of the importance of the swine
industry to so many area farmers, the im
portance of taking excry possible precau
tion cannot be overstressed.
Isolation of new animals from existing
swine for at least 60 days should be observ-
On Corn and Change
The corn that ripples across our land
these summer days is an enduring gift from
the Indian. Cher the centuries, the first
American took a wild grass and brought it
to aristocratic rank among the cereals.
The Indian lacked the white .man's
science, but patiently and with no known
tools save the unaided eye, bare hands,
imagination, and dedication he shaped and
domesticated a crop of value to the w r hole
world.
It was corn that sustained the Pilgrims
at Plymouth when their wheat crops failed.
Then friendly Indians taught the settlers
how to plant, cultivate, and harvest this
New World grain. So important a staple was
corn in colonial days that a law required
dogs to be tied by a leg to prevent them
from digging up the fish often planted for
fertilizer in each corn hill.
As settlers pressed westward they
planted and improved the Indian's corn,
and before long it became our Number 1
crop.
But corn is much more than food for
people or feed for livestock. The products of
its versatile kernel constantly touch our
lives. In a typical day we encounter corn
products, often unknowingly, in the shoes
and clothing we wear, the paper we write
on, the rug on our floor, in our medicine
chest, the car we dri\ e, indeed in a multi
tude of ways.
Scientists have turned the organic raw
material of corn into many products for in
dustry. Even so, science has only begun to
exploit the possibilities of the starch gran
ule, according to the USDA
What of the future? Perhaps the most
ambitious woi k underway is the de\ elop
ment of varieties containing the mutant
gene opaque-2. The increase in lysine con
tent brought about by this gene could make
the protein of corn as nutritious as that ot
milk, says the USDA.
Change Benefits
While the food \alue of ccrn is under
going change, so is much else in agncul
tuie Most crops aie undergojftg change in
some form in the quality ot seed or
Salute to Victor Plastow
The passing of Victor W E Plastow,
associate Lancaster County agricultural
agent, from the local farm scene was noted
with sadness by many Lancaster County
farmers and agri-businessmen
P] as tow’s speciality was dairying He
LANCASTER FARMING
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cel carefully. Any suspicious illness should
result m a prompt call to a \etennnriaii.
There have been reports elsewhere
of some animals suspected of cholera being
unloaded immediately on the market. The
irresponsibility of such action should be ob
v mus to e\ eryonc. Such action, if it becomes
widespread, could literally destroy the
swine industry. The federal government
pays for animals which must be destroyed
because of the disease.
The individual farmers and the entire
swine industry will benefit greatly if every
one closes ranks and obeys the rules that
will stop the spread of hog cholera.
plant, in management of the plant, in the
equipment and chemicals used to care for
it, and in the ways in which the final pro
duct is used.
The result is a better product in greater
quantity and larger variety of forms for
the consumer.
Everyone benefits from this continual
process of upgrading agriculture except
the farmer who refuses to change.
To prosper in the changing agricultural
scene often need not involve dramatic &
partures from what the individual farm*
has always been doing. Often it’s a math
of making a few simple changes.
It may involve adopting the plant varl
ty which is resistant to a particular disea:
or which is more suited to particular grow
ing conditions that prevail. It may involv
shifting emphasis from one crop which '
no longer as profitable as it once was
one which is more profitable. It may in
volve finding a new crop. It may mean
using new and better chemicals" to -control
weeds that sap the energy of a crop.
The individual farmer need not panic
because scientists are tampering with the
corn he has always taken for granted. -
Meeting Change
Change is not an enemy of the farmer.
Farmers who exist today are the product of
a long process of competitive elimination;
they have successfully survived change.
So it is not change, but how he meets
change that will determine the future for
the individual farmer. The farmer who
recognizes that change is inevitable and
makes little changes from day to day and
year to year to make sure that his farming
operation is always a little better and fin
ancially stronger today than it was yester
day will be ready when conditions change.
When the scientists find a workable
new \anety of high-protein corn that will
improve the ciop’s feed value and profit
ability, the farmers who has been changing
and improving all along will plant the new
corn without breaking stride while keep
ing a sharp watch for the next major scien
tific bieakthrough which can benefit him.
worked hard to get Lancaster County dairy
men to improve their management prac
tices and upgrade their herds. He was al
ways available to help the individual dairy
man.
He believed strongly that the dairyman
should start in the business at an early age
and should start right with a quality ani
mal. He helped many 4-H dairy club mem
bers make that right start.
He believed in the importance of a
sound milk testing program and backed the
DHIA.
Through his monthly and special re
ports in Lancaster Farming to area farm
ers, he helped keep dairymen abreast of
the latest knowledge about good manage
ment practices.
Wmle his health was not always the
best in recent years, his desire to be of
son ice to the dairy industry ne\ cr quit His
contribution has been significant He will be
lemembeied in local dairy and farm
cu cles
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
_ _ . . „ . . used during the same season. In
To Order Small Grain Seed bam dairymen may
Small grain growers should be choose horn diazinon, malathion,
oidcung then needs of winter borlan. ordichlorvos On the cows
oats, barley, or wheat With the thc . Ust includes diodnn. DDVP.
ban on thc use of mercury fun- malathlon methoxychlor. or a
gicides to treat small grains pro- P> le thnn spray,
duccd on the farm, it will be be;t J-se Strict Sanitation
to order certified seeds from The local outbreak of hog
your supplier It will be very cholera demands the very best
risky to sow home-grown seeds sanitation_ measures on e\ery hog,
without any fungicide treatment. * 2rm \° beep the disease from
Ceilifted seed of thc desired spieading Swine mo\cments
variety has always been a good niust be kept to a minimum and
investment. be certain of the health of the
animals. The traveling of farmers
To Alternate Fly Sprays or farm workers between hog
With the ample amount of farms and livestock markets
moisture this season the fly pop- must be done carefully. Different
ulation will be on the increase footwear, or strong disinfectants
unless insecticides are used In on clean boots, is suggested,
order to prevent the flies from Stray dogs, cats, or birds should
developing a resistance to a cer- be kept away from the hogs. Re
tain insecticide, which has been port sick hogs immediatel> to
past experience, it is suggested the local veterinarian in order
that more than one material be to prevent Serious outbreaks.
ADAM AND
EVERYMAN
Lesson for July 26,1910
BecfcfreunJ Scripture: Genesis 3; luke ISt
11*32, Roman* 1 through 3.
Devotional Reading: Romans 3 9-22 a.
' Man has it made! Just take a
look at the scoreboard:
—created in the image of God
—God’s greatest and highest
creation
—appointed to have dominion
over all God’s creation
—blessed with the
power to be
“fruitful; and
multiply”
Who could ask for
anything more?
The other side of
man
the whole story.
Rev. Althouse is it? We know
that in addition
to man’s divine potentialities
there is another side to his na
true, a side which gives us far
less cause to be optimistic.
Let us remember once again
that in these early chapters of
Genesis we are concerned pri
marily with the why of creation,
rather than the how. This is also
uue in the story of Adam and
Eve. It is not just the story of
the first man and woman, but
much more the story of every
man and woman. The name
“Adam” itself means “man” or
“mankind.” Thus, it is not sim
ply the story of some other fel
low, but the story of you and me
and all of us.
Biblical scholar Bernhard An
derson suggests that the story of
Adam is composed of three dra
matic episodes, like scenes in a
play. Each of these helps to
formulate an answer to the ques
tion, “What is man?”
Scene I —Adam the Gardener
(Genesis 2-4-25). Adam and Eve
are placed in a beautiful garden
tliai supplies all their needs.
Ti ev have a god-given task—
they are to faithfully keep and
tend the garden entrusted to
them (just as all men have the
Godgr.en task of tending the
wiole of creation which has been
eetrusted to them.)
Today man is Still dependent'
upon God’s gifts. All that we
have—food, clothing, shelter,
family, love—all these come from
God’s hands. Like Adam we
have a stewardship in - this
world and, also like Adam, there
are certain restrictions which he
has laid upon us.
Too good to last
.Scene Z— Adam The Fugitive
(Genesis 3:1-7). “It was too good
to last,” we might say. The won*
derful picture of Adam the gar
dener was hound to be marred
by something, and it was.
We allknow the story of what
happened in the garden. Much
more to the point, however, 4s
that we realize that this too is
our story. Though Eve had a
whole garden of trees from which
to pick fruit, her appetite and
temptation led her to the one
tree from which she had been
forbidden. Isn’t that true of us
too’ It is not because God hasn’t
given us much to fulfill our
needs, for no matter how well
we are supplied with his gifts,
we always seem to want the one
more he has forbidden to us.
Eve disobeyed God because
she wanted to step into God’s
shoes. She wasn’t satisfied with
being just another one of God’s
creatures—even the highest of
them—she wanted to stand on
the same level as God. That’s
our problem too. Our rebellion
is just as willful as Eve’s, just as
deliberate.
But that isn’t
Scene 3—Adam the Fugitive
(Genesis 3 8-24). It is inevitable
that the rebel becomes the fugi
tive. Like Adam, we seek to hide
when we hear God’s voice, but
we find that we cannot hide from
him. It is then that his judge
ment falls upon us and we lose
the peaceful life in the garden.
When Adam is driven out of the
garden it is everyman who shares
the tragedy of Paradise Lost.
Thus, life is full of conflict and
insecurity, not because a man.
named Adam once rebelled,
named Adam once rebelled but
because every man continues to
rebel against the Creator. Who*
we look at Adam and Eve, vw
know who we are.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Cfu/rchos of Christ in fhW
U. S A Released by Community fnii
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