—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 22,1971
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It’s Dairy Princess Time
Young ladies in Lancaster County who
are on dairy farms, have completed their
junior year in high school and are under 21
years of age, should seriously consider en
tering the 1971 Lancaster Countv Dairy
Princess pageant, which will be held June
22 at the Farm and Home Center.
Dairying is Lancaster County’s largest
farm income producer, accounting for near
ly one third of gross farm income.
The Dairy Princess Contest is one way
for the local farm community to advertise
its most important farm product. In to
day’s highly competitive world, it is vitally
important that farmers keep the general
public alert to their existence and their
needs.
Any appeal to young women to enter
the contest, however, should not be based on
milk industry needs. It should be based on
the young woman herself and what the con
test can do for her.
Even Safety
Changes in farm technology and
methods bring many other changes, some
of them not immediately apparent. Tech
nology, for instance, helps change cost-re
turn relationships and ultimately not only
liow products are produced, but even what
is produced.
The following article in the May-June
issue of The Furrow explains how changes
in farm technology lead to new safety ha
zards and the need to reevaluate safety
programs and precautions:
“A young farmer tells how his grand
father lost a thumb when the team of mules
he was driving bolted and jerked the reins
wrapped around his hand.
Then he recounts his father’s loss of two
fingers while attempting to pull a stray
cornstalk out of the husking rolls on a corn
picker.
Last year, the young man himself suf
fered a badly mangled hand as he cleaned
up around a grain auger.
Three accident-prone generations? Per
haps, but this family tree of farm injuries
does show how changing technology creates
new hazards.
In the past 10 years we have been pro
vided faster and better ways of moving
grain, handling livestock, and tending crops.
With them have come a different set of
safety problems Many recent farm injuries
and deaths couldn’t have happened 15 years
ago. The well-automated farmstead now
has safety hazards so new that their impor
tance has just begun to register.
With that in mind, you may find that
an informal survey of your own operation
will help you farm defensively
Speed Deceives
Speed is the essence of the whirling,
shaking, gyrating tools of our time. V-belts
and pulleys, roller chains and sprockets,
fans and shafts, all can appear deceptively
motionless. But learning to wash just one
hand is too painful and permanent a way
to remember RPM.
Deceptive speed is also a factor in other
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Faun Weekly
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Office: 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone: Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director
Zane Wilson, Managing Editor
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Published every Saturday by Lancaster
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Not only does the contest offer the op
portunity for many material rewards, more
importantly it offers young women ex
perience which money can’t buy an op
portunity to meet people and to develop
their own personalities and character, in
this regard alone, every contestant will be
a winner.
Miss Marilyn Krantz, who won the local
contest and went on to become Pennsyl
vania Dairy Princess last year, proved that
local contestants can go all the way.
The ability to appear in public with con
fidence is to be highly prized. And the young
woman who assures herself she couldn t
possibly face it is the one who most needs
to enter the contest. She might surprise
herself and win. And if she doesn t win,
what has she lost?
It’s time to pick up the challenge again
by contacting Mrs. Robert Gregory, Box
248, Lititz RDI, 17543. Deadline is this com
ing week.
Is Changing
farm accidents, such as tractor overturns
and grain-auger mishaps. “People gener
ally fail to appreciate the auger’s speed,"
says William J. Fletcher, National Safety
Council engineer. “Typical portable auger
flighting moves about seven feet per second.
A finger caught in it would be five feet up
the tube before the victim could react.”
Speed can injure but much of our new
technology has also produced creeping, in
sidious dangers.
Pesticides have helped temper the in
sect threat, but fumes, residues, and care
less storage spread the danger to innocent
bystanders livestock, the family dog, the
family.
Anhydrous ammonia, under pressure
at 28 degrees below zero, will penetrate and
instantly freeze anything it strikes. Hy
draulic oil forced through a pin hole in the
hose can put a hole in your hand.
And, manure-pit gases have been known
to explode from sparks. The latter is rare,
but the force of such a blast in Wisconsin
raised a barn roof three feet.
The list of changing dangers includes
other subtle trouble such as noise, allergies,
and tensions.
The revolution in grain handling also
has brought new hazards. Wagons and bins
are now big enough to hold seas of grain.
Even a small gram mass can be as danger
ous as quicksand during bottom unloading.
And towing two or three jumbo wagons
without auxiliary brakes is like hooking on
to a string of railroad cars.
On the positive side, tractor cabs are
proving their worth in saving lives and
stopping projectiles. Rollm Schnieder, Uni
versity of Nebraska Extension safety
specialist, reports no deaths in 12 tractor
overturns where cabs or roll bars provided
overturn protection. Cabs are also shielding
drivers from anhydrous and hydraulic line
breaks, dust, flying rocks, even bee stings.
“In my estimation, cab protection is one of
the outstanding safety achievements of the
past decade,” Schnieder says.
But the solutions to this growing farm
safety gap are not always as simple as pro
tective shields and warning decals. The ag
ricultural industry is constantly upgrading
safety to surpass technology.
Its toughest job is education. The
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
recently set out to reduce accidents by at
least 50 per cent by 1980. They’re going to
need all the help you can give them.”
Facts And Opinions
Talk about your dedicated hunters
Henny Hershey takes all honors! Henny
was so determined to get a big wild turkey
out at the Hershey camp at Cedar Run in
Lycoming County that he started stalking
To Inspect Lightning Rods
The thunder-storm season is
here and those buildings that
are equipped with rods will be
protected, that is, providing
the rods are in place and pro
perly grounded Owners are
urged to check the system to be
sure that rods are properly con
nected at all points, that nothing
has been fastened to them or is
in contact with them, and that
they are well grounded in moist
soil The investment should give
protection if a strike occurs.
To Ensile Forage Crops
The making of a forage crop
into silage instead of hay is a
good practice in order to get
maximum feed nutrients; how
ever, the proper time of cutting
in relation to stage of maturity
is one of the most important
practices in getting top quality
silage We continue to favor the
wilting of the green forage in
REJECTING LOVE
Lesson for May 23,1971
» luckgraunj Scripture* Isaiah 5
** Devohenal Reading Matthew 2] .33-43,
f
When we read the prophecies
of Isaiah today, they seem quite
logical and understandable. They
do not make us angry and we do
not feel any need to argue with
them. This, sad to say, w r as not
the response of the people to
whom Isaiah
spoke these
prophecies. They
became angry and
argumentitive; m
fact, many re
garded Isaiah as
a kind of “public
enemy.”
Trusting in
Rev. Althouse chariots
Why did they react in this
manner?
Assyria, Judah’s neighbor to
the far North, had become a gi
gantic empire that was sweeping
all nations before its armed
might. To meet this threat the
Judean kings made hurried alli
ances with Egypt, their neighbor
to the South This was a strange
alliance because the Judeans and
and the Egyptians were often at
odds with one'another. Their alli
ance was the result, not of com
mon ideals, but of political ad
vantage (does that have a famil
iar ring’).
Judah began to produce a. large
store of arms, principally chari
ots which were thought to be the
best defense against the great
hordes of Assyrian infantry. In
this they were given the help
and advice of the Egyptians. It
was to Egypt’s advantage for Ju
dah to stop the Assyrians since
that tiny country lay in the path
of Assyria to Egypt.
We can imagine, then, how un
welcome was Isaiah’s prophecy.
He castigated their dependence
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
the field rather than any direct
cut method. Small grain crops
should be cut in the blossom
stage, grasses at heading time,
and alfalfa and clover in the
bud to early blossom stage' of
maturity. To permit crops to
mature before cutting is not
getting the most feed value.
To Plant Temporary
Forage Crops
Warm weather crops such as
Sudan grass, sudan-sorghum hy
brids, or soybeans may now be
planted since most of the corn
is in the ground. These crops
will not germinate or grow well
until hot weather and warmer
soils arrive. The sudan-sorghum
mixtures are good for tempor
ary pastures during the summer
months. Soybeans are getting
more recognition recently be
cause of the demand and their
usefulness as a protein feed for
nearly all kinds of livestock.
upon both the Egyptians and
their chariots.
Woe to those who go down to
Egypt fo> help and rely on horses,
who tiust in chariots because they
are many and in horsemen be
cause they are very strong , but do
not look to the Holy One of
Israel (Isaiah 31:1).
Don’t you remember, Isaiah is
asking, it is God alone who saves
us 7 The Egyptians are only men!
Isaiah, of course, was not saying
that Judah was to do away with
all her defenses. He was simply
reminding the people that they
had never been victorious in arms
because of their superior num
bers or their weapons. In fact,
when they were victorious, it had
usually been in spite of their
small numbers and lack of su
perior weapons The difference
had always been: the Lord!
What God really wants
So God would still be witk
them in this crisis, as he had been
with them in the past . . . pro
viding:
Wash yourself, make yourself
clean,
Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good,
Seek justice,
Correct oppression,
Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.
In short, if there is going to be
any kind of mobilization in this
country, said Isaiah, let it be a
mobilization of your spiritual re
sources: repent and wipe out the
evil in your land. “Woe to those
who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and
light for darkness . . (Isaiah
5 20a).
This is*what made Israel angry.
Isaiah, they decided, was not
preaching the word of God, he
was “meddling in politics”!
So it was with Judah, but what
of us? Isaiah proclaimed that
their dependence upon weapons
-and alliances and their indiffer
ence to human needs was, in fact,
a rejection of God’s love. What
would he say to us today?
really practice wnat God asks of
them?
{ftased on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education/ National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
USA. Released by Community Press
Service.}
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