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— Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 3. 1975
Farm Commentary
Order 4 Milk
Market Expanded
Dairymen in 13 Pennsylvania
counties and one county in Maryland
voted by a 97 percent majority to
expand the Federal Order 4 Milk
Market. The order had formerly in
cluded producers who shipped to the
principal metropolitan areas of
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and Wilmington. After June 1, order 4
prices will be paid to all farmers,
regardless of how they market their
milk, in the Pennsylvania counties of
Bucks,-Montgomery, Adams, Chester,
Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin,
Fulton, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Perry and York. Washington County,
Maryland, is also included in the
Freestone Peach
Pennsylvania congressman Joseph
Vigonto, a member of the House Ag
Committee, has introduced a bill to
enable freestone peach growers to
finance a research and education
program to improve the quality and
sale of this fruit. The bill provides that
both the administrative costs of the
program after it becomes operational,
and the costs of specific research and
education projects, would be borne
by the peach producers themselves.
The costs would be paid out of a
small per-bushel assessment, yet to
be determined, of peaches sold in the
commercial market.
Pennsylvania producers account
for nearly 10 percent of the nation’s
Land, Water Seen
Adequate to 2000 A.D.
U.S. land and water resources
available for food and fiber
production are adequate to satisfy
domestic and foreign demand, at
least until the year 2000, according to
a pair of USDA pamphlets issued this
week
Honor For Wentmk
Congratulations are in order for
Hendrmk “Henk” Wentmk, assistant
to the president of Pennfield Corp,
the local feed firm Wentmk was
named “Eggman of the Year” by
United Egg Producers for his work as
chairman of the National Commission
on Egg Nutrition Wentmk was in
by Dick Wanner
Bill Introduced
expanded Order.
Many dairymen in the area have
been accustomed to receiving Order
4 prices because their milk is shipped
to the Order 4 markets via milk
cooperatives. Farmers who are
shipping to independent dairies in
the area will notice a change in the
way their milk price is calculated.
While independent shippers will
receive higher prices for both Class I
and Class II milk under the Order 4
setup, the utilization of Class I milk
will be lower. The blend price, the
average price they receive for their
milk, should continue to be about the
same.
freestone peach crop. In 1974, the
Commonwealth’s crop totaled 2.5
million bushels, valued at $14.3
million. Nationally, the peach crop
totaled 26.74 million bushels, with a
farm value of some-$147.6 million.
The Vigonto bill provides for a
refund to any peach producer who
elects not to contribute to the
program. Research financed by the
proposed assessment will focus on
improved productivity through soil
fertilization, tree breeding and
cultivation, tree disease prevention
and so forth. Research will also be
done to improve marketing
techniques.
The pamphlets note that
agriculture is the biggest user of the
nation's more than two billion acres
and is also the mam consumer of the
American water supply. Both caution
that wise planning and use of these
resources are vital.
Pretoria, South Africa, at the time of
the presentation, so he had to accept
the honor by trans-Atlantic phone.
Wentmk’s battle against the
American Medical Association's anti
egg campaign has attracted national
publicity.
NO HIDING PLACE
Lesson (or May 4,197 S
Background Scripture:
Psalms 139.
Devotional Reading: John
14:15-21.
A friend of mine told me
Recently that there are times
when Ms work piles up and
the pressures seem un
bearable and he day-dreams
about “running away from it
all" to some far-away place
where he can find peace and
quiet.
“Do you think of it
seriously?” I asked.
“Not really,” he replied,
“for I know there’s really no
hiding place from God.”
God Knows Me
This is actually what the
prophet Jonah learned the
hard way: a man cannot hide
from God. No matter what
he did, no matter where he
went, he could not seem to
find a hiding place secure
from God.
This too was the ex-
perience of the Psalmist;
“0 Lord, thou hast sear
ched me and known me!
Thou knowest when 1 sit
down and when I rise up;
thou discernest my thoughts
from afar.” (139: 1,2)
In a novel I read some time
ago, one of the characters
successfully hides a
disgraceful act for many
years. At last, however, he
realizes that he cannot keep
this knowledge inside
himself any longer and,
staring at himself in the
mirror, he cries: “You
thought you could get away
with it, but by God, you
couldn’t!”
This is what the Psalmist
found too:
“Even before a word is on
my tongue, 10, 0 Lord, thou
knowest it altogether”
(139:4)
There are no secrets in
God’s sight.
Where can I hide?
Jonah, faced with a task
from God that he didn’t want
to perform, decided to “skip
town.” He went as far from
Israel as he could. Ap
parently, he thought that
God was limited to his own
country. His God was too
small, too limited. In reality,
he found, God is universal.
He is everywhere and there
is no place where he cannot
find us:
“Wither shall I go from thy
Spirit? Or wither shall I flee
from thy presence? (139:7)
Is there nowhere we can
hide from God?
Nowhere, the Psalmist
discovered:
“If I ascend to heaven,
thou art there! If I make my
bed in Sheol, thou art there! ”
(139:8)
It is foolish to try to hide
from God for there is no
hiding place he cannot find.
We may try to bury our
selves in work, we may busy
ourselves in fun and good
tunes, we may even tem
porarily blot him out of our
minds, but we cannot ever
hide from him that he
doesn’t find us.
At last, realizing that it is
fruifless to flee from God,
the Psalmist submits to
God’s scrutiny: “Search me,
0 God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my
thoughts!” (139:23).
I NOW IS
jljT THE TIME... I
TO DRENCH SHEEP
Sheep flocks need special
attention this time of the
year when they are caught
for being sheared; this is
also a good time to trim their
feet and drench them for
internal parasites. In this
part of the country, being hot
and humid, stomach worms
are a major problem in the
sheep industry; flocks
should be drenched in the
spring before they go to
pasture and again in the fall
when they come from
pasture to their winter
quarters. Lambs should be
drenched monthly during the
first summer. The rotation of
pastures every 2 to 3 weeks
will also help to keep down
the parasite problem.
TO MAKE RYE SILAGE
A very common practice
among livestock and
dairymen is to grow a crop of
rye during the winter and
early spring to be made into
silage during early May and
then plant the same ground
to com, soybeans, or another
annual crop. Winter rye has
been growing very fast in
recent weeks and after a few
days of warm weather here
early in May, it will be ap
proaching the time to cut for
silage. Research work shows
that winter rye should be cut
for silage when in the boot to
early heading stage of
maturity; this will result in
silage with the best
.palatability and the most
feed nutrients. Field con
ditioning and wilting is very
important in order to get rid
of excess moisture. Cattle
feeders may want to use
some feed additive such as
ground com and cob chop or
a molasses feed in order to
add extra energy to the rye
silage. Not needed as a
preservative, when well
wilted, but adds feed value
and energy.
Farm
Calendar
Sunday, May 4
9:00 a.m. - Lancaster County
Conservancy Walkathon
for Chickies Rock.
Meeting at Chickies Rock
Parking Lot.
Monday, May 5
Ayrshire Breeders Tour of
the Masonic Homes and
Dairy Herd in
Elizabethtown 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, May 7
Lancaster County Con
servation District
meeting at the Lancaster
Farm and Home Center
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 8
Testimonial dinner for J. Lin
Huber, retiring milk
Marketing Board
Member.
Saturday, May 10
Lebanon Valley Expo Corp.
f inally, he acknowledges:
from God there is no hiding
place!
(Based on outlines
copyrighted by the Division
of Christian Education,
National Council of the
Churches of Christ in the
U.S.A. Released by Com
munity Press Service.)
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone :i!U-«KSI
TO TEST AND
SEGREGATE ANIMALS
Pressure to clean up
Brucellosis infected herds in
Canada and in other states is
increasing the risk of in
fection to Pennsylvania
dairymen who are buying
replacements. Dr. Sam
Guss, our Extension
Veterinarian at Penn State,
strongly recommends that
dairymen re-test all animals
purchased and segregate
them until the negative test
is received. Verbal promises
and reports are not sufficient
to make the animal safe to go
into the herd. Be sure the
animal is disease-free before
she contacts other animals in
the herd. Be especially
careful with out-of-state
animals. Don’t take chances
of infecting your entire herd.
TO TAKE YOUR TIME
“Haste Makes Waste” has
often been said and is quite
true in too many in
stances Also, it could be
dangerous and cause ac
cidents. The baste in mind in
this article is with farm
machinery and especially
with the corn planter. Many
acres of com will be planted
in the next few weeks and
this is a major crop in this
county. (180,000 acres)
Growers are urged to take
the time to adjust their
planters to drop the desired
populatibn per acre. Make
allowance for mortality j>f
some of the kernels to poor
germination, birds, and
insects. Silage corn is
usually planted about 2,000
plants per acre thicker than
' grain com. Fertilizer should
not come into direct contact
with the com seed. Careful
management to be certain
that everything is done
exactly right is strongly
suggested for the start of
another good com crop.
Lebanon Fairgrounds
8:00 p.m.
Earl/ Milkers
Not Productive
Cows of the Colonial farmer
were a far cry from the prolific
milk producers which are
found on today’s modern
dairy farms.
Milk yields were extremely
low Israel Acrehus, a farmer
and writer of the time, re
ported in 1759, “Where the
pasture is fair, a cow does not
give less than two quarts of
milk at a time - that is, twice
a day ” Cows today com
monly produce 25 quarts a
day And it’s not unusual for
a cow to produce 50 quarts in
a day and some exceptional
animals have produced 75 and
more quarts in a single day.
There was not much .im
provement in Colonial cows
until after 1790, when farmers
began to produce forage crops
in more abundance. As the
half-starved animals ate
better, the production of milk
gradually began to increase.
Around 1800, more attention
to the breeding of dairy cattle
began to have an effect on
milk production.