IQ—Lancaster Earming. Saturday, April 3,1976 LIFE on the farm By DIETER KRIEG “Good morning, this is Dieter Krieg Woodbine... I have two cows in heat for late service this afternoon ... one to be bred to "Ivanhoe Star," the other to an Angus bu 11... thank you.” With that I hung up the phone, picked up the registration papers for “Blossom" and “Cindy" and walked back to the barn. Down in the exercise lot, most of the cows were basking in the. sup^ c shine. Some were nosing ardfSnd fence lines and an adjacent corn crib. “Blossom" and “Cindy,’’. hbwever, were riding each other almost con stantly and “Cindy” was bellowing loud enough to be heard all over the township. “I’d hate to lose “Cindy," I thought to myself. She was one of the most profitable cows in the herd, but if she couldn't come back with a calf the following year, her days would be numbered. This was going to be her fifth and last chance to be bred. After four unsuccessful services ail without explanation from either the service technician or veterinarian she had reached her limit. It was almost milking time when Lloyd, the representative from the Nixnutz's Corral "All the news that's unimportant, but still interesting.” They’re all wet town took a moment to wonder about * ''it all. “Tell me, where does your Daddy work?" the young lad asked. Word has been received by this roving reporter that Idaho potato farmers have developed a new method for growing potatoes which eliminates the need for irrigation. The development is expected to cut production costs by the millions of dollars. How do they do it? By planting alternating rows of potatoes with onions. The onions make the potatoes’ eyes water and presto! the need for additional water is unnecessary. Big playground A grade-schooler from town visited a farm one day and went bananas over all the nifty things he saw. It was like a huge playground to him and he and his young farm fnend had a good time with calves, cats, forts built out of straw, and anything else. After all this frolicmg, the youngster from © Dieter Krieg 1976 By BARNEY NIXNUTZ breeders’ cooperative arrived. He stepped out of his car, unlatched the trunk, pulled his boots on, and opened the liquid nitrogen tank. Curls of vapor crawled out of the top and slid down the sides gracefully while he removed two ampules of semen from two separate canes. He dropped them into an ice-water bath and allowed the life-giving mixture to thaw while he wrote out appropriate breeding slips., “What do you think?” I asked Lloyd when the job was done. “Everything seems okay,” he answered. His words weren’t very reassuring. There was no sign of anything being wrong, but that had been the case on previous breedings too not just with “Cindy;’"bat with other cows as well. “It’s always, the better cows which are difficult to get with calf,” I remarked. Many other dairymen have said the same thing as they time and time again face the cruel reality of not getting a good cow with calf. Fortunately, this particular episode of life on the farm came to a happy ending. “Cindy” conceived and stayed in the herd for a number of years thereafter. But some other cows weren’t as lucky Good suggestion | A cow was in the process of giving 1 birth to a calf while a little six-year- 1 •old girl stood close by witnessing the 1 miraculous event. Speechless 1 throughout the process, the pig-tailed i youngster eventually turned to her 1 father, who was assisting the cow, 1 and asked quite innocently; "1 “Wouldn’t it be easier if cows had 1 zippers?" 1 Hard to see Who was the County Extension s Agent who showed up at a dinner one 1 day, and when he was introduced, the 1 emcee suggested he get up on a chair % so everyone could see him? ' s " | iimiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii)iiiiiiiii!i’ THE MOST FOR THE LEAST Lesson lor April 4,1976 Background Scripture: Matthew 23. Devotional Reading: Matthew 25:1930. There isn’t anyone who hasn’t, seen Jesus at some time. Of course, that doesn’t mean we recognized him. More than likely we didn't. Nevertheless, you have seen him and so have I. Recently I saw him in a prison cell. He appeared in the guise of a young man who has been in and out of trouble for most of his twenty years. In his haunted eyes I saw a life that is still redeemable providing he gets some help, providing some one takes an interest in him and shows him that all is not lost. When did we see yon? I saw him also in a con valescent home. He ap peared as a frail woman of seventy-five who for the past few years has passed each solitary day in the confines of her tiny room. Her eyes are too weak to watch television; her hearing too poor to listen to the radio; her family is “too busy” to visit her. Jesus looked at me through her eyes and it was enough he didn’t need to say anything to me, my own conscience spoke loudly enough. But there’s nothing unique about my experience: everyone can see Jesus... if they look closely enough. Some of us have the op portunity to see him every day, perhaps often each day. He meets us in many dif ferent disguises, but he is ever walking, standing, and sitting along the paths we take each day. You, for example. When did you last see him? Was it last 'night as you watched the evening news? Was it his face that looked at you through hunger-glazed eyes as the commentator spoke in matter-of-fact tones about hundreds of thousands dying of starvation in Africa? Perhaps like many you averted those eyes and complained about showing “such things” at mealtimes. Then again, it may have been Jesus who came knocking at your door the other day and asking for used clothing and furniture for the family whose home was destroyed by fire. Perhaps it was Jesus whose disguised face appeared on the little brochure asking for support of community agencies and services. Asyou did It No matter where we go and what we do, Jesus Is waiting for us in die lives of people who are hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, strangers, and in prison. And it is how we respond to him in these circumstances that matters in the long run. Not, what church do we go to, not how perfect or unperfect is our attendance, hot the doctrines we affirm, or the church offices we hold, nor the respectability ascribed to us by others. However important these things may be—and they are—they are only peripheral to the basic question of how we respond To Fence Out Rabbits Many calls received at the possible, then I’m at a loss to Extension Office refer to the suggest a good method of control of rabbits in flower preventing them from eating and vegetable gardens. It plants. The local Game seems there is more trouble Wardens may be in a in the suburbs than in the, position to provide traps, but rural areas. The solution is the demand may exceed the not easy because most of the supply and- time of the repellents only last a few Warden, days at the best, r would To Utilize Manure suggest a chicken wire fence - As A Fertilizer - - be built around the area as This is the time of the year soon as the plants are set into _ [Continued on Page 12J Farm Calendar Mon. April 5 Lancaster Co. FFA Public Speaking Contest, Willow Street Vo-Tech School, 1 pm. Octorara FFA banquet at Octorara High School, 6:30 p.m. Lancaster County, Poultry Association meets at the Farm and Home Center Board meeting of the Lan caster County Con-' servation District, 7:30 pm. at the Farm and Home Center. Manheim Young Farmers have meeting at the High School on estate plan ning. Tne.Aprfl6 FFA Poultry Judging Contest, Penn Manor High School, Millersville, at 1:30 pm/ Spring Meeting, Plain and Fancy Restaurant, 7 pm. for Lancaster County Fanners Association. Cedar Crest Young Farmers meet, 7:30 pm. at the vo ag classroom. Program is weed and pest control in alfalfa and com. to our fellowmen in need, no matter how unlovely they may appear, and give our most for those whom Jesus called “the least of these my brethren.” (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches ol Christ in die U.S.A. Released by Com munity Press Service.) RURAL ROUTE By Tom Armstrong now is : I TffilTIME. I & Max Smith County Agr. Agent Telephone 394-6851- the ground. If this is not Wed. April 7. FFA parliamentary procedures contest, Willow Street Vo-Tech School 1 p.m. Pennsylvania Food Day Panorama; 10 a.m.at the Penn Harris, Camp HOI Red Rose Beef and Lamb Club meets at the Farm and Home Center, 7:30 - p.m. Than. Aprils Lancaster Co. Pork _ Producers Feeder Pig Sale, Lancaster 7 pin. For 4- H and FFA members. Lebanon County FFA banquet, Tulpehocken United Church of Christ, 7 pm. Chickies Creek Watershed Association bolds its first regular meeting,' at Manheim Central Jr. High School (cafeteria). Program begins at 7:30 pm. Blue Mountain Dairy Goat Association meets 7:30 pm. at the Schuylkill Haven campus of Penn State University. Schuylkill Co. Ag. Extension board of' directors meeting atthe Extension Office, 8 pm. Fd. April 9 Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association meets at the Sheraton - Conestoga, Lancaster, 7 pm. Sat April 10 The Rough and Tumble Historical Association, Kinzer, sponsors a 4- wheel drive pull, 7 p.m.
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