—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4,1970
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I EDITORIAL COMMENTS By .DETER KRIEG, EDITOR
One little mistake, no matter how
innocent, is all it takes to cause a
disaster for yourself or your
neighbor. Generally it can be boiled
down to just plam carelessness or
even irresponsibility. Like a match
dropped in the straw mow,
carelessness can cause a lot of grief.
Take the case of a careless entry into
a quarantined chicken house,
followed by a visit to a disease-free
facility. That's all it takes to infect a
flock of birds.
Or consider the milk from a cow
which has been treated for mastitis.
Just a few pounds of milk from the
treated quarter and an entire tank
full of milk can be ruined. Worse yet,
THE GIFT
OF PATIENCE
Lesson for March 5,1978
Background Scripture:
Actsl.
Devotional Reading:
John 16:4-11.
I am grateful for the gifts
TO PROTECT hold their body heat. Aftei
SMALL FEEDER PIGS the pigs reaches 60 to 71
The swine feeding pounds, they can stand more hand without a label or
business is growing in this cold; however, in some open- identification, should not be
part of the country; many fronted barns even the used. It is very important to
pigs are put on feed here
each week. During the cold
weather these small pigs
should be given some
protection; due to the long
penods of very cold weather
the past two winters we have
noticed more losses and
more poor-doing pigs due to
the cold. At the recent Swine
Day, Dwight Younkin from
Penn State, stressed the
importance of supplemental
heat for these small pigs, or
the covering of their pens to
Farm Calendar
Monday, March 6
Annual Maryland
Cooperative Extension
Service Conference, Hunt
Valley Inn, Cockeysville.
Red Lion Young Farmers’
banquet, 6:45 p.m. at the
high school.
Wood and Coal burning
safety meeting, 7:30 p.m.
Ironville Fire House.
Extension Capitol Days,
Extension board mem
bers and staff meeting in
Harrisburg with
legislators.
Tuesday, March 7
Lancaster County Dairy
Day, at the Farm and
Home Center, 9am to 3
p.m
Home Vegetable Gardening
meeting, Lancaster
Farm and Home Center,
7 30 p m
Hmkletown Adult Farmers
meeting, at the
Hmkletown Alternative
School, 7 30 p m
Take your warnings seriously
it’ll affect all the other milk in the
truck that hauls it, and eventually an
entire silo of milk at the dairy.
Somebody stands to pay for the loss
of such carelessness. So far it’s been
covered by either insurance or the
marketing association’s owri savings
account. This seriously jeopardizes
the flow of good will, beneficial ad
vertising, and wholesome farm
products.
Back to the poultry disease
situation Lancaster County poultry
producers can't be overemphatic in
their drive to urge all poultrymen --
large or small -- to take precautions.
(See page 1) If something isn’t done
immediately to halt the spread of the
that God has given me. Like
most people I probably have
considerably more of those
gifts than I realize and use.
Yet, there is one gift which I
often wish had been part of
my God-given endowment:
the gift of patience.
I would rather fast for 40
days and 40 nights, go on a
long pilgrimmage, ascend
the penitential steps in Rome
on my knees, give away my
worldly goods (a somewhat
cheap offer, I’ll admit!),
take on a benevolent project
or quest, or wear sack-cloth
and ashes for Lent, and
probably almost anything
else you can think 0f... than
be patient.
because they are too cold.
Pig comfort during the
winter will mean faster and
more efficient gams.
TOINSPECT
PESTICIDE SUPPLIES
The supply of left-over
pesticides from last year
should be inspected and
mventoned for this season.
In many cases these
materials may be used with
goodresults. However, if the
dusts or powders have gotten
damp and are lumpy, they
York County Pomona
Grange visitation at
Dillsburg, 7:30 p.m.
Adams County stone fruit
demonstration meeting, 9
a.m., contact Extension
office for details.
Adams County commercial
vegetable growers
meeting, Fruit Research
Lab, Biglerville, 7:30
p.m.
Adams County Home Im
provement Clime, Adams
County Extension Office,
Gettysburg. Follow-up
meetings scheduled for
March 14, 21. All at 7 30
p.m
Ephrata Area Young Far
mers Poultry meeting,
7:45 p.m
Chester County Farmers
Association holds J-ames
Day Out at the Stone
Barn, Unionville, 103 rn.
Wait for the promise
Of course, God doesn’t
usually offer me any of those
alternatives. Instead, it
seems his customary
requirement is that I wait for
his promises to be fulfilled.
The only comfort I take in
that fact is the realization
that I am not alone in my
dilemma. Throughout the
Bible there are numerous
stories of people who have
had to learn to wait for God
to keep his promises, some
of them successfully, some
of them rather un
successfully.
So I can easily appreciate
should be discarded. Also,
any materials that are on
[, in on
the material, and to be able
to follow instructions. Don’t
make the mistake of
guessing as to the identity of
the Material and the dosage.
Follow instructions carefully
at all times.
TO MEET
MARKET DEMANDS
The producer should make
every effort to produce the
kind of a feed or food product
their market wants. Most
farmers have regular outlets
RURAL ROUTE
HEY DOC AS LONS AS
YOUM HEIfE, HOW ABOUT
SOMETHING FOH MV COLD ?
fyoo KNOW VETS
CANY PO THAT
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Wednesday, March 8
Celery Growers meeting,
Hodecker Celery Farm,
East Petersburg, 1:30
p m.
Home Vegetable Gardening
meeting, Lancaster
Farm and Home Center,
7 30 pm
Grape Growers Educational
Meeting, 7 30 p m at the
Penn State Fruit
Kescaich Lab. B'gler
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disease, slim profits could turn into
heavy losses.
it is time that farmers take their
responsibilities very seriously in
order to protect themselves against
disease outbreaks or serious con
sequences if drugs in milk are traced
back to their farm.
The risks are too great. Everything
a family worked for could be lost in
one bad move. Consider having to
pay $lOO,OOO for milk that contained
penecillm and had to be dumped. Or
consider having your own flock of
chickens go through a disease period
which can be ov'ercgnite, but
somehow your flock infects others
what must have been in the
hearts and minds of the
disciples when they are told
by the risen Lord: “wait for
the promise of the Father”
(Acts 1:4). Their impatience
at this prospect is obvious,
for they ask him: “Lord, will
you at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel?” (1:6).
How anxious they are for the
promises to be fulfilled
NOW! The people of Israel
have waited for centuries -
surely the time of waiting
was at an end! But once
again the admonition was
one to patience: ‘ ‘lt is not for
you to know times or seasons
which the Father has fixed
bv his own authority” (1:7).
for their animals or their buyer and between
products. When the farmer localities,
knows exactly what the TO PLAN FOR
buyer wants, then an effort TOP-DRESSING
should be made to produce WHEAT
with regular outlets for
products farmers would
make an effort to visit the
buyer’s place of business
and get a better un
derstanding of what is
desired. There may be times
when the buyer will pay a
premium for a certain type
or quality of product. We’re
suggesting that producers
become more familiar with
their buyers and try to meet
the market demand. This
could vary from buyer to
WELL THERE MUST BE
SOMETHIN® THAT'S LfffflL,
I CANT WASTE TIME
SITTIN' IN A DOCTORS
office
Adams County Grape
Pruning demonstration, 4
p.m. at Tyson’s Vineyard,
Flora Dale, along Route
34, north of Biglerville.
Lebanon County Con
servation District board
of directors meeting, 8
p.m at the Lebanon
County Municipal
Building, South Eighth
and Oak Streets, Room
207
Lancaster County Con-
around you because someone was
careless.
Strict precautions should be taken
by all farmers. At this time that's
particularly true of poultrymen and
dairymen. They should also see to it
that their employees follow in
structions. And in the case of
poultrymen, they should make sure
no unauthorized persons enter their
poultry houses. And those who must
enter, should take every step to
insure that disease organisms aren’t
carried m or out, whatever the case
may be. 'Precautionary and
security measures to be taken by
popltrymen are contained in the page
1 article. It’s suggested they be'
seriously considered
The times and seasons
That’s my problem: I want
to know the times and
seasons. It’s not so much just
the waiting, but not knowing
when. It is my insistance on
“knowing when” that is
indicative of both my im
patience and my lack of
faith. For that’s what im
patience with God amounts
to: lack of faith. It means I
still want to substitute my
judgement for his, that I still
do not really trust him to
keep his promise.
Impatient as his disciples
were, they responded in the
best possible manner:
“They returned to
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later this month the winter
wheat fields will be starting
to grow; this will be the time
for an apphcation of nitrogen
fertilizer if maximum yields
of both grain and straw are
needed. In the past this
special treatment has been
very successful especially on
sand, gravel, or shale-type
soils. With the current prices
of straw, it might be even
more profitable to try to get
maximum straw yields
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servation District holds
meeting on irrigation
water needs, 11:30 a.m. at
the- Good’n Plenty
Restaurant, Smoketown.
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association tour to
Washington, D.C to meet
with legislators.
York County Milking School
today and tomorrow, at
the 4-H Center at Bair, 10
a.m.-3 pm.
Codorus Fertilizer banquet,
Jerusalem...to the upper
room” and WAITED! But
that didn’t mean they
weren’t doing anything.
Luke tells us: “All these with
-one accord devoted them
selves to grayer” (1:14).
They waited...but they did it
prayerfully and expectantly.
They lived each day in an
ticipation of the fulfilment of
the promise and it was
probably _ this expectation
that made it possible for the
promise to be fulfilled.
I suspect that the disciples
were not particularly gifted
with patience, but if they
learned and mastered this
art, so can we!
along with good grain
development. Fields seeded
down to alfalfa or clover
should not get more than 25
to 30 pounds of actual
nitrogen per acre. Ap
plications of 50 to 60 pounds
of actual nitrogen per acre
on un-seeded fields should
give greater returns on both
grain and straw.
By Tom Armstronj
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Jefferson Fire Hall, 6-30
p.m.
Thursday, March 9
Wine Grape Growers
meeting, Lancaster
Farm and Home Center,
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Farm Transfer meeting,
Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, 7:30 p.m.
Elizabethtown Young
Farmers meeting, at
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