—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 15,1979 10 WHO’S IN CHARGE? Lesson for September 16, 1079 Background Scripture: Isaiahs:l-7; Matthew 13:4446; 21:3346. Devotional Reading: Matthew 13:24-30. Farm animals seem unable to resist stepping through old disks or harrows, often with painful results. A magnet may be a big help in picking up nails and bits of wire. They should be burned with any old bottles and tin cans. One old paint bucket may furnish enough lead to kill half a dozen cows. They like the taste of lead paint so much that they will struggle with each other to get as much as possible from an old paint can. should be hauled away. Fertilizer and fertilizer TO CLEAN PASTURES A careful check over pastures can be tune well spent. Trash, broken glass and wire may produce bad udder and foot injuries. Take tune to pick-up and bury thif debris. Nails sticking through boards may produa serious puncture wounds ui feet. Old farm implement; RURAL ROUTE "■K V As the ancient Hebrews answered questions about the nature of God with narratives of what God had done, so Jesus taught about both God and the kingdom of heaven with stones which we call parables. Jesus was not given to theological definitions and systems, but his parables tell us so much more about God and his kingdom than any abstract statements could ever convey. The reality of God always lies far beyond the power of human thought and words. Yet, at the same time, Jesus found this reality reflected m the common scenes of daily life and his stones were mtended, not to NOW IS' THE. TIME »»W»Sm.th.U !^r^: ggS gl a. lt ur. l A^ l . xf tell everything, but only as much as the human mud could grasp. The Kingdom Is Like... The stones he told helped people see these great truths in picture-form. Thus Jesus invited his disciples to “see” in their minds’ eye the picture of a man who found a treasure in a field and then sold everything so that that treasure might be his. Jesus was saying, in effect, if you can understand how that man felt and why he did what he did, then you can understand what the kingdom of heaven means to you: it is the most valuable, most important of all the realities of your life. bags are deadly; especially those containing mtrates. Cows will eagerly kill themselves eating it. In spite of our laws, we still have a few people who will pitch a bagful of junk out of their cars. Cattlemen and dairymen must be ever mindful of this and try to remove this material before their animals get to it. XXI Apply hme now. Early fall is a good tune for applying lime. For land to be seeded'to TO APPLY LIME By Tom Armstrong DANGER! In Matthew 21:33-41 the story is more involved, but no less revealing. The “householder” is obviously none other than God Him self. The “vineyard”, “winepress” and “tower” are like the earth which God has placed at our disposal. The “season of fruit” reminds us that the earth is not just ours to enjoy, but we are expected to make it fruitful, to be productive. The “servants” whom he sends to the “tenants” (us) are his messengers, such as the prophets. The treatment of his servants “beat... killed.. . stoned” reflects the way people have usually responded to his prophets legumes in -1979, now is the best tune to start correcting soil acidity. For hme to work properly it must be applied well in advance of a new legume seeding. And it must be well mixed with the soil. If your going to plow down sod next spring, then apply hme now. Next year ttys land will be turned under for com, and the following year it will be tilled again and seeded down. By the time it is planted to legumes, the soil acidity will be corrected. Also, keep m mind that heavy hme trucks can rum a WHATS FUNNY n HOW ELSE Do y' GET> I SUCCOTASH ? J Fields after field of corn in Southern Lancaster County and much of Chester County looks like this. Down and hopeless looking Often, the fields look fine from the outside, with the first two or three rows standing tall and strong. But the insides of the fields look like they’ve been struck by a giant eggbeater. In a way, they were. Hurricane David was the villain here last week, when his dying gasps passed over the area His brother Fred is due along any day, now and he may add his own little footnote to what has been a largely successful growing season Nobdy can afford to leave corn lying out in the field to.rot. Driving through southern Lancaster County last week, we saw a number of choppers out in the fields, making game efforts to get the downed stalks into the headers They were plugging up Whole roots were being fed into the blades and stopping the machines dead in their tracks It takes no imagination at all to see the danger lurking in this field of corn A plugged chopper is an invitation to tragedy It’s been said before, but we’ll say it again If your harvester is plugged up, please, please shut the engine off before you try to unplug it Arms, legs and even lives have been lost because this simple rule has been ignored and spokesmen. The “son” of the householder, of course, is Jesus and the treatment accorded him reminds us of his passion and death. To Other Tenants But the point of this parable is a warning “When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” (Matthew 21:40). The tenants thought that they could do whatever they pleased, for the owner, it seemed, had gone away and wouldn’t be back. But the whole point of the story is wet field in the spring. The soil is usually drier this tune of year, and little or no soil damage will occur. The amount of hme needed is determined by soil analysis. XXX TO CHECK VENTILATION SYSTEMS IN POULTRY HOUSES Understanding the prin ciples of the basic fan laws are critical to understanding our ventilation system and why we should not do some things and why some things cost us money. There are three basic fan laws: LAW 1 “As we vary the speed of a fan the volume, of Today, September 15 4-H District Horse Show at Lancaster Riding Club Monday, September 17 Elizabethtown Community Fair begins and continues through Saturday Beaver Community Fair opens at Beaver Springs, Farm Calendar that the owner is still m charge and will return. And the fate of the tenants is dark indeed: “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons’ ’(21:41). There are lots of thmgsJ about God and his that are hard for us to grasp and fully understand. But one thing that the parables of Jesus remind us and make perfectly clear is that nothing can be more fata) than for us to forget that Goc is still m charge. air varies in direct proportion.” It is a one to one ratio if we double the . speed of a fan, for example, t we can double the capacity of air. We can do this by changing pulleys, but do not do this as the fan systems are designed as received by you. Law 2 and 3 will ex plain. LAW 2 “As you vary the speed (volume) of the fan, the pressure varies by the square.” In other words, if you would double the speed of the fan, by changing a pulley, the pressure would go up four times. The reverse is also true if you (Turn to Page 34) Snyder County. Wednesday, September 19 Solanco Fair opens, see page 118 for details Elizabethtown 4-H, and FFA swine show at 7 p.m. Saturday, September 22 National Hunting and Fishing Day
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