10 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday , October 21, 1979 Lancaster Farming says... For a while, it was the most charming rumor about nuclear power to be spread since Met Ed’s public relations people stepped off the podium. Since the near disaster at Three Mile Island nearby farmers have not been bothered by flies, the story went. The rumor turned up at various spots in Pennsylvania, in Maryland, and even in casual conversations with farmers in Alabama. Sorry to say, but the story just isn't true. Geary Huntsberger, whose York County farm operation includes land all around Met Ed's Three Mile Island site, and even on the Susquehanna River islands near TMI, says he’s heard the rumors, too. He’s likely to chuckle as he swats his hand through the air at a flying black speck. "Maybe that one was just lucky,” he’ll muse. Other farmers on both sides of the River report no fewer and no more A SPIRITUAL DIET Lesson for October 28,1979 Background Scripture: Philippians 4. Devotional Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9. TO BE CAREFUL WITH MOLDY CORN Due to the long period of the percentage that is moldy wet weather during the past of the entire amount, will few weeks, we are aware of determine how it should be com developing mold; some used. Chickens and any of this mold has developed in breeding animals should not standing com with the ears be fed moldy com or feed of still upright. More serious any kind. hogs and RURAL ROUTE & 'A TMI fly rumor melts down Thirteen years ago when the U.S. Department of the Interior was in the midst of “Project 66” to improve many of our national parks and historical sites, a certain area of one of the parks was to be closed down for several years so that it could recuperate from excessive use by tourists and campers. This confronted the National Park Service with a most difficult problem: the bears in this park had become so accustomed to handouts and ’ the theft of food from campers, that they had forgotten how to provide for themselves and would probably starve. All ■ NOW IS THE TIME B,M..Sm,thL.^^pM l ti lral Vnt J cases of mold has developed in com that has blowed down and is on the ground. In either case this com needs some special handling to prevent it causing trouble in breeding animals. The amount of mold on the com, \ flies than in past seasons. Even with fly-free date several weeks past, the little pests still are around to make cows twitch their tails. So it looks like it's back to sticky strips for fly control. They say every cloud 7 has its silver lining. But the silver lining at Three Mile Island—if indeed there is one— is not fly control. In fact, for most farmers the good news may be the recently released recommendation by the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Members of the Commission-voted to recommend a halt in the con struction of new reactors until the groups recommendations for im proving nuclear safety have been adopted. Even that may not be enough for the members of the Wayne and Susquehanna County Farmers’ Associations. The Wayne County group has gone proposed solutions seemed either too risky or ex cessively expensive. Following Their Food At last a forest ranger came up with an idea that was so simple that it had completely escaped his superiors: move the bears from one area of the park to another by leaving trails of food! The bears would follow their food! And it worked. ■ There is a kind of principle in life that all'living things follow their food. If you don’t believe it, try having a picnic somewhere outdoors and as soon as you open your food fattening steers are usually able to handle “low quality” grains as good as any farm animal. Moldy com could qause breeding problems, or abortion, among breeding animals. TO MANAGE HOG HERDS time to cull poor producing The hog producers are sows; fewer pigs in the near facing a period of surplus future will help keep prices production and depressed stronger. According to hog market prices; hog numbers numbers and the outlook, it seem to continue to increase is a bad time to expand any in spite of much lower prices hog operation. Instead of the for each quarter of year. 50* prices per pound of the By Tom Armstrong on record as flat-out opposing any and all nuclear plants. Members confirm the problems at Three Mile Island were on their minds when they voted their opposition to nuclear plants. In Susquehanna County the recommendation closely paralleled the President's Commission recommendation that no more power plants be permitted for a while—with the farmers concerned primarily about the problem of disposing of nuclear waste. At the moment, Pennsylvania Farmer's Association policy is pro nuclear with attached warnings about the problems, of waste disposal. It should be noted, however, the policy was formulated back in the good old days- when farmers and others did not have to worry about having their homes, buildings and land located near a nuclear power site. basket you will find more animal and insect life |.han you would have dreamed existed! Or, if you have an overwhelming desire-to see a cockroach, just leave some food around your house for a few days and you will find that these insects follow their food. This is true not only in terms of physical food, but also our mental and spiritual food as well. We often speak of “food for thought” and wherever we provide mental and spiritual food of various kinds, certain realities are certain to follow. For example, if you spend lots of Local producers are urged to market their hogs at handy weights rather than to feed them to heavier weights. Heavy hogs increase pounds marketed and help reduce pnces. It might be a good r suppose BY CURT HARLER, EDITOR time feeding your mind and spirit with thoughts of bit terness and envy, in time your mind and spirit will reflect these qualities. We often say, “You are what yoq eat,” and this is true of the food of the mind and spint, too. If you fill your mind with spiritually nourishing food, your life will certainly reflect it. A Diet For The Mind Emmett Fox used to propose what he called “a diet for the mind.” It was a seven-day diet in which a person would make a con scious attempt to let nothing into his daily thinking but past, current expenses might have to be paid with 30* hog prices. Good management and planning is needed in the hog industry at this time. TO BEWARE OF BRUCELLOSIS IN HUMANS Years ago brucellosis in livestock was a very com mon and serious disense. In the past decade the number of cases have been -reduced due tp good management and to vaccination programs. We urge local dairy and beef producers to Farm Calendar , Today, October 27 Adams County Beef calf sale at South Mountain Fairgrounds beginning at 6 p.m. Eighth annual Allegheny Co., Maryland “Apple Happlemg” at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. While the President’s Comission on Three Mile Island has no legal powers and can only make recom mendations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, its proposal makes sense. If nothing else, it could encourage Congress to approve pending legislation requiring a moratorium on nuclear power plants and discouraging lenders from putting money in such plants. While a return to the “dark ages” would do nobody any good, leaping into the nuclear age without suf ficient safeguards is plain stupidity. We applaud the farmers of nor theastern Pennsylvania for their stand on nuclear power. And we’d like to see other groups, organizations and associations join in passing resolutions to require at • tention be given the investments of farmers and other citizens of the state rather than crying over the investments of the utilities which are supposed to be serving them. constructive thoughts. Whenever anything negative or harmful came along, he advised, let it go right, through your mind without stopping. The seven-da?/ mental diet, he said, could not only change - people’s minds, but the world. Paul has something of this in mind in Phillippians 4 when he says, “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” continue the vaccination of their young stock to help build resistance to this in fection. Along with fewer animals infected there are less cases of brucellosis in humans in this country. Of the 172 cases 6f human brucelosis reported in 1978, 46% were among meat cutters and handlers; veterinarians accounted for 6% of the reported cases. Of all, cases reported the most common source of infection was the consumption of unpasteurized milk. Farm (Turn to Page 21) Monday, October 29 Christinas m October afthe/j Farm and Home Center, j Arcadia Road, Lancaster today and tomorrow, 9:30 a.m.-3p.m. Tuesday, October 30 Dover Young Adult The (Turn to Page 21)
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