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Lancaster
There’s an old saying that when
the going gets tough, the tough get
going
The example set this week in
Lancaster by the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation members ranks
right up there with the best of stories
of struggling onward against the
odds.
It’s the kind of story that should
make other segments of agriculture,
enjoying better financial success,
blush with shame.
The poultry people, faced with
overexpansion in the broiler
business, poor egg prices, and a
turkey market which has its feathers
trimmed, came out Thursday night
over 1600 strong.
They paid $75 each for the
privilege of eating dinner with some
like-minded supporters of the state
poultry business
An amazing 99 whole tables were
sold—a table consists of 12 dinners,
and there was no discount from the
$9OO bill.
Now, it may not seem the best of
short-term economics to spend $l5O
to take your wife to dinner when
you’ve got a house full of birds and
it’s going to cost you a few cents each
for the fun of feeding them But long
term, it is good business sense
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FREEDOM
OR PRETEXT?
Lesson for April 13, 1980
Background Scripture
1 Peter 1:^-9,2; 4:1-3
Devotional Reading:
Galations 3:23-29
TO CONSIDER OTHERS does not have to be this way
This is the tune of the year if each person tries to un
when relations become a bit derstand the feelings and
strained between farmers intentions of the other
and non-farm residents of person When livestock and
the rural community This poultry waste is spread on
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REVENUE
SERVICE
The other day on
television, a talk-show host
was interviewing a woman
whose ex-husband had
successfully sued her for her
custody of their two
children. It was an unusual
legal case, because, in most
courts, custody of children m
a marriage broken by
divorce is usually awarded
to the mother. However, the
ex-husband maintained that
the children should be taken
from the woman because she
was living with another man
and therefore not providing
a “wholesome” home en
vironment. The judge
agreed.
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WHY NOT?
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How
Poultry people paid the freight
gladly, knowing they would be the
ones to reap the reward in the end.
Banquet receipts provide the lion's
share of PPF's operating revenue for
the year.
Generally it’s when things are
toughest that one needs to draw on
the reservoir of promotion, research,
and unity that was filled during the
At the 10th annual meeting of the
United Dairy Industry Association in
New Orleans, the Real Seal got a
boost from the nation’s dairy in
dustry.
UDIA and its member
organizations are planning an im
mediate nationwide campaign to sign
up processors and handlers to
display the Real Seal symbol on all
packages containing natural dairy
products
The Real Seal is a picture of a drop
of milk containing the word Real It
will help shoppers tell the difference
between authentic dairy foods and
fakes
That’s not always easy Ice cream
usually is a dairy product—is ice
Living Free
On the talk-show the
woman vowed to fight this
decision to the Supreme
Court The judge, she in
sisted, had no right to tell her
how to live if she was not
breaking any laws. “I am
free to live as I please!’’ she
proclaimed to the audience.
Then a woman in the
audience asked her if, m
order to regain custody of
her children, she would
consent to marry the man
with whom she was living
The mother hesitated for a
few moments before
answering, “No, I do not
have to submit to that kind of
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It's the real thing
the farm land, which is a the topsoil just as soon as
very good practice, some possible. On the other hand,
folks think they are going to non-farm people should
be permanently injured by understand this practice is a
the odors. When farmers part of modern farming and
understand the possible a part of rural living. It may
reaction from others in the be unpleasant for a short
community, they should tune, but as far as I know,
attempt to spread this waste rural odors have never been
on fast-drying days and then proven to be a definite health
try to get it incorporated into hazard. Special efforts to
By Tom Armstrong
flush periods
The poultry industry has done just
that. Banquet attendance has risen
by about 200 persons for the third
straight year. A similar jump' next
year could mean the banquet will
outgrow the two giant rooms filled at
the Host this year.
As one Federation member joked,
PPF may be forced to move the
milk? Is pasteurized cheese food 7
How about stuff which contains real
milk? What’s un-real milk, anyway 7
The Real Seal symbol was started
by the California Milk Advisory Board
back in 1976. California always
seems a bit ahead of the country with
innovative ideas, including this one
But it's not too late for local dairymen
to benefit from a good thing
A number of local dames probably
will join the campaign with little or no
hesitation at all Some others may be
slower
This isn’t being set out for the
general gratification of the Penn
sylvania dairy farmer He has some
action to take, too
He can contact fieldmen, district
coersion.
This woman’s attitude; is
reflective of a mood that has
captured many people in our
country today: “I am free to
do as I please.” This mood is
not necessarily either good
or bad. In many ways, the
development of personal
freedom has been long
overdue. It was an em
phasis, I believe, that needed
to be made to free us from
the pharasaic legalism that
pervaded much of our
standards.
Yet, at the same tune, it
has not taken very long for it
to be evident that the pen
dulum has swung much,
much too far. The emphasis
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upon personal freedom to the
exclusion of virtually
everything else is like a
cancer running rampant in
the body of our society.
Freedom has become license
and a justification for
avoiding all responsibility,
except to one’s self.
Live As Servants
The writer of 1 Peter was
aware of this; “Live as free
men, yet without using your
freedom for a pretext for
evil” (1 Peter 2:16). When
we live without any con
straints, external or in
ternal, we may be no more
free than the legalist. We are
no more free than a truck
understand the living and
working practices of other
parties, working both ways,
is suggested.
TOPLANTTREES
Trees are a very im
portant part of our land
scape; this is true in the
urban areao as well as in the
rural areas This is the tune
of the year best suited to the
planting of all kinds of trees
Some are used for landscape
Today, April 12
Pa Dairy Goat Assoc. Meet
ing; 10 a.m ; Pine Grove
Mills Lions Club
Maryland State Simmental
Sale; Frederick Fair
Grounds, Md.
Frederick County, Maryland
Pomona Grange Ban
quet; 7 p.m ; Walkers
ville Fire Hall.
banquet to Farm Show and serve box
lunches.
It’s doubtful that would make a
difference .. the name of the game
is mutual assistance, not food.
Even under those circumstances
the poultry people likely would set an
example that other commodity
groups would do well to emulate.
directors, or other representatives of
the dairy buying his milk. Let them
know farmers in this area think its
about time they stopped losing sales
to ersatz products.
The government has shown little
inclination to require truth in labeling
for dairy products But the industry
really doesn’t need government help
to whip this one.
The,Real Seal campaign can assure
each consumer the weekly food
budget is being spent on the real
thing Its cost to the farmer and
industry will be minimal.
After all, if the consumer is paying
for the best, the consumer deserves
the best the real thing. I
whose handbrake has been
released while standing at
the top of a hill. A runaway
truck is not free; neither is a
runaway human life. The
cult of personal freedom is
just another kind of bondage
Living free does not mean
there are no restraints, but
that we are the ones to
determine what restrains we
will place upon ourselves As
the writer of the epistle says,
“but live as servants of God”
(2:16b) Servitude is only a
loss of freedom when it is
unposed upon us, but the
true freedom of Jesus Christ
consists of the servanthood
we freely choose as followers
of Christ.
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purposes, some for shade,
and some for windbreaks.
Trees are important to our
environment and add grace
and beauty to many areas.
Trees provide shelter for
many kinds of birds and
wildlife, as well as the ability
to conserve soil and
moisture. Folks desiring to
plant trees should attempt to
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Tree Seedling Pick-up: Long
Park
Trout Season opens.
Monday, April 14
Lancaster County Ayrshire,
Brown Swiss, Jersey 4-H;
7 30 p.m ; at the home o|
Paul Trimble.
Cumberland County 4-H
Dairy Club; 7:30 p.m ;
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