Alo—Lancaster Fameint, Saturday, June 7,1980
Lancaster Farming says...
it’s dairy month: with governors
signing proclamations, dairy prin
cesses transferring crowns, and
;cows parading through shopping
centers.
But behind all of the fluff, the dairy
industry has its problems. If it
weren't for the dairy farmer’s biggest
enemy—government intervention
al) would not be well in the dairy
industry
The case in point is the current
milk price, up again. This is shocking
news in view of several facts: dairy
consumption is down, American
cheese use is lower than last year
and is losing ground to foreign im
ports, butter use is barely even, and
most economists are predicting a
sizable cut in dairy product use
because of the worsening economy.
Meantime, milk production during
the first four months of 1980, on a
daily average, is three percent above
1979 Cow numbers are up from last
ON IMITATING
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Lesson for June 8, 1980
Background Scripture:
2Kmgs 21:1 through 23:30;
2 Chronicles 33 through 35.
Devotional Reading:
Psalms 16:1-8.
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TO CHECK PASTURES
The high winds that we’ve
had over the past week broke
a lot of tree branches off and
left them m the pasture
fields and exercise lots. If
you have any wild cherry or
choke cherry branches lying
in your exercise lot or
pasture, be sure to remove
them before allowing any
livestock m the area. When
these leaves are damaged by
broken limbs, they wilt down
and a poisonous substance is
formed within the leaves.
A handful of these wilted
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Celebrate dairy month:
As good as Hezekiah had
been, that’s how bad his son,
Manasseh, was as King of
Judah. The writer of 2 Kings
begins with four facts about
Manasseh: (1) he was 12
years old when he began his
reign; (2) he reigned 55
years in Jerusalem; (3) his
mother was Hephzibah and
(4) “...he did what was evil
in the sight of the Lord,
according to the abominable
practices of the nations
whom the Lord drove out
before the people of Israel”
(21:1,2). It is for this fourth
item of data about Manasseh
that he is remembered.
They Did Not Listen
The writer of 2 Kings goes
leaves can kill a cow or
several sheep if they are
eaten. Death occurs very
quickly because the poison
interferes with the oxygen
carrying ability of the blood.
Treatment is possible if
discovered in tune. The only
way to eliminate the danger
of wild cherry poisoning is to
eliminate the tree.
TO PREPARE
GRAIN BENS:
We are approaching
barley harvest season with
wheat not too far behind, so I
would like to remind our
year And production is expected to
continue to rise substantially through
dairy month
If dairy marketings were made in a
free-market economy the dairyman’s
milk check would be quite a bit
thinner today than last year. He’d be
joining his neighbors in the poultry
and pork industries in the general
farm price depression.
Any farmer who removed his boots
and walked a mile in a consumer’s
street shoes might see why such
proposals as the CNI milk order
restructuring idea are coming out at
this time.
Why, the consumer asks, should a
product's price increase when supply
is up and demand is down?
Why shouldn’t the very govern
ment which is maintaining high
support prices be called upon to
reduce those prices? the consumer
asks.
And in Washington, where
on to spell out exactly what
these “abominable prac
tices” were. Manasseh
rebuilt “the high places,”
the pagan worship places,
which his father, Hazekiah,
had destroyed. He caused to
be built altars to Baal and
encouraged the worship of a
number of pagan gods.
Worst of all, however, he
allowed pagan priests to
build altars to their gods in
the Temple of Jerusalem
itself. It was not that
Manasseh tried to wipe out
the worship of the God of
Israel, but that he en
couraged the worship of
other gods as well. We can
understand, then, why the
grain producers that now is a
good tune to clean-up your
grain bins in preparation to
harvest. First, clean out all
the old gram. Sweep down all
the sidewalls and floor
making sure to remove old
gram lodged in the cracks.
Next, spray the floor and
walls with a residual in
secticide. Malathion or
methoxychlor are still very
effective - follow the label for
directions. Finally, prevent
birds and rodents from
entering the bin. Repair
holes with metal or other rat
proof material. Clean-up all
spilled gram around the bin
to discourage the various
pests from the area.
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All of this is not to slap the dairy
industry during its big month
But it should point out that the
dairy industry today is operating in
an unnatural situation. Such a
situation is certain to be changed
sometime by someone
The longer it continues, the harder
the end will be and the greater the
likelihood the pain will be ad
ministered by an outsider’s snort,
sharp shock rather than a gradual
program controlled by dairy farmers
themselves
An individual dairy farmer may
argue there’s little he can do on his
small farm when reports show
runaway milk output across the
nation. But that’s a cop-out
An individual farmer can both help
himself and his industry as a whole in
one simple move he can cut the
writer of 2 Kings concludes:
“...and Manasseh seduced
them to do more evil than the
nations had done whom the
Lord destroyed before the
people of Israel” (21:9).
Manasseh’s sin sounds,
at first, like a very ancient
one, something quite
removed from our con
temporary scene. But his sin
is no less a danger to God’s
people today than it was in
his own day. For his sin was
that, in order to be secure
from the enemies of Judah,
he seduced his nation into
becoming like her enemies.
Several weeks ago I was
watching one of ihose
television talk-shows and the
TO CONDITION
SPRAYERS:
Field sprayers are an
important piece of equip
ment on many farms. It is
important to inspect the
sprayer before operating it.
If you used wettable powder
for the last spray, and did
not thoroughly clean the
nozzles, they may be clogged
with residue. Also, rollers m
the pump may need
replacing or perhaps the
whole pump is worn out. Be
sure to calibrate your
sprayer, it may show that
the nozzle tips are worn to
the extent that they should
be replaced.
Keep m mind that brass
By Tom Armstrong
BY CURT HARLER, EDITOR
cull a cow
guest for the day was a
professor of foreign affairs
from a large nudwestem
university. He was
discussing the relationships
between the USA and the
Soviet Union. His
prescription for meeting the
challenge of Communism
throughout the world: beat
the Soviets at their own
game! Be just as ruthless
and scheming as they are!
Adopt their tactics and keep
your finger on the detonating
switch of the H-bomb. There
were lots of people in the TV
audience who en
thusiastically applauded
him
tips wear rapidly when
wettable powders are used.
Replace with wear-resistant
tips such as stainless steel or
ceramic. Also, check the
inside of the tank. Stainless
steel, plastic and fiberglass
do not deteriorate rapidly.
However, a steel drum is
used on many low volume
sprayers, and since the plain
steel corrodes easily, the
inside may become flaked.
TO CHECK DOGS
FOR TICKS :
Dogs that roam freely in
uncultivated fields or woody
areas should be checked
regularly for wood ticks.
PA sheep field day and
performance tested ram
sale; Tioga County Fair,
Wellsboro.
Delmarva Chicken Festival
concludes
Bradford County Dairy
Princess parade.
Maryland Dairy Goat Show;
Carroll County
Fairgrounds; West
minster, MD; concludes
June 8.
Rabbit and Cavy expo;
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bottom two or three cows out of his
milking string.
-Those tail-enders are likely to be
the least profitable gram consumers
in the barn, the most difficult to
breed, the biggest time wasters at
milking
Since canner prices aren’t too bad,
it would make good business sense
to cull those cows now and increase
milkhouse efficiency.
Removing excess milk from the
market would reduce the govern
ment’s touchy role in dairying
Equalizing supply-demand for milk
would help the price situation and
may get consumers off the farmer’s
back.
There should be more substance to
dairy month than the city-oriented
fluff of praising cool milk and making
strawberry ice cream. It can be a
great dairy month on the farm, too—
if dairymen take steps to make it so
Farm Calendar
Saturday, June 7
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Evin In God’s Sight
I was appalled, for this
man was saying that, in
order to survive Soviet
Communism, we must
become like them as a
nation, thinking the way they
do and operating the way
they do. It is not a new ap
proach, for this had
motivated Manasseh and,
according to the writer of 2
Kings, it was what made him
such an evil ruler in the sight
of both God and his people,
more evil than even Israel’s
enemies.
If to survive we must
mutate our enemies, are we
sure that is what it means to
survive’
Ticks await their victims on
low-growing shrubs and tall
grass. They attach to dogs
and humans as well as many
other animals. Look for ticks
around the dog’s neck,
between his toes, under the
legs, and in and around the
ears. Use a forceps to
remove ail ticks found. Pull
the ticks off with a steady
force; do not yank them or
their mouthparts will be left
in the animal's skin and
cause an infection The
regular flea and tick dusts
are very effective on the dog.
Also, yo can spray or dust
the dog’s nest with the in
secticide Sevm.
Montgomery County 4-H
Center; 9 a.m.-all day.
Lebanon Valley Dairy Goat
Association Show;
Lebanon County
Fairgrounds continues
tomorrow.
Monday, June 9
Gateway Fair, Dußois;
continues through June
14.
Lancaster 4-H Dairy Club
meeting; Ken Eshleman
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