Alo— tucartr Ffhg, Saturday, October It, 1980 / Lancaster Farming says... Glenn Kean, co-chairman of the Keystone international Livestock Exposition, said at last week’s show if KILE loses money another year there might not be a show in 1982. There will be a 1981 Exposition, however, complete with the Polled Hereford Standard of Performance show. But between now and next October there’s a lot which will have to come to pass if KILE is to stay above water. There are big things and little things that need to be changed. One big thing is money. Why should the state give KILE funds for the show and then turn around and charge KILE rent for the Farm Show Building? Despite their efforts, are county agents really qualified to run an international livestock show? There’s a lot more to coordinate at KILE with out-of-state exhibitors and livestock than at a county fair where exhibitors are local and known to everyone. Comments and attitudes exhibited in the show ring by some agents indicate they would rather be at THE ONE, TRUE ELEPHANT October 19,1980 Background Scripture: Jeremiah 31. Devotional Reading: Ezekiel 18:25-32. Clyde Reid, in his challenging book, THE contain dangerous amounts of prussic acid after a killing frost. This will be toxic to livestock. Growers should not feed this frosted material to tbetf animals for at least 7 . the frost. TO BEWARE OF /-After that time and if the FROSTED CROPS plants are dead and dry, it _ J*ck Frost is due at any may be used as a forage or tune and may already have for bedding purposes, appeared by the time this jf made into silage or hay article is printed. Crops such during that first week, it as Sudan Grass and the should be allowed to ferment Sudan-Sorghum crosses may or cure for at least 6 weeks SHBOIBS rplN£ A 4-H SUR£ A UrTOF-noflß litOPHaRN6 mme& fm nmt< n&t wear! KILE get the show together home and KILE would be better off without their disinterest. The Public Address and paging system in the Farm Show Complex is poor at best. Some exhibitors this year missed weigh-ins and classes because they didn't hear an nouncements. The show catalogs in some cases were just about worthless. The swine book, for instance, was good for getting exhibitors’ names and ad dresses but not for the show. And why were cattle and sheep housed on the main exhibit floor? Show animals are too valuable Jo have them slipping around the tile floor in the mam hall. Attempts to roll out tar paper sheets for better footing were almost unrecognizable by the end of showing on Monday the paper slipped and roiled creating little if any relief to the slick tile conditions. Horse stalls, partly empty, filled the dairy and beef barns, and horses monopolized the large arena. Horses are nice, but they weren’t named king of the show to our knowledge. RETURN TO FAITH (Harper & Row 1974), tells a parable about the men of a little village who one day found a beautiful elephant. So enamoured of that elephant were they that they captured him and put him in a big tent so that others might see him too. But the great crush of people who came to see him convinced the elders of the village to build a temple around the tent in order to protect the elephant from the crowds. Two things happened to the elephant in time. First, the elephant gave birth to quintuplets who crawled out from under the tent and escaped Into the world. And, would report that they haa Secondly, the elephant died, seen the elephant’s offspring But the elders of the village here and there in the denied that the elephant was countryside, but the keepers dead. As Reid tells it: “They ridiculed these reports, had too many programs “Everyone knows the only prepared in advance, the , real elephant is the one in offerings weretdolucrative, our temple,” said the and the paid elephant keepers, keepers who took care of the tensile didn’t want to lose their jobs.” So, instead of admitting their elephant had died, they continued to ex pand the temple complex even larger. The dead elephant began to smell bad, but the keepers continued to deny that he was dead. THE “ONE, TRUE ELEPHANT! “ From time to time people before being fed. New growth from these plants after a killing frost should also be considered as toxic and dangerous. In addition livestock should not be permitted to graze legumes, such as alfalfa or clover, while frost is on the plant; allow the frost to melt and the plant to dry to avoid serious bloating problems. TOPREPAREFOR FREEZING WEATHER Don’t say that it is too early to be preparing for freezes, because it can m uopts m