Alo—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980
Lancaster Farming says...
In May, 103 students will be
graduated' from the School of
Veterinary Medicine of the University
of Pennsylvania.
The typical graduate in Penn’s
class of 1981 will be in debt $33,000
when the University confers the
VMD. For this the new veterinarian
will have a shelf full of books, a bag
full of instruments and a mind full of
facts ... but no physical property
that is producing equity.
The new vet will be about 29 years
of age. Most farmers who are 29
have been in their business for 10
years. Most college graduates have
begun to make a name for them
selves in their fields, have started a
family, are established in their
communities.
Shuffle through a few old reciepts
with a vet student and it’s easy to see
how a desire to work with animals
was transformed in to tens of
thousands of dollars in debt.
ON THE DOTTED
LINE
November 23,1980
Background Scripture:
Ephesians 2; lPeter2:4-10.
Devotional Reading:
Isaiah2:l-5.
What does it mean to be a
Christian?
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LIVESTOCK WASTE
On most farms there are
only a few months during the
year that manure can be
applied to the ground.
During the winter the ground
is usually frozen, covered
with snow, or too soft for
heavy equipment. During
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The high cost of becoming a vet
Penn’s vet school has the highest
tuition in the nation. State residents
pay $6660 per year. Out-of-staters
pay $7900 In addition the minimum
expenditure for room and board for a
Penn veterinary student is $3700
per year and those books and in
struments cost about $BOO annually.
That comes to roughly $ll,lOO per
year.
“They are unmanageable debts,"
says Robert R. Marshak, dean of the
Vet School.
The first job a typical graduate gets
pays between $15,000 and $lB,OOO
a year with the average around
$17,500.
"There’s no way a person earning
that can satisfy the debt burden,"
Marshak says.
One national study showed the
manageable educational debt was
$4739 for a single vet with no
dependents and a $17,500 salary
Another study put the figure at
$8541 h"t ♦hat's still far below the
Ask that question today
and you get a variety of
answers.
Some will say that being a
Christian means being a
member of one of the
churches. Others will
maintain that it means
believing in Christ, although
not necessarily belonging to
a church. Still others will
answer in terms of the
beliefs to which they sub
scribe. And some people will
maintain that being . a
Christian is synonymous
with simply believing in
God.
A CHOSEN RACE
Some people believe that a
Christian is one of those elect
the growing season, there
are very few fields on which
a crop is not being grown. At
this time of the year, we are
in between these situations;
and, a good tune to empty
the bams, pits, and feedlots.
In addition, most non-farm
folks will not be outside as
much this tune of the year,
and the odors will not be as
noticeable. Soil injection of
the liquid manures is
strongly suggested; or, the
spreading of manure on sod
or com stalk fields. Open
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whom God has called to be
one of his children. This
language comes from the
Bible itself has led to many
theological disputes. Why
does God “elect” some and
not others’ Why would he
“elect” his children before
they were bom, as some
maintain. Wouldn’t that be
terribly unfair to the rest of
us?
This is a hard question to
resolve because the
language of the Bible is not
always easy to understand.
Nevertheless, I believe that
our problems is not one of
God’s exclusive and
capancious love for some of
us, but the semantics, the
terminology which we use to
ground, that is sloping and
near public streams, could
create problems with water
pollution possibilities.
TO PROVIDE
EXERCISE
Most species of animals
should be given daily
exercise during the winter
months. This includes the
dairy herd, as well as, horses
and sheep. In the case of
horses, it is best if they are
ndden daily or given some
type of exercise outside of
their stall or pen. Dairy cows
will be more healthy and will
be better on their feet and
legs if given a chance to be
$33,000 debt load that green vet will
bring to your farm along with his new
boots and clean coveralls
About half of Penn’s 2500 living
graduates reside and practice in
Pennsylvania. A number of others
are in neighboring states.
Why, then, does a state with
politicians who like to brag about
having the nation's largest rural
population, so sadly neglect such a
vital part of the rural family 7
Cornell, the only nearby vet school
which can compete m quality with
Penn’s, gets 54 percent support
from the state and has a tuition rate
of $3832.
The University of Pennsylvania
gets about 33 percent of its income
from the Commonwealth.
Even Cornell’s support, although
sizable compared to Penn’s, looks
paltry next to the 66 percent support
Texas A&M receives to keep its
tuition at $6OO a year, or the
describe that love. For
example, the Jews thought
of themselves as God’s
chosen people. All others
were in another class
altogether. A Gentile was
something to be despised
and avoided.
Yet, early Christianity
attempted to show the world
that all people everywhere
were called by God, all were
invited to participate in the
convenant, to come into the
kingdom - not just the Jews.
The writer of the Epistle to
the Ephesians says to the
Gentiles: “So then you are
no longer strangers and
sojourners, but you are
fellow citizens with the
saints and members of the
out every day. Young stock,
by all means, should be
allowed to run in and out at
all tunes. Sheep will do much
better and the ewes will
produce stronger lambs, if
permitted daily outside
exercise. Don’t confine these
animals tightly.
TO REPAIR
MACHINERY DURING
THE WINTER
Most of the outside field
work is done for this year.
Do you have any machinery
that needs repairing or
servicing? If you’re going to
get this done at your dealer,
or service place, it might be
BY CURT HAULER, EDITOR
-household of G0d...”
•{Ephesians ' 2:19,20). It
appears that God chooses or
elects ail of us to be his
chosen people, but not all of
us accept that invitation. All
of us can belong, choose to do
so.
YOU MAY
THAT
DECLARE
But belonging to God as
one of his chosen people is
not a matter of having our
names on a membership
roll, nor is it even of knowing
whose side we’re on if it
comes to declaring our
selves. God wants something
more of us than merely
knowing that we believe in
him and identify ourselves m
wise to get it to him in the r’ no ' v cove [ 5 . Th ese
near future I’m aware of the birds co * n ® by the thousands
spring rush next March and feed from the livestock
April; and, I’m sure your bunks and feeders. They not
local service man will ap- ee< * but their
preciate getting some work droppings present very
to do late this fall or during unsanitary conditions for
the long winter days In eve jy° ne - Al so > since thesf
some cases, the charges birds may fly from fanri to
might be reduced because of * arm » they are a definite
getting the work done during source of spreading various
the off season. The objective diseases. Unfortunately, we
is to be planning for this *fo not have a real good cure
repair work, now. Have it - for the problem. They can be
done when you want to use serened out of confinement
the machinery early next buildings. Some special
S p ring pelleted feed is available but
gets expensive. To the
producers with the outside
bunks, we are still looking
for a good method to keep
them out or to eradicate the
threat.
TO BEWARE
OF WILD BIRDS
No doubt most livestock
producers have faced the
problem of wild birds during
Farm Calendar
Today, November 22
Berks County Beef Club
banquet; 7 p.m.; Kutz
town Grange.
Berks Dairy Calf Sale;
Fairgrounds Square
Mali; 11a.m.
Hunterdon County, N.J.
Board of Agriculture
annual dinner meeting;
University of California, which
receives a 65 percent cut from the
state, and keeps its tuition at a
modest $742
In the fong haul, such tight
fistedness by the state will
discourage the better faculty and
researchers from remaining m
Pennsylvania That may mean less or
poorer research done for state
farmers, and young vets being
graduated who aren’t up to the
school’s current high standards.
Penn recently escaped alive from a
budget battle to keep its mckle and
dime appropriation
Rather than worrying the school
about funding, the state should take
measures to help Penn’s Vet School
budget. An increase would relieve
the onus of being the institution with
the lowest appropriation in the
nation, and allow the school brain
trust to worry about animals, not
dollars.
some way with him. Being a
Christian is not to be just one
of a number of affiliations
that appear on our obituary.
Listen to what he expects of
us:'
But you are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, .God’s own
that you may declare thl
wonderful deeds of him who
called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light.
What God really wants
from us is a convenantal
relationship, a commitment
to be what he wants us to be.
A nodding acquaintanceship
is not enough. What he
requires is our lives on the
dotted line.
Quakertown Firehouse,
6:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 23
PFA’s annual convention;
Hershey Motor Lodge,
Hershey. Continues
through 26th.
York County Farm Visits
Day, 1 to 4 p.m. ']f
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