Alt)—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4,1981
Lancaster
There's an undertone of glee, or at
least of smug satisfaction, running
through much of the farm community
now that dairymen have lost their
April price boost
The atmosphere is similar to that
of a bunch of children watching a
spoiled rich kid fall off his shiny new
bike into a mud puddle . the
pompous have been brought back to
earth
Killing the semi-annual production
cost increase was seen by politicians
as urgent and important m the fight
to control inflation
President Reagan, in one of his
first official actions upon recovering
from surgery after the heinous at
tempt on his life Monday, signed into
law the bill eliminating the April price
boost The 7 15am Tuesday timing
of the action should show how
CATHEDRALS AND
BREAD
April 5,1981
Background Scripture:
Matthew 26
Devotional
Isaiah 51 4-6
My college philosophy
profesor, Dr Glenn Morrow,
once told us of a Sunday
I NOW IS
S THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County
Agricultural Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
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To Look At
Oil and Gas Leases
We are getting calls from far
mers that are being approached
about oil and gas leases for their
farms There are several things
you need to be concerned with it
you become involved
The life of the lease should be
spelled out so that at any time the
lessee (company) tailed to pay, the
lease would automatically be
cancelled. You need to consider the
water rights so that water could
not be used without written ap
proval Also, any waste water
needs to be handled so as not to be
a pollutant problem
You own the land, so you need to
spell out the responsibilities in
case any action is brought against
either party There could be
damages; clarify these respon
sibilities
Most leases specify there shall
be no drilling within certain
distances from building and
property lines. You may want to
include a scenic area such as a
pond or picnic site
Remember that you are the
landowner and no one can force
There ’s
strongly the Administration reels
about the milk program
Within dairy organizations, there
seems to be some confusion over
whether cutting semi-annual ad
justments is a good thing Both Inter-
State and Maryland Cooperative Milk
Producers are on record favoring the
move, noting the current surplus is
creating an artificial price floor,
building a surplus, and placing a
burden on taxpayers
On the other hand, as major and
mfluencial a group as the giant
Associated Milk Producers urged its
members to push for ‘‘a sound price
support program, including semi
annual recognition of increases in
production costs "
Lancaster Farming agrees with the
cut Dairymen have gotten too close
to the edge and need to pull back, to
get supply and price back in balance
school class that was shown
a picture ot a Homan am
phitheatre in which
Christians weie being
devoured by lions. "What
does this picture say to us as
Christians' ’ the teacher*
asked one little boy The
little tellow pointed to the
picture and exclaimed,
Why here s a poor lion who
doesn’t have a Christian' *
The little boy s answei
proves that even compassion
can be misplaced In tact,
there s hardly any virtue in
lite that can’t be misplaced
or misused Otten it s a
matter ot getting the right
idea at the wrong time
That s what happened
during the last week ot
,s'-' "or ■- > '-'x ;r
you to sign a lease or condemn
your property toi a gas or oil well
And finally, be sure to counsel with
your lawyer before you sign
anything
To Practice Safely
We are rapidly approaching the
very busy spring season when field
activities are heavy Safety
statistics indicate that accidents
increase when people are rushing
to complete a job With spring oats
time here and preparing tor corn
planting not tai behind, we need to
take time to be sate
Farming is not the safest oc
cupation Kecoi ds nidi cate that the
average farm workei can expect
that once every tom- yeai s he 11 be
injured so seveiely that medical
attention is needed Farmeis have
a work accident late that s two and
a halt tunes giealei than the
average toi all mdustues fhe
problem is that unlike mdustiy,
tanners work with miiiuiidl
amount ol supei vision and they
may not be propei ly named toi the
job
It is unpoi taut to lake a hi eaK in
mtd-inorning and und-attei noon to
relax, even it it is only tittcui
Farming says...
no joy in others 9 woe
Jesus eailtily ministiy
when, while lestmg in
Bethany, he was annoinled
by an anonymous woman as
he sat at table with his
disciples His disciples made
the right response, but at
the wrong time
"Why This Waste?'
How often Jesus had tried
to unpress upon his disciples
then need loi compassion
tor the poor and helpless
Not only in what he said, but
also in what he did he em
phasized this priority ot
God s kingdom And how
often it must have seemed to
Jesus that his disciples wei e
still not getting the message
But that day when the
woman pouied the costly
minutes it could be the must
unpoilanl pai l ot youi da>
Always think and act with a
positive and sale altitude
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“As soon as I’m finished with this 1040, it looks as if we’re going
to have to put the south 40 on the auction block.”
Taxpayers, including dairymen and
other farmers, will save about $2
billion dollars by September 30 of
this year in CCC outlays as a result of
the measure signed Tuesday
Dairymen are working with a seven
percent increase in milk prices,
although cost rises of 10 percent will
more than eat up the gams If not the
best possible financial scene, dairy is
in far better shape than the livestock
industry in general
Still, there is no cause to rejoice
because the single most prosperous
group in farming today is going to
have to tighten its management and
margins
There is no benefit in having one
segment of society benefit at the cost
of another It is unfortunate that
dairymen are going to be pinched,
but we have seen no reliable
prediction that there are going to be
ointment on Jesus s head the
disciples suddenly became
concerned about the pour
Why this waste' For this
oinunent might have been
sold toi a laige sum, and
given to the pool
The logic ot then in
dignation was inescapable,
wasn t it' Who could aigue
with then leasoning'
Certainly they weie voicing
no muie than what must
have been in the Maslei s
own mind Vet, when he
leahzed what they weie
saying to the woman, his
rebuke must have caught
them by surpuse Why do
you ti ouble the woman' toi
she has done a beautiful
thing to me Koi you always
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have the pool with you, but
you will not always have
me
One cannot help but
wondei it it icaliy was
compassion toi the poor 01
jealousy that motivated the
disciples that day Uoesn t
then Why this waste'
have just the slight tlavoi ot
soui giapes' Was it the
waste ot the cosily oil that
bolheied them oi that this
woman - this oulsidei -
was the one who was doing
it 9 They could not afford to
make such a gesture
themselves and pci haps
they didn l want anyone else
to do it eilhei
Always I’he Poor
It seems that the disciples
f«» Lise Pesticides tdnneli> Wlii 0t; Ui >“'a dit
ate|y teiuiil l>pes ol pesticides We need
Ihe amval ot spring also means tu tne mipoilance lo lead
Ihal we aie in the season when
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the wholesale problems m the
milkhouse that have beset poultry
farmers
Hogs are struggling up from year
ago prices of $29 Cattle markets are
improving The gram operator is
doing well, although without an
embargo profits could be higher
Rather than taking delight in the
belt-tightening in the dairy industry,
all of agriculture should band
together to improve its common lot
Sure, dairymen have been riding
higher than the rest of the ag
community even while singing the
price blues on a false note New
realities may sting
But the next time, all farmers
should work together to get pigs and
poultry, cattle and corn prices up to
dairy's profitable levels, not smirk
while the situation turns the other
way around
had made a Kind ut law
out ot Jesus pionuun
cements on Hie u ealment ot
the pool Bui olheis have
dune the same thing witn
Jesus leply - you always
Have the pool wild you
They have used U lo in
leipiel Jesus as talalistic
about poveily And so they
have leasoned it poveily is
always going lo be with us,
lei s nol gel 100 concei ned
wilh il, tot Jesus hiniselt
accepted u
The example which Jesus
sel toi us is made maiutesl
in a tailh which can both
build calhedials and
nnnislei lo those in need ll
duesii I have lo be one 01 the
othei
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