Alo—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 21,1983
Dairy Promotion Swap Shop
BYDICKANGLESTEIN
More and more dairy farmers and others
associated with allied groups and agribusiness
are getting directly involved in dairy product
promotion. And that’s good. The more people
that get involved, the more promotional ideas
that will be generated. And the more ideas,
the more that dairy products will be in front of
the consuming public. And as any big ad
vertiser knows, continuing exposure before
the buyer is often the primary key to in
creasing market share.
An energetic group in Mifflin County has
come up with just such a good idea. Look for
the story in Section A that tells about their
Mystery Tipper, who's traveling around from
restaurant to restaurant ‘‘encouraging"
waiters and waitresses to suggest milk as THE
DRINK to accompany the meal of their
customers.
The Mifflin County Dairy Promotion Council
has special cards that help get their message
and program across to the restaurant people.
These cards are reproduced along with the
story. Some other promotional groups in the
state may wish to piggy-back on this idea and
get in touch with the Mifflin group. There are
some names to contact in the story.
And that brings up a point that was made by
Jim Hostetter, Mifflin County dairy farmer
who’s chairman of the Council.
He points out that there are other similar
groups at work in the state and he’d like to
know what they're doing about promoting
dairy products.
“New and different ideas about promotion
are the key to groups, such as ours, and
generate the interest that participants and
programs need to continually move ahead,” he
said.
Well, Lancaster Farming would like to hear
about your promotional ideas, too. If you tell us
about them, we’ll feature them in coming
Farm Calendar
Saturday, May 21
Southeast Pa. Sheep Council and
Extension Sheep Field Day, 9
a.m. - 4 p.m., Allentown
Fairgrounds
Monday, May 23
Pa. Dairy Sanitarians and Lab
Directors Conference, Penn
State, continues through
Wednesday
Bradford-Suliivan Forum, 8 p.m
Strawberry meeting, 7 p.m.
Charles Ilyes farm, 1/2 mile
east of square in York New
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So, if you send us your ideas about dairy
promotion, we’ll set up a special regular
feature to pass them along to other groups
who might be able to use them.
We'll call this feature the “Dairy Promotion
Swap Shop.”
It's a chance for all Lancaster Farming
readers - and conservatively speaking there
must be more than 100,000 of you who see
the more than 40,000 copies that are printed
each week - to get into promoting dairy
products.
So get busy and get your promotional ideas
into us.
And, we’ll get busy and start getting the
Dairy Promotion Swap Shop into business.
Back in colonial times in this area, butter
was used quite a bit as a swap item as dairy
farmers traded it for other goods that they
needed. And, butter prints came into being as
these farmers started to decorate the blocks of
butter they swapped with others.
Now, instead of swapping the actual butter,
let’s swap ideas. Ideas that can better help to
promote and merchandise that butter and
other dairy products.
And, if enough good ideas are generated,
perhaps some of them can be applied to the
promotion of other farm products.
Salem
Tuesday, May 24
Pa. State Council of Farm
Organizations legislative
breakfast, 8 a.m., Villa Leo
Restaurant, New Cumberland
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
farm tour
Wayne County rabbit management
and disease meeting, 7:30 p.m.,
Honesdale High School
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act hearing, 9:30
a.m., Room SR-328A,
Washington, D.C.
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issues, through June Dairy Month and well
after that. We’ll publish them as long as you
send them in to us. We, too, would like to see
dairy promotion a year-round activity -- not
one that crops up every spring and then goes
back into hibernation for the other 11 months
of the year.
So all you idea swappers, let's get swapping,
Send your promotional ideas to:
Dairy Promotion Swap Shop
Lancaster Farming
P.O. Box 366
Lititz, Pa. 17543
Bradford Co. Extension Com
mittee, 8 p.m., Extension office
Friday, May 27
Sheep Shearing School, Charles
Allen Farms, Granville,
Bradford County, continues
tomorrow
York Farmers’ Forum, 7 p.m.,
Rutter’s Restaurant, land
scaping techniques
Saturday, May 28
Bradford 4-H County Council, 8 p...
Extension Office
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Thursday, May 26
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ON TRIAL
May 22,1983
Background Scripture:
Acts 21:1 through 26:32
Devotional Reading:
Acts 21:7-14
Paul was on trial.
To be sure, it was not a formal
trial, but more a hearing called to
determine why he was arrested
and what should be done with him.
The Roman tribune in charge of
the garrison of soldiers in
Jerusalem called upon the
Sanhedrin, or council of Jewish.
elders, to examine Paul.
We might wonder how this could
happen. After all Paul was Christ’s
great Apostle to the Gentiles, one
of the foremost Christian leaders
of his time. Surely, God would not
permit such a man to have to
endure this ordeal! If Paul was
really Christ’s ambassador,
certainly he would not want him to
face such a tribunal.
“TAKE COURAGE!”
But as Paul had already learned,
God does not always keep us from
being tested. In fact, if we are
faithful to him we may be even
more likely to be tested—just as
Jesus was. We may not be brought
before a tribunal, as was Paul, but
we may be just as surely tested.
So, although God did not prevent
Paul’s time of testing, he never
theless remained faithful to Paul
by being with him during his trial.
And in our times of trial we receive
the same assurance: 1 am with
you. During the night that followed
his tumultuous appearance before
the Sanhedrin, God came to him— 1
NOW IS THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Acent
Phone 717-394-6851
To Check Weed Sprayers
The sprayer is a piece of
equipment that is used quite
heavily from spring till fall. Many
complaints of poor chemical
performance can be traced to poor
sprayer performance. This is often
due to poor calibration. Calibration
simply means to apply a known
amount of spray mixture to a
known area.
There are several methods used
to calibrate a sprayer. The sim
plest is to travel over a selected
area (about one-tenth acre) to
determine the amount of Water
applied.
Measure off a strip that provides
a known area. For example a 21-
3/4 foot boom traveling over a 2(10
foot course provides one-tenth
acre. One-tenth acre for a 28 foot
boom is 154 feet. Next, fill the
sprayer tank with clean water to a
known level. Then travel over the
course at the desired rate of speed.
Make sure you are at full speed by
the time you turn the spray on at
the beginning of the course.
Measure the amount of water
applied by placing the spray tank
in the same position and refilling to
the same level.
Most wettable powders and
emulsions call for 15 to 30 gallons
of water per acre for good
coverage. This means you should
have applied l‘/z to 3 gallons on the
1/10 acre plot.
Check your sprayer before
probably in a dream or night
vision—and reassured him, saying:
“Take courage, for as you have
testified about me at Jerusalem, so
you must bear witness also at
Rome.”
Ther are always two kinds of
deliverance when we find our
selves in a precarious or
dangerous position. There is the
deliverance from the danger or
there is the deliverance that takes
us through the danger. I have
personally known both kinds—as
I’m sure have most of you. There
have been times when I was spared
the ordeal that faced me. When the
doctor says to me, for example,
"The report is benign, not
malignant,”—that is deliverance
from my perspective.
Bid there is also the deliverance
that comes to me when it is evident
that I will have to face some pain
or loss or trial that I could have
preferred to escape. It is the
deliverance that is given by God
when he says to me, “Take
courage, for you must testify about
me in this situation.” I do not
suffer so that I can testify, but I
can seize the opportunity to turn
my suffering into a victory for
Christ.
IN ALL GOOD
CONSCIENCE
When I am on trial because there
is no other alternative, 1 can at
least choose how I will conduct
myself, how I will bear witness to
my faith. I will use whatever in
spiration God gives me to fight the
good fight. That’s what Paul did
before the Sanhedrin: his un
derstanding of the hostility bet
ween the Pharisees and Sadducees
gave him the opportunity to
stalemate the hearing. Where was
God in this moment? Right there,
I’m convinced, helping Paul to use
his mind to confound his accusers.
So the evil of men put Paul on
trial, but the presence and help of
God helped him turn that trial into
a triumph that carried the Gospel
all the way to Rome.
mixing expensive chemicals and
starting into the field.
To Fertilize Alfalfa
Alfalfa continues to be one of the
most important forage crops in
this part of the country. Crops that
are now being harvested should
have good growth and yield
weights. In order to harvest
maximum yield of later cuttings, a
top-dressing of a phosphorus
potash fertilizer is suggested
immediately after the removal of
the first cutting. Alfalfa is a heavy
feeder of both phosphorus and
potash; established stands should
be able to provide their own
nitrogen needs. A well fertilized
stand should more than pay for the
extra fertilizer. Due to the real
good growing weather this past
month, the first cutting is ready
earlier than normal.
To Read The Label
I am sure you have heard this
suggestion before, however, it is
still very important to all farmers
and gardeners.
Every pesticide carries a label
with directions; this should be read
and followed during the ap
plication of the material. Don’t
make the mistake of appiymg the
material in error. The labels are
required by law and should be
respected by the user. Serious
losses may occur, if the directions
are not followed. Materials should
always be kept in their original
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