Alo—Lancaster Faming, Saturday, July 9,1983
Swapping
and so long
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
Sure, June Dairy Month is long gone and
July is nearly one-third history already, but the
DaTry Product Promotion Swap Shop is still
open.
The latest customers are Terry L. and
Shirley A. Womer, of Pasture-Green Dairy
Farm, R 1 Middleburg.
Shirley writes:
“I think your Swap Shop is great. We need to
put our heads together to promote milk.
Enclosed please find part of Snyder County’s
promotional material. My husband was in
charge of restaurant promotion. We inquired
about the mystery tipper program in area
restaurants but didn’t receive any
cooperation.
“I few years ago I picked up a placemat
similar to the one enclosed in another part of
the state and for years it sat in my desk
drawer. (See Snyder County Dairy Promotion
placemat on Page A 12.)
“We got area businesses to buy ads to pay
for the printing. We printed 5,000 placemats
and are distributing them to area restaurants.
Restaurant owners told us this will do more to
promote milk than the mystery tipper would
have. Hope you can use our idea.”
More swapping...
And it's time that some hard-nosed horse
swapping is applied to Pennsylvania's ag pull
in the halls of Congress.
As the leading ag state in the Northeast... as
a so-called industrialized state whose top
economic enterprise is agriculture... as the
state with the largest rural population in the
nation... as the state blessed with bountiful ag
resources and proximity to metropolitan
Farm Calendar
Saturday, July 9
Jersey District 111 picnic at
Charles Wollaston’s. Bring
place settings and two covered
dishes.
Sunday, July 10
Manor FFA Alumni organizational
meeting at 2 p.m. at Penn
Manor High School.
Adams County Homesteaders
meeting and picnic from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at Soloman and
Forman farm. The rabies
problem will be discussed.
Pa. Flying Farmers will meet at
Mike Orendo Farm, Bethel,
ARE
Landing at grimes at I p.m.
Monday, July 11
Vegetable demonstration plot
meeting at 7 p.m. at Summers
Canning Co., New Freedom,
York County.
York County Swine Hound-Up at
Sechnst Auction, Stewart
stown.
Fa. Junior Grange Youth Camp,
Camp Kanesotoke, Spruce
Creek. Will continue through
the week.
Annual meeting ol Fa. Vo-Ag
Teachers’ Association at Kells
Conference Center, Penn State.
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markets... as a state whose farm families
combine unsurpassed traditional ag com
mitment with innovative flexibility... Penn
sylvania needs a louder ag voice in
Washington, D.C
Pennsylvania deserves direct agricultural
committee representation in Congress. And
we know about seniority and all those other
clubhouse roadblocks that are customarily
cited. But if farmers farmed according to
seniority rules and other artificial excuses,
there would be a lot more hungry people
around.
it's likely no coincidence that one of the first
“gatherings” of Reagan campaign people took
place recently in Pennsylvania. The Com
monwealth will be a key in any Reagan re
election bid. And the Commonwealth's farm
vote will be a key to the key. Let's use that
political leverage to improve on our ag
leverage in Washington.
And, so 10ng...
It’s with mixed emotions that you bid so long
to a valued colleague. This is Deb Koontz' last
Lancaster Farming. Her last Homestead
Notes, her last Home on the Range and her
last Kid's Korner.
She's moving on to matrimony, Baltimore
and other writing pursuits. Deb has been a joy
to work with and she plied her journalistic
trade with professional competence.
We’re sorry to see her go but are happy for
the new adventures and challenges that lie
ahead.
We’ll let Otis do the final honors and express
our mutual feelings below.
Adams County dairy tour to Berks
and Lehigh Counties.
York County bus trip to Agway
Seed Research Farm in
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Will continue through Wed
nesday.
Tuesday, July 12
Prospect, Butler County.
Farmland Assessment Workshops
at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the
.Extension Center, Houle 31,
Flemmgton, N.J.
Semi-annual meeting of Delegates
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THE WEAK
STRONGMAN
July 10,1983
Background Scripture:
Judges 13 through 16.
Devotional Reading:
Acts 15:6-11.
Physically he was very strong.
As a person, however, Samson
was very weak
Although he had fantastic
strength and could subdue large
numbers of Philistines, he could
not subdue himself. He could kill a
lion but he could not tame the beast
within himself. Even today his
name is virtually synonymous with
“strongman,” but the scriptures
speak much more of his fatal
weakness.
SHE PRESSED HARD
Samson started oat well enough.
His birth and his special status as
one dedicated to the Lord was
announced to his parents by an
angel. The Book of Judges tell us
fhat “the boy grew and the Lord
blessed him." Furthermore, “The
Spirit of die Lord began to stir
him...” It would seem he had a
bright future before him.
At the wedding he tells a riddle
and challenges the Philistine
wedding' guests to solve it before
the end of the seven-day wedding
feast. Only Samson knows the
answer, but the wedding guests
coerce Samson’s bride into using
her power of persuasion to wheedle
from her husband the answer. This
NOW IS THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
Uncutar County A*rieutort **«nt
Pham 717-39M151
To Control Canada Thistle
Canada thistles are listed as a
noxious weed in Pennsylvania;
this means they should be am
trolled and not allowed to go to
seed. Too often we see what some
people call “sumer snowflakes”
floating through the air; these are
not snowflades but thistle seeds.
We should insist that these be
mowed orsprayed to prevent seed
formation.
Most townships have noxious
weed ordinances to prevent the
spread, from farm to farm, of
Canada thistles and other noxious
weeds. These ordinances should be
enforced for the best interest of all
farmers. You can spot spray with
Banvel for control. Be sure to
follow all label instructions. We
urge everyone to do something
about this problem.
To Use Caution When
Shipping Hogs
Far too many hogs are fed up to
market weight, each year only to
be lost because of careless hauling
during hot weather.
There are ways to prevent these
losses. Whenever it’s possible, haul
these hogs to market early or late
in the day • when it’s the coolest.
Avoid mid-day or early afternoon
trips. That’s when temperatures
are the worst.
While the hogs are being loaded
onto the trucks, take things easy.
Don’t hurry them. If you do, they’ll
just become overheated. And, to
make sure they can be comfortable
in the truck, use wet sand for
bedding. Don’t use straw or other
materials that hold heat and fail to
help cool the animals.
is not because they are simply
curious about the riddle, but
because losing the challenge will
cost them dealy: “Have you in
vited us here to impoverish us?”
In a conversation that sounds
curiously contemporary “You
only hate me, you do not love me;
you have put a riddle to my
countrymen, and you have not told
me what it is!” the bride does
her best to extract the answer from
her husband And at first he does
well: “Behold I have not told my
father nor my mother, and shall I
tell you? " So far, so good!
Ah, but that was only the first
day. After seven days of tears, we
are told: “on the seventh day he
told her, because she pressed him
hard.” Imagine this strongman
who could tear a lion limb from
limb was overcome by a crying,
pouting woman. It probably wasn’t
the first time and it certainly
hasn’t been the last time.
“ENTICE HM AND SEE”
It was not the last time for
Samson. Later he fell in love with a
woman from the Sorek valley. She
was the third Philistine woman in
Samson’s young life: first the bride
who betrayed him and was then
given to another man, then the
prostitute in Gaza in whose house
he was almost trapped by
Philistines, and now Delilah.
We might try to excuse Samson
and reason that he was just a poor
judge of character. Three times he
gives Delilah a false answer and
three times the Philistines act on
that information. Samson had to
realize that Delilah was betraying
him. So why did he finally tell her
the secret?
The answer: because he more
greatly desired the short-term
pleasure of her favor than the long
term approval of God. Like many
of us, be was his own worst
enemy—the one he was unwilling
to subdue.
Once the animals are loaded,
start right then for the market -
and go directly to the market
without stopping.
Take these few precautions and
you'll market all your hogs instead
of just some of them.
To Control Erosion
We have been blessed with
timely rains this spring and early
summer but, some of these rains
have been very heavy and created
considerable run-off. It em
phasizes the need for terraces,
contours and strips to control these
large amounts of water.
The use of diversion ditches and
sodded waterways above the area
to be protected should be con
sidered.
When surface water is not
controlled around the premises we
also have the added danger of
getting surface water into our well
water supplies; this may con
taminate it and make it unfit for
human consumption. We need to be
concerned with controlling these
large amounts of water on the land
and around farm buildings.
To Beware of Wood Ticks
We have received reports of
youngsters and pets coming to the
house carrying wood ticks; these
are often called dog ticks, because
they infest dogs and pets quite
readily. These ticks await their
victims on low-growing shrubs and
tall grasses and often near trails
and playgrounds.
The ticks attach themselves to
the skin and suck blood. On
humans they are commonly found
on the neck near the hairline and
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