Alo—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Navambar 19,1953
Thanksgiving prayer, 1983
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In the city
Thank You for all of this cheap, plentiful
food.
Our plump, juicy turkey at 69 cents a pound.
Our corn at 50 cents a pound.
Our cranberry sauce at 40 cents a pound.
Our bread at 35 cents a pound.
Our potatoes at 20 cents a pound.
Thank You for this long, four-day holiday
weekend of leisure and feasting.
Thank You for the lovely weather to go to
our holiday football games. And, this winter,
may we have continued nice weather with just
enough snow for weekend skuing and sled
ding.
Thank You for the well-stocked super
markets with the dairy cases that give the
milk, the counters and shelves that provide
our meat and vegetables.
And, thank You for the beautiful country
scenery to drive through as we visit Grandma
this weekend. Please keep these open spaces -
- as long as it doesn't cost any taxes and
doesn't increase our food bills.
NOW IS THE TIME
To “Push Hie Pencil”
Farm records are a very im
portant part of modern farming;
they are needed for tax purposes
and for the benefit of farm plan
ning. Since we are nearing the end
of the cropping season, and the end
of the calendar year, it might be a
good time to do some office work
and determine the best enterprises
for the past year. You’ll need to
consider any unusual cir
cumstances such as the dry
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BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
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By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
weather and diseases.
Time spent in analyzing farm
records, and in planning the future
baaed upon these records, should
be very worthwhile. Major
decisions are hard to make but are
very important in today’s farming.
We hope that good farm records
can contribute in these decisions.
For An Avian
Influenza Update
I do not plan to take a lot of time
in this column to review the very
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As stewards of Your land, we thank You for
another year of planting, growth and har
vesting - that which makes all life possible.
But during the coming year, could You make
a few adjustments:
Spread out the ram a little more - less in the
spring and save some for the summer.
A little moderation in the heat, too.
And, a good snow cover this winter would
help replenish the ground moisture.
If You have any say in Washington, guide
them as they change farm programs and
dream up new ones. We just don’t need
another PIK.
If you can see your way clear, a bit higher
share of the food dollar would be appreciated
back on the farm, instead of going only to the
middle man.
And on this Day of Thanks remind those in
the cities and towns that the real source of
everything on their dinner tables is here on
the farm.
In country
damaging poultry problem
because it is covered very well by
this paper. But I do feel that I
should give you sane of my im
pressions. It is very comforting to
know that so very many people are
giving long hard hours, days and
weeks to solving the problem. I have
seen competing industries working
together for a
common goal...that of eradicating
Avian Influenza. The many dif-
Background Scripture:
Colossians 3:1-17; 4:5-6; 1 Peter
Devotional Reading:
As I write these words, the
Dallas Cowboys and the Los
Angeles Rams are locked in battle
in a pre-season pro football contest
that will be forgotten in a few
weeks. By the time you read these
words, the pro football races in the
various divisions, although hardly
settled, should be pretty far along
to that not-distant goal of the Super
Bowl championship. At this time,
most of the college and high school
championships are pretty well
decided. Hundreds of thousands of
people will feel some sense of
exhileration in identifying with
some winner on the gridiron.
Everyone wants to feel part of
something “special."
CALLED OUT
Also, by the time you read this,
there will have been important
elections all across the country and
the victory celebrations of the
politically successful will be
similar to those whose teams have
conquered on the football field.
Some people feel very “special” by
having chosen the right political
candidate. Other people achieve
pretty much the same thing in
more subtle ways: feeling
“special” by attending the right
scliool, joining the right fraternity,
Hunterdon N.J. County Board of
Agriculture annual meeting at 6
p.m. in the Quakertown, N.J.
fire house.
Wayne Co. 4-H final aluminum can
collection from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at Patrick’s Farm Machinery.
Lancaster Farmers Association
farm tours from 1 to 5 p.m.
Continues tomorrow.
Mpnday, Nov. 21
1983 Forage and Seed Conference
at Keller Conference Center,
Penn State.
Wayne Co. Milker Management
School from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
at Salem Township Municipal
Building. Continues tomorrow.
Tuesday, Nov. 22
York DHIA annual meeting and
banquet.
Youth Education Workshop, Pa.
Cooperatives, Huntingdon.
Lancaster County Ag Industry
banquet at 7 p.m. at Historic
Strasburg.
Conference on Poultry Waste
Conversion at J.O. Keller
Conference Center Building,
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SOMETHING
“SPECIAL”
November 20,1983
2:9-17,
Colossians 3:1-12.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, Nov. 19
Association
sorority or country club, living in
the right neighborhood, just to
name a few.
Yet, very often the feeling of
being “special” doesn’t stay with
us very long. So you won the Rose
Bowl last year what does that
matter today? So your candidate
won the election a week ago how
long will that make you feel
“special?” How much of someone
else’s su'’ - - ' can really be shared
by others?
Anyone who takes seriously his
or her discipleship for Jesus Christ
has access to being something
“special” that does not fade with
time and cannot be taken from us.
In fact, it is the one distinction that
has ever-lasting significance, for it
is a “specialness” that is conferred
by God. It is the Lord who calls
each of us to be part of this
something ‘ ‘special. ’ ’
GOD’S PEOPLE
1 Peter puts it in never-to-be
forgotten terms:
But you are a chosen race, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation,
God’s own pe0p1e...(2:9)
It is an impressive salutation, is
it not? And its relevance, and
significance reach far beyond any
Academy Award, Heisman
Trophy, or world championship.
Yet, these words represent, not
an acknowledgement of
achievement, but of mission. What
makes us “special” as disciples of
Christ is the glorious task to which
he has called us:
.. .that you may declare the deeds
of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.
(8:10)
Fifty years from now, who will
remember any of the “special”
recognitions that seem so im
portant today? One hundred years
from now) Five hundred years?
But in God’s eternity the
something “special” of responding
to his call will not have dimmed
one bit.
Penn State. Continues
tomorrow.
Wednesday, Nov. 23
Bradford County Critical Bridge
Survey at 12:30 p.m., Extension
Office.
Bradford County 4-H County
Council elections at 8 p.m. at
the Extension Office.
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Snowball’s chance
I’m a dairyman’s mother who
knows what our government is
trying to do to the small farmer
who is ever so hard trying to make
ends meet. But you people in your
fancy offices are slowly pulling the
plug.
Farmer
Put yourselves in the place of a
fanner with a family. First of all
you take $500.00 a month from him
and that lets very little money for
food on the table. Now, I ask you -
how do you tell your children that
there is no food to eat because the
government took your money?
Then, there is the feed for the
cattle. Thanks to the government
that has doubled in the past year.
How can you afford not to feed the
animals that support you and help
to pay your bills? Or do you stop
feeding so our big shots can get a
few more doHars to wine and dine.
You people in government never
did a good day’s work. That’s why
things are the way they are. Do you
worry that it’s going to rain so that
the crops will grow? We farmers
don’t get large $5,000 raises to
meet our expenses, or for a night
out. But you do.
I deeply and sincerely feel our
government is forcing the farmers
of Pennsylvania out of farming.
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Friday, Nov. 25