A32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4,1984
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isn’t accomplished by observing
the 40 hour week-for what the
farmer averages per hour for his
time and investment is mighty low.
The amount of money that is tied
up in land, buildings, livestock and
equipment today is staggering.
Instead of more government
blunders, we need a more con
structive attitude by the farming
community towards their
problems and their future. Instead
of expanding more and more,
milking 3x per day, buying com
puters to figure out how to run your
business when your debt load is
already swamping you, why not
cool it a little. It has been too easy
to borrow money, and the lending
institutions need to share the
blame for these surpluses - You
don’t need the bigest tractor in the
neighborhood - stop hoping the
other guy goes broke first. Take a
more responsible attitude. If you
are a dairy farmer, then get some
of that surplus off the market; you
can afford to raise your calves on
milk and use dairy products on
your table. You can do more to
promote your products even
though the farmer is the only
producer of raw materials that is
expected to help pay to advertise
the finished product.
The ADA certainly needs some
sound advice on how to test spend
the advertising dollar.
Be sure you serve dairy products
at your organization meetings and
banquets - give dairy products as
door prizes and gifts - ask for milk
when you eat out. There is plenty
that can be done that will help a lot.
“Light a candle instead of cursing
the darkness” and hopefully the
future will be brighter for all of us.
Mrs. Thomas P. Kane
Addison, N. Y.
Crops Day
agenda listed
LANDISVILLE - The Penn
sylvania State University will hold
a crops day at their Southeastern
Field Research Laboratory near
Landisville on Thursday.
The Crops and research areas to
be covered at the field day are as
follows:
Corn - commercial hybrids;
tillage; nitrogen materials, tuning
and rates.
Soybeans - varieties; weed
control in conventional and no
tillage.
Forage - varieties and fertility.
Potatoes - varieties and insect
control.
Tobacco - varieties and insect
control.
Snapbeans - varieties.
Flowers - varieties.
In addition to viewing the
research, visitors will be able to
ask the Penn State specialists
questions about crop production.
The field day will run from 10
a.m. until 3 p.m.
Lunch can be purchased at the
field day from Lancaster County
Farm women Society #5.
Directions to the Research
Laboratory from the east, west
and south are exit from Rt. 283 at
the Landisville-Salunga exchange.
Go north toward the Armstrong
Warehouse and turn left at the
warehouse unto Shenk Road.
Proceed approximately 1 mile to
covered bridge and turn left thru
the bridge. Just beyond the bridge
follow the signs. From the north
take Rt. 72 south toward Lan
caster. Approximately one-half
mile south of Manheim (im
mediately past Manheim Auto
Auction) turn right unto Auction
Road. Follow Auction Road to
Research Laboratory.
Why? Why? Why?
To The Editor:
I too must echo Mr. Harold R
Stoudt’s concern about the need tt
destroy the flock of birds in Berk:
County or for that matter any ol
the birds that were not clinically
sick, especially those having
positive antibody titers to the
Avian Flu.
I wish someone would explair
just why this is necessary wher
one considers the following;
The state requires that children
be immunized agains rubella
(German Measles). That
requirement can be eliminated il
the child has a blood test done and
that test indicates that there are
antibodies present against the
rubella virus. This means that the
child is protected - why aren’t
those chickens?
Consider the Tuberculin test - we
all know someone who has had a
positive skin test to the Tuberculin.
This test result means that the
person has antibody, either from
coming in contact with the disease
or by having had the disease, but a
check with your local health
department will confirm the
following treatment plan; If the
person has clinical symptoms,
they will treat, but in the absence
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know they are a positive reactor,
and have antibody, not disease.
(Admittedly this is a gross sim
plification of a very complicated
disease), but my point is that they
don’t kill people who have a
positive test, they many times see
no reason to even treat them.
The Coggins Test in horses is but
another bit of wasted money for
the average person. This test too
measures antibodies, and if you
don’t have a clinically ill animal,
why destroy them. Just consider
the money that “someone” has
made from all these fiascos. I
understand the rationale behind
the Coggins test, but unless all
horses are tested, (and if you can’t
get children immunized, how cafl
you get a lesser animal tested) you
simply have got to realize the
ridiculousness of the test.
Remember how many horses were
destroyed that had positive
Coggins several years ago - most of
them had no clinical disease.
Remember the gas lines a few
years ago? Doesn’t this all strike a
familiar cord?
Please won’t someone with an
immunology degree explain why
my thinking is wrong. Help me and
others understand in simple terms
my error.
I most close again by stating
from Abraham Lincoln that “To
sin by silence when you should
protest makes cowards of men.”
Victoria Swayne
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The words of Ralph Waldo
Emerson should be promently
displayed on every farm in
America, particularly here in
Southeastern Pennsylvania, “For
what avail the plow or sail or land
or life if freedom fail”. Why? First,
because, historically, tyranny
takes aim at the tillers of the soil.
Once food production is controlled
and reduced, the rest of the
population is easy prey to despots.
Stalin and Mao knew that and
methodically murdered millions of
farmers. Secondly, because of
what has happened here in eastern
Pennsylvania in the illogical
slaughter of millions of birds and
now the depopulation of Fred
Wrights irriplaceable flocks to
satisfy a federal bureaucratic
vendetta.
The priceless genetic pool of
avian disease resistance that
Wright has preserved should be the
object of scientific study instead
senseless annihilation. What are
the factors in wild birds that give
them superior resistance to avian
flu as contrasted to the super bred
birds that fall to disease so
readily? The issue of natural
immunity is being ignored in favor
or more drugs, vaccines and
dependence on goverment “ex
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Is this only a part of a much
larger conspiratorial plan to
eliminate the small farmer and
bring about a greater con
centration of power in government
and multi-national corporations?
Let’s face it, that is the way it is
working out, planned or not.
The tactics used on Fred Wright
by the government are very
similar to those used by com
munism. Namely, use of fear and
intimidation to eliminate the ob
jector so the others will cooperate
fearing more of the same. In
almost every area freedom is
being eroded. Most of us in
America don’t really appreciate
freedom because that is all we’ve
ever known. I feel emboldened to
say that if just half of the people
familiar with the grave injustice
that has been imposed on Fred
Wright were to write or call their
elected representatives, it would
have been stopped. What have you
done lately for the freedom you
still enjoy? Don’t wait until the
knock on the door at midnight; it
will be too late. “For WHAT
AVAIL THE PLOW OR SAIL OR
LAND OR LIFE IF FREEDOM
FAIL?”
Richard Dunkelberger
R 3 Hamburg, Pa.
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