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Ag legislative needs
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
Ag legislative needs are a lot in the news
these days
In Harrisburg, farm groups are beating the
drums for their favorite bills they’d like to see
passed during the upcoming Lame Duck
session that combines Thanksgiving with deer
hunting
The milk dealers want to make sure the
PMMB is retained
The Grange wants prompt payment to
poultrymen.
And, a lot of lobbying is proceeding behind
the scenes.
Well, let me throw a couple of ag bill ideas
into the Harrisburg hopper
-All taxpayer-funded allocations to
agriculture for research and bailouts be put
strictly on an equal matching fund basis
-Fairs which now receive State money
directly out of the Pa. General Fund be
required to file an annual audit to give tax
payers a complete accounting of their financial
activities.
To me, some recent phone calls from a dairy
co-op to Harrisburg were the final straw
concerning taxpayer bailouts of agriculture
Recently, more than $2.5 million dollars in
tax monies went to help bail out some
dairymen caught in the bankrupt Milk Security
Fund. The bailout gave dairymen 65 cents on
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NOW IS THE TIME
To Reduce
Egg Breakage
Egg breakage is costing poultry
producers a great deal. You would
be surprised how much. Some
poultry producers do not realize
how many eggs they are losing
because they do not keep an ac
curate record of them. In studies
where this has been checked
carefully, we find the percentage
of eggs broken ranging from 2% to
5% up to 20%.
With a flock of 30,000 layers
averaging 70% production, a loss
of 4% is 84,000 eggs or 7,000 dozen a
year. This loss comes to $3,500
when eggs sell for 50 cents per
dozen.
Check the nests or cages for
needed repair. Often we find eggs
being broken right in the cages.
Check the egg trays. If these are
or lb, HOW DO VOU DECIDE
ON WHICH CANDIDATE TO
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By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
bent, they can break many eggs.
Careful handling will reduce
breakage if eggs are gathered by
hand. Trying for too much speed in
gathering may cause more loss
than a little extra time.
With mechanical gathering,
check the escalators to be sure
they are timed properly and are
not breaking eggs. Check the
onentors to be sure eggs are not
piling up. This is an egg cracker on
many farms.
The 1984 cropping season is
about over and soon it will be time
to summarize your farm accounts
and be reporting to the IRS. In
addition to the need of good farm
records for tax reporting purposes,
I’d like to suggest these farm
records be used for future farm
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the dollar on their losses in the Scheps Cheese
fiasco
This co-op caller was inquiring in Harrisburg
if the bailout couldn't be brought up to 100
percent payments to the dairymen
To this callpr and any others like him we say
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A couple million for Avian and moie iu the
dairymen Where does it all end 7
There’s psuedorabies and Johne’s
What next 7
Potomac Fever in horses 7 Virus in
muchrooms 7 Or maybe even rabies in farm
cats and dogs 7
If farm and commodity groups can't show
enough interest in their own welfare to come
up with equal matching funds, nothing should
come from the taxpayer
Ag will never really help to get its own house
in order as long as it can drink freely at the
public trough
It always seems a bit hypocritical to me, too
Most in agriculture espouse the conservative
theme, particularly at the federal level, but
their actions at the state level don't live up to
their words
Now, to the fairs.
Here in Lancaster County, two fairs literally
thumb their noses at the public concerning full
disclosure of their financial activities And
besides, both Ephrata and New Holland also
close down their mam streets - state highways
no less -- and turn them into midways of
glitter, games and gluttony
Are there any other fairs in the state who so
blatantly disregard the taxpayer's right to
know 7
And with taxpayer funds paying for fair
premiums, we think livestock competition
should be limited to junior shows. Most open
competition at fairs only amounts to a handful
of participation and indirect subsidization of
that handful of breeders.
If fairs want open competition, let the
respective breed associations pay for
premiums through entry fees or whatever
We don’t expect any such legislative action
this lame duck session, if ever State
legislators will have only time enough this year
to buy their cranberry sauce and air the
mothballs out of their hunting duds.
To Evaluate
Farm Records
WELL, I USED 70 VOTE
FOR J4F CANDIDATE
WHO PROMISED TO
DO THE MOST FOR
AGRICULTURE...
planning and in making major
farm decisions. When time permits
and as the outside work winds
down this fall, it is a good idea to
spend some time in your office and
do some “pencil pushing’’
regarding the most profitable
parts of your farming business.
Your records of success or failure
of the various enterprises are the
best guide to future expansion or
termination.
To Control Mice
and Rats
Birds may migrate south for the
winter, but mice and rats migrate
from the outdoors to the indoors.
And they may choose your home.
When nights become chilly, mice
and rats move into garages,
storerooms and barns. And if there
is food in these areas, they’re
NOW I VOTE FOR Thl£ CANDIDATE
WHO PROMISES TO DO THE
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THE SOUL
HAS A BODY
October 21,1984
Background Scripture:
1 Corinthians 3:9-17; 6:12-20;
Ephesians 5:15-20.
Devotional Reading:
1 Corinthians 4:1-5.
Although Jesus himself
demonstrated more concern for
people’s physical bodies than
probably any other religious
leader, Christianity has
historically tended to ignore the
human body and place all of its
attention on the human soul. At
best, Christians have been in
different to their bodies; at worst,
they have been downright hostile
to them.
Some people have tended to
blame Paul for this development,
pointing to his frequent references
to the “dangers of the flesh.” But
the term, which in English we
translate as “flesh,” did not mean
the physical body so much as it
meant the lower part of our human
nature.
GOD’S TEMPLE
As a matter of fact, Paul had a
very high concept of the human
body. In 1 Corinthians 3 he states it
in lofty terms: "Do you not know
that you are God’s temple and that
God’s Spirit dwells in you? ” (3:16 ).
And again: “For God’s temple is .
holy, and that temple you are”
(3:17).
Now, Paul is not just speaking
symbolically, for God does ac-
Farm Calendar
Saturday, Oct. 20
Woodlot management program, 9
a.m. - noon, Hercules Powder
Inc., Roxbury Twp., N.J.
Pa. State National Farmers
Organization convention,
Lamar Holiday Inn, 11 a.m.
Keystone Classic Sale, Pa. Sirfl
mental Assn., Waynesboro.
Sunday, Oct. 21
Ninth Annual Pa. International
Trade Conference, Hyatt Hotel,
Pittsburgh, continues through
OUR READERS WRITE,
My mouth is watering
Dear Editor
Your writeup in Agri-View on
Oct. 6, 1984 entitled “The Calories
Cometh” was tops. I agree with
you 100 percent.
tually dwell in each and every one
of us. Our bodies are the physical
means whereby the Spirit of God is
expressed in the world. Just as the
presence of God in a building
makes it a sacred place, a temple
so the presence of God in us makes
our physical bodies a sacred place
as well.
In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul uses
another analogy to stress the
importance of the human body
“Do y' ’ now that your bodies
are members ot Christ? ” (6:15). in
other words, our union with C v
is not only a spiritual union, but a
physical one as well. Therefore,
the way we regard and treat our
physical bodies is also very much a
part of our Christian discipleship
If we fail to take good care of our
bodies, if we use them m
dishonourable ways, if we fail to
keep them as pure as we attempt to
keep our souls, we will be judged
accordingly. The body is not just
an empty shell for the spirit, as
some people seem to think, it is
part of the totality that God gives
us and we must treat that physical
self with due reverence and
respect.
GLORIFY GOD
Thus, Christians need to be
reminded, not only that they have
a soul to keep and safeguard, but
that that soul has a body and the
body is no less a temple of God
than the soul. In 1 Corinthians 6
Paul is concerned with sexual
immorality as a violation of God’s
presence in our physical body. It is
a message sorely needed in today's
world where so many people have
presumed to divorce sexual con
duct from the realm of morality.
But that bodily sanctuary of the
Holy Spirit is defiled not only by
illicit sex, but by chemicals,
overeating, intemperance, misuse,
dissipation, lack of exercise and
self-control - all of which defile the
wonderful physical body which we
share with God.
Monday, Oct. 22
Pa. Grange Annual Meeting,
Gettysburg, Sheraton, con
tinues through Thursday.
Tuesday, Oct. 23
Income tax preparation workshop,
Meadville Holiday Inn, con
tinues through Thursday.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Pa. Poultry Conference, Holiday
Inn, Grantville, continues
tomorrow.
AND OTHER OPINIONS
If you would live next door, I
would see that you get a slice of
homemade bread, which would be
whole wheat, and some grape jam
that had a wax sealed jar with a
string in the wax for easy lift off.
I am very much interested as a
hobby to have a collection of USDA
Agricultural Yearbooks. I would
like to know when the first one was
printed and how many have been
issued to date.
I did come across a Pa. Year
book in hard cover dated 1917,
which I never knew was issued. I
found it at a yard sale. I would like
to hear from someone about how
many of these were printed.
£3
Roland G. Kamoda
RDI, Box 282
Monongahela, Pa. 15063
Tuesday,
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