AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Navambar 24,1984
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Hang in there
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
“Let your women loose.”
“It's our own product and our way of life that
is slowly falling by the wayside."
“The membership drive is one way to in
volve people and seek out new leaders."
“If your name is on the deed, you need to
know what you can do and how you can get
involved."
All of these are statements of commitment
and involvement and they’re found in stories
in this week’s issue of Lancaster Farming.
They all come from women -- a nun, a dairy
wife and milk promoter and PFA women
leaders.
Such voices are steadily coming to the
foreground in agriculture. In some areas they
may still be a whisper; but in other areas their
vocal resonancy is increasing in tempo and
volume and soon will hopefully become a
resounding chorus working for a better
agriculture.
And the time for such a chorus to take its
proper place on the ag stage is long overdue.
When farmers are such a small minority to'
begin with, it makes no sense to have about
half of their dwindling total only as silent
partners.
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NOW IS THE TIME
To Be Careful
Around Flowing Grain
A major hazard of stored grain is
to become covered up and
smothered by it. It is very
dangerous to be standing in a grain
bin when it begins to flow. It takes
only a few seconds for an
unloading auger to remove enough
grain for a person to start sinking
into the grain. Never enter a grain
bin without first “locking out” all
the power sources; also, never
enter the bin alone without another
person being present. Children
should be warned about entering
grain bins because of the danger of
“bridging” of the grain or the
shifting of large areas. All em
ployees should be alerted to the
hazards of flowing grain.
To Consider
Attending No-TUI
Conference
“Recognizing and Solving No-
Till Crop Production Problems”, is
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YOU HELPING ME OUT VViTH
THE HARVEST. ITS BEENIOUCM,
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By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
the theme of our 1964 Mid-Atlantic
No-Till Conference scheduled for
Wednesday, December 19 at the
York Fairgrounds, York, Pa.
reminds Arnold G. Lueck, Lan
caster Extension Agronomy
Agent.
The program committee has
arranged for several prominent
speakers to cover such timely
topics as: farmers and the
Chesapeake Bay, disease concerns
in corn and alfalfa, No-Tilling
alfalfa stands, cover crops, the
effects of tillage systems on yield
and soils, control of those pesky
perennial weeds and starter fer
tilizers. Some over 45 commercial
exhibitors will be eager to greet
and help you. The doors open at
8:00 with the speaking program set
for9;3otonoon.
Tickets and program details are
now available from County Ex
tension Offices.
Agriculture needs all of the voices it can get
and it makes no difference if they are a deep
bass or a shrill soprano.
I sat in on a women’s committee session this
week at PFA’s annual meeting at Hershey. I
was one of just three males in the room. The
other two happened to be a PFA staffer and a
speaker.
And I like what I heard from people like
Joyce Sankey, State PFA Women’s Chairman.
Let me just quote a couple of her statements
at the session;
“Do not make the mistake of thinking that
PFA Women’s Committees just bake the
cookies and provide refreshments for county
meetings
"Welielp produce the ingredients for those
cookies and we have the ingredients to make
PFA programs rise to fuller heights."
I also hear similar voices coming at other
meetings.
--A recent Agway session reportedly in
cluded comments for expanded roles for
younger farmers and females.
-A question at the Inter-State Annual
Meeting made reference to the male
dominated heirarchy so often found in ag and
was critical of certain women’s activities at the
session.
We’re proud here at Lancaster Farming that
many of our female staffers are active in ag
and community activities -- from a director of a
leading co-op and breed association promoters
to helping to instruct in English as a second
language.
And let me be perfectly honest, there would
be no Lancaster Farming as you see it every
week if it weren’t for those female staffers who
are deeply committed to their professions and
to agriculture.
And, I know some of your problems.
Speaking from experience, I know that
speaking out when most remain silent can get
to be pretty lonely and trying at times.
But hang in there; it’s worth it.
We’re with you and Lancaster Farming will
always be available to provide an avenue for
your voice to be heard.
To Control
Cattle Grubs
Cattle grubs can be completely
eliminated from dairy heifers and
beef cattle by the simple ap
plication of a pesticide approved
for grub control.
Grube control pesticides may be
applied by spray, pour on, or spot
on treatments, according to Dr.
Larry Hutchinson, our Extension
Veterinarian at Penn State. They
are safe to use and completely
effective if applied according to
label directions, and before the end
of November. After that,
migrating grub larvae are found
close to the spinal cord where their
death can produce problems.
Regular yearly treatment
against cattle grubs in areas where
they are common can completely
eradicate these painful parasites
in the hades of cattle, and can
greatly improve the quality of the
hide at slaughter.
WHAT MAKES
YOU WEARY?
November 25,1984
2 Thessalonians 1 through 3.
Devotional Reading:
2 Thessalonians 3; 1-15.
“Brethren,” writes Paul to the
church at Thessalonika, “do not be
weary in well-doing” (2 Thess. 3-
13).
I’ve read and re-read that verse
many times and thought about it
long and hard. To make certain I
knew exactly what Paul meant, I
read it in my copy of the Six
Version Parallel New Testament
to see how it is rendered in the
King James, Living Bible, New
English Bible, Jerusalem Bible
and Phillips Modern English
versions in addition to the RSV.
And no, there’s nothing really
obscure about the meaning,
although perhaps the New English
Bible puts it most simply: “But
you, my friends, must never tire of
doing right.”
MERE BUSYBODDES
The NEB has the sentence start
with “8ut...” and there is a,
suggestion that what has preceded
this statement stands in glaring
contrast. So, to understand what
Paul is saying in 3:13, wf need
really to go back and see what has
preceded it. And we find that Paul
has been addressing himself to a
problem in the Thessalonian
church. “For we hear that some of
you are living in idleness, mere
busybodies, not doing any work”
(3:11).
Some commentators believe
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Farm Calendar
Monday, Nov. 26
Mennonite Conference on Faith
and Farming, Laurelville
Mennonite Church Center, Mt.
Pleasant, Pa., continues
through Wednesday.
Wednesday, Nov. 28
Dairy Day at Alfred State Ag and
To Be Careful
When Cleaning Manure
Pits
Many manure pits will be emp
tied at this time of year; it’s an
opportunity to clean out the pit
before cold weather arrives. When
this volume of manure is agitated'
there is greater danger of toxic and
explosive gases being released.
Every precaution should be taken.
If there are animals above the pits,
then maximum ventilation should
Let farm women loose
PORTLAND, Me.-Sister
Thomas More, a rural acitivist and
co-founder of American Agri-
Women, told delegates attending
the National Grange convention in
Portland, Me., last week that
that, because the early churcb
expected the immanent return of
Christ in glory, some Christian
spent their time in idle waiting,
instead of continuing to do their
daily work. While it may be tnw
that some people were this
motivated, it is more likely that the
problem went considerably beyond
that. There are always in any age
or any era those who would rather
talk Problems and concerns
than uo something about them.
Every group I’ve ever belonged i
could be divided into the “talkers
and the “doers,” although the
latter group is always out
numbered by the former.
Often, I’ve found, the reason
people spend their time being, as
Paul puts it, “busy-bodies,” is
because they have too little of their
own business to do. In fact, as a
pastoral counsellor, I’ve found that
all too often the key to a person’s
loneliness, depression, bitterness,
and a score of other debilitating
emotions is a lack of meaningful
work or effort to do something
worthwhile.
DO YOUR WORK
“But you, my friends, must
never tire of doing right.” I have
never known very many people
who exhausted themselves doing
too much for other people. What
exhausts many of us is not the
great quantity of what we do for
others, but the way we feel about
what we do. If we feel resentful, of
we work reluctantly and be
grudgingly, we will be weary - but
not of helping others.
There are lots of things that tire
me and some even exhaust me, but
I do not believe it is frequently
because I give too much of myself
to others. No, I am much more
likely to become weary because I
don’t want to spend myself for
other people. Actually, to really
tire myself in helping someone else
might be the most exhilerating
feeling of all.
You and I must try it some time.
Tech College, 9:45 a.m. to 3
p.m., Alfred, N. Y.
Thursday, Nov. 29
Lancaster County Guernsey
Breeders Banquet, Black Rock
Retreat, Quanyville, 7 p.m.
be provided. When the pit is empty
or partially empty, no one should
enter the pit without a respirator
or gas mask. There may be
dangerous gases present. Also, no
smoking or open flames should be
nearby. These pits are the modern
way to store manure, but they do
present a hazard to both man and
animal.
The Ertewton Service te an affirmative
■eUeu, equal opportunity edacaUMal Id
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families have to be involved in any
organization just as they are on the
farm. She praised the structure of
the family-oriented Grange
organization and challenged the
rural leaders to take a chance on
innovators. She said power is the
answer to improving the economic
welfare of agricultural producers
and that power is achieved through
unity. She encouraged all farm
groups to work together.
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Sister More criUzed the farm
groups that exclude women from
the policy-making process. She
said that women are goal con
scious and know how to get things
done, Sister More told the farm
leaders to let their women loose.
She said the policy of the 1985
farm bill is likely to offer two
choices, either market-oriented
resulting in a decrease of farm
programs or to treat agriculture
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