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The Richard Herr family of R 6 Lancaster has extended their holiday decorations to the
barn. Two Christmas trees decorated with white lights clue visitors that the Christmas
spirit is alive and well here.
Deck
the
barn
with
holiday
cheer
Comments requested on dairy promotion
CHAMBERSBURG - Com
ments will accepted until
February 4th on U.S. Department
of Agriculture proposed
procedures for conducting
referenda on the Dairy Research
and Promotion order and proposed
amendments to the order.
Edward T. Coughlin, dairy of
ficial with USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service, said that the
action is in preparation for a
referendum on continuation of the
UNCLE OTIS. I CALL
CHRISTMAS CAROL
AND TOLD THEM ABOUT
SO RE THROffT... -
A few greens, a candle and a bow bring holiday cheer to this
barn window. The window is on a barn owned by Richard Herr
of R 6 Lancaster.
order that the Secretary of
Agriculture is required to conduct
within the 60-day period ending
Sept. 30,1965.
The research and promotion
program, which was authorized in
the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment
Act of 1983, is financed by a 15-cent
per hundredweight assessment on
all milk produced in the contiguous
48 states and marketed com
mercially by dairy farmers. The
program is administered by a
AND
REALLY
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board of 36 dairy farmers ap
pointed by the Secretary of
Agriculture with representation
based on area milk production.
Coughlin said the USDA
proposals include procedures for
conducting the initial referendum
and any subsequent referenda. He
said the proposed amendments
would change the name of the
order to make it consistent with the
name of the board and make a
change in board voting
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A FINITE INFINITY
December 23,1984
Background Scripture:
Devotional Reading:
Several months ago I attended a
conference on the campus of a
Philadelphia college and heard an
astronomer bring us up to date on
current knowledge of the universe.
It was a mind-boggling experience,
for although I had known the
universe was huge, I had never
realized that it is beyond my
powers of comprehension to even
consider how gigantic it is. I had
understood that the universe was
also intricately as well as grandly
complex, but that evening I came
to realize that the complexity of
the universe can only be ap
prehended, never comprehended.
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As I left the lecture hall and
looked up into the starry heavens,
my mind reeled with thoughts of
the implications of what I had just
heard for my understanding of
God. How vast and complex and
utterly incomprehensible God
must be! And, in fact, whenever I
consider “the heavens, the mpon
and the stars which thou hast
established” (Psalm 8) my con
cept of God becomes alarmingly
more vast and incomprehensible.
WORD BECAME FLESH
Sometimes I have somewhat the
same reaction when I corn
template the complexity or moral
and ethical issues. God commands
us to love our enemies, but if we
treat our enemies only with love
NOW IS THE TIME
To Review
Partnership Agreements
There are a number of ad
vantages to establishing farm
partnerships, but an annual review
of the agreement and its value in
procedures.
The proposal is published in the
December sth Federal Register.
Comments should be sent in the
Dairy Division, Room 2968-S, AMS,
USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250.
The Dec. 5 Federal Register is
available for public review at
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Offices in Pa.
The Franklin County ASCS Office
is located at 550 Cleveland Avenue,
Chambersburg, Pa.
YUP, ABOUT WHO THBY'RB
GONf
Johnl
John 1:35-42.
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6551
will they not take advantage of us
and enslave us, if they can? And if
they prevail with their military
might, will not religion itself
vanish from the face of the earth?
The more I ponder these issues, the
further away seems the guidance
of the one whom we call God.
Yet, whenever God seems far
away from me because of my
intellectual and spiritual
limital. T share with all
human beings, I remember Jesu
of Nazareth and suddenly
remote and unknowable Ultimate
Reality and Ground of Being
comes into focus in the image of
the Christ. Let the theologians and
others dispute over the questions of
just how Jesus was divine, the fact
is that if I focus upon Jesus Christ I
can see God clearly enough to
know that He-She-or-Whatever is
not just the remote and ultimate
Reality, for Christ makes God a
personal experience. The infinite
becomes existentially finite or at
least concrete enough to dispel the
darkness.
DWELT AMONG US
“And the Word became flesh...”
(John 1:14). The Divine was ex
pressed in human form, the only
form human beings can un
derstand. I cannot comprehend the
Creator of the Universe, but I can
look at Jesus Christ and know what
1 am intended to do with my life.
For “the Word” not only “became
flesh,” but “dwelt among us, full of
grace and truth” (1:14).
That is why Christmas, when
truly experienced, is a “light that
shines in the darkness, and the
darkness has not overcome it”
(1:5). In the midst of a world that
becomes ever more complex and
where moral issues become in
creasingly more intricate and
involved, it is the essence of our
Divine Source-the love expressed
in a Bethlehem manager-that
gives us light sufficient to make
our way through this bewildering
world.
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relation to current needs is
essential.
I would like to offer a few
suggestions for those who have
entered into farm partnership
agreements.
Once a farm partnership is
drawn up, the agreement should be
reviewed at least once a year. This
should be done for two reasons.
First, to see how well each of the
partners is meeting their
obligations-and secondly, to
carefully evaluate the agreement
to see if it is doing its intended job.
Then, too, farming is a rapidly
changing business. So, don’t be
surprised if the agreement you set
up just a couple of years ago isn’t
entirely adequate to meet today's
needs.
So review that agreement
carefully. If it doesn’t quite
measure up to current needs, plan
to make necessary changes before
1985 rolls around.
To Sort
Tobacco
' Tobacco stripping is underway
in this part of the state and many
hours will be spent removing the
leaves from the stalk. The days of
special handling and sizing seems
to be over; however, it is still very
important that growers sort the
injured and ground leaves from the
good tobacco. This will be required
if the crop is being sold on grade.
With some “pull off’ crops this is
less important. On the other hand
growers should be fair enough to
sort out the undesirable leaves. If
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