AlO-Lancaster Faming, Saturday, January 12,1985
Editorially Speaki
See you at the Farm Show!
Starting tomorrow about half a
million people will travel to
Harrisburg during the coming week
for the 1985 state Farm Show. Many
will be exhibiting livestock and farm
products, others will be sightseers
from both agricultural and non
agricultural backgrounds. While the
hundreds of thousands of people
who fiock through the Farm Show
gates will be coming from all walks of
life, they will, for this short time,
have a common bond they will be
immersed in agriculture, which is not
only the top industry in Pennsylvania
but the foundations of our culture
here.
Now in its 69th year, the Penn
sylvania Farm Show has grown from
a handful of exhibits of fruits and
grains to one of the largest
agricultural promotions under one
roof in this country. Farmers,
agricultural and agribusiness leaders
from at least 20 states and Canada
attend the Farm Show each year. The
number of exhibits has grown from
the 440 entries at the first Farm
Show to about 8,000 individual
entries and nearly 300 commercial
entries at this year’s show. Floor
space at the show is m such demand
that some commercial firms have
been on a waiting list for space for as
long as five years.
Getting ready for Farm Show is
hard work, no doubt about it. The
staff at Harrisburg work through the
spring, summer and fall processing
NOW IS THE TIME
To Sendee
Farm Machinery
This is the time of the year to be
preparing your farm equipment
for spring work. In the first place,
this machinery should not be out in
the weather. I still see too much
machinery left out in the fields and
barnyards. This is not good
management and will shorten the
life of the equipment. Preparing
farm machinery is necessary
every year, and now would be a
good time to make use of the off
season labor supplies. Machinery
is a huge investment and should be
kept in good condition at all times.
Rain and snow will soon develop
rust on equipment; this will
shorten the life span and is a
primary cause of many un
necessary breakdowns.
To Be Aware
of Child Labor
Laws
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the ages of 14 and 16 that plan to
operate a farm tractor or
machinery on a farm, other than
your own farm, be sure they have
the proper certification. Under the
child labor regulations, the law
requires that those boys or girls
between 14 and 16 years of age, be
certified and carry a certification
card before they are permitted to
operate hazardous equipment.
Some equipment listed under the
law as hazardous are: a tractor
with one 20 PTO horsepower, com
picker, hay baler, feed grinder,
fork lift and many more. Again, on
your own farm, your children can
operate any equipment that you
feel is safe for them.
The certification process in most
areas is through the Vocational
Agricultural departments in the
school system or through the 4-H
Tractor Clubs. Contact either for
more information.
entry applications, laying out floor
plans, and getting the Farm Show
Complex ready for the big January
event. And anyone who exhibits
knows that preparation for Farm
Show goes on all year long. Getting
ready involves sweat and tears and
laughter, not only for the exhibitors
but for the people working alongside
4-H leaders, FFA advisors,
parents, children, neighbors. If
you’re a winner, the joy is
monumental. But and herein lies
the beauty of the Farm Show even
if you don’t take a ribbon, you still
have gained exposure and ex
perience, and a chance to learn what
you need to do for next year’s show.
The Farm Show means different
things to different people. It is the
farmers’ show window, an integral
part of their advertising, and a
chance to see new equipment and
supplies. For agribusiness, Farm
Show is a chance to show a lot of
interested farmers what’s available
and efficient for their farming
operations. To the city dweller, Farm
Show is a wonderful place to see
what farmers are doing, an im
portant educational experience since
it is the farmer who feeds us all.
Farm Show is a place to touch, to
taste, to smell, to look and take it all
in, a place to show and be shown, to
exchange ideas, and to have fun. If
you’ve never been there, you ought
to go. See you at the Farm Show!
Farm equipment is getting
bigger and taller, as seen at the
Farm Show. This creates a new
hazard. Cabs on larger tractors or
combines may approach heights
equal to ground clearance of high
voltage electrical lines. Accidental
contact between equipment and
the electrical line can be fatal for
the operator. This is especially
hazardous where long spans cross
fields creating considerable sag at
mid-span. CB antennas or other
additions to large equipment are
almost certain to create a potential
hazard if they come in contact with
electrical lines.
Wide equipment, such as
planters and tillage equipment,
folded up for transport can also
reach heights that are dangerous.
Also be careful when moving
portable elevators. Instruct all
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Equipment Safely
THE ULTIMATE
GOURMET
January 13,1985
Background Scripture:
John 6.
Devotional Reading:
John 6:22-29.
For the first two-and-a-half
decades of my life I was a “meat
and potatoes” person. I had been
raised at a “meat and potatoes”
family table and my Pennsylvania
German (“Dutch”) background
did not incline me in any other
direction.
But, somewhere between my
twentieth and thirtieth year I
discovered “food” - all kinds of
food: vegetables I had never heard
of, meats I had never dared, a
whole new world I had not known
existed. Now, in my sixth decade of
life 1 must confess that since those
“meat and potatoes” days, I have
been fortunate to experience so
many epicurean and gourmet
delights.
EATING MANNA
Yet, no matter how much 1 have
enjoyed and continue to enjoy the
delight of food, I have learned that
no matter how good it tastes, no
matter how much I look forward to
it, the gratification is always
temporary. No matter how won
derful the food, I am usually
hungry the next day-if it takes
that long.
So, I have come to realize that
food is good and necessary and one
Farm Calendar
Sat., Jan. 12
Swine and Sheep Judging,
preceding official opening of
Farm Show, Small Arena,
Farm Show Complex,
Harrisburg.
N.J. Holstein Assn. Annual
meeting at Watchung View Inn,
Rt. 206 n. of Somerville, N.J., 2
p.m. meeting followed by
dinner and dancing.
Sunday, Jan. 13
Farm Show opens, continues
through Friday. See complete
schedule in this issue.
Monday, Jan. 14
Secretary of Agriculture Night at
operators and other workers about
this hazard and how to avoid
danger.
To Use Sawdust
on Icy Walks
Freezing rain, sleet and hard
packed snow on walkways and
driveways is quite slippery and
dangerous. The next time you have
this condition, try using coarse
sawdust to reduce the hazard.
Ammonium nitrate and other
fertilizers have been used for
melting ice and they may be ef-
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of our God-given joys in life, but it
does not nourish us much beyond
the present moment. As v Jesus
reminded those who were offended
because he called himself “the
true bread,” the Israelites under
Moses “at the manna in the
wilderness, and they died” (6:49).
No one lives forever on the food he
or she consume? on a daily basis.
Jesus’ words may not be quite so
significant to (is today because,
unlike '■'lp to whom he
spoke, eating is nu. the major
concern for daily survival tiu..
was for them. They ate to live
whereas it seems many people
today live to eat. A crust of bread
might be all they had to give them
strength to do their daily work in
order to earn another crust of
bread.
Regardless, both we and they
know-although we sometimes
seem to forget-that nothing
material will ever be enough for
us. No food, no thing can empower
us to overcome the experience of
death. Things-material
things-can never satisfy us
ultimately. That kind of
satisfaction is fleeting at best.,
THE LIVING BREAD
All of us, therefore, have a
“hunger” that no food, no material
thing can ever satisfy. We go
through life vainly trying to fill
that void that is not in the stomach
but in the soul, until we realize
some day that the only thing that
can permanently satisfy this
craving is the spiritual nourish
ment that comes to us in Christ.
His listeners got hung-up over
Jesus’ invitation to “eat my flesh
and drink my blood,” but we know
very well-as they did-what he
means. If we take his life into
ourselves as the body takes in food
and drink, we will find the
nourishment of that which alone
can survive the death of the body.
Farm Show, also Sr. Citizen’s
Day.
Poultry servicemen’s seminar and
dinner, Holiday Inn North, 1492
Lititz Pike (Rt. 501 S. off Rt. 30),
Lancaster, 6:30 p.m.
Md. Assn, of Soil Conservation
District winter meeting at
Carousel Hotel, Ocean City,
Md., through Jan. 16.
Fulton Grange #66, Grange Hall,
Oakryn, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 15
Master Farmers Night at Farm
Show.
Pa. Dairymen’s Association An
nual Meeting, Penn Harris
Motor Inn, Harrisburg, 6:30
p.m.
Kent Co. Crops Meeting, Viola
Ruritan Hall, University of
Delaware, 7-9:30 p.m.
Pa. Angus Association Annual
Meeting and Awards Banquet,
Americana Host Inn,
Harrisburg, 7 p.m.
1985 Farm Income Tax Area
Meeting, Arners’ Family
Restaurant, Rt. 309, Quaker
town.
Wednesday, Jan. 16
Horsepulling'and sheep to shawl
contests, Farm Show.
1985 Farm Income Tax Area
Meeting, Rt. 72, Farm and
Home Center, Lancaster, 9:30
a.m.
Thursday, Jan. 17
Pony Pulling Contest at Farm
Show.
New Castle and No. Kent Co. Crops
Meeting, Clayton Fire Hall, 9:30
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Pa. Co-operative Potato Growers
annual potato banquet,
Sheraton-West, Harrisburg,
5:30 p.m.
1985 Farm Income Tax Area
Meeting, Holiday Inn South,
Wayne Avenue, Chambersburg.
Friday, Jan. 18
Closing events at Farm Show. See
complete schedule in this issue.