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AIO-L«icast*r Farming, Saturday, April 6,1985
NOW IS THE TIME
To Control Wild Garlic
Dairy farmers who pasture their
milking herd have the most to lose
if they do not eliminate wild garlic
from their pasture fields. This fast
growing wild onion is already
growing in pastures and other
grass areas.
The young plants are much
easier to kill with herbicides than
mature plants. We suggest that the
plants be sprayed very soon with
2,4-D. This has proven effective in
keeping the young plants from
maturing; by spraying early in the
spring the legumes in the pasture
area will not be injured.
Since the wild garlic plant is
very well rooted, it may take
several sprays over a period of two
or more years to eliminate the
weed from the area. Don’t wait
-until the plants are mature to
make this spray application.
Follow label directions when
applying any pesticide.
To Store Undelivered
Tobacco
A number of tobacco growers
have not delivered their ’B4 crop
and need to store the bales on the
above ground floor of a tobacco
shed or bam. It’s important to
place some two by fours or similar
size lumber under the bales to
allow for air circulation. Then put
the bales only 2 or 3 high to reduce
fermentation from squeezing
pressure.
Cover the top layer of bales to
keep them clean of bird droppings
and dirt. Use old tobacco muslin
Farm Calendar
Monday, April 8 *"
Franklin County Conservation
District monthly meeting, 7:30
p.m. Conservation District
Office, 550 , Cleveland Ave.,
Chambersburg.
Tuesday, April 9
Adams County Beef Meeting, 7:30
p.m. at the Adams Co. Ex
tension office.
Delaware Sheep and Wool
Producers meeting, 7:30 p.m. at
Capital Grange in Dover.
N.J. Holstein Breeder’s Seminar,
AUamuchy Town Hall, 10:30
a.m.
Friday, April 12
N.J. Dorset Sheep Breeder’s
Annual Meeting, Extension
Center, Flemington, 8 p.m.;
covered dish supper, 7 p.m.
Maryland State Holstein Show,
Heifer Classes, Timoruum, 11
a.m.
Special Dairy Promotion, spon
sored by the Maryland Holbein
Association, Timonium, 6 p.m.
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HAVE ENOUGH ECrOb-
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
covers, canvas tarps or loose
material, not air-tight. Avoid tight
plastic. Air should move freely
around the bales.
Be certain no water drips on the
stored bales or wind driven rain
blows on them.
You can expect some weight loss
to be fermentation and possible
sweating as the weather warms.
To Operate Machinery
sensibly
Farmers are always in a big
hurry when the good spring
weather arrives. As a result, they
operate their tractors and other
machinery at too high a speed.
This presents safety hazards and is
the cause of too many accidents.
Grain drills and com planters are
designed for accurate planting, if
operated at a normal rate of speed.
Often in the rush of things, we
travel too fast and the planting job
is disappointing.
We urge farmers to take the time
to properly prepare and adjust
their machinery and then drive at
a speed that will give good per
formance. With many pieces of
machinery the speed is listed on
the manufacturer’s directions.
Take time to be safe and not sorry.
To Avoid Herbicide
Residues
Evidence is showing us that
residues of atrazine, simazme and
to a lesser extent, bladex, are
affecting subsequent crops in the
rotation following corn. Even
though no visual symptoms are
evident, the sub-lethal residues
Maryland Futurity, Timonium, 8
p.m.
Maryland State Holstein Show,
Cow Classes, Timonium, 10
a.m.
21st Annual ASCS Banquet, 7 p.m.,
Kauffman’s Ruritan Com
munity Building.
York Farmer’s Forum April
meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Moser’s
Restaurant.
Wednesday, April 17
York County ASCS spring banquet,
7 p.m. at Spnngettsbury Fire
Hall.
Thursday, April 18
Annual Fund Raising Banquet, Pa.
Poultry Federation, Hershey
Convention Center.
Saturday, April 20
Little International at Penn State
University.
Saturday, April 13
Tuesday, April 16
still present in corn field soils, are
lowering yields of small grain and
alfalfa. Consequently, we must
make efforts to reduce herbicide
carryover.
• Soil test prior to the last year of
com in the rotation. Then apply all
the lime recommended before the
com is planted. Liming will
release any atrazine, simazine,
bladex still tied up in the soil and
help control corn crop weeds.
• Use a low residue herbicide
program avoiding the triazines
(above). Lasso and Dual would be
choices to consider.
•To control broadleaf weeds
that might escape, Banvel should
be applied as a follow up.
The Penn State Extension Service is an
affirmative action, equal opportunity
educational institution
Delaware offers
“U-Piek” booklet
NEWARK, DE - Each year
more farmers and gardeners start
U-pick operations to market
seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Though this is generally a fast,
economical way to sell fresh
produce, success depends very
much on skillful management.
The Delaware Cooperative
Extension Service publication,
“Management of Pick-Your-Own
Marketing Operations,” covers all
aspects of running a U-pick
business in the northeastern U.S.
The 66-page booklet includes tips
on planning, organizing,
publicizing and operating this type
of venture.
It tells how to identify and reach
potential customers, schedule
production and lay out fields,
design facilities such as parking
and check-out systems, set prices,
deal with customers and em
ployees, and reduce the risk of
accidents.
Single copies are available for
ST. To order, write: Mail Room,
Townsend Hall, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE19717-1303.
HARRISBURG - Sen. Noah
Wenger, (R-36), has announced the
unanimous Senate passage of a bill
he authored that would provide tax
relief to family-owned farms in
Pennsylvania.
The legislation, Senate Bill 246,
would exempt family farms from
having to pay a state realty
transfer tax when the farm is
transferred from a sole proprietor
family member to a family farm
corporation.
LIFE: BEFORE AND
AFTER DEATH
April?, 1985
Background Scripture
John 20:1-23.
Devotional Reading:
John 20:19-23.
Michael B. Sabom is a medical
doctor. In his Recollections of
Death (Simon & Schuster, 1982) he
says, “Although I had been raised
in a churchgoing family, I had
always tried to keep religious and
scientific doctrines separate...
Unscientific - that I would never
be.”
Challenged to participate in a
program on Dr. Raymond B.
Moody’s book, Life Alter Life, for a
local Methodist church, Dr. Sabom
tried to bow out, indicating that he
was highly dubious of Dr. Moody’s
claims that patients with “near
death” experiences “came back”
with convictions that they had
encountered a life beyond death.
In order to prove Moody wrong,
Dr. Sabom decided to conduct his
own investigation with his own
“near death” patients under
scientific controls which would
stand up under critical scrutiny.
But Sabom’s findings were quite
different from what he expected
them to be: his own patients
seemed to confirm Dr. Moody’s
findings. He ended up writing of his
experience and conclusions and his
book, Recollections of Death, is a
convincing chronicle of evidence
that seems to indicate support for
the belief in a life after death.
OUR READERS WRITE,
Send SCS column to White House
The article in Joyce Bupp’s
column of March 16, 1985 con
cerning the necessary and
exemplary work done by Soil
Conservationists certainly ex
pressed some thoughts that needed
to be said.
Perhaps it would not be amiss to
send a copy to the President whose
oHm.inistrption has recently
Wenger’s tax-relief bill
approved by Senate
“Under current law,” Wenger
stated, “the owner of a farm is
required to pay a one percent state
realty transfer tax when the owner
forms a family corporation. This
bill would eliminate that tax and
make forming a corporation more
attractive to family-owned
farms.”
In most cases, forming cor
porations is advantageous to
farmers because it provides them
with tax relief once they become
LIFE-CHANGING
One of the things he found in his
study and this comfirmed what
Dr. Moody and others had found -
was that these experiences of
“near-death” (actually, the
patients were “clinically dead”
and resuscitated) usually have a
profound effect upon their lives.
Almost always they are “life
chan t 'aces. Assured
that thti e is a i*
on earth seems to maKc
difference in the way they return to
live life in the here and now.
Actually, that is also the most
important thing about the Easter
faith in Jesus Christ. It is, of
course, wonderful and marvelous
that Christ rose from the dead. But
that, by itself, would be nothing
more than an item in Ripley's
“Believe It or Not” if it were not
for the fact that the resurrection of
Christ has something of the utmost
of importance to say about how
and why we live before death.
IHAVESEEN
THE LORD!
When at last the disciples of
Jesus finally grasped that he was
risen from the tomb, it was a
recognition that utterly tran
sformed their lives. By raising
Jesus from the dead, God had
shown once and for all that He is in
charge of this world and our lives.
Evil people had done their very
worst to defeat Jesus, but God
vindicated him when he demon
strated that death does not have
the last word.
The disciples of Jesus realized
that, even if the enemies of God
killed them for preaching the
gospel, neither they nor the gospel
would be snuffed-out by such an
act of violence. Their assurance of
a life after death, radically
transformed the meaning and
impact of their lives before death.
That is why the Easter message
is the most important good news of
all time.
AND OTHER OPINIONS
proposed the elimination of the
SCS in its budget-cutting plans, a
difficult scheme indeed to fathom.
Joyce Bupp’s column has always
•been a pleasure to read for her
“earthy” humor and un
derstanding.
incorporated, Wenger added.
To ensure that the legislation is
used for the purpose intended, the
senator said a requirement has
been built in specifically stating
that none of the family farm
corporation’s stock can be sold to a
non-family member.
“If that happens within a period
of ten years after the farm is in
corporated, the tax exemption
status would be lost and the cor
poration would have to pay the
transfer fee,” Wenger explained.
The approved bill is similar to a
Wenger-sponsored measure ap
proved during the last session of
the General Assembly that
provided incorporating family
farms with a tax exemption on the
local realty transfer tax.
“I am confident that this bill will
continue to move through the
legislature and that we will soon be
able to offer the family farm a
much-deserved break in the
payment of taxes,” Wenger con
cluded.
•’d this o r
Charles F. Gross