AIQ-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, Jana 8,1985 NOW IS THE TIME To Be Aware of Storm Safety Spring is a time to savor-and also a time to beware when nature casts aside a gentle way and unleases deadly forces. Though lightning, wind and floods frequently destroy life and property, you can do much to avoid being a victim of weather’s fury. When a thunderstorm ap proaches, avoid lone trees, small metal buildings, fences and high ground. Get out of the water if swimming or boating. Find refuge in a substantial building, motor vehicle or tractor cab. Don’t ignore forecasts of severe weather because they are correct a majority of the time. It’s also a good idea to safeguard your house and buildings with a properly installed, approved lightning protection system and nspect it annually. Don’t take chances, take safety. To Prepare Grain Bins We are approaching barley harvest season with wheat not too far behind, so I would like to remind our grain producers that now is a good time to clean up your grain bins in preparation for harvest. First, clean out all the old grain. Sweep down all the Farm Calendar Saturday, June 8 Cumberland County Farm Tour, Ashcombe’s Dairy Fgjpm and Strockland Farm, Mechanic sburg, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Armstrong County dairy princess pageant, Lenape Vo-Tech School, Ford City. Sunday, June 9 Deer Creek Fiddler’s Convention, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster, Md. Monday, June 10 28th Mushroom Industry Short Course, Penn State University; continues tomorrow. Venango County Wool Pool, Wesley. Soil Survey Workshop, Shikellamy High School, Sunbury, 7 p.m. to 8:30p.m. Tuesday, June 11 Pa. Agriculture promotion, Keister’s Middleburg Auction. Summer tour in North Virginia; State Horticultural Association of America. Wednesday, June 12 East Berlin Sr. Citizen’s Quilt UNCLE OTIS , WHEN I GROW OP. I WANT TO BE ft REAL MAN. By Jay Irwin Lancaster County Agriculture Agent Phone 717-394-6851 sidewalks and floor, making sure to remove old grain lodged in the cracks. Next spray the floor and walls with a residual insecticide. Malathion and methoxychlor are still very effective - follow the label for directions. Finally, prevent birds and rodents from entering the bin. Repair holes with metal or other rat proofing material, clean up all spilled grain around the bin to discourage the various pests from the area. To Remove Broken Limbo in Pasture The high winds that accompany summer storms can create problems in pasture fields. Broken lambs lying around may be hazarous to your livestock. If you have any wild cherry or choke cherry branches lying in your pasture fields, be sure to remove them before allowing any livestock in the fields. When leaves are damaged by broken limbs, they wilt down and a poisonous substance is formed within the leaves. Just a handful of these wilted leaves can kill a cow of several sheep if they are eaten. Death occurs very quickly because the poison interferes with the oxygen carrying ability of the Show, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., East Berlin Elementary School. Wednesday, June 13 Annual Meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle Club, Denver, Colo. Mercer County dairy princess pageant, Mercer County Ex tension office, Mercer. Penn State Rabbit Conference; continues through June 15. Cumberland County dairy princess pageant, Embers, Carlisle. Perry County dairy princess pageant, Newport Fairgrounds, Newport. York County Farmers Association free farm tour, Hellam area, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Junior Livestock Day, Ag Arena, Penn State University. Adams County dairy princess pageant, Biglerville High School. Franklin County dairy princess pageant, Kauffman Community Center, Chambersburg. Huntingdon County dairy princess Friday, June 14 Saturday, June IS well just keep DRINKING WAT MILK AND YOO'U 0 ROW OP TO BE blood. Treatment is possible, but the animals are usually found dead in the field. The only way to eliminate the danger of wild cherry poisoning is to eliminate the trees. Fields with wild cherry should be checked for fallen limbs after a storm; it’s a simple precaution and could save a cow or a whole herd. To Use Respirators A great many different types of chemicals and pesticides are used on farms today. This includes mixing, handling and applying the various materials. We' urge far mers to invest in respirators to meet safety measures under today’s farming procedures. These are needed for handling and ap plying various spray materials, and when using solvents that give off toxic fumes. In addition, fanners working in dusty places, in manure storage tanks, and in silos should wear one of the protective devices. Dusts, molds and fumes are hard on lungs and require protection to reduce injury. The canister type respirators are suggested because they cover the entire face. Don’t expose yourself to permanent lung injury when protection is available. pageant, Shaver’s Creek Community Building, Peter- sburg. Lancaster County dairy princess pageant, Farm and Home Center, Lancaster. Sullivan County dairy princess pageant; Main Street, Dushore. Sun Area dairy princess pageant, Boscoe’s Susquehanna Valley Mall; Selinsgrove. Washington/Greene County dairy princess pageant, Washington County Fairgrounds, Washington. Lebanon County dairy princess pageant, Annville Elementary School. Sunday, June 16 33rd Annual Convention, Pa. Food Merchant’s Association, Bally’s Park Place, Atlantic City; continues to June 18. Annual Big Weekend Show, Pa. Dairy Goat Association, Huntingdon. Contact Jane Smeltzer, 814-359-2073. Annual Meeting, Pa. Landrace Swine Breeders Association, Leon Arnold Farm. National Meeting, American JUSTICE VS. RITUAL June 9,1985 Background Scripture: Amos 1:1 through 2:8. Devotional Reading: Amos 2:9-16. The prophecies of Amos may seem dry as dust—unless you change a few names and words here and there. Then, Amos will no longer be dry; in fact, he may become downright disturbing-just as he was to the people of Israel. Let me illustrate. In Amos 1:3, for example, let’s make one substitution so that it reads: “For three transgressions of Libya, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment.” If we go on to 1:4, we can substitute the name of “Khadafy" for Hazael. Now, that makes Amos timely instead of “dry,” doesn’t it? In 1:6 we can substitute ‘inn" instead of Gaza, in 1:9 “&*»” for Tyre, in 1:11 “USSK" for Edom, in 1:13 'WearagiM" for the Ammonites, and in 2:1 "Wrtmm" for Moab. Like the Israelites in Amos’ own day, we would probably receive those prophecies with both un derstanding and relish! CLOSER TO HOME But, of course, there was more. In 2:4 we could substitute for Judah the name of “Canada.” For, although Israel and Judah frequently had disputes, still there was a blood relationship between Jersey Cattle Club, Host Inn, Lancaster. Tuesday, June 18 Penn State Crops Day at Lan disville, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, 39th Annual Meeting, FFA at Penn State. Indiana County dairy princess pageant. Wednesday, June 19 Lycoming County Dairy Week at Lycoming Mall, June 19 to 22. Thursday, June 20 Summer meeting, Pa. aggregates and concrete association, Seven Spring Resort, Champion. Regional Beekeepers Workshop, 9 a.m., Penn State Fruit Research Lab, Biglerville. Friday, June 21 Bedford County dairy princess OUR READERS WRITE, AND OTHER OPINIONS Modern American agriculture is characterized in exploitation for immediate gain and in short sightedness to longterm con sequences. It is a fact that no one knows the extent of damage to the ($) | : ‘ky, them. Thus, when Amos prophesied the sending of fire upon their cousins to the north, the people of Israel must have had some mixed emotions. Yet, there is one more prophecy that Amos delivers from God. And here, if we are to appreciate how that prophecy sounded to the people of Israel, we need to sub stitute for Israel the name: “Unit of America.” (Note: I’m not s- >p that God - making such prophecies us, but only that this substitution helps us to appreciate what the Israelites felt about Amos.) So long as Amos was pronoun cing doom upon the enemies of Israel, the people heard him gladly. But when his prophecies began to hit home, people no longer regarded him as a prophet, but as a subversive meddler. So we can appreciate, can’t we, why Amos was invited to get out of town? Isn’t that how we would likely react if he were to say to us what he said to Israel? As the old saying goes, “It depends upon whose ox is being gored.” JUST ASCORRUPT Note that each of Israel’s enemies was condemned because they oppressed their neighbors with violence and treachery. Judah, on the other hand, is con demned because, instead of op pression, she was found to be ignoring the laws and statutes of God. And when Amos turns to Israel, it is not aggression that is condemned, but moral corruption: “...because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes..” Israel may have been blameless as far as its foreign relations were concerned, but it was that which was within this nation that brought God’s judgement upon them. And us? How might our ox fare under the prophecies of Amos? pageant, Northern Bedford County High School, Loysburg. Butler County dairy princess pageant, Butler County com munity college, Butler. 4-H Leadership Council, Penn State; continues through June ' 27. National Holstein Centennial Sale - Syracuse. Beaver/Lawrence County dairy princess contest; Bigland Grange, Rochester. Crawford County dairy princess pageant, George and Doris Brown Farm, Cambridge Springs. Susquehanna County dairy prin cess pageant, Montrose Fire Hall, Montrose. Warren County dairy princess pageant, Warren County 4-H Center, Pittsfield. Land-tithing bio-system (soil, water, micro organisms) from use of hard chemicals. Cultivation practices have ef fectively eliminated habitats for countless species of plants, birds, insects, organisms, etc. Human insensitivity to life is putting all life on earth at risk, including human. The time is long overdue for action to correct the situation. A beginning and important step m the right direction could be legislative enactments which have immediate and long-term benefits for farmers and for the entire public. An example of such enactment would be one securing the biological base of interdependent biosystems wherein certain constraints are put on agricultural practices. These constraints Saturday, June 22
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