Alt-Uncastar Fanning, Saturday, October 26, IMS NOW IS THE TIME To Hunt Safely The small game hunting season will open next Saturday. We need to remind ourselves to be cour teous and considerate while hunting on farms. We encourage all hunters to practice good relations between farmers and hunters. Criticism of hunting often starts because a few hunters forget the landowner is his host. By ob serving a few sensible hunting manners, hunters will keep themselves from becoming uninvited guests. Most landowners permit reasonable hunting. Asking per mission to hunt is a small courtesy in return for a pleasant day in the field; yet too few people follow this rule. Landowners may actually need protection from indifferent, careless and destructive hunters. When the trouble starts, many farmers post their land for protection from irresponsible hunters. It takes very little time and costs nothing to observe a few common courtesy rules while hunting: ask permission before hunting, close gates, pick up litter after eating lunch and stay out of unharvested crops. Keep a safe distance from ST. PAUL - From Farm Aid to legal aid, funds raised by dozens of country, rock and blues musicians will go toward fighting the legal battles of America's debt-ridden family farmers and ranchers. Singer John Conlee, a member of the board of directors for Farm Aid, is expected to present a check from the Farm Aid proceeds to board members of the Family Farm Defense Fund at a news conference at noon Oct. 21 at the Younkers Tea Room in downtown Des Moines. National Farmers Union is one of the Family Farm Defense Fund’s founders and is one of several rural organizations represented on its board of directors. The Family Farm Defense Fund was incorporated last May to initiate litigation on behalf of family farmers and ranchers, conduct studies and prepare reports on the family farm system of agriculture. It is modeled on other highly successful legal assistance groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The special Family Farm Defense Fund fills a void for family farmers and ranchers who face an increasingly complex legal structure and often can’t afford to take legal action on their own. By Jay Irwin Lancaster County Agriculture Agent Phone 717-394-6851 buildings and livestock while hunting and be sure to respect the property of others as you would expect others to respect yours. To Pick and Store Apples Whether you grow apples or just like to eat them, it’s important to store them properly. Cool apples will keep longer. Ideally, they should be stored at 33°F, at 90 percent humidity, and in dim light or darkness. Now as to picking; it’s a good practice to store the fruit in shade as it is picked, then allow it to stand in the orchard overnight to cool. Then, place the apples in storage early in the morning before the temperature rises too much. If you leave apples in a packing shed or in piles under the tree for one week, you’ll shorten their storage life by about five weeks. So, keep apples cool, maintain good air circulation during storage, and your apples should keep a long time. To Check V entilation Equipment for Winter Exhaust lans in dairy and poultry houses have a heavy ventilation job to do. They remove Farm Aid money will help farmers with legal battles The Farm Aid check will be used to hire a professional staff in cluding public interest attorneys, whose first task will be to prioritize a number of cases already known to the Defense Fund and determine whether to take them into litigation, according to the Fund’s executive director, Roger Blobaum. He pointed out that while the Fund’s policy will be made by agricultural leaders serving on its board of directors, all legal decisions will be made by at torneys. “We will try to identify cases where the outcome would affect thousands of farmers,” Blobaum said. Generally, cases already known to the fund involve credit and farmers’ rights. “It is particularly gratifying to know that these funds will be used to protect the rights of farmers nationwide, touching the greatest number of lives possible across rural America,” said NFU Executive Committee Chairman Harold Dodd of Illinois, who will represent the organization at the news conference. “While the Family Farm Defense Fund for now may deal only with the pain and problems facing agriculture, it is necessary until better legislation can be provided. We believe that it is the Family Farm Defense Fund and moisture and dust, and in many cases run almost continually from October to April. To make your ventilation system ready for winter, several items may need attention. The fan blades, motor enclosures and louvered shutters need cleaned frequently. Loose belts are com mon on belt driven fans. Fan output varies directly with fan speed. A 10 percent loss in RPM’s of the fan means a 10 percent loss in air delivery. Check the thermostat for ac curacy by hanging a thermometer beside it for easy comparison. Be sure the sensing element is clean and free from dust For Farm Show Entries January and the Pennsylvania Farm Show seem like a long time away. But, really it is not, because now is the time to be making your ifvestock and dairy entries for the Pennsylvania Farm Show Just a reminder that Nov. 5 is the deadline for these entries-and that is close at, hand. So, if you are interested in exhibiting at Farm Show, you can obtain entry blanks and a premium book from your County Extension Office. similar activities that will make agriculture’s tomorrow brighter,” Dodd said. Conlee, in addition to being one of the organizers of the Farm Aid concert, performed the first benefit concert for agriculture last June. He is also one of the originators of the Family Farm Defense Fund and serves as its honorary chairman. Members of the funds board of directors, in addition to NFU President Cy Carpenter who serves as vice chairman, are: National Farmers Organization President DeVon Woodland, chairman; Women Involved in Farm Economics President Sidney Beck, secretary-treasurer; Tim Wrage of the Farm Crisis Com mittee; National Grange Master Edward Andersen; and the Most Rev. Edward O’Rourke, Bishop of the Diocese of Peoria and former executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. MV,* YOU KIDS CERTAIN L V HAVE SOME < SCARY MASKS... iW It was evident to me that, although Paul himself did not sanction slavery and went out of his way to proclaim oneness in Christ, he seemed considerably less than forth-nght in attacking this evil when he had the op portunity. He was an Apostle. Couldn’t he have commanded Philemon to release Onesimus from his claims of slavery? The fact that he did not issue this command seemed to me an em barrassment-evidence of the same kind of wishy-washing behavior for which he had con demned Simon Peter. BOLD TO COMMAND Paul says, “...though I and bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for Poker Ride, 1:15 p.m., Our Gang Riding Club grounds, Hellam. Standardbred Horse Sale, Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg. ADA/DC District 16 meeting, Whitneyville United Methodist Church, 7:30 p.m. Pa. Dairy Promotion Program Advisory Board meeting, Autoport Motel and Restaurant, State College; continues tomorrow. Crop and Forage Show, Get tysburg Area Senior High School, 7:30 p.m. Open to Adams County Farmers. B't IAWRfNI i W AIIHOUM £3£!!3!LIS m TO COMMAND OR TO APPEAL? October 27,1985 Background Scripture: Philemon; Galatians 3; 23-29; 1 Corinthians 12; 12,13. Devotional Reading: Galatians 4:1-7, I must confess that the first time I studied Philemon, I was somewhat uncomfortable with this letter. It was during the 1960’s and America was embroiled in the struggle for civil rights. Although not militant, I believed-and still beheve-that our nation was long, long overdue in practicing what it preached, both politically and spiritually Inequality and segregation were by-products of the evil institution of slavery Farm Calendar Saturday, October 26 Dairyman Inc. annual meeting, Middle Atlantic Division, Marriott’s Hunt Valley Inn, Hunt Valley, Md. Sunday, October 27 Monday, Ocotober 28 Pa. State Grange Convention, Library Theater, Warren; continues through Oct. 31 Tuesday, October 29 Thursday, October 31 love’s sake 1 prefer to appeal to y0u...1 appeal to you for my child Onesimus...” (8-10). If Paul co«M have commanded Philemon to renounce his claims against the slave Onesimus, why didn’t he? If, as he says, “I would have been glad to keep him with me...but 1 preferred to do nothing without your consent...” (13, 14), why did he sent Onesimus back to Philemt Paul’s reasoning i nore clear to me now than it was then: '. order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will” (14b). A Philemon who understood the claims of Christian conscience against slavery was more desirable to Paul than a Philemon who simply acceded to Paul’s command. Either way, Onesimus would have his freedom (unless, of course, Philemon failed to heed Paul), but with Paul’s approach of appeal instead of command, Onesimus could have both his freedom from slavery and the riches of Christian brotherhood. MORE THAN SLAVE Actually, if you examine this letter carefully, you will find that Paul was not being wishy-washj he reminds Philemon of his right to command, he urges him to receive his former slave as you would receive me," and he concludes strongly. "Confident of your ob dience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say" (v. 21). I do not regret crusading for civil rights. The civil rights laws enacted were very necessary. But neither am I so naive as to think that a law solves the problem. Far better for all, when we can do it with persuasive appeal, rather than use the last resort of com mand. (Bated on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Released by Community Press Service. I Saturday, November 2 Lancaster County Farm Women Convention, 9 a.m., Farm and Home Center. Monday, November 4 SE Christmas Tree Grower’s meeting, 7 p.m., Penn State Campus, Schuylkill Haven. Hog and Cattle Feeding meeting, Cumberland Valley High School Vo-Ag Room, 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 6 Lancaster Conservation District monthly board meeting, Farm and Hpme Center, 7:30 p.m. Pennsylvania Farmer’s Union annual convention, Hotel Hershey. Thursday, November 7 Fayette County DHIA annual meeting, 7:30 p.m., Ghsons Restaurant. Lancaster County Poultry Association annual banquet, Four Seasons Restaurant, 6; 30 p.m. Friday, November 8 Keystone International Livestock Exhibition, Farm Show Complex; continues through Nov. 13. 1985 Southeast Holstein Seminar, Walkersville Fire Hall, Walkersville, Md. Nittany Lion Fall Classic, Ag Arena, University Park. Pa. Livestock Association annual meeting, Harrisburg East Sheraton. Saturday, Novembers Cumberland County Convention, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Best Western Inn and Restaurant, Carlisle. NAILE, Louisville, Ky.; continues through Nov. 22 Pa. State Beekeepers Association annual winter meeting and banquet, Country Cupboard, Lewisburg.
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