AlO-Lapcaster Farming, Saturday, December 28,1985
NOW IS THE TIME
To Check
Barn Ventilation
Proper ventilation of all types of
livestock and poultry buildings is
very important during the winter
months. When the warm,
moisture-laden air is not moved
out of the area, we usually see
condensation on the windows,
walls and ceilings. This is
especially true with little or poor
insulation. Exhaust fans will move
the air out and protect the building.
This time of year the barns are
filled with livestock; these animals
give off large amounts of body
heat. When condensation occurs it
is a sign that some attention is
needed; in most cases it is a
problem with ventilation or with
insulation.
To Review
Your Will
With the provisions of the
Economic Recovery Tax Act back
in 1981, major new benefits are
available in the estate planmng
area. The new laws prompt three
major actions. First, you should
thoroughly review your wills;
second, examine how you own
FmHA backs off check rule
BY JAMES H. EVERHART
WASHINGTON Farmers
Home Administration has clarified
a ruling that presumably would
have required all borrowers to
receive agency approval before
cashing checks for routine sales of
livestock, grain or equipment.
The initial ruling, which would
have required checks from all
farm sales to be issued jointly to
the borrower and FmHA, ap
parently resulted from a misap
plication of agency regulations,
according to Jack Hertzler, head of
FmHA’s Farmer Programs.
It received widespread cir
culation during a recent training
meeting of FMHA field personnel,
Hertzler said, adding, “Most folks
DOVER - Secretary of
Agriculture, William B. Chandler,
Jr., today announced the winners
of the Delaware Department of
Agriculture’s first Farmland
Protection Bumper Sticker Con
test. First place winner was 10
year old Kristi Herbst, a student at
the Gunning Bedford Middle
School in Delaware city.
“Her entry, ‘Provided by
Nature, Protected by Man’, con
veyed the message of farmland
preservation in a concise, but very
articulate way”, Chandler said.
Herbst’s prize, a $5O savings
bond, will be presented by
Delaware Governor Michael N.
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
property; and third, check for
application of the new tax laws to
determine savings.
Everyone should have his will
thoroughly reviewed if it hasn’t
been done since September 1981.
One major point of the review
should be to determine ways of
applying the new unlimited federal
estate tax marital deduction.
Any amount of property can now
be transferred tax-free to a spouse
at death. However, this option
should be considered carefully.
Medium and large estates may pay
more tax if the entire estate is
passed to the surviving spouse.
Consult your attorney about
making necessary changes.
To Prepare For
Slippery Conditions
Slippery roads, walks and steps
will be a common hazard in the
next few months. Many people use
salt too freely in cutting the ice; it
may get the job done but also may
injure nearby turf or shrubbery.
I’d suggest the use of sand or
sawdust. These materials will
make the surface safe without
possible injury to vegetation. In
came away from the meeting with
the understanding that all checks
had to be issued jointly.”
The various FmHA field offices
had not been notified of the
clarification at press time, but
Hertzler said he expected the new
guidelines to be available early
next week.
In effect, the new plan will allow
borrowers to continue their
operations with only major sales of
stock requiring FmHA in
volvement.
“We don’t want to impose any
undue burden on farmers,”
Hertzler said. “In most cases, the
new guidelines will not require
checks to be issued jointly.”
Delaware honors bumper
sticker contest winners
Castle this afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
in his office in the Carvel State
Office Building. Attending this
ceremony will be representatives
of Delaware’s Senate ane House
Agriculture Committees, officials
of the Department of Agriculture,
as well as the students’, parents,
teachers, and school officials.
Rachel Bullock of Smyrna
Elementary School m Smyrna was
the second place winner and third
place went to Chris Corbin, a
student at Frederick Douglass
Stubbs Elementary School in
Wilmington.
Kristi’s entry will be used by the
Department’s Aglands Preser
vation Section in our 1986 cam
areas without any vegemuoa, saa
will give good results.
Along our main highways there
is some evidence that the constant
use of salt is inflicting injury to
nearby trees and shrubs. Don’t let
this happen to your favorite tree,
shrub or the turf lining your walk.
To Protect Orchard
Fruit Trees
While most of the hard work for
fruit growers may be over, it is
that time of the year for mice, deer
and rabbits to get busy.
On young trees preventative
measures are necessary. The
commercial heavy plastic wrap
works well on small trees. Another
very effective way to keep rabbits
and deer from chewing branches
and buds is to “paint” tree trunks
and limbs with a mixture of five to
six pounds of powdered rosin in one
gallon of ordinary alcohol. Simply
uses a whitewash brush to apply
the material. The rabbits and deer
find the rosin too gritty, and aside
from an occasional nip, will
usually leave the tree alone. Be
sure to apply the material to a
height well above the reach of the
deer.
In effect, the rules will require
that borrowers establish a plan of
farm sales each year, with those
that will reduce farm equity being
clearly designated. Any sale
proceeds that would require
reduction of the borrower’s debts
will have to be jointly issued to
FmHA, Hertzler said.
“As a rule, we should be able to
let farmers conduct their business
normally,” said Hertzler.
According to FmHA spokesman
Joe O’Neill, the review of farm
sales has been required because of
an increase in the number of
problem borrowers who have sold
off assets piecemeal, leaving little
equity left to pay off remaining
loans.
paign to educate Delawareans
about the need to preserve the
State’s prime farmlands”,
Chandler noted. He added that this
farmland contributes over 500
million dollars annually to the
State’s economy.
The contest was open to all
elementary school children in
grades 1 through 6. Thirty-one
schools participated with a total of
945 entrants.
NOTE TO EDITOR:
Attached is a list of school winners.
Persons desiring black and white
photographs of the presentation should
contact Kerin C. Donnelly at 302-736-
4811 or 800-282-8685.
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REGULATIONS} AND TAXES ANYMORE,
T'M GONNA NEED TT JUST TO STORE
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Background Scripture;
Mark 4:26-32; Matthew 22 34-40;
Luke 18:9-14.
Devotional Reading:
Mark 4:26-32.
Somewhere many years ago, I
read of a man who would knock on
doors and ask: “Does Jesus live
here?” No matter what response
he would get, that was all he would
ever say: “Does Jesus live here?”
You can imagine the different
kinds of responses he encountered.
Some people were deeply offended
at the question and told him so.
Others were annoyed at being
disturbed and slammed the door in
his face. Some tried to engage him
in a discussion of their religious
views. A few found the man’s
question an occasion for reflection
and self-examination.
SELF-EXALTING
The man didn’t want to discuss
religious ideas, nor was he in
terested in which church the
various people attended. All he
wanted to know was whether these
people were living with Christ in
their lives and homes.
When we are concerned with
God’s reign in our lives, we are
pretty much dealing with what
Jesus termed the “Kingdom of
God” or the “Kingdom of
Heaven.” Some day, Jesus
promised, God will rule this earth
completely and fully. In the
meantime, what he seeks to do is to
rule in the lives of each and every
one of us. If he is Lord of our lives,
to that extent his Kingdom is
established in our midst.
And how can we be sure that he
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Farm Calendar
Saturday, January 4
Lebanon County Beef and Swine
Roundup, Lebanon
Fairgrounds.
Cumberland County Extension
Farm Financial Management
Workshop, Extension Building,
Delaware seeks
Master Gardeners
NEWARK, DE - The Delaware
Cooperative Extension Service is
accepting applications for its
Master Gardener program, which
will be launched next spring in
New Castle County. Similar
volunteer programs are operating
successfully in 38 states across the
country.
Participants need not be county
residents, but they must be able to
work in New Castle County after
they complete their training. They
will receive 45 hours of intensive
horticultural training in return for
DOES JESUS
LIVE HERE?
December 29,198 S
is reigning in our lives? Jesus
actually gave us some pretty
important tests. In the parable of
the tax collector and the Pharisee
who went to the temple to pray,
Jesus makes it clear that, if God
reigns in us, then we will humble,
not exalt ourselves before him. If
our relationship with Christ causes
us to feel pride, as the Pharisee
did, then Christ does not really
dwell within us.
AND YOUR NEIGHBOR
Jesus never gave his disciples a
clearer explanation of what it
means for God to live in us than
when he said, “You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart,
soul, and...mind. And...you shall
love your neighbor as yourself”
(Matt. 22:37-39). If any person does
this, he will be living the Kingdom
on earth, for God in Christ will be
ruling his life.
Have you ever stopped to think
what kind of world this would be if
from one end of it to another people
would master those two com
mandments? They wouldn’t need
any more theology, creed, or
confession of faith. If only one page
of the Bible were to survive for
future generations, this, page
would be sufficient to provide the
world with the reign of God in all
its fullness.
And no one would need to fear
being asked; "Does God live
here?”
Carlisle, 9:45 a.m.
Friday, January 10
Pa. Association of Conservation
District Director’s “Year of the
Forest” Forum, Grantville
Holiday Inn, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
an equal number of hours of
volunteer service to be spent
helping the extension service in
crease gardening awareness, solve
gardening problems and serve the
gardening public.
“If you have gardening ex
perience either professionally or
as a hobby, enjoy gardening, would
like to help your community, want
to learn more about gardening or
are interested in developing new
extension horticultural programs,
then master gardening is for you,”
says University of Delaware ex
tension horticulturist Sue Barton,
organizer of Delaware’s pilot
program. Eventually she hopes to
see it expand to all three counties
in the state.
The first Master Gardener
training course will begin March 3,
1986, in Townsend Hall at the
University of Delaware in Newark.
Sessions will be held on Mondays
and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
Deadline for applications is
January 14. For more information
write the New Castle County
Extension Office, Townsend Hall,
University of Delaware, Newark,
DE19717-1303. Or call 451-2506.