.O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 11,1986
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NOW IS THE TIME
To Transfer Silage
Livestock and dairy producers
who have had silage stored in
temporary structures might be
plaining to move this feed into
upright silos in the next month or
so. Many producers use the
temporary storage until some of
the material is fed out of the
upright silo. By transferring into
the upright silo, mechanical
feeders can be used. The objective
is to move the silage during cold
weather.
The months of January and
February normally provide this
condition. When transferrin
during warm weather (ahrifl
SO*F) there is danger of ama
heating of the silage. No prsaar
vative should be needed. The
faster the material can be moved
into upright silo, the better it win
settle and remove the air.
To Separate Farm
Show Animals
The Pennsylvania Farm Show is
a big event in our state next week.
And, in spite of the winter month,
the show attracts a large number
of animals. Show regulations do a
pretty good Job of protecting these
show animals and in building up
resistance to a number of in
fections. However, the animals in
the home herd or flock may not
HARRISBURG - Sen. Noah
Wenger, R-36, has announced the
final approval of a bill he authored
that will provide tax relief to
family-owned farms in Penn
sylvania.
The new law, recently signed by
the governor, will 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.
“Under the previous law,”
Wenger stated, “the owner of a
farm was required to pay a one
percent state realty transfer tax
when the owner formed a family
farm corporation. This law will
eliminate that tax and make
forming a corporation more at
tractive to family-owned farms.”
In some cases, forming cor
porations is advantageous to
fanners because it provides them
with tax relief once they become
incorporated, Wenger added.
To ensure that the law is used for
the purpose intended, the senator
said a requirement had 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.
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have the same treatment and
resistance.
Therefore, it is very important to
keep these two groups of animals
separate for at least 30 days after
the show. Segregation and
sanitation are still very important
practices in the livestock world.
We have known of Farm Show
animals that were returned to the
farm and remained in good health;
however, the rest of the animals in
the bam came down with shipping
fever or some other infection.
Don’t take chances by mixing
the home animals with Farm Show
animals, or with newly purchased
animals. Give them a 30-day
period without this dangerous
exposure.
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 con-
Governor signs Wenger’s tax bill
The new law 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.
“With such a vast quantity of
food being produced on Penn-
PFA leaders to attend
Farm Bureau convention
CAMP HILL Leaders of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association (PFA) will help set
national policy for the American
Farm Bureau Federation during
its 67th Annual Meeting, January
12 -16 at Atlanta, GA.
PFA president Keith W. Eckel of
Lackawanna County, vice
president D. Eugene Cayman of
Franklin County, and Roy
Christman of Berks County, a
member of PFA’s State Board of
Directors, will be among the more
than 270 voting delegates meeting
to chart the future course of the 3.3-
million family member general
farm organization. In addition,
PFA state board director Tim
Piwowar of Fayette County, will
attend the convention as an
alternate delegate.
PFA president Eckel said,
“Improving net farm income will
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To Service Farm
Machinery
muon at all times. Rain and snow
will soon develop rust on equip
ment; this will shorten the life
span and is a primary casue of
many unnecessary breakdowns.
To Use Sawdust On
Icy Walks
Freezing rain, sleet and hard
packed snow on walkways and
driveways are 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
fective, but the chemical reaction
will ruin a concrete surface in Just
a year or two. Sand and grit from
deteriorating concrete, when
tracked into the house, is a
nuisance to clean and it marks and
scratches finished floors.
Some commercial ice melting
compounds containing ammonium
nitrate are just as bad as fertilizers
and the runoff from these melting
chemicals may kill grass, trees
and shrubs.
Coarse sawdust spread on
slippery sidewalks provides a
relatively skid-free surface. It has
no harmful effect on concrete or
plant life. It is much easier to pick
up with a vacuum cleaner if
tracked into the house.
sylvania’s many family farms, it is
essential that we in the legislature
work to ensure their stability so
that all residents of the Com
monwealth benefit from their
continued prosperity,” Wenger
concluded. ‘‘This new law offers
farmers a well-deserved break in
the payment of their taxes.”
be the top priority of voting
delegates at American Farm
Bureau’s annual meeting.”
Another important issue will be
tax reform. Policies to be con
sidered by American Farm
Bureau voting delegates will in
clude recommendations made at
PFA’s annual meeting last
November to continue the current
accelerated depreciation schedule
and annual expensing of pre
production expenditures for
livestock, horticultural crops and
timber management. In addition,
voting delegates will elect
American Farm Bureau’s
president and vice president and
fill vacancies on its Board of
Directors.
PFA is 'a general farm
organization, representing over
23,000 farm families in Penn
sylvania.
Background Scripture: Mark 7:1-
23, Matthew 5:21-30
Devotional Reading: Matthew
5:13-16.
When Jesus taught his disciples
that ‘ ‘whatever goes into man from
outside cannot defile him,” but
‘‘What comes out of a man is what
defiles a man,” no one knew about
or spoke of the human unconscious
mind.
Today, almost two thousand
years later, we are told, not only
that there is an unconscious mind
in each of us, but also that all or
most of our behaviour is un
consciously determined. How we
behave and react to the various
circumstances of life is likely to be
governed by attitudes and ex
periences already recorded in the
unconscious.
FROM WITHIN
How amazing, then, that long
before the rise of psychology Jesus
understood the supreme im
portance of the unconscious mind.
Of course, he didn’t call it that. He
was much more likely to speak of it
as “the heart of man.” But,
regardless of what you call it, the
result is pretty much the same:
“For from within, out of the heart
of man, come evil thoughts, for
nication, theft, murder, adultery,
coveting, wickedness, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, slander,
pride, foolishness. All these evil
things come from within, and they
defile a man” (Mark 7:21-23).
This is not to say that that which
is without the outward acts and
deeds is unimportant. For
nication, theft, murder, adultery
and so forth, to be sure, are serious
sins. But even more important, is
the attitude, the idea, the emotion
Farm Calendar
Sunday, January 12
Farm Show opens. See complete
schedule on page Dl7.
American Farm Bureau annual
meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Monday, January 13
Poultry Water Treatment Meeting,
Holiday Inn-North, Lancaster,
6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 14
Pa. Dairyman’s Association An
nual Meeting and Banquet,
Penn Harris Motor Inn,
Harrisburg. For tickets, con
tact John Blyholder at 717-938-
5404.
Tuesday, January 21
Sire Power’s 1986 annual meeting,
10 a.m., Sheraton-Harrisburg
West, New Cumberland, PA.
Wednesday, January 22
Winter Beef Meeting, York 4-H
Center, 7:30 p.m.
The Poisoned Well
January 12,1986
within that gives birth to these
outward acts. Important as it is not
to do these things, that much more
important it is not to think these
things within, for it is the thought
of evil that may easily become the
seed of the evil act. No matter how
spontaneous an evil deed may
seem from the outside for
example, a sudden act of violence
it’s always preceded by some
consideration conscious or
unconscious, of that art within.
The danger of playing with evil
thoughts is that, under certain
conditions, they may be translated
into an evil act. No sin is ever
completely “unpremeditated.”
JUST A THOUGHT?
It used to be that we held a
thought to be harmless, so long as
it remained unexpressed within us.
Only thoughts translated into
words and deeds were thought to
be harmful. But today we are
beginning to realize that a thought
within a real “thing,” even if it is
not expressed verbally or in action.
It has been demonstrated by
researchers that anger, jealousy
or fear held within can have
definite, measurable harmful
effects upon the human body.
Evil held within the heart (or the
unconscious) is no less harmful to
our spiritual and mental wellbeing.
Evil thoughts do not have to be
translated into evil deeds in order
to do us harm. Even if we never do
them, the thinking of them does us
great harm.
The surest way to poison a well—
or a life is at its source.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ m the U.S A
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Witmer Fire Company Turkey
Supper, Witmer Fire Hall, noon
to ?. Contact Jay Hershey at
291-9897, or 392-0804.
Computer Fair, Greenwood
Elementary School, 9 a.m. to
noon, Millerstown, Perry
County.
Grange to meet
at Farm Show
HARRISBURG - On Monday,
January 13, the Pennsylvania
State Grange will sponsor their
annual meeting at the 70th annual
Farm Show beginning at 1 p.m. in
room B of the farm show complex.
Throughout the meeting there
will be four speakers discussing
issues relevant to PA farmers and
rural citizens. The scheduled
speakers and their topics include:
Pat Weiss, PA Association of
Conservation District Directors
executive director, will give an
update on the Chesapeake Bay;
Leonard Zukus, a coal minor from
Schuylkill County, plans to discuss
anthracite coal problems;' 1 John
Pierce, PA Milk Marketing Board
executive secretary, will review
the board’s activities; and Reider
J. Bennett-White, director of
legislative affairs for Farm Credit
Banks of Baltimore, will talk about
farm credit banking problems.
The meeting is open to all
Grangers and the general public.
For further information call the
State Grange at 1(800)242-9661.
Saturday, January 25