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Master Farming, Saturday, February IS, 1986
NOW IS THE TIME
To Maintain Tight
Health Security
The Lancaster County poultry
fanners got a scare last week
when a flock in the northern part of
the county was declared positive.
Then a laboratory recheck found
that it was HjN, - a hog virus - so
the flock was spared. Even though
this flock was negative, the other
ten flocks in the state were positive
HcN 2 Avian influenza. We can not
relax on good health security.
Health security includes no visits
to other poultry farms, even those
of friends or relatives, padlock
your houses so no unauthorized
people can enter. It’s very im
portant to restrict movement of all
vehicles - trucks or cars - en
tering or leaving your farm.
Chicken crates are a real threat -
be sure they are thoroughly
washed and disinfected before
using.
Avoid contact with all wild birds
and waterfowl. Also, as a
precautionary measure, install a
foot bath with disinfectant and be
sure you use it as you enter and
leave the poultry house.
If there is a drop in production, a
rise in mortality or sickness in
fr
Farm Calendar
Saturday, February 15
Pennsylvania Flying Farmers
Valentine Banquet, Country
Table Restaurant, Mt. Joy; call
David Kruger, 867-2384.
Cumberland County Holstein Club
Annual Meeting, South Mid
dleton Fireball, Boiling
Springs.
Monday, February 17
Adams County Beekeepers
meeting, “Winter Management
Checking Honey Stores,”
7:30 p.m., Penn State Fruit
Research Lab.
Warwick Young Farmers meeting,
7 p.m., Warwick High School Ag
Room, Lititz.
Kutztown Young Farmers
meeting, Kutztown High School,
8 p.m. Topic: Alfalfa
Production.
Tuesday, February 18
“Coping with lower milk prices,”
workshop, Bradford County
Extension office, 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Lancaster County Crops and Soils
Day, Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, 8:30 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Lykens Valley Local of Inter-State
District 7 meeting, 11:45 a.m.,
Kilinger Grange Hall,
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By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Phone 717-394-6851
your flock, be sure to contact the
State by using the toll-free A.I.
hotline 1-800-932-0949. We all have a
responsibility to protect our
friends and neighbors and to our
own farm.
To Recognize Lime
For Weed Control
You have never heard us
recommend lime for weed control,
however, indirectly lime is im
portant to obtain good herbicide
weed control. Both research work
and farm experience has indicated
that herbicides are not as effective
in sour soil. So, for best weed
control with chemicals, the soil
lime requirement must be
satisfied.
Many poor weed control ex
periences have been reported on
sour soils. A complete soil test will
indicate the amount of lime
needed. There are many other
advantages to crop production in
addition to better herbicide action.
To Keep Small
Children Away
From Machinery
The spring cropping season will
be starting in another month. That
means that a lot of farm machines
will be put into operation and
Millersburg.
County-wide 4-H dairy meeting,
Mercer County Extension
Center, 8 p.m.
Regional Vegetable Growers
meeting, PSU Fruit Research
Laboratory, Biglerville.
Wednesday, February 19
Dairy Day with Atlantic, 11 a.m.,
New Vemon Grange.
Vegetable Growers Meeting,
Rutter’s Restaurant, 8:45 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
McKean County dairy buyout
program, 1:30 p.m., Extension
center.
Thursday, February 20
Keystone Pork Congress, Penn
Harris Motor Inn, Harrisburg, 8
a.m.
Draft Horse and Mule Sale, Farm
Show Complex, Harrisburg.
Mastitis and milking equipment
update, 9:45 a.m., Berks County
Ag Center, Leesport.
Inter-State District 21 annual
meeting, 6:45 p.m., Northern
Bedford High School, Loysburg.
Friday, February 21
Pa. Holstein Convention; con
tinues through Saturday, Pitt
sburgh Sheraton Inn.
To become knowledgeable about
a certain subject and continue with
your normal job is a possibility.
Penn State offers a number of
correspondence courses in
agriculture and related areas that
should be of great help to
everyone. These lessons are sent
by mail and are practical at a very
nominal cost. Details are available
at any Extension Office in the
state. A leaflet describing the
various courses is available. Don’t
overlook this method of learning
more about a special subject.
Pa. Cattlemen’s Conference,
Allenberry Resort, Boiling
Springs; continues through
Sunday.
Mastitis and Milking Equipment
Update, Lancaster Farm and
Home Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Maryland Holstein Convention;
Ramada Inn, Hagerstown, Md.;
continues through Saturday.
Simmental Association Annual
Meeting, 3.15 p.m., Allenberry
Resort, Boiling Springs.
Game Bird Conference, University
Park; continues Tuesday.
Bucks-Montgomery Dairy Day, 10
a.m., R&S Diner, Hatfield.
Cumberland Cooperative Wool
Growers, South Middleton
Fireball, Boiling Springs.
Western Pa. Turf Conference and
Trade Show, Pa. Turfgrass
Council, Monroeville Expo
Mart.
Berks County Extension Dairy
Day, 9 a.m., Berks County Ag
Center.
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ANYTH/'
things will really be moving, amah
children like to become a part of
this action and ask to ride on
machinery, or even operate some
of the smaller tractors. It might
take nerve to refuse them at times;
however, for their own protection
they should not become involved.
Many serious accidents have
happened because “Dad” or
“Grandad” took them along.
Where there are small children,
all machinery operators should be
especially careful of their exact
location. Farm machinery and
small children do not mix.
To Take A
Correspondence Course
Saturday, February 22
Monday, February 24
Tuesday, February 25
Wednesday, February 26
THE IMPOSSIBLE
DREAM?
February 16,1986
Background Scripture:
Matthew 5; 9,38-48; Luke 27-36.
Devotional Reading;
Matthew 26:3-6.
As I write this piece, a recorded
choir is singing, “Peace on earth;
good will to men.” According to the
headlines in this morning’s
newspaper and the stories on the
television news, peace on earth
seems little more than an im
possible dream that is no closer
today than it has been for the
centuries wherein people have
dreamed that dream and declared
it to one another.
The prophet Isaiah prophesied a
day when swords would be beaten
into plow-shares and people would
“learn war” no more. Jesus
declared “Blessed are the
peacemakers, for they shall be
called the sons of God.” But the
history of the world, both before
and after Isaiah and Christ, has
been little more than a
chronological account of warfare
and wars seemingly unending.
SAID OF OLD
So, are the peacemakers always
to be a small minority and is peace
ever to remain an impossible
dream?
There are many people today
who believe that peace is an
unobtainable ideal, that the best
we can hope for and occasionally
McKean County dairy buyout Home Center.
program, 1:30 p.m., Extension Cumberland County Dairy Clinic,
Center. Penn Township Fireball,
Huntsdale, 9:15 a.m.
S. Jersey Tree Fruit Growers
Meeting, Silver Lake Inn,
Clementon, NJ. Contact: Leslie
Miller, 609-784-1099.
Thursday, February 27
Agronomy Day, 10:30 a.m. to 3
p.m., Fayette County
Fairgrounds.
Estate Planning Meeting, Lan
caster Farm and Home Center,
7:30 p.m.
Lancaster County Conservation
Tillage Conference, Farm and
equipment update slated
LANCASTER Many changes,
new ideas and new research fin
dings have surfaced recently in the
areas of mastitis and milk
equipment. These two areas are of
great economic importance to
dairymen, as they affect both
productivity and profitability of
the herd.
Two in-depth meetings are
scheduled to update farmers on
mastitis and milking equipment.
They will be held as follows;
Thursday, February 20, 9:45
a.m. at the Berks County
Agricultural Center, Leesport.
Cost will be $6.00. For reser
vations, call the Berks County
Extension Office; telephone 215-
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achieve is an aimed truce. The
reason that we cannot have peace,
they say, is that our enemies will
not let us have it. If we were to
unilaterally disarm our country,
for example, would not the Soviets
and their allies take advantage of
our peace-making efforts to gobble
up more countries, to subject more
people? Wouldn’t our military
weakness encourage the very
conflicts we are trying to avoid?
Often I ponder those very
questions and it is hard not to
repeatedly answer all of them with
an unequivocal “yes.” But, at the
same time, I cannot believe that
the words of Jesus would have
dangled the vision of peace before
our eyes only to add in fine print:
“not applicable in the real world.”
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
Perhaps the key to this dilemma
may lie in our failure to put into
operation Jesus’ teaching where
we live. Maybe world peace will
remain an impossible dream until
we have demonstrated that it is
neither a “dream” nor “im
possible” in our personal lives, our
neighborhoods, and our com
munities. It is not just that we have
failed to love our national
“enemies" - the Soviets, the
Libyans, the Iranians, etc. - but
that we haven’t even made much
progress in loving Democrats or
Republicans, liberals or con
servatives, Anti-Abortionists or
Pro-Lifers and so on. In just about
every area of our lives - perhaps
"Wen in our churches - we operate
on a confrontational, win-or-lose,
good guys vs. bad guys, eye-for-an
eye and tooth-for-a-tooth basis.
After thousands and thousands of
years, it still doesn’t work. This is
thereat “impossible dream”!
Isn’t it about time we give Jesus’
way a real chance?
(•ased on copyrfcht Outlines produced by the
Committee on the Uniform Series and used by
permission Released by Community & Suburban
Press)
Friday, February 28
Cumberland County Crops Day,
Cumberland County Extension
Office, Carlisle.
milking
378-1327.
Friday, February 21, 9:45 a.m.
at the Lancaster Farm and Home
Center. For reservations, call the
Lancaster County Extension Of
fice; telephone 717-394-6851.
Topics to be discussed include;
mastitis control programs, back
flushing, check valves, quad
milkers, automatic take-offs,
exotic forms of mastitis, milk
recording devices, rancidity
problems, low tests, teat dips, pre
dipping, dry treatments, cell count
levels, new developments in
equipment.
Speakers include Penn State
Extension Specialists, Stephen
Spencer and Lawrence Hut
chinson, plus, local Extension
Agents.