AlO-Lmcast* Faming, Saturday, July 19,1986
OPINION
Rediscover Enthusiasm
Stan Deen gave the Lancaster
County Extension directors and
their guests some food for thought
Monday evening. Deen thinks
adults need to show the younger
generation some enthusiasm for
living. He should know since he
teaches teenagers at Garden Spot
High School. “Sometimes we don’t
let our young people see we are
enjoying life,” he said. “You need
to look at yourself as a reflection.
Leam from your failures. Don’t be
afraid to take chances.”
He told the group of his ex
perience taking care of his mother
who at the age of 70 experienced a
stroke. Son and mother turned the
experience, with possible negative
ramifications, into a learning
experience with positive results.
Often times the heroism of those
with handicaps put us to shame.
The word futility even sounds ugly.
It implies that in my situation I
may think I’m worthless, useless
or trivial. My efforts are a waste of
time.
In “Breaking New Ground”, a
newsletter for farmers with
physical disabilities, a warning
against this kind of thinking is
given. Don’t give in to that bam
Farm Calendar
Saturday, July 19
Pa. Cattlemen’s Field Day, Rolling
Ridge Farms, Karns City.
Contact Lowell Wilson, 814-863-
3659.
Grand Squares Dance, East
Petersburg Fire Hall, 8 p.m.
Summer Picnic, Pa. State
Beekeeper’s Association,
Delaware Valley College,
Doylestown.
Mid-Atlantic Classic Hampshire
Sheep Show and Sale, Manheim
Fairgrounds.
Pa. Ayrshire Field Day, Paul
Kemerer Farm, Latrobe.
Berks County Night at Reading
Phillies; between games
promotion.
Tenth annual Snitz and Knepp
Festival, Enders Grove, 4 p.m.
to 11 p.m.
Shippensburg Fair, Shippensburg;
continues through July 28.
Lancaster County Horse Roundup,
Lower Hopewell Horse Center,
Lititz.
Sunday, July 20
Lancaster County Youth Con
servation School; continues
through July 26.
Clarion County Fair, New
Bethlehem; continues through
July 26.
Monday, July 21
Field Tour, Pa. Vegetable
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yard residue. Don’t let anyone,
especially yourself, persuade you
that life doesn’t have worth. From
the moment of your conception you
had value. And your life will
always be worth living.
George Moyer, Myerstown Rl,
now gives a safety program for
farmers since going through an
experience where he stepped into a
harvester’s universal drive shaft
and lost his left foot At the time he
thought his farming career was
ended. But neighbors and friends
kept his farming operation going
until he could recover. He learned
much about his friends. And he
learned about himself. He learned
to make adjustments. Now he uses
his experience to help others see
the danger of farm equipment.
Deen further recommended that
we stop believing everything we
hear. “So much that is fed to us in
the media is negative,” he said.
“We need to focus on the positive.
If you have a problem, find
someone else you can have a
burden for. Work to help that
person, and you won’t have time to
think about yourself,” Deen said.
“Leam to stay out of step.
Rediscover enthusiasm.”
Grower’s Association, Rock
Springs Ag Center near State
College.
Big Butler Fair, Butler; continues
through July 26.
Kimberton Fair, Phoenixville;
continues through July 28.
Troy Fair, Troy; continues
through July 26.
Huntingdon County Swine Fitting
and Showing, Warriors Mark
Grange, 7:30 p.m.
Huntingdon County Dairy
Promotion Committee Meeting,
8 p.m.
Tuesday, July 22
Troy Dairy Fair, 4-H and FFA.
Conneaut Valley Vair, Con
neautville; continues through
July 26.
Jefferson Township Fair, Mercer;
continues through July 26.
Huntingdon County Jr. Beef Fit
ting/Showing, Huntingdon
Farm, Alexandria, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, July 23
Pa. State Shorthorn Show, Butler
Fairgrounds, Butler.
Plainfield Farmer’s Fair,
Pen Argyle; continues through
July 26.
Lancaster County 4-H Dairy
Roundup, Solanco Fairgrounds.
University of Maryland Tobacco
Field Day, Upper Marlboro,
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
Once every four years the
average farm laborer can expect
to be injured so severely that
medical attention is required. Our
safety engineers tell us that
agricultural workers are much
more susceptible to accidents and
injury than industrial workers.
Many pieces of farm machinery
need to be repaired and adjusted
on the job. Some of this is done
while the machinery is operating
and on the run. This is dangerous
and we urge you to stop the
machine and shut it off before any
adjustments are made. Just a few
seconds of patience could save a
life or a vital part of the human
body. Farm machinery has
replaced the dairy bull as the main
cause of farm accidents. Keep in
mind however, it is not the
machinery that is at fault in most
cases, but the operator who does
not take time to be safe.
Troy Ayrshire, Brown Swiss,
Guernsey, Jersey Open Dairy
Shows.
Sullivan County 4-H Fashion
Revue.
Dauphin County 4-H Fair, Farm
Show Complex; Continues
through July 26.
York County Black and White
Show, York County
Fairgrounds.
Fayette County Fair, Uniontown;
continues through Aug. 2.
Penn State Round and Square
Dance Festival; continues
tomorrow.
Troy Open Holstein Show.
Four-H Fair, Farm Show Com
plex, Harrisburg.
Berks County 4-H Fair, 4-H and Ag
Centers, Leesport.
Huntingdon County 4-H Horse
Roundup, Wood Valley
Wrangler Ring, 9 a.m.
North American Alfalfa Im
provement Conference, St.
Paul, Minn., St. Paul Hotel;
continues through July 31.
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To Take Time
To Be Safe
Md. Contact; Claude McKee,
301-627-8440.
Thursday, July 24
Friday, July 25
Saturday, July 26
Sunday, July 27
To Plan For
Fall Seeding
The late summer and fall
seeding season is coming rapidly;
August seedings of alfalfa should
now be in the planning stage.
Winter oats, barley and wheat
seedings should be planned and
orders placed for the right kind of
seed. Don’t wait until seeding time
and then discover the supply is
exhausted. Certified seed is highly
suggested in order to realize the
most from all inputs.
If you plan to use homegrown
seed from a healthy field, the seed
should be tested at the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture seed lab; don’t waste
time and money on poor quality
seeds; you could be spreading
disease and more weeds.
To Determine
This Winter’s
Feed Needs
Harvest time is usually one of
the best times for buying good
quality feeds at a reasonable price.
In addition to price being more
reasonable you also have more
time to shop for the kind of feed
you need, and to negotiate prices
and purchasing agreement. Take a
good look at your hay supply; the
dry season in the southern states is
forcing those farmers to buy early,
so the price per ton will move up as
the season progresses.
Can you afford to make ad
vanced purchases at current in
terest rates? That depends on the
price savings you can negotiate
plus the value of any additional
production you can obtain from
your cows. The added production
could be your biggest benefit if
YOUR OWN
SOUR GRAPES
July 20,1986
Background Scripture
Ezekiel 18.
Devotional Reading
Ezekiel 18:14-20,
<n 1973 Dr. Karl Menninger of the
famous Menninger Clinic in
Kansas wrote a book entitled,
Whatever Became Of Sin? Even if you
did not read the book, you may
remember hearing of it and recall
the ripple of surprise and shock
that it caused both in the churches
and among the pyschotherapists.
Here was a man of psychiatry
proclaiming that the demise of the
concept of sin is very destructive to
both society and the emotional
health of individuals!
I think it is time for someone to
write a sequel: Whatever Became Of
Personal Responsibility? Actually,
these two concepts a personal
sense of sin and personal
responsibility go hand in hand
Annual Meeting, Pa. Bakers
Association, Hershey Pocono
Resort, White Haven.
Lebanon Area Fair, Lebanon;
continues through Aug. 2.
Mercer County Pomona Grange
Fair, Mercer; continues
through Aug. 2.
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advanced purchases enable you to
assemble sufficient quantities of
fairly uniform quality feeds far
enough in advance of need to give
you ample time to develop a
balanced ration.
To Understand The
pH Effect on
Pesticides
Many pesticides, particularly
the organic phosphates such as
Cygon and Diazinon and Carbonate
insecticides such as Sevin and
Furidan are decomposed quite
rapidly by alkaline water (pH 7.0).
The decomposition is due to
alkaline hydrolysis of the molecule
which is converted to a form that is
frequently inactive.
For this reason, in areas where
water supplies are greater than pH
7.0, better pest control will be
obtained if the pH is lowered to a
range where pesticide stability is
maintained. For most insecticides
the optimum pH is below 6.0. Let’s
look at a few examples of how pH
affects stability of pesticides.
Dylox decomposes rapidly above
6.0 pH—at apH of 8.0 in only 63
minutes, a pH of 7.0 only 386
minutes and a ph of 6.0 will require
89 hours to decompose. Sevin will
be 50 percent decomposed within
24 hours in a 9.0 pH water.
As a general rule, most
pesticides undergo some degree of
hydrolysis in alkaline solutions. If
you experience a situation with a
high pH water, we suggest you look
for another source of water with a
lower pH rather than try to change
the pH of your water supply.
The Cooperative Extension Service is an af
firmative action equal opportunity educational
institution
and both are equally unpopular
today in our society and even in the
churches. What concerns me is not
so much the demise of these two
ideas, but the demise of a society
that turns its backs upon them.
WHOSE SOUR GRAPES?
Of course, I realize what has
brought us to this point. At one
time, our approach was at the
extreme end of the spectrum.
Whereas now we rationalize away
both sin and responsibility, then we
used to approach both of these in a
rock-ribbed legalistic and yes,
Pharisaic manner. Because of
this, the pendulum began to swing
in the other direction. And, as
always, the pendulum not only
corrected the old excess, but it also
swung too far and created a new
one.
So, today, when we are con
fronted with human failure, we
tend to try to find some way to
rationalize it. “Yes, I goofed, but it
wasn’t all my fault.” Of course,
I’m an alcoholic: what would you
expect with a childhood like
mine?” “All right, I’ll admit that
was an unfortunate result, but no
one’s to blame I was just doing
what I was told to.” Comedian Flip
Wilson always had the Devil for
which to blame his failures, but
most of us can find a whole host of
other persons or other factors to
shift the responsibility.
In Judaism there was a belief
that bad times were often the
result, not of punishment for the
wrong done by the present
generation, but of God’s practice of
punishing not only the sinner, but
his children and often his
children’s children. “The fathers
have eaten sour grapes,” they
would say, “and the children’s
teeth are set on edge” (18:2).
YOUR WAYS & MINE
But God sent Ezekiel to tell the
Jews in Babylonian captivity that
they were wrong in thinking this
way. If their teeth were “set on
edge,” it was because they, not
their fathers, had eaten “sour
grapes.” The consequences of sin
and failure therefore do not mean
that God is unjust. “Is it not your
ways,” God asks, “that are not
just?” It is our injustices that
produce sour grapes in God’s
vineyard. If the grapes are sour,
they’re your own.
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