OPINION
National Auctioneers Week
The week of April 5 - 11,1987, is
National Auctioneers Week,
sponsored by the National Auc
tioneers Association. Across the
country, the auction method of
marketing real and personal
property will be acknowledged by
state, county, and local govern
ments and many other
organizations for its valuable
contribution to the business world.
The auction method is a means
of obtaining true market value for
property. Almost anything can be
sold at auction, including art,
household goods, commodities,
antiques, tobacco, livestock, in
dustrial and agricultural equip
ment, automobiles, and real
estate.
The auction method is proven
successful, and an option which
buyers and sellers can’t afford to
overlook. No matter which is being
sold, an auction can produce quick
results regarding the dispersal of
merchandise.
In 1949, the National Auctioneers this National Auctioneers’ Week
Association was formed through we want to add our
the leadership of a small group of acknowledgement of honor to the
auctioneers. These men realized many fine people who support
that the profession of auc- agriculture and keep the auc
tioneering needed a resource to tioneers’song going. A quarter and
insure the continued advancement oh half; seventy-five-now a dollar.
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Dear Editor:
I’m just a dairy farmer, but I
feel I am paying to keep the big
beef farmers in the west in
business. For every calf' that
leaves this farm, I have $l.OO a
bead taken from the proceeds.
Last fall I sent three bull calves on
a calf truck, two of the three went
to veal barns. Each cost me |l.OO a
bead, donation to the beef council
referendum.
How many times does the
referendum collect on these
calves? First when I sell them,
then when the vealers sell them. I
wrote, filling out all the forms and
sending the receipts, everything as
requested. They seem to be good at
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 4
PSU 4-H Dairy Judging Contest,
Penn State University.
Spring Livestock Judging Contest,
Penn State University.
Pennsylvania Maple Festival,
Meyersdale; also held April 5
and April 8 through 12.
Delaware State Grange 36th An
nual Scholarship Dinner,
Capital Grange Hall, Dover,
Del., 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 6
Queen Anne County DHIA
Meeting, Price, 7 p.m.
of the auction method of marketing
in business and industry. Since
that time, the NAA, now 6000
members strong, has developed
and sponsored many educational
programs to increase the
professionalism of its members,
including the Certified Auctioneers
Institute, an advanced auction
management educational
program. NAA members have
access to current materials about
the auction industry to inform
them of the best means to serve
their clients.
NAA member auctioneers also
abide by Code of Ethics that has
been established to maintain the
highest standards of the auction
profession and to bestow among
fellow auctioneers a common
responsibility for integrity and
honor.
No matter where you go in
Lancaster County Territory, you
can usually find an auction. And on
collecting, but dead beats when
upholding their end. How would the
big western beef growers like to
promote their beef at a cent a
pound as they are requesting the
dairy farmers to donate, in their
behalf.
Beef is beef, and dairy is dairy.
There is a great difference in the
end results. It’s a shame
politicians who make the laws are
ignorant to such facts. Let’s hope
they gain knowledge, before this
referendum becomes law, and
keep each in perspective.
Sincerely,
Jane U. Baker
Meshoppcn
Tuesday, April 7
Ephrata Area Young Farmers
Assoc. Ladies Night Dinner
Program, Cloister Restaurant,
6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8
Kennard-Dale FFA Banquet,
Kennard-Dale High School, 7
p.m.
Veterinary Nutrition Forum, Host
Town Inn, Lancaster.
Ttaursday, April 9
Annual Meeting, Pa. Home
Economics Association, Her-
NOW IS
THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent,
To Control
Wild Garlic
Dairy farmer? who pasture their
milking herd have the most to lose
if they do not eliminate wild garlic
from their pasture fields. This fast
growing wild onion is already
growing in pastures and other
grass areas.
The young plants are much
easier to kill with herbicides than
mature plants. We suggest that the
plants be sprayed very soon with
2,4-D. This has proven effective in
keeping the young plants from
maturity; by spraying early in the
spring the legumes in the pasture
area will not be injured. Since the
wild garlic plant is very well
rooted, it may take several sprays
over a period of two or more years
to eliminate the weed from the
shey.
Twin Valley FFA Banquet, Twin
Valley High School cafeteria, 7
p.m.
Pa. Egg Marketing Association
meeting, Old Hickory Inn;
social hour, 6 p.m.; dinner, 7
p.m.; meeting, 8 p.m.
Manor Young Farmers annual
banquet, 6:30 p.m., Penn Manor
High School auditorium.
Friday, April 10
Maryland PDCA judging school,
Timonium, Md., 10 a.m.
Saturday, April 11
Maryland State Holstein Show,
State Fairgrounds, Timonium,
Md.,9a.m.
Tuesday, April 14
Schuylkill Co. Beekeepers
meeting, “Introduction to
Beekeeping” video, Farm
Credit Service Building,
Hegins,7p.m.
Wednesday, April 15
Conewago FFA annual
parent/member banquet, New
Oxford High School, 6:30 p.m.
Lancaster County FFA
Land/Agronomy Contest,
Manheim, 12:30 p.m.
Lancaster County FFA Nursery
Landscape Contest, Willow
Street Vo-Tech.
Thursday, April 16
Small Fruit and Bramble Meeting,
Biglerville Fruit Lab, 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Saturday, April 18
Little International Livestock
Show, Penn State University, 8
a.m. to 4 p.m.
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area. Don’t wait until the plants
are mature to make this spray
application. Follow label direc
tions when applying any pesticide.
To Store
Undelivered Tobacco
A number of tobacco growers
have not delivered their ’B6 crop
and need to store the bales on the
above ground floor of a tobacco
shed or barn. It’s important to
place some two-by-fours or similar
size lumber under the bales to
allow for air circulation. Then put
the bales only two or three high to
reduce fermentation from
squeezing pressure.
Cover the top layer of bales to
keep them clean of bird droppings
and dirt. Use old tobacco muslin
covers, canvas tarps or loose
material, not air-tight. Avoid
plastic. Air should move freely
around the bales.
Be certain no water drips on the
stored bales or wind driven rain
blows over them.
You can expect some weight loss
due to fermentation and possible
sweating as the weather warms.
To Operate
Machinery Sensibly
Farmers are always in a big
hurry when the good spring
weather arrives. As a result, they
operate their tractors and other
machinery at too high a speed.
This presents safety hazards and is
the cause of too many accidents.
Grain drills and com planters are
designed for accurate planting, if
operated at a normal rate of speed.
Maryland Tobacco Reports
This week marks the beginning
of Lancaster Fanning’s Maryland
tobacco auction coverage.
Maryland’s auction season for
THEIR VOICES
PREVAILED
April 5,1987
Background Scripture
Luke 23:1-25.
Devotional Reading:
Acts3:ll-16.
Who was responsible for the
unjust prosecution of Jesus? Was it
the chief priests and rulers who
brought him before Pilate on
distorted if not falsified charges?
Was it the crowd who had been
stirred up by the priests to call for
Jesus’s death and the release of
Barabbas? Or was it Pilate, who
finally acceded to their demands
and handed him over for
crucifixion? Or was it all of them
together?
PERVERTING THE
NATION
Or is it possible that there was no
miscarriage of justice, that Jesus
was actually guilty of their
charges? Have you ever con
sidered that as a possibility? The
charges were three in number.
Let’s look before we dismiss them
out of hand.
The first is quite general: “We
found this man perverting our
Often in the rush of things, we
travel too fast and the planting job
is disappointing.
We urge fanners to take time to
properly prepare and adjust their
machinery and then drive at a
speed that will give good per
formance. With many pieces of
farm machinery the speed is listed
on the manufacturer’s directions.
Take time to be safe and not sorry.
To Avoid
Herbicide Residues
Evidence is showing us that
residues of atrazine, simazine and
to a lesser extent, bladex, are
affecting subsequent crops in the
rotation following com. Even
though no visual symptoms are
evident, the sub-lethal residues
still present in cornfield soils, are
lowering yields of small grain and
alfalfa. Consequently, we must
make efforts to reduce herbicide
carryover.
• Soil test prior to the last year of
com in the rotation. They apply all
the lime recommendation before
the com is planted. Liming will
release any atrazine, simazine or
bladex still tied up in the soil and
help control com crop needs.
• Use a low residue herbicide
program avoiding the triazines
(above). Lasso and Dual would be
choices to consider.
•To control broadleaf weeds
that might escape, Banvel should
be applied as a follow-up.
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nation” (Luke 23:2). The most
frequent meaning of “Pervert” is
“to cause to turn from what is
considered right, good or true”. A
good case could be made for
charging that often what Jesus
taught was contrary to what both
the religious and secular
authorities held to be “right, good
or true.” Many witnesses had
heard Jesus say, “You have heard
it said of old...but I say to y0u...”
But if Jesus had had a defense
attorney, he probably would have
countered that it was the Jewish
nation and religion itself that had
become perverted, and that the
Nazarene was simply calling it to
return to its true nature.
TRIBUTE TO
CAESAR
The second charge was more
specific, if less substantial;
“forbidding us to give tribute to
Caesar.” I’m sure there were those
ready to testify that Jesus had said
this and they might even have
believed that they had heard him
say it. But, according to the Gospel
accounts, Jesus said only that they
should render to Caesar the things
that were Caesar’s and to God the
things that are God’s. Jesus never
said that they were not to give
loyalty to Rome, but that there was
and even higher loyalty: God.
And the third charge was also
quite specific; “saying that he
himself is Christ a king.” Actually,
we cannot find any substantiation
of this in the Gospels, although it is
apparent that there are those who
called him that and he did not
necessarily rebuke them. So,
although there was some truth in
their charges, the priests and
authorities had a weak case that
was bolstered pretty much by
circumstantial evidence and
distorted testimony—just the kind
of case that skillful demagogues
have always been able to
manipulate into a conviction.
There are always manipulators
with us. And when these
demagogues can find people who
are willing to be manipulated, the
voices of injustice continue to
prevail.
(Based on copyrighted Outlines produced by the
Committee on the Uniform Series and used y
permission Released by Community & Suburban
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