OPINION
It’s Fitness You Can Drink
Some lively milk promotion
events have been scheduled for
next week by the Middle Atlantic
Milk Marketing area. On Valen-
tine’s Day, MAMMA will team up
with Nabisco at Ski Liberty in
Fairfield for a cookies and milk
safety break. A complimentary
snack of cookies and milk will be
dispensed from a tent at the base of
the mountain.
basketball, youthful activities
attract followers. And MAMMA
does a good job of finding the right
combination of activities to make
their program successful.
Of course, if you are too old for
all the youthful activities, you can
still join in the fun. Next Sunday or
Monday grab a quart of milk from
the refrigerator in your kitchen and
drink down several glasses of this
favorite beverage. You can watch
TV while you do this. Or read a
book. Or whatever other activities
you like best. If drinking milk in a
rocking chair is still too strenuous,
do it in your favorite lounge chair.
Whatever your activity, milk is
still fitness you can drink.
| FARM FORUM our readers write j
In an effort to have a lasting
impact, dairy princesses will be
giving ski hats bearing the “Real”
seal to the first 5,000 skiers to
arrive that day. An estimated 7,000
skiers are expected to run the
slopes at Liberty cm Valentine’s
Day.
The next day a milk promotion
is scheduled at the capitol center in
Washington D.C. That evening the
Georgetown University Hoyas
basketball team under the coach
ing excellence of John Thompson
will be taking on Villanova. The
first 7,500 fans to come to the
game will be given a Thompson
sports towel compliments of
Editor,
The proposed 4 lane limited
access highways for eastern Lan
caster County will not relieve traff
ic congestion on Rt 23 and Rl 30
east It’s analogous to pumping
water from a sinking ship. If a
highway is built parallel and south
of Rl 23 and a highway is built
parallel and south of Rl 30 easL
development of shopping malls,
industrial parks and housing would
become so intense that a child bom
today would live to see no open
space between New Holland and
Strasburg.
It’s almost impossible to believe
that Lancaster County’s best farm
land, farm community and agri
business could be sacrificed for
“progress” after Pa. voters
Farm Calendar
Saturday, February 6
Ephrata Young Farmers Assn.
Annual Mtg, Ml Airy Fireball.
4-H leaders breakfast and training
Program, Raystown Country
Inn, 9 a.m.
Monday, February 8
Keystone Cornucopia Dinner,
Sheraton East, Harrisburg
Dauphin County Co-op Extension
Service, 70th Annual Meeting,
Camp Hebron, 6:45 p.m.
Equipment Repair, Octorara High
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MAMMA. Thompson is known
for having a towel over his shoul
der as he coaches his team from the
sidelines.
And the sports towel to be given
away bears MAMMA’S logo and
ad slogan, “Milk, It’s Fitness You
Can Drink.” Also appearing on the
towel are the Georgetown logo and
John Thompson’s signature.
Whether it is skiing or playing
approved legislation that will halt
the destruction of Class' I and II
prime farmland. Also, consider the
fact that millions of dollars of
public funds are being spent to
slow topsoil and manure runoff
through the Chesapeake Bay
Agreement while politicians are
planning to urbanize the flatter,
less eroding soils south of New
Holland. What a disgrace!
If you feel as I do, please notify
your local, state and federal politi
cians and propose the no-build
option as listed on Penn DOT’S
questionnaire. We should spend
our tax dollars to improve existing
roads and bridges while preserving
the Garden Spot for future
generations.
Reuben Weaver 111
Ephrata
School, Ag Shop, 1 - 3 p.m.
Through Feb. 12.
Poultry Science Meeting, 6:30
p.m. Holiday Inn North,
Lancaster.
Tuesday, February 9
Atlantic Breeders Co-op, Country
Table, Mt. Joy, 7 p.m.
Udder Health School #l, Grange
Hall, Honey Brook, 10-3 p.m.
Capital Region Turf/Omamental
School, Holiday Inn, Grantvil-
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NOW IS
THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
To Plan Forage
Management
A good supply of quality for
ages is one of the most important
things in the feeding program of
dairymen, cattlemen and sheep
producers. Growers should now be
planning what kind of forage crops
they hope to produce this year.
Both hay and silage crops
respond to good management.
Growers who make a special effort
to obtain maximum yields of qual
ity forages usually produce more
than the average.
Some of the top alfalfa growers
produce double die tonnage pere
acre than the average. In fact some
of the top alfalfa growers in the
state averaged over 8 tons per acre.
This did not just happen. They
planned and made decisions on
data from their farm records.
Doing all the practices that have
been successful, and doing them
on time, will normally bring good
results.
To Prune Trees
General pruning of apple trees
should be in full swing at this time
of year, especially if you have a lot
of pruning to do. I’d like to remind
growers and homeowners not to
overprune young trees or those
which haven’t yet started to bear
fruit. There is a tendency to either
prune the small trees too heavily,
or simply to leave them alone. A
middle-of-the-road course is best
The training of young trees
should involve just enough cutting
to maintain a healthy central leader
and to develop the desired number
of well-spaced scaffold branches.
Branches that are either poorly
spaced, or ones making very
narrow-angled crotches should be
removed.
Keep in mind, when you start
pruning early start with your
hardier trees, the apple and pear
with plums, sour cherries next and
leave your peach till near the end;
they’re quite tender.
To Dress For The Chill Index
Winter is not over as some peo-
le. Call James Wilshams 717
564-6956.
Franklin, Adams, Cumberland Co.
Pork Producers meeting,
Franklin Co. Extension office,
Chambersburg, 1 p.m.
Dairylea Co-op Meeting with Pa.
legislatures at the Tuesday
Club, Harrisburg, 7:30-10 a.m.
Atlantic Breeders meeting, Leba
non, Southern Dauphin, West
ern Berks, Prescott Fire Hall.
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pie would like to think it’s only
the first part of February. And
when you’re outside on a cold win
dy day and it “feels” colder than
the thermometer says it is, you’re
right. It is colder. Every year many
people are severely frostbitten
because they dressed according to
the thermometer and not according
to the “chill index” temperature.
The chill index is a combination
of wind velocity and temperature
reading. You’ve probably heard it
reported on the weather broadcast.
An example of the chill index is
this: at ten degrees Fahrenheit
above zero with a ten mile per hour
wind, the chill temperature to
exposed skin is actually ten
degrees below zero... not ten above
as the thermometer reads.
That’s why farmers and others
who work outside in the winter
should dress warmer than they feel
is necessary. Remember when
the wind is blowing, the tempera
ture not only feels colder, it is col
der. Don’t dress for the thermome
ter...dress for safety, and dress
warmly.
THE SECRET TO
“HAVING IT ALL”
February 7,1988
Background Scripture: Matthew
13.
Devotional Reading: Matthew
22: 1-14.
One might easily get the
impression that nothing is more
important today than “having it
all” —“it” being all the things you
would like to combine in your
lifestyle. “Why settle for just part
of it?” we are challenged.
But is it true that we can “have it
all”?
The most popular answer today
is a confident “yes!” Much of our
life today has a homogenized qual
ity to it: values, tastes, ethics, lifes
tyle and religion all seem to
blend together rather nicely. We
can confess Christian convictions
and still live by the law of the
marketplace without any apparent
conflict We can espouse peace
while supporting the politics of
war. We can subscribe to the ideals
of brotherhood without giving up
our prejudices and injustice.
THE RADICAL CHOICE
All of the above may be true for
contemporary Christianity, but it
certainly is not true of the “king
dom” of which Jesus preached and
taught. The kingdom was not just
an “extra” to be tacked on to the
structure of life. It was, in fact, to
be the heart of life itself. Jesus
spelled out this radical choice in
some of his parables. “The king
dom of heaven,” said Jesus, “is like
treasure hidden in a field, which a
man found and covered up; then in
his joy he goes and sells all that he
has and buys that field” (Matthew
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Hens without water can cost you
money. In one experiment, birds
deprived of water for only 24 hours
required 24 days to return to nor
mal egg production. In most exper
iments, after a period of only 36
hours without water, birds never
returned to normal. A flock with
out water for 36 hours or more may
molt, then go through a prolonged
period of restricted production.
This is especially so in older
flocks. If water is restricted for 48
to 60 hours, severe mortality can
result from dehydration.
As you walk through your house
each day, check the waterers to
make sure none are dry cm - a line is
plugged. I am aware of a case
where the water line was
restricted, by a faulty valve, to the
middle row of cages for nearly 3
days. Mortality was high and pro
duction was seriously affected in
that row.
A few minutes a day checking
waterers can well mean saving a
lot of dollars don’t wait until
molted feathers are under the cage.
13:44). He also tells of a merchant
who finds a beautiful pearl and
sells everything so that he might
buy this singular pearl (13:45).
Neither the pearl merchant nor
the man who finds a treasure in the
field are able to “have it all.” They
cannot have the treasure or the
pearl of great price without being
willing to give everything else m
return. The price of the pearl and
the treasure was nothing less than
everything these two men had. So
radical a choice, they chose that
which was most important to them.
In telling these two parables,
Jesus was emphasizing that we
cannot “have our cake and eat it,
too.” We cannot have the kingdom
of heaven and at the same lime
cling to that which is in conflict
with the kingdom. We cannot ele
vate truth and integrity in our chur
ches, while following a different
course in our work. We cannot
subscribe to spiritual values and
live by material or secular ones.
When what the world thinks comes
in conflict with what the Gospel
teaches, we will have to choose
between them.
“A THIN VANEER”
An Asian Christian leader upon
visiting the United States said that
he found here “a thin vaneer of
Christian teaching covering a thor
oughly secular and materialistic
national lifestyle.” He may or may
not have been accurate, but you
and I must ask ourselves whether
there isn’t something or lots of
somethings that in the light of
the kingdom of heaven “have to
go” from our lives? Is everything
in your life really harmonious and
compatible with the kingdom?
Ironically, however, once we
have managed to surrender all for
the sake of the kingdom, we find
we haven’t lost anything. In fact, it
is only when we will sacrifice all
for the kingdom of heaven that we
truly can “have it all” all that is
good, desirable and essential for
life.
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