;r*.-35£r .c'C 9tjL .ysb'ute? .tmlr.nti K-iasors AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25, 1988 OPINION Farming The Old Fashioned Way Some things never become old fashioned for Lancaster Farming farmers. For example when George Overly, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, had a bam fire in mid June the event triggered a feeling of empathy among his neighbors & friends. And these farmers responded. The fire, reported to have been started from a stray spark from a tractor, destroyed the large bank bam, two silos, two tractors and other farm equipment. In addition a large chunk of the year’s feed supply was also destroyed. Fortu nately the herd of dairy cows was outside at the time. Don Freets, president of the Westmoreland County Farmers Association responded when he found a neighboring farm that had hay that needed to be made. ‘The hay was standing there and we needed to get it in and make it while it was good,” Freets said. And John Wigel and Don Hutter responded. They organized a bale a-thon to get hay made to compen- Farm Calendar Saturday, June 25 Beiks Co. Wool Pool, 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Reading Fairgrounds, Rts. 61 and 222, Reading. Clarion Co. Town & Country Day, Richard and Donna Kline, Knox, PA. 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Schaefferstown Cherry Fair, 10:00 a.m. Western Sheep Field Day, Robert Dixon Farm, Zelienople, 10:00 a.m. Brown Swiss Pennsylvania Picnic, Charles Iron’s Farm, Smeth port, noon. Crawford Co. Dairy Princess Pageant, 8:00 p.m. Wayne Stainbrook Farm, Meadville. Kutztown Folk Festival, through July 4. Hickory Ridge Antique Farm Show, Horace Potter, Milford, DE. Sunday, June 26 National Holstein Convention, through June 30. San Diego, CA. Wycoming County Dairy Day. Tuesday, June 28 Three-day course in beekeeping, Cook College, NJ, 9:00 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Through June 30. Registration fee is $4O in advance. For further informa tion, call 201/932-9271. Lancaster County Ag/Business Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday At Record-Express Office Building 22 E Main Street Lititz, PA 17543 by Lancaster Farming, Inc. A SMnimn Enkrprk* Robert G. Campbell General Manager Everett R Newswanger Managing Editor Cspyrlfhl IM> by Lancwbr Far mint * sate for Overly’s lost crop. On June 18 farmers with 11 haybines cut the hay. And on June 20 the same number of rakes plus five round balers and several bale mov ers and wagons came to complete the job. Local farm suppliers donated twine. Help was also planned to clean up the rubble from the fire. And the dairy herd, while saved from the fire had been housed in a freestall bam but now must be milked in a stanchion bam. The neighbors also help train the cows to use this unfa miliar milking arrangement. Farm neighbors helping farm neighbors in time of need has been a part of the heritage of agriculture for many years and it feels good to be part of a community that gives this kind of support. You might even say when George Overly’s neighbors put together their bale a-thon and helped with other necessary chores after the fire they were doing what comes naturally in farm communities. You might say they were simply farming in the old-fashioned way. Tour, Leaves from Meadow brook Market, Leola, 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 29 Christmas Tree Shearing Demon stration, Evergreen Lake between Moorestown and Point Phillips in Northampton Coun ty at 6:30 p.m. Sprayer calibra tion, weed control, and pesti cide application to be discussed. Thursday, June 30 Columbia-Luzeme County Dairy Princess Pageant, Light Street Grange, Bloomsburg, 7:30 p.m. Southeastern Regional Livestock Judging Contest, Manheim Fairgrounds. Saturday, July 1 July is Ice Cream Month Tuesday, July 5 Small Fruits Meeting, Ag Build ing, Tunkhannock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6 Philadelphia Ice Cream Day, Inde pendence Mall Eastern Junior Holstein Judging School, Columbia/Luzerne counties. Runs through the 7th. Northeast Forest Tree Conference, Penn State. Runs through the Bth. (Turn to Page A3B) CAN YOU FIND THESE TEN DAIRY PRODUCTS HIDDEN IN THE WORD MAZ.E ?y* tk NOW IS THE TIME . By Jay Irwin Lancaster County Agriculture Agent To Combine At The Proper Speed We are in the last stages of bar ley harvest, and the winter wheat crop is ripening fast. Both of these crops require mechanical harvest ing equipment and good weather. From the amount of volunteer grain I’ve seen growing after bar ley and wheat harvests, the last several years, it is evident that too much grain is being left in the field. I am concerned that high com bine speed might be part of the rea son that grain is thrown out with the straw. The manufacturer recommendations should be fol lowed in this respect Also, there are times when the grain may be too tough to combine. This is often the case when the crop is quite weedy. The important thing is to have the combine adjusted to the best of your knowledge and then drive at recommended speeds. You’ll need every bushel of grain and every bale of straw from your crop. *********** To Combat High Feed Prices With High Quality Forages One way to combat high protein and feed commodity prices is to produce, procure and feed more high quality forages. A good time to focus on this is during (he grow ing and harvesting season says Extension Dairy Agent, Glenn Shirk. Because of their higher pro tein and energy content, high qual ity forages can replace more of the expensive grains and supplements in the ration. The time to procure feeds is before supplies become tight and before panic buying prevails. Shirk also emphasizes reducing feed wastage, and feeding high quality or expensive feeds only to the best cows that are capable of generating a good return on the feed dollar. Don’t waste good feed on non-profitable cattle; consider culling inefficient producers now while cull prices are favorable. ********** To Clean Pesticide Sprayers The use of various kinds of spray materials in one sprayer is •CHEESE •YOGURT • miLKSHAKE • XCE CREAM •ICE MILK • BUTTERMILK •CRER/TI CHEESE •MILK •CREAM • BUTTER risky. This is especially true when you are using any type of weed killer. In too many cases the spray er carries sufficient residual weed killer material to injure a suscepti ble crop. Farmers who are spray ing corn fields with weed killers one day and then spraying alfalfa or tobacco plants the next day with the same equipment had better do a real thorough job of cleaning the sprayer. Some materials can be cleaned by using warm water and soap detergent. However, materials such as 2,4-D had better be cleaned with one pint of household ammo nia in 25 gallons of HOT water. Allow this mix to remain in the sprayer overnight and then spray it out through the system on the lane .or driveway. Don’t be guilty of harming good plants. One of the best practices with small sprayers is to have one for weed killers and another for other purposes. ********** LET MY PEOPLE GO! June 26,1988 Background Scripture: Exodus 4:27 through 6:1-11 Devotional Reading: Exodus 7:1-5. ' This has been a bad year for the ordained clergy. One scandal after another has dominated the news papers and the airwaves. All of the “big stories,” to date, have been concerned with sexual misadven tures by prominent Christian ministers. Someone recently said to me, “If a clergyman’s in trouble, 99 times out of 100 it will have something to do with sex!” Without disputing that state ment or attempting to downgrade the importance of these infamous escapades, it has intrigued me that sexual sins are emphasized to the exclusion of just about all other types. Unfortunately, th is con centration on one area of morality obscures failures in others which are at least equally and possibly even more important. POWER GAMES For example, the exercise of power. Millions of people-clergy and lay alike-abuse the exercise of power, but these sins are not “juicy enough” to command media atten tion. I’m not thinking only of the powerful television evangelists who control the flow of millions of dollars or of government officials who sell their influence to the highest bidders-those are just the most obvious examples. I’m think ing also of those who play “power games” at work, clerks who treat customers as if thqy were doing them a favor, or educators, minis ters, and social workers who abuse their influence over others. Some months ago I visited a ZyOSURTYHTLARSByRG OSH3LX SIPAERCOMLEMW FSKOACICNZGXZARNOR RDLIfICEHORFYOUAKSUH TFIMNCZE3EH3RLEDTB TUffIQSRTVELAFIVOBVY sirueeuzlsefieilrts LKATFAAIUNOEZCXYOAA BYTHPFIHXACYHOHUIYVL auhstebriujrhyebno BUTTERfniLKPADBLEOD /zAmseoPFoxcyec ssb RNOXQU E K A M S < L I HI D V E To Prepare For Fire Protection Our bams are filling up with new crops of hay, straw and grain so we need to be concerned with fire protection. We urge fanners to give some thought to water sup plies for fighting fires. Many far mers indicated that their fire com pany would be unable to supply adequate water; this increases the risk of serious fire losses. Farms with streams nearby should have plans developed to move the fire engine within 25 feet of the water. Owners of ponds should have all weather driveways to the pond. There have been cases where buildings burned while the fire truck was mired down in the mud trying to get to the pond. It’s a good idea to inform your local fire com pany of the source of water sup plies for fighting fires. A good water supply for fighting fire is good insurance against severe losses. Dallas prison to see one of the inmates. The waiting room was packed with relatives and friends and the prison employee who con trolled the passes for visits treated these people as if they were the criminals. She was a minor offi cial, but she had the power to inti midate and mistreat innocent peo ple, who, incidentally, had already suffered enough. Just because the abuse of power doesn’t grab the headlines doesn’t mean that the sin and the consequ ences are any less. In fact, they are probably even more injurious to us, personally and collectively. PHAROAH VS. GOD Pharoah’s sin in Exodus chap ters 4 -11 is an abuse of power. In fact, the whole story is that of pow er struggle between Pharoah and Moses, or to be more accurate, between Pharoah and God. When Moses and Aaron came with their reasonable request, “Let my peo ple go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness” (5:11), Phar oah not only turns them down, but also decides to punish the Hebrews for even asking: “Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words” (5:9). For Moses, Aaron and the Hebrews this oppression came as a crushihng blow. Moses was so dis turbed that he complained openly to God: “O Lord, why hast thou done evil to these people? Why didst thou ever send me? For since I came to Pharoah to speak in thy names, he has done evil to this peo ple and thou hast not delivered thy people” (5:22,23). It was only after the power struggle was prolonged through ten plaques that Pharoah at last gave in to Moses. The use and abuse of power, as of sex, is an issue of great moral import in our times. All of us have power of some kind. So whether on the stage of world affairs or simply the place where you live and work, God’s call comes to us as it did to Pharoah: “Let my peo ple go!” (Based on copyrighted Outlines produced by the Committee on the Uniform Senes and used by permission Released by Community & Suburban Press ) <^o°^ >/ s •oV $// (Turn to Page A3I
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