AlO-Lancaster Firming, Saturday, September 2,1989
OPINION
Not Junk Food
When Mom insisted that you eat your milk and cereal before
school, she knew what she was doing. Skipping breakfast could
be a serious contributor to poor school achievement, especially
for poorly nourished children, according to a recent study pub
lished in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this
study, missing breakfast was shown to have an adverse effect on
arithmetic and other problem-solving abilities.
In a related study earlier this year, a team of Boston research
ers found that students who ate school breakfasts performed bet
ter on standardized tests than those who did not. These studies
demonstrate the importance of children getting a well balanced
meal before school.
The National School Breakfast Program, administered by the
USDA, assists some 37,000 schools in serving breakfast to 3.7
million kids each day. In contrast, about 90,000 schools serve
lunches to 24 million children.
We are sure that most farm children still have Moms who
insist they eat their milk and cereal before they go to school. So
the school meals programs are not as important to farm families
as to other segments of the U.S. population. But the school prog
rams do provide a large market for milk and other dairy
porducts.
The United Dairy Cooperative Service, Inc., Syracuse, NY,
reports that a well-known fast food restaurant chain also pro
vides a large market for dairy porducts. That’s right, McDonalds
is the largest single consumerof diary products. With 7,000 U.S.
outlets, they uses 1.8 percent of all milk produced by the
nation’s dairy farmers. And because they use only real dairy
foods, they have been given permission to use the “real seal” in
their promotion.
Some the dairy items on the menue include: eggs scrambled
with real butter, half and half with coffee and real milk shakes.
The average McDonald’s restaurant anually serves more than
80,000 milk shakes, 55,000 real dairy softserve cones and sun
daes, 15,000 half pints of milk, 105,000 single-service contain
ers of real half and half, 18,500 pounds of USDA Grade AA but
ter pats, 225 pounds of butter for preparing eggs, and 1,500 gal
lons of buttertmilk biscuits.
Fast food is sometimes called junk food. But with all the real
dairy products on the menu, this certainly would not be true in
the school lunch program or at McDonalds.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, September 2
Southwest District 4-H Dairy
Show, Huntingdon fairgrounds,
9:00 a.m.
Mon Valley District 4-H Dairy
Show, Washington County
fairgrounds, 9:00 a.m.
Northwest District 4-H Dairy
Show, Crawford County fair
grounds, 9:30 a.m.
FARM FORUM our readers write
Editor:
Earlier this year President
George W. Bush came to Central
Pennsylvania to bring the atten
tion of our nation and the world to
the fine example of the clean and
healthy living standards of the
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NOW IS
THE TIME
By Jay Irwin
'Lancaster County Agriculture Agent
To Prevent Disease
In Show Animals
The show season is upon us,
and the recent outbreak of bovine
tuberculosis reminds us of the
importance of practicing good
biosecurity measures, especially if
we are showing or buying cattle
and bringing them back home to
the farm.
To reduce the risk of spreading
diseases:
• Don’t share feeding and
watering utensils with other
animals.
• Don’t let animals nuzzle or
.lick each other.
• Transport them in clean
vehicles.
' Don’t track manure into feed
ing areas; require people to clean
and disinfect footwear, or wear
disposable boots.
• When show cattle are brought
back to the farm, house them sepa
rately for observation and testing.
• Test the animals several
weeks after the show season to see
if they have acquired any diseases
and work closely with your
veterinarian.
To Be Aware Of A
New Poultry Column
Now is the time to start reading
the new Lancaster Farming
poultry column. For the past two
years, Owen Keene and Forest
Muir have been writing articles
for a monthly poultry column. A
new weekly poultry column will
begin with the September 2 issue
of Lancaster Farming. The col
umn entitled “Poultry Pointers"
will be authorized by several
members of the Penn State faculty
with extension responsibilities in
the poultry area. In addition, John
Schwartz, the multi-county poul
try agent will contribute articles.
The column will feature a broad
range of poultry topics, including
economics, engineering, genetics,
health, management, nutrition,
physiology and poultry products,
depending on the expertise of the
author.
To Check Stored
Grain
Fanners should check all their
stored grain at this time of year
because heating of stored grain
can be a symptom of insect activi
ty or just too much moisture. In
either case, the heating problem
should be corrected before the
grain is ruined. If grain requires
pest control materials (as listed on
page 24 of the 1989-90 Agronomy
Guide), it should be done while
the air temperature is still fairly
high or above 60 degrees F. If it’s
moisture, then check for possible
leaks in the roof. We have too
much money invested in the seed,
fertilizer and labor to lose it in
stofoge.
To Be Aware Of The
Fall Web worm
The fall webworms are abun
dant this year as they appear on
shade trees and shrubs, and in
some cases completely defoliate
them. Many people mis-idendfy
them as tent caterpillars or gypsy
moth. The gypsy moth and cater
pillar appear in the. spring and the
fall webworm in late summer and
early fall.
Tlie actual damage to the tree,
by the fall webworm, is minimal
because the tree has completed its
Background Scripture:
Ezekiel 1.
Devotional Reading:
1 Peter 1:3-11.
My wife and I travel quite a bit
and, when we visit other churches
on a Sunday morning, we are
often struck with the discovery
that, although we are worshipping
the same God, the experience of
worship and other facets of church
life seem so different. It is difficult
sometimes to conceive of Christ
ian life outside the arena of your
own Christian congregation.
All of us need to remember that
our experience and our congrega
tion are not the norm for the rest of
Chris-tendom and the Christianity
that other people follow, although
often quite different from our
own, is no less valid just because
it is unfamiliar. There is authentic
Christian life beyond our own
experience.
A STATIONARY GOD
This is frequently a problem in
our age of high mobility. People
sometimes come to our church
from another city and find it diffi
cult to settle down in our congre
gation because it is not sufficient
ly like what they experienced
before they came here. It is as if,
acknowledging that people are
mobile, we doubt that God is. We
tend to think of Cod solely in
terms of where we have been
experiencing him for the past sev
eral decades.
If you have experienced any of
the feelings noted above, then per
haps you can better appreciate
what the people of Israel felt when
they were carried off into captivity
in Babylon. They were not
enslaved or abused, so far as we
know. In fact, in some ways they
were even better off—materially,
perhaps than they had been in
the Promised Land. They were
HEALTH KICK
-.BUT TO BETTER HAN6ONTO
it, 'CAO&E IT'S ONLY A COUPLE
OP YEARS AWAY FROM BEING*
AN EXPENSIVE ANTI QUZ.
growing cycle for the summer and
is preparing to drop its leaves
anyway.
Control can be attained by
mechanical or chemical means.
When the tented branches are
within reach, they can be snipped
off and destroyed. This is practical
if the tents have not become too
large and the tree’s shape is no),
threatened by this method. Chemi
cal control measures can be used
when tents are first noticeu and the
larvae are small. The entire tree
need not be sprayed, but webs and
surrounding foliage should be
thoroughly, covered. Sevin,
Methoxychlor, Orthene or Bt can
be used. Always follow label
directions when using any
pesticide.
simply displaced from their
homeland.
What was difficult for them,
however, was the fact that they
felt so totally separated from their
religion. The focus of that religion
back in their homeland had been
the great Temple of Solomon in
Jerusalem. This is where they
experienced God with some kind
of regularity and familiarity. Intel
lectually, they were aware that
God was not limited to the Jeru
salem temple, but still it was hard
to think of God apart from this
holy ground and the temple that
stood upon it. In a sense, we might
say they suffered from an ediface
complex they associated the
experience of God only within
that ediface.
THE EDIFACE
COMPLEX
There arc also people who asso
ciate their experience of God, not
with a place or a congregation so
much as with a pastor. Let the
minister move or be moved to
another church and there usually
will be some people who will be
certain that it is God, not just their
pastor, whom they have lost
particularly if the new minister is
not much like the one who has
left Intellectually, of course, we
know better, but that doesn’t keep
us from acting as if God is lost.
It was probably in the midst of
just such a situation —people act
ing as if God were lost that
Ezekiel received his Erst vision.
And the importance of that vision
was that it told him and his people
that God was not lost, but was
with them every bit as much as he
had been with them in the temple
of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel's wonderful vision of
the glory of God is a reminder also
to us that, no matter how much the
outer circumstances of our lives
may change, God is not lost He
may seem lost because we are
looking for him in the wrong
places, but he is just as close as
ever if we will permit him into our
lives.
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