AlO-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 13,1990 OPINION Family Food If you attended the 74th Pennsylvania Farm Show this week, you already know we saw some new innovations that helped show the state’s leading industry to the world. Maybe the most notable addition on the show schedule was the selection of five supreme champions. Last year, the champions in the dairy breeds were brought together to select the supreme champion of the show. This year all the other livestock catagories had the same opportunity. Beef cattle, sheep, swine and horses all crowned the best entry from all the breeds. This gave the show participants the opportunity to focus more clearly on each livestock category. Entries were up for this show too. Fifty two hundred animals were entered in the competition, a significant increase over the 4,338 animal entries last year. Record premiums totalling $190,000 also offered exhibitors addi tional incentives to show their agricultural products and livestock. That’s a 10 percent increase over last year. Of course, many traditional events happened too. It snowed. Exhibi tors of farm equipment and supplies again bought all the space avail able and showcased a who’s who in agribusiness. No question about it, if you attended the farm show in Harrisburg this week, you know Pennsylvania Agriculture provides good food for our families. KsH Farm Calendar Saturday, January 13 Forage Conference, Caroline County 4-H Park, Williston, Md., 9:30 a.m. York County Fruit Growers annual banquet, Howard Johnson, York, 6:30 p.m. Franklin County Holstein Club annual meeting, Lemasters Community Center, Lemasters, 7:00 p.m. Huntingdon County Holstein Club meeting, Shade Gap Auxiliary Building, Shade Gap, 7:00 p.m. Monday, January 15 Northeast winter dairy manage ment schools. Holiday Inn, Oneonta, N.Y.; runs through January 16. Tuesday, January 16 Penn State income tax meeting, Leiby’s Ice Cream House, Tamaqua, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Horticultural business manage ment short course, Lancaster Farm & Home Center, Lancas ter, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Susquehanna Valley dairy day, Buggytown USA Restaurant, Mifflinburg, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Soil course, Montgomery County 4-H Center, Creamery, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; runs eight Tuesdays. New Jersey Vegetable Growers Association meeting and trade show, Trump Castle Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, N.J.; runs through January 18. New York Holstein Convention, Syracuse, N.Y.; runs through January 17. Horse production enterprises meeting, UNILEC Building, Dußois; continues January 30, Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building 1 E. Main St. Ephrata. PA 17522 by pr Lancaster Farming, Inc. A Sltlnrmn Entm.pekt Robert G. Campbell General Manager Everett R. Newiwanger Managing Editor OfyrtfM IMS by Lanuahr FanaHy February 13 and 27, and March 13; register by January 9 by calling Gregory K. Bums at 814/776-5331. Wednesday, January 17 Penn State income tax meeting, Family Heritage Restaurant, Franconia, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 P.m. Penn-Jersey Dairy Expo, Days Inn Conference Center, Allentown, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Lancaster County home horticul ture seminar—roses top to bot ( tom, Lancaster Farm & Home Center, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Northeast winter dairy manage ment school, Sheraton- Burlington Hotel. South Bur- lington, Vt; through January 18. Westmoreland County dairy nutri tion school, Hoss’s, Belle Ver non; continues January 24 and 31. Lime, Fertilizer & Pesticide Con ference, Sheraton Penn State, State College; through January 19. State Association of County Fairs meeting, Lancaster Sheraton, Lancaster; runs through Janu ary 19. Thursday, January 18 Penn State income tax meeting, Lancaster Farm & Home Cen- ter, Lancaster, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm. Perry, Juniata, Mifflin counties dairy day, Ickesburg Fire Hall, Ickesburg, 9:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Adams County Extension Associ ation meeting, Bigierville Fire Hall, Bigierville, 6:30 p.m. Lancaster/Chester County Swine NOW IS THE TIME By Jay Irwin 'Lancaster County Agriculture Agei To Be Aware Of Child Labor Laws If you have boys or girls between the ages of 14 and 16 that plan to operate a farm tractor or machinery on a farm, other than your own farm, be sure they have the proper certificate. Under the child labor regulations, the law requires that those boys or girls between 14 and 16 years of age, be certified and carry a certifica tion card before they are permitted to operate hazardous equipment Some equipment listed under the law as hazardous are: a tractor with over 20 PTO horsepower, com picker, hay baler, feed grin der, fork lift and many more. Again, on your own farm your children can operate any equip ment that you feel is safe for them. The Certification process in most cases is through the Voca tional Agricultural Department in the schools or through the 4-H Tractor Clubs. Contact either for more information. To Attend Winter Meetings This is the time of year that a lot of educational meetings are held, and they’re held during this sea son of year for a good reason ~ you have more time to attend meetings. During the spring, the summer and into the fall, there’s just too much field work that must be done. Take the time to become acquainted with the meetings of interest to you and your operation. Some meetings are designed to reach certain production groups such as Dairy Days, Livestock Day, Crops and Soils Day and Poultry Day, but others are pro grammed to reach all agri business people like the Financial Management, Estate Planning and Farm Transfer Arrangement meetings. Producers Association banquet. Blue Ball Fire Hall, Blue Ball, 6:30 p.m. Lancaster County Montgomery County Coopera tive Extension annual banquet, Montgomery County 4-H Cen ter, Creamery, 6:30 p.m. Fruit Growers meeting, Lancaster Farm & Home Center, Lancas ter, 7:30 p.m. Pesticide update training and com, soybean yield check informa tion, Kennard-Dale High School, Fawn Grove, 8:00 p.m. Friday, January 19 Penn State income tax meeting, c r ] o c ° O j . <D ° C i (Turn to Page A 36) oil! Also, many agri-business and lending institutions conduct meet ings to keep you abreast of the changes in their organizations. We urge you to mark your calendar as these meetings are announced, and attend as many as possible. To Preserve The Topsoil The spring of the year is an excellent time to develop some soil conservation practices on the land. Contour strips, slit tillage, terraces and diversion ditches can all be established before the 1990 crops are planted. These various methods of controlling water will not only prevent soil losses but will help hold more water on the higher slopes and fields. Good topsoil is a precious natural resource, and every land owner should make an effort to keep it from eroding. Farmers that are growing continuous com should be very careful to keep their soil from washing away. In these cases terraces and contour strips can be established to help slow down the STOMACH ALIVE; SOUL EXTINCT January 14,1990 Background Scripture: John 6. Devotional Reading: John 6; 31-40. Last week my wife and I were invited to dinner in a very fine restaurant. At the end of the meal, I happened to glance at the check and was shocked to find that din ner for just the two of us had tot aled $210! I couldn’t help but remember the years of the Great Depression of the 1930’s when our family was glad to have even the simplest of meals, I also remembered times during my col lege days when I couldn’t afford more than one meal per day. The food which we eat today is generally much fancier, more expensive, and even sometimes exotic in comparison with the simple fare of my childhood and youth. Sometime when you’re in a supermarket, just ask yourself how many of the products on the shelves today would have been there SO years ago. Still, with all of this today are we any more satisfied with what we eat than we were? I think not. ALWAYS HUNGRY In many respects we are as “hungry” today as we were in much less affluent times. The “hunger” may be for food, fast cars, drugs and alcohol, power, or sex. Our society seems obsessed with satisfying our ravenous hun gers that, unfortunately, seem nev er to be satisfied. These hungers are like bottomless pits that take everything we offer and still want more and more. Someone has said that the epithet for our generation will be: “Stomachs alive; souls mnn I t? ! A Hif I 3 / w locs of both water and soil. Addi tion of extra organic matter in the form of crop residues and green cover crops will help keep the soil loose with a higher water holding capacity. To Use The Farmer’s Tax Guide I have to mention it, yes it is Income Tax reporting time again. For farmers this becomes quite complicated with the many changes in the regulations. The Farmer’s Tax Guide is pub lished by the Internal Revenue Service and is a real help to farm ers and others who file for agricul tural concerns. We have a supply in our office, as do other extension offices. They are also available from the Internal Revenue Ser vice. Most farmers have their tax es filed by a tax practitioner, but you will find the tax guide very helpful in preparing your mater ials for the tax person. The filing date of March 1 for fanners rolls around rather quickly. extinct” So, we live in the most abun dant material culture the human race has ever known, but we are still hungry! And worst of all, we don’t even know what we’re hun gry for. As soon as we get enough of anything, we realize that that is not what we wanted in the first place. No matter how much we may gorge ourselves with material things, we find that the emptiness inside ourselves still prevails. TO FILL THE EMPTINESS Life in Jesus’ day was so much more simple and basic. Still, the problem was much the same; peo ple kept looking for something or someone to fill their emptiness. So, when, by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus miraculously multiplied the loaves and Ashes, many looked to him as God’s messenger. But the feeding of the Ave thousand was basically symbolic of a different kind of hunger which Jesus alone can satisfy. Only Jesus can satisfy all the appetites which drive our society. “I am the bread of life,” he pro claimed; “he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst” (6:36). All other sustenance is but Aeeting in its power to sustain us. This was even true of the manna which Moses gave the people in the wilderness. “Yout fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died” (6:49). It sustained them for a time, but it did not bring them eternal life. So, he warns: “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life” (6:27). Most of our appetites are attempts to All a vague and unde fined void within us. But this emp tiness can be Ailed and satisfied only by Jesus Christ, who came, not only to sustain us in Arne of need, but also to preserve us to eternal life. So, may our response be the same as theirs: “Lord, give us this bread always” (6:34). (Based on copyrighted Outlines produced by the Committee on the Uniform Series and used by permission. Released by Community A Sub urban Press) ijDOOQ o • o \ n 1» © £fc££
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