AlO-Lancasttr Firming, Saturday, Ftbruary 1, 1992
OPINION
Safety With Animals
Farm animals require proper care and management. Acci
dents associated with caring for and handling farm animals can
hurt both people and animals, and cut into profits. Protect your
self by thinking safety each time you enter places where ani
mals are kept.
• Wear protective clothing, footwear, gloves and headgear as
the job demands.
• Provide good footing for handling operations. Keep floors
and ramps clean and clutterfree.
• Train all workers in safe livestock handling.
• Have adequate restraining and handling facilities and
equipment.
• Leave yourself an “out”,
• Be careful with animals that are frightened, hurt, sick or
have young. Be cautious around strange animals. Handle
males, especially bulls, with respect.
• When treating or caring for sick or birthing animals, wear
rubber gloves and other needed protective garb. Don’t smoke
or eat until you’ve washed and changed contaminated clothing.
Practice good sanitation. Protect yourself and others from
animal-borne diseases (zoonoses) such as undulant fever, teta
nus, salmonella, rabies and leptospirosis. Inoculate pets.
• Use the appropriate respirator when working in confined
housing to protect against organic dusts and other air pollut
ants, and when performing maintenance or cleaning jobs which
cause dust. Use a self-contained breathing device when enter
ing confined spaces where toxic gases may be present. Venti
late such spaces as much as possible before entering.
• Protect children by keeping them out of animal facilities,
bins, silos and other hazardous areas. Be safety-conscious
when working with animals.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, Fehru;ir> I
Delmarva Equine Seminar, Chesa
peake Community College. 9
a.m.-3 p.m.
Ephrata Area Young Farmer’s
Association annual banquet,
Mt. Airy Fire Hall.
Chester 4-H livestock banquet,
Devereaux Soleil Farms, Glen
moore, 6:30 p.m.
Kidding Seminar, Delaware Val
ley Milk Goat Association,
Boyertown Borough Hall, Boy
ertown, 1:30 p.m.
Mercer County pesticide core
update, extension office, 9
a.m.-noon.
27th annual Penn-Del ISA Shade
Tree Symposium, Hershey
Lodge and Convention Center,
Hershey.
PDA pesticide applicator testing,
York Pleasant Acres, 8
a.m.-noon.
Dairy Herd Reproductive Work
shop, UNILEC Building,
Dußois, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,
repeats Feb. 10.
Keystone Cornucopia, Harrisburg
Hilton, 6 p.m.
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Farm Income Tax Review and
Update, Huntingdon'Extension
Office, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
Clearfield Co. Conservation Dis
trict Multi-Service Center,
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Genetics Workshop, Rostraver
Grange.
York Co. Soil Fertility Workshop,
Pleasant Acres, 7:30 p.m.-9:30
p.m.
Capitol Region Turf/Omamental
School, Farm Show Complex,
thru Feb. 5.
Part-Time Farming for Profit,
UNILEC Building, Dußois, 7
p.m.-9 p.m., repeats Feb. 11,
18, and March 3.
Beef Evaluation Evening, Midway
Diner, Reading, 5:30 p.m.
Lancaster Co. Cattle Feeder’s Day,
Farm and Home Center, 9
a.m.-3 p.m.
South Jersey 1992 Dairy Confer
ence and Trade Show, Elmer
Grange Hall, 6:45 p.m.-l 1 p.m.
Pennsylvania Young Farmer
Association Winter Confer
ence, Holiday Inn, Grantville,
thru Feb. 6.
Mercer Co. Pasture Workshop,
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By John Schwartz
Lancaster County
Agricultural Agent
To Protect
Electronic Equipment
The past several years has seen a
big increase in the use of electronic
equipment on the farm.
Many farmers are using compu
ters and do not even know it Com
puters are monitoring the environ
ment in poultry and swine houses
by controlling the fans, heaters,
and even the curtains.
Feeders are being controlled by
computers. With this increase use
of electronic components, farmers
need to be concerned about pro
tecting this equipment from power
surges, spikes, and noise.
The equipment to protect your
electronic components is relatively
inexpensive compared to the cost
of replacing damaged computers
and other electronic devices. You
should be looking for surge protec
tion that will handle at least 210
joules (amount of energy device
will handle before it fails),
response time of less than or equal
to 1 nanosecond, EMI/RFI filter
ing, multistage layer of defense (at
least 3), and maximum clamping
rating of 330 volts (maximum vol
tage allowed to get through the
device).
By providing adequate surge
and noise protection now, you will
be helping to prevent a major
repair bill in the future.
To Follow
Withdrawal Times
Drug residues continue to be a
major consumer food safety issue.
To maintain consumer confi
dence in our food products, we
must make sure all antibiotics are
used correctly.
Today’s testing procedures are
able to detect smaller and smaller
traces of drug residues. If you must
use an antibiotic, make sure you
Extension Center, 11 a.m.-3
p.m.
Ohio Fruit and Vegetable Grow-
Vegetable
Washingtonville.
Dairy Breeding Workshop,
Rostraver Grange.
Bucks-Montgomery Dairy Day,
Family Heritage Restaurant,
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read the label and follow all
directions.
The keys are: make sure the
drug is licensed for the animal vou
are treating, the proper dosage is
used, and withdrawal time is fol
lowed. Keep a written record of the
animal treated, lot number and
name of drug used, dosage given,
and dates and times the drug was
administrated.
By using antibiotics only when
needed, in the proper dosage, and
following withdrawal times, we
arc helping to protect our markets.
All it takes is one misuse of drugs
or chemicals to cause people to
stop buying your product and cre
ate large economic loses.
Difficult economic times, like
we are now experiencing, force the
best to become better and the good
to go out of business. This is espe
cially true in our highly competi
tive agricultural industry.
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Background Scripture: Luke
10:25-37.
Devotional Reading: Matthew
22:34-46.
Have you ever noticed that the
parables that Jesus tells se.am to
have nothing to do with what peo
ple believe? The parables always
teach us how to live our daily
lives. Yet, very often these very
practical et things on how to live
have a great deal to do with what
vwe believe.
This is what we see in the Para
ble of the Good Samaritan. It
begins with a question about
belief from a lawyer or scribe -
one learned in the religious law:
“Teacher, what shall 1 do to inherit
eternal life?" Luke tells us that he
did this “to put him to the test." He
hoped that Jesus would give an
unorthodox answer that would
spark a doctrinal argument But
Jesus refused to be trapped and
turned the question back on the
scribe: “What is written in the
law? How do you read?” Anxious
to show his expertise, the scribe
replied with a quotation taken
from Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviti
cus 19:18: “You shall love the
Lord your God... and your neigh
bor as yourself.” In response,
Jesus says: “You have answered
right; do this, and you will live.”
KNOWING & DOING
But the scribe once more seeks
to embroil Jesus in a theological
controversy: “And who is my
neighbor?” Jesus could very well
have answered him.with a one
liner: your neighbor is anyone
needing your help whom you can
help. Instead, however, he tells a
parable that says that and more.
Remember, the scribes prided
meeting,
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THE LIMITS
OF LOVE
Whether you are a grain, dairy,
pork, or poultry farmer inde
pendent or contract producer
you must be looking for ways to
become better.
This means spending more time
with your animals and crops. Mak
ing sure the little things are getting
done on time and correctly will
improve performance and income.
Such items as having cows bred
on time, poultry house wanned up
before chicks or poults are placed,
frequent gathering of eggs, venti
lation system properly adjusted,
and the equipment and buildings
cleaned and properly maintained
all help in staying competitive.
Look for and demand better
ways to do things. Set higher stan
dards for yourself and work to
achieve them. By following the
4-H motto of 'To make the best
better,” you will be insuring your
place in farming.
Feather Prof s Footnote: “Take
time to be friendly—it is the road
to happiness."
themselves on knowing the law.
But in the parable the “hero” is a
Samaritan. As a lay person he
would “know” far less than a
scribe, and as a Samaritan even
what little he “knew” would be
wrong!
By the careful way in which
Jesus crafted his story, he discreet
ly showed that it is more a mailer
of doing than knowing. The priest
who “passed by on the other side”
certainly knew what to do, but
didn’t. The Lcvile also knew the
right answers, but he too refrained
from doing what he could. All
Jews knew that Samaritan' were
all wrong in their religious views.
For one thing, they believed the
right place to worship God was on
Mt. Gerizim, not Mt. Zion in Jeru
salem. Yet, although the Samari
tan was guilty of “wrong beliefs,”
he did exactly the right thing: he
helped the robbery victim, despite'
the fact that the \ iciim was a Jew,
a sworn enemy of any Samaritan.
LET’S BE REASONABLE
In a sense, the scribe had asked,
Jesus to say something about the
limits of loving one’s neighbor.
We can understand that because
we too often wonder if love
doesn’thave some reasonable lim
its. Obviously, we must help
someone in our own family who is
in need. We all “know” that,
although we may not alt act upon
it The same is true of our friends.
But what about the family next
door whom we hardly know and
actually don’t much like - they,
with their loud stereos and dog
who seems to like our yard a lot
more than theirs?
And whai about the people on
the south end of town who live in
perpetual squalor and unemploy
ment? What about those Hare
Krishnas who always accost us
when we go to the airport? And
even if all the others arc my
“neighbors,” surely that doesn’t
include Saddam Hussein!
The answer is no less hard for
us than it was for the scribe: in
Christ there are no limits to love.
(Based on copynghted outlines produced by
the Committee on the Uniform Senes and used
by permission Released by Community and Sub
urban Press.)