Aio-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 14, 1992
OPINION
Shot In The Foot
In Lancaster recently, two brothers with bad blood between
them had an argument in a bar. The fight became so intense that
one brother went for his pistol and resumed the verbal attack on
his brother.
To prove he was powerful and meant business, the brother
with the gun wasted abullet into the ground as a scare tactic. But
in the process he shot his own foot and had to be treated by a loc
al physican.
Sometimes when we make judgments about people, right or
wrong, the criticism we verbalize about others comes back to do
us harm. In fact, St Matthew suggests that we should not judge
others so that we may not be judged and criticized in return. He
says that the same measure we use to deal out to others will be
dealt out again to us.
A more modem saying is that what goes around comes
around again or the American Indian’s proverb that you should
not criticize persons until you have walked a day in their
moccasins.
Sometimes we cut off our nose to spite our face. Or we actual
ly cripple ourselves when we try to enforce our wills on others.
Farm Calendar
Fifth Toastmaster Meeting, Lan
caster Farm and Home Center,
8:30 a.m.
Regional tree fruit meeting,
Schuylkill County.
Western Pennsylvania Bred Gilt
Sale, New Wilmington Lives
tock Auction.
Pennsylvania Shorthorn and
Polled Shorthorn Association,
Garden Gate Restaurant, 6:15
~i sprayer canu.u
Penns Valley Area H.S., Spring
Mills, 8 p.m.
Sullivan County zoning input
meeting. Laporte Meth. Home,
ation annual banquet, East Ber
lin Fire Hall, 7 p.m.
Delmarva Safety Seminar.
Wicomico Youth and Civic
Center, Salisbury, Md., through
March 18.
Centre County 4-H Leaders Ban
quet, Nittany Lion Inn, Univer
sity Park, 7 p.m.
Southeast Regional Christmas
Tree Meeting, Schuylkill
Haven, Morgan Auditorium, 7
p.m.
Lehigh County Small Scale Farm
ing Workshop, Lehigh County
Agricultural Center, 7:30 p.m.
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Chester-Montgomery Local Dis
trict 1, Moorehead’s Catering
Service Banquet Hall, Trappe,
noon.
Morgantown Local District 8,
Elverson Fire Company, 7 p.m.
Agronomy Day, Wysox Fire Hall,
9 a.m.
Pennsylvania Forest Stewardship
Program, Claverack Building.
Montrose, 7:30 p.m.
Christmas Tree Growers Meeting,
Penn State Schuylkill Campus,
7 p.m.
Composting Dead Birds, Adams
County Extension Office, 7:30
p.m.
Chester County Holstein Club
Tour to Franklin and Cumber
land Counties, meets Dick Hos
tetler farm, 7:15 a.m.
Southwestern Pa. Pork Producers
meeting, Alwine Civic Center,
Greensburg, 9:30 a.m.-2:45
County com meeting, Claver
ack Building, Montrose, 10
a.m.-3 p.m.
Tri-County Agronomy School,
Gratz Community Fire Hall,
Gratz, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dairy Day, Bloomsburg Fair
grounds Office Building, 9:30
a.m.-3 p.m.
PDPP promotional meeting,
Northwest District, Clarion
Clipper, Clarion, 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Cumberland County Holstein
Club annual meeting and ban
quet, Penn Township Fire Hall,
Huntsdalc.
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To Prepare
Pastures For Spring
Before long, cattle and other
livestock will be turned out to pas
ture. Before you do this, you may
need to do some preliminary work.
You will want to check and
mend fences as needed and pick up
any debris that has been tossed into
the pasture. To improve the pro
ductivity of the pasture, you
should lime and fertilize according
to soil test.
Liming will encourage grass
growth which will reduce amount
of weeds. By liming, not overgraz
ing the pasture, and mowing the
pasture on a regular basis, should
give you a very productive pasture.
You might want to consider
rotational grazing as a method to
improve grass production from
your pasture.
To Understand
Weed Control
Robert Anderson, extension
agronomy agent, recently identi
fied several factors which contri
bute to poor weed control.
Several of these factors are date
of planting and herbicide applica
tion date, occurrence of rainfall,
and the rate and type of herbicide
used.
Rain is needed to move most
preemergence herbicides into the
soil profile where weeds will be
germinating. A general rule is that
United Dairy Cooperative Service,
Inc. annual meeting, Seneca
Falls, New York, 10:30 a.m.
Pesticide update training, Penn
State Fruit Research Lab,
Biglerville, 1 p.m. and 7:30
p.m.
Dairy Computer Workshop, York
Co. extension office, 7 p.m.
Wyoming Co. com meeting. Dept
of Ag, Tunkhannock, 10 a.m.
Hort Seminar, Franklin Regional
H.S., Murrysville, 7:30
9:30 -
;y pes,
tion meeting, Pleasant Acres
Complex, 7 p.m,-9 p.m.,
repeats March 20.
York County Farmland Trust sec
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0.25 to 0.50 inch of rain within five
days of application will accom
plish this and activate the
herbicide.
However, this may vary
depending upon the solubility of
the herbicide, date of last tillage
operation, soil temperature, soil
moisture, and weed species in
question.
Another factor which cause
poor weed control is the lack of a
crop canopy. A dense crop canopy
will hinder weeds from
germinating.
To Develop
Weed Control
Strategies
By knowing the reasons why
herbicides fail, you may now deve
lop strategies on how to improve
weed control under adverse
conditions.
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WAIT A MINUTE,
JESUS!
Background Scripture: Marie
7:24-37.
Devotional Reading: Amos
5:4-15.
The story of Jesus and the Syro
phoenician woman in Mark 5 is a
troubling one. The problem is how
to understand Jesus' sharp rejec
tion of the woman and her request
for him to heal her daughter who
was "possessed by an unclean
spirit" Let the children first
be fed, for it is not right to take
the children's bread and throw
it to the dogs"! (7:27). It is bad
enough that Jesus turned down
her humanitarian request, but
we cannot help but be shocked
when he likens the woman and
her daughter to "dogs"!
What is the explanation? Scho
lars offer several. One explanation
is that Jesus really meant what he
said, that he did not want to minis
ter to the gentiles and that he
shared the common Jewish per
ception that non-Jews were "dogs"
by comparison. This explanation
has the weight of the obvious, for
it is precisely what Mark tells us
that Jesus said. Another explana
tion is that Jesus would not have
responded like this not if the
picture that we have of him in the
rest of the New Testament is at all
accurate but these words attri
buted to him by Mark represent
the prejudice against gentiles that
existed in the very earliest church.
TO MIMIC & MOCK
The third alternative which
is the only one that is comfortable
to me is that Jesus used these
words to mimic and mock the
popular sentiments of the day, per
haps even the prevailing senti
ments of his apostles, or that he
used these words to engage the
woman in a purposeful dialogue.
If a herbicide was applied and
rainfall did not come in the five
day critical period, a timely rotary
hoeing or harrowing may be used
to activate the herbicide by moving
the herbicide into the soil profile.
This mechanical mixing would
have also destroyed the weeds
which had already germinated.
With the poor weed control from
last year’s drought, you should
expect a larger than average weed
crop from the increased number of
seeds produced.
In fields with poor weed control,
use herbicides rated as excellent
for control of those weeds and use
the correct rate of application.
Remember, when using herbi
cides, always read the label and
follow all directions.
Feather Prof s Footnote: "Pray
for a good harvest, but keep
hoeing."
In a sense, he could be baiting her,
to see just how much faith could
be mustered by this gentile. Her
response to his refusal would tell
him a lot about her. There are sev
eral passages in the gospels in
which this playful, badgering style
of Jesus is evident and I believe
that is what is involved in this
incident.
And what did Jesus learn
through this interchange? That
gentiles can be just as persistent
and ingenious in responding to the
promises of the gospel. Jesus has
made several efforts to demons
trate to his followers that even
believing Samaritans could be
closer to the kingdom than them
selves if they failed to respond in
faith. This woman, a Syrian
woman from the Phoenician coast,
wasn't even a Samaritan, but a
pagan Greek. Although she had
not the benefit of the Jewish faith,
her love for her baby and her per
sonal belief in Jesus made the
difference.
There are times when we need
to do just what she did: to stub
bornly persist with Jesus when the
answer we're getting doesn't seem
to be the answer we should beget
ting. Whether or not she realized
that Jesus was jousting with her,
she persists without bitterness:
"Yes, Lord: yet even the dogs
under the table eat the children's
crumbs" (7:28).
A TIME FOR HONESTY
I don't know how this woman
knew that Jesus was more com
passionate than he appeared to be
at this moment I know because,
when I read of Jesus in the rest of
the gospels, I see a Jesus who
would not turn her away and who
would never regard her and her
child as "dogs." So, if from our
reading of the New Testament and
sharing with other Christian peo
ple tells us that the answer we
seem to be getting from Jesus is
not congruent with what we know
of him, it is time for us to be hon
est and say, "Wait a minute, Jesus,
surely that is not what you mean to
say to me!"
If we do, Jesus will not be
angered by our persistence, nor
insulted at our honesty.
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