AlO-Lancastor Fanning, Saturday, April 11, 1992 OPINION The Real Investment The annual fund raising banquet of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation is set for Wednesday, April, 22,1992, in Hershey at the convention center. For the first time in seven years, ticket sales arc ahead of the previous year. Sales are evaluated weekly in relation to the same time frame for the previous years. Ban quet co-chairmen, Tom Bross HI, Don Horn, and Scott Sechler reported this exceptional progress at a meeting in Lancaster in late March. The fund raising event annually caps the events of the Federa tion and brings together a broad spectrum of poultry industry people. The money’s raised keep the Federation running for the next year. While sales are ahead, there arc still previous and potential industry people who have not yet purchased tickets for the ban quet. The banquet features country music star Ronnie Milsap and the evening begins with a social at 5:30 p.m.; dinner at 7:00 p.m. and entertainment from 9 to 10 p.m. And while the banquet is a worthwhile reason to purchase tickets, the support of the Federation is even more important. Anyone in the poultry business will want to contribute by order ing tickets. The banquet is a nice dividend, but the real invest ment is in the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation. Farm Calendar Adams County Beef Ball, New Oxford Social Club, 6 p.m. Learning Lamb Carcass Evalua tion, Live Evaluation, 4-H Cen ter, Bair, Sheep and Wool Festi val 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 75th Little International Livestock Exposition, Penn State Ag Arena. York County Sheep and Wool Fes tival, 4-H Center, Bair, 8:30 Mountain Fairgrounds, Arendt sville, 6 p.m. Adams County Dairy Promotion Committee, Josie Hess Farm, 91 Whisler Road, Gettysburg, 7:30 p.m. 4-H Dairy Bowl, Berks County i^^^ Urban Fortestry Woricshop, Penn State University, Wilkes-Barrie Campus, Technical Center Room 101, 8 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Lehigh County Small-Scale Farm ing Workshop, Lehigh County Ag Center, 7:30 p.m. Wetlands Seminar, Penn State Fruit Laboratory, Biglerville, 7 p.m. First spring spray meeting for fruit growers. Edenville Community Center, 7:30 p.m. Agricultural Business Today, Schuylkill Chamber of Com- Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building 1 E. Main St Ephrata, PA 17522 by Lancaster Farming, Inc. A SMumn Entwprbe Robert G. Campbell General Manager Everett R. Newtwanger Managing Editor merce Building, Pottsville, 7-9 Peach and Young Apple Pruning and Training, Penn-Vermont Fruit Farm, Rolling Hills Road, Ag Issues Forum, Kreider’s Restaurant, Manheim 7:30 a.m.-9 a.m. Learning Lamb Carcass Evalua tion, Godfrey Bros. Meats, meeting, Alwine Civic Center, 18th annual Freestate Invitational Spring Sale, Frederick Fair grounds, Frederick, Md., 1:30 p.m. Easter ham and chicken dinner, Berks County 4-H Community Center, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Franklin County apple queen con- Farm Accident and Rescue Semi- nar, Memorial Hall, Emporium, Delmarva Poultry Booster Ban quet, Wicomico Youth and Civ ic Center, Salisbury, Md. Lehigh County Small-Scale Farm (Turn to Page A3l) r fcoCK“A-pOOPIE-000/ To Not Forget The Cows The arrival of spring is accom panied by a rash of farm activities. These include tilling the land, app lying lime and fertilizer, hauling manure, seeding crops, and mak ing hay. Along with these spring jobs is the need to continue your herd management jobs. Identifying and balancing these job priorities becomes a juggling act during rush seasons of the year. The dairy herd is the main sour ce of income for a dairy fanner. Therefore, herd management should not be shortchanged during the spring rush season. Rather than neglecting the herd or hiring untrained workers to per form herd chores, keep the best cow people near the bam and give them ample time to manage the herd. Having the field work done in a timely fashion is also very impor tant. Therefore, if necessary, hire someone to help with routine bam chores or Held work so you will have your best people handling the critical spring planting jobs. Also, you might want to consid er using the services of custom operators for certain jobs. To Jump Start Equipment The Right Way Vehicles and machinery that have been idle during winter may be difficult to start If you need to jump start a piece of equipment that has a weak or discharged bat tery, be sure to follow these safety tips provided by Sam Steel, direc tor of the Pennsylvania Agricultur al Safety Council. First connect the positive cable marked with a “+” or red clamps to the positive terminal of the weakened battery. Then clamp the other end of the positive cable to the positive post of the charged battery. Next, connect the negative cable to the negative post of the good battery. Finally make the last con nection of the negative cable to the engine block or frame of the non starting vehicle. By keeping the clamps of the weakened battery separated, one reduces the possibility of unwanted stray sparks causing an explosion or fire. When jump starting a vehicle, always wear safety glasses to pro tect your eyes from acid or battery parts in the event of an explosion. Once the vehicle is started, remove the cables in reverse order. Be careful not to allow the cables to contact each other when remov ing them. Spring starts many outside activities for both farmers and their urban neighbors. As we start our spring activities, tty to be consid erate of your neighbors. Handle manure prudently. Pick the time for spreading manure when your neighbors are unlikely to be outside. Avoid spreading on weekends and holidays. Develop Br IAWKtNU W AITHOUSfc Background Scripture: Mark 15:1-41. Devotional Reading: Isaiah 53:1-12. There are people I know who would be more kindly disposed toward Christianity if it weren't for the cross. Not the crosses in our church, you understand those are beautifully gilded and bejeweled but the cross so much as the crucifixion - that awful picture of Jesus dying in agony and shame. As one woman was overheard to say, "I don't like the crucifixion it's so common!" I can understand a little bit why some people find the cross so objectionable. I have been in great churches and cathedrals where every picture, every stained glass window, every statue seemed to perpetuate a crucifixion state of mind that twisted and distorted the Gospel from The Good News to perpetual Bad News. Some reli gious art has struck me as abso lutely ghastly and not a few hymns. GALLILEO & NEWTON Yet, I know that the cross is central to Christianity because it dares to tell us the truth. Halford E. Luccock, a great professor of homiletics when I was a theologi cal student, has written this com mentary on Mark 15:24 "And they crucified him.” According to the traditional story. Gallileo took a long and deep look at a swinging chandelier in a cathedral, and saw behind it the truth about the heavens, the movement of the earth. According to tradition, Newton took a long and deep look at an apple falling from a tree, and saw behind it the OM NO. TtA LATE. X WISH TM AT ROOSTER WOULD MURBV'UPAND ADJUST 7D DAY-LIGHT SAVINGS TIME .' « To Be Considerate Of Neighbors S3ISILS THE TRUTH April 12, 1992 good public relations. Nuisance complaints often stem from a lack of goodwill and poor image. Share their concerns and show them the steps you are taking to alleviate them. Avoid unsighdiness by impro ving the landscape of your farm. Remove any unsightliness that might suggest that your farm could be a source of odors, flies, or other cause of nuisance. Plant trees or shrubs to screen areas. Make sure these trees are at least SO feet away from buildings to allow adequate air movement. A small investment in landscap ing may prevent more costly actions. Remember. legal fees and court costs are very expensive. Spending a little to be a good neighbor could be one of the best investments you "make. Feather Profs Footnote: "If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." truth of gravitation. So those who have taken a long and deep look at Calvary have seen behind it the truth about God and man.* That is probably why we find the cross so unattractive and even repulsive because it tells us the truth about God and human beings. Some of us would rather live with our illusions than face up to unpleasant truths. Among these are the truth about what can hap pen to good people: they can end up on a cross. We would like to believe that living a good life was insurance against crosses, but it isn't In fact, living by God's gui dance may bring crosses closer. That isn’t the way we'd design the world, if we were doing it, is it? The cross also tells us the truth about a word we don’t even like to use: sin. The cross tells us that sin destroys. The really horrible thing about Calvary is that it claimed the life of-a good man, a man more completely dedicated to God's will than any other who ever lived. But the sinfulness of human nature nailed an innocent Jesus to a cross. Those of us who would like to think that people are getting better and better every day or at least some people don't like what the cross says about the depths to which people can sink. GOOD NEWS But, if the cross tells us the truth about humanity, it also tell us the truth about God and that is Good News! Humanity did the very worst that it could, crucifying an innocent man God's own Son, and Calvary proved that the worst that we can do is not equal to the best that God can do. God goes to the cross with us, but God is not used up by our crosses. His love over comes the biggest and meanest crosses we can find. Maybe it was that which caused the centurion on Calvary to say in admiration, "Truly this man was a son of God" (15:39). Watching Jesus on the cross, the truth about God was revealed to him as again and again it is revealed to us, so that the cross stands not as the enduring symbol of human depravity, but as the eternal sign of divine grace. -t —< I V*— *-Z— <-<-*- 4—*_ 1 C<>c Let. •> ml
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