AlO-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, August 8, 1992
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OPINION
Accountability Requirement
Pennsylvania’s dairy and livestock industry could be severely
damaged if the state legislators do not do an about face on the
issue of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Last
year, the school received 40 percent of the operating funds from
the slate. This year, the new proposed state budget eliminates all
this funding, and the school may be forced to close.
The veterinary school is needed. We already have a shortage of
large animal veterinarians. In addition, the school’s economic
impact on the state is approximately $1 billion.
With the closing of the school, New Bolton Center in Chester
County, a hospital for large animals, will be closed. So will their
mobile unit and diagnostic center. And research on Lyme dis
ease, Salmonellosis, Rabies, Swine T. 8., and Johnes disease will
cease.
On the other hand, it should be noted that since this is a private
school, no public disclosure is given on how the public funds are
used. One influential agribusiness person said that some research
and consulting work, especially in nutrition, competes with pri
vate enterprise. Nutritional research would be better done at Penn
State by nutritionists rather than veterinarians.
In a recent open letter to the members of the General Assemb
ly, Pennsylvania Budget Secretary Michael Hershock called
attention to the special deal the school has with New Jersey, Dela
ware and Connecticut. According to Hershock, these states have
contracted with Penn to guarantee enrollment for 56 of their resi
dents. As part of the arrangement these states pay a state subsidy
of between $14,500 and $14,865 per student. Pennsylvnia’s stu
dents at Penn cost the Commonwealth $63,883 per year.
We support the efforts to help retain Pennsylvania’s School of
Veterinary Medicine. But if public funds are expected to keep the
school open, then public accountability of how those funds are
spent is also a requirement.
Farm Calendar
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Southcentral Pennsylvania Hols
tein Championship Show,
Shippensburg Fairgrounds,
9:30 a.m.
Lancaster County Master Garden
er Open Garden Tour.
Greene County Fair, Waynesburg,
thru Aug. 15.
Virginia Simmental Assocation
Field Day, Woodstock, Va.,
11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bedford County Fair, Bedford,
thru Aug. 15.
Montour-DeLong Community
Fair, West Newton, thru Aug.
15.
Pennsylvania Rabbit Breeders’
Association board of directors
meeting, Western Sizzler, Har
risburg, 2 p.m.
Landscape Bull Session, Nesha
miny Manor Center,
Doylestown.
Butler Farm Show, Butler, thru
August 15.
Kutztown Fair, Kutztown, thru
August 15.
Sewickley Township Fair, West
Newton, thru August 15.
Warren County Fair, Pittsfield,
thru August 15.
Venango County Fair, Franklin,
thru August 15.
Agricultural Financial Manage
ment Workshop, Jordan Hall,
New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station, Geneva,
N.Y.
Greene County Fair, thru August
15.
Cumberland Co. 4-H Livestock
Roundup, Shippensburg Fair
grounds, 9:30 a.m.. salt 6 p.m.
Tuesda>, August 11
Elk County Fair, Kersey, thru
August 15.
Harrold’s Fair, Greensburg, thru
August IS.
Dawson Grange Community Fair,
Dawson, thru August IS.
Intensive Rotational Grazing Field
Day, Richard Moseman farm,
Fulton County, 9:30 a.m.-2:30
p.m.
Lancaster 4-H Roundup, West
Lancaster County 4-H Hog Show,
Manheim Fairgrounds, noon;
sale 7 p.m.
Lancaster 4-H Fair, Lampeter
Fairgrounds, thru August 14.
Northumberland/Dairphin/
Schuylkill County Manure
Storage Tour.
University of Delaware Farm and
Home Field Day, Research and
Education Center, Georgetown,
8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Penn State Turfgrass Field Days,
Joseph Valentine Turfgrass
Research Center, Penn State, 1
Findlay Township Community
Fair, Findlay, thru August 15.
Middletown Grange Fair, Wright
stown, thru August 15.
York County Dairy Grazing Tour,
Marie Farm, Airville.
Juniata County Conservation Field
Day, 10 a.m., Landis Service
Station, 11 a.m. Double B Grain
Farm, McAlisterville.
Lebanon County Holstein Field
Night, Jim and Billie Hill Farm,
Mt. Zion, 7 p.m.
Lancaster County 4-H Woolies
Club 4-H Market Lamb Sale,
West Lampeter Fairgrounds, 7
To Evaluate
Worming Programs
One of the greatest health prob
lems lor sheep and goals is internal
parasitism.
Significant death and produc
tion losses still exist in some flocks
even when aggressive deworming
programs arc employed.
An el leclivc method of monitor
ing the efficacy of deworming
piograms and the degree of para
site burden in small ruminants is to
conduct periodic quantitative fecal
dotation examinations.
Veterinarians working regularly
with small ruminant producers
want to know fecal results express
ed in eggs per gram (EPG). By
monitoring the EPG of a group of
animals before and after deworm
ing. the effectiveness of the treat
ment and ol its timing may be
evaluated
Do not waste money using the
wiong anthelmintics. Consult your
veterinarian and set up a testing
program lor your dock.
p.m.
Eastern Shore Championship
Holstein Show, Queen Anne’s
4-H Park, Centreville.
Montgomery County 4-H Fair,
thru August IS.
Sheep Show, West Lampeter Fair
grounds, 10 a.m.
Chester County Holstein Club
annual Field Day picnic, 10
a.m.
Dauphin Co. 4-H Fair, Farm Show
Complex, Harrisburg, thru
Pesticide test, Schuylkill County
Cooperative Extension office, 9
a.m.-noon.
Berks County Holstein Show.
Natural Organic Farmers Associa
tion, Hampshire College,
Amherst, Mass., thru August
16.
Camp Hebron annual Farmer’s
Ephrata Area Farmers Annual
Family Ice Cream Social,
Woodcrest Retreat.
Centre County District 4-H Horse
Show, Clinton County Fair
grounds, 9 a.m.
District Dairy Show, Alparon
Park, Troy.
Lehigh County 4-H Roundups,
Neffs Union Church, Neffs, 9
am. general projects, and 10
am. horse projects. Boots and
Saddles Riding Club,
Allentown.
Pa. Holstein Association annual
picnic, Wayne Harpster’s farm,
Huntingdon County Fair, Hunting
don, thru August 22.
Cameron County Fair, Emporium,
thru August 22.
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To Scout For
Corn Rootworm
Two species of com rootworm
(northern and western) arc present
in Pennsylvania. These species
have similar life cycles, except the
western com rootworm tends to
hatch atoul 3 to 5 days earlier m
the spring.
Corn rootworm beetles begin to
emerge during late summer (mid-
July to mid-August). It is at this
lime that corn fields that will be
planted back to com should be
scouted.
Based on beetle counts now will
determine if a control program will
to needed next spring.
Rootworm beetles begin depo
siting eggs in com fields approxi
mately two weeks after they
emerge. The eggs arc deposited in
the soil around the base of corn
plants, where they remain until the
following spring.
Larvae begin hatching from
eggs about mid June. The larvae
stage inflicts the most severe dam
age to com plants.
Typically, 2 to 3 years of conti
nuous com arc necessary before
economically harmful numbers ol
rootworm build up in the field,
Rootworm beetles have begun
to hatch in Lancaster County
fields. Now is the time to scout
your corn fields. Here’s how:
• Step 1: Once the first beetles
are observed, begin looking for
gravid females. Gravid females
have a swollen abdomen full of
eggs. A squeeze on the abdomen
WHAT REALLY
MATTERS
August 9,1992
Background Scripture:
1 Timothy 6:2c-21
Devotional Reading:
1 John 3:7-12,
Paul never said, as some sup
pose, that money is the root of all
evil. What Paul said was that
“love of money is the root of all
evils” (1 Tim.6:lo). If our chur
ches were to ask each of their
members to sign a statement to
that effect. I’m sure there would
be few to refuse or disagree. We
all acknowledge it, almost without
exception.
Yet, though all or most of us
would gladly agree that depen
dence on material things is con
trary to the gospel of Jesus Christ,
most of us seem to live as if mater
ial things are what really matter.
Most often in our society, when
spiritual and material interests are
in conflict, the material interests
almost invariably win out I real
ize that is a sweeping statement,
but, before you disagree too
heatedly, take a look at your daily
newspaper or the evening televi
sion news; in each story or report
what motivates the person(s)
involved? If it is not money, it is
what money can buy—or what we
assume money can buy.
THIS CRAVING
So, when it comes to the spiritu
al vs. the material, it matters little
what we say on this subject, if
material things dominate the lives
that we lead. Paul suggests that
material things become so impor
tant to us that they become a sub
stitute for God: “...it is through
this craving that some have wan
dered away from the faith and
pierced their hearts with many
will discharge die eggs.
• Step 2: When 10 percent ot the
females observed are gravid, begin
beetle counts.
• Step 3: Examine two plants in
40 different locations in the field.
• Step 4: Approach the corn
plants slowly to avoid disturbing
the beetles. Grasp the com silks at
the lip of the car in one hand and
without shaking the plant, cut oil
the car up. Hold the silks tightly in
your clasped hand.
• Step 5: Count the beetles on
the remainder of the plant. Sum at
the bottom and work your way up
to the tassel. Count the beetles on
the lop and bottom side of the
leaves. In hot weather, pull the
leaves away from the stalk and
count the beetles in the sheath.
• Step 6: Open your hand slowly
and count the number ol beetles in
the silks.
• Step 7: Record the number ol
beetles found on the plant.
• Step 8: Resample the holds
every? to lOdays until the number
of beetles per plant begins to
decline or until the economic
threshold has been obtained. The
economic threshold is two north
ern or one western beetle per plant
in first year corn fields and three
northern or 1.5 western beetles per
plant in continuous corn fields
If you have any questions on
sampling procedures, contact yom
local county cooperative extension
office.
Feather Prof s Footnote. '"I he
only thing certain about the future
is change "
pangs” (6; 10b). That is also why
Jesus said, "You cannot serve God
and Money”. If you serve the one,
you cannot also serve the other.
In the preface to his Night unto
Night, Philip Wylie says that
“Materialism is man’s defiant
attempt to overshadow destiny
with the panoply of cities, the hur
tling activity of his body, the
absorption of his five senses
through ceaseless compulsion
with toys and furnishings, games,
stone jewelry, and fine
possessions—with listening and
looking and smelling and touching
and tasting—with all and every
thing that serves to stave off intro
spection for a minute, an hour, a
lifetime”. Things keep us from
being aware of God or even realiz
ing our need for Him.
NOT TO BE HAUGHTY
Things also tend to make us
arrogant and proud. Paul says, “As
for the rich in this world, charge
them not to be haughty, nor to set
their hopes on uncertain riches but
on God who richly furnishes us
with everything to enjoy” (6:27).
Actually, the rich person is falsely
secure, for the things to which he
looks for his comfort and his sal
vation can neither save him, com
fort him or even be taken along in
death.
Note, that Paul never says that
we shouldn’t have and enjoy
things, but only that we should not
depend on them and live for them.
It’s not the things that are our
problem, but our love of them, our
tendency to act as if things are
what really matters.
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