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•Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 6, 1994
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OPINION
Cholesterol Hysteria
People today live longer in our country than they ever have
before. But for some reason, more people are afraid for their
health. Much of this fear comes from thinking that what they eat
may be contaminated by some unknown food ingredient that may
give them a heart attack.
Speaking on “Diet and Health” at the recent Reciprocal Meat
Conference sponsored by the American Meat Science Associa
tion, Dr. David Kritchevsky said there has been a “cholesterol
hysteria” sweeping the country. This hysteria has to a large extent
ignored the facts related to cholesterol and health.
“We really are healthy, despite what you’ve been hearing,”
Kritchevsky said. “Studies conducted to date fail to definitively
support many of the cholesterol recommendations being made
today.”
There are numerous factors that affect blood cholesterol levels,
such as laboratory methods, diet, exercise, alcohol, season, time
of day and the position of the body when tested. That’s right, the
position of the body when tested can change the results of the test.
All these things interract, and there is very little research on these
interractions.
And here is the kicker. Kritchevsky pointed out that the deaths
among people with low cholesterol (below 159) were higher than
for any other group. They didn’t die from heart disease, but death
s from other causes were up significantly.
There’s little solace in knowing that you proved the theory but
died anyhow.
Farm Calendar
Penn State Beekeepers Associa
tion summer picnic, Centre
Hall.
Pa. 16th Performance Tested Ram
Lamb and Invitational Ewe
Sale and Sheep Producers Field
Day, Penn State Ag Arena,
State College, 3 p.m.
Garden Fest, Rodale Research
Bedford County Fair, Bedford,
thpt Aug. 13.
Schuylkill County Fair, Schuylkill
Clinton County Fair, Mackey ville,
thru Aug. 13.
Cochranton Community Fair,
Cochranton, thru Aug. 13.
Greene County Fair, Waynesburg,
thru Aug. 13.
Butler Farm Show, Butler, thru
Aug. 13.
Kutztown Fair, Kutztown, thru
Aug. 13.
Warren County Fair, Pittsfield,
thru Aug. 13.
Dawson Grange Fair, Dawson,
thru Aug. 13.
Sewickly Township Fair, West
Newton, thru Aug. 13.
Horse Pull, Tioga County Fair, 7
p.m.
Cumberland County 4-H Lives
tock Show, 9 a.m., show 6 p.m.,
Dußois, thru Aug. 13.
Elk County Fair, Kersey, thru Aug.
Harrold Fair, Greensburg, thru
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Tioga County Fair, Whitneyville,
thru Aug. 14.
EAYFA Annual Bus Tour To Hol
mes County, Ohio, departs
from Elite Coach, 6;30 a.m.,
thru Aug. 11.
Mid-Atlantic Soybean Meeting,
Penn State Research Farm,
Landisville.
Empire Farm Days, Rodman Lott
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and Sons Farm, Seneca Falls,
Lancaster 4-H Hog Show, Man
heim Fairgrounds, show 11
a.m., sale 7 p.m.
Dauphin County 4-H Fair, Farm
Show Complex, Harrisburg,
thru Aug. 13.
Penn State Turfgrass Field Days,
Joseph Valentine Turfgrass
Research Center, University
Park, 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Nutrient Management Advisory
Board meeting, Dept, of Ag
Building, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Southeast Pennsylvania Vegetable
Field meeting, Trauger’s Farm
Market, Kintnersville, 2 p.m.-S
Dauphin County 4-H Fair, Farm
Show Complex, Harrisburg,
thru Aug. 13.
Lancaster 4-H Sheep Show, Lam
peter Fairgrounds.
FFA Central Dairy Show, West
End Fairgrounds, Union
County.
Lancaster County Pasture Walk,
Daniel J. Stoltzfus Farm, Lititz,
10:30 a.m.
Penn State Turfgrass Field Day,
Landscape Management
Research Center, University
Park, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Chester County Holstein Field
Day, Troop Farm, Cochranvil
le, 10 a.m.
Mifflin County Holstein Show,
Fairgrounds, Reedsville, 6:30
Lancaster 4-H Beef Show, Lampe
ter Faiigrounds.
Clinton County Holstein Show,
Fairgrounds, Mackeyville,
10:30 a.m.
Wayne County Holstein Show,
Honesdale Fairgrounds, 10
a.m.
Tioga County Holstein Show,
Whitneyville Fairgrounds, 11
a.m.
South Central Championship
To Be Safe
With Slow
Moving Vehicles
As summer harvest season starts to
increase, make sure you are mov
ing farm tractors and equipment
safely.
Have the slow moving vehicle
sign installed on all farm equip
ment and tractors. When moving
equipment on highways, have a car
or truck follow at a safe distance
with four-way flashers on to warn
approaching traffic.
Have a crossing guard with flag
to aid when moving equipment or
livestock from one side of the road
to the other side. Be courteous to
traffic and pull over and stop per
iodically to let traffic pass you.
Finally, do not allow riders,
especially small children, on trac
tors. You and your family will
have a hard time forgiving you if
something happens to a child. The
best policy is NO RIDERS.
To Plan Ahead
For Expansion
If you are considering expand
ing your operation, give yourself at
least two years of planning time.
This may seem like a long time,
but it will pay big dividends.
Show, Fairgrounds, Shippens
burg, 9:30 a.m.
Montour-Delong Community
Fair, Washingtonville, thru
Aug. 20.
The Old Time Plow Boys Club,
Inc. late summer plowing
demonstration, Kutztown Uni
versity North Campus Farm,
Huntingdon County Fair, Hunting
don, thru Aug. 20.
McKean County Fair, Smethport,
thru Aug. 20.
Washington County Fair,
Dayton Fair, Dayton, thru Aug. 20.
Venango County Fair, Franklin,
thru Aug. 20.
Lawrence County Fair, New
Castle, thru Aug. 20.
Bullskin Township Fair, Mount
Ag Progress Days, Rockspring,
thru Aug. 18.
Huntingdon County Holstein
Show, Huntingdon Fair
grounds, 9 a.m.
Centre County Holstein Sale, Fair
grounds, Centre Hall, 7 p.m.
Berks County 4-H Fair, 4-H Agri
culture Center, Leesport, 8:30
Southeast Pennsylvania Market
Hog Derby, thru Aug. 19.
Performance-Tested Boar Sale,
Penn State Ag Arena, 6 p.m.
(Turn to Pago A3l)
Pint, visit other operations in
other counties and states. Observe
how things are done. Talk with the
people actually doing the work.
Lode at the nuts and bolts of the
operation. Identify the potential
headaches and dirty jobs and see
how they are being handled.
Take off the “rose colored” glas
ses and observe the daily routine
and ask yourself, “Is this me?”
Then you need to budget and
budget and budget some more. If
you cannot make it pay. then you
cannot afford the investment
The budget should also look at
your limits. Your limit to handle
change, limit to number of animal
units your farm may carry, limit to
how quick you can expand, and
your debt-carrying limit
Know the permit requirements.
These could take several years to
obtain, depending on the size of
the expansion.
To Know
Rules For
Successful Expansion
Gary Snider, Farm Credit of
JUBILEE ANYONE?
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JUBILEE ANYONE?
August 7, 1994
Background Scripture:
Leviticus 25:8-10, 23-28. 39-42
Devotional Reading:
Deuteronomy 3:5-9
The Old Testament Concept of
the year of jubilee is one I wish
Christians had borrowed, as we
borrowed so much else, from Ju
dasim. To the best of my know
ledge, I think it is celebrated at
times in the Roman Catholic
Church, but I confess I know little
about that observance.
The year of jubilee was based
upon the psychology of human na
ture. Just as God knew that the
people of Israel needed a Sabbath
so that human life would not be
one long succession of undifferen
tiated days, so He knew that there
must be special seasons in the life
of the human soul. Life cannot af
ford to be all work and no Sabbath
and correspondingly, life cannot
be all Sabbath and no work. There
needs to be a rhythm of lilfe be
tween contrasts day and night,
work and celebration.
One of the essential elements of
life is celebration. We need to
work hard and diligently and then
we need to celebrate. Life in the
Old Testament community is a
constant cycle of labor and cele
bration. Today that is still one of
the great motivations behind wor
ship we worship to celebrate
the grace of our Lord.
A SPECIAL TIME
The jubilee was also intended to
be a time when wrongs were right
ed. Not that they were not to be
righted at all times, but that at the
time of jubilee, a special extra in
tentional effort was to be made.
Note that all the things God re
quires of His people in the year of
jubilee were designed to be bene
ficial to the life of the people. He
brew slaves were to be released,
bondage was to be terminated, li
berty proclaimed, and the year
was to be sanctified or set apart for
special holy works.
Actually, the word “holy”
means something set apart It is
Western New York, offered sever
al fundamental rales to follow
when considering expansion.
First, grow by steps, but grow
each year. Second, make sure you
have several profitable years under
your belt. Third, run facilities at
full capacity before, during, and
after expansion. Fourth, prove to
yourself that you can handle the
pressure, the debt, the manage
ment, the changes, and the people.
If you are looldng at a major
expansion, you arc also looking at
a major change in your job. You
will be doing less technical woik
and more business and managing
people assignments.
A business control system will
be a very important. This will
include a daily production chart,
regular per unit costs, capital
spending plan, monthly cash
flows, and regular business
analysis.
Finally, be convinced you want
to work with people.
Feather Profs Footnote: "We
make a living by what we get. We
make a life by what we give."
true that all of life should be filled
with our awareness and response
to God, but there is also a need for
special times of awareness and re
sponse. At Christmas we celebrate
God’s incarnation in the person of
Jesus Christ and most people are
moved to be a bit more loving, a
bit more generous, a bit more
sympathetic to the needs of others.
Christmas sermons urge us to ex
tend the Christmas spirit into the
other 365 days of the year.
SPIRITUAL SEASONS
Yet, few, if any of us, ever live
our lives on a steady, unwavering
plane of spirituality. Just as our
physical vitality ebbs and flows
and our mental acuity has peaks
and valleys, so the spirit varies in
its intensity, minute by minute,
day by day, season by season. So
we need special times, jubilees, to
call us once again to our highest
level of spiritual awareness and
resolve. We need to interrupt our
work with celebration so that we
can return to it with new under
standing, resolve and vitality.
The jubilee/Sabbath is also a
time of faith. “And if you say,
‘What shall we eat in the seventh
year, if we may not sow or gather
in our crop?’ I will command my
blessing upon you in the sixth
year, so that it will bring forth fruit
for three years” (25:20, 21). Just
as the people of Israel in the desert
had to trust God to provide for
them on the Sabbath, so they had
to trust in His providence during
the Sabbath year and the jubilee. It
took an act of faith to refrain from
planting and harvesting in that se
venth year. All they had from God
was a promise could they live
on that? Can we?
Is there provision for Sabbath
and jubilee in your life? A time
when you turn aside from your
daily work and preoccupation to
celebrate the goodness of God, to
return to your roots, to see and re
spond to die needs of others, to re
member that everything in this
world belongs to God and is only
temporarily ours?
Jubilee anyone?
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