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Responsibility For Actions
Some time ago, a man from New Jersey was arrested for killing
a rat in his garden. He faced up to one year in jail, along with a
heavy fine,
For farmers who face the destructiveness of rats and mice in
feed supplies and com cribs, and for health officials who face the
diseases spread by these animals, the situation in New Jersey is
absurd. To arrest someone for killing vermin is beyond com
prehension. To add fines and jail time places these animals on a
level with fiumans, a development that has not been historically
acceptable.
But in these situations, anger must be controlled. Some people
responded by placing dead animals and animal parts on the lawn
of the person who issued the two complaints of animal cruelty.
This reaction did nothing to bring a sensible conclusion. When
the people who claim the higher moral ground lower themselves
to breaking the law, they lose the right to make their higher claim.
Certianly we need to use all our mental and spiritual powers to
correct injustice. But we have a responsibility to control our
actions. Otherwise we become living proof that those who want
to make animals our superiors are correct in their thinking.
Farm Calendar
Juniata County Fair, Port Royal,
thru Sept. 10.
Cambria County Fair, Ebensburg,
thru Sept 10.
Mon Valley 4-H Dairy Show,
Westmoreland County
Fairgrounds.
Northwest 4-H Dairy Day, Craw
ford County Fairgrounds.
Futurity, Maryland State Fair.
Spartansburg Community Fair,
■ Show, picnic.
Ox Hill Community Fair, Home,
thru Sept. 10.
West Alexander Fair, West Ale
xander, thru Sept. 10.
Waterford Community Fair,
Claysburg Farm Show. Claysburg,
thru Sept 10.
Jamestown Community Fair,
Bellwood-Antis Farm Show, Bell
wood, thru Sept 10.
Luzerne County Fair, Dallas, thru
Sept. 11.
Nutrient Management Advisory
Board meeting, Dept, of Ag
Building, Harrisburg, 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Outstanding Farm Family Awards
Banquet Fleetwood Grange
Hall, 7 p.m.
Emergency Potter County Potato
Producers’ Meeting, Potter
County Extension Office,
Western Maryland REC, 8:30
p.m.
Lancaster County Pasture Walk,
Stephen Stoltzfus Farm, Christ
iana, 10:30 a.m.
On-Farm Composting, Forrest
Strieker Farm, Robesonia, 10
a.m.-4 p.m.
N.Y.-Pa. Pasture Tour, Rudo
Farm, Qreene, N.Y., 10:30
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a.m.-noon and Rambling M.
Farm, W. Bainbridge, N.Y.,
Pike County Fair, Matamoras, thru
Sept. 11.
York Inter-State Fair, York, thru
Sept. 17.
Steam and Gas Roundup, Steam
Show Days, Carroll County
Farm Museum, sponsored by
Mason-Dixon Historical Socie
ty, Inc., thru Sept. 11.
Combine Field Day, Steenken
Historic Schaefferstown Harvest
Fair, Schaefferstown, thru Sept
11.
Green Township Community Fair,
Commodore, thru Sept. 17.
Poultry Management and Health
Seminar, Kreider’s Restaurant
Manheim. noon.
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Mid-Atlantic Layer Management
Workshop, Iredell County Ag
Center, Statesville. N.C., thru
Sept. 14.
Albion Area Fair, Albion, thru
Sept. 17.
Denver Community Fair, Denver,
thru Sept. 17.
Sinking Valley Fair, Altoona, thru
Sept. 17,
N.Y.-Pa. Pasture Tours, Steve and
Susan Saxton Farm, Troy, Pa.,
10:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m. and
Dean and Joy Madigan Farm,
Burlington, Pa., 1 p.m., and
Leslie and Ruth Bresee, Ulster,
Pa.. 2:30 p.m.
Carroll County Md. “Save the
Bay” Series, Extension Office,
Westminster, Md., 7 p.m.-9
p.m., also Sept 20,27 and Oct.
4. 11. and 18.
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York Fair Youth Dairy Show.
Berlin Brothersvalley Fair, Berlin.
thru Sept 17.
Williamsburg Community Farm
Show. Williamsburg, thru Sept
19.
PAS A Nutrient Management Field
Day, Fulton County Grazing
Field Day, Mosemann Dairy,
To Remember
Arnold Lueck
This week Lancaster County
lost a very valuable friend. Arnold
Lueck, retired Lancaster County
agricultural extension agent,
passed away after a lengthy battle
with cancer.
Amie was a one of a kind per
son. He loved people and his work.
His knowledge of plants, bees, and
horticulture was only surpassed by
very few. NO question was too
small or silly and he went to great
lengths to help people understand
how to deal with their problems.
There are many Amie stories
from trying to pass a rock off for a
potato in judging contests to writ
ing his various newspaper columns
in his car at the Farm and Home
Center parking lot. His desk and
office contained volumes of paper
that set new standards for Sling.
Amie made a difference in Lan
caster County agriculture. He was
instrumental in establishing the
county’s wine industry, eradicat
ing blue mold in tobacco, and help
ing many farmers improve their
agronomic practices. This unself
ish, very friendly and sincere indi
vidual will long be remembered in
pleasant memories and husbandry
practices.
To Prepare For
Corn Silage
Harvesting
To ensure high quality com sil
age is harvested this fall, do not
wait until the last minute to get
harvest equipment ready. Be pre
pared to fill the silo fast once
harvest begins.
The old saying, “fill ’em fast
and seal ’em tight” makes the best
silage and minimizes losses due to
Spoilage.
Now is the time to get harvest
ing machinery ready. Test chop
pers and blowers and be sure all
wagons ate in good repair. Look
ing now for possible items which
ate worn and might break under
stress and replacing them before
harvest will save time and reduce
your stress during harvest.
Remember, this year’s com
crop will add stress to your equip
ment. Com silage harvesting
equipment works best when it is
sharp and adjusted according to the
manufacturing specifications.
Dull knives shred rather than cut
forage. This requires more power,
increases stress on equipment, and
produces a silage which does not
Warfordsburg, and Malot Feed
er Cattle, Harrisonville, 10
a.m.-4 p.m.
Solanco Fair, Quarryville, thru
Ag Technology Day, Foragement
Management Field to Feed
Bunk, Westmoreland Fair
(Tum to Pago All)
pack as well in the silo.
During harvest, think safety
fmt Keep guards in place at all
times. Turn tractor and machine
off before making any adjustments
or attempting to unplug a clogged
harvester.
To Keep
Heifers From
First Calf Heifers
Beef herds on heifer AI prog
rams are finding that the
replacement heifers retained from
first calf heifers provide the best
genetics, combined with low birth
weight EPDs and high maternal
value, according to Chester Hugh
es, extension livestock agent.
Since these heifers are sired by
calving ease sires, a majority of
them will reduce frame size and be
earlier maturing than heifers from
mature cows. If your management
BY UWHENCE W AimOUSE
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THE SCARLET CORD
September 4,1994
THE SCARLET CORD
September 4, 1994
Background Scripture:
Joshua 1 through 2
Devotional Reading:
Joshua 1:1-9
When I was in junior high, I
idolized my pastor. Made J. Steir
wald. If it had not been for him
and a pretty brunette named
“Jackie” I wouldn’t have even
been part of that church. At first, I
went there because Jackie was
there; I stayed there because Pas
tor Steirwaid showed me that (Hie
can be a Christian and still have
fun. Up to that time it was my per
ception that churches were grim
places where people looked un
happy and acted negatively.
When, a few years later, Mark
Steirwaid died suddenly of a heart
attack, I was devastated. When it
was announced that he would be
succeeded by the Rev. Paul Price,
I was certain that he could not pos
sibly fill Pastor Steirwald’s shoes.
And he didn’t; in fact, he never
tried to. He went on, rather, to per
form his ministry differently than
his predecessor, but no less suc
cessfully. So, both of these men,
each in his own way, had a tre
mendous effect upon my life and
ultimately my own ministry.
I can appreciate than, what may
have loomed large in the minds of
the people of Israel when, upon
the death of Moses, it wu an
nounced that Joshua would be his
successor. Certainly there must
have been those who said, “He can
never be the leader Moses was!",
who thought that with Moses gone
they would never see the promised
land.
“WITH YOU”
But, whatever doubts and fears
there might have beat. Israel fol
lowed Joshua’s leadership. God’s
special servant, Moses, was gone,
but God was still with them. The
promise God had made to Moses
was renewed with Joshua: “Every
place that the sole of your foot will
tread upon I have given to you, as
I promised Moses” (1:3). Best of
all although Moses was gone, God
was not: “As I was with Moses, so
I will be with you; 1 will not fail or
forsake you” (1:5).
So, because the Israelites recog
nized God behind Joshua’s leader
is on target, these heifers will often
be the older ones, ready to bred
before the main cowherd.
In fact, one common mistake
producers may make is selecting
heifers on adjusted weaning
weights. This could lead to having
many younger heifers in your
replacement group. These heifers
could be 45 days younger than the
majority of your calf crop and may
not reach puberty in time to breed
them ahead of the cow herd.
By choosing older heifers, you
may avoid these problems. Good
replacement heifers are certainly
worth the expense of raising them.
Knowing the genetic potential of
the heifers and cows in your herd
can help you make important
selection and culling decisions.
Feather Profs Footnote:
“Nothing happens unless you first
have a dream."
ship, they committed themselves
to their new leader. Joshua busily
set about to prepare the great cam
paign in the promised land and. as
a prudent military strategy, sent
out two spies to Jericho.
Why did these two spies pick
the home of a prostitute? One rea
son was probably that in the atmo
sphere of her house they would
overhear information and secrets
that would be hard to come' by
elsewhere. Actually, it was a per
fect place to hide and spy. At any
rate, Rahab did conspire with
Joshua’s spies in exchange for
their promise that no harm would
come to her.
A SHADY CHARACTER?
So, Rahab was a prostitute, con
sorted with the enemy and com
mitted treason against her own
city. Why would the Old Testa
ment commemorate such a shady
character? Because, despite her
lowly character, she recognized
the God who stood behind these
two spies and the twelve tribes of
Israel “I know that the Lord has
given you the 1and..(2:9). ‘Tor
the Lord your God is he who is
God in heaven above and on earth
beneath (2:12). Strong as were the
ties of citizenship, her relationship
with Cod was even more import
ant to her.
Even this prostitute was wise
enough to recognize that the
claims of God on erne’s life are of
the highest priority. Lots of re
spectable, intelligent people in
this world have never figured that
out. Their politics or ideology pre
cedes their theology or distorts
it
For her protecion, the spies tell
Rahab to hang a scarlet cord in her
window so that the destruction
that is to fall upon Jericho will not
come upon her or her house. This
is reminiscent of what Israel had
experienced in Egypt: Moses told
the Israelites to put some blood of
the Passover lambs on the door
posts and lintels of their houses so
that God’s destruction would pass
over them. (Exodus 12:7,13)
The scarlet cord hung in the
window of a lowly prostitute was
the medium of her salvation. She
recognized the God who stood be
hind Israel; the Lord recognized
the woman worth saving behind
the visage of the prostitute.
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