Christian Farmers’ Fellowship
To Hold Spring Luncheon
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
—Late March brings early signs
of spring, and a day of spiritual
preparation for farmers and the
agricultural community. On Satur
day, March 25, the Southeast
Pennsylvania Chapter of the Fel
lowship of Christian Farmers will
host a Spring Out- reach Lun
cheon at the Leola Family Restau
rant.
It is open to all farmers and
agribusiness people interested in
Christian music, fellowship and
inspiration. Keynote speaker for
the event is Loren Kruse, vice
president of Fellowship of Christ
ian Farmers (FCF), International
Kruse, from Ankeny, lowa, is a
founding members of the organi
zation and the editor of Successful
Farming magazine.
Kruse said he’ll be speaking
about “Rocks, weeds, flies and lit
tle foxes.” That’s the light-hearted
title of his personal testimony
about his growth in Jesus Christ.
Kruse, who also manages his own
farm, fits all of farming’s chal
lenges into four categories—
rocks, weeds, flies, and little
foxes. In an amusing, inspiring
manner, he talks about hbw to
have victory over them.
The outreach luncheon is an
opportunity for people within the
greater family of agriculture to
gather in a joy-filled fellowship,
said Don Hershey, president of
Pennsylvania’s only FCF chapter.
Other testimonies and uplifting
music also will be part of the pro
gram. Hershey encourages bring
ing friends who may not personal
ly know Christ.
FCF includes farmers,
agribusiness people and friends,
and welcomes new members. It
was formed to help build and
strengthen faith in God through
salvation in Christ throughout the
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farming community.
Registration for the Outreach
Luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. at
the Leola Family Restaurants Five
miles east of Lancaster on Route
23 in Leola. It costs S7.SO per per
son, payable to Fellowship of
Christian Farmers. March 15 is the
luncheon deadline.
Lancaster Dairy Day I Features
Indepth Review Of Mastitis
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) The fust in a two-day
over-two-weeks series of prog
rams for Lancaster County dairy
farmer* was held Tuesday at the
Lancaster Farm and Home Center
and emphasized cow comfort and
mastitis control.
Lancaster County Extension
offers die programs annually as
part of its service to the county,
and they are strongly supppited by
area agribusinesses.
The second dairy day event is
scheduled for 9 a.m., March 7. at
the Lancaster Farm and Home
Center with an emphasis on man
aging dairy herds for profit and'
stressing the business aspects of
operating a dairy farm.
Also scheduled during the
March 7 meeting is a presentation
on weed control such as wild
cucumbeTrSpring redroot, and pes
ticide safety. Attendance is worth
credits toward pesticide
certification.
Tuesday’s event started with an
overview by Penn State Extension
agricultural engineer Dan McFar
land of cow comfort designs in
barns and stalls, with an emphasis
on ventilation.
Explaining the basic principals
of air flow dynamics in bam con-
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Southeast Pennsylvania FCF
chapter still seeks additional spon
sors for the meeting. For more
details, contact the Bitlers, or Her
shey at (717) 665-3808.
struction. McFarland showed
examples of cross ventilation and
tunnel ventilation.
Tunnel ventilation has become
more and more papular in recent
years, especially in some of the
older bank barns where location
and construction make natural
ventilation almost impossible, and
cross ventilation impractical.
The key to ventilating any build
ing is to remember the second law
of thermodynamics, which para
phrased and in terms of air flow, is
that air will always take the easiest
and quickest path.
In other words, if the desire is to
move air from point “A” to point
“B,” then there can not be any
point “C” in between.
In applied terms, it means that in
order to move air from one of the
bam to another, there can’t be any
windows or major air vents along
the side walls.
If there would be a side window
open, the flow of air would “short
circuit” and come into (or out o 0
the bam at the point closest to the
fan.
To get good air speed in a tunnel
ventilation system, both ends of
the bam have to be opened up, with
the exhaust portal about equal in
ability to allow air flow as the inlet
portal.
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John Weidman has a collection of husking pegs to com
plement his’life-time interest in corn.
Weidman Retires After
Lifetime With Pioneer
(Contlnuad from Pago All)
of families. Today we see more management”
young people comming back to the Asa hobby. Weidman has a col
farm because the operations are lection of farm tools and other
larger and fanning is now a busi- items that have taken his interest
ness challenge. over the years. Of special note and
“1 have also been working with fitting to Weidman’s interest in
younger people in Pioneer and this com is a collection of about SO
has kept me young. The future is husking pegs of all discriptions—
going to be very exciting. Every bone, brass, spikes—even the
decade has been exciting with thumb-through-leather peg that
many challenges. In the *9o’s we helped him husk out more than 38
have more emphasis on biotech- bushels in 80 minutes in that early
nology. Biotechnology will not contest as a teenager.
replace the plant breeder but it will
help us come up with new hybrids
in a shorter period of time.
“Environmental issues cannot
be overlooked on the farm. But far
mers are already the best environ
mentalists in the country. Most
people don’t know that. But we
have a lot of home owners who are
doing more to hurt the environment
with everything they put on their
lawns. But the majority of farmers
do a good job with nutrient
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Weidman and his wife Barbara
have three grown children
“So many people have helped
me in my life thatare now in retire
ment homes,” Weidman said. “I
don't want to forget those people. I
want to spend a lot more time with
Barb and do some volunteer work
in the community. The Lord put me
here to serve and, as long as I can, I
want to continue to serve my fel
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