AlO-LancMt*r Farming, Saturday, June 10, 1995 OPINION All Milk Safe From Antibiotic Residues Tests to screen all loads of milk for antibiotics at a level of five parts per billion have been used throughout the U.S. since Janu ary 1,1995. This means that consumers will not get any of the six beta lactam classes (penicillin) or any illegal drugs in the milk which they buy and consume. Accordjng to Ronald Hostetler, Cambria County agent, screening tests have been standardized at the most sensitive level of S ppb, which they can detect with reproducible results. Pen nsylvania has been screening loads of milk with the best tests available for nearly three decades. The Food and Drug Adminstration has determined that based on the latest available technology that this is a safe level. With any test or technology it is not practical or possible to attain a zero level. Presently every load of milk received at a processing plant in Pennsylvania is sampled prior to unloading and processing and tested by one or more screening tests. Any load positive at the 5 ppb level is disposed of for other than human food. Because anti biotics are used to treat sick milk cows, more than 2,000,000 pounds of milk had to be disposed of in the January through March period. Similar procedures are used in all states with more than 68 mil lion pounds being dumped in fiscal year 1994. These levels are being reduced as success reaches more than 99 percent by the action of dairy farmers who withold and dump milk from treated cows. This is the way it should be. Therefore, because of proper action by dairy fanners and the aggressive testing procedures, consumers can be sure that the fluid milk and dairy products they buy are safe and free from harmful antibiotics. Dauphin County 4-H Communica tion Day, extension office, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Armstrong County dairy princess pageant. Center Hill Church of the Brethren Fellowship Hall, Kittanning, 7:30 p.m. Lebanon County dairy princess pageant, Lebanon County Voc ational School. 7:30 p.m. Butler County dairy princess pageant, Clearview Mall Cen ter Court, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Chester County dairy princess pageant, Coventryville U. Methodist, 7:30 p.m. Emu Open House, Hammercreek Poultry Management and Health Editor, On Memorial Day, May 29, a tornado took down the chicken house on the Roy Weaver farm on Camp Rodgers Road, Ephrata. For the next three days, Mends and neighbors came to help and brought food for the workers. We Seminar, Kreider’s Restaurant, Manheim, noon. Tioga County dairy princess pageant, Mainesburg Com munity Center, Mainesburg, 7 p.m. Pa. Producers Research and Deve- lopment Commission meeting, Solanco Fairgrounds, Quarry- State FFA Convention, Penn State University, University Park, thru June IS. Mid-Atlantic Fruit School. W.Va. University Experiment Farm and Holiday Inn and Knights Inn, Martinsburg, W.Va., thru June IS. Centre County Wool Pool, Grange Fairgrounds, Centre Hall, 7 a.m.-ll:30 a.m., and 1 p.m.-2 (Turn to Pago All) would like to thank everyone who helped us. We are fortunate to live in an area where people are so willing to put aside their own work to help a neighbor. We really do need each other. The Roy Weaver Family Ephrata To Choose A Guardian Death and taxes may not be any one’s favorite topics. However, people seem more willing to plan for them than illness and disability that may occur anytime. Most people plan for death by having a legally valid will. But most people seem reluctant to pro vide for someone to take care of matters while they are still alive but incapable of managing their affairs. A legal guardianship assigns the financial responsibilities of one person to another. People who need a guardian because they are physically or mentally unable to manage their finances receive a guardian by assigning one them selves or allowing the court to assign one. When the courts appoint a guar dian, they consider kinship and geographical proximity. This could be a person the ward would not have chosen themselves. In addition, a court-appointed guar dian faces a tremendous burden of paperwork and bureaucracy. Each purchase and many financial trans actions must be justified to the court’s satisfaction. With the help of a lawyer, draw up a simple, durable power of attorney that will assign responsi bility to a guardian of your choice. This makes things easier for the ward and the guardian. The prob lem with a durable power of attor ney is that it may be drawn up only when the person is still capable of making important legal decisions. When you are incapacitated, it is too late. Protect yourself and your family by drawing up a durable power of attorney. To Know Alternative Uses Of Corn Com is now being used for more than animal feed. High fructose com syrup is the sweetener of choice in the expanding soft drink industry. Com is also a basic ingredient in the production of high quality vita mins and amino acids which were previously derived only from the petro-chemical industry. In addition, we are seeing excit ing developments in a number of new product areas. An increasing number of privately owned ethanol plants have been started in lowa. Ethanol is a clean burning alcohol derived from com. It is also a renewable energy resource. The increased demand for pre pared foods boosts the com pro cessing industry, which provides many of the starches, syrups, and oils found in microwave, ready to eat products. Com starch has also found a role in the manufacture of recycled paper and the reduction of pollu tion in waste water from paper mills. Research has also shown that com products may replace salt as an ice melt. All these new uses were made possible from research. It is another example of how funded research creates new demands for products. To Be Aware Of Poisonous Plants Summer storms and dried-up pastures are two conditions that increase animals’ exposures to poisonous plants in pastures. A variety of poisonous plants are present on many farms. Fortu nately, animals generally have the good sense of not eating them. However, very hungry and not well-fed animals will be more like ly to eat poisonous plants. One of the leading causes of poi soning is wilted wild cherry BY LAWRENCE W ALTHQUSE m ©asas WHY ARE YOU LIMPING? June 11,1995 WHY ARE YOU UMPING? June 11, 1995 Background Scripture: I Kings 18 Devotional Reading: Deuteronomy 6:S-15a In our newspaper recently I read an article reporting a poll of the American public indicating that 95 percent of those polled said they believed in God or some ulti mate being! At first, I was pleasantly sur prised, but, after giving it some thought, it occurred to me that I need not have been so surprised. In my own experience I have found just about everyone I’ve known could fit into that 95 per centile. Actually. I’ve personally known only one professional athe ist and that was 50 years ago. I’ve known some agnostics while the atheist does not believe in God. the agnostic believes that we cannot know if there is a God. But that doesn’t mean that the balance of people left after you subtract the atheists and agnostics believe essentially the same. So, more important than whether peo ple believe in a deity is the kind of deity in which they believe. THE NAZI GOD In the 1930 s and ’4os many Na zis believed both in God and Adolph Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoef fer, a German Lutheran pastor, protested that Nazism and Christi anity were incompatible. The God of Jesus Christ, he said, was not the god of the Third Reich. For those pronouncements he was thrown into a concentration camp and just SO years ago he was exe cuted by the Third Reich. During the Middle Ages there arose in the Church, a diabolical phenomenon called the Inquisi tion. Some brave souls, martyrs most of them, protested that the God of Jesus was not the god of the Inquisition. Historians have helped us to understand that neith er was the God of Jesus Christ the god of the Crusades, nor of many of the other aberrations that have often been paraded under the ban leaves. Limbs may break as a result of storm damage. As the leaves wilt, die levels of hydrogen cyanide and sugars increase, mak ing the leaves more poisonous and more palatable. Once the leaves become completely dry and brown, they become safe. Yew clippings is another source of livestock poisoning. Some other toxic plants are Jimson weed, black nightshade, hemlock, brack en fem and rhododendron and azaleas. To help prevent weed poisoning in catde: • Be sure animals are adequate ly fed before turning them out to pasture. • Remove broken wild cherry limbs from cow areas. Never throw ornamental clip pings into or next to pastures. • Clip pastures regularly or use an approved or labeled herbicide to control unwanted weeds. Feather Prof.’s Footnote; "Begin each day with a personal outlook that will open doors, wel come opportunity, and bring serenity." ner of Christianity or some other religion. In our own times Christianity has been used as a cloak to lend respectability to other blasphe mies against the God of Jesus Christ Islam, Buddhism, and Hin duism have also been abused in a like manner. Someone has com mented that God made us in his own image and we have returned the favor. Too often the god we present to the world is not the God of Jesus Christ but a projection of human passions and prejudices. WHO IS GOD? So in I Kings 18 the prophet Elijah comes to the people of Is rael —and to us with two great imperatives: “If die Lord is God, follow him; but iffiaal, then fol low him” (21). First the people must decide who is God. Is it the Lord or is it Baal? Is it the Creator/ Savior God of Abraham. Isaac, Is rael, Moses and Joshua, or is it the licentious deity of the Baalists? And for us it is imperative that we too decide what is the nature of the God in whom we will believe, is he the God of love revealed in Christ or the god of prejudice and injustice, the deity of selfish privi lege? Just because we call our selves Christians doesn’t mean the god we serve is the Lord. Once we have decided that, we come to the second imperative; follow the God you have chosen. It is not enough to say you believe in him, but to live as Jesus Christ has shown us. The problem is that often we try to profess one God but serve many. We salute the Lord of Jesus Christ but we pat tern our lives and our society on other gods. Elijah chided the Is raelites. saying: “How long will you keep hopping from one leg to another?” switching from one god to another? Choose just one and live accordingly. Elijah’s challenge is just as timely for us; Why are you pro fessing one God but failing to serve Him alone? Why are you still limping? Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building IE. Main St. Ephrata, PA 17522 —by— Lancaster Farming, Inc. A SlUnman Entuprtso Robert a Campbell General Manager Everett R. Nawawangar Managing EdKor Copyright 1995 by Umcutu Fuming
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