AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 25, 1995
OPINION
Beating NAFTA
A friend in the livestock business sent us a copy of Pat Cog
gins ’ column in the October issue of the Western Livestock
Reporter out of Billings, Montana, that contains very disturbing
facts about why cattle prices are so low in this country.
Coggins reports that an entrepreneur in Mexico bought cattle
in Central and South America for $5O a head, shipped them into
Mexico to rest for a few days or weeks, and then sent them on
into the U.S. for $350 to $4OO per head. This is illegal under the
terms of NAFTA, but apparently authorities do not have a way
to check the real point of origin of the cattle.
Another way Mexicans beat NAFTA is to disperse their herds
in the U.S. and replace them with $5O cattle out of Central and
South America. This is probably legal as long as it is not done on
an annual basis.
Since Central and South America have multi-millions of
livestock but very poormarkets, we arc sure that if they can, they
will find a market in the U.S. Since many countries have no
brand laws or cattle identification systems, they are in a position
to move cattle north where they can find U.S markets. This may
be good for the dealers and packers, but it certainly doesn’t help
the beef farmers and dairymen with cull cows for sale.
Lehigh Valley Horse Council
meeting, Whitehall Mail Com-
ant, Bedford, 9:30 a.m.-4:30
Designing Modem Milking Cen
ter, National Conference. Hyatt
Regency, Rochester, N.Y., thru
Dec. 1.
Agway regional annual meeting,
Sheraton Liverpool.
Penn State Income Tax Institute,
Ramada Inn, Wilkes-Barre,
Pro Farm “Management for Suc
cess” meeting, Howard John
son’s, Millington, Md.
Lebanon DHIA meeting, Myer
stown Church of the Brethren, 7
p.m.
Penn State Income Tax Institute,
Quality Inn, Williamsport,
South Williamsport, thru Dec.
Wcstmoreian^DHl^Holstem
Club annual meeting, Knight’s
Court, New Stanton, 10:30a.m.
Tulpehocken Young Farmer Fami-
Bam, 9 a.m. grading, 3 p.m.
sales.
Pennsylvania Quarterhorse Asso
ciation annual meeting and
Springfield, Mass. Sheraton.
Agronomy Ag Service School,
Brynwood Inn, Lewisburg, 9
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Penn State Income Tax Institute,
Nittany Lion Inn, State College,
thru Dec. 5.
*Farm Calendar*
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Solanco Young Fanners’ meeting,
Cow Comfort, Solanco High
School.
Mid-Atlantic Cooperative Exten
sion meeting (MACE), Univer
sity of Delaware, Newark, Del.,
8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Agronomy Ag Service School,
Sinbad’s Restaurant, Wysox, 9
a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Southwest Pennsylvania Hay Auc
tion, Westmoreland Fair
grounds, 11 a.m.
Beginning and Retiring Farmer
Workshop, Bradford County
Extension Office, Towanda, 9
a.m.-3 p.m.
Lancaster DHIA annual meeting
and banquet. Good ’N Plenty
Restaurant, Smoketown, 11:30
a.m.
Editor:
In the Lancaster Farming
November 4, 1995 issue on the
front page I read that ‘Torn State
Strives To Get Handle on Flies.”
They are going in the right direc
tion. As a suggestion, what’s
needed is to study ways to make
the poultry, turkey, and swine
housing operations cooler so that
there isn’t big losses when the
summer time temperature gets 100
degrees that cause big looses. I
read where a turkey farmer in Illi
nois had 3,000 dead turkeys in the
heat causing $25,000 loss. A
neighbor had only a $5OO loss and
another neighbor to the west
$550,000 and another, almost
$lOO,OOO. This made problems
disposing of dead birds.
Today’s modem ways and edu
cated engineers should be able to
design housing with cooler temp-
To Change
Aging Antifreeze
Robert Anderson, extension
agronomy agent, reminds us: do
not expect your car to brave the
winter with antifreeze that is more
than two years old.
Ethylene glycol antifreeze is
called permanent antifreeze
because it will not boil away at
normal engine temperatures. How
ever, that docs not mean the solu
tion retains all of its good qualities
forever.
Antifreeze contains additives to
inhibit rust and corrosion, resist
foaming, and conduct heat readily.
After one or two winters, these
additives usually are depleted.
If you plan to use the same anti
freeze a second year, add a can of
rust inhibitor and a can of water
pump lubricant to the cooling sys
tem to replenish the depleted addi
tives. When you change the anti
freeze, use a mixture containing SO
percent water and SO percent anti
freeze. This will lower the freezing
point to -34 degrees F. and raise
the boiling point to 266 degrees F.
A solution containing more than
70 percent antifreeze will raise the
Mid-Atlantic Tillage Teleconfer
ence, various extension sites,
also Dec. 13.
Agronomy Ag Service School
(Turn to Pig* A 26)
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eratures during hot summer
months. Lancaster Farming had
pictures of inside operations of lat
est ideas in swine, poultry, and
turkey buildings and equipment
with outside areas. No signs of
wind breaks or any barriers to
shade off the hot summer sun.
A few years ago, PA Farmer
Magazine had a write-up about a
quick growing willows for
screens, and shelters that grow
four feet the first year and the sec
ond year putting on about 20 feet.
Man designs ways to go to the
moon. Surely, something could be
designed to make poultry housing
cooler so there would not be big
looses.
The source for these fast grow
ing trees is: Stan’s Trees, Midwest,
Inc., Box 128, Kimberly. WI,
54136-0128.
Roland Kamoda
Monongahela
freezing point Antifreeze that is
not mixed with water will freeze at
-9 degrees F.
To Change
Antifreeze Properly
To change antifreeze, first flush
the cooling system with clean
water for about IS minutes. Leave
the engine running. This flushing
removes scale and soft deposits
that tend to obstruct the flow of
coolant in the system.
Commercial products are avail
able to use in flushing cooling sys
tems. These products will loosen
and remove some harder deposits
in the cooling system.
Before adding the new anti
freeze mixture, check the radiator
hoses and heater hoses for cracks,
bulges, or suspicious-looking
spots. Replace the hoses as needed.
Remember, antifreeze is poi
sonous to humans and pets. It has a
sweet taste to animals and they will
readily drink it Therefore, be sure
to keep pets away from antifreeze
TO USE OR TO BE USED
November 26, 1995
TO USE OR TO BE USED
November 26, 1995
Background Scripture:
Acts 18:18 through 19:41
Devotional Reading;
Acts 18:18-28
One of our besetting sins is the
almost unconscious temptation to
use God for our own purposes
instead of being used by him for
his. We want him to make us well,
affluent, successful, and powerful
and much of our prayer life is
devoted to giving him a shopping
list of What we want
I realize that there is a fine line
between asking God for his help
and using him. Jesus certainly
promised us that God is concerned
with even our least important
needs and desires and the New
Testament again and again
encourages to make them known
to the Lord. But when the relation
ship with God is cultivated pri
marily for what we want to get
from him, then we are simply try
ing to use God.
The world is not divided into
those who try to use God and
those who don’t. Actually, prob
ably all of us try to use him at
some time or other for our own
power or profit. That’s why I
called it an “almost unconscious
temptation.” Most of us, if we
realized we were trying to use
God, would back off. We know
better than that But often we
deceive ourselves into thinking
that, in seeking what we want, we
are really seeking what God
wants.
SELFISH INVOCATIONS
In one of his books, theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr, quotes John
Adams’ warnings to Thomas Jef
ferson; “Power always thinks it
has a great soul and vast views
beyond the comprehension of the
weak; and that it is doing God’s
service when it is violating all His
laws.” That is why God’s help is
invoked in some of the most self
ish enterprises.
In Acts 19, we arc told that
“God did extraordinary miracles
by the hand of Paul” while he was
in Ephesus. Seven sons of a high
priest named Sceva decided they
wanted to have the same power
and they began to practice the
containers and antifreeze draining
from radiators. Make sure to dis
pose of old antifreeze in a proper
manner.
To Develop
Christmas List
With Christmas about a month
away, many of us are developing
our Christmas lists. Some items
you may want to consider are safe
ty items.
An air helmet to wear in dusty
conditions would be an excellent
present. It will give you better
working conditions and improve
performance while protecting your
lungs.
Smoke alarms, protective clo
thing, respirators, eye protection,
gloves, and ear plugs are items
every farmer should own and use.
So personal safety protection items
make excellent gift suggests for
your spouse and children.
Feather Prof.'s Footnote:
"Work toward the best that is pos
sible within your power."
exorcism of evil spirits. “But the
evil spirit answered them, ‘Jesus I
know, and Paul I know; but who
are you?’ And the man in whom
the evil spirit was leaped on them,
mastered all of them, and over
powered them, so that they fled
out of that house wounded and,
naked” (19:15,16).
I’m sure that the sons of Sceva
justified themselves in saying they
were only trying to help these poor
souls in torment. But it was not
helping others that motivated
them; they sought the power of
God for their own purposes. And
what happened to them graphical
ly illustrates what happens to all of
those who seek to use God’s pow
er rather than be used by it: even
tually the power masters and over
throws us.
THE DOOR TO POWER
Paul did not seek God’s power,
but God poured it into his life to
accomplish his divine purposes.
The late Halford Luccock, a
renowned seminary professor and
author, once wrote that “God
gives power only to men who need
it. He does not waste power. He
gives it to those who have tackled
something so big, so overwhelm
ing, that their own resources are
quite insufficient.” Luccock said
that, when we tackle a task that is
too big for us, it opens “the door
through which there comes the
rushing of a mighty wind of the
spirit”
This is what we find in Acts 19.
Paul, responding to God’s leading,
tackles a job too big for him and,
when he offers himself to God’s
purpose, that opens the door
through which the Holy Spirit
rushes into his ministry. Paul
didn’t ask for it, but because he
offered himself, “God did extraor
dinary miracles” by his hands.
From Paul’s letters we see that
throughout his life in Christ, he
consistently brought his needs and
wants to God in prayer. But his
overriding concern was not to use
God for his own purposes, but to
be used by him for the sake of the
gospel. In our own relationship
with God, we need aim no higher
than that.
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Everett H. Newtwanger Managing Edttor
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