AlO-Larttasfer Farming, Saturday, June 8,1996
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OPINION
Good Reviews For Milk *
We often chide the national news media for their disparaging
reports of farming, especially our dairy industry. So, when a
national publication with circulation in the millions admits the
bad news about this food group has been blown out of proportion
and gives a positive slant to the beneficial nutritional value of
milk, we think we should applaud their article. We do!
In the Sunday, May 12,1996, issue of Parade Magazine that is
inserted in Sunday newspapers across the nation Densie Webb
gives an encouraging report for the dairy industry under the head
line “Don’t Drop Dairy From Your Diet.”
‘Take a closer look,” Webb writes, “and you’ll find that the
bad news about dairy either has been blown out of proportion or is
completely untrue.”
Then after quoting several authorities about the need for the
nutritional value in milk and combatting the negative fat issue
with the recommendation to use low-fat or skim milk, Webb
recommends some ways to get more calcium-rich products in
your diet without adding fat.
Among these suggestions: replace diet soda with low-fat milk
as your beverage of choice when you grab a fast lunch; when you
take a break, make it a milk break with a little coffee in your milk
instead of the other way around. Right on!
We all know milk is one of the best sources of calcium in the
diet. Dr. David McCarron, chief of the Division of Nephrology,
Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology at Oregon Health Sci
ences University in Portland says milk not only helps prevent the
bone-destroying disease osteoporosis but also may prevent high
blood pressure, ward off colon cancer, alleviate symptoms of
PMS, control cholesterol, and even help your body manage
stress.
Thank you Parade Magazine for publishing this factual article
about milk. You have been of great service to your readers and we
want you to know the dairy industry commends you for the
report.
Bedford County dairy princess
pageant, N.B.C. High School
Auditorium, Laysburg, 7:30
p.m.
Wayne County dairy princess
pageant, Belmont Fire Hall,
Pleasant Mount
Lebanon County dairy princess
pageant Lebanon County Voc-
Open Novice, Thorncraft
Equestrian Center, Malvern.
Brandywine Carriage Driving
Show, Willowdale, Kennett
Square, 8:30 a.m.
Antique Tractor and Equipment
Collector’s Show, Oley Fair
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Poultry Management and Health
Seminar, Kreider’s Restaurant,
Manheim, noon.
Northampton/Lehigh county dairy
princess pageant, Slockertown
Memorial Hall, Stockertown,
7:30 p.m.
Pasture Walk, Roman Stoltzfoos
meeting, current research pro
jects, Hibshman Homestead
Research Farm, 7:30 p.m.
Pequea-Mill Creek Project Field
Day, begifts at Gideon Fisher
Farm, Intercourse, 9 a.m.-2
p.m.
FFA State Activities Week, Uni
versitv Park, thru June 13^
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Wednesday. Jmu‘ 12
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AFGC Annual Conference, Delta
Pacific Hotel, Vancouver,
Canada.
Open Spaces Alternative Land
scapes Workshop, Swarthmore
College, 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m.
Lancaster County Poultry Associ
ation Annual Golf Tournament,
Foxchasc Golf Course, Ste
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Editor:
With the passing of Fred Re
bum who served the community
well as a school board treasurer
and president, a Mason, a member
of Grange and active in his
church, we have lost a friend.
Fred Rebum gave more to the
community than most Many of us
have watched his farm change this
year. We have objected to the
many trees that were sacrificed on
the farm. Most of us are unaware
that Fred donated his development
rights to the county. His is the first
farm in Chester County to do so.
A major concern in agriculture
is the development of pest resis
tance to chemicals.
There is a growing concern
weeds may join the list of pests that
have developed resistance to cer
tain chemicals.
How do weeds develop resis
tance? Weed scientists believe
weeds are like people. They have a
wide range of genetic variation in
their populations. This means any
weed population has the potential
to have one or weeds that will not
be affected by a particular
herbicide.
When the same herbicide is used
over a period of time, the weeds
which are susceptible are killed
and the resistant ones are not
Eventually resistant weeds polli
nate resistant weeds and the seed
produced is resistant.
It is much easier to prevent the
development of resistance than it is
to cope with it. Resistance man
agement strategies include:
• Crop rotation.
• Product rotation, especially
ones that have different modes of
action.
• Use tank mixes er sequential
applications of products with dif
ferent modes of action.
• Use mechanical control. No
weed is resistant to cultivation.
Controlling insect pests on
plants have evolved from mechan
ical removal to spraying the plant
with an insecticide to allowing the
plant to control its own insect
pests.
The most destructive insect pest
of alfalfa in Pennsylvania is the
potato leafhopper. Plant breeders
with several seed-producing com
panies have been able to breed
Lancaster County has had many
farmers recognize the importance
of preserving farm land.
Agriculture may not seem im
portant to the people who have
grown up watching the farms
gradually give way to houses.
With the finest farmland in the
world, it seems immoral to me, to
continue in this vein. Lancaster
County is the number one non-ir
rigated agriculture county in the
US. Chester County fits in well in
to the top category. Where will we
To Prevent
Weed Resistance
To Look At
New Alfalfa Varieties
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alfalfa plants which are resistant to
this insect.
The first two resistant varieties
to be marketed in 1997 are Arrest
from Northrup King and S34LH
from Pioneer. Several other seed
companies including Cenex/
Land O’Lakes, DeKalb, Mycogen,
Cargill, Agway, American's Alfal
fa. and Agtipro expect to have
varieties available soon.
All the companies developed
their resistance working with germ
plasma released from Purdue and
Kansas State about 10 years ago.
Varieties will have tiny glandular
hairs on the external plant parts.
hi total, it took more than 30
years of research to develop the
genetic material from a weed
found in North Africa by USDA
ARS scientists.
Many university and USDA
researchers believe the amount of
resistance is substantial. However,
they do report differences in var
ieties that have been tested.
You will want to study variety
trails in your area for effectiveness
before selecting one of these new
varieties for your farm.
To Look At
Rain Damage
To Hay
Rainfall during harvest reduces
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BY LAWRENCE W. ALTHOUSE
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ARE YOU SERIOUS,
JESUS?
June 9,1996
ARE YOU SERIOUS, JESUS?
June 9, 1996
Background Scripture:
I Timothy 6;2b-21
Devotional Reading:
I Timothy 6:14-20
Many years ago I saw a British
motion picture. Heavens Above!,
in which the late Peter Sellers
played the part of a naive Angli
can priest who took seriously and
literally Jesus’ teaching about
money. Without meaning to do so,
the rector alienated just about
everyone in his parish with his ad
monitions to share material goods
with those who were needy. What
made the film so whimsical for me
was that he didn’t exaggerate or
bend the words of Jesus in any
way; he simply accepted these
teachings at face value.
BELIEVING IN MONEY
To be sure, we do share a por
tion of it what was the last
statistic I saw on church giving:
the majority of Christians giving
less than one percent of their in
come for charitable and benevol
ent causes! We all know that level
of sharing is not what Jesus ex
pects of us, but we resist taking
him seriously because material
wealth is what most of us really
believe is the root of happiness.
We believe in God, but we believe
even more in money and what it
can buy.
If this doesn’t apply to you,
well good for you! But it applies
to me, even though I profess that
God is much more important than
money. It is not what I say about
money, but how I feel about it and
what I do about it If I really be
lieved that God alone is the source
of all that I need for abundant life,
I would be more generous with
what I have. And I strongly sus
pect that I am not alone in that
condition.
both yield and the quality of the
hay, according to research at the
University of Kentucky.
Rain leaches nutrients from the
plant and reduces the number of
leaves in the bale. Grass hay is less
affected than legume hay. As the
amount of rain increases, the
amount of loss increases.
Results from a study in Ken
tucky comparing data from S 4
harvests showed yield losses in
alfalfa harvested for silage average
17 percent with no rain and 22 per
cent with rain. The extent of hay
loss due to rain increased as the
moisture content in the alfalfa
decreased.
The digestibility of the hay
declined by more than 10 percent
because of rain. In an attempt to
avoid the negative effects of rain
on hay quality, harvest was
delayed to avoid getting the hay
rained on.
The delay in cutting, on average,
proved unsuccessful because the
advancing maturity of the alfalfa
was rapidly reducing the digesti
bility. Based on this research, we
may need to rethink the effect of
rain on quality, considering the
alternatives.
Feather Prof.'s Footnote:
"Checking out small details now
will eliminate big problems later."
The problem, of course, is not
with money itself, but as the writer
of I Timothy says, “the love of
money is the root of all evil”
(6:10), and if it is not the love of
money itself, it is the love of what
money can buy—or at least what
we think it can buy. Despite our
disclaimers, all of us believe and
have faith in money and material
things. We often turn to money,
not God, when we need help.
God’s greatest adversary in our
world is and has always been ma
terialism. And that’s why we have
a hard time taking seriously Jesus
and the writer of I Timothy when
they speak to us of material
wealth.
GODLINESS:
THE REWARD
Some people try to insure hap
piness by behaving in a godly
manner. They use godliness as a
strategy to assure themselves of
God’s salvation. But the writer of
I Timothy tells us that they have it
all wrong; godliness doesn’t buy
us happiness, godliness is happi
ness. “There is great gain in godli
ness with contentment” (6:6).
Godliness is its own reward. What
we are looking for in following the
almighty dollar is precisely what
we experience when we live godly
lives. Godliness makes us feel
good, full and complete.
So what is godliness? The writ
er puts it simply for us; “They are
to do good, to be rich in good
deeds, liberal and generous, thus
laying up for themselves a good
foundation for the future, so that
they may take hold of the life
which is life indeed” (4 :18,19).
If we want “life indeed” we
need to take Jesus seriously.
The Althouses will lead a group
to the Holy Land, Oct. 9 to Nov. 2,
1996. Space is limited. For infor
mation, write them at 4412 Shen
andoah Ave., Dallas, TX 75205.
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