Jump In The Pick-Up Truck Now is the time to plan to go to Ag Progress Days. Starting on Tuesday and funning through Thursday, Penn State’s College oi Agricultural Sciences’ annual showcase event will provide you with plenty tc see and do this year at Rockspring in Centre Coun ty. Exhibits demonstrate how commodities are harvested, pro cessed, and turned into finished products. Did you know that Pen nsylvania is the largest food-processing state in the Northeast? Along with machinery of various brands working side by side in the field, the show offers many features with great visual ele ments, including horse exhibitions, an insect zoo, live hawks, snakes, owls, llamas, and young livestock. A tractor ride-and drive area offers an opportunity to test-drive the newest tractor models and is popular with farmers. Working combines are part of the promised addition to this year’s event. And a tractor roll over demonstration will remind you again to be careful around farm tractors and other equipment. Jump in the pick-up truck or the family car and join us at Ag Progress Days. Parking and admission to the event are free. We hope to see you there. Championship Show, Ship pensburg Fairgrounds, Ship pensburg, 9:30 a.m. Md. Holstein annual picnic, Wind sor Manor Farm, New Windsor, Md., 11 a.m. 7th Annual Summer Plowing Show, Old Time Plow Boys Club, Pa. German Cultural Her itage Center Farm, Kutztown U., Kutztown, thru Aug. 11. York 4-H Fair barbecue, 4-H Cen- Washington County Ag Fair, thru Aug. 18. Bullskin Township Community Fair, thru Aug. 17. Huntingdon County Fair, thru Aug. 17. McKean County Fair, thru Aug. 17. Montour-Delong Community Fair, thru Aug. 17. Mercer County summer picnic, David Phils on Farm, Fredonia, Daytoi^!ur^hn!nsug^7^^^ Kutztown Fair, thru Aug. 17. Lawrence County Fair, thru Aug. 17. Venango County Fair, thru Aug. Ag Progress Days. Rockspring, thru Aug. IS. Warren County Farmers’ Fair Association Open Sheep Show, 10 a.m. Pa. Hay Show at Ag Progress Days, deadline for sample delivery 10 a.m. Huntingdon County Holstein Show, Fairgrounds, Hunting don, 9 a.m. Cornell University Fruit Field N.Y. State Ag Experiment Station. Geifeva, N.Y., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Beaver Capon School, Penn Slate Beaver Campus. Monaca. 11 p.m. Plastic pesticide container recy cling, Reading Bone Fertilizer, Bangor, 9:30 ajn.-2:30 p.m. Jj-* OPINION Plastic pesticide container recy cling, George Seiple and Son, Easton, 9 a.m.-ll a.m. Plastic pesticide container recy cling, Reading Bone, Coplay, 12:30 pjn.-2:30 p.m. Southeast Pa. Regional Vegetable Field Day, Kohler Farms, Pros- Roundup, Manheim Fair grounds, sale 7 p.m. 21st Annual Performance Tested Boar Sale, Ag Arena, Penn State, State College, 6 p.m. Annual PFGC picnic at Ag Prog ress Days, Harpster’s Everg reen Farm, 6:30 p.m. Ag Progress Days Bus Trip from Chester County extension. Pond Management Workshop, American Legion Building, Field Day, Ohio State’s Water man Learning Laboratory, Columbus. (Turn to Page A 39) Editor: I was so pleased, but certainly not surprised to see that Nelson Ebersole had contributed a Hols tein calf for the 4-H Club youth. There are few people who are as genuine, sincere and caring as this gentleman. Nelson is a business man, but he has never lost the “common touch.” He truely cares about his fellow man as well as being a steward of the land. I have always been impressed with how knowledgeable fanners are about so many topics. Nelson displays a matter of fact know ledge of so much and conveys that To Attend Ag Progress Days The 1996 edition of Penn State’s Ag Progress Days will be August 13-15 at Rockspring, nine miles southwest of Penn State on Rl 45. This is a free event Ihat show cases the latest technology and research in agriculture. Admission and parking is free. The grounds will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thurs day and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wed nesday. There will be a tractor ride and drive area, more than 300 exhibitors, field demonstrations on fence building, combine harvest ing, mowing, composting and bail ing, and tours. Plan now to attend Ag Progress Days and meet old friends, learn something new, and see the latest in agriculture. To Check Tobacco Fields For Blue Mold According to Robert Anderson, extension agronomy agent, blue mold, a potentially destructive fungal disease of tobacco, has been found in Lancaster County tobacco. Checking fields are important for two reasons. First, there is a foliar-applied fungicide labeled for use in Pennsylvania this year that does an excellent job of stop ping the spread of the fungi. Sec ondly, and a very important rea son, is to identify the infection and report it. Reporting the occurrence of blue mold is critical in finding ways to combat it in the future. You should check fields as soon as possible, looking for yellow spots on the leaf. If a yellow spot is 'f 1 '■ 5 . . . - ' vr ‘« * Farm Forum ♦ ■*< ( ‘ 1 " information so easily to others. That, I’m sure, has made him so successful in his real estate deal ings. His honesty is what makes him so comforable with himself and others. Nelson knows that our future rests with our children, and he is doing his part to help them suc ceed. Just imagine what could be accomplished if we all did things to help. Thanks for sharing with us. all the good deeds, that make the whole world better. Background Scripture: Psalms 119 M 6.45.105,129.130 Devotional Reading: Matthew 7 21 -28 The late Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy told of a young married man who read all the psychoanalytic and self-helps he could find One day. his younu wife, who tried to live up to all that he found in these books, rebelled, saying “Now that we vc found real happiness, couldn't we have some fun, too 9 " There s a deep underlying sus picion that real happiness and fun arc incompatible Perhaps it depends upon our definitions of "fun" and "happiness ' Harry Emerson I osdick found that "Happiness is not mostly plea sure. it is mostly victory'." Victory comes first followed by pleasure, bringing happiness In that order Fun that is not founded upon vic tory is very fleeting and does not amount to happiness But what kind of vicloiy 9 The Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119 would say that victory is living by the law of Ged-m a sense, being victorious over ourselves and the world I his is contnuy to coiltcm poraiy wisdom that regards the law as a burden that stifles our pleasure But. when we live for pleasure alone, we soon find it a pretty unplcasurablc experience True pleasure consists in living in harmony with God So, the *» Psalmist begins Psalm 114 with these words "Blessed/llappy are those whose way is blame- A-' & " 4r* V less, who walk in the law of the Lord Blessed arc those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways" (119 1-3) I his is the longest psalm in the Bible and it is constructed as an acrostic, a design whereby there are 22 strophes (sections) of eight lines each, and each of them beginning with one of the 22 letters of the 1 lebrew alpha bet God is addressed or referred to in every one of its 178 verses. It is a repeated tribute to the law, using a variety of terms to stress the richness of it: law, lesti Vicki Swayne Manheim found, it is necessary to check the underside of the leaf for the fungi. Blue Mold will appear as a blue gray fuzzy growth on the under side of the leaf. Farmers who think they have blue mold should con tact Robert Anderson at the Lan caster County Cooperative Exten sion Office at (717) 394-6851. To Think Safety Some safety reminders for this summer season. To reduce heat stress, drink plenty of liquids on hot days to replenish body fluids lost to per spiration. Also, wear clothes that breathe and will permit excess body heat to escape. To prevent skin cancer, wear head and face protection that cov ers the ears and back of the neck to AN ACROSTIC prevent serious sunburn injury. Re-apply sun Mock during per. iods of high body pdrspiradon when performing farm chores. Children between ages 1 and 16 are at the greatest risk of suffoca tion in flowing grain. If children are playing on, riding on, os trying to remove grain in grain transport vehicles, they may become engulfed in the grain. Parents and children need to be aware of the potential hazards of flowing grain. Flowing grain will pull people into the grain pile and cause death by suffocation. Keep people off grain piles, including transport vehicles. Caution today could save a life. Feather Prof.'s Footnote: "Challenge: Dare to confront what can only be imagined." imniflndi V v Pr.j Alexander Maclaren said tins psalm reminded him of a violinist who had but one string to play upon-thc law of God-but who out of that one string brought perfect music. One of these in the psalm is the repeated testimony of the Psalmist that the law is a delight, not a weight around Ins neck “In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches" (v 14) “How sweet arc thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth" (103) Why docs the Psalmist delight m the law of God 9 Because it leads him to live in a way that brings him the joy of obeying and pleasing God “Thy testi monies arc my delight, they arc my counselors" (v. 24). “I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word” (v 101) “Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" (v. 105) ADVERSITY & LAMENT But this is not a psalm of unceasing delight, because, like us, the Psalmist’s faith is con stantly tested with adversity and the psalm is a list of woes: perse cution, false accusations, temp tation, and intellectual doubt “Even though princes sit plotting against me ” (v. 23) “Godless men utterly deride me” (v5l) “ I'hcy draw near who persecute me with evil purpose ” (v 150) His love of the law has not insulated him from the troubles of the world. He is not having unrelenting fun 1 So, throughout the psalm, his laments contend with his words of praise “O forsake me not utterly l ” (v 8) "How long must thy servant endure 9 When wilt thou judge those who persecute me?” (vB4) “I am sorely afflicted, give me life, O Lord, according to thy word” (v 107) He believes m the law and has found it his only salvation Bui tribulation threatens to shake him off the path he means to follow So he prays for victory-and in victory he will find his happiness I hat’s why God’s law is his delight Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday Ephrata Review Building 1 E. Main St. Ephrata. PA 17522 -by Lancaster Farming, Inc. A Steinman Enterprise Robert G. Campbell General Manager Everett a Newtwanger Managing Editor Copyright 1996 by Lancaster Faming iromise and
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