AlO-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6, 1998
OPINION
Where's Your Milk Mustache?
For the 61st consecutive year, America's dairy farmers
will be honored nationwide during June Dairy Month. The
salute has been an annual event since 1937, when grocer
organizations sponsored "National Milk Month." Two years
later, the observation became known as Dairy Month, pro
moting the consumption of all dairy foods.
This year's June Dairy Month theme is "Milk. Where's
Your Mustache?" This theme, based on popular series of
advertisements featuring celebrity faces, serves to encour
age us to show off our own milk mustache.
Milk and milk products are valued not only for their great
taste but also for their rich nutrient content. Milk is what
nutritionists call a "nutrient-dense" food, containing an
abundance of vitamins and minerals per calorie. In fact,
diary foods provide 76 percent of calcium available in
American diet, as well as other vitamins and minerals,
including protein, magnesium, potassium, riboflavin (vita
min B 2), and vitamins A and D.
Calcium is not only crucial in helping build strong bones
and teeth but can head off long-term health problems.
Calcium is vital to the prevention of the crippling bone dis
ease osteoporosis, and it can also help prevent certain types
of cancer. Expectant mothers need calcium to guard against
preeclampsia, disease of late pregnancy that is the leading
cause of premature births in North America.
Other minerals found in milk, particularly potassium and
magnesium, may help prevent high blood pressure in people
at risk to develop it, and lower blood pressure in those who
already have elevated levels. In fact, a low-fat diet including
plenty of fruits, vegetables, and at least two servings of milk
has been proven to reduce high blood pressure in as little as
two weeks, faster than many medications.
But milk is not just milk anymore. Plenty of varieties are
available to suit the needs and tastes of everyone, including
whole, 2 percent reduced-fat, 1 percent or 1/2 percent lowfat,
and fat-free. Also available are chocolate, coffee, and straw
berry flavored milks, many of which have the same nutri
ents as white milk; buttermilk, a must for Southerners to
crumble their cornbread into; lactose-reduced milk and milk
with cultures added, for people who have trouble digesting
milk; and lowfat milks with added proteins to create a tex
ture more like higher-fat milks.
New packages are now available, too, including screw top
half-gallon cartons; round plastic and glass bottles, perfect
for the car's cup holder; and carbonated milk beverages.
New cow-spotted and other trendy graphics are also appear
ing in the dairy case.
When it comes to taste, nothing comes close to the
refreshment of an ice-cold glass of milk. What goes better
with hot, gooey, homemade chocolate chip cookies, a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich, or a slice of homemade chocolate
cake?
This June Dairy Month-and all year long-be proud of
your milk mustache and enjoy plenty of milk and other
dairy products.
| Saturday, June 6
Huntingdon County Dairy Prin
cess Pageant, Huntingdon Area
Middle School, Huntingdon.
Chester County Dairy Princess
Pageant, Cochranville Straw
berry Festival, Cochranville
Community Center, Cochran
ville, noon.
Antique JD Tractor Show and
Pulls, Oley Fairgrounds, 9
a.m.-5 p.m.
Clinton County Dairy Princess
Pageant, Porter Township,
Lamar, 2 p.m.
Md. Junior Polled Hereford Pr.
Show. Howard County Fair
grounds. West Friendship.
❖ Farm Calendars
Ephrata Area Young Farmers
meeting. Therapeutic Riding
Program, Greystone Manor, 7
Centre County Wool Pool, Grange
Fairgrounds, Centre Hall, 7
a.m.-ll:30 a.m., and I p.m.-2
p.m.
MDIA meeting. Cove Mountain
Lancaster County Poultry Associ
ation Golf Outing, Foxchase
Golf Club.
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To Salute Dairy Farmers
June is dairy month. The time
of year to promote dairy products
and remember the people involved
m the dairy industry. This is the
industry that gives us ice cream
sundaes, cheese for our pizza, cot
tage cheese to eat with apple but
ter, butter for our vegetables and
milk to drink Besides tasting
good, these fine dairy products are
very nutritious.
They provide calcium and
other nutrients necessary for
growth and good health. The dairy
industry is changing to meet the
changing needs of the consumer
Farm Forum ■»
Editor:
It is hard to believe that a year
has gone by since I was given the
honor of being the SUN Area
Dairy Princess. I cannot think of a
way to express the way my year
has made me feel. The fact that I
had the opportunity to represent
agriculture’s number one industry,
the dairy industry, means more
than anything. Throughout my
reign as princess I have traveled
well over 1,300 miles, and spoken
to hundreds of people about the
importance of milk, and dairy
products.
I cannot take all of the credit for
such a successful year, though. I
would not have been able to
achieve such goals without the
help of my Alternate Dairy Prin
cess Jane Wehr, Dairy Maids Sar
ah Erdly, Selena Hollenbach, Jen
nifer McWilliams, Rachel Risser,
Amanda Strouse, Lisa Heimbach,
Leslie Kenamond, Jessica Risser,
Jenna Straub, and Samantha Trox
elL and Dairy Misses Christina
Brosious, Katie Gessner, Raquel
Hauck, Tina Hollenbach, Brittany
Fry, Brittany Rice, Amanda Shaf
fer, Corinda Varner, Amanda
Hauck, Dawn Heimbach, Heather
Klingler, Janelle Risser, and Lid
Shirey. Together we have ac
complished 33 school promo
tions, 12 store/mall promotions
and by June 13 we hope to have
done 100 promotions or more. To
all of the girls, THANK YOU!!
To all of the parents that helped us
out, thank you, too.
My committee has also been a
help in organizing and chaper
oning events, they have also been
a “taxi” service when I needed
one, and I couldn’t have asked for
a better group of ladies to work
with: Linda Fisher, Sue Hoffman,
and Shannon Hoffman, along with
Shawn Hoffman, Cindy Shaffer,
Vicki Heimbach, and Jane Hawn,
1 really appreciate all you have
done for me, and the girls.
To my family, you have helped
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Now is the time to studying these
changes and make plans on how
you will fit into the new dairy in-
dustry,
Exciting times are ahead for
•those who will adapt to the
changes. Enjoy this issue of Lan
caster Farming and realize how
bright a future is ahead for the
dairy industry.
To Look For Leafhoppers
Now is the time to begin
looking for potato leafhoppers.
After you take off the first cutting
of alfalfa hay you should begin
sampling these fields for this little
green insec'.
To sample a field, take 10
sweeps with an insect net. Count
the number of leafhopper adults
and nymphs. Then compare this
number to the height of the alfalfa
in inches. If the leafhopper count
is greater than the height of the al
falfa, either spray or cut the alfalfa
early. Do this at several locations
in a field.
To Sign Up For 5 Acre
Corn Club
The Pennsylvania 5 Acre Corn
THE FINAL WORD
June 7, 1998
Background Scripture:
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3; 2:1-4, 10-1 S;
4:1-3. 12:13-14
Devotional Reading:
I Corinthians 13:1-3
There is one word that runs
through Ecclesiastes. It is the
word "vanity." It begins with
“Vanity of vanities says the
preacher, of vanities! AH is
vanity.” And six verses short of
the end of Ecclesiastes, he says the
very same thing, “Vanity of vani
ties, says the Preacher, all is van
ity” (12:8). .
It means “empty,” “futile,”
“worthless.” Of all he has seen
and experienced, he says, “All
was vanity and a striving after
wind” (2:11). How did a book so
cynical get into the Bible? What is
the point in reading his anguished
and anguishing words, when they
are too much like what we hear
every day from our own mouths
and those of others?
Actually, that is the point: they
are enough like our own worst
doubts that it is refreshing to see
them in print and know that others
have asked the same searing ques
tions. None of us ate likely to ex
claim, “Vanity, all is vanity,” but
think of some of the ways in
which we may say pretty much the
same: “What’s the use?" “There’s
no point in it!?” “Why try?”
“Life’s not fair!” “What kind of
God would run a world like this?”
Or how do you say it?
HE HAD IT ALL
The preacher did not begin with
cynicism, but with the expectation
that things would give him lasting
pleasure: “I made great works; I
built houses and planted vineyards
for myself; I made myself gardens
.id parks, and planted in them all
kinds of fruit trees” (2:4,5). He
made himself pools, acquired
slaves, herds and flocks, silver and
gold, male and female singers,
“and many concubines, man’s de
light.”
He had it all: “So I became
great and surpassed all who were
before me in Jerusalem ... And
whatever my eyes desired I did not
keep from them; I kept my heart
from no pleasure” (2:9,10).
And yet he had nothing: “Then I
Club is looking for members ,tbr
the 1998 growing season. The
program is designed to bring to
gether fanners, seed dealers and ex
tension agents interested in
achieving more profitable com
production in Pennsylvania.
Farmers who are interested in the
program must enroll before Julv
Ist at their county extension of
fice.
Before com harvest they must
complete a survey of their produc
tion practices. At harvest time, an
extension agent or an approved
supervisor will assist the farmer
in performing a yield check and
collect the survey information.
All participants in the pro
gram will receive a summary of
yield and management information
from all participants. Top produc
ers will be recognized. For more
information, contact your county
extension office.
Feather Prof, 's Footnote: "For
our children, the road to happiness
and success is usually paved by
our example."
considered all that my hands had
done and the toil I had spent in do
ing it, and behold, all was vanity
and a striving after wind, and there
was nothing to be gained under the
sun” (2:11,12). He had chosen the
popular way of self-salvation and
it all turned out to be futile and
worthless.
The Preacher’s experience only
confirms what the Bible teaches
us: we cannot find our salvation,
our purpose in living by indulging
ourselves with material things and
fleeting pleasures. This man had
worked hard all his life, but his
work brought him only things and
with these the pleasure was brief
and fleeting. So, as far as he if
concerned, even hard work was no
salvation.
PAINFULLY
CONTEMPORARY
The preacher was also made
cynical by the evil he saw in the
world. “Again I saw all the op
pressions that are practiced under
the sun. And behold the tears of
the oppressed, and they had no
one to comfort them” (4:1). Think
how discouraged he would feel if
he read our daily newspapers and
watched our television news!
Although this book may have
been written as long ago as the 3rd
century BC, the point of view and
society of the writer are painfully
contemporary. Our society today
is probably even much more ma
terialistic and hedonistic than his.
So much of what many of us live,
work and die for falls under the
Preacher’s heading of “Vanity, all
is vanity.”
But, although the preacher
speaks our human “last word” on
life, it is not the. final word, for
that comes from God alone: “The
end of the matter, all has been
heard. Fear God, and keep his
commandment; for this is the
whole duty of man. For God will
bring every deed into judgment,
with every secret thing, whether
good or evil” (12:13,14). We can
not save ourselves with work,
pleasure or self-indulgence. But
God can save us, and does.
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