Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 34, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 23 August 2012 — Page 4

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• Advance News • Thursday, August 23, 2012

This is part one of a three-pert column intended to help my readers to tend to their business in ah effective and timely manner. Writer and motivational lecturer Napolean Hill was quoted as saying, 'The past of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked." True. H.G. Wells, known by many as the "father of science fiction" also looked at the easier way of doing this as a negative by saying, 'The path of least resistance is the path of the loser." Mmmmm. Not always. In my opinion, the reference of philosopher and psychiatrist John Dewey ('The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.") most relates to what I consider to be defined as that path or rather "practicing common sense in order to find the best result without being lackadaisical or stiffminded." Dewey may have been talking about something else entirely but akin to his general thought, I think humans have a basic difficulty in changing their ways or accepting that change is often inevitable

Supplemental forage can still be produced

Many producers want to grow more forage this fall and early next spring because of reduced yields from dry weather this year. Supplemental forage can be produced yet this year by planting small grains or annual ryegrass on land coming out of wheat or com silage. Before making any plans to plant supplemental forages, be sure to check the plant back restriction interval for herbicides used in the previous crop. Com herbicides, especially atrazine products, have a long rotation restriction interval for many of the forage options hsted below. The best options are to plant spring oat, spring triticale, or annual ryegrass. When planted the first two weeks of August and

Wakarasa UMC to host Conley-Schmidt

WAKARUSA The community is invited to a fall festival hosted by the Wakarusa United Methodist Church (309 S. Main St.) in Wakarusa. This annual event, in honor of the back-to-school time of year, has been expanded to include a free concert by the ConleySchmidt Band and opened to the public. The Festival begins at 8:30

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for better or for worse. Likewise, □>le and animals learn (eveny) not to continue to do the same wrong thing over and over expecting a different result unless (as I and Mr. Einstein agree) they are insane. I ted that if you are walking a path and there are rocks and ruts and prickly bushes, go the other way, not because I am lazy, but because it only seems logical. On this note, I want to remind and/or reroute my readers so they can trip over stones in other areas of their lives instead of stumbling along trying to get things done with and within their local newspaper. First, one needs to be able to accept that the newspapers of today, especially little town newspapers, are notning like metropolis publications the likes of The Washington Post or The Daily Planet of Superman movies. The local paper you're reading now and wnich you may have read as a child does not have offices of people wearing fedoras with little index cards printed with "PRESS" tucked in their trim waiting for the phone to ring. Nor are their teams of reporters in vans chasing after emergency vehicles to see what the emergency is. We don't have staff

with adequate rainfall, oat and spring triticale can produce from 4000 to 5000 pounds/acre of dry matter by mid-October. They will reach the boot stage of growth in October, which provides the best compromise of yield and forage quality. If harvest is delayed until November, the early August planted oat and spring triticale will be in heading stage and will yield 6000 pounds of dry matter/acre or more. Early August planted oats or spring triticale forage will have crude protein content of 12 to 15 percent. Turnips or other brassicas planted in the first weeks of August can provide 3 to 4.5 tons of dry matter per acre (tops plus tubers) for grazing in late autumn and

a.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, with coffee, refreshments, and a chance to meet and greet while touring the church building and learning about its ministries. At 9:30 a.m. the Conley-Schmidt Band will perform a free concert. This local bluegrass band has been performing for 20 years, and their latest release, "Sweet Memories" was filmed for television and

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posted at the police station, hospital, school and local park snooping into potential leads. Wnat you do have, is one person that cannot be cloned (yet technology is getting frighteningly advanced). This means that 1 cannot be everywhere at the same time or even at every event, meeting and activity at different times even if I did have a handful of clones. The title "editor" isn't the same as it used to be either. I don't wear a business suit, munch cigars behind a desk and tell people what to do in an nutshell, it means that I cover as many things as I can in three different towns in two counties for two newspapers. 1 also have to do pretty much everything else related to the publications other than printing and delivering it. I have a handful of stringers (actually, not even half a handful) who could literally be defined as either "people that have full-time

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Elkhart County By Jeff Burbrink Extension Educator early winter. These crops are not acceptable for hay or silage. They require well-drained soils with pH between 5.3 and 6.8. Plant turnips at 2 to 3 pounds/ acre. Turnips do not tolerate competition, so weed control before establishment is important. Turnips or other brassica crops like rape can be planted with oats, rye, or annual ryegrass. Mixing brassicas with grasses would have the benefit of providing more fiber to the livestock, as brassicas are

released on the Bluegrass Roads Show. A mixture of bluegrass, high mountain country, throw in a little yodel, a little bit of storytelling, three and four-part harmony, mix it in with fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and dobro instrumentals and you've got the Conley Schmidt show. Bluegrass fans may remember the band from its recent perfor-

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My two cents By Angel Perkins Editor

jobs elsewhere or that have lives to live that don't indude running all over the place for anything that isn't convenient to their schedule," or "someone who if he/she gets a chance he/she might find an hour next month to attend something, if they have the car and a sitter and it doesn't rain and the day is an odd number date." I have no personal assistant, no secretary, no proofreader or ESPN staff hiding behind the scenes with cameras strapped to them or motorized cables. Which makes it impossible to cover every production, game, dinner, awards ceremony, acrident, altercation, fire, and police dept. / fire dept. / park board / town council / school board / chamber board/street dept./planning/ Lions, Kiwanis, Psi lota, VFW, American Legion, or Rotary club/ organization or numerous committee meetings. Also it means I don't even begin to attempt to attend the neverending list of groundbreakings, ribbon-cuttings, open houses, fundraisers, or cute things your puppy is doing. This publication is a glimpse into the community, and has never been nor was it intended to be a biography of every person and event, nor is it the school

extremely low in fiber. Spring oat, spring triticale, and annual ryegrass can also be planted from late August to midSeptember, immediately after an early com silage harvest. These later planting dates will produce lower yields (1500 to 3000 pounds dry matter/acre) and harvest will be delayed into months with poor drying conditions (November to early December), but would be an excellent option for grazing 1 or green chopping. Forage quality will be very high with these later plantings, with crude protein in the range from 20 to 3 percent. If an early spring forage harvest is desirable next year, winter triticale and winter rye should be included in mixture with the spring oat and spring triticale planted in late

mance at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. Following the concert, carnival games will be hosted, and a professional puppet show performance given for children at 10:30 a.m. All visitors are then welcome to share lunch, featuring WUMC's famous sausage sandwiches (served at the Maple Syrup and Apple Festivals). For more information, call the

church office at 574-862-2863 or visit the church's Facebook page. To learn more about the ConleySchmidt band, visit www.conleyschmidt.

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newspaper or area gossip'magazine so I can't tell you wno wore what on mismatched socks day (unless someone sends a picture to me) nor can I tell you what your neighbor and his wife were doing in their (own) bade yard last night; Yes, someone really did want to know why I didn't know what was happening the night before in their neighbor's yard. (I mean really ... how or better, why WOULD I know unless I was with them or with you peeking out a window?) Another disgruntled once-in-awhile reader told me he was unhappy about the fact that I didn't let the world know about the birth of a new family member. 1 didn't have the heart to explain to him that I don't also work 24-hours a day in the maternity wards of every hospital in the world to know all the new lives that enter existence. And while I'd like to fantasize that I am all-powerful and allknowing, I am really more like Oz, a regular person working frantically to make all the gizmos and gadgets work like they should to produce something you won't mind spending 50 cents for once a week.

August and early September. Wheat, winter triticale, and winter rye can be planted to produce good yields of nigh quality forage next spring. Rye will grow and mature the quickly in the spring and becomes "like straw" in a short period of time once it turns reproductive in the spring. Wheat and winter triticale will be easier to manage next spring because they mature later and more slowly than rye. Wheat planting should be delayed until after the Hessian fly-free date, which is 22 September in northern Indiana. Forage quality can be excellent for these species if harvested in the vegetative to boot stage of growth in the spring, producing from 2 to 4 tons/acre of dry matter depending on stage of harvest.

com Wakarusa United Methodist Church offers two services each Sunday: The 8:30 a.m. worship service at WUMC was founded to create a worship experience for those who have never been to church, are thinking about returning to church, or seeking an informal, casual environment. The worship experience includes praise music, video, drama, and a weekly challenge designed to communicate God's unchanging truth in today's world. At 10:15 a.m. attendees can experience a more traditional worship setting.