r < > • / The Complexity of Modern Research Demands Improved Scientific Information A FARMER has a piece of land On it he and more knowledge of Nature, research grows some plants, then adds some becomes more and more complicated. animals. In producing from this land, he is actively challenging the complexity of Nature itself He faces hundreds of ques-' tions Some are biological, as with a dis ease Some are physical, as with soil water No farmer can answer all these ques- tions for himself. Yet, as an individual, he must work out plans for running his farm. He needs the help of advisers and, in turn, scientists Agricultural research faces the com plexity of Nature with a unique association of scientists trained m various biological and physical disciplines It takes more than one of these scientists to answer many of the farmer's questions. This has long been true, of course The method of measuring pH of a soil re sulted from years of basic research in sev eral fields Nernst, a physical chemist, •provided the basis of the hydrogen elec trode method Sorenson, a biologist, sup plied the pH symbol Haber and Klemenziwicz,' physicists, demonstrated the chemical nature of Helm holtz’s glass electrode There were many, other contributions, including the vacuum tubes of de Forest, an electrical engineer This interdependence is even more needed today. As scientists build up more Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J. Wiggins, Circulation Director. Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarryvdle, Pa Phone STerlmg 6-2112 or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., ueder Act of March 3, 1879 A game of swindle worked on Subscription Rates- $2 per year, some of the unsuspecting farmers 55 ’ Smele copy Pnce 5 . , , m a western state involved bovine The manageis of a race track t u b e iculosis ~~~ ~ —-■ ■ ■ nuai Brownsville along the Mon , vVir> - „. , , i n , - , , , iwo men, who had joined the oeoole of Dixie ongahela River published notice , , .... pcopie UI ulxle , , . , , hands in the racket, fleeced many For many years the United ot a race, one mile heats, for a dairymen One, well dressed, Daughters of the Confederacy had pm se of SlOO, free for any thin B weal - mg glasses, called on farmers sponsored the term “War Be v ith foui ic & s and hair on to inspect their dairy cows, repre- tween the States”, but had made A a 11181 m the neighboihood, scn (ing himself to be a state dairy little headway in securing its named Hajs had a bull that he inspector At one farm he found adoption by writers and speakers was in the habit of riding to the a line looking herd of cows and The teim was entized as being m mill vvilh his bag of corn, and de- condemned a dozen animals as descriptive tided to enter the animal in the aflhcted with tuberculosis, and Most writers'refer to the tragic lace He said nothing about it told the owner on leaving not to struggle of the 1860 s as the Civil tj anvone and rode the bull over sav an j thing about the matter War a shoit name unmistakable the track sevcial limes on moon- but to sell them for whatever he in its meaning and implying no IU nights, until the animal got the could get for Shipment out ol the inflection on either North or h„ng of the grounds and would slate South keep the light couise A cw davs later the partner of At any rate the name is not The dav of the lace Haj's came self-termed dairy inspector especially important A war by to the tiack ruling his hull In- came along and asked the farmer any name is just as horrible. T’Lp T’j.Mp shad ol a saddle he used a dned J. 1 he had an - v cows lo sell The „ , . nun 18 IUC IUUC • . . o- hide thc head pail of which falnier * n ™ Ui > to S et nd of the T "'c”CvMuc vca , .s ago this with the hoi ns still on he had diseased animals, felt wecksomo2oo Yale students, who placedonthebull He earned a h,mseU h,Lk > to S et 820 P er bead called themselves ‘puales’ „ , , , , , swarmed uninvited mto a lashion- MiiuH tin hoin m his hands lie A Ncvv y olk fdlmer lcpo rtccl able “shipwreck’ paity in New icdc up lo the entij stand and of bl ,ccess , n t j le use 0 j common Haven and made a sure enough leied to cntei his bull foi thc slovepipc soot as a cme lor scours vleek of the place lace HU owneis of the horse-, in calves The method ol piepar- Windows and furniture were cnteicd objected Havs appealed , ng the (loSdge was to uk * a bioken. among other acts of to the teims of the notice, insist- (eblespoonful of soot, mix it with lowdyism One policeman was mg the hull had four legs and the white and jolk of an egg put knocked cold Two students were h„n on and that he had a right n m the shell and then place thc S 5 each loi starting the in to cntei the animal filled shell lar back in the mouth ciclent and thc others went free, Alter a gieat deal of sweating el the afflicted call accoidmg to w’hich was a cheap puce lor the [he nidges decided that the bull the farmer lun il one calls it fun had a light to tun and was cn .u ed accoidmglv BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago When the liiTH’ i<>i 14 Ij3nc.tislci und Clicstoi batteries which were found unti led the bull and hoiscsloo\ ounl > faimois as one of the ci his bed, William Golden oi Do- Jitn pkuos At the sj ,r nal potato shippois m the tioil explained that it took a tut Havs gave a blast of his ham " dSlo,n , llon of thc Umtecl lo dWdke iiifi sunk Ins spuis into the sid<> jears ago shipped b .1 the bull wlnch bounded loi in 276 WO bushels of the tubers dur t ~ , . . , n ir« thc 1907 08 season Oowl A note P innc(l to a post near ‘llh a kinb e haul at no tufhng m£(l n (alpw j shippjng pomls (t hci home at Brookline Mass, ie- Pted with the diled ox hie e flap p L<)[h Bottom, Strasbmg West sulkd 111 tllc tecoveiy b> Mrs " p ‘" K ' f,own mdk,n ” d tom , \ v illmv Lancastei and scvcial llarve > Cushing ot apm valued at m.atmn ol noises neve, hea.d , |ates u) Chesler count! S- S ’°°° i. a iai i Hack bofoic Thc hotses „ u .ied at 600 bushels to a caiload ,u! 111 du cction from the the seasons shipments filled 460 3 "'dilv five veais ago the Penn- , u.ck dclei mined to lake tin | lU ght cais \slvam a Stale Derailment of T 0 KILL WEEDS WHEN SMALL Thc best time to trv lo contiol ho.test cut to act out of thc nea Health issued bottled watci per weeds is when thc> aic small ,alher than when fou. to six inches no not mu oi them could hi or A nnls to Ellas E Andei distnbu tall The use ol weedeis uitnrv Hnru. amed back m tunc to beat the leaiS Ago to/. Diamond Spring Wafer Eph- iic ids when the eem . r ° ’ hd,rows in corn nil the pm sc was gi\cn to lla\s , inta, and thc Ephrata Mountain 1 s iro,l ‘ tw ° *° foi,r niches tall is very useful if \ genual thmus ol obiictm.is . ij ’ dtk Jn si\)j eight voais -Spring Watci Com pa in Lancas- cncmlcal WL ‘ efl spiays are not used Weeds arc competitors for both m„„. >h. lim — ■ mi in r- l.illnivii.l !° l :h"' •" T , , , "T l "' e Cle,ne " l ' crop' a combiiial.on of iJSrSS E -Ar«.t£ Ma ** ‘ h ™ «—• * ks tfjstsaszs rr arsaw: zssixsxs r* - Thc ~,ei,ur° - - *"> fhc teim Civil Wai which pai tment The pci mils were onh ir i i ° lho SOdson causes many of us to hurry and to was most geneialh being used uanted aftei a sads/actoij analv- , ° UI takmg t,me to be sdf e Tiactors and farm machmeiv was not liked b\ certain dements sc- had been icccived and a hdVC lc P k "-«i the bull and the horics as mam causes of farm ac m he South, win e War of the check-up of the physical sui- udenls ‘but il is not thc machines that are to blame it’s the opera hebelhon and War of Se<cs roundings of the sou.ee of water tors Don't lake chances the loss ol a hand ,r JZi' 7r Z sum weie cnUreh obnoxious to supplv was made Very pelm a„ent h ’ or }Vur We 5 Ilu I njicd States Cdlllf Coin I'-'ion upoikd that thcu was it a smyk ease o( fool and onlh disease amony xaltlc in the nitc d State-, in 188 i rnii'ii.! I >i ‘-s, m,.i ‘ !)1 I This Week* Lancaster Fanning 50 Years Ago Geoigc W Ciovv] well known Accused ot stealing si\ aulo Nowadays, instead of an individual re searcher, we have a group of scientists from many different fields working to gether on a question Obviously, it is necessary that these scientists learn to “talk” to each other They must have the drive and courage to _ f them ’ " 1S bound t 0 be different venture outside the security of their own NfiW Leader dTwithn.T"’p hurt specialty —to find out enough about the dent £ i r g a w J e> so ha [ the Pr n e e s £ other specialties to communicate With their Lesson for June 1, 19S8 man, whoever he is, won't corn# colleagues - ' ■ ■ .■■■■ ■ ■.I as quite such a shock.” This is This calls for capable men and women AS LONG as human beings exist tiue of churches, nations, orgam who Will also make the effort to keep up groups, even if the race is nations of all kinds The new 111 their own fields nearly wiped out by war or other Rfeacher lsn ’t kke the old one, the Anri thnnobt mnof ho aivon to holn catastrophe, there will be need of new president isn’t Like the old one. And thought must be given to help- £eaders> People WI JJ g e£ together. No doubt there were people ir, ing these scientists keep sbreast Of new For good and for ill, men operate Isiael who, when Moses appointed developments in other research agencies in groups. These may be immense Joshua, complained about it The. and other countries Our workers need the and elaborate groups like the mod- two men were different at almost best m publications, libraries and transla- ern natl °n; they i ve f y pol . nt- Read c rs of the oid firm and ahsfrnrfinp fanlitiec: may be tin y Testament may find it an interest tion and aDStracting facilities. groups hkB a ing study ,n character: In what TllC effect of the l3Ck of such facilities bird • watch' ways were Moses and Joshua diN in another field—that Of rockets and space er s’ club In ferent? God broke *he mold when vehicles—has been clearly demonstrated, a small school. he made Moses, he always break Technical journals giving vital and valu- Theymaybe the mold when he makes man. able information lay untranslated while highly organized, whna'nn 5 n Moses ’ ona j , 'V , i. • i with enormous Joshua, one David There was only time and money was being spent in doing buildings de- one Geo.ge Washington, one Lin the same basic research. voted to the coin, one Robert E Lee. Wanting The United States, now the unquali- secretariat alone Dr. Foreman Leader Number Two to be' just like fied leader of the world in agriculture, (sucil aa the United Nations), 01 Number One is as useless as want must keen that nnsition they may be informal, like a few °ne man to live forever, must Keep mat position. boys gwng out hunting Whatever Leadershjp Calls For Character the gioup. It will have, and it will Nevertheless, there are certain * need -^ eaders -The ancient Hebrews qualities of character which all as they entered Canaan were no leaders have. We are thinking of exception to the rule. God has been God’s leaders especially, men who leading them but through a very ( in the church or out of it) are m nUiant and brave man. Now this harmony with God; not those iead t“is at the pomt of death He e is who are anti-social, giving all tbat U ?. le f u s a new leader they have not for or to, but against. /nnJ Jn ’* U 6 T 1 * hC baS matlkmd Moses and Joshua illus done will come to nothing trate three very Important char- W» Need to Go On actenstics of all good leaders, and The story of Moses and Joshua, tlle investigative reader can dis only a small part of winch emerges cover more. One is firmness of pur- In the Scripture matei ial this week, P° se When either Moses or Joshua illustrates many points about a se * out to do something, he did change-over In leadeishlp. It was R - 11 s P lte of had and high water. a crucial, a doubtful, time. Canaan Having set their course, they kept had been reached, not enteied, still a flrrn hand on the wheel. They did less won. A shp-up in the new ar- not lose Sl §ht of the North Star. A rangements might be fatal. But the second quality shown by these change was made, and it turned l ea ders was courage. They dared out enormously successful From unknown, the untried. They many thoughts which it suggests ®u unioned their followers to tasks we may select three. First, if the wmch seemed impossible; but their old leader has been really good, People knew that these leaders then he has achieved much that would not ask others to do what we do not want to let go. If he they would not do them selves They was good, we don’t want to start were not afraid of what threw off in the opposite direction from weaker men into fits of fear. Most where he was taking us However Important, and most obvious, was new and different the new leader their faith. may be. We Whom he IS going to (Based «» outlines copyrighted by tbs lead want him to mclr im -uj Division of Christian Eliucation, N»- . . , , P * U£> ttlC ClCl I 10 1? Connell of lbs Chur, hes of Christ leader s woik and carry it on, not servic A j* leleast< * Commamty Lancaster Farming mJ /j lihiS, noit' j }un { l 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 30, 1958 Max Smith , , piacticc good sanitation methods, manure piles nox stalls hash piles, and barnyards should be cleaned legularly to pi event hi ceding places Dwmon is the residulal spray recommencl- r°Ti a "f a l llb btCel pcns and * lo§ h° us(is - remove animals, cov o,K n Vatei , lrou § hs - and S P' ; >y with tj-pmt of the 25% emul ; „ 3 “ a | °!’f 01 wa * ci Koilan is anothei fly spray at the late of the 25 ,t wcitable powder in 3 gallons ol water Both ol these should protect hom lorn to six weeks Bam clcanei pits and manure pitei mav be soaked everv (wo weeks with one of these to kill fly maggots A college was for some time without a President The commit tee appointed to find a new one was woikmg very slowly, too slowly,' BibU Material: Numbers 27:12-23; some thought. But the committee Deuteronomy 34 9-12; Joshua 1. knew what they were dome “A-nV Devotional Reading: Psalm 1. j , „ „ , , 6 " ■ nu Y' 1 President we get,” said one oJ By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO CLIP PASTURES Grasses in most pastures have already shot seed heads and should be mow ed at normal grass field mowing height To allow the glasses to mature will not increase the feed value or maintain milk or meat production The clipping of pastuies at this season will stop weed seed formation and encourage new growth of the glasses Regular clipping of the pasture every four to six weeks during the season is recommend ed 'A TO CONTROL FLIES Plenty ot moisture and The first step in collecting this problem is to warmer weather usually brings mole house flies clean out all bleeding places for the flies and to smash It all to pieces or let it slowly decay. The problem for ev-l ery fresh leader is: How can r' cairy on my predecessor’s work and ideals, without being a rubber stamp duplicate of him? 1 New and Old Are Never Alike
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