4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday/ April 23. 1960 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Ruined By Too Much Success - We recently heard one farmer say to another, “I don’t see how- that feed man stays in business. He certainly is not a salesman, but he seems to have a lot of customers.” The second farmer replied, “Well, they say nothing succeeds like suc cess.” Unfortunately this is sometimes all too true. There were a few years ■just past when poultrymen were more and more reluctant to stay in the busi ness because success in the business was harder and harder to achieve. Within the past few months egg and broiler prices have been showing a lit tle brighter picture and already it is reflected in higher setting of eggs, placement of chicks and declared in tentions of poultrymen to increase the size of their flocks. This is not to be taken as criticism. It takes times of real stress in any business to.keep the product quality high and force the poor and inefficient producer to get out and make room for the producers who are anxious to turn out a high quality product at a fair and reasonable price. During a period of very low beef prices several years ago we heard one breeder of beef cattle say that in his opinion, the low prices had ddne more to improve the quality of the beef breeding herds in the nation than any other one thing. The poor breeders a round the country sold out and many of their cattle went to the slaughter house. The better breeders, forced to curtail operations, culled out their poorer brood cows and were more sel ective in-choosing their replacement heifers. Many dairymen report at the pres ent time they have standing orders for any heifer calf born on their farms. Dairy herds are expanding and new dairymen are going into the business with borrowed capital. We like to see any industry grow, Oovldien Any business man caught in the meshes of a govern ment regulatory agency can not help but be reminded of the infamous proceedings of the so-called Kangoroo Cou rts of the past. He may not be told who his accusers are, or even what he is accused of He probably will not even kn ow that he has been accused or suspected of wrongdoing, Until a crew of investigat ors descend upon him. The department head of the regulatory agency—one qf dozens of government bo ards and commissions with life or death power over business —may start the in vestigation by sending a crew of men with authority to seize and inspect all of the files and books of a com pany or corporation. The agency staff then stu Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly P O -Box 152-1 Lancast.tr, Penna. Offices: r i2 North Duke St Lancaster, Pcnna Phone - Lancaster EXprcss 4-3047 Jack Owen Editor Robert G Campbell. Adiertismg Director &. Business Manager Esta’ lished Novembei 4, 1055 Vub’lshcd every - Saturday by l»ancaster Parmintt Lancaster, Pa Fnteied as 2nd class matter at ■Lancaster, Pa under Act of Mar S IS7O additional entry at Mount Joy Pa teubfsnplion Rates J_ per >ejr, vears so, Single » op> Price 1> cents . Members Pa Newspaper PiiHlsii ■ers' Association. National Editor ial Association ; THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson ' J ► Kangaroo Courts dies this material, following which it starts questioning under oath officers, directors and even customers of the business. Company officials may be questioned for days without being told why they are being questioned. Fishing Expeditions The business man being investigated may be warned that it would be improper for him to continue certain business operations which he thought were normal, during the investigation. The effect can-be to close down a busi ness, with heavy losses or even failure, while the in vestigation is underway. There have been invsti gations in which the business investigated was not told the purpose of the investigation, but learned later that it was merely a fishing expedition in hopes that something wo uld turn up to justify the arbitrary action of an agen cy staff member. The agency staff realizes that the longer the investi gation lasts the greater the RURAL RHYTHMS Full time farmer,.'part time farmer, farming on the halves, Share cropper, tenant farmer, raising pigs and calves, Str|ip farming, truck farming, farming on the thirds. Dairy farmer, poultry farmer, these are familiar terms. Now we have another name for the farmers who Hate a night time job in town and do their farming too rt We call them Sundown farmers and this is most alarming; /’They must earn money at these jobs to continue fanning. but it is with some reservations that we welcome the increase in the size of the dairy herds. Each week the mark et reports on dairy products shows a larger and larger percentage of the fluid milk going to so called surplus handlers and less and less of the total portion going to the milk bottlers. This is, we believe, a direct result of the success enjoyed by the dairy in dustry during the past several years. While the poultrymen, both egg and meat bird producers, hog raisers and beef cattle producers have been hav ing their ups and downs (mostly downs) the dairymen have been riding along on a relatively even keel. With any success comes responsibi lity. We believe it will be to the ad vantage of every dairyman to count the cost before undertaking any large expansion program. We believe every dairyman has the responsibility of policing his own oper ation so that he does not produce him helf out of a market. Dairy cattle numbers are increas ing. Production per animal is increas ing. Unless the dairy •. industry finds some way to increase the consumption of dairy products, the' 60 per cent class one milk we now have may look pret ty good a few-years hence. At Ifeast that’s the way from where we stand FOOD PRICES Wheeler McMillen of the Farm Journal said it. “The women, just ahead of me un loaded her cart' at the supermarket check-o v ut counter. She had cigarettes, two magazines, soap, two cosmetic items, a phonograph record, a bouquet of artificial flowers, a growing plant, a strainer, six glasses and one other dish, a quart of milk, dozen eggs, package of cereal, a “TV dinner”, and two pack ages of frozen chicken. As she paid her bill she said, “My, food is expensive. No wonder farmers are so rich.”. damage to the business. In some cases the investigation is lengthened unnecessarily by first questioning all par ties informally for several weeks, and then again ques tioning them under oath for additional weeks. Also, after being questioned a second time, a third interrogation, under oath, may be ordered on the grounds that the agen cy staff has developed new information. In one case, the staff told the commission, while asking for permission to investigate that the investigation would require only a week. After it had run for several mon ths a member of the busi ness asked how much, long er the investigators-intend to take. “We don’t know,'--the in vestigator replied,“maybe three months and maybe six months.” - Ki Silence Demanded If the business _being in vestigated does get up en ough courage to go to the agency, or commission, and say “We have no intention of discussing the case with you, but we wish to com plain about the manner in which the investigation is being conducted,” the ans wer is likely to be: “We have the utmost con fidence in our staff. They have learned through exper ience the best method of handling these situations and we think it would be a mis- SUN DOWNERS By: Carol Dean Huber looks (Turn to page 5) Bible Material: MatthewS 6-7, U 4H6; 18 21-35 Devotional Heading: Psalm 42, The Hungry Heart Lesson for April 24, 1980 NOT EVERY heart is hungry. Some hearts are not hungry because they are sick, they are not normal. A heart that feels the need of nothing, a mind that has not enough imagination to perceive Its own hollowness, not enough sensi tivity to detect its own emptiness, is a human heart that is less than human. It has sunk to the level of the brute. No pig, no cow—or for that matter, no humming-bird —feels any long- mg for anything except food and an occasional Dr. Foreman mate. This is not heart-hunger at all, it is what all beasts and even many plants experience. They Shall Not Be Filled The heart of man, by the Creator’s design, is made for deeper and more difficult hungers than food and sex can supply. Some of these are insatiable. Let the heart hold all that it can, it is still never enough. The hunger for recogni tion, for attention, for fame—when does it say, Enough? The actor never finds the applause loud enough, the critics never nave enough, there never are enough newspaper notices, one Oscar calls for more ... The hunger for power knows no limits. The old story of the fisherman’s wife who first be gan by wanting a cottage and filn ally ended by wanting to be God, is a parable of the human heart that never cnes, Enough! The hunger for power is never satisfied till above one’s head one sees no greater Power —never till beneath ones feet one sees every hvmg thing . . . and that time never comes. The heart hungry for power shall never be filled. * An Appetite for Righteousness So some hungers of the heart make for unhappiness. One almost envies the contented cattle or the Now Is The Time ... TO PROTECT PLANTS FROM WORMS—Cutworms take a heavy toi flowers and vegetable plants each These plump, greasy appearing cs lars hide in the soil during the day cut off the plants at soil level dunr night In the case of only a few damage may be prevented hy "T< the stem with heavy wrapping P a l old magazine paper. Each P iec3 s • be at least four inches wide with " ches below the soil level and t e MAX' SMITH two inches above the ground In » garden control may be obtained by dusting the gron‘ a 5% chlordane or 2 l 'z% heptachlor-dust -In “ tlie field after plowing with one quart of 2E, e emulsion per acre. TO AVOID USE OF FRESH MANURE Fresh _ should not be applied on top or plowed under for of vegetable crops; this is especially true on^ ure such as beets, carrots, and turnips If fresh m be used, it should be applied and plowed ct ° well . I weeks before any planting is done. Howev cr ' „ manure may be applied either before or aftet nearly all crops. TO TEST HELD-OVER SEEDS— Vegetab’e or that have been left over from previous i e^ r g ltJl ple' tested for germination before being planted an( j od is to sow ip to 30 of the seeds m a flat ot w moist and in » warm place for at least 10 jcef weeks Placing the seeds between two blotter (lie blotters moist at all times in another met ’’° „ eC i 3 she do not sprout at the end of this time, new t purchased. . The larva ° f TO CONTROL GRUBS IN THE LAWN—*•' anese Bettle and sereval kinds _of .“May- ?rU bs ■ and destroy the grass roots; in addition tll "^ inC( i W s moles to the lavjn area Control may be » h)o r 3 ‘ ing the area with chlordane, DDT, or rol time of the year. Details arc available 0 by eliminating their feed supply. silent stones They a happy but they are W' they have no heart at a ii j is a wrong envy, The w , ‘ piness is not to live vvithr.i The way to happiness ij Jesus has shown us 'J* l those who hunger and tu righteousness, for filled." Desite to ha\* ]J J tration; desire to be (if? fllment. Yet this can be mi sIM The men whom Jesus J condemned, the Phaiw righteousness. But the trout! them was that the right they sought set them j? their fellow-men. It jJj pray, “I thank thee thatl as other men.” It i s „ ’ that next to the blessing« who hunger for right,,! comes the blessing onth,» The heart that hung ers j ness in the manner of th,& merely wants to be good i of goodness Jesus practiced it in his kind that is good to otl t Pharisees’ righteousji,n mercy out; Jesus’ Tighter gan with mercy and cr They Shall Be Filled A hungry man does he told he is empty, it Is a painful fact. Hi righteousness begins iv ing of emptiness A death’s edge from star refuse the .food that him So those who ai goodness and even s: starved for the lack ol hunger for what they Why do you want ft There are pool seasons ones. Do you want it ft of a better reputatio want it so as to ha; to be proud of ? Or do for goodness in order to help to others along h Do you desire it as i ; climbing into heaven, or to share with those in r was a man who did not to swim He always rat he could, especially whi other people swimming 1 to do what they could Bt day he saw a tired-oi swimmer at the point. before his eyes Then lingered to know how And then he began to 1< who hunger and thirst kind of person Jesus wf filled. (Based on outlines cop' tli© IJivision of Christian Wjttional Count il of the Christ In tho r S A » Community I'resv Service) BY MAX SMITH
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