4 —Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 20, 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAND A Time To Pull And A In Egypt over 3,000 years ago a wise man observed, “The boatman reaches the landing partly by pulling and partly by letting go. The bowman hits the target part y by pulling and partly by letting go.” Alexander Pope said it in a differ ent way. “Be not the first by whom the new is tried, not yet the last to lay the old aside.” One of our young neighbors last, week was expressing doubt that man would ever travel to other planets, or even to the moon. His eomjnent was, “If God had meant us to go to other planets, he would have given us a way to get there.” Dad will be 81 years old next week. His rejoinder was, “I have been con vinced for a long time, if you can think of anything, someone will even tually produce it.” This, then, is a tribute to Dad, who through 81 summers and winters in fat years and thin, has learned when to pull and when to let go. He has learn ed to respect tradition and appreciate it, but he will not let tradition stand in the way of progress. Coming into the worM at a time and place where civilization, as meas ured by mechanical achievements, was quite primitive, and living into an era and place where civilization has be come gadget laden, Dad was in a posi tion to know whereof he spoke. Most of the things barely dreamed of in his youth, and many things never dream ed of his highest flights of fancy have come to be commonplace. Dad has seen the mechanical rev olution on the farm. He has seeded grain by hand and harvested it with a cradle He has drilled it with a mod ern grain drill and harvested it with a modern tractor and combine. He has traveled to work away from home when the fastest mode of travel was horseback, and he has had the oppor tunity to fly in a modern plane. (And ,he can remember when to talk of fly ing was tantamount to asking for ridi- ’y a ir I d * o n The millions of Americans cause of poor or failing com who battle traffic jams into muter transportation. Even if and out of cities these days you’re not stalled in a traffic know that our urban trans- jam or crowded into a bus or porlation prob’em needs im- tram every day, you help mediate attention. pay billions of dollars that The problem is the result urban traffic congestion costs of fai ure of public transpor- U 3 eacJl 7 ear cation to keep pace with the Mass Transit Plan tremendous migration of. city Sen wil , lams has re-intro residents to suburban resi- dudec a blll this session to JentiQl districts within the create a Federal, low-cost past two decades. revolving loan fund under We were inclined to regard which cities could borrow a the problem, however, as total of $250 million for met che exclusive concern of city ropolitan area transit devel and suburban residents, until opmcnt A Senate Banking & wl^ 1 Sen Harrison Currency sub-committee has A. Wi ham Jr. of New Jers- held hearings on the bill, ey about it It is far greater Sen ams emphasized l ust " a problem,” he that the number of automo- US , , . biles in use. and the millions Every oay, he said, “you more being built, aready ex- Cl^izens through- ceed the capacity of our out the nation face inconven- streets and roads. We are un lencc or economic loss be- able lo b^ld roadSj even at very high costs, fast enough to keep up with the increase in automobile traffic He has also introduced an “open spaces” bill to au thorize the Home Finance Agency to lend up to $lOO million a year to help cities finance purchase of land for recreational, conservation, historical, and esthetic uses in and around urban areas. Rural Interests The spread of cities has not been well planned, Sen- Wilhams toxd us. Frequently suburban developments have engulfed small towns and rural communities. Tlfose de velopments along highways have added to the growing traffic congestion, he said. Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly P u Box 1024 Lmcastcr Penna Offices VI North Dnk© St. Lancaster. Penna. Phone - Lancaster Repress 4-3047 •I»ok Owen Editor Rolm rt (4 Cimpbe'l, Advertising H rectoj A Business Manager Bsl.i 1 lisht d November 4 19 r i ! > Pub uhff) every -Saturday by l«inf*a<ifpr Farming Lancaster, Pa Elite ed i* 2nd class mit'e* at Lannster, Pa under Act of Mai fl additional entry at Mount Joy Pa Sn’ srnption Rate** $2 per jear, three \<nr* % e t Single copy Price *» O'fi t Pa Newspaper P»»b'ish enf National Editor I 0.l v««oontion THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson > ► A City Problem? Time Tor Let Go cule). Dad has used, in earning his every day livelihood, most of the tools of farming exhibited at the Landis Valley Farm Museum. Many of the tools with which he is so familiar have to be ex plained to the farmers of this later generation. Many of the too’s served' a good purpose, he will tell you, and many of them were well made and ingeniously contrived, but would he return to life as he knew it as a youth? Of course we are all nostalgic about certain things, but when we once ask ed dad, “What about the Good Old Days?” he replied, “The only thing good about them was that we were young.” Dad, with more help than can be measured from Mother,-raised a brood of a dozen children and imparted to them the values of traditions and the things that are truly lasting. He knew, with his children, too, there is a time for pulling and a time for letting go. Not one of the family- felt unwanted, and not one was constrained when it was time to start a new family. Recently a former student of voca tional agriculture in the county plan ned to move off the home farm to a job in the city. He was the last of the children in the family and he was needed on the home farm. The father knowing what it means to pull had kept possession of all assets on the farm and paid the son a wage. With the help of the present teach er of vocational agriculture, the father saw that there is a t ; me to let go. The son was given an agreement pleasing to all concerned and plans to stay on the farm. The father kept him by let ting him go. But Dad is human ’ike all the rest of us. He will enjoy reading this piece, but then he will smile out of one corn er of his mouth and say, “Well he soread it on a little thick, ’At least that’s how it lookes from where we stand’. ” “We ignore the fact,” he said, that urban sprawl is gobbling up our farms and pastures and woodland at a rate of more than a million acres a year If we have any real hope of achieving suffi cient open space to meet our rapidly mounting recreation al and conservation needs, we must of necessity turn our attention to promoting more orderly and economic forms of suburban develop ment ” The problem Sen. Williams is attacking so vigorously is not exclusively a city prob lem, but one that constantly involves more people, in the small towns and on farms, as well as in big cities. MOLES USUALLY HELPFUL Generally moles are bene ficial little animals because they destroy many injurous insects. That’s why Stanley Gesell, Penn State extension entomologist, suggests con trol measures only when moles invade lawns and cul tivated ground. Even then the choice may be insect con trol, instead of a mole killing program. CREEP FEED CALVES Producers of feeder calves can increase both weight and grade of calves at weaning tine by creep feeding, says Ben Morgan, Penn State ex tension livestock specialist. Creep feeder plans can be obtained from the local coun ty agent. BUILD BARBECUE PIT Outdoo r barbecuing is one of the joys of summer for many, and Carl Dossin, Penn State extension poultry spe cialist, explains that barbe cue pits can be inexpensive and at the same time do a satisfactiry job. All you need are 18 cnder building blocks and a piece of half inch mesh wire 3 by 4 feet. Dlble Material, j Kings 4'29-34. Prov erbs 6:6-8, 22 28 , 24 30-34, Eccle siastes 3 22; I| Thessalonlans 3 6-13 Devotional Reading; II Thessalonlans - 3 6-13 Diligence Lesson for May 21, 1961 t 1 p\ ILIGENCE! what a dull U word!” Yes, it has certain ly. come to be dull-sounding It’s like a coin that hasn’t been used much, It just giadually gets tar nished even if kept in a glass case. Yet we know what it means and we admire what it stands for even if we per sonally leave be ing diligent to oth er people "On the job,’’ "on the ball,” “on his toes,” "in there pitching,” “al ways after it,’’ “never lets grass giow under his feet,” —we have all heard such expressions and we know they are intended to be com pliments. So let us not shy away from that word “diligence.” It is simply a somewhat more formal way to say what all those expres sions like “on the ball” ate trying to say. ftnls To save questions, let us agiee, right at the start, that diligence by itself is not necessarily a good thing. Let us take for instance, out of the book of Proverbs, the ex ample of ants Lazy people (slug gards) are told to go study the ant—“consider her way and be wise.” In other woids, it is hinted that even those little insects have more sense than some people Most animals are diligent, espe cially when it comes to gathering food, but ants aie known every wneie It would have made just as good sense to say, "Consider the ichneumon wasp, and be w se " But more people know what ants are than could tell you about ichneumon wasps aie al ways working They do attend oui panics, to be sine, but to uoik. not to play Eveiy picnic is Hai vest Day for the ants that Lye a.oundthcie Ants, furthcirnoie, seldom woi.iv alone. They wok in in Now Is The Time * . . MAX SMITH TO UTILIZE SILAGE FEEDING—LocaI livestock pr' ers are urged to realize the value of all kinds of silai very economical feed; in most cases as much or mo* 6 ents will be preserved by making a crop into s lag 6 trying to make it into-hay m early spring Some gaad silage on hand is good insurance against drouth later summer. TO WILT GRASS SILAGE—The wilting method a good way to make better quality grass silage; this * c ' the mowed forage to stay in the field for several hou fore chopping to reduce the moisture content to the range. Forage with this reduced moisture cement cause less seepage from the silo, better fermentation ■ h.gher quality feed. Many good grass silage prod«k e: turned to this method in recent years and dropped t rect - cut system. This works well with all S r33S crops except the small grains such as oats, wheat, rU ’ barley; they should be chopped and ensiled without ' vl TO CLIP PASTURES—For good pasture management producers are urged to clip their grazing areas month, or, as soon as the grasses have shot sc-ednc' 1 ' stage of matunty t will come rapidly with warmer By clipping at the above time, new growth will bn aged and weeds will not get into seed heads TO SPRAY FOR CUTWORMS AND WIREWOR^ the amount of soil moisture present this spring l 1 likely that the in estation of. bath cutworms and v '' ue will be heavy; prevention is much better than w 1 ® recommend that the entire field be sprayed m ad' 8 planting. Further details available if desired a .es. They cl*! v that solitary ants canur e get done. There i s i „ w -vcr in doing things ti, e | v. ,y Even ants know beth tl at Now. most ants au It- t But all through the v mvadei is spreading i ii ect woild the fue-am c’ .melnc. and moie c ngerous too, than any oti.J,, in this counti y Victims ( 'f j insect only wish he were «J d ;ont ! So the Devil inc\ C d, pexhgps) is die hardest e» in the universe. But th.it n ost gloomy thought. Fo r d /il is diligent only m cwl “i -jo” Means “Love” Die English word "cUi» e J co nes fiom the Latin woid'J g itia” and that corno.s froj vub “dihgo” which in the J E ble is used to transl,i‘ ( 1 s.miigest Hebrew and o-l wo.ds lor “love.” This si.oj • something, doesn’t it’ Di!i*° ( J isn't tneie haid work, d i*| d udgeiy done in a diudgmjl Oi way. It is not forced Uoot I 6 nee is woik lovingly done ,1 0 ue for the joy of it The v,| 01 Ecclesiastes speaks of e J mg woik. And why not’’ d .ver one day was ta’lung J aa old fiiend, wh'le dma-.! bus louta They got to tdll.’J n.en of sixty-plus will, aoou*« ti ernent. “What aie you do when you retire’’* t is.md■ d .ver “Don’t know," siijl L nd I’d like to get tvojl With a 6-month vacation aJ What would you hke to d| The dnver answeied piompJ o e woid, “This.” The fnesdj a omshed “You don t me J teil me jou LIKE you> wo But like it he did That’s Jiligj that’s the root of it ■ 1. 1 Slacker wie opposite of diligence is d ig something eUs, u 's 4 n .nng at ail He that is slsd his woik, an Old Testarrc.it p e i) says, is knottier to him is a destroy ei The slacken a is a tiaitoi The slacker in j. is a traitor likewise What do qo to let a faira go doiui'’ o 1 1 have to scatter rocks in t. ids, set fire to the '\o„ds it .o-weed in the pastin es jn sin the cattle. All you na.e is nothing. Let evei ythmg < r .er do today what you tan o tiU tomoK'QW, never Pmsh ]to, just don't care Afai.nd'i’ hove to be pushed downhul i run down if you just leave it ai: (Based on outlines copj njlilel the Division of Christian ret! 3 N ioaal Council of t x n. Unirtw C nst m the U. S A flUcasti Cowmuaiij Press ScrvJ. t ) BY MAX SMITH TO RECONIZE STAGE OF MATUH. Forage Crops decrease jn feed value they reach maturity; research work shown that little is to be gained arid r is lost by permitting a cropjto get This means that the grasses should to at heading time, al.alia and the c>ov( the bud to early blossom stage, •»« small grains (except lye) in the o!' to milk stage. The proper stage of ci is the same if the crop is to be used hay or for silage. «■ %
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