—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 30, 1962 4 From Where We Stand ... Buyers Want More Pennsylvania Eggs For those v, ho say Pennsylvanians ha\e no futuio in the poultry business, listen to the words of F H Lcuschner, extension poultryman at the Pennsyl vania State University. “If Pennsylvania could compete cost-wise v ith states producing surplus eggs and poultiy, we could produce 10 per cent more eggs, three times as many and two and a half times as many broilers ” Leuschner said recently at the an nual conference of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation, egg dealers prefer to buy Pennsylvania quality eggs but can’t get enough of them. Jobbers are forced to find out-of-state sources of eggs to supply large orders at competi tive prices. He went on to say that eggs pro duced by Keystone state farmers enjoy a reputation for high interior and ex terior quality in the New York markets While Pennsylvania enjoys a repu tation for quality production, sound pro motion will be needed to maintain the market, he said and advised producers, egg buyers and retailers to work togeth er to preserve the high quality of the eggs produced We know that, in order to maintain a -market, the quality of eggs must be kept high, and we know that we have the advantage of being near the market centers, but what is it that is keeping Pennsylvania from competing more fully with out of state producers? Leuschner said, “if Pennsylvania could compete COST-WISE” the market would be there for many more eggs. He went on to predict a continuing trend to larger laying flocks with family size farms approaching 10,000 ken ca pacity It is the old story over again The efficient get bigger and the inefficient pass out of the picture. We suppose there will be some peojole who will interpert Leuschner’s re marks to mean that the only efficient producer is a big producer, but we do not believe this is the case We believe it simply points up the fact that an effi cient producer who can make a living with a few chickens can make a better living with a few more chickens. We believe it means that an effi cient producer who sees the possibility of making a profit through an efficient program will do all he can to make his operation produce more with less less labor, less capital and less wear and tear on management At least that's 'how it looks from where we stand isr ★ ★ 'k Reindeer Meat Does it surprise you a little to hnd out that one state in the Union produc ed more reindeer meat than beei and pork combined last year? Well, it’s true According to a re port from the U S Department of Agn- T'si oi iin 11 oil in in.ll r- 111 H 111 ill II 1.1 r ! 11l ( ll I Ill'll Is. (1 I' ss tli iii 1 million ]ioiiihls iu 1 'ii, J culture, Reindeer meat, produced on the island ol Nunivak, off the coast of Alas- ka totaled 405,000 pounds while beef production in the state was 309,000 lbs and pork production was 135,000 lbs. More beef was sold off each off several Lancaster county farms during the year than in all the state of Alaska The report also lists $5,703,000 as the total value of farm production dur ing the year When this is compared to the more than $23,000,000 for milk or the more than 20,000,000 for eggs and poultry, or the $17,000,000 for livestock or the 13,000,000 for tobacco produced in Lancaster county annually, the agricul ture production in our newest state seems quite small indeed. But before we get too superior feeling in regards to our neighbors to the north, we ought to remember that Alaska probably produced more gold and salmon last week than Lancaster county produced in the past 10 years. So it all balances out in the end. We have our agricultural heritage and our agricultural potential, but each of the other counties in each of the other 49 states have something for which they can be thankful. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand Under the title “Not So Simple” Homer Davidson of the American Meat Institute recently described what he called a revolution in retailing with these words: “The meat packing industry, one might think, isn’t subject to much change Today, as in the past, you may think, the packers simply buy the meat animals at the market price, do the necessary processing, and sell the meat to distributors at a figure which will pay the operating costs and leave a fair profit “It isn’t that simple nowadays not by any means ” Our question to Mr Davidson is this, just what is so simple nowadays? The first farmer simply gathered in the bounties of nature with little thought as to how the food got there in the first place The production of food has become ever more complex as civili zation has become more complex, but with the complexities of production have come better and more abundant food and at a more dependable rate We have no quarrel with David son's concluding statement “Problems are a part of the economic life of the nation, and they become more numerous and complex in this ever-changing world of today ” We agree, problems are a part of life, whether it be in the meat pacKing business or in farming. Problems are a necessary part of life When you run out of problems you might as well be dead. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Lancaster Farming Established November 4, Lancaster Countx’s Own Farm 1955 Published ex ery Satur- AVocKIy day by Lancastei-Farming, Lit- P O Box 1524 itz. 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WHE a CianiLM lie tmm In <-m cnsl Umlorr \ I'ty/yl Sunday -He <ns fyL, V j sTte i 1f >l7l RiMo Mitci Ml II Knus 22 2, Devotional iteulinf, II Kings 22 1-2 .1 U A People In Peril Lesson for July X, 19G2 j AMERICANS are conditioned **not only by tempei ament, but by the movies and the TV pio grams we like to see,—conditioned to hair-bieadth escapes The heio must not have too easy a time of it He must baiely squeak through But it must be an escape, the end ing has to be a happy one,' with the cavalry or Superman or Dick Tracy or Pei ry Dr. Foreman Mason or some body tnumphing again In real life it doesn’t always work like that Theie aie genuine tragedies, there aie unhappy end ings, what ought to come out on top doesn’t always do tins The Bible stones we aie going to ha\e a chance to study dunng the next five weeks aie stones of a people in peril But the people either did not see their danger, 01 if they saw' it they did not do what was necessary to save the situation, and so the people perished People who think of the Bible as a book of comfoit only, must prepare for a shock when reading this part of the Old Testament. This is the tale, not of a nanow escape but of a narrow failure to escape A young leader King Josiah was a young man on the throne and he wanted to do what was right. The piophets told him, and it was quite true, that unless the nation turned to God it would be destiojed Josiah knew what that meant, it meant getting ltd of the swarm of idols, false Gods, whose shrines weie eveiywhere in the land. So ha got rid of them He took a cou rageous stand foi the true God. But the nation went right on the downward sjide, and the final ciash turned out to be only a few years away Why was this’ What did King Josiah do that was wiong’ Tha truth seems to be that he did nothing paiticulaily wiong, but Now Is The ‘ i^s22as>-'— \ * The thunderstoim season is at hand ami many tann annuals aie exposed to the cl - ‘"W"' l 'Vl| ments Owneis that have metal oi »iit -y- , jmCl le «ees mound then pastmes should lealne ’**~ c 4 that this type of lence will cany a lightning 'jku , i ' Ijolt to animals and lull them if it is nut „ tuT -* giounded v. oodeu posts will not ground nit* chaige A steel post eveiy 200 feet oi a wne stapled against the post running doun mKu lnto le inoist eai ’th before the metal feme HBT & Sm ib attaclieci S lo hnd any lightning chare. H To Spnu For Corn Borer and Farwoim Home gardeners and truck fanners v.tu> MAX M. SMITH want to conti ol these corn insects should lesoit to DDT or Sevin as a spray or dust about the tune the tassel is emerging fiom the whirl of the plant, repeat sprays e\ery 5 to 7 days for three to tour treatments To Operate Combines Slowly The giowth of volunteer giain in the fall in a small Siam field is often indication of the amount of wasted grain at hanest time in many cases tins is due to the excess speed ot the combine which does not allow sufficient time to get the giam out of the heads. AH combine opeiatois aic urged to take then time in older to do n hettei 10b Speed is not one ot the assets of a good combine he was acting alone N 0 backed him up He did not suade any one else to his pom[ 1 view He destroyed the ■ !c places, ’ (pagan shrines an i a' tais) and he compelled all (| ‘ t zens to woiship at JeuiMi, But it was lefoim Horn p', , 1 down, theie was nothing ix)|mi’ P about it We can see h u „ woiks in oui own cou.ili' ? piesiaent mav urge nuu.li n,, ,i lefoims, he maj nave a sen io social conscience, but theie is something conU about his idealism or his -o,° science, he icumins a lone \oice crying in a wilderness When a man is sick, sometimes the best thing for him is a shot m the arm But this is an emei gency measure It would be far belter if the man had been wisely, building up lus health by wise habits of eating, e\eici b e and so on Josiah’s lefoim, sin cere as he was, amounted to no more than a sort of shot in the arm The disease of Godlessneas was deep-seated It was not to be rooted out by a mere change m the place where God was to '•«« worshipped It was to be cmed by a king telling the people to wor ship the one true God, and to make sure they did this, destroy ing their idols The revival, so called, of Josiah, would have been moie effective if the people had thrown away their idols them selves Tiue goodness, true reli gion, nevei can be commanded It must come from within Too little, too late Ceitain kinds of illness can be cured by diet Apples, for ex ample, are excellent helps in the cme of some conditions But one slice ot apple a day is not going to help a man who needs hall a dozen, and fuitheimore, it the man’s illness has progressed far enough, a whole bushel of applet won’t help him They aie plenty, but they are too late When tuber culosis strikes, complete rest is the road to cine, if cure is pos sible But to lest five minutes aftei each meal is too little, while if the patient’s condition is ig noied until he is in “St. Peter’s Waid” at death’s very door, rest ing all day and night will do not a bit of good; it is now too late So in the days of Josiah, so many a time since, a nation has gone down to rum not for lack of good prescriptions but because the na tion did what was right too little —and too late. Who is most to blame for na tional catastrophes’ False proph ets ’ Well-meaning but feeble icfoimers’ 01 the masses of eveiyday people’ (Riscd on outlines copyrighted by the DiMSion of Christian relocation, National Council of the Churches of Christ In the USA Released by Community Press Service ) Time . . . BY MAX SAIITH To Ground Wire Fences To Use Top Hol’d Siies All livestock and dairv pro* diners, are urged to use th*' vei v best animals lot herd sites in the bleeding program, when the sire represents at least half of the futuie heid of the olfspring it is ' l ' rv essential to get the veij in older to improve Pu ,e " hied bulls, boais, or lams <'f good bleeding aie not alwa'“ cheap at buving time but .'a most cases result in a pioU 1 ' able investment Don’t P llll * 1 pennies when having a « ewr j
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