I—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 29, 1962 From Where We Stand... Why Didn’t My Exhibit Win? But win didn t my exhibit win 9 We heai that icliain cweiy year about this lime fiom some disgusted exhibitors who thought the lair associa tion had lined a colorblind judge with only one eve ‘ I don t see why nn potatoes didn’t win They weic bigger than any other exhibit on the table, wo overheard last w oek as w e looked o\ ci the exhibits at a local fair And it was true We saw the ex hibit and the five tubeis w’ere fai-and aw ay the biggest specimens in the show 7 The giant spuds were so outsize that we doubt if you could have sold a Hundred pound bag of them to any housewife in the county That is precisely the reason they did not get first prize In most cases, the fair book will specify that the ex hibited produce should be of good mar ket size Even though the big potatoes weie free from disease, all of one size and shape, and uniform of color and skin texture, they could not qualify for the top prize because they were not ap proaching the ideal size After all, the mam purpose of any lair exhibit is to encourage excellence of production and raise the standard of excellence of the product If the judge gives prizes tor exhibits which tend to lead producers away from the ideal, the fair has failed m its mam purpose It is a good idea always to read the premium book carefully before entering an exhibit, but after the entry is judged it is even more important to have the facts' before passing judgment on the placmgs All too often the critic has no clear idea of what the judge was looking xor in the exhibit. It is not always bad to question a judge’s placmgs, if you have all the facts at hand, but you must remember one thing the judge -is not above making mistakes, but on the day of the show, he is the boss. If after the show the fair association feels that the judge deviated too far from the specifications in the premium list, they can select a different judge for the next year. But if the judge sticks to the guide lines set up, the only thing you can do is understand why your exhibit was not first and prepare a better exhibit next year • Lampeter Dairy (Continued Horn Page 1) t.non went to the senioi \ea>- jiu ol Fuuc Fie\ G\ps\ Hill Hoad Robeit Kaiillinan, Eh /ibethtovn lam \eai’s cham- pion was not m competition Thin -da\ Fk\ colic (ted thiee othei blue Millions and combined > ith Hess to win both the op ui and ninioi get ol sue clas s< s Hess won two classes Via nan Hen the 17 teai old dau-thtei ol Mi and Mis i'aul II Hen Holtwood Rl, dioned he*i two jcai old .Ter cet Wonckitul Rum ess Jane 10 tile to]) spot in that com- P'tition The Solanco High School semoi showing a 4-H i>ioj i {t in Thuisda\’s evhibi , ion won hi i second rosetu Shi had the Lop Risen at Sol imo tan in l')7h \o ii sene champion was named in th, lo f eel linn Knidei s Am shin ano Hi own Swiss innioi c.ihc s wile aw, ll ded him nhhons ]j,ist \eai s champion Manhn llamish. Quart ttille R 2 did not defuid Jiei title Miss Ki eider is from Quan ttille Maybe you still won’t agree with the judge's decision, but if you under stand why lie placed the class the way he did, >ou lave learned something, and that, alter all, is the purpose for fairs At least that s how it looks from where wo '-tend A fa\ onte reliain of many urban farm policy “authorities” is to get the government out of agriculture Many farmers, too, argue that the sun would shine perpetually if the government would quit meddling We are just as anxious as anyone to see our dairy industry on its own feet and running its own business at the earliest possible hour But the simple solution of getting the government out has consequences few people appreciate What would happen? Over the past few years several projections or esti mates have been made by well-qualified economists Depending upon the basic assumptions which were made, project ed price drops have ranged from 54 cents to $1 39 per hundredweight for milk A figure recently used by Dr Truman F Graf, of the University of Wisconsin, estimates that milk prices would drop 70 cents per hundred by 1965 The average Hoard’s Dairyman sub scriber last year sold 352,300 pounds of milk At 70 cents per hundredweight, the estimated decline means a loss in gross income, per subscriber, of $2,466. We would not deny anyone the right to advocate any type of a farm policy he may desire, but the results of effecting his recommendations should be known There are those who claim all such projections are made bv incompetent people or who try, by other means, to discredit the findings. It is significant, however, that every study we have seen (and all have been made by indepen dent, well-trained economists) projects a very major drop Can they all-be wrong? Possibly, but not probably. The present price support program is a poor one and one which we will not defend. But it has prevented greatly de pressed prices. When you’re in a leaking boat in the middle of the lake it’s rather foolish to abandon the boat until better means of survival are in evidence. Judge Roc Boutwell, Mas noic Home Fauns Elizabeth low n placed the classes as lollow s WRSHIRE Tunioi Calt 1 )o\co Kieulei Quanvwlle R 1 Isl{<m \ SWISS •Tunioi Calt Ki eiclei JIIUSMV Innioi Calf —1, Nairn Kieidei, Diumoie Rl Innioi \eaihng —1, lean Kieidei Quan vulle Rl Semoi Yeailing —■ 1, Mar tin Heir, Holtw r ood Rl Two-vear-old .—1, Malian Hen, Holtwood Rl (champ ion). OLKKMsHV Junioi Calf —1, Dorotln Oaibei, Willow Street R 2 (minor and resene giand champion), 2. James Mjeis, 11.70 Village Rd Senior Calf —1, Kenneth Oaiber Willow Stieet R 2, 2, Lam l?i enem.in, Strasbum Rl t H Melt in Bieneman, Sn ashing Rl 1, Rot Brene nian, Willow Street R 2 Junioi Veailing —1, Dons Dieneniun, Willow Stieet Rl, ★ ★ ★ Dairy Programs Hoard’s Dairyman, ★ ★ ★ 2, Eddie Bieneman. Willow Stieet Rl, 3, Tames Myer Semoi Teailing —1, Roh lei W itmei Willow Stieet R 2 2 Lan\ Bieneman 3, Maclm Sc him pi) 1230 G\ psj Hill Rd (Continued on Page 12) y-o-o ■> y- y y- y- y-y- y 1, Jcnce Lancaster Farming Lancaster Comity’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0 Box 1524 Lancaster, Penba. P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Mam St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster Express 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- itz, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1879. L©a3BILM » Inkrretion*) Un 'orn Sirday Lc ons hiMt M Uoml I like 1 C 2*5 ]2O ''l n'\ U 11 2J I) olion il Ki ul/m; Is n ill 40 111 RcrsSd of fee Lesson loi September JO, 19G2 ILTE V« \S a stiange man, John the Baptizci Stiange in mam’ wajs Ills bnth was a inu- and jet m all Ins lite he ne\ci perfoimed one single mn- acle and nevei -5* * 'yt'J tiled to He came » ln<;0 * , ' lls " by | a mn acle, and flw&y '% yet when he died i ' i with his head V chopped oil, no , 3 miracle was theie fig to save him He knew mole about *»*S A &M Jesus than Jesus’ Dr. Foreman own biotheis did, and jet he doubted Jesus in a public soit of way such as his biotheis nevei showed Jesus called him the greatest of men up to his time, yet the world, even the Chnstian woild, pays moie honor to many another ancient figuie than to John. In the Desert People who chess in camel’s hair clothes and eat locusts and wild honey as a regular diet aie not common nowadays and they weie not in John’s day eithei A man eccentric as he would not get many to listen to him nowa days, but John had a tiemendous audience The load fiom Jeru salem to Jeucho was—and still is —a steep winding highway, in fested with bandits, yet crowds would w alk the fifteen miles or so from the city to where they could heai John pieach and be baptized by him No evangelist m Amenca would set up his tent 15 miles fiom the nearest sizable town, but John did, and the people came. His seimons all could be boiled down to two sentences Repent' He is coming' Consideung eveiythmg, especially considering the fact that some people thought he must be Cluist himself, John must have been a \eiv lemarkable chaiac tei Ho did not fit any pattern then oi now His long s'ay in the wJdeiness be,inn ng wnen he cvas a bo\ (f .i no dmut his aged ■>nens did ni Ine tul ie gitw i) i. a j ,U n us on rum 'l l s is goo i ii 1 i a ns (U .ih nut s Now Is The Time . . . Several days after a killing frost it is possible to lemove the final crop of alfalfa hay without doing much damage to next yeai’s stand This fall with the shortage of hay on many farms this roughage will be quite useful and with good drying condi tions it should make good teed With poor diying conditions it might be well to put ib into the silo as silage. To Top-Dress Hay Fields After the final cutting ot alfalfa is re moved in the fall, it is advised to top- diess the field with tluee to four hundred pounds pei acre of a 0-20-20 or 0-15-30 MAX M. SMITH feitilizei This will help replace the soil ele ments removed during the year and meiease yields next year. To Spray Ijeguines For Insect Control The month of October is lecommended for the applica tion of either Heptachlor or Dieldnn on alfalfa or clover fields for the conti ol of spittle bugs and -alfalfa weevils next summer Be sure this is done after all haivesting and graz ing is done foi this year and Keep all animals off until the noimal harvest season next May or June These fall appli cations have given excellent lesults for insect control and all ,]Qgujne producers .qrp urg_- , ed to adopt the practice. too A desert child, John would not be tied to the conventional, the customary. He had few if any hu man ties He could look at the world, so to speak, fiom the side lines, he had a fully detached view of life On the other hand, because he lived all alone, he did not have the “common touch” that Jesus had Unlike Jesus, John had nothing to say to the sou owing and sulteung of the woild Wheie Jesus saw the multitudes as sheep without a shopheui, John spoke of them as a “biood of upcis”— snakes’ babies, to put it in plain English. u LO In Hope Yet the people, no matter what John might call them, however fieite Ins denunciation of them as smneis, —the people swaimed to heai him The leadei can think ot reasons . and bj the way, any one who is interested in John’s stoiy should read all the Bible mateual, not the few printed veises One of the reasons, surely, why John was so popular in spite (you might say) of all his efforts -not to be, was that he pleached just what the people wanted to heai about the future The people who came to hear him and stayed to be baptized weie poor, they were undei the crushing heel of a long-staying occupation army. In Confusion Jesus indeed came, though as we saw, at fiist only John knew who he truly was But he was not the kind of “Messiah” or God’s- Man John had expected We know that a year oi two later, when John was near his death in a dungeon, he, the pieacher of hope, began to have doubts He even sent to Jesus to ask if he, John, could be mistaken We do not know whether what Jesus said to him by his messengers comforted him, but we may believe it did, for Jesus always knew' the right thing to say So we may feel sure that hope returned to him in Hie end (Read about it m Luke chap. 7 ) John is not the fiist or the-last hei aid of hope who has been right about the hope, but wrong about how the hope comes true. John had thought the Messiah would be an Avenger, a Destroyer; Jesus came a man of peace John looked for something spectacular; Jesus showed him miracles, but the kind he looked for. God has his own ways in his world, and we cannot dictate how hp shall man age it. But we may be sure, as John learned, that “Jesus doetb all things well ” (Bused on outlines copyrighted hr the Division of Christian Education* National Council of the Churches o t Christ In the USA Released by Community Press Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Remove Final Alfalfa Cutting To Protect Summer Seeding!* August seedings of alfalfa and clover are off to a slow start; the growth is very short in many fields and little ground cover is present. I£ weather conditions prevent good growth before winter weather sets in, some projec tion may be secured by applications (5 to G ton) of strawy manure during Novem ber or early December; b» sure the material is spread ev enly ovei the field This cover will . .cpnspcve .and., help * prevent" 'winter" Heaving. "
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