—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 1, 1962 4 From Where We Stand... Farmers Are Rugged Individualists We are all for rugged individua- lism We believe a person has to be an individual has to do what he thinks is right even if it means standing alone while all the crowd goes another way. We believe in the right of the individual to pursue any course he chooses as long as he does not infringe on the rights of others. Sometimes infringement on the rights of others can consist in simply doing nothing when something ought to be done. At a recent meeting of the North east Poultry Producers Council, the pre sident, Oscar Turner, told poultrymen that they must compromise their differ ences, abandon their rugged individua lism and really work together as a team if they want to avoid becoming pawns in the countinuing struggle between big government and big business We believe the word “abandon” is just a little too strong. We do pot believe poultrymen or any other farmers should totally abandon their individualism. We do not believe farmers should be come so many sheep following the lead of the first bell wether that comes along with a tinkling bell, but we do not be lieve that a farmer should be too stiff necked to bend a little if that bending will help him and other farmers to bet ter their lots. Mr. Turner really did not mean, we believe, that farmers should relinquish all their claim to being individuals. What he really meant was that the con tinual bickering between commodity groups and even among factions within commodity groups tends to weaken the farmer’s position at the market bargain ing table. We have often been asked, “Who speaks for agriculture?” We could answer, “almost every body,” and go on to name NEPPCO, and the turkey growers association, and the milk producers associations, and the grain producers associations and their subdivisions made up of com producers, wheat producers, barley producers, soy bean producers, and other grain produc ers, and the sheep growers, and cattle men’s associations, and hog producers associations, and ad iniimtum ad nauseum Add to this list the National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation, The National Farmers Or ganization and the National Farmers o~4> ■> •0-0- -0- ❖ ❖ -> -0 Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm "Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Mam St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-304 7 or Lititz MA 6-2191 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- itz, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar 8. 1879. •><■<>■ •> -V* Union all claiming to be the voice of the farmer and each fighting with the other on matters of policy. And when it is all said and done, we have to admit that while nearly everyone speaks for the farmer, actually no one does. What is still needed is a clear voice speaking for all farmers to let the urban dweller know that agriculture is still by all odds the most important in dustry in this nation. Until this story is told, and told convincingly, the ever-dwindling num ber of farmers can look for nothing bet ter than becoming pawns in the strug gle between big business and big govern ment At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Next week you will notice the line on our front page changes from “Vol ume 7” to “Volume 8.” In newspaper language this is our way of telling you that Lancaster Farm ing has passed its seventh birthday. With each year we have gained new adver tizers without which we could not operate for very long, and with each passing year we have gained new read ers without which our advertisers would soon cease to be advertisers. May we take this opportunity to thank our many loyal readers for your support of Lancaster Farming and for your support of our advertisers. And may we take this opportunity to thank the advertisers for their continued confi dence in our services. You have given us our happiest birthday wish At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ’ NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, the end of surpluses in wheat and feed .grams is clearly in sight That day is not far off when the farmer will no longer be worried about surpluses depressing the market or standing in the way of ef fective assistance By 1965 our supply of both of these crops should be about equal to the amount we need to keep on hand for stabilization and security, and the annual cost of carrying farm sur pluses will have been cut in half ’’ The Wrong Cow Can Lose Money A beef cow may wean a call each jeai but still leturn onlv two-thuds as mudi prolit as a tow' that inises the same mini bei, but heaviei calves This is emphasized m a VSDA- Oklahoma compaiison th.it cites actual case histones of two biood <ows The two tows calved fust in l‘i')o and have received like I< > dma and management In most veais thev were exposed to the same bulls Doth have piovcd regulai produieis one lias weaned f_> < ihc-. iheoihct 1 ! Hut a big inbfient difteien ie has made one cow nun h ,iioie protitaole This dillei ente .s levralcd b> molds icn the ★ ★ ★ ★ Our Birthday We Are Seven 1 ★ ★ ★ ★ Farm Surplus President Kennedy 12-vear peuotl 19-,0-i961 (fi c:uies are not >ef available for ibe two calteb pioduced jn 1 9(52) Cow I weaned 11 oahes in tile 12 >eais llei i.ilies aver se 353 pounds each at about 7 months, the age most lead ers aie sold At a sale price of 25 cents a pound, these calves would have giossecl >1 050 Cost of maintaining, the cow vvJS >l3 5 So she nett ed >‘sos oi about Sl7 pel veai Cow IJ weaned 12 calves in the 12 veins Hut her calves aveiaged 512 pounds at 7 months Funning the same cait pi ue and maintenance (osts cow ft has ncitcd >1 - 050 oi »S pm veir Take aw a} one ol hm- calves to mat< h cow \ s pioduct'on and cow B still would have return- tContinued on Page 5) Bible Material' Matthew 18 15-17; 18 15-20, John 17 20-28, Acts 2 1-4. 38-47, I Corinthians 11 23-26, 12.12-13, 27-31, Ephesians 2 1-10 Devotional Ke#dfo(. Psalms 133 and 134. Home for God Lesson for December 2, 1962 OERE we have five sentences *■ translated from a letter writ ten to a church, a good nineteen centuries ago. And yet the word "Church” is not used in these sen tences, though the thing is there from beginning to end. It is a good thing he did not use the word "church” because otherwise we might think (as we so often do) of an organization or a building Paul, who wrote this let ter, never saw what we would Dr. Foreman call a church edi fice, something that photographs nicely and “looks like a church.” Bo he never wrote about build ings. Paul never went beyond what nowadays should be called the "skeleton” organization of his churches; so he was all but silent about what we would call “struc ture” and “form” in the church. Paul was concerned with some thing more profound, something more basic He is speaking to a community of the friends of Christ He is speaking to people who have had a Christian.expen ence and live Christian lives. How they are related to one- another and how they are related to God; this is the basic thing that makes a church; not organization or the kind of place where they worship and study. Without Christ, what? The reader is invited to study these five sentences (Eph. 2 11-22) to see what they mean to him By way of suggestion, the following thoughts may serve as a guide line. Sentence 1: Eph. 2 11-12. Paul reminds his readers what their status used to be, and it was a pretty low one Indeed a lower state could hardly be pictured; separated from Christ, separated from God s people, strangers to God’s promises (they had proba bly neier read the Bible), without Now Is The Time . . . Now that the spiaj season is nearly over for most taimeis it is important that all spray matei lals be salely labeled„and stored. Be sme all contameit. are identified with the name of the contents and the 'pro per label oi dosage Also, be certain the Ima terials aie out of leach ot Children and away from any food or feed Seeds needed for planting ne\t spring should not be stored near any 2 4-D 01 othei herbicides. tage ot the trapping season to catch musk- MAX M. SMITH rats that aie in oi neai the pond, this extia income should encourage owners to protect their ponds by eliminating all muskrats Good farm pond management does not include a single muskrat hole in the bank at any place. To Spray Brush Or Fence Rows Lind owners wanting to ehm.nate second-growth al- ong fence rows or any bnais or bnisn growth may spray during the winter months with a mixture of the ester -iirm of 2 l-i J and 2, i-5 T. tncM hc,bic>«es mixed with luel Oi' (one part heibicicle to tO pai's of fuel oil) will Kill tree- and brush when -jiraved in the dormant sea son hope and without God. Notice that Paul puts together, two -separa tions”: from Christ, and from the “commonwealth of Israel”—that is to say, the association of-the people who know God, and desire to do his will. To be cut off from God’s Son and cut off from God’s children, is all the same thing. To say (as some have tried to say). I want to be a Christian *but not to belong to the church, is the same as saying I want to have the love of Christ but I do not wish to share it. It is the same as say ing. I love Christ but I do not love those whom he loves. Anyone can see how inconsistent that is. Ha is our Peace Now for Sentence 2: verse 13. The key words are “in Christ Jesus” and “brought near in the blood of Christ.” We are members of Christ’s fellowship, not because we belong to the fellowship in the beginning but because our rela tion to Christ puts us into right relations with one another. To put this another way we are not Christians because we are church members. We are church mem bers because we are Christians. Tvvo strangers on a bus may find that they are both friends of the same person This at once links their lives and minds; the strong er their affection for their mutual fuend, the stronger their attrac tion to each other. And if this friend of each of these (hitherto) strangers has risked Ins life for each of them, their bond is stronger still What links Chris tian to Christian, believer to be liever, is that Christ gave fyjs Me for each of them. Sentence 3 verses 14-16 Christ is “our peace ” The underlying and almost unspoken reality lieie is the bitter race prejudice be tween Jew and Gentile Paul is saying that Christ is the one bond strong enough to bring together in harmony people individuals and classes—who “naturally” aie bitter and scornful enemies. Sen tence 4. verses 17-18 Men who had in times past prayed aga nst each other, so to speak, prayed selfishly, now pray in one Spirit to the same Father. A place for God to live Sentence 5 verses 19-22. P4tul now leaves with us a simple pic ture that a child can understand. The church the fellowship ‘of those Christ loves—id like a build ing Not just any building, but a residence for God. One brick dpes 1 not make a home, no brick is without its place and use. The church—the people who make it up, who are the church —is; a home for God on this earth. (Based on outlines copyrighted by( the Division of Christian Education,! Rational Council of the Churches of Christ in (he USA Released by Community Tress Service.) BY MAI SMITH To Store Spra> Matei nils Hately To Trap For Muskrat* Farm pond owners should take advan- To lllmiinato Ldoe On Liv estock Cattle and hogs often .be come heavily infested .with body lue during the fall and ■winter months, this reduces animal comtort and results m lower milk pioduction or dai lv gains, producers are urged to treat then animals befoie winter ai lives, two treat ments die acquired from 13 to 14 da\s apart. Animals with heavy numbers of lice .are not efficient producer?, i < m : ,
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