—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2, 1963 4 From Where We Stand •.. The Strength Of The Pack Is The Wolf And the farmer waited! - Tobacco buyers hit the road with contracts in their pockets and the farm ers- looked forward to the offered price with a great deal of expectation. The first offers, while not high enough to make any over-mght millionaires, were pretty attractive. But the honeymoon was over before it got started, and most of the con tracts stayed in the pockets of the buy ers. As soon as a few crops were sold, buying activity slacked off and finally came to a virtual standstill, with over half the tobacco still in the hands of the grower. With the purchase of a few crops, the companies began to drop prices slowly till now the offered bid is barely enough to pay the cost of producing the crop Now, almost three weeks after the buying season opened, nearly half of 31,000 acre crop is still in the hands of farmers, and many of them are-begin ning to wonder if they are even going to see a tobacco buyer. With spring planting se'ason ap proaching and farmers m need of cash, more and more of them will be anxious Seedsmen See Shortages Of Clover and Alfalfa H VROL.D MEXGLK Eastern States Fanners Kvcliange Alfalfa and red clover will be in short supply this year. Many ot the growers have found that they can make a little more profit on other crops, such as cotton. Whether this will affect the future of ithe seed business is hard to tell ft looks like we will have to find a way to make it a little more profitable for the growers to pioduce seed. Seveial other factors enteieJ into the pic ‘me this veai A shortage of water resulted in a shortage ot irrigation, and a shortage ot seed produced In HAROLiI> MENGLE some areas there is a shoitage of good pollinating bees This seems peculiar, but 1 under stand it is a problem in some areas This, along with increas- ed population of injurious in sects adds to the problem Only about half the normal acreage was planted to Penn scott clover seed last year Part of this is due to competition from other varieties, especially Chesapeake I don’t expect too much of a problem with Penn scott in. spite ot the shortage the demand has gone dpwn._ HowsVH ( i>BT ‘dufoi)!# oft peake is exhausted. ’ r to sell at whatever price is offered. Could this be the situation the tobacco companies are hoping will develop? Are farmers always going to have to take whatever price the buyer offers? Will farmers ever have any part in helping to establish the selling price of his pro duce or will he always be content to wait—and wait—and wait—and then take whatever he can get. He will have to go on taking what ever is offered as long as the buying power is centered in the hands of >a few, and the sellers remain a large group of scattered, unorganized individuals. Rudyard Kipling, the great English poet once said, “The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” So long as farmers are content to be lone wolves, the strength of the pack is vulnerable, and when the pack can not withstand attacks, the wolf dies. Unless farmers are willing to regulate their own production and stick together for mutual benefit, they will have a los ing struggle in the market place. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Some of the other seeds in short supply include Alsike and White Dutch clovers. Smooth Broome, and Timothy, Alsike is m the shortest supply of record while the sup ply of white clover' is down slightly from normal. Smooth Broome is in very short supply. Timothy is short, especially the later maturing varieties Our Seed Service was canvass ing oui growers and just could not find good seed They found some poor seed, particularly seed with a laige amount of weed seed, - but b.udly any we could use. It is becoming increasingly for tanners to paj attention to the Penn State Drill Uo\ Sur vejs Sjirne of the reports they have brought out are shocking, but the situation is just about as bad as they indicate Too many farmers are using poor quality seed because it is a low <ost pi oduction item compared to some other /things. Farmers lust don’t pav as much atten tion to the selection of good seed as they should. I do not believe the fanners will gam a thing by waiting to order seed In fact, if he waits till summer to ordei his seed for fall planting, the farmer could hurt, and hurt bad Just this week we got a seed pnc o list and several items have ad vanced. The seed supply ot nhe sum mei annuals tsudan grass, soi ghums and the Sudan-sorghum oosses) will be about like the alfalfas and grasses the supply is somewhat short \Vc have had the greatest interest we have ever expenem ed in these lines, because of the drought last summer. One of .the most adaptable, most versatile, most drought resistant grasses for Lancaster county is Reed’s Canary Grass, It can be seeded alone or m Established November 4, ig a poor practlce because reeord sheets are available mixtures with Ladmo or alfal- 1955. Published every Satur- , , fornirf> from our Extension office (one fa as it associates well with ei- lay by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- pai t for each field or strip) in which ther. Ree-dS canar> is a rank i t 7 p n a ’ P alasite e §£3 may be . , , g.ower and will produce lots ' consumed from this ipaterial. case_an accurate record may be of feed, but u must be manag- Entered as 2nd class matter With the high cost of hay and ke -Pt- ' Tlus is especially true ed properly It must be well at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. forage this winter growers are wher e soil tests are being made I '** W & M balanced fertilizer program. ITMjjTgg - fit ML M W » EE It should not be allowed to ma ture beyond the bud stage, it should be grazed hard and clipped close, but if you take care of it, it will produce lots of forage in this area. Our supply of seed com is verj good We are short of a few hybrids, but this is not un usual It would compare favoi ably with other years. WIJjLiIS ROHRKR, President P. hi. liohrer and Bro., Inc., r SmokctowTi The situation has not chang- WILLIS ROHRKR ed much since I reported the situation to Lancaster Farming (Continued on page 5) >0 ❖ ❖ ❖ Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna, P. 0. Box 2G6 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E. Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster Express 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 mawL 1 . 1 -i mmmm » Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director V - BtbU MaUrlal; Mark 4 35 throufh 5 43 Derallonal Rta*la ( : John 14 12-20. Lesson for February 3, 1963 DOWER is always fascinating. *■ A champion boxer or swimmer, a Palmer or Niklaus driving down a long fairway, Niagara Falls seen from below, a severe elec trical storm, a hurricane,—or the power of influ ence, of ambition, of fear ... No kind of power is dull. Those who have it, or control it, seem awed by it themselves; and those of us who have little power are afraid lest power of storm or brute force of brutal men be turned against us. But whenever that word Power strikes the ear or eye, one of three words—or all of them —come to the mind at once, as a kind of question Power —we think; power for—? power over—? power by—? Power over. ■ ■ The four pictures of Jesus in the four -Gospels are each one dif ferent from the others. Mark’s picture is one of the Divine Man Of Power. Christ’s ideas interested Mark less than His mighty deeds. For Mark, Jesus spoke by action quite as much as by words. Mark’s Gospel gives an amazing answer to the question: What did Jesus have power over? Every thing, Mark says in effect. Even storms; even death. Things out of this world, like demons, or things in this world, like fever,— Jesus controlled them all. This is so astounding that there have al ways ben. persons _who boggle at it. There must be some exaggera tion' here, they think, or some imagination running wild. How ever,- let us take it for granted that Mark was telling the truth, wild as it seemed to be then and now. What he affirms is miracle, no less. Men today have some power over fever, storms, mad ness and death, but they do not claim miracles. The miraculous feature of Jesus’ miracles was that He didn’t do anything, He didn’t use anything, He just willed Now Is The Time . . . Lice infestation seems rather heavy this winter in many herds of cattle and hogs; cold weather has grown a very heavy hair M4X M smith al " h * ch P mkes lt; more d,fflcult to do a MAS. M. SMITH thorough job of treatment. Dusts containing either lindane or rotenone may be used on cattle and DDT or Lindane on hogs. Treat at least 30 days prior to slaugh- ter. Repeat treatment in 12 to 14 days, To ISe Hay Hacks The feeding of hay on the ground or on the flour of pens Power BY MAX SMITH To Order Legume Seeds Broadcast seedings of clover or alfalfa should be made during late February or early March; this is only a month away. Reports indicate some scarcity of Quality legume seeds. If needs are not already on hand, we suggest prompt attention to this important seed purchase. To Kill Lice On Livestock (with or without words) that some? thing happen, or cease to happen, —and on the instant, so it was.: .The whole.point of a not that it is unique or astonlSh ing. The point is, it is not what would happen if nature were leftj to itself. The doctor giving anti-i biotics for infection may be using, “miracle drugs” but the drugs are not really miraculous, they, are as much a part of nature as! the germs are. Jesus’ will is su- 1 perior to nature. Jesus commands nature ta be up-natursd; and Is done. Power for,,, _ -4, There is more to be said. The power of nature seemff at times to have no purpose. We talk about, an “angry sea,” a “bitter wind," but tile sea is not angry, and the bitterness of the wind is nothing compared to bitterness in the heart. The sea just smashes and passes on, the wind would as soon Ereeze a baby as an escaped con vict. Nature has no purposes, or if she does she is not aware of them. But all Jesus.did—whether we call it miracle or not—was purposeful. Now the purposes of ordinary men may be strong, but they are not always good and they are never completely wise. The purpose of Jesus in nearly every act of power He performed was clear. Power by... During Jesus’ lifetime, we are; told, people asked one another: Who then is this? Mark has al ready introduced Jesus to his readers: this is the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This is power exerted by one who is so Godlike that He can be called the Son of God. And this ‘ is why (as Christians believe) only a few persons in the long History of the world, and then only for a few moments in all their lifetime, have been permit ted to share the divine power that Jesus had. H G. Wells wrote a itory called “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” and any one who reads that charming and funny tragic story will see why it it that it is a very good.thing for the world that miracles (mostly) don't happen.- Miracle* are, S4fe only when the power that wills Jhenj is wielded by one who-shares the Knowledge and the wisdom and the love of the infinite God. It may become terribly clear to a few survivors, if any, of a nuclear war, that ultimate power, used by angry or ambitious men or nations, may turn miracle into murder. (Based on outlines copyrighted b y the Division of Christian Education. National Council ot the Churches ol Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) j waste through poor feeding methods and equipment. To Uso Farm Crop Records In order to properly keep account of the needs and treatment for each field on the farm system of field aqgpumts is recommended. These crop
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