—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 27, 1963 4 From Where We Stand... Everything In Its Place , A place for everything, and every thing in its place. This precept was one of the most difficult ideas we ever had to teach boys in vocational agriculture. But once the idea got across to the boys, they realized that a place for everything and everything in its place saves time, energy, frustration and short tempers. Before such a system can hope to work, there has to be a plan. If there is a place for everything, even if every thing is in its place, the system may be inefficient. The system WILL be in efficient if the place for everything is not arranged properly. If the place you have for every thing is a junk box, even though every thing is in its place, you will still have a junk box. Let’s just change it a bit and say, “A place for everyone and everyone in his place.” A few years ago there was a say ing, “The city is a consumer of people and the country js a producer.” Now the city is sending the people back with a vangance. Every day a few new houses spring up in what was recently productive farmland. Everywhere you look in Lan caster County housing developments or single new houses dot the landscape. While the county is continually gam ing population, the city of Lancaster it self is actually losing people. We believe there is a place for everyone. We believe Lancaster County deserves to be something better than a junk box with everything piled hodge-podge on top of itself. We are making a place for everyone, but if we go on willy-nilly building houses where ever fancy dictates, we will have a county no better than the toolbox of the carpenter who just throws his tools in the box. At a recent meeting of Township Supervisors, sponsored by the Lancas ter' County Soil Conservation District, Bickley Foster, Director of the County Planning Commission, said farmers tend to think of zoning as something that applies to city dwellers. Farmers must begin to think of zoning as something that is of and for the farmers. Several townships have zoning laws. Several more have recently appointed zoning commissions, but most of them have no planning boards. The commis sions have planned a place for every one, but in most cases they have created little more than a junk box with a place for everyone, but no order or reason to the arrangement of the placing. If you grow tired of the mess in a junkbox of "tools, it~is easy to throw the whole mess out and begin with a new plan, but when you are -dealing with permanent dwellings and the esta blished, homes of human beings, a junk box can not be junked just because wg grow tired of it. With communities, you just have to hope the plan comes before the junk box gets too full. “I know how you can keep the tools where they belong,*’ a student of vocational agriculture said when we complained that things were not in their place; “Make shut the door, and nail it closed.” That might be one answer. We might say no more houses could be Young drivers in 1962 had the "worst record of any age group in the United States. Men and women under age 25 represent only about 15 per cent of the nation’s licensed drivers, yet they were involved in nearly 29 per cent of all fa tal accidents and in more than 27 per cent of all non-fatal ac- cidents, »u*s: 1/ >1 s>.l i y I/?v \ t. built in our rural communities, but soon the community would cease to grow. And when a community does not grow, it goes backwards. We can not “make shut the door and nail it closed”, but we can see that there is an orderly place for everyone, farmers and urban dwellers alike, and we can see that everyone fits in his place. This we must do if we hope to remain the strong agricultural com munity we have always been. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Where is the market for surplus dairy cows? Some local dairymen f§el that they should advertise in national publications in order to dispose of the increase in their herds. A recent report from the Holstein- Friesian association shows that there is very little reason to advertise outside the Keystone state. The market is right here. In 1960, Pennsylvania breeders of Holstein cattle sold 7,072 registered fe males. Of course, 6,688 went to other breeders within the state. Only 136 went to Maryland, 82 to New York, and 166 to other states. But where do Pennsylvania Breed ers go to buy their replacements ? In the same year, 6,688 cows were bought in the state, 150 in New York, 128 in Maryland, 92 in Wisconsin and 69 head from all other states. In other words, about 93.7 per cent of all the Holstein cattle purchased in Pennsylvania came from farms in the state. Pennsylvania imports about as many Holsteins from Canada as any state, but even this market is on a downward trend. From 1959 to 1962, the number of cows imported to the state dropped from 3,885 to 3,003. The market for dairy cows is right here. Except on very rare occasions, it is a waste of money to advertise dairy cows anywhere but right here at home. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Our National Agriculture Dr. Karl Brandt of Stanford University says that farmers manage half of all the pri vate business iu the U.S., and farmers’ assets nearly equal the value of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Ex change. He says further that gross in come in 1961 was $49 billion (on am off farm), nearly as much as the who! UvS. defense budget. ★ ★ I’m Confused The Priest Blver Ida. Times makes this acute obser vation; “Historians tell us about the paa and economists tell us about the future. Thus only the present is confusing.” ***** Big Meat Eaters January inven tory of cattle and calves on farms and ranches was 103.7 million 4 percent more than a year ago; milk cows and dairy replacement heifers down 2 per cent; but other cattle, mostly beef, were up 6 percent. We eat one-third of all the meat consumed in the world annually. -0-< Lancaster Forming Lancaster Conntv’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E. Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 ★ ★ ★ Sell Cows Locally ★ ★ ★ ★ The swine population of Many herds of dairy cows southeastern Pennsylvania is will be ,getting lush pasture in quite heavy and there is a lot . , of traffic in the moving of am- the ™nung weeks; when tfceSe mals; small farms that are ra- are >confined to the (barn established November 4, ther close together increase before and during the milking 1955. Published every Satur- the danger of diseases. There period, it is very important lay by Lancaster-Farmlng, Lit- is not ny '~ lir ® f . or h ° s cholera t jj afc barn be well ventilat _ once the herd is mfeated , ~ Itz, Pa, prevention hy vaccination is ec * : ex haust fan# should be op- Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Entered as 2nd class matter the only means of protection, provided to remove the grassy • f Tint, „„Too many hog producers are odors. Off-flavored milk is rea ’ ‘ ' taking too muoh of a risk by not son for rejection and dairymen 8 * 1879 * the urged to manage caraEully. - Personal Trust Leiioa for April 28> IMS BlkU Faalftia 31; 4*. D<T«N«uUb»lltti -Ftiun 37; 1-1, T-», 18-14. - \/f ANY signs have been »ug gested to help tell'the differ ence betweengenuine religion. «nd imitation*. On* of the belt takes the form of an old saying: “Bell •al till it gets into i singular.” That fs to say, religion at the talking stage, if that is the only stage, is not yet vital. An atheist and the Pope could talk about-religion till they both were tired; butthe Pope would be talking Dr. Foreman from inside Chris tian experience and jthe atheist talking from outside it. So even if the atheist were a better debater than the Pope, his arguments would not be worth much, because he is talking about something to which he himself is a stranger. Beligion to be real must be lived, personally lived. Personal trust There are three essentials for personally experienced religion. 1. Personal trust. 2. Personal Pledge. 3. Personal Performance. These have to be essentially per sonal or they are not genuine. This week’s study is about that first point: personal trust. The two Psalms selected, 23 and 46, both breathe a strong spirit of confi dence in God. But observe what this confidence Keans. It docs not mean assurance that no harm will come to the believer. It does mean confidence that whatever comes to the believer, be can take it, because he trusts" in the God who is over all. There are two kind of freedom from fear; one rests on an assurance that there is nothing to be afraid of, the other rests on the ■assurance that although there may be, and probably will be, fearful things ahead, with God by our side we may be sure nothing is going to-be stronger than He. The writer of the 23rd Psalm, Knows there is a Valley of the Shadow Death. The writer of the Now Is TJie Time . . , When supplies of a farm commodity ex- MAX M. SMITH ceed the demand, hoth at home and abroad, .it seems quite sensible that a reduction' in acreage might be one oi the practices to help correct the situa tion. We hear of such plans on many farms throughout the area and uige all growers to cooperate in this effort; a re duction of 10% should not place much of a financial burden on any grower and it could mean greater return on labor for all growers. The practice of increasing acreage to main tain a certain gross income is to be discouraged. To Vaccinate For Hog Cholera To Ventilate Dairy Barns 46th, Psalm knows the kingdoms of tha-world may totter and the 'iirth melt. But neither Psalmist turns pale or trembles at - such thoughts. “I will not fearfor Thou art with me," say Kobe. "The Lord'of hosts is with us,” sings the other. If your fears are your own, so is your trust, if it is real. Fsarofdsath , ,* f The one disaster'-ftjcing us all, the one dark experience of which we may be certain at every mo ment of our lives, is that «ae day we each must die. If this be cause for fear, then we must live all out lives in fear.- Some other 'calami ties we dread may not come to pass, but our own deaths certainly will. Now both these Bsalmists, of Psalm 23 and 46, knew death awaited them. The drat one usea the words "all the days -of my life." This is another way of say ing "till the day I die." The aec ond psalmist draws s kind of pic ture of the modem world, „ does he not? with wars and earth quakes and tidal waves,- a world where sudden death is common. Yet again neither poet is disturb ed or alarmed. The 23rd Psalm in particular appears to point beyond death to a “forever” with God. The essential you If you trust in God, is It true that you will not suffer harm? Many persons think that this is true. Then when something does occur to damage them severely, they think maybe the trouble was that they did not trust hard enough. This can’t be the answer to the problem, for this would mean that the basis for trust is your own ability or capacity for faith, and not the power and love of God. It is true, however, that if your trust is in God you wiil not suffer harm. This is true, however, only if you think what is meant by “y o uThe essential YOU can never be hurt by what happens to your shell, so to speak. Take the case of a man who, is para lyzed from the waist down. There may be no cure for him. He will have to live in a wheel chair all his life. Now his body has been injured. His circumstances, his prospects are changed for the worse, much worse. Yet his true self need not change for the worse. Think of all the people you know, brave and kind, with crip pled half-dead bodies. What you have can be damaged and de stroyed; what you are need never be, if you are joined with God by faith. (Based on anilines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Ctanrcbea of Christ in tho V. S. A. Released by Community Press Serrlce.) BY MAX SMITH Xo b? Careful With Fertilizers Many -crops will- be planted dn the next months .and tons of_ copunercml fertillz will be xsed. ‘Tie proper placement ,of -fertilizer is' very important; materials tlning.Talfcbei’-'hitroffen ;or,"potash -should eeme * either -S“ :oK-.jßlant roots', ■red br.tfid -stunted'r In'midst i 'hhistdompletecrettilizer-.shoul d be piac :o < the side and- below the -seed or plant To Plant Bess Tobacco
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