1 ''fS^TG^S 1 From Where We Stand... Don’t Wait Till The Crop Dies The stranger asked the old moun tain farmer, “How does the land lie around here?” The old man looked up and slowly replied, “Well I don’t know about the land a-lying; it’s these real estate people that do the lying.” ' In a very real sense, the land does not lie It bears a record of what men write on it. In a larger sense, a nation writes its history on the land, and a civiliza tion writes its record on the land. The record is there to be real by succeeding generations for thousands of years. It can be read easily by those who under stand the simple language of the land. What kind of record are we writing for .our grandchildren yet unborn. What kind of record will the farmers of a thousand years hence read in the land w.e leave to them. Will it be a record of a once-pros perous nation of farmers who were faithful stewards of'the soil a nation of farmers who conserved the soil and made it continuously prosperous. Or will they read a history of a nation that min ed the fertility out of the soil and let the rest of the good earth erode down the gullies to the sea. Will they read that the good crop land of the nation was used to the full ness of its capacity, but continually re stored to productivity, or will they read a story of neglect and waste. Man has been writing records on the land through some 7,000 years, and in many places the story is not a plea sant ope. 'Agriculture, much as it was prac ticed, within the life span of some still living, began in the Near East just about 7,000 years ago. Why did eleven great empires flourish and then die in this once fertile region. Much of the history is written on the land. In "the Biblical account of Moses and his flight out of Egypt with the Isrealites, he said as he came to Mt. ftfebo, “For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks and waters, of fountains and depths that Letters To The Editor Editor Lancaster Farming Dear Sir, If a wheat grower will care fully analvze the provisions of the 19 64 ceitificate program, he will become amazed at the teinfic amount of freedom it allows him in making his own decisions in the management of his opeiation It would be difficult, indeed, for anyone to dense a substitue program that would compaie with this one in benefits and protection, and yet allow as much in the way of fiee individual initiative and management. ■’Here aie some provisions that deserve careful study: 1. The 10 percent manda toij diveision under which the giowei mav choose whether to (a) Dneit this acieage, add ing it to his conserving base, and earn a payment of about £l5 per acre national average, or (b) He may plant it to wheat for stoiage only, to be used to fill out his ceitificate quota in yeais of crop failure or low yield. 2. The 20 percent voluntary diversion winch deserves very taieful study by eieiy grower. With a duelsion payment ol about $25 per acre, national tueiage, it would only be m abnoimally high jield yeais that the aieiage giower could lealue moie net return bj ph nting than by duelling It must be lemembei ed that he fan dueit this additional 20% without losing any of his certi (Contmued on Page 8) spring out of the valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness; thou shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose Viillc tlinn Tnflvpcif hrflcc Blbli MAttfUl: Psalms 91* 107. mus inou mayesx axg Drass. Devotional Readlnf : Psalm When Moses looked across the Jor- „ _ , „ . dan river into the Promised Land, he wiU noTge? Mo trfu descnbed it as “A land flowing with ble? There is a well-known song milk and honey.” '. one line of which is: “Nothing you Today, much of that land is bare ask will be denied.” Is this true? and red, with the good soil washed off Experience says, No, The notion the slopes to bedrock and the silt in the that God rewards those whohonor valleys slashed with deep gullies. Jt is th g“ / carefree hard to imagine it now as a land of milk life with all their and honey. wants supplied, is The story is the same on all too a very old notion, much of the land of the world. J* to he The national association of Soil Conservation Districts have proposed an persons who would “Eleventh Commandment” in the hope say that happiness of preventing that story from being is a kind of index written here. ® r * foreman to goodness; find “Thou shall inherit the holy earth dee P and-there as a faithful steward, conserving its re- JrS , j n a man m peace and prosperity sources and productivity from genera- and there you have a man of tion to generation. Thou shall safeguard blameless life. thy fields from soil erosion, thy living what God promises waters from drying up, thy forests from There are places in the Old Tes desolation, and protect thy ''hills from lament (none in the New) where overgrazing by thy herds, that thy de- the ldea 3 ust described seems to cendants may have abundance forever. Jj*. foand : But in hie first place, Tf „„„ , , . . this Psalm 91 which seems to ll “y shall fail in this stewardship of promise a charmed life to God , s the land thy fruitful fields shall become people is a poem, and poets are sterile stony ground and wasting gullies, never matter-of-fact. In the sec and thy decendants shall decrease and ond place, this poet must have live in poverty or perish from off the een acquainted with some of the face of the earth.” f ore £a(;ts o£ “ e - andmdeed m , , , ~ from his own wntmg we can see Tomorrow has been set aside as that he dld not shut hi s eyes t 0 Soil Stewardship Sunday”. Soil, con- *u the evils m the world, A part servationists believe the land should of this poem, often overlooked, is tell a pleasant story of our passing this at the end (verses 14-16). From way America is truly a land of milk and the piled-up promises of God there honey. It is up to each one of us to see xiu • 'u it j i face. What Goa promises is first that this beautiful land .does not tell the 0 £ deliverance. The very word same tragic story that the Promised deliverance suggests trouble. A Land of the ancient Isrealites tells to- mother near the end of her life day. looks back and thinks, “How did I At least that’s how it looks from ever mak . e to J 3ed whprp WP ctand many a mght hardly able to hope wnere we stand. that rd jj ve till day iig h t. I’ve got ★ ★ ★ ★ up many a morning feeling that l’d go crazy before sundown. If it gely on what he calls “confus- V h * III!' „ bills, it was always something. on form But somehow God always gave MQ-24. Perhaps Congressman me * SO ng in the night, and some- Dague’s contacts with lus farm- how He pulled me through." er constituents have been so That’s deliverance, few and far between that he does not know that they are sufficiently literate to read the aforesaid form and understand that it must be signed and re turned to the ASC so as to be put on the voting list—a pro cess of registration. Some one should inifo.rm the Congress man on this point of the in telligence mental qualifications (Continued on Page 5) Editor. Lancaster Farming Dear Sir, Many of the discussions, re presentations and statements on the matter of the wheat re ferendum during the past sev eral weeks have been an insult to the intelligence of the fann ers of Lancaster County. In the first place, our repre sentative in Congress has come out with the unqualified charge that the election has been “rig ged.” He bases his charge lar- Editor, Lancaster Farming, I would like to take time to comment on some of the absurd arguments put forth by the federal government along with various editorialists in trying to influence a positive vote m the wheat lefeiendum this spring, along with some of my own lecomnvendations Their first (and biggest) mistake is in assuming that the only possible course of action is to subordinate farm ing in America with controls like those of a socialist or Communistic state They would have the vast, inefficient fed eral government make ,the decisions once entrusted to the individual farmer It appears as though they have no taith in the ability of the indivi dual American farmer to think for himself It is indeed unfortunate that our federal agricultural officials lack the intelligence and undei standing that Alex- (Continued on Page 9) I 1 ' 11 nI J i r I ) 1 l(<f> ) I Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 B. Main 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 lay by Lancaster-Farmlng, Lit itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1879. 2-S9tf9.il- <9 V - Deliverance lesson for May 19, 1963 Now Is The fall tor weevil conti ol may find a heavy in festation on their crop at this tune. The ciop MAX M. SMITH may be sprayed now with methoxychloi or guthion and wait the required days betoie harvest (7 days for niethoxyclor and 21 days for guthion), or harvest the crop in the bud stage and then spiay the stubble immediately to kill the young weevil If weevil aie present on the first cutting, and the area is not sprayed, they will prevent much second growth. To Use Caution With Plants Tobacco and tomato .grow- ers must be careful when sett ing out young plants, in the past many plant roots have been burned from either the starter fertilizer or from the insecticide used in the trans- plant water Plant roots are very tender; they should not come into direct contact with any nitrogen or potash fertiliz er; also in the use ot insecti cides, growers are urged to use the wettable powders rath er th«n the liquid forms-." - eranctli not Always «| dnd.'One day a'business tad been on a trip wired is wife that he was safe is plane had crashed,!' rot home, the whole famj in gratitude to the God protected this husbanq .. But the man took al r plane several times each weekJ This was the first time he had ever been in a plane that crashedj, What about the occasions, trips by night and day in all weathers; where no accident had This Psalm 91, by the way, is one that (according to Matthew]!' the devil quoted. According to did devil (who may well have known’ better), Psalm 91 means that ne matter what you do, God will keep you from being hurt. HS tried to get Jesus to jump to the 'ground from avhigh part of th« Temple, expecting angels to bo on hand to keep Him from sq much as a stubbed toe. 'Jesus re fused to try this. Not that He waS afraid, Jesus never feared danger. But He did not believe that God'S protection is offered to those whs deliberately get themselves total trouble. It’s (me thing to pray fotj safety on a plane flight. It’s quits another thing to take off .in a lighi, plane by yourself when the weath* er bureau says DON’TI j “I will be with Him” ; One of the most joyful promises of God is this: "I will be with Him in trouble.” There is some thing better than being kept al ways out of trouble. That is to bei in trouble with the Lord in there too, at one’s side. A great host oi God’s saints have found that tq be true. Paul was one of the mosl famous of these. The “thorn ix - the flesh” was not removed; in stead, he learned that God’ii strength is made perfect in weak; ness. A preacher in a rough slun was interrupted in bis sermon bl. a man who shouted: “You’re i liar! You’ve never had troubh like I’ve had. Wait till you’ve ha< real trouble and you’ll sing an other song.” The preacher wen on as best he could after that, bill did'not see the man afterward* Within the month, the preacher’l wife died, and- the iuneral wai held in the little chapel in thi slums. At the service the miniate) himself stood by the casket ant said: “If the man is here wh< heckled me the other day, then is something I want to say to him I have lost the one dearest to m< in the world; hut God has nevei been closer than now.” The heck ler was there; and that simple testimony brought him to Christj (Based on outlines copjrrlfbied bf the Division of Christian Education!. National Council of tha .Churches Christ in the V. S. A. Released b Community Press Service.) Time . . . BY MAX SMITH To Cull Low Producers When we consider the dairy feed out* look and the excess amount of milk on the markets today, all dairymen should cull their herds as much as possible Weather condi tions point to another veiy tight hay and silage situation this summer and fall and if high priced feeds must be purchased, it is essential that they be fed to high-producing animals Slow breeders and low producer* should be sold for meat purposes. To Control Altai ta Weevil Alfalfa producers who did not spray last To Plan For High Quality Hay All hay producers are re minded that the proper stage 1 ot maturity when cut is th® most important factor in mak- _ mg top quality hay Too many , produceis permit the crop to r get too ripe before cutting fop hay or silage. All of the grass es should be cut at heading > time, alfalfa in the hud to/' early blossom stage, and clor-"' er in the early blossom stage. Many grass-xegume mixtures will matui e in only a few days time during hot, dry weather; therefore, frequent inspection of the field and prompt at - teaticm wil 1 -'be'required
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