—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 22, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... The Changing Family Farm We have heard so much about large corporation type faims, contract farm ing, vertical integration, and the death of the small farm that we are sometimes prone to think that the family farm is a dead institution. This just is not true. It is true that farms and farming methods are undergoing a revolution. It is true that we may have to revise our concept of what makes a family farm. It is no longer possible to “go into farm ing” with 40 acres and a mule. Farming is becoming a business conducted on a much larger scale with infinitely more automatic equipment, but does the addi tion of acres, more livestock or equip ment remove the enterprise from the ranks of a family farm. In a recent survey by the U S De partment of Agnculture, it was found that more and more of the sales of farm products are coming from farms with more than $40,000 gross annual busi ness, but even though the farms, and the total volume of their business are getting larger, most of them continue to be family businesses in which the opera tors and family members are risk-taking managers doing most of the farm work Technological advances have not ma terially changed the traditional pattern of family farms as the dominant unit of American agriculture. True, it requires a great deal of capital to become established m agricul ture today, but it never was easy to get into farming on a profitable scale. In retrospect, the good old days seem to have offered many advantages to the young man interested in a farming ca reer, but we believe most of the advan tages have been exaggerated in the minds of farmers as they look back to their youthful, vigorous days when no problem looked big and all opportunity looked grand. We believe there is still opportunity in agriculture. We believe there is still room for the family farm, and we be lieve there will be for a long time vet to come The best way for a young man to become established m farming is to in- Members Vote For Merger With GIF At Eastern States Convention 'SPRrN'GFIELD, M.A3S , Feb- elected IS directors ruary 19 Consolidation o£ B Suavely Garber of Willow Eaisltern States Farmers' Ex- Street -was re-elected to tie 'ohang e and Cooperative Grange bound oif directors .Ajplprori- Leag-ue Federation Exchange mately one-tihird of the direc •wa-s approved 'by members at- tors ('currently 53) are elected tending the Eastern. States an- each year to 'hold office for Dual meeting here today thiee years In their special meeting to morrow m Syracuse, Xetw York, GX/F members 'Will vote on the (proposal to consolidate the two regional cooperatives. <Tn their meeting. Eastern States members heard the re ports of the president, chair man of the executive commit tee, general manager, and trea surer pertaining to 19 63 East ern States operations and they elected officers and direc tors To their board of direc tors which now numbers 53, Eastern States elected or le- • Stock Yards (Continued from Page 1) and cows sold during the moin mg. fat cattle at 1 .pm nuh feeder cattle to folk™ Tne nearlv-tonrpleieJ sale pavilion mil be consti acted of steel and com me, be (omfpWe- Ij neattd and air conditioned, and cost approximate!} 575, 000 'rhf Jj'tf'stock Evcl-ance s.vd any gi i er maj coivgn cat le tnrougih anj mtinbei 01 tin, e\- change to borrow capital than it was a hundred years ago, but if you think it was easy for grandpa to borrow money in his youth, just ask him. Grandpa knew, just as his grand children of today must know, farming is not an easy life. There is no royal road to success in farming. It takes money, and it takes work now just as it did in the good old days. There are very few ways to make easy money on the farm today. We doubt if there ever was any way to make easy money, except, for a few isolated instances when all the breaks came one way. Competition is growing stornger every day, but competition never made anyone weak. We do not believe that the family farm is dying. It is changing, as every thing must change, and farmers must change with the times their ideas, their methods, maybe even their philo sophies of rural living or the change will break them. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ Farm Fire Losses Climb Farm fire losses reached an all-time high of $175 million during 1962, the USDA has reported. This was 7 percent above the $163 million loss in 1961. Develop Rotating House A house that rotates on a hub to follow the sun or adjustable to wind directions and scenic view is among 176 inventions list ed by Small Business Administration in November, available for commercial de velopment. Top That! From the Laramie, Wyo. Daily Boomerang: “There’s a line on the ocean where you lose a day when you cross it. There’s a line on the highway where you can do even better.” ★ ★ ★ ★ Two Lancaster County farm youths were among nine hon ored Wednesday. They were-OarJ E Ginder, Mount Joy R 2, and Larry R. Weaver, Sen Holland Rl. Both county youths were se lected on the basis of agricul tural activities and community sen ice, In vocational agriculture, Gmder, eighteen-year-old son considerable attention is given of Mr and Mrs Raliph (Finder, to training in farm mechanics, h pre-dent of the Penns-ylva- involving the selection, care, nm Future Farmers of Aimer- maintenance and operation of ica and operates a rented 30- modern faim machinery. ‘■*****-*************+*********-3f****3(.lflf.ll.lf.++]fJ t .3(Jf. Lancaster Farming R.mtaster County's Own Farm Robert G Campbell, Weekly P O Boa 1524 Lancaster, Penna P O Box 2CC - Lititz, Pa. OHk c.s 22 E Mam St. Lititz, Pa Phone - Loaf aster 3 r »4-3047 or Lititz C2C-31P’ herit a good farm and a growing busi ness, but wasn’t this always so. While it requires a huge sum of money to put a farm on a paying basis, money is more plentiful than it was in grandfather’s day. That is not to say it is any easier acre farm Weaver, son of Mr and Mrs Lester Weaver, farms in part nership -with his father, feed ing- steers and raising tobacco. Most orchard men and land scapers plan to prune trees \T T rrti rn* by the latter part ot March i N OvV IS X 110 J. 11H0 , , , because the dormant season is the best for this work. If MAI SMITH shade trees are to be pruned or cut back the months ot February and March are best ' suited' for fhe job. Carl Bittn er, extension pomologist, at The Pennsylvania State Uni ters! ty, advises making clean cuts close to the mam limb or trunk so that they will not hold water To Kead the Isabel on Seeds Early spring is a good time Many farmers are seeding to IKune mosit all Kinds of need seeds on their farm by tirade tiees (not evergreens), using untested, homegrown injured, diseased, or poorly clover seed Seed analyses at , IV , , v the Bureau of Plant Industry &hajp ° d limlbs may be amoved Established Aovember 4, at Hamburg shows over 80% or trimmed. and the tree pro -1955 Published every Satur- of the home-grown dl'over seed P et-,l y shaped for the puipose. day by Lancaster-Farnnng, Lit- contains an excessive amount Limlbs ovei one inch in diam- Uz, Pa. of buckhorn weed seeds Grow- e ter £!llou , ld 1)e tleaited Jack Owen, Editor Adveitising’ Director ers are urged to buy only test-- „ „ Entered as 2nd class matter &d seeds Fa ™ *** shell,a, c or tree paint at Lititz, Pa under Act of f ° r wle are mseA to com lP l y Sharp 5316318 and tool ' s are M h „ IR7q " lt)l the law and have then necessary and cute should be 1,66(1 tes ’ ted for content mad e parallel to the trunK or *' and geronuuation. to the large; ,h,mibs. t -■W'Sk'* Prune Trees 1 / / _ SPEAKS Unlorrt ScKot’ I EM®? Onforgsven Lesson for February 23, 1964 Rickcroand Scriptures Luke 7 76 50. Doodunal Reading: Lphesuns 1.3-U. THREE PEOPLE met together that afternoon. There was a crowd in the room but all we know of the story is just what these f.'iee persons said and did. If artists had not painted it many times it would seem very strange to us. There the guests were at the Jong tables, only lying down, not sitting up straight as we do. No wom en were guests, but according to custom the outer doors were not kept locked, and Dr. Foreman apparently any one could wander in The guests were all barefooted; they had kicked off their sandals as a man here would remove his hat. Sud denly a woman, no respectable woman either, appeared behind the place where one of the guests reclined, and began to act in a way which even then seemed more than odd, wetting the guest’s feet with tears, wiping them dry with her long hair, pouring on his feet ointment from a beautiful white flask. The woman’s name we do not know, for Luke who tells the story was a gentleman; the host was named Simon and the guest was Jesus. Th« mind of Simon Why Simon had invited Jesus we do not know; perhaps from curiosity. He had not treated Jesus with even common courtesy, so we know Jesus was not the guest of honor by any means. Simon had an unpleasant mind. At that mo ment he was thinking sour thoughts about Jesus and the woman. For her he had no kind thoughts. All he knew about her was her reputation, and that was ail he wanted to know He thought all those tears etcetera were just an act. He was ready to believe the worst about her, not anything good. For Jesus, Simon also had only contempt in hts mind. The ■Gro'wers of alfalfa, red >ol w-er, orctraCoSl shomld inoculate the -seeds- 'before sownng■ a ferw cents Worth -of legume inoculant mil add dollars worth of mitrogen to the soil The ni trogen-fixing bacteria in the' mocuiant maJke ft possible for legumes to fix nitrogen from the air. Keep inoculated seed cool and awahr from sunshine and drying muds. To Grow Oorer (Crops Open land that is not to be farmed tfcSa season should be planted to a cover crop Urns spring. Acres of corn or barley that will go J he feed-grain, government program should not remain open to both wind amd water erosion for the smmimer Many binds of cover crops may be sowed this spring that MAX SMITH will hold the soil and jiuild up soil organs matter reason for this was that Jesus did not seem to despise the woman as Simon did. Either Jesus knew this woman for what she was, or he didn’t. If he did, then he was wicked for letting her touch him. If he didn’t, then he was a fool. That was the way Simor’s mimi operated: believe no good about any one. ,x The mind of a woman The woman did not say a word from beginning to end. If asked what she was thinking, she might not have been able to make a sensible answer. But Simon could not see what Jesus saw, that thi* woman was passing through a crisis. Her tears spoke for her. Tears for the wasted years; tears for the sms she had done, for the life she had lived; tears perhaps because she could not turn the clock back and begin life whero she had first left the right road— who knows how long ago? Tear* for her weakness, for resolution* broken, for shame and for sorrow. She hated what she had been. But she had heard of Jesus. Just the word that he would be there, had brought her to seek him. The mind of Jesus Jesus knew what was In the mind of Simon, and what was in the mind of the woman. It is said that Jesus “answered” Simon, though Simon had not spoken a word, only “talking to himself.” And he knew what was in the woman’s mind, he knew the tears were not acting, they were real; he knew why the woman cried; and though she had not opened her mouth he knew what she really wanted. Did she know, her self? We may believe she did. She wanted to be at peace with God. Happiness, yes, but above all. peace. She knew, if only in a dim confused kind of way, that she had cut herself off from women— for women despise such a woman more than men do; she had cut herself off from clean people, cut herself off from respectable so ciety. But what she wanted wa* not respectability, it was peace. And so Jesus—who knew not only the mind of men and women, but the mind of God—said the healing word; Your sms are forgiven ... go in peace. Sjmon was a Pharisee, and pharisees led sheltered lives. His sins may have been far fewer than the woman’s. But Jesus could not say to Simon, Your sms are forgiven. Simon had no tears for his sms, no repentance. And God does not send his peace to those who do not want it. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ m the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) To Inoculate Legumfs To Prune Shade Trees w 11
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