4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 11, 1964 From Where We Stand .. A New Crop How would you like to spend your vacation rising at the crack of dawn, doing chores around the barn and spend the day making hay or hoeing tobacco? This probably doesn’t sound like much of a vacation to most of the read ers of Lancaster Farming, but to office bound desk jockeys it might sound too good to be true, and it might just be what the psychiatrist ordered. There is an old story about the farm boy who moved to town and got a job, worked like crazy so he could make enough money to buy a farm and retire in the country. This is not as far fetched as it first appears. Many city residents have roots in farming, or have parents who were farmers. Even though they no longer have direct contact with farming, they have fond memories of rural living, or they have heard glowing reports of “the good old days” when dad was a boy on the farm. Many people who have never had any direct contact with a farm just need a place of peace and quiet where they can relax and unwind, away from the pressures of the hurley-burley business day. Farmers across the country are capitalizing on this need of the urbanite. Farm vacations have become a nice source of supplemental income in many areas Many farmers are adding $l,OOO or more to their bank account from one season of “guesting” city folks. One of our friends in North Caro lina told us last year, “We figure one Yankee tourist is worth about as much as an acre of cotton, and a whole lot easier to pick.” But if you are thinking of going after some of this business, be prepared to do more than sit back with a long handled rake and rake in the money Each double bedroom in. a farm house can produce $l,OOO income a sea son, but don’t expect that much the first year In fact, you might not realize that much for many years, if ever But an empty room is not the only requirement for successful “guesting” on a farm There are several questions you should ask yourself and the other mem bers of the family because this has to be a family enterpnze to be successful Do you enjoy having company? Is the wife considered a good housekeeper? Is she a good cook and does she enjoy doing a lot of it 9 Is yours an industrious fam ily, with projects for home improve ments going on continually 9 Are your guest rooms comfortably furnished? Do you go on a painting spree now and then to make them more colorful and attrac tive? Do they have good closet space 9 Are they well ventilated? Are the beds comfortable? Have you adequate bathroom facilities for expanding the size of your ‘‘family”? Is your kitchen spotlessly clean and well equipped 9 Have you a flower and a vegetable garden 9 Are you in a plea sant area of the country 9 Are there some recreation facilities nearby, such as a place to swim, fish, go boating, or ride horseback 9 If your answers to all these ques- Repair Damaged Trees Stiong winds with heavy ice oa tiee blanches sometimes causes breaks and splitting Tiees having soft, buttle wood, such as soft maples, willows, and poplais raaj be huit Ciaig S Olivei, extension hoiti cultunst at The Pennsyhama State Umveisity, suggests that bioken branches be cut off and damaged aeias be tieated Wounds and cuts should be cov eted with “wound paint” to le ouce decay Foi moie detailed mfoi motion, see youi county agent. - Vacationers tions are yes> then you meet the basic requirements, and could possibly be on the road to a successful venture in rais ing a new farm “crop”. But the extra income may not be the most important reason for opening your home to guests.. Many farm fami lies report that their guests were so varied that the farm children received a liberal education during the summer vacation. Farmers report that talking with other people sometimes makes them appreciate their own position more. Conversely, farm vacations can be an excellent time for the farmer to edu cate the consumer about the value of food, and the problems of producing it Think of the opportunity for building good will between the consumer and the farmer Think of the impact one execu tive might create when he goes back to the city and reports to his colleagues that farmers are not the hayseeds they all thought. Consider how much influence a city housewife could have if she told her neighbors how much effort it takes to produce the eggs or milk they had always taken for granted and per haps complained about the price. Hosting guests is certainly not foi; every farm family. It may not be for very many farm families in Lancaster County, but it may well be an added cash crop for some. Tourists are arriving in the county in larger and larger droves. They have to stay somewhere. Hotel and motel accomodations are gen erally fine, but §ll too often they do not offer the change of scene the city dwell er wants and so desperately needs. That extra room might be worth as much as an acre of tobacco and think how much less time it would take in the stripping room next winter At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Flavored Cheese Cubes are on the Dutch market, wrapped like candy Us ing cream cheese or cottage cheese as the base, some are filled with sweet nut and fruit concoctions others are for cock tail snacks. Among off beat products advertis ed for sale around the country recently were dill pickle flavored ice cream, in troduced in California, and cocktail fla vors such as Daiquiri, Irish Coffee, Grasshopper and Pink Squirrel, on sale in Chicago, and Booster, a rocket shaped water ice on a stick, a British product. ★ ★ ★ ★ Why Shopping Takes Time Ever wonder why it takes so long to. get through a supermarket’ USDA says the most purchased “power” items can be placed so you travel the entire store to pick them up For example 35 per cent of all shoppers buy paper products; 30 percent cookies and crackers, 27 per cent soap, 25 percent coffee. Lancaster Farming Jack Owen, Editor Lancaster fount*’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P O Box 1524 Established November 4, Lancaster, Penna. , PO. Box 266 - Lititz. Pa. 195d ’ Pl ' blished e 'ery Satur day by Lancaster-Fat ruing, Lit- OHices: 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster 394-3017 or Lititz 623-2191 Flavored Cheese? Off Beat Ice Cream Advertising Director itz. Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Maxck 8, 1879. (J 'J * t, Why Am I Here? Lesson for April 12, 1964 Backcround Scripture Gcnealt 1:21*10: Fulm 1; Luka 12:1-7, Devotional Reading: Plain 1, tF THIS is God’s world, then it ■I is my world too. Not mine in. the sense that I can do what I please with it. Only God is free to do as He likes with the world, for He and He only has the power, the wisdom and the goodness to will and to do what is absolutely' right. This is God’s world first because God made it. It is my world first not be cause I made it, but because the same God who made it made me. Dr. Foreman If I can speak of my mountains, my country much greater than I but still truly mine, I can speak of my world, the home God made for me. I belong here. I am created just as all things are created,— not all at once with a big bang, but through the long centuries to the hour of my birth and beyond, I have come to be, —and this is the good pleasure of God, “Utile less than God” The poet who wrote Psalm 8 speaks of man as created little less than God. Perhaps that seems too bold; our older English trans lation says “little lower than the angels,” but the Hebrew means plainly “little less than God.” This is a staggering thought. Let us take it at its lowest meaning, so as not to be puffed up with pride. In the beginning of the Bible it is said that man is created in the image of God. That means that there is something in man, crea ture though he is, which shows a likeness to the God who made him “Ail things under his feel” This joyful Psalm 8 thinks of man not in seclusion with a fence between him and the other crea tures around him, but as having j Now Is The Time . . . To Cull Cow Herd Early spring is a good time to check tW production of each cow in the herd Milk suP Plies aie usually veiy high in the spring afld MAX SMITH, these border-line cows, that may not beinakiffi any profit, are merely adding to the surplus amounts of mi" l Producers on a herd testing program need to check thf r reeoids to determine the low producers. A general mle to folk" is that unless the value of the milk produced is at least tw c ' the cost of feed and hay consumed, a daily cow is not mak»'= any piofit. To Work For Quality Forage All livestock produceis should niake eveiy effoit not only to produce sufficient quan tities of hay and silage, but also, to have the light kind of quality In hay-making both leafiness and color are impor tant, but more important is stage of maturity-when harvest ed The same is true when making grass or corn silage Growers are urged to become acquainted with the proper stage of maturity for their ciop and then harvest at that''tune. Several -days delay may drop the quality. “dominion,” that is, control m mastery over the rest of create Now this can be done in two v«r> different ways. A man who owij many hundred square miles of f O , est can cut the forest down m by careless, greedy methods la> waste the entire countrysideJ has often been done. That mag has demonstrated his “dominion* —his machines have been victori. ous over every tree that stood q their way. But the end is a vast countryside destroyed. An oppo, site example is another man whg is a woodcarver. Out of piecei c wood, not specially beautiful, h t makes objects which are usefu and a delight to the eye. He master of the wood; but when ht gets through with it, he hai brought beauty and usefulness into the world, not an empty desert. In times gone by witch, doctors would use poisons from plants they knew of to bring death to their enemies. Today some of those very plants and their poisons are used by cheo. ists to make medicines that save people’s lives. Witch doctor and scientist both have dominion ovei the plants of the field,—but whai a difference! We sre obliged High though we are in the scale of life, nevertheless we are obliged to “our neighbor the uni. verse” in ways past countin', Every atom in, our bodies vis drawn from the ground on which we walk, the air we breathe and the water we drink. If the urn* verse had not nourished us we could never have been bom. All the clothes we wear, eveiythm' we use and enjoy, is a gift of the universe around us. If we have friends, they too were cradled by the selfsame earth and sea and sky. When our Lord was here, it could have been arranged that he be fed by manna from the sky. But no, one of the marls of Jesus as a true and not male, believe man was that He too had to be nourished and furnished by the w'orld around him, even as we, So, although we are indeed to have dominion over other crea* tares, the thought of what we owe to our wonderful world will keep us from being tyrants, hate, ful and destructive. If we have any power, it is God-given; and we- have no right to use om powers in ways that defy the laws and slander the character of our Creator. (Based on outlines cop> righted bg th I)i>isum of Christian Educat*on, S’aticwl Courcil of the Churches of Clin i m w* L. S. A. by Community PrcH Service ) BY MAX SMITH To Kill Weeds In Small Grain Weeds such as wild garlic, wild tard, wild radish, and Canada Thistle cal be costly to small gram growers The sp«' mg of the field when the grain is 6 to « inches high with 2,4-D will reduce or eli minate many of these weeds. If the grain'* sowed down to clover or alfalfa, then small' 1 amounts of the spray chemical should used. Spring oats may also be sprayed f® r weed control. To Evaluate Sudan SorgUuo' Hybrids Glowers who will be mg additional summer pisf 1 * or material for gieen-cliopP 111 ’ should consider several aci fl of a sudan-sorghum forage. This crop is the i esll || of crossing sudangrass :ii; sorghum and gives a veij growing, palatible summer $ age crop It may be gi jze-I sf gieen-chopped for best ie iul1 '’ it is a bit too coarse for and silage. Should be late May or early part of
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