—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 27, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... How Long Would Your Food Last? How long could you feed your family if your source of food were sud denly cut off? Over 11.000 U.S. households have been surveyed to find out just how much food the nation has stored on the pantry shelf and in the freezer. Home makers were asked to estimate how long their food supplies would last, not if they served normal meals, but if they fed the family only enough to get by on. One third said they could stretch food on hand about a week or less; another third said between one and two weeks, and the rest felt they could hold out longer than two weeks. The study, which was done by the U S Department of Agriculture's Statis tical Reporting Service for the Office of Civil Defense, will help pinpoint areas in which additional food supplies would be most needed in times of national emergency Similar studies have already been made of food stocks in wholesale warehouses and in retail groceries. Several interesting facts came to light in the household surveys. Farmers and their families, it was learned, would be better off then most of the rest of the population. Suburban dwell ers would fare less well, and downtown residents in big cities would be out of food first More than 42 per cent of the city wives said they could hold out less than one week and only 30 per cent said they could last more than two weeks Farm families, on the other hand, reported that 61 per cent could live for more than two weeks and only 17 per cent felt they would be out of food in one week. Homes in the northeast and south east sections of the country would run out of food fastest Those in the western northcentral and Pacific Northwest could hold out the longest. The rest of the nation falls somewhere in be tween. Family income had a marked ef fect on the amount of food on hand. The lower the income the less the fam ily invests in food. Where income was under $4 000 annually 38 per cent of homemakers contacted said the food on hand would last less than a week. In the $4,000 to $6,000 bracket the percent age drops to 29 per cent and in the 10,- 000 up range, it is down to 22 per cent. Education seems to have an in fluence on the way a family stocks food and uses it. People with less than a high school education would use up the available supply quicker than high school graduates Middle sized families tended to store a laiger supply of food than small er families or families with seven or more persons and it seems to make no difference whether there are small children or if all the family members are over 14 years Families with small children or all adults would use food at about the same rate But the older homemakers expected to run short a little sooner than their younger counter parts ** Storage space had quite a bit to do with the amount of food on hand Apart ment dwellers had a shorter supply than • Farm Calendar (Continued fiom Page 1) July 1 Deadline loi 4H Na tional awaids in the County Agent s office Post Office building Lancastei July 1 Bpm Red Rose Baby Beef and Lamb club meets at the faun of Jacob Mast Eheison R 2 Guests will be Chestci Count.! beef club July 8 8 pm Fust ice ulai meeting of 411 County Council at Fann P.uicau Co ope. ,ilne building D’llei ullc Pike Tania'-UM Jn'\ 4 IMiniT.MIFXCE I) \\ home owners when all other factors were equal With more and more of our popula tion living in apartments and urban homes, a continuing and continual food supply becomes more critical. It has been estimated that if no trucks or trains carried food supplies into metro politan New York for a 48 hour period, the city would be thrown into a state of chaos. Farmers still have a tremendous responsibility in furnishing a continuous supply of food for the ever-growing population. We tend to forget this some times when we hear so much about the excess of food supplies on hand Some times it takes something like this report to make us remember the importance of the American Farmer’s job. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ‘•Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’' Farmers are quick to criticize when they think they are not getting a fair shake in the press, on radio, on televi sion, or in casual conversations among consumers. But farmers are not without blame in the image that has been created. This week the dairy farmers of the county had an opportunity to stand up, be seen, and be counted. They had a chance to get the dairy industry before the public in a favorable light. They had a situation that appeals to many people, who might not think much about the dairy industry at all unless they hap pened to go to the refrigerator and find the milk bottle empty. But most of the dairymen of the county were conspicuously absent. The Dairy Pdincess pageant was presented to the public on Tuesday evening, but the scant sprinkling of dairy farmers (most of them parents of the contestants) among the members of Kiwanis clubs, made it look like an ex clusive affair. The girls were beautiful. The sett ing was gracious, and those in atten dance seemed to enjoy the program. We only wish more dairymen had exhibited an interest in the program. But it is not too late for the in dustry to take advantage of the op portunity. We hope that dairy groups will make use of the new Princess at meet ings and gatherings We hope she will be used to promote the dairy industry in the coming year. It is a pretty hollow crown if it is never worn after the coronation ball. At least that's how it looks from where we stand. Study Hay Efficiency Colored dyed hay used in heifer feeding experi ments at Clemson College in South Carolina traced the digestibility of pel leted and ground hay and found them less efficient than baled hay. In these forms it passes through the animal be fore complete digestion, according to preliminary reports. Lancoster Farming jack ©wen. Editor Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G Campbell, W eeKly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna Established November 4, P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 1933. Published eveiy Satur- Oflu es 22 E Alain St, LitU7 Pa Piione - L mrasfer VU-ln 7 o’ Liutj G2u-2191 ★ ★ ★ A Time To Gripe Late summer seedmgs of grasses and legumes and the Very fortunate is the faiintf fall seeding of small grains w h o has a good supph ♦* will be on us before we know fVI . „ tlc „j f ol i* it The problem of getting the wate * that may be ued f °‘ ll{ exact variety and quality of n S atlon Purposes. In seed wanted will be greater years this practice has » ee when not oideied eaily. We very profitable. Howevei w * suggest that gioweis place should keep in mind that eici their order for the seeds they j anc } owner along the sue* 1 ® Entered as 2nd class matter wall t in plenty of time. This j s entitled only to his shaie 0 at Lititz, Pa. under Act of ™, isbt be one wa y of sotting the water. In smaller sum® March s i q-q what you want; its much bet- this might become a pi ll,ll j March s, is,9. tei than haung t 0 take what Jn ie . flllm? a faim pono 1,1,5 you can get. same geneial rule is tui®- Advertising Director day by Lancastei-Fanning, Lit- itv, Pa World Family Lesson for June 28,1964 Background Scripture: Ephesians 2:ll« 22, 4:1-11. Devotions! Beading: Ephesians 4:1-7. fT*HE CHRISTIAN CHURCH is one of the strangest collections of humanity that exists in the world. There is hardly another religion which has a-church; it is a peculiarly Christian institution. But even its members debate end lessly among themselves as to what, the church really is and what to call it Even in the New Testa ment other names besides “church” are used for it. Clearly, the church did not fit Dr. Foreman all its titles equal ly well; if any one had been quite satisfactory, there would have been no need for the other names. One of the names used by St. Paul in referring to the church is “household of God” (Eph. 2.19). This word includes the meaning “family”; the striking point is that Paul calls it the household of God. What other organization can dare to call itself by such a high name? Paul does not mean to call the church perfect, completely holy; but he uses some of the same words to refer to the church that he uses in speaking about Christ and God. In short, we are invited by the Apostle to look at the church as both divine and human. The household—that is the everyday human word; of God p —that is the word of divinity. . This alone makes the church unique. This also raises problems. ! To bypass a long discussion, we must say that according to the New Testament, the church is not i a club which has asked Christ to I join them. It is the other way around; Christ invites the church to join him. “Follow me,” he used to say in Galilee, and still does. What wa share 1 Now if we are, as a church, in Now Is The Time . .. The second cutting of alfalfa should bl allowed to come into nearly full bloom (75%) before being cut this is especially tiue when the fust ciop was removed in the pi e-blossom stage. The value of this piactice is to allow one crop to mature in oulei to develop stronger roots and protect the at falfa stand foi another season. Many livestock producers are getting short on pasture due to the dry, hot weathef. The peimanent bluegrass stands will go dor mant during extieme hot weather. This iJ the reason for many acres of tempoian pos tures being planted each season. The best MAX SMITH results are often obtained when the herd is rotated from ott * aiea to another, allowing about two weeks for new growth t# come back. To Order Certified Seeds any cense the household or fan sly of God', we niisht be expected i 0 have something iu common. Vq put it anoti.er way, if you tuy, eled around tlie world, meeting Christians in every nation (f of there re fewer than half a dozen nations wiihait any you might expect to find these Christians to be a good deal alike, But tuo fact is, you would prob» ably be struck with how different they arc. Even if you look into one congregation, say your own, what a variety of temperament;, dispositions, abilities, and taste*! you would findl What draws thesa people together, what is the <&, ment that holds these odd-shaped stones in place? It is certainly nog the peas in-a-pod likeness that you might find in a college fraternity or the lockstep likeness of prison! ers shuffling to bed. All sorts and conditions of men make up the church. Why doesn’t the church split a thousand ways? The fact is, it has split, too many ways, But even so, as you pass from denomination to denomination, from Protestant to Catholic, fiom liberal to conservative, there is still something that all these smaller groups share in common. In our herifaga i Let’s be brief on paper here, and leave the reader free to con* tinue thinking about this for him. self. One thing you will find in every church in the world—one thing that makes us all one, is that you can’t even get into a church by telling the officers hovr good you are. You get in, and you stay in, by admitting that you're just not right. We call this "con. fession of sin,” confession of the most serious failure a man can commit—not coming up to what God has a right to expect of him, If we could say no more than that, the church would not have lasted long. But we can also say, and this is more important, that this great family is made up of those who admit their weakness and perverseness, and have asked the pardon of a gracious God, and have received it; and now, in Paul’s words, "have access to tin Father,” through him—that 14 Jesus. A young Mohammedan win had been converted to Christina faith said to me when I asked hug what had persuaded him to be a Christian: "My old religion had plenty of theology, just as muck as yours; but you have Christ, and we have nothing to match him.* (Bftsed on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Ch.istun Education, Nat o’*d Council of the Churches of Christ in till U. S. A, Released by Community Fntfl Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Wait For Alfalfa Blossoms: To Rotate Pastures To Irrigate With Your Share of Water
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