—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 11, U)64 4 From Where We Stand. Caution Is Watchword Dr. Hollis S. Ingraham, Commis sioner of the New York State Depart ment of Health, has said something that should be read and remembered by everyone who has been led into fear over the use of pesticides in agriculture. His words: “I believe that any new legislation for the control of pesticides should be approached with caution Our evidence to date indicates that pesticides although they involve risk create benefits for man and for the future of man that cannot be achieved by other presently existing means.” Evidence of this nature was recent ly presented in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A study made by a group of doctors in the Phoenix area showed that a chemical insecticide used to spray crops has only a negligible effect on persons living neaiby. It compared city dwellers un exposed to insecticides with persons living less than 500 yards from sprayed fields. Most of them lived within 50 yards. Results “support the conclusions of others that hazards of insecticidal poisoning to persons with environmental or incidental exposure are negligible.” Pesticides can be dangerous but that danger is primarily of human ori gin. It lies in failure to read the direc tions and to take the generally simple precautions that will make their use safe. If the controversy over pesticides stimulates interest in proper use, it will have produced at least one worthwhile result. At the same time, let us remem ber that by 1980 the population is ex pected to grow by as much as 80 mil lion over the 1960 census total. All of them will have to be fed. And this country will be called upon to help provide food for undernourished nations abroad. Without the pesticides, along with the armory of advanced production wdapons agriculture now possesses, that feat would be impossible. '★★ ★ ★ U.S. Beef To Europe A short time ago a liner carried a shipment of American beef to London where it went on display at the famous Smithfield market. And that was an event of potentially great significance. It marked the start of a cooperative program of the American Meat Institute and the Department of Agriculture to promote the sale of American beef m Europe This, it is plain, is one way —. and a most important way of help ing to solve the twin problems of over production and depressed prices the American beef producer has been fac ing And the producers recognize that fact the head of the American Na tional Cattlemen’s Association wrote a warm letter in praise of the venture to the president of the Institute. What are the chances of success? It may be said that the signs are good. According to the Department of Agri culture, beef supplies are currently short in Europe, consumers demand is rising, and fewer supplies are available from traditional foreign suppliers. Some beef short countries also have lowered trade restrictions against imported meats. And • Farm Calendar (Continued from Page 1) July 14 Pequea Valley 4-H Club Health Meeting 800 pm Manor Young Farmers meeting, Penn Man or High School. July 15 8-30 a.m. Con estoga Valley Senior 4-H Sewing Club meets in the High School. oTe Mai 9am Penn Manor Clash- £ititz, Pa mg Thimbles meet at Penn Manor Junior High School Phone - Lancaster July 16 _ 4-H Field Day at 394-3047 or Long’s Park.' ‘ ‘ 11 Llltltz 628-2191 ' • • Europe’s general prosperity has given much of her population the where withal to buy the meats they want. This is a totally new project. And it is eminently worthwhile. No The Senate recently approved a proposal to write into all spending measures the pointed reminder that the money appropriated comes out of the taxpayers’ pockets. WHERE IS your God? can be an earnest, even desperate question. Or it can be a sneer of mockery. It can be asked by friends of God or by his enemies. In times of peace and prosperity the question loses its anguish. Like one of Browning’s char acters, w’e can sing happily, “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.” But there comes a time when it is small comfort to think Dr. Foreman that God is in heaven. That’s exactly the trouble, we think. He is in heaven when he ought to be here. This is a soie question even when we ask, Where is our God, Where is mine? When it’s your own faith that is about to break, the question about God isn’t just a theological pioblem, it is acute, it becomes the most important question in the world. With all the people who need God’s help, wheie is he? What is he doing? A committee of the House has been G °God°heard . ... God remem considering ways and means by which bered . . . God saw . . . and the Kerr-Mills Act which is the basis God knew.” These words stand of the existing state-federal health pro- °, ut sentences that gram for providing medical aid to the aged and needy may be revamped the Bible has for us: we do not to encourage the states to make wider have a forgetful God, or an ab use of it. In the words of an AP report, sent-minded one. The true God is “This kind of legislation is given a much not , a Penthouse god with a pri better chance of going to the House tel f ph ° ne - He h * ars > , T 7 , „- vv , vv , ;++ „„ - ° . _ . he knows, he sees, he remembers. Y™"* co mrni ttee ac king than is Presi- He neither guesses nor forgets dent Johnson s proposal for social securi- what goes on in his world, ty tax financing of hospital and nursing God prepares a man home benefits.” One reason why that question The social security approach “Where is God?" can be so often commonly known as Medicare simply asked > is that God never adver has failed to gam substantial public and Sft- , he is domg - If ke dld congressional support. An/there is & 0“ every reason why that should be so. It baruer and a sign: Slow—God at takes no account of need or whether the individual wants or doesn’t want the benefits. Almost every authority is con vinced that the official cost estimates are vr t ridiculously low. And, above all, it INOW IS presents the very real ranger of govern mental, bureaucratic domination of the medical arts and institutions. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Let us hope that the House follows suit and makes this an established policy from now on. For the term “federal funds” which we have seen applied to all manner of activities, from highways to welfare programs ob viously has misled many people. They seem to believe that this money comes from some mysterious source which has no relation to themselves. Well, the federal government can get money only in two ways. One is by taxes which hit us all hard. The other is by increasing the national debt which will have to be paid, plus interest and administrative costs, by the taxpayers of tomorrow. The only money the government has, or ever has had, is that which it gets from the taxpayers. It’s time much more notice was given to this simple and inescapable fact. ★ ★ ★ ★ Revamping Kerr-Miils The Kerr-Mills approach is much Home gardeners who want to saie sounder. It places administrative respon- and 5011 moisture for their tomatoes mi; ciKilitij- ixrVioro 1+ , .... apply some type of mulch for the lemaint , . y , belongs within the of the summer. Straw, lawn clippings, g'o> states, ana state otiicials should certain- corn cobs, or other similar materials ma\ ly have a better idea of local problems used with about 2 inches thickness Bj api than a faceless group in far-off Washing- ing a “ ulch > cultivation is eliminated, « tnn It growth is stopped, and soil moistme is < ton. it oners help where help is needed served which helps prevent leaf curl not just because a person has reach- To Renew Old Strawberry Beds ed a given age. And, in various in- If the decision has been made to ie fi stances, the benefits provided are great- old strawberiy bed for another seas er than under Medicare S the , n we suggest th(at the row be cultiui uncter iviecucare. mat purrrw and narrowed to about 12 inches wide, ine changes that may be desirable off the tops of (the remaining plants in in Kerr-Mills are a matter of argument, row, and then fertilize with a complete fertilizer. One such But the principle on which Kerr-Mills is S; 1 ?' 10 at the rat e of 25 pounds per 1000 square feet Thinni based is the right and workable one of i5 e 01 4 plants will encourage new runner plants and a bet • yield next spring. If the old bed is allowed to remain thick plants, the yield will not be as good. , Soil Test for Pall Seedings Be on Alert for Hog C* lo Many acres of alfalfa will . . consideia ble be seeded during August and fic L de r S m this. 5 a.'St 'S. tX Srmne‘lh T * “!! « w.^VSbU teat to determine the lime and , seen hefore the fou N ° W ? a V tl,e •» 1964 small gram crop has been fr y m 4to 10 days after S removed from much of this toms are evident. Feeder land, the soil should be test- urged to be on the ale r! ed and the materials worked sickness the first week into the soil as it is prepared. d ays after buying pigs- ' ,e ‘ In fields of small grain where to call your veteunai» n the legume-grass seeding is to sick develop be made next spring, the lime tection °of the disease & should be applied and worked prevent a serious outbid into the ground this fall be fore the small gram is seeded. the disease - Loncosfer Farming Uncister County’s Own Farm Weekly Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Established P. O. Box „66 - Ljtitz, Pa. 1965. Published every Satur- ★ ★ ★ '★ “Federal Funds” day by Laneaster-Farming, Lit- itz, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at liltifz. Pa. under Act of March 8, 1879, V y?" . < i* i Wftf'' / IyDBSILS A v\\% Background Scripture: E' odus 2 thiough 4. Bc\otion*l Readme; Pi»alm 103.1-ld* November l«(aniali«fttl Union* Sunday Sekool Louona Not Forgotten Lesson for July 12,1964 The Time . . . Workl it be "different. Em •he has his own ways of dom, things. No doubt those toiW sweating, bitter Hebrew slav« often thought to themselves 0I asked one another, Where j. God? He seems to have forgotu us! But God did not repoit (J them, and he will not repoit (! us, every day what he is doiw Maybe if he told us we should only laugh—in the wrong pj ac( What was God doing to hcln h,j poor persecuted people down u Egypt? Well, when the time came he was getting a man ready (#,’ was readying him in his groat, grandparents, but that’s another story.) Where is God? He is see ing to it that a little basket oj reeds is not lost in the Nile back, waters. He is seeing to it that a little baby cries ]ust in time t 0 catch a Princess’ heart. God was arranging for that child to have the best education in the world ... Or if you had inquired some years later, you might have beta told (if God had cared to let you in on the secret) that God was preparing an old man, a sheep-herder, to become acquaint, ed with every mile of a terabit wilderness country. One day he would lead a nation where im he led his sheep. God waifs for the tims If God knows what is going on, and if God is preparing today as in Moses’ time some gieat man or men to lead us into new piora. ised lands, then why does he not come to our rescue non? The idea that God waits for the right time to come before he takes action is a hard one to swal low; but it is all over the Bible, God does not do everything at once. When God made this uni verse he made Time with it, and God respects all things he has made. Even Jesus Christ did no! come till the time was "fulfilled," as the Bible expresses it Chil dren have only two hands on their clocks; one points to “non” and the other to “never.” But there is another clock, and God made it and he goes by it, it has a hand pointing to “not jet" Moses, you may remember, once tried to help the Israelites by lulling Egyptians. He killed one himself for a start. But it was not God’s time. Sometimes men come too late to their work; God never does. “Our times are ii his hand.” CHURCH SUNDAY BY MAX SMITH To Mulch Tomatoes GO TO
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