—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 3, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... That Old Residue Problem That old pesticide residue problem may be on its way to becoming that “new” residue problem. Dr. Nyle C. Brady, director of science and education, USDA, recently told a meeting of the board of directors of the American Dairy Association that the entire philosophy of “zero tolerance” and “no-residue” registration is up for review. Over the years many pesticides have been accepted on the basis of valid proof that there would be no residues when the materials were used as prescribed. Such proof, however, was based upon tests that were considerably less sensitive than those that are constantly being developed. Now the President’s Life Sciences Panel has reported that the experimen tal evidence on. which many older tolerances were based was inadequate, and they have recommended that such tolerances be reassessed. The Food and Drug Administration has already begun action on this recommendation. Many of the new, more sophisti cated, tests now enable scientists to detect levels as low as one part per billion, or even per trillion! Such tests The Reader Speaks... Why Confiscate Good Farm Land For Middle Creek Area Project? Mr Editor We, the faimers and prop erty holders of the vast Mid dle Cieek area pioject situa ted in southeastem Lebanon County and in northern Lan caster County, aie veiy much concerned about the futuie of our farms and homes, as much as any Game Commission mem ber would be, 01 peihaps much more so, as we heie have more to lose than they have The loss of our livelihoods and the ability to piovide a decent and respectable living for oui childien would be a terrible and lasting disastei The confiscation of our good faim laud by the Pennsylvan ia Game Commission for the purpose of hunting pheasants, iabbits and ducks foi a peuod of five 01 six weeks each yeai, certainly does not give just reason foi seizuie of excel lent faim land and beautiful landmaiks many geneiations old Manj' top honois ha\e been won by the youth of oui aiea in FFA and 4H pi ejects Puze animals and blue nb bon ciops have been produced and giown on oui good soil which is second to none The seizuie and destiuction of such valuable faim land by flooding and the planting of Multa Floia Rose and oth ei destructive bushes and plants by the Game Commis sion is unjustified veiy un- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Onn Farm Weekly P. O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Mam St. Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 62 3-210« Don Timmons, Editoi Robeit G Campbell, Adver tising Dnectoi Estahlishea November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farnung, Lit -t— Pa. Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa and at additional mailing offices. make concepts like zero tolerance mean ingless, because it is now almost impos sible to use a product without leaving some measurable tolerance. This means that to get clearance for new and for previously cleared pesticides, new concepts and new test ing techniques will have to be develop ed to learn where the “safe” level for each pesticide lies. The picture promises to be muddy for some time to come. Another problem that is aggravated by the pesticide confusion is one that hits the dairyman right where he’s most vulnerable in the pocketbook. We know by experience that consumer re sistance to our product can skyrocket as the public translates pesticide con fusion into pesticide panic. It would be very unfortunate if per capita consump tion of dairy products, which accord ing to M J. Framberger, general manag er American Dairy Ass’n. have been on an upward trend since 1961, should suddenly begin a downswing. These trends often seem to generate their own momentum, and it always seems harder to reverse a down trend than one which is on its way up. We’ll attempt to keep you in formed on the progress of this new pesticide problem as events unfold. wise and a grave injury to the taxpayeis of oui beloved state, and ceitamly no asset to our beloved Lebanon and Lancastei Counties and our immediate neighboihood The passage of Pioject 70 by the voters was by a very small margin, and we know that many of our city friends, had they realized and known the damage the passage of Pioject 70 would cause to good faim land, our beauti ful homes, and the ability to piovide a livelihood for our childien, would have defeated this evil with a positive and emphatic NO Many, many years of hard laboi, much care and concern aie the ingiedients which have made oui good faims the faims they aie today We, the fatheis and moth eis, we the little children, we the lesidents of this vast 2,- 400aoe pioject do not ap pi ove of such unjust seizure and destiuction of oui faims and homes by the Game Com mission, and do testify against such unjust action Signed, Concerned Faimeis and Residents of the Middle Cieek Aiea Pioject Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation Required by the Act of Congress of October 23, 1963 (Section 4369, Title 39, United States Code) Of the Lancastei Fanning published weekly at Lititz, Penna for October 1, 1964 The name and addiess of the publisher is Robert G Campbell, Lititz, Penna Editoi, Donald P Timmons, Lancaster, Pa The owner is Robert G Campbell, Lititz, Pa. The known bondholder, moitgagees, and other secunty holder owning oi holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, moitgages, oi other securities aie None A Total No Copies Punted B Paid Cn culation 1 To teim subscubers 2 Sales through agents C Fiee distiibution D Total No of Copies distributed 5329 5326 I Certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete. Robert G. Campbell ‘ • Publisher (Editm’s note We are printing the preceding letter in accoi dance with our policy on letters to the editor. We would like to note that we contacted a spokesman for the Game Commission He stated that the Game Commission it self has not as yet approved acquisition of the Middle Creek site, although it has been approved by the State Planning Commission The Game Commission will not de cide officially on this question until it meets in Harrisburg duung the week of October 12 Jf the project is approved at that tune, a public meet ing will be scheduled for the Middle Creek area shortly af teiwaids While we sympa thize wholeheartedly With ANYONE that is foiced to move fiom his home, we would point out that the State’s light of Eminent Do main—taking puvate land for public use—is a well-estab lished. though peihaps harsh, reality Cool headedness, and a geneial “alert-but-wait-and see” attitude, until all the facts aie thoioughly known, seems to be about the only sound comse the involved landowncis can assume at this time ) Average No. Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months 5360 5298 00 31 THE / \©a©ag/ \ SPEAKS * I j Letters Into Books lesson for October 4, 1961 Background Scripture: I Timothy 1:141* II Timothy 1:1-2, Titus 1 In, 4 Devotional Reading: Fhilippians 2:14*24, UTTI7HAT IN the world were ▼ » you reading from?” one of the congregation asked the preach er. They had had a service of ordination at which a number of new church officers had been in stalled, and the preacher had read from the New Testament in a modern (Mof fatt’s) translation. ‘T was reading from First and Second Timothy," the preacher re plied to the man’s question. “Never heard Dr. Foreman anything like it,” the questioner went on. ‘‘Best thing on church officers I ever heard. I had had no idea what Timothy and Titus were all about.” Who? ' * The short "Books” we call Tim othy, Titus and Philemon, were originally letters. Who wrote them? This may not be the most important question but it is one of the most interesting. We run head-on into long arguments when we ask flatly: who wrote these letters? (There’s no problem about Philemon; we shall come to that in time. But Timothy I and 11, and Titus, present a prob lem.) The early Christians who , adopted these books into the then still growing New Testament (so new it did not have a name) J thought that Paul wrote them. Careful study given by many I scholars over many years has | shown, however, that 1 in large ' sections of these books the ideas I and the way they are expressed, land—-what is most remarkable— I the very words used, are distinct j ly different from the known letters j of Paul. We can sum up the evi dence by,saying that there are Now Is The Time . .. To Seal Trench Silos Carefully Many trench silos are being used to stoie |vut SMITH silage throughout the county One very im portant management practice with the trench or horizontal silo is to keep it sealed until fed. Farmeis using plastic to seal out the air should be suie the plastic cover is kept down tight on the silage at all times; as the silage settles, it may be necessary to take up the slack and pack it down around the edges. Any air undei the plastic wui mean spoilage. Small gram seed that is pur chased for planting purposes is usually treated with some fungicide to eliminate seed boi ne diseases This means that the seed is not fit for livestock or poultry feeding, it is usually coloied blue or pink so that it may be de tected Groweis are urged to keep this extra seed separate It may be held for another year, 'burned, or buried, but do not feed it,^ Single Issue Nearest To filing date 5360 5294 00 32 lAtaraaiianal Da Urn Sunday Sehaal Lauana Now that we have some moisture in our topsoil again, we can expect our lawns to stait growing, some home-owners ieel that it is not important to keep mowing the lawn in the fall, but this is a mistake We suggest that the lawn be mowed as long as the grass continues to grow. If allowed to giow long and mat down, turf diseases will have more ideal conditions for development. If growth is very heavy, the clippings should be removed. To Use Caution with Leftover Seed parts of these letters which retd (in Greek, the language in which they of course were written) ex actly like Paul and are almost certainly from his pen and mind, There are other sections which do not read like Paul, A condu. sion reached by many is that either some one else wrote the letters, quoting extensively from Paul; or that Paul wrote the original letters, and either he or some editor added material from some one else. .What? The what is more important than the Who? What are these letters-into-books concerned with’ What problems do they bring out? What answers do they gi\c> What good are these very an cient letters to the living church today? Such questions will be with us for the next three months. We can give a sort of short state ment here at the beginning as to what these small books are all about. They deal with leadership in the church. Why? But why this interest in lead, ers, all of a sudden? The reason is simple. The earliest Christians had no formal organization. They could not have conceived that they would need one. For Jesus was coming soon, they all thought. Today in the church you may hear the expressions like “our children’s children” or “future generations" or the “future of man ” The earliest Christians would have thought such expres sions nonsense. But as time went on and the church’s first leaders grew to be old men, it was clear that there would have to be some thinking done about the future years. Some one had to pass on the Gospel. Some one had to be sure nothing of the good in the early yeais of enthusiasm should be lost. Some one had to be in charge. Some had to preserve the tradition. Some one had to make certain the teachings of Christ and his apostles were not forgotten nor distorted. Time was passing—had indeed passed— when they could say, “We’ll dash off a note to Paul or feter or some one who knew Jesus and they’ll tell us.” A new generation was growing up. It was felt then, and it is true today, that Chris tianfty could go to nothing, in one generation, unless wise plans were made. So the usefulness of these "Pastorals” is as new as the con tinuing need for Christian lead-, ers for every generation. (Based on outlines copyrifhted hy the DiMbion of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the XJ. S. A. Released by Community Press Seruce.) j BY MAI SMITH To Continue Mowing Lawns To Ensile High-Moisture Com At coin picking time some livestock feeders will gund the ear corn and blow it in to the silo, this comes out as high-moisture corn and is * very palatible feed; most UP' light silos in good air-tight condition will store the com pioperly The corn can go m at 25 to 35% moisture and should be chopped at normal size for corn and cob chop- A silo unloader is a valuable labor-saver in getting the feed out of the silo and then auto matic feeders can be installed to transport the feed to th# cattle
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