- 4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1964 From Where We Stand... Plon(t) Now For Form Vacationer Harvest Farm vacations across the U. S. are getting to be big business. The farm vacation business in Lancaster County hasn’t reached a fraction of its potential. Over the winter is the time to be thinking about how a tourist crop might profitably be grown on your farm. A booklet titled “How to Harvest Vacationers” published by a company that puts out a national vacation guide may help give you an idea on whether you, your family, your farm, and your area provide a suitable climate in which to grow this crop. (Copies of this booklet may be obtained free by writing to Farm Vacations, 36 East 57th Street, New York, N. Y. 10022). For example; what do vacationers want to do on a farm? Some of them (believe it or not will pay you to let them help with the farm chores. Some like to live at the farm and spend their time traveling around the countryside. Others may want to just sit in the shade and relax. Who are these farm vacationers? Families mostly, or children going on vacations without their parents, or re tired people. They’re from towns, cities, suburbs even from foreign lands. They may want to stay a week (that’s average), or just overnight, or for several months. Most prefer to stay within 200 miles of home, but many will travel great distances. For the most part they come with very large appetites They want home grown, home-cooked food, and plenty of it! They expect clean, comfortable quarters. There should be some pro vision for rainy-day activities for the children perhaps a rumpus room fix ed up in an unused part of the barn 4 How much will farm vacationers pay? For accomodations and meals most adults will pay $4O-$75 or so a week, and will expect to pay about $25- $3O per week for their children Whether or not the tourist crop holds any interest for you, personally, the “Pennsylvania Dutch” flavor of Lancaster County is known far and wide, and has a tremendous drawing power which will bring farm vacation ers right to your backyard. The recreation boom is not a get rich-quick crop. But if you enjoy meet ing interesting people and having com pany, and if you have the right physical set7up, hosting farm vacationers may be just the cash crop you’ve been looking for. We have been, collecting material from many sources on this subject, and in the next several weeks plan to* do a feature story on the recreation business © 0 0 • AFBF (Continued hom Page 1) point of view, and in the long ■term to the best interest of farmeis and ranchers, the Board should submit a specific proposal for implementing and activating a pioposed acquisi- Loncaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 623-219 1 Don Timmons, Editor Robeit G. Campbell, Adver- tising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- It Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa and at additional mailing offices. Money In Monure? Poultry farming in the county is big business. By the most recent count we have about 2.8 million layers in Lancaster County nearly one-fifth of all the layers in the state. The main product, of course, is eggs. Next we hope to get a little salvage value from the sale of the fowl. But there’s a by product to the poultry business that has been too long overlooked. It would seem that a lot of money is being thrown out on the manure pile. If a farmer grows crops he spreads*the poultry manure on his fields. Or per haps he sells it for practically nothing, or gives it to a neighbor for the haul ing. With the increase in size of the modern laying operations that are be coming commonplace in the county, manure is increasingly regarded as a real headache rather than a source of income. Why wouldn’t it be practical to process this hen manure and sell it to home-owners, just as cow and sheep manures are sold? This is certainly not a new idea. The University of Delaware did some pioneer work on dehydrating poultry manure a few years ago. There is at least one company in California that has been merchandising a dried product for several years. A company in central New Jersey has been marketing it since 1959 With the ideal concentration of producers and consumers of such a pro duct that we have here in southeastern Pennsylvania the idea should be thor oughly examined. Most of the products being market ed presently handle only manure from birds kept on litter in floor operations In our area it is the cage operator parti cularly who has the most critical man ure disposal problem. Cage manure is concentrated and is very high m mois ture content. This makes it heavier to handle and more costly to dehydrate. But in the end it should be a higher quality product than manure from floor pens because it is concentrated It would probably have to be diluted with sand or litter before it could be sold. The analysis of the hen manure litter combination is about 3-3-1 This could be varied to suit by the addition of chemicals. A dehydrating plant would be costly and undoubtedly objectionable to neighbors. But if it could be centrally located and yet away from any heavily populated area, and if an economical process could be developed, and if a good market could be cultivated this outlet for a “surplus” by-product could be profitable for the poultry man. A lot of “ifs”, but the pathway to progress has always been strewn with plenty of those tion to the voting delegates ” There was no lepoited time limit set on when the Board should render a report on the proposal The proposition now lests in their hands There seemed to be little open op position to the proposal among the delegates present, accord ing to Steele Everyone seemed to be aware of the complex questions that this proposal evokes, and they seemed will ing that a thorough study should be made in searching out the conect answers Cold weather is at hand and An earlier report pointed . The F f rm F,uiea * Co ° per .f frozen P x P es on a zero m<>rn out the vigoious campaign that m » are not vei 'y pleasant. We has been waged by the Ohio !n d thp 9o «t2f suggest the pipes bUried leoiesentatives in their effort tllbutlon P oirits in t he state. into ground at least two to push this issue to a con- Combined meinbeiship in the f ee t d ee p or wrapped with , P rpL /i 1 local associations is about 54,- glectnc beahn* cable In this elusion They feel that the pur- nnn . „nn eiecillc -neaung came., in mis chase of a national food chain ° OO, Wltb about 4,300 these connection we caution ama chase oi a national loocl cnam b membrns of the Lancas- teU r electricians of the dan woulcl put faimeis in a more rn teui eiecnician ? 01 xne aan favoiable bai gaining position n S® 1 ’ cutting the cables or with processois. and peihaps up _____ permitting the wires to over pi essui e the latter Into rec- * a P or cross each other. These ogmzing the vanous faim bar- One good thing about silence conditions could, present a, gaining agencies is that it ~ tbe i cpsated. fire bazai ’d Be sure to con sult your local electrician or What Do YOU Think’ • Perm a. (Continued Lorn Page 1) sylvania Faim Buieau organ izations Following the vote by PFB locals, the coopeiatuve’s re gional 'board of dnectois will vote on the pi oposal to merge PFBCA with Agviay PFBCA is owned by its local associa tions, any of which could vote to continue opcnnting on their own, or to join the Agway firm P*N • /» <► * 1 “ . - # * i V ' fee* Now Is The Time . .. To Study Income Tax Reports We are informed of a number of changes in the farm income tax situation and in the methods of reporting Many of these could be to the advantage of the farmer We urge folks to become familiar with the new forms Income Tax Guides are available at our office; in addi tion, on December 29th m York County there will be a district meeting for income tax reporting for farmers. Three Friends Lesson for December 13,1964 Backmanrf Scripture: Philemon. DoollonM Ketdlnr. GtUtlans 3 23-29. WHO KNOWS how to find the book of Philemon in the Bible? It is one of the shortest “books,” less than a page long. Who can name two Bible books that are shorter? Without looking it up, who knows who wrote it, i and what it’s all f about? Well, it’s I about three men and their strange friend ship. Strange because as most people would look at it, they didn’t have H much in com* man. One was a Dr. Foreman slave, one a pris oner (on false' charges; the prison was real enough), and one a free man. What was it these three men had in common? The Thief and the Victim One of these three was a man of property. He was at least rich enough to own a slave. The rich man was named Philemon, the slave Onesimus. The name was a kind of joke, perhaps, for the word Onesimus in Greek means useful or beneficial. Perhaps Philemon hoped Onesimus lived up to his name. Perhaps he thought like a modern man who has gone to the wrong used car dealer that he had been gypped in the used-slave deal and been stuck with a slave who would never in the world be of any real use. Anyhow, this One simus had decided to go to Rome. Naturally he did not con sult his master about this. Rome was a long way from Colossae where he lived, so he borrowed the money (again without men tioning it to Philemon). So be became « wanted man; wanted' as a runaway slave, wanted as a runaway thief. Somehow or other be got into jail at Borne, probably because be bad com mitted some-other illegalact.Rut in jail, besides all the usual jail birds, he' met a most unusual man named Paul, who “by chance" knew Philemon and per- To Keep Farm Accounts There is little doubt that an accurate set of farm records is essential to successful farm management In this last month of the year we urge farmers to spend some time analyzing their accounts in order to deter mine the enterprises most profitable and also, try to locate the practices and ventures that lost money Several hours of “pencil pushing” between crop seasons will usually pay big dividends Also, we urge fanners to be gett ing their 1965 account books ready foi the new yeai MAI SMITH To Keep Water Pipes power company official to bt From Freezing safe * § m n .• - about the hosao, Mow tbotMMI thin Mr* i* that Mol ttUNn thief Onesimus actually Mtama friends. No lass than Vml Mad to brine togathar and r*ea*eill ttaa thief and hla victim. Whal was it that mad* Paul think M could poaaibly parsuad* th* twa men to live together a* brothers! Above the low? Take another look at those three men. One of them, to judge from Paul’s attitude to him, lived well within the law. You would have been surprised to hear ol Philemon in jail Onesimus was another sort of bird. Finding him in jail was a shod: to no body. He lived outside the law. Neither Philemon nor Onesimus, when you come to think of it, paid much attention to the law. Philemon didn’t because ha didn’t need to. He wad already a better man than the law r*» quired. , Christ is the answer At the risk of insulting the readers’ intelligence, let us suft ■ gest the answer —lt is- a# the sameone to thequeetiatna that have been asked, What did these three men have in- common? A| first, perhaps little. la the ami Christ They were all three siaval (as Paul would putitj ef Christ; they were Christ’s men. He if the answer to the question: hoq can we get over the harriers b* tween man and mas, class as* ' class? Again, what mad* Paul think he could reconcile a thief - and his victim? Th* answer in Christ had come into the life ol Onesimus, He intended to livi up to his name. Christ had made a new man of him. Or againt what law is higher than the highest human court of justice? It is the law of Christ, which means the law of love. In this short letter Paul mentions One simus about four times, bul Christ eleven times. Our human problems would not be wiped out, but we would be on the way to solving them, if Christ were invited into every tense and an gry situation. (Based on outlines conrrlehled hr th« Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in (hi V S. A. Xeieased hr CoatuuKHr ftm Service ) Go To Church Sunday BY MAI SMITH - To Sort Tobacco Carefully There is some controversy about the merits of doing % real good job in handling the tobacco crop as'it is stripped. Some buying methods do not encourage very thorough, care ful sorting and grading. How ever, we do feel that it is worthwhile to do a better job of grading and sorting the leaves _in many instances, . Since very few growers know. (Continued on r«g« 5)
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