Farmers May Be Shortchanging Selves
By Marketing For Convenience Only
WE WERE ALWAYS under the impres
sion that farmeis were in business to
make money, but it looks like we’ve been
wrong all the time
At any rate, a recent study by Penn
State shows that farmers look first at the
convenience factor when buying or selling
stock at a market Only 30 per cent said
that price is a factor
Dr Clarence E Trotter, associate pro
fessoi of marketing at Penn State, seems
to agiee He says, “This indicates that it is
doubtful jif the majority of farmers aie
using market information to buy and sell
to best advantage When choice of outlet is
based on convenience and habit, farmeis
may receive lower prices than could be
had at other markets ”
Convenience can be tenibly costly at
times We heard recently of a farmer who
felt that he did not have time to market his
cattle at the market place So he sold them
to a dealer at the dealer’s price Three
days later the dealer had run them through
the market and picked up two cents a
pound
Not that we have anything against
cattle dealers making a profit If the man
is going to study the market and condi
tions, he should make a profit But on the
other hand there is no reason for any
farmer to hand over what was probably
half the profit in the group of steers.
Tiadition and habit are with us and
BY JACK REICHARD
75 Years Ago
lot more than 200 s ears 'after
the art of printing was invented
no poison was allowed to punt
anything in England without di
iccl pci mission from the govern
ment In 1853 a decice was made
that no printing pi esses should
Pc set up in any place in London,
ocepl at the two umveisities
No book could then be publish
cd except by the Stationers Com
oanv Sometime latci special pn
i ileges weie gianted to otheis
One man was peimilled to pub
lish all the almanacs another all
the law books a thud all school
book'- ami a foiuth the Bibles
The monopolists having the
pcwei to dial go what thej pleas
ed put the pi ice so high that
onh the uch could bin a Bible
1 malh the umust svstem wa
broken down
1 homas Ciii% a shiewd book
llei ot London sent an agent to
Holland who bought good t\ pc
,nd fine! papei and employed
Dutch pi mtci s to put togclhei
well punted Bibles
These weio shipped to P'ngland
.iiicl sold in gieal number at a
low puce The Kings pi inlet see
ing his nail in dangei went io
|.,w and the impoitation of the
■-jued b iok was discontinued
But (an was dctci mined to pin
duct Bibles that all could allord
He \v< nl to the authonties ol tlv
t nncisilv of Oxloid and peisuad
id them lo sell then pi allege to
Inin ihiK evading the law
Mam of these Bibles still in
(SisKiue have punted at the bo!
tom ol Hu title page Ovloid
lunUd at the Lnneisitv Bless
Cum Bnvilcgo signilv mg th.u
tin published » had obtained pel
■ muon a I the ITmu sitv in old
u lo keep within Hu law
\l,ss Kate I iclfi well known
'me i lean hetuiei hatK m 1883
had an ( \pt i k ncc in Spam whi( i
.ihistiatid the tatt «l the bnl
Mai l v Oman
"Ui-s 1 it Id uas in li oublt
i inn in Spain was limited
ni \>,is .niMous to stnl loi Ma the Lancastei iaim ol John Slote
(,id Kid he i coin hi inloiPH 1 a mile noilh ol New H illaiul 50
Ik i Ilia) aulbo: iIH >,-of Santand( i teals ago this week
lud put he t it mik in (piai.m'ua Sloti was plow mu with two
ini tin 11 da's and h< could d) bei sc s wlun (he ground sudden] >
nothin-, to bieak the e mbai to "i'e waj linden one* eif the am
She icah/ed the eJiflit mtv hid mals elropping it in a sink hole
was not to b( bailed Shi went lb ltd deep The othei hoist-
This Week*
in Lancaster Fanning
to the Sanitary Bureau and asked
whv she could not have her trunk
Because there rs cholera in
Pai is, madam”
But Pm not fiom Paris’
That made no difference The
cholera must be kept out of Spam
Had I known the marvels of
Spanish quarantine”, said Miss
Field ‘T would hare brought my
clothes in a newspaper”
The suggestion gave the stolid
oflicial an idea
You can t have your trunk,
that would cost my position but
jou can have your clothes'
Miss Field took the clothes
liom the trunk, piled them m a
blue and white checkered wrap
per and with this big bundle
undei her arm she started fox
Madud
That even chickens are endow
ed with keen instinct was demon-
Miated on the Lancaster faun ot
Fflward McKinstij a mile north
of Rohicislown
1 01 a time a hen in his Luge
flock had been seueting her eggs
but no seaich was marc lor them
and the chicken was lelt undis
tin bed Then one morning the
hen appeared at the dooi ol the
laimhouse clucking noisilv No
one had taken am notice at first
hut thicc limes she picsisled in
coming to the kitchen attracitng
he attention ol the entne lamilj
Fmalh out of cuuositv, Mis
McKinsliv lollowcd the hen to
the bam wheie it flow up to n
Bucket nailed near the 1001 in
side the sluictinc A lacldei w a s
lioisted lo Ihe location and ncsl
- in the bucket was found loui
tcon down chicks
Hating sutcesslulh hatched out
the chicks without the knowledge
ol anvone the hen was at a loss
t > get hei bi ood dow a to the
giotMid and instinctive!} turned
( i its owuieis lor help in the mat
ie i
i '’ll!\N(.l, UUDKNI
OS L VM VSTI'R FARM
Ik i
and
\ slianee ateident ottuieel on
are hard to change But the maiketmg
procedures of today are vastly different
than when Dad was farming For the farm
er to stay ahead of the game, he must
change too
For example the same Penn State sur
vey shows that half the slaughter stock
was sold through auctions But nearly 60
per cent of the replacement animals and
three-fourths of the feeders were sold di
rectly to farmers
Half ol the purchases of all types ot
livestock was from other farmers, making
them the most important single source of
stock Type and quality of livestock decided
40 per cent of the purchases
You can see from this that there are
a lot of ways that the price can be changed,
played with and perhaps sliced off a bit
But the price is the thing That is what
makes the farm account books stay in the
black.
Pennsylvania fanners received over
111 million dollars from the sale of live
stock in 1955, which was 15 per cent of all
farm cash receipts More than 1 5 million
head of stock changed hands during that
year.
In Lancaster County this information
on markets is especially important In 1955
fully 26 per cent of the farm cash receipts
were from livestock In that same year
Lancaster County farmers netted $25,497,-
800 dollars from the sale of livestock and
products
50 Years Ago
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
Alfred C Alspaeh, Publisher, Robert
E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell,
Advertising Director Robert J
Wiggins, Circulation Director
Established November 4, 1*135
Published every Friday by OCXORARO
NEWSPVPERS, Quairjville, Pa
Phone Sterling 6-2132 or Lancaster,
Express 4-3047
Entered as Second-Class matter at
the Post Office, QuarrjviUe, Pa , ivder
Act of March 3, 1879
Subscription Rates $2 per year,
three years $5 Single copy Price 5
cents.
escaped being diagged along into
tuc hole by the breaking of the
harness
Word ol the accident soon
spread and in a short time some
50 neighbors ai rived on the scene
to assist m extricating the horse
Following a brief discussion on
ways and means to get the animal
out of the hole it was decided to
dig an inclining trench leading
up to the imprisoned horse
After more than five hours of
haid work with pick and shovel
the hoi sc was brought to the sm
lacc unharmed by way ot the
tiench over 20 feet in length
In a contest inaugurated by a
Chicago newspaper among young
women back in 1908 calling lor
descriptions of the qualities
necessary to the ideal husband, a
young ladv from Chicago won
the pri/e Some of the qualities
oi her ideal husband were
He must be a good meal ticket
pi ovidcr
He must be able to svvcai when
the occasion demanded it
He must not stay out 100 many
nights m the week but he would
not be lorced to tel] whole he
had been
He must be old enough lo know
what life is
He must have a face that wijl
atliact dogs and babies
He must have lust monev
ciiough to know wheie the next
meal is coming from and not
enough so that he cqn live with
out working
He must be an American and
a gentleman
25 Years Ago
When Wayatt Edwaids neai
Rpollsville Ky lelumcd to his
home from which he had been
omen by a flash flood he found
a 27 pound catfish stianded on
the living loom floor
Arnold Smith a tcenagei ol
Indianapolis Ind was sa\ed a
Mil sentence foi pettv theft by
his promise to go to bed foi three
\ears at 9 p m
Sixteen\eai old Ma\ Kmdied
4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 9, 1958
BlbU M*terUlJ Exodus 35—40
Devotional Reading! Psalm 27:1-0.
Gifts and Glory
Lesson forJVlay 11,1958
SUPPOSE It were your problem.
Suppose you had several thou
sand people, all of whom had re
cently been slaves, and their an
cestors before them for hundreds
of years. These people had no
Bible, no church Their masters
had been very religious people, but
the gods their
masters wor- |
shipped were < fT
nearly all anl- -F _ x aB
mals, and if not
Now suppose you
bad these ex
slaves off by Dr. Foreman
themselves trying to make them
realize the tiuth about the only
true God. How would you make
God real to them?
Splendor of God
That was Moses' problem God
Inspired him not with one answer
but with several One way by which
he made God real to these very
primitive people was in the pro
visions for the worship of God
Essentially this was very simple.
God was provided with living quar
ters, the same type of home that
all the people had, namely a tent
This tent was to be right In the
very center of their encampment
wherever it might be—for the peo
ple now lived the life of wandering
desert nomads When vve today
speak of the “house of God,” we
mean a church building which is
filled, we hope, with people. But
the Israelite “house of God” was
« tent in which nobody at all lived,
a tent which only a very few privi
leged priests could enter, a tent
tor God alone
It was so small that even if It
had been filled, only a few dozen
people could have got in But it
was near. “God lives m the midst
of us,” they could say And it was
beautiful The people themselves
gave the materials to-build it, and
the very listing of these matciidh
suggests a brilliant gleam >
beauty,—gold, silver, bronze
Now Is The Time
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultuial Agent
TO MAKE RYE SILAGE Winter lye is com
monly used for giass silage and should be cut
lust aftei heading and before any seed is foimed
in the head In the past some growers wait for a
• milky kernel” to develop m the rye head which
means that the plant is too mature for top silage
making One of the common grass silage preserva
tives should be added to improve the palatibility
of the crop
■ '
ill
•#
TO KILL CUTWORMS Many com, tobacco, and
tomato giovveis have successfully reduced damage
fiom cutwoims by ti eating the field in advance
oi planting The soil may be spraved thiee to 10
,days ahead ot planting with one quart of #2
Heptachloi or one pint per acre of V 8 Chlordane
emulsion This tiealmcnt maj pi event considciable i e-planting this
spring
Max Smith
TO RESERVE MAXIMUM FEED VALUE Considerable loss is
experienced each year by forage crop growers m the pioccss of cut
ting and harvesting the crop Many factors contubule to this great
loss including the weather It is the feeling that more feed nutnents
may be picsoived fiom the fust cutting of hay if part, oi all, is
made into glass silage The attempt to field cure hay in this area
has resulted in too high loss of feed nutrients The average dairyman
could benefit most ol all by having some grass silage of good quality,
lathei than pool qualitv hay to leed either this summer in case of
drouth oi next vvmtci
TO BEWARE OF BLOATING Flesh, succulant image exops should
bo handled caiefullv in ordei to pi event seveie bloating in most
sheep and cattle Legume crops such as ladino clover, alfalfa, red
clover and sweet clovoi have been blamed loi many eases of bloat
ing This is especially true when the plants arc wet and when tli£
livestock aie not accustomed to the iiesh forage Permitting thfc
animals to gia/c only when the plants aie diy, and giving a feeding
ol hav or othei div loughage beloie turning them in the pasture
may save Double
ol Woi thing England who ia/i Chailes Almcndingcr, of Maii
avvay from hei home to woik as a on Ohio, owned a dog that had
maid said she was “111011 ot living an extra “tail” several inches long
in wealth glowing fiom its forehead
twined linen, onyx stones ... By
the beauty oUpod's house the peo
ple were every day reminded of
the splendor of God.
The Best For God
Moses might have built that tent
for God, the Tabernacle as we call
it,—he might have built it himself.
Very likely he had the lesourees
with which to do it But the thin£
was to be done by the people.
Everybody was encouraged to con
tribute Fuither, they weie en
couraged to give the bestethoy had,
the most costly materials they
owned That was the hist church
building campaign on record The
house of God was not to be made of
scraps left after eveiy one else
had been well housed The house
of God was to be erected out of
gifts which had cost the givers a
great deal Theie's an obvious
moial to all this Now, as then,
if all that people devote to the
worship of God is what they can
well and easily spare; if God s
worship comes from life’s left
overs: it will mean very little.
Here is a modern church member
who conti ibutes to his church— to
the building fund or to any other
need —only his spare change. He
gives to Gods woiship not even
an hour a week on an average;
he never goes when the weather
is bad or when it just "doesn’t suit
him ”
Glory of God
The Old Testament says that the
“glory of the Lord filled the taber
nacle " Jewish tradition says that
this “glory” was a light so bright
no man,'not even Moses, could en
dure the sight of it Be that as it
may, what does It mean in this
twentieth Christian century, with
all we have learned from the New
Testament, for the glory of God
to fill the house of God? For so it
should be There is dullness, empti
ness enough in this world without
our having to go to church for it.
In God’s house we long to find
God’s glory. What Is it we are
really looking for? Saint Paul tells
ns that the glory of God is in “the
face of Christ ” Here is a thought
for every one who has a heart
interest In the worship of God.
When Is a Christian church filled
with the glory of God? Surely when
Christ is seen there, when he fills
the church But in the New Testa
ment, the church Is not a building,
it is people So a worshipping con
gregation Is filled with the divine
glory when it is a congregation of
those In whose lives Christ himself
Is living, when Christ Is not only
proclaimed by the preacher but is
active In the minds and hearts and
service of those who know and love
bun.
(Based on outlines oopyrlfbted by th#
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Coon'SU of the Churches of Christ
In th* USA Released by Community
Press Sorvlc* >
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