Farm Fairs Are Worthwhile Events
Take Time Out To Support
THE FALL FAIR season is fast approach
ing It is time for us to stop and take
stock of what we in Lancaster County have-
We feel that Lancaster county can be justi
fiably proud of the many good, small agri
cultural fairs offered every fall.
We can be justifiably proud because
these fairs are just what they call them
selves—Agricultural Fairs.
Unlike the shows parading under the
banner of farm fairs in some of our
neighboring counties and are in reality
only glorified carnivals with just enough
agricultural exhibits to have an excuse for
being, our local fairs are agricultural in
nature as well as in name.
With such an array of Agricultural ex
hibitions near at hand every farmer in the
county should attend at least one. Many of
us will want to spend some time at many,
or all, of them
We realize that sometimes these fairs
come at a busy time on the farm and work
must be scheduled to make time to attend
the shows But if the only way you can
see these goo'd exhibitions is to take time
off from some of your busy schedule, then
we think you had better do it because you
are probably working too hard anyway
There is more to a Farm Show than
relaxation however Fairs have been one
of the biggest contributors to the improve
ment and progress made in farming in this
country There are four basic things a
farm fair does as we see it. It offers an op
portunity for exchange of ideas New ideas,
equipment, and methods are introduced.
There is an opportunity for improvement
in livestock and crops But one of the most
important phases of the Farm Fair is the
vouth division
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IF A DEVELOPMENT has merit, it doesn’t
take long for it to become a part of the
vay we farm In a recent report from the
USD A Agricultural Marketing Service, the
statement is made that some time this
year, bulk milk deliveries will pass can
deliveries in the total market receipts ot
the federal order markets It hasn’t been
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5 Davidson
II \ou know someone who It was only about 25 years ago
koines about business and ficts that the expeits said the popula
about the recession >ou can cheer lion ‘ceiling” in this country
him up with some good news would be about 150,000 000 We
Toll him that if he takes a two couldn t they said, find jobs foi
weeks \acation and comes back vor 3’ many more people and be
am! finds a brand new' city oi sides, we couldn’t feed them
130 000 people built up around enough land they said
him not to be surprised It s Now we have a population of
happening all (he tune 172 000 000 and almost twice as
Oui not gain in population the manv people employed Not only
Census Bureau infoims us, is at that, but people cat moie and
the late ol 9 300 people each da> better food, chess better, live in
05 000 a week and two and a half betlei homes and have moie sav
million a >ear The total will be urns than e\cr bcloic
200 000 000 b> 1970 The Farm Pioblem
We will haxe to put up new The pio blem ol feeding this big
pan s and expand [he production mcrease ln population is no small
oi picscnt lactones to build the , oh ln ltself Every 2 seconds
auiomo nles home appliances, j arnl eis must mciease their food
ionics schools, hospitals and production bv 60 pounds of pork,
main otht i things lust to keep 86 pounds of beet and 28 pounds
up with the uicieasing popula- 0 f p o ultr\ That is the pei capita
tlon annual consumption rate
I 'Mi Twehe Seconds
Egg production must be in
creased bv 344 eggs each 12 sc
lhei( ax almost three tunes conds and milk pioduction must
a- ' mam births a* there arc go up bv 384 pounds )ust to
deaths in this counliv each dav take caic of the increase in pop
The biith late is one even eight uladon Theie is demand for
'-(tonds and the death rate one 121 pounds moie wheat 141
even 21 seconds pounds more liuits and lor 282
Counting one nnmigiant eveiv pounds ol potatoes and othei
two minutes the net incicasc in vegetables
population is one tneic 12 sc laimeis must do thi*? with
conds 11 automobile lactones little 01 no increase in the total
*' >l c ample opt i died 12 hours a number ol acres in production
oat 7 dues a week Hue would If the\ can do it and experts sac
have to 1\( Ills \SE then pioduc- lhe\ tan it will he the most sig
lu,n late b\ 120 each horn lust to nifitanl accomplishment of the
keeji up with tnc mcieasc in do- 20th centuij It can as a matter
inand dtie lo the population ot fact he done with two million
lower people on farms
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THIS WEEK
—ln Washington
With Clinton Davidson
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
No matter how much knowledge a
person possesses about farming, he will
not be a good farmer unless he has a lik
ing for the job and a pride in his accom
plishments- There are many young people
farming today who might never have given
farming a chance in their lives if they had
not early in their lives felt the thrill of a
job well done
Have you ever seen a young man or
woman reach for the blue ribbon in the
ring master’s hand. The smile of satisfac
tion that goes with the youthful showman
as he returns to the tent with his animal is
more important than the prize money he'
may be awarded later. ~ VE * che peopJe who mos£
The youngster who does a good job in H* about socui JustlCC . re ottm
the show ring will have a sense of satis- ailent about one thing whlch read .
faction that is hard to get in the everyday er& of the Blble Wlll flnd ptalßly
business of farming. But more important, there, the dnnk problem, it should
he will have developed the habit of doing b<s remeinber e d that whiskey was
things well. Blue ribbons are not won in mvented long after Bible times, au
the show ung alone. Many weeks or even tn e warnings snout strong dnnk,
months have had to go into the preparation in the Bible, are
and arrangements for the show, about wme ’ and
Furthermore, the youngster can not the equivalent of
do it all by himself The prize money he deer, the ‘Ught
might win will probably not even cover the er ” Ilc i uors The
time and expense Dad has to pay out to P assa s e from
help put the exhibit in the show The ex- Pr<n ’ erbs s ives a
hibit might not even win a prize They can’t V)VUI pictbre ° f
, , , , r j personal trouble
all be winners, but losing can be an oppor- c H au - ed by such
tunity too Many young showmen in this liqilors Dam ej hr. Foreman
country have lost in their first attempt and sives the story of the first totai
have come back to win the second year abstinence society on record, an
after having done a much better job in outstanding success on t health
preparing an exhibit basis Habakkuk the prophet lines
Take time to attend the Fairs this fall.
It might not “pay off” in tangible assets
this year or next, but the best investment
you can make is in the youth of America.
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many years ago that I visited one of the
first bulk tank setups in the Midwest Now,
it appears it won’t be many more years un
til the milk can takes its place in history
alongside the neckyoke, doubletree, and a
host of other farm tools which used to be
so much a part of farming
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster county’s Own Farm Weekly
Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Jack
H Owen, Editor, Robert G Campbell,
Advertising Director, Robert J.
Wiggins, Circulation Director
Established November 4, 1955
? Published every Friday by OCTORARO
£ NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa __ _
' ST " hn ' Mm or Now Is The Time . . .
Entered as Second-Class matter at
the Post Cilice, Quarryville, Pa , UAder
Act of March 3, 1879
Subscription Kates- $2 per year,
thiee years §5, Single copy Price 5
cents
Improvement Still Needed
In Some Dairy Processes
Writing about changes in the
dam business a specialist
tiom Washington says “Al-
ways an unknown in anv spec
ulation about specific trends is
the absence of information on
innotaliens that would make it
practical to process whole milk
loi intei state shipment and
eventual use in fluid form The
possibility of perfecting such a
process adds to the many
other imponderables that con
front an interpreter of past
trends in production and util
ization patterns for milk among
regions ’ This is a surpris
ing statement m view of the
manj claims of the many pioc
esses which have been present
ed as peifect during the past
few years We were under the
nrpi cssion, after listening to
sundry explanations that the
process of taking water out of
milk (hen putting it back again
had been perfected Judging
fiom the statement quoted
aboie there is room for further
improvement
Them
Express 4-3047.
—Pennsylvania Fanner
4—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, August 29, 1958
Bible PtovcrM aj 2»-35, Dan- Policeman's Friday Night Offers
lei 1 1-20. Habakkuk 2 9-16: Roman* _ . / 6 *
is n—l 4 33 Insight Into Problem
Devntiona) Beading: Isaiah 5:11-23.
Is If Fair?
Lesson for August 31, 1958
up “giving his neighbor drink”
i ight along with stealing and mur
der Paul puts the whole thing in »
new light - the truth of Christian
brotherhood
Ash A Modern-Day Question:
(t Is Fair?
ah or which raises the same
question, in vanous ways. Isn’t the
use of liquor, as it is done in the
United States in this 20th century,
a veiy obvious example of social
injustice ' Social justice, we may
remember, is just carrying- into all
reiitionslups the spirit and pnn
'Pie of the Golden Rule. It is
on onthiiM wpyrffbted bit
Hut IS It fair to give a lame per-
on a shove ? Is it fair to put a Ckrtot in th« V. t. A.
mbimg block in front of the c * nnmTOltT **••• Bt»*ien.>
K'rns tair to all concerned.
.1 ' Alt ohohcs are called “sick"
nUohnlism a disease But it ig
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County Agricultural Agent
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Max Smith
Livestock should be peimlUed to giaze only a few
horns each dav when the forage is drj and after they had some hav
or other pastuie.
TO PREPARE SILOS Silage cutting time is at hand and the crop
will tax all facilities this tall The preseiving of a crop by making it
into silage is one of the best ways to get a maximum of feed nutri
ents It is impoitant that the walls of the silo be air-tight in order
to prevent molding With concrete or tile silos this may mean
coating the inside with mortar or some commercial product, with the
wooden silo treating with linseed oil will help preserve the wood
The door frames should (it light oi be lined-Avith heavy loofing
paper
TO TJSE COVER CROPS One of the main problems confronting
Lancaster County farmers is the low organic matter content ol the
soils the use of more sods in (he lolation and the use of cover crops
will help to build up organic matter It is a poor practice to permit
a field to remain open during the winter months, bVth wind and
water erosion may remove some of the topsoil Wintei rye. domestic
lyegrass, and field bromegrass arc common cover crops and may be
seeding during September, rye may be seeded until early November
A young minister spent his Fri
day nights, one summer, nding
around with policemen in squad
cars. With very few exceptions,
the calls for help were due to drink.
Family quarrels, thefts (to ge*-
money for liquor), beatings, rapes
and murders: all starting from a
few friendly dnnks. This young
man came to the conclusion that
the money put into that city’s
treasury by liquor licenses was
more than matched by the money
taken out of treasury and private
funds to pay for the damage the
liquor creates. It is true, that city
claims to be the “whiskey capital
of America;” but the reader is in
vited to look around m his own
town and figure the cost to the
taxpayers of troubles caused by
alcohol. Is it fair?
Movie Make-Believe Paints
Problem in Wrong Color
Movies sometimes do the same
kind of harm. Some years ago
there was a popular series of
movies featuring a husband and
wife who were married both on the
screen and off In all their pictures
they were a gay, happy couple.
He drank “like a fish” and she
drank with him and it never
seemed to affect either of them,
(How could it? Stage liquor is
like stage money—a weak imita
tion of the real thing.) Not long
after that, the papers reported
that this actress had divorced her
charming Prince Barleycorn. And
for what? Doing in real life what
h# was paid to pretend doing m
pictures: drink when he felt like It.
Reel life and real life were vastly
different.
By MAX SMITH
TO STOP POTATOES FROM SPROUTING -
Sprouting ot potatoes in storage may be con
trolled by spiaying the vines in the field from
foui to six weeks puor to digging The matenal
is maleic hydrazide and will delay sprouting about
six months longer than unsprayed fields This
material shouldnot be used on potatoes grown
for seed because it will prevent proper spiouting.
TO USE CAUTION IN GRAZING LEGUMES
Many livestock producers graze their later cut
tings of alfalfa or clover as a temporary source
of late summei or tall pasture This forage is of
top quality but is more dangerous from the bloat
ing standpoint than i egular pasture mixtures
a fact that it ranks fourth m all
the diseases of our nation. Alcohol-.
Ism would never get a start with
out the background of social drink
ing. No drug used by “addicta"
gets nearly as many people Into
trouble as does alcohol. Is it fair
to give the weak as much of a push
downhill as American society
does?