4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13, 1959
COUNTY AGENT Max M. Smith, right, is shown as-,
sisting John s. Shenk 11, Willow Street RD 1, with collect
ion of the county’s first hay sample for the Penn State For
age Testing Program. Smith ,is urging .county dairymen to
make extensive use o‘f the added service to increase milk
profits. PHOTO
Schedule Yottr
Mowing By June 16-18— Penn State Gar-
Height of Grass ' £ Bpu D s ays> Penn state
The height at which a June 17-18 Congression
given species of grass can a f Hearings on Poultry In
be mowed and .still survive dustry, Washington, D. C.
for extended periods is di- j une Four-County 4-
lectly related to its ability jj Camp, Dillsburg.
to produce sufficient leaf ser- June 18 _ 7 . 30 p, m . ( Garden
fuce for the photosynthetic SpQt Keith Overgaard
activity required for 1 s jj ome> gtrasburg.
growth. June 22-26—State 4-H Lead-
Basically, Associate Chest- ership Training School, terstate Commerce Commit
er County Agent Joseph H. Penn state. tee, expects to hold public
Way explains, this ability is j une 24—County 4-H En- hearings later this month or
related to the inherent type tomology Project training ■ ear^J r next on seven hills 4>e
and habit of growth, found sess i o n, Long’.s, Park 6:80 f Q re the . Committee to ten
indhe grass. p. m . J. .O. Pepper, special the serving of liquor m the
The length of nodes, the - 01 The bills pending are by
number of stolons or rinz - Heps John Bell Williams of
omes, and the number of bas- Warnc Of Mississippi, Roy Weir of Min
al buds, all influence the nesota, Thomas Lane of Mas
amount of leaf mass prqdue- u jj Q- J e - sachusetts, Ken Hechler of
ed by a given grass. Thus lYlall WrUvi West Virginia, Robert Hemp
this affects its ability to stand hill of South Carolina, Card
low height of cut. Plant PrODi©m Eliott of Aabama and Walter
Creeping type plants such _ Q Thomas Judd of Minnesota,
as bentgrass are able to pro- Harrisburg _ ur. spokesman for the Civil
duce sufficient leaf surface L. Guyton of the JJ uti cs Board, which in
at very low heights of cut, Bureau of Plant al i a ir accidents.
Way says. Pennsylvama Dept, of Agri- the CAB has no evi .
Merion and Kentucky blue culture, urges farmer and dence that any crash has bB .
grass and red fescue must be gardeners buying vegetable cause d by a drunken pas
cut relatively high (IV 2 to Plants from mail order ad- senger But he conce ded,
2 inches) because they cannot vertisements to be sure to there b ave been many acci
produce sufficient leaf mass select those advertised as dents for w hi c h no cause was
at low heights to substain State inspected. ever determined,
the plants. “This being the time to The associations represent-
Bunch type grasses such as choose plants for gardens, Jn g both the airline pilots
Alta and Ky. 31 fescue and l arm papers and magazines and t he stewardesses have
ryegrass require even higher display many advertisements ur ged legislation to ban the
cuts (2 to 3 inches). of tomato, cabbage, sweet se rving of drinks to passen-
Frequency of mowing is potatoes and other plants,” gers The Federal Aviation
also a n important con- Dr - said. Agency, which administers
sideration in a lawn “Since Pennsylvania now safety regulations, told us
maintenance program. Infre- has a quarantine on non-in- -the serving of drinks aloft
quent- clipping allows the spected plants from out-of- is strictly a concern of the
grass to elongate to such a state sources, you assure airlines” so long as there is
degree that any subsequent yourself of better plants by no law against it.
mowing removes an exces- buying only those that are Time for Action
sive amount of leaf surface state inspected.” The time for action is now.
Way warns no time should Since the Pennsylvania before a drunken passenger
dinning remove more than vegetable plant pest quaran- causes an accident Besides
v" P t nf of X total leaf sur- tme went into effect April 1, the safety factor, the annoy
£ace at other state agricultural-of- ance of other passengers by
Removal 6 of larger amounts ficial s have cooperated well, someone made noisy and boi
of leaf surface will result in he reported. ( sterous by drink is reason for
physiological shock to the ‘But,” he added, we are action.
nlant cause excessive gray- warned by these same offi- It may be that some or tne
mg or browning of the leaf cials that even when state in- unexplained causes of air
ing or browning or me mat available to their plane accidents are due to
tips, and greatly curtail the spection is available 10 ineir £ , • curved hut wh
photosynthetxc production of P lant growers th ere are P ’ not jt j s
food with a resultant debit some who still do hot choose ether that is so or not, it s
100 a, wun a resultant aepie _„ rvif , p It 1S also certain that accidents will be
tio n of root reserves In ad- 1° use me sei vice it is aiso curving of liouor
dition the accumulation of probable that plants rejected -continues
excessive dipping may smo- by inspection are shipped to Qn & recent ‘ ove rnight flig
iher the grass and provide mail order customers M r wa t c hed a man who had
excellent enviromental con- Buy only P* an ts that are several drings try to
ditions for disease organisms advertised as ‘State inspect- a c jg are tte while stand
and insects ed ” _ mg up . A pillow slip hang
~~ ” ■ p " ntiTiTTvrr the fir-t nine from the upper rack
DURING THE hrot nine wag within two i nc hes of the
Lancaster Farming
(Lancaster County'* Own Farm
Weekly
P O Box 3524
Lancastei, Penna.
Offices
-51 North Duke St.
Lancaster, Penna.
Phone . Lancaster
Express 4-3047
Dan McGrow, Editor;
Robert G Campbell Advertising
Director & Business Manager
Established November 4, 1933
Published every Saturday by
Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa
Ent< ied as 2nd class matter at
X.,ancfi‘ter, Pa under Act of Mar
3. 187 1 * additional entry at Mount
Joy. Pa
Subscription Rates: J 2 per reap;
three years $5. Single copy Price
5 cents
Members Pa Newspaper Pubish
rri - Association, National Editor,
lal Association
Farm Calendar
months of the current fiscal
TYlfltph
year, more than 2.25 million i feK certain that he was
lbs of surplus foods have gomg . to set the pillow slip
been donated for use m Qn fire unless it was firepro
school lunch programs and o | ed Later l asked the slew
charitable institutions in the ardess lf the p m o ws and up-
U S., and by needy persons holstery were all fireproof,
here and abroad This repre- « NOj » she said> “they are not.
sents a 42 per cent increase j am not in f avor 0 f paren
in donations to recipients in ts on such flights turning ov
this country over the same er a box of matches for lit
period a year ago, and a de- tie -children to play with, but
dine of 15 9 per cent in the that is no more dangerous
volume of donations to for- than handing them to drunks
eign recipients. The surplus
foods donated were used dur- It’s possible to keep ice
mg the nine month period' cream satisfactorily for one
by more than 14 million month, if it is stored at zero
school children and by about degree temperature or below
1 4 million persons in charit- and properly wrapped for
able institutions. freezing.
■ This Week
irt Washington
by Clinton Davidson
Booze in the Sky
I flew between New York
and Miami at 15,000 feet and
watched a man who had had
too much to drink toss a light
ed match into a container
for discarded drinking cups.
No sober person would
have taken such a terrible
hisk If the plane had caught
fire and been destroyed no
one would have known the
cause.
The liquor on which the
man became intoxicated was
served him by the airline
stewardess. He made himself
so objectionable to the stew
ardess that she had left her
post near the drinking foun
tain to get away from him.
House Speaker Sam Ray
burn, who makes frequent
airplane trip?, has become so
concerned that he has asked
for action on bills before the
House Interstate Commerce
Committee to ban tfie serving
,of liquor on airplanes.
Apprehensive of Accident
“I am apprehensive,” Mr
Rayburn said, “that the serv
ing of liquor in excessive)
amounts to airplane passen
gers could cause a senouy
disaster.”
Rep. Oren Harris of Ar
kansas, Chairman of the In-
Bible Material: II Kings 5.
Devotional Beading; Psalm 33 8-23,
Across Borders
Lesson for June 14, 1959
“'T'HEY’RB -NOT OUR kind of
-*• people." How many times
that is said, and Kas 'been said!
That one sentence is enough, in
many people’s minds, to end the
question: Shall we take them in?
Shall-we have anythi to dr 'th
them that is not ah >s
sary? In partic- ’
ular, that one
sentence is used
as a bar at the
church floor,
whore no (such
bars ought to be.
We have in the
Qld Testament a
story about two
men who were as
different as two
men could be. Just about all that
goes into-that phrase, “ —not,our
kind of people,” could have been
said by either of these men against
the other. Itis pretty'Certain that
the friends of either man would
not have “accepted” the other man.
And yet these men found a way
across the border, ar way that is
always to be found when men look
for it.
Rate Barriers
It is not only in-America, still
less only in the “Deep South,” that
differences of pace bring up the ex
pression, “Not our kind of people.”
Wherever two race* meet and com
pete, there is a race problem. The
ancient Jews-knew ail-about it. Of
course a modern American might
smile at tht difference between
Elisha the Jew and Naaman the
Syrian. They Were both orientals,
weren’t they ? But Elisha’s friends,
and Naaman’S friends, would not
have smiled about it. Jews felt
pretty grim whfcn they thought of
Syrians, and Syrians felt pretty
contemptous when they thought of
Jews. They would not for a minute
have considered themselves of the
same race. The Syrians at that
time were much the stronger
people They thought of Israhtes
or Hebrews (as Jews then were
called) as a weak, stupid, dirty,
Now I& The Time ...
TO KILL CANADA THIS®
owners should stage an all out
Canada Thistle throughout It
season; these thistles aie S*
noxious weed in Pennsylvania!
owners are expected to keep'
control. This may be done I*
mowing or by the use of chi
sprays; the latter is the
method since the roots are m
2,4-D and Amino Tnazole sp»
thistles; several sprays will bt
ing the season to do a compM
TQ IRRIGATE TO MAKE A CROP—Farn«C
ners that have irrigation equipment and a"
should consider the practice of crop irngah° nil
a crop rather than delay the job until some da*
and then try to save it. If normal rainfall
round_one inch of water every week 01 1®
there is little need of irrigation on avci age crC '
if this does not come then the systems should
furnish that need.
TO FORGET ABOUT SUCKERING SWEET
search work has shown that it does not P a >' '° S
corn; in an average garden if the owner P
the suckers it should be done when the com
done late in the season when the corn is nei
j |
it may even decrease Suckers are
tween top growth and root growth and t' lCir
inates foliage which manufactures food
TO FERTILIZE ASPARAGUS AND R
end of the cutting sfeason-both of 'these crop s
ized for greater yields next spring. Tim
fertilizer such as a. 5-10-10. or a 10-10-10 1,1 .
pounds per 100 feet of row for rhubarb ;>n
1000 square-feet for asparagus is recomi lien
fertilizer into the surface of the soil.
infcnoi r ,
other i ldn ' a 'M
to SyuanlJl
benefario,, >
as crue l me 1
Saving }•
The tw 0 ra c ,J
enemy ; , n / s
and sla\ e
fnend. J
and Elisha
race, 11
Barriers of
•A.H ot h i
People wh lth
"NotouikJJ
which n cai) "
ciety, mclmjJ
pation v 0ll(
and hi mg
homes, one t i'
ate manual u
the home ofj
president, cm
cation and tC
one; then { o ii«
life, and by tt|
each one y 01l!j
the other hu
Were biotW
people ” 1
Elisha andi
only different i
different by ,
tion. Elisha
Ms specialty y,
had a hind of[
ferent one, but
that very s. n ,
poor man,
and a slaie01
spectacular h)
saving of ] Ka
man’s was nfl
man’s business,
killing (mclud
ites).
High-Aliiludi
And yet Bi
crossed the bu
the "contrast t*
positions and t,
they do if It
modem armies,
of commercial
borders which
were foimidah
possible to cm
In the same|
the barneis cm
by race or bi)
tion or moneys
dom a road Hr
It is abo\ e thd
this high dirndl
was at last ml
mon faith that!
met, “tv, o stroll
(ISr.M'il cm oefi
the Diwon «H
National Conned
Christ in the f
Conunumli Tm
‘BY MAX SMITH