4—Lancaster Farhung, Saturday, October 31, 1959 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Don’t Let Your Skimmer Leak Some of us can still remember how Grandpa milked old Bossie by hand and Strained the milk into a crock in the cold water at the spnnghouse. After it had cooled, Grandma came out with a long handled, shallow ladel and skimmed off the cream. Skimming off the cream was not a hard job, but then Grandma had to be very careful that some- of tire cream did not dribble back info the crock because then she not only lost what leaked back, but the rest got stirred up and she could not skim it. Well, the days of the crock in the spnnghouse are a long-ago memory; but some of us are still letting our skimmers leak. Agricultural research has given us the cream in improved strains, varieties, implements, and methods, but we are let ting profits dribble away because we are not particular enough about details. As a case in point, we all know Lan caster county farms are capable of pro ducing 100 (plus) bushels of com most years, yet one agricultural leader this year scad that offer taking a series of yidld tests he is convinced that a,majori ty Of the fanners in file county are grow ing'less than 60 bushels average. With hybrid varieties to fit all conditions, in secticides, fungicides and herbicides to control pests, improved machinery, ferti lizing materials for aH- soil types, and im proved cultural practices for the using, somewhere along the line the skimmer' is leaking 1 .- - It does not insure Success to adopt orfe-approved practice and forget about th& rest. Sometimes one small factor may be the difference between profit and loss. When a teacher of Vocational Agricul ture asked a boy why he hadn't stayed with his sow-while she farrowed, the boy answered, "Well she lost only one." but thttt one pig multiplied by several farrow in£s might mean the difference between a growing business or a going out of business sign* Several years ago a young dairyman asked the writer to help him analyze his farming records to see if he could find out why his dairy was not making mon ey. We looked at as fine a set of reo I Davidson Twenty years or more ago Sen Robertson is chair a beloved national humorist man of the powerful Senate got more laughs from his Banking and Currency Corn wisecracks about Congress- mittee, which has jurisdict men than from any other tion over the Securities and source, add the'unintentional Exchange Commission, Small effect has been a lasting mis- Business Administration, Ex- conception regaram & ■ ,v >e nort-Import Bank, Export work and character of the Contiois, p ruco and Wage average member of Congress Controls of the'x/ense Pro- We have tried from time auction Act Consumer CrljiL to time in this column to pro- Controls, Housing and all Se vide a more correct picture cunties Legislation, the Fed of our public servants, and eral Reserve Board, and the so this week we are doing a National Banking Act bright sketch of one of our What Are Senators Made Of? favorite Congressmen, Sen. Willis A Robertson of Vir ginia Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices: 53 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phone . Lancaster ■Express 4-3047 Jack Cnun, Editor Hubert G Campbell Advertising director & Business Mhnager Established Novembi r 4 1955 Published every Saturday by I,arusst<r Farming. Lancaster, Pa Entered a« 2nd class matter at Lancaster Pa under Act of Mar R ’°7S additional entry at Mount Joy Pa Subscription Hates: $2 per year; three years S 5. Single copy Price 6 c^nle Bt r» -s I’,i Newspaper Pub.sh frs Association, National Editor. 1»1 Association, THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Laud Senator At a public meeting of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, in 1941, my wife remarked: “The fourth man on the Democratic side has such a splendid personal ity; it accents kindliness and and even a degree of sereni ty Who is he?” When I called on this gen tleman (then Representative Robertson in his sixth term as a member of the House) I learned t his father was a Baptist mini ter a ripe schol ar who could read the Bible fluently ip Greek, Latin and Hebrew; that he devoted the best years of his life as a home missionary serving mountain churches in south west Virginia, or as Rep, Robertson expressed it at that time “He rode a mule all over those mountairis ~sb as to preach in small church- ords as you could ask to see. Ifi the barn we looked at the cows (some good ones) and the young man started to point out individuals and their records. "This cow returned $225 over feed cost last year. This one was a boarder. This one cost us $l5O to keep." The look of surprise he got caused him to hasten to explain, "Well, (hat cow has been around so long Dad just hates to get rid of her." That was where his skimmer leaked. In culling you have to be ruthless enough" to forget sentimentality and believe the records. Professor Joseph Hanlein, dairy spec ialist at the University of Delaware said in 'a speech recefitly that the average cow in the United States has the inherit ed ability to produce much more milk than the American farmer is getting out of her. He went on tp explain that only about 14 per cent of the milk a cow pro duces is attributable to her hendity. The other 86 per cent is controlled by feeding and management. Professor Hanlem con tinued by pointing out that a farmer can take a cow with good blood lines, feed her a perfectly bananced ration, breed her at the tight time, and then ’with im proper milking procecu es cut her pro duction by as much as 30 per cent. That is a lot of cream to drip back from a leaky skimmer. A few years ago one of 'the major feed companies went into the Ozark hill country and bought a load of native raz orback sows. These sows had averaged-, less than three pigs per litter before they went to the test farm, but after a period of feeding and conditioning they were bred to healthy boars and raised an av erage of over eidht pigs each. All this is- reminiscent of the- story about the book salesman who ended his sales pitch to the farmer by saying, "With these agriculture books you can farm twice as good as y6u farm now."' to which the old fellow replied, "Shucks, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now." We have the cream and we know how to dip it up, but we had better learn how to keep our skimmers from leaking. At least that's how it looks from where we stand. es.” As a result of this heritage Sen. Robertson h&s been an active member of the Senate Wednesday breakfast group which discusses Biblical tea ching, and he tries to serve • __ the Nation in a manner ]\[ n T X r Io Tirvon pleasing to the Lord. iIU W J.O L 11C 1 11110 . • • While a member of the House Ways and Means Com mittee, in which all tax legis lation must originate, the Virginian statesman helped write 12 tax bills, steered the Hull Reciprocal Trade Agree ments Program, was largely responsible for simplification of income tax forms, and for the “pay-as-you-go” tax plan. Economy in Government His fiscal studies first as a "timber and then as chair -man of he House Ways and Means Cormttee, served him well on the saate Bank ing and Currency onmittee, on which he served 12/cars TO EXTEND PASTURE SEASON Livestock Pj before becoming Chairma. have a chance to keep production costs at a minj o? «ve S»aTe° ApSopSoS vmt can be cont.„„ed cm,., the freezmp we subcommittees which handled snow wer. Pasture crops such as winter ry£ 96 per cent of the total bud- domestic vegrass,’ field brome grass, or any of the grass pastu's such as bluegrass or orchard?! ass I know from long personal g raz cd late * the fall Without danger to In estocH relations with the Senator, , c , c , , „ . „ w s that he has consistently wor*- ever > le S umes ter frosts and freezmg weatl “ ed for economy and a balanc- regarded as dangrous irom the standpoint of bio ed budget, while at the same time sponsoring relatively m- TO FERTILIZE COER CROPS—Many wmtoi co' expensive but vital items . . which have been of great as- will continue to grovlate into the fall, ad sistance to farmers. - such as straight nitrcen or a complete fertilizer* Although Sen. Robertson crease the growth of \e crops and produce mod has received numerous plaud- matter to turn under rxt spring. its for this effective work on the several important financ- to MOW. LAWNS—Th question of how late m ial committees of Congress, s j lou a j awn be mowe'is often discussed Turf m the opinion of this writer , Inr u as his religious heritage and re- commend that the gss be chpped regulari ligious activities are respon- B rows The idea endowing extra gr absolute Integrte tection may only, treasc thq trouble from ty and fairness at all times, other fungus disuses. Mow as long as there Bible Material: Acts 4. 32 through 5 16. Devotional Beading: I John 4 11-21, Fellowship 0f.... Lesson for November lj 1959 THE CHURCH Is never called the “fellowship of believers” in the New Testament, but it is often called that, nowadays, by Chris tians. There is a good reason for the name. The early church was a fellowship of believers. This means as the record shows us* that the early Chris tians were of “one and soul." This does not mean that they thought alike, for the writer of Act a avoids saying they were of one mind. They were united not in opinions but in thelr-faith. They were believers-in rather 'than be* lievers-about. A perfectly unan imous church, all holding the iden tical opinions m the Identical way, would not bft a Christian church, but a congregation of parrots. Be lief is more than opinion; and in this broader Sense the church is Indeed a fellowship of believers. Divert Is this all? It might be all, if Christian faith were the dead sort of thing some people think it is. But faith, as we see it in the lives of New Testament Christians, never appears by itself. .We read that these believers worked out a scheme to eliminate poverty among them. The scheme did not work, for we know that some years later collections were being taken up for the benefit of the Jerusalem church But all the same, nobody— especially no apostle—arose to say to that church, “All your conceni ■hath people’s property and their living conditions is off" the Chris tian beam. It is out of our line, it is not a Christian’s business to know how other people live. Reli gion is belief, it is not distribution of worldly goods.”’ There is little doubt that some must have talked that way, because some talk that way today. But the'church of those TO ALLOW COWS TO GRIND OWN HAY—The practice of i several hundred pounds of gi ound ton of dairy feed is not favored an - ent feeding recommendations Will great variation in the quality of 1 difficult to properly balance a rati hay is included In addition, the -is made more bulky and'm turn s. fed in heavier amounts Giound ■ have a place in a ration ■wnh hi ture grains in order to prc\ ent he< molding MAX SMIIH days did find jt th e , see to it that no one s ' In an old America,, ly half a'million Peo , many churches Th e ment early this y Pai they could no i on ‘ who were unempioy, 0 y, sequence was that drifted closer and cl, vation. There was enlist all the eity s help feed these helpi e , barely half the ehuici contribution or show, est. These count thenv hevmg” chinches they believe? 1 Doers Every chinch cong Fellowship of Listens Is expecting too muc ship of Heaieis tj readmga from the week after week Bu not merely a book t to It is not only a believed, _eithei it „ done. Jesus diew j between^heaieis and heaieis and early chuich not onl food-and clotnlng, th< health. They did not; the presence of disi fornutres, they wer by such tragedies, tl they could, and it wai deal, to relieve and with thenr In shoi church was a Fellow; All churches are 1 people who pray. Bi feature of that ear church was that th longed to it prayed t is, they offeieci the together. We do not pose that the prayi beginning “Sovereig literally spoken in i whole collection of I we are not left m dc was fhe player of ew When the minister pray” he means it— Whert the nnnistei unite in prayei, ’ doe congregation do it, < him pray along win about Something else Churches aie too with being Sitting F SupperiftgJS’eilowGhi having, Oiling, Don Ing—what God leal together for —go hal done at all. (Based on outlines the Division of Chris National Council of f Christ in-the V, S . Commumtj Bless Sen r BY MAX SMITH
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