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 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