—Lancaster F 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - You Mast First Cast Out, The Beam Severed weeks ago the Lancaster County Pomona Grange passed a resoLv don urging stricter enforcement of tlie lifter laws along our highways'. This is, we feel, a worthy project. Those of us" who travel along the medn roads through the county and those of us who work on the farms along those roads can not help being apalled at the tremendous amount of litter that, collects along the highways. The law is explicit and should be en forced more rigidly, as it is enforced in some of our neighbonng states, but lets take a look at the other side of the pic ture. The Holy Scriptures according to the New Testament advises us to first cast out ‘the beam that is in .thine own eye and then thou can see clearly to cast out the moat that is in thy brother's- eye. Not many weeks ago we were" told of a very near accident when an automo bile skidded on a curve covered "with ma nure which had sifted off the spreader as it went from barnyard to field. There is a law on the books prohibiting loads that sift onto the highways, and we feel that it is important too. This may be an isolated case, and perhaps the driver of fhe car was probably over critical be cause he was personally involved, but even one accident needlessly caused is one too many. Now we are not saying that, two wrongs make a right or that one wrong excuses another, but we are asking that we take a good look at ourselves. Some times we are prone to criticise others' tor the things we are guilty of ourselves. As an example of what we mean take the report of the National Livestock Conservation committee. They report that every year thousands of dollars are lost by farmers because their livestock reach the slaughter houses with bruises and other mjunes from broken equipment, protruding nails and other sharp objects where hvestokc is housed or handled. Packers report that one of the biggest causes of loss to carcasses is bruises Davidson With the 1959 harvest sea son in full swing this week farmers are gathering anoth er bumper crop of almost ev erything except cash. For the second year in a row total farm marketings this year will set a new rec ord, yet net farm income will be more than a billion dol lars under last year. That is the heart of the farm problem which has Washington more worried than ever before. It means higher costs of government farm programs at the satne time that farmers are having their income cut It means, too, that there will be heavy pressure of Congress next year to do something about (1 growing Lancaster Farming Lancaster County'# Own Farm Weekly p O Box 1524 B-ancaster, Penna, Offices: 53 North Duke St, Lancaster, Penna, Phone - Lancaster Express 4-3047 .lack Owen, Editor Robert O Campbell Advci tiring Director & Puriness Mhn iger Established November 4,193 S Publi-jied every Saturday by Lancaster Farming. Lancaster, P» Entered as 2nd class matter at Lancaster Pa under Act of Mar B 1*79 additional entry at Mount Joy. Pa Subscription Rates' |2 per year; three years $5 Single copy Price 6 cents M<mbers P,i Newspaper Publsli er»’ Association, National Editor. I*l Association. THIS WEEK —la Washington With Clinton Davidson Too Much? i: surpluses and rising farm program costsi, and (2) farm income depressed to the point where it endangers national prosperity. 'Despite farm income offici ally estimated by USDA at 12 per cent below last year, farmers are spending almost half a billion dollars more in farm operating . expenses. They are caught in a tighten ing cost-price squeeze. Cily Workers Hit When farmers’ mcome is reduced by a billion dollars and they must spend half a billion more for the things they buy it means they must either cut down on family living expenses or go deeper into debt Many are doing both When they reduce their buying of such “luxuries” as automo biles, refrigerators, clothing, etc, it means fewer jobs for factory workers And, when factory workers lose their jobs they must cut down on purchases of the things farm ers produce. Also, they buy fewer things that other fac tory workers produce. That is why many people who take the trouble to look at both sides of the “farm problems,” realize that when fanners are hurt many city people also suffer. What city workers gam in cheap food they more than lose in the loss of farm customers for what they produce for sale to farmers. For every farmer on the X i 953 caused by improper handling and poor or broken handling equipment. This does not take into account the hundreds of head of high priced breeding stock killed or injured on the farm and never reach ing the packing house. "How long has it been since you took a good look behing the bam. We are so much in he habit of looking toward the road and seeing the nice dean lawn that we sometimes forget that our livestock look at the farm from a different angle. We were on a farm recently while the cows were being driven up the, lane from the pasture. Sitting right across the lane was an old discarded weeder too worn~ont to ever be used in the field again. Long ago it could have been turned into cash as scrop, or with two minutes of time it could have been pulled to the other side of the fence where its pointed 'teeth and sharp corners would cease to be a threat to the delicate uddeis of high producing dairy cows. But through neglect or pressure of time the job was put off and the hazard remains. We realize that the owner of that property has the right to clutter the area behind his bam with scrap and litter if he so desires, but is it logical to ask for punishment for others when we create nearly the same hazards "ourselves. We believe that we should look to law _ enforcement officials to uphold the statutes of the commonwealth, but we also feel that We as farmers should ac cept part of the responsibility too. We have! seen 'farm families on the road throw objects put the window of their car onto the property of others, and some of these same fanners would be the first to complain about litter if it were on their farms. Let' cdl get behind the Grange and see to it that this fine law is enforced, but let's not stop there. We as farmers must first recognize and correct some of our falts before we can demand that the same'faults in others be corrected. At least that's how it looks where we stand, land there are three people in towns and cities who make a living processing and mar keting farm products or in manufacturing trucks, trac tors, automobiles, clothing, etc., that farmers buy. Smear Campaign All of us hear and read about the $7 billion a year “farm program” costs and some assume that this is money paid to farmers as a subsidy. The facts completely disprove the charges that the government is “keeping far mers m clover and Cadil lacs.” Of that amount almost $2 billion a year goes to finance foreign aid programs. More than $6OO million is spent for food for free distribution to schools, charitable institu tions and others in this coun try. It includes, too. more than TO SPRAY CHICKWEED—Moder $5OO million in loans to REA culture includes weeds that grow during the winter r and other cooperatives, which therefore, we -must apply chemical Sprays this fall farmers repay m full, with chickweed infestation in grass and hay fields The interest. Another $650 mil- s h ou id be applied during November and Decembei t° r SU ° in^s the chickweed plants become mature. The DiNitro research to improve food , ~ , , .. ,„ ar quality, for meat inspection should be a PP lied earlier when the weather is war and like programs of prim- the Chloro IPC Sprays when temperatures arc du ary benefit to consumers. degrees Do not wait until next February or March control. Half a billion a year is in vested in preserving our soil, water and timber resources in order to assure a plentiful supply of food for future generations. The charge that farmers are “getting some thing for nothing” from the government is completely false. Until city people under stand that, as farmers already do, Washington is going to have difficulty in making the needed changes in present farm laws. You don’t buy safety, you build it. Better not invite trouble. It always accepts. Bible Materiel: Acts 5:17-12. Dtrolionel Beading: Psalm 37.50-10. lesson for November 8,19!>9 “W E 511181 OBEY God rather »V than men.” So said the Apostles long ago. It is one of the famed quotations from the Bible. Is this just something from "Bible times” or does it mean something today ? "In God We Trust” is a motto everybody has seen on his money. But how many people do trust in God more in money? 'They say that the dif- ference between North and South Ameriear'ls that the Europeans who came to settle South America came to find gold, but those who came to North -America came to find God. Is this true? And If it is. could you guess it from what North Amer icans spend their time running after? What Kind of God? “Everybody talkin’ about hehven ain’t goin’ there,” an old “spirit ual” sings. You might add, "Every body talkin’ about God ain’t his real friend." With better grammar ve might say that there is a lot'Of talk about God, in magazines and clubs and newspapers and even in the church, that is no more than talk. It does not go deep and it means very little. But even when it does go deep and .mean some thing, does it mean the right thing ? We don’t want to be pessimistic about this We don’t mean to ac cuse the whole population of being hypocrites. Nevertheless there is an appalling lot of loose talk (set to music sometimes) about God. “GOD FIRST” is a noble motto. A God who i? not first is no God. But “God first” is noble only if it means the right land of God—or m other words the true God, f6r the true God is the only right kind of God there is. from Therefore all wrong kinds T 'of God are actually no gods at all. Now Is The Time ... MAX SMITH TO WATCH-THAT FRESH COW—Many good co’ lost due to faulty care and management at h es time; this is especially true in the fall and winter n Chilling or-injury to the udder ol the fresh cow m 3) on a severe case of mastitis. At freshening time should be provided with plenty of room in a clean bedded box stall. Feed her a balanced ration and n gradually as milk flow increases and depending lt P° quality of the roughage. TO RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF QUALITY B° UG —The winter feeding program has started on m® ll stock and dairy farms; we stress the liberal use ox roughages as the foundation of all feeding progi amS: ents from quality roughages are cheaper than the nu from grains. With herds of dairy cattle, sheep, n°- horses feed costs will be reduced if large 3,110 roughages are fed. A complete forage test will re' quality of roughage that you are feeding this f all ' God First BY MAX SMITH TO CHECK DAIRY BARN VENTIL —Many dairy barns are filled to ci and thus diffiult to properly ventila electric fan exhaust system is s recommended and with a thermost trol gives good results. Prevent take out the foul air, remove exces ture, and -keep temperatures low surely add to -cow comfort and to quality milk production. Special on the subject is available. only lm»kie-b«lie Ve out in the'minds v pfcplc. For-instance '/abdut "the,Man y , may think they are God, but they are „ * man, not even . filling man. nival Gods It ia not far wroi Whatever a person heart puts first, th Mm. Religious peon], God from whom all b ■But if we may judg, opinions by their ac have to conclude tha if they were absolute it, would piefer anot They would have a n It would.be "Praise Which all blessings fl wealth, but public o ity, power, success height of tailfins an in the motor) may i God to those who ex mg from such thing is perfectly harmle may be a. pretty toy is only a doll But if i hold of a doll and si god and prays to it atry and it is bad £ success and seciui things; it is when ti as rivals to the true become symbols of Loyalty Oath We hear a good di alty oaths. The fact .who is a professed made a public vow God, when he has ta as a member of the c Now what? If that it, if he is seldom if the church again, if be counted on to shai wmk, if he cannot tenth nf his income : dom of God, then ' loyalty oath amount Temperance Sunday, sence of temperance, uan sort, is living wi won for others, not "our own comfoit; ‘ member’’ who hab; on luxuries (wheth Wiiatevcr) for turns i light be shanng fo: uie needy (m min rimit) thiough all tl member in name only ...can “God First,” v.< ..c.i.(3’t'j? obey God fiis Ci.esclt* alone shov's afeer all, a strangsi (B set! on outline'- ( % Division of C’i ’t ionul Council of th nst m tin* I s Community Tress
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