Farming. Saturday, March FROM WHERE WE STAND - Let’s All Elat Better Breakfasts Some wag was once heard to say that a moth in a cocoon was tljp only animal he knew who could eat ms way out of- trouble. Now along comes a group of busi ness men in Missouri with the idea that we can eat our way out of some of our over supply of foodstuffs in this country. The Chamber of Commerce in the town of Poplar Bluff, Butler county, Missouri is sponsoring a campaign for “‘Better Breakfasts”. A hotel dining room full of hungry school youngsters and their parents ■were treated to a model nutritious breakfast planned by the county hofne agent. These children received cam paign kus of information about well balanced breakfasts which they took back to their schoolrooms. There will even be a contest with prizes for the four boys and girls who do the best job of telling their class mates about the advantages of eating good breakfasts. From where we stand, this looks like one of the better suggestions to be proposed for easing the surplus situa tion. . Think of the possibilities' If only person in every 175 in this country -would eat only one more egg for break fast for one week almost seven million eggs would be taken off the storage lists. And a parallel could, be drawn four all the other farm commodities. Furthermore, nutritionists have told us again and again that a good break fast is essential for good health. But then what about that other big American problem—overweight? We know that a given amount of calories will produce a given amount of energy, and if that energy is not burned up by the body it will be stored by the body in the form of fat. Missing breakfast is one of the best ways to trigger the body into laying on surplus tissue. After an all night fast the body is in need of energy. If no food, or only a small amount, is con sumed two things happen. First the energy level dips low. The ’ » sugar Step By Step Procedure The first step toward de velopment of a new program ; would be a request by an or ; ganization of producers for . | conference with the Secfe -11 tary of Agriculture. If the jl Secretary agreed that a new ; > program was needed he j; would call an election in I; which producers of the com modity would elect a nine- Congress at the half waygrams commodity by com- * na committee of producers mark for this session is pret- modity to develop a program, ty well agreed this week that The House Agriculture When approved by, ha it wiJ not pass a general Committee plans to hold submitted farm bill this year, despite hearings through the spring of If recommendations -by Presi- 0 n bils, but not to push for of dent Eisenhower that it do a vote on them by Congress nnn so. this year. The main feature is more than $20,0° 0 .000 in any Legislators from farming that they would permit far- ® and areas, however, are making a mers to vote in choosing ihe r start toward the kind of farm kind of legislation they want, ® S ,a c r sr^.n h r„ s idt! si 6 '* ,o apprc,val by Con - J* b to ?r v i i„ January * next F . mily F „ n r iet SnSSaS' “ttf “'proSS * All of the bi Is carry the would be offered growers in Some twenty-odd congress- title “Family Farm Income a referendum if approved by men have introduced identic- y\ct of 1960 ” They have two two-thirds of those voting, it al bills which, if enacted primary objectives First, to would become effective. .If wou’d place primary respon- strengthen the income and not, then the program alrea sibility upon farmer elected security of family farms and, dy in effect before the refer representatives for initiating second, to place principal re- endum wou'd continue, and developing new pro- sponsibility for program de- The bills include two speci -- velopment and financing on fic prohibitions. No payment >w ~ w. m, ■ T -ui u.- £armers rather than on the (Turn to Page 5) Lancaster Farming government Lancaster County'. Own Farm Under thls P r °P oSal Co ?' weekly gress would make available p. o Box 1524 a number of alternative pro otfices:'r enna " gram methods, or combina- m WTTjn r>3 North Duke st. tion of methods, which farm- SPRING WiJNU phone 1 ' eis WOllM ' be Permitted to By Carol Dean Huber One EXpress oa 4 S -3()47 use Among those would be See the wind blow, it bends jack Owen, Editor estab’ishment of marketing the trees. Robert g Campbell. Advertising quotas or goals among the They bow like lords and nirer tor \ Business Manager states, counties and produc- ladys gay TO CHANGE RATIONS GRADUALLY —ln all da U 9 by ers The bushes seem to sway and livestock feeding it is quite essential that any major c,! ‘ Lancai-ter Farming. Lancaster, pa. Others would include dance ' in the grain ration be done over a period of weeks r 3 ' Entered as 'nd class m urei at broader use of marketing To some ethereal roundelay, than in a few days. With many animals the digestive i«”™ ente B and orders sta- tem wiU be upset and bloating 0 r S couring,wil result J °|u t £W,o„ Rates: „ per vear; farmers pu\ Lh pro fhTlfous? arOU f iry COWS i n P" oduction abru Pt conges may cause jJ “ Slne ’ 9 COPV PrlCe duct for collective bargaining Seeking every tiny, crack.' ’ ’ Mwi»p-s Pa Newspaper Pubisp- T vith buyers, such as the big It brings the promise of the - to the-amount of the <?rs Association National Editor- chain stores, and compensat- spring, ITiaac so that-it will last only a week and lh en ■u. ' si-ooiation. ory payments such as those And breaks old Winter’s fro- change can be gradually made toward the new mixture - _ , now in effect on wool and zen back. eT a Period of two or three weeks. - :: <. i: - > | Davidson THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson New Farm Program 19, 1960 capacity of the body to do work is low ered. The person becomes lethargic, and does less work or works ’at a more leisurely pace burning up less of the stored energy. In the second place the body be comes so depraved by the next meal that there is a tendancy to overeat ( with resultant lethargy later in the 'day, and a vicious cycle develops. When conservative estimates of the high school students in this country of' bulging food bins not getting a proper ly balanced diet runs as high as 20%, we feel it is time for all farmers to get behind a movement such as the. one in Missouri. Better breakfasts are the first step toward a better day... . At least that how it looks from where we stand. * - OLD WIVES' TALES Not so very long ago, as the Ameri can Meat Institute recalls, it was wide ly believed that night air was danger ous for small children. This, of course, was an old wives’ tale without foundation in fact. And there used to be many other commonly held ideas which were equally foohsn and dangerous. One was that pork was an unheal thy food. Indeed, in the old days it was a common practice to totally eliminate meat from the diet in cases of illness. Nutritional science -has banished that notion. Pork, we now know is one of the most valuable food sources of thiamine and is rich in other B vita mins and in various essential minerals. And meat of one kind or another, the scientist tells us, is needed by vir tually everyone, every day,.and an sub stantial quantities. That’s true whether a person be ill or the picture of health. Meat’s high protein content makes it invaluable, in fact in convalescence. It is a prime source of both physical and mental vigor. Old wives’ tales often die hard. But like all superstitions and illusions, the sooner we rid our minds of them the ~+ter. Rural Rhythms Blbla Material: Act* 37.1 through 38.16. Devotional Beading: Psaloi 107123*33. Shipwreck Lesson for March 20, 1660 . - I minute wishing he were u « A LL these things are against «f r Pu A M A me,” said a down-tearted a^ h " e > old man once. Even the young and t!l strong get the feeling that certain > kinds of things are against them. ® ut .. h '” ot Vf 11 ** We all do, more or less. When bad £ ««*1 T ° weather sets in; when people won’t Ji? take our advice; when we see ® uthe(il trouble coming - with that. He became and have no way useful and most respect. to stop it; when the Wben « we are alone in was J ust mother prisoner, the midst of eve p sense : W strangers: when ca ™ h \ w f the * we’ve been in 3 aU f or^ ne h * b r° u Sht for two years; others by his ow when we are the He talked language they, “low man'on the understand Get somethin, totem pole;”—we bes f i , d - do . nt let af fect these things the life-boat, are against us. We seldora think of them as open doors to opportunity. Situation Out Of Hand When we are riding the situa tion, so to speak, when we-are in the driver’s seat and have every thing well in hand; when things are happening because we ordered and arranged things that way; then we sing that everything’s coming our way. But when the situation is not in hand, when every thing about the situation is either unexpected or unwanted and nothing good can be said about it, then we groan that everything is against us. Nothing is more de pressing than a situation out of hand. However, there was a remark able Christian whose story is told in the book of Acts, who never would admit that everything was agamst him.. He always knew God was for him, and that was the main point. Situations might get out of his handf but not out of God’s hand. Consider Paul, one of a batch of prisoners aboard a grain-ship on a grey November day, bound across the Mediter ranean to the empire’s capital. When he stepped on board he was already at the bottom of the heap. He had Ijeen two years m jail, he was then actually shackled with Now Is The Time .. . TO INSPECT ELECTRICAL WIRE SYSTEM A wiring system is no bet than its poorest part, electricity pav very important part in many homes r on many farms but even the best wn system needs some attention. Frayed sulation, broken insulators, loose outl* or switches, and worn fixtures may cat serious damage to life and property I treme caution should be used in not o' loading a line; your local power co’nr representative should be consulted adding new app. lances or motors MAX SMITH TO KEJ2P ROOTS MOIST New trees, plants, or sl' n that arrive before ground conditions permit planting t' loll be kept moist until planted For only a few days might be done by keeping covered with peat moss, n'd per or cloth, or by immersing In a bucket of mud 01 sand. If the trees or plants are to be he'd for moie ti several days, they should be “heeled in” by digging a trench and putting the plants in a smglfc row, and coi e: with wet soil; they will" ho d in this manner for sc\® weeks until planted. TO KEEP, FLOORS INSULATED The barn, floor dairy barns should 'be either insulated with a comm crcl insulation, or be kept covered with straw, hay, corn I°°® or other bedding material, to a depth of 6 to 8 inchc. this is not done, then condensation and dripping wiU !e ' This same practice is necessary in all farm "buildings w*’ 1 much animal heat is present. a chain, he was probabi good health, ha had only two friands .with him, ; were all prisoners,, aoi® sailors, a pretty rough cr w preacher. Not only that had given good .advice ' the stormy season is a' had been turned, down an pld Mediterranean knew the weather signs, body paid him, any rmi came the storm and tl wreck. Read ail about it It was a narrow- squeak. Llttla Man to Big Man The point is, Paul nev ( Always A Witness Paul did preach, though not a man to let a chanc He preached by his very but he also gave witness i Ho said just why it was was so. confident. His fair in himself nor in the shi tain, it was m God Now news that men pray in hi But it is news when men. canes do not pray mostly ft selves There is a level’' what Paul said to the ota? men on the stormy des. angel of his dream had said “God has granted you al who sail with you.” Paul' his fellow-passengers— e« soldiers who had him in the crew, everybody—f them as his own because given them to him A n does not aslc special fai himself, a man who, if hr to be saved, wants othei rescued with him—a man will get a hearing when ' a good word for the God he belongs and whom he '(Based on anti res coin the Illusion o£ Christian ' Notional Couiuil ot the Ct Christ in -tin* U. S, A Kcl Community Tress Service! BY MAX SMITH
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