Farming. Saturday. October 29, 1960 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Stock Show ‘Shows Off Penna s Farming In this column last November a headline read “Good Show Poor Showing”. The Pennsylvania Livestock Expos ition had just ended and we were con cerned about the lack of spectators at the fine show staged in our magnific rent Farm Show Buildings. Each year the exposition has been growing; the quality of the livestock exhibits has been getting better; exhi bitors have been coming from farther away to make use' of- Pennsylvania’s fine facilities: and the prestige of the show is gaining each year. It is already on the show circuit schedule, along with The American Royal, The Eastern National, and the International' Live stock Exposition, of some of the big livestock breeders and exhibitors from all over the eastern United States. Last year one breed association held its national show in Harrisburg. This year- another national breed show will be held in conjunction with our Penn sylvania exposition. State Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. "William L. Henning has described the show as an outstandingly fine livestock exhibition. The Secretary also expres sed the belief, in a speech before a Lancaster County audience, recently that Pennsylvania is becoming increas ingly important as a livestock state. Coming as it does during the second week of November, the exposition should not interfere too greatly with farm work. Most of the field work will have been done by that time and tobacco stripping will not be pushing. There may still be considerable a mounts of com to be harvested during il! 0' K - vM«on Republican ■ Presidential lated because of government candidate Richard Nixon ag- • policies which encouraged rees, m general, wth he excessive production. There farm programs and policies fore it is the responsibility advocated by Secretary of of the government to reduce Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben- surpluses which depress fa sort, but thinks more empha- rm prices,” Mr. Nixon said sis should be placed on rais- He proposes a four-point ing farm income. program which he calls “Op- Mr. Nixon, like Mr Ben- ©ration Consume,” to inclu son, favors voluntary con- de: trols on production and fiexi First, a “sharp intensifica ble price supports based on t ion” of the Food for Peace a percentage of the average Program “to join with other price received by farmers surplus-producing nations to over a period of past years. as sist the hungry people of In contrast with his rival the world through the Unit for the Presidency, Sen. John ed Nations ” Kennedy, Mr. Nixon would o , ' . •. pay fanners out of surplus P U stocks for taking crop J create a land oat of production. Mr ± Z f reserve, to be Kennedy would make land n f ar . a f g f Population retirement a condition for re for use n an emer ’ ceiving price supports. g T J rd( uge luseg Mr Nixon divides his farm compensate farmers for a program proposals into two temporary land conservation categories, one of which he and retirement program, calls ‘Operation Consume,” t- . aimed at reducing surplusses 5 th ’ a p gram to en and the other, “Operation courage farmers to convert Safeguard,” to prevent their the ! r surpl J us gralns int <> being built up again. cost me *\ .Powdered Operation Consume egg * and for distribution to "Surpluses were accumu- a^road peop * e at ome an d Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Officet; 52 North Puke St. l<ancaster, Ponna. iPhone - Lancaster EXprees 4-2047 Jack ‘ 6wen Editor cated by the Farm Bureau ... , . .. . . Robert O Campbell. Adverting and Secrptarv Roncnn At husking time HI Au’Umn igAss rssr would j* "*> *■>w, KS£ rS&.'SSS.ig “«*«“ the nma develop- You must work B httle herd- Ente- ed as 2nd class matter at . Program for creating q never will be done ” Pa. under Act of Mar. industrial employment in rur ur we never WUA De ao*ie ?nv 18 p„ additionaJ entr y at Mount al areas for low income and '■, , , „ . nart time farmers The son has now become a Subscription Rates- %2 per year; ume larmers. three \cars »5, Single copy Price He would seek an easing nun f r c# ' ltt ' „ of the “cost-nrice souppyp” And he secretly is glad Members Pa. Newspaper Public,. poce squeeze ■f oomfipld •n» Association: National Editor- by helping farmers increase 10 see tnat in me comneia ■«a Association. their bargaining power thro- He can husk more corn than ugh producer cooperatives. Dad. THIS WEEK ■—ln Washington 'With Clinton Davidson Nixon Program Operation Safeguard When surpluses have be en reduced the second part of Mr. Nixon’s farm plan would go into effect. It in cludes flexible price suppor- ts based on a percentage of the average market price of the immediately preceding crop years, a proposal advo- the week, but it is hard to* think of a week when weather and -farm work are both any more well suited to a day ofl for a visit to a farm show. It is true the large machinery exhib its which are a big drawing card at the farm show are absent at the Livestock Exposition but farmers and farm fami lies will find no shortage of fine cattle, sheep and swine. - Last year one of the midwestern states (One of the so-called farm states) sent representatives to our Farm Show to study the operation and malntain ence ot the Pennsylvania exhibit. That Midwestern state, which has a State Fair .complete with midway, found but that Pennsylvanians staged a bet ter show at less cost than they could do, even with their midway attract ions. - What we are trying to say is this: Wc feel the Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition, November 7 to 12, is wor thy of acclaim. We think the farmers of Lancaster County could spend a profitable day in Harrisburg this week. We feel the show is worthy of your support. We will be very disappointed if we can write this year, “Good Show —Poor Showing”. We would like to make it “Good Show —Fine Showing.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand.. During the next three " days many rural residents will see small troops of tiny ghosts and goblins along country roads. We urge-all motorists to be careful. The goblin you save might be your own child. by “going all out to find new markets at home and ab oad,” and by improving ’redit and marketing servic -s to farmers. The final step in Operat on Safeguard calls for creat on of a “council' of repre sentative working farmers md ranchers to advise the President on farm programs.’ His main objective. Mr Nixon says, would be to de (Turn to Page 5) Farmer Injured By Cornpicker Robert McSparran, forty, Peach Bottom, while work ing alone on his farm Mon day, suffered severe injury to his right hand when it was caught in a corn picker. McSparran was admitted to the Lancaster General Hos pital for surgepr. Attendants said part of his hand had to be amputated. After the accident occur red he ran to his home and his wife, Charlotte, took him to the hospital by automo bile. He was admitted at 4:20 pm , attendants said. USE CORN PICKER CAREFULLY For safe and efficient op eration, A. L. Swearingen, extension agricultural engin eer, urges keeping the corn picker in good working con dition Otherwise loss of com in the field is high, and ac cidents are more likely. A com picker can snap an am or hand as easily as a tough ear of corn, so he warns that care'essness around a corn picker pays off in painful accidents. Rtiral Rhythms HUSKING TIME By Carol Dean Huber Bible Material; Psalm 1, Romans 12. Uerotlertal Bending: Colossians 3 1-4, 0-17. Responding to God Lesson for October SO, 1960 GOD is to be believed In, trusted, adored. This ja true, but not the whole truth. If the faith and trust and adoration stop right there, if they never lead to any thing else, then they are no longer what they ought to bo. A certain man used to go on a binge period ically, and at the height of one (or the bottom of it!) used to send his wife a large bok of roses with am adoring note. He* may have meant it; but he was a had husband. His “adoration" of his wife made no real difference with his life. He was tha same booze-hound after his mar riage as before, just the same irre sponsible play-boy as always. On . the bank of a southern river there is a kind of concrete wall, several yards long but not connected with any kind of building. That wall was originally intended to support an end of a bridge; but the bridge was never built, so the concrete abut ment stinds there, in the way of the farmer who plows that river side field. So “faith” m God, if it leads, to nothmg, is like that pldr, only a nuisance. As James put it, faith without works is dead. Itopmsc The life of the Christian is not, so to speak, something 1 which the Christian himself starts and keeps going by himself. It is the teaching of the Bible from beginning to end, that the right life is a life of re sponse. God takes the initiative; we follow his lead. God” invites, we accept. God speaks, we answer. Someone has said that the single force hack of a Christian’s life is gratitude. Some people get that backwards. Their picture of the Christian life is: first man does something fine that God notices; second, God is grateful to the man for the fine thing he has done; Now Is The Time ... and covered with dairy cows and beef ci MAX SMITH tie. The size of the dairy herds is gro’ ing larger eacn year. Good corn crop is being picked ai winter wheat being planted. Frost overdue. IN VlRGlNlA—Diversified fanning disappears and less 1 bor devoted to agriculture than in Lancaster County Moi empty space down in this country and each fanner has moi room. The mountains are scenic and grassland farming the chief source of livelihood. Cattlemen are busy wccnm sorting and selling their beef cattle—the main source of n come on many rough farms. Winter oats is planted an showing green. In recent weeks rainfall has been short an many creeks and streams are dry. Apple crop is good ar picking is in full swing. Noticed the absence of the daif herds as in Maryland. IN NORTH CAROLINArU-The selling of the i 960 tobaci crop is in full swing. An average crop, it is selling ior bout 70c per pound. The warehouses and streets of Durhai are full of tobacco and tobacco men; the aroma reminds of a Lancaster warehouse. This is cigarette tobacco and t leaves are pulled from the stalk in the field as they r'P eI The dead sta.ks with a few puny leaves at the top s * aa like sticks in many of the tobacco fields; these-will be dis' 'ed or plowed down before nexCspring. Cigarette toba« plants lack the size and weight of cigar filler tobacco Blue Ridge mountains are behind us now and the terrai more Jevel. The appearance of large dairy herds on 0 sides of the road reflects more concentrated Agricultura < forts. third, God showers m,,, . man by of thanks t" 1 it la actually the other ,! 0 First, God docs so much f 3 (especially through C h , fa flci.l life and deaU 1) t J,' ,1 notices this; second th erateful to God f or Ible gifts; third, the Zl* his life in service, not m as laying a claim on Gn n ,' of love and a thankful hj The first way th 13 t(i „ r man mil show. la m h responsibility Re rcco^, we he r r h ect v r and eS life, he thinks first of “What will 'people thm but “What will gj,' (This does not come sual a habit of mind that J learned.) Martin Nlo m * German minister who hJ nava! officer, explained h 0 that he could have all-powerful Hitler and « death. “It was simple,” N , said afterwards. "1 had J Fuehrer than Hitler ” Thi sponsibility, Chustian r «t tty, taking ordeis ftom G above all others. A» a sense of i espo , grows, character grows wl man does not acquit e chan thinking about it. The best become a Christian chaiact to set aside certain tirry week for practice, as y ot practice baseball or ch« Responsibility and Service In Old Testament times, made sacrifices by destroy thing theysacrificed oratl withdrawing it from orcmu Paul sets out (in Romans new Christian idea We stand now that to sacnfici thing ta God means to pt use for him. When Paul s] our bodies as a “living sa , no doubt some of the Chnsl Rome may have wondeie* could mean human sacrif altars. Bat of, course ho d Anyone who will take time Romans 12 can see how di earth all this is Paul dc concentrate the reader’s n great crises, extraordinary a-lifetime opportunities foi ism and martyrdom. He spi the ordinary everyday we tear of living with other Do you love and adore God show you mean it by the Cl way you live with othei pe (Based on outline* copjntf tho ' Division o i Christian 14 Nnthmal Council of the CNir Christ in <ho IJ. S A. Kdea Commuaih iVcss S<r**iu!) BY MAX SMITH EDITORS NOTE: During the next f< weeks Mr. Smith will be on tour tkroui the southern stales and in attendance the National Association of County Ag; culture Agents in Miami, Fla. His colun will be in the form of a report on farnui activities wherever his trip takes him. IN MARYLAND—Pasture land is go(
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