A —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 4, 1361 FROM WHERE WE STAND - To Make The Best I pledge my Head to dear thinking, My Heart to greatef loyalty, My Hands to larger service, And my Health to better living, For my club, my community and my country. The four leaves in the familiar four-leaf-clover emblem of the 4-H club signify .the parts of the 4-H pledge with which all club meetings are opened. The pledge of the club is backed up by the motto, “To make the best bet ter- ’ and the slogan, “Learn by doing”. Organized under the extension ser vices of the Land Grant Colleges and Universities, the 4-H clubs throughout the United States give farm boys and girls an opportunity to participate in educational, agricultural and leader ship activities. Farm .yo”th. through- the use of the project method, learn by doing. -Farm boys-and girls annua ly invest hun dreds of thousands of dollars in farm projects. Members are urged to strive .for ex cellence in these projects through par ticipation in chib “Roundups” where awards and prizes are given for out standing achievement. Club-meetings afford opportunities for youth to learn the fundamentals of Davldon What 4CO-page book cost our government several mil lion dollars to prepare -and print that probably will not be read by more than onc bundred people? It tije 1962- ijscal year Federal Budget. It Will not be read m""full is anything more than a re- dow displays. Wilbur Hos toy all of the 73 members of fi uest for appropriations. It ler, Manheim R 3, and Londa composed of 20 mem- the House aS The Federal government bers, has undertaken the Sena£ Aonmoriations Com expects to have an •‘income” task of erecting a number A PP r °P riatlons Com of about $B3 billion, an all- of educational - type exhi +v,mcr time record high, from tax bits concerned with club to to ““TTI “s year. -It yjrt wort be W spending is mSdto? h'wp ”nd ‘SfpSce7hr»iS that so few who foot the bill a “ Z L iatio - as com the county. seem to be disturbed aboulr mittfies W PP £ egin detailed Support Essential t, consideration of the budgef . The * ct ™ participation of Too few of us know who s j lort]v A dnzen nr „„ Lancaster County club mem darcOUsLntX 5, OW commuted, each handlmg w °^ d , not be Possible they arc spent, or what they th bureet ’ rea uests of one wlthou t the local leaders and are spent for Too few of us sonarfmpnt- r>- ->« the support of business or ever take the trouble to in- en n ? „■ ganizations and groups in quire. hearing closed-door terested in furth ering 4-H Secret Meetings ~ . ... work through their financial Decisions on how to spend ? e bcom ft ttees support more than $BO billion dollars i hundreds of hours In mos t cases leaders will be made by the 50 mem- ",,. ct , reful rt an f Pams waking i arge iy repsonsible for the bers of the House committee °' f and conduct of the club program and 23 members of the Sen bud ® et ofT ‘ ce of the de P art " on the local level. Th— ate committee behind locked Si fvi * whoSe are about 200 leaders in door- The hearings on gov- mUSt P t S i°i Lancaster County. They are eminent spending are among get e& a £ ery im P ortant P art of the the most secretive in Wash- g , n l by u u • 4 ' H movement. ington When 631:11 subcommittee Any boy or girl between onlv witnesses has com P leted healings and the ages of 10 and 21 and are the wrdten ™e<>nmiendations it not now a 4-H member, is P ..elves Wl n r ep or t to the full com- invited to contact the local mittee, which wJI then meet leader or the Agricultural to hear and pass on the re- Extension Office to find out porta more about what this young Chairman of the Senate people’s program has to of- Appropriations Committee is fer. Carl Hayden of Arizona, who Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 JyancMster Pinna Offices: Voi (h Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phon* I anra«*tor KVprr-ss 4-0047 T prif Ciw n F'btnr Robert G Campbell, Advertising D"t rtor K Business Manager F=e-’ lishrd Vovtmher 4 i*)v; e\ erv - Saturdav by LancH<-t»r Farming Lancaster. Pa Pn»r-fd 2nd class matter at I Pa under Act of Mar 8 ,|o "'> additional entry at Mount Joy Pa Subscription Rates J 2 per rear three o irs Single copy Pi ice T Of raft. Pq pnh’Mi orw ' Katioml PMitor lal A *• and moisture is released; this should vbe allowed to c.w through open doors and windows to make the c a t tle 1110 comfortable. TO TOPDRESS WINTER WHEAT—As warmer weaker s' lives in early Maich, and spring growth starts in ve “ e j tion, some wheat producers will benefit from an tion of Nitrogen. This is especially true on soils of lo ' v j ; tility or on -andy, shale, or gravel-type soils where ing is more common. The application of 30 to 40 P° un Nitrogen per acre will increase yields on the above soils However if the crop is to be seeded down to a “ or clover, little or no Nitrogen should be used. Also on tile soils extra Nitrogen will cause more severe lodS 111 TO SPRAY WILD GARLlC—Dairymen are urged « every effort to eliminate wild garlic from their la ll weed causes enormous losses each spring by off milk. In pasture land the garlic may be sprayed mid March with one to one and a hale pounds per 3C i. the ester form of 2, 4-D, This will kill the y° ling -shoots before the clover or other legumes get much S . Several years of such spraying may be needed to c the majority of the garlic plants. ed him. It was the parts he d| ( derstand that disturbed him, of us,-and thin mciudes peopi are not Christians at all, woe) - very orach to live in a world iriated by love. We understan meaning of love, at a disi That Is to say, all want loved. We want-somebody wh care about us. We want som e to look out for our interest) want a "fan,” somebody that lievcs in os, somebody who wj out of his way to help us. Wfe come* to the pinch, right doj the bottom of our selfish hi each of us hopes that if thei only four life preservers foi Shipwrecked people, the other will all insist that w hoever dm it must not be Me. If we aredd along a road and suddenly a sion looms,-don’t we hopethei matn-iyili obligingly drive mti ditch or wrap, himself aro« tree, rather than run into TJS' . Yes, "we khow wliat loye m* - we wantnther.perspns to hav( fpr us. It" is only when U 1 . manded of u* that-we grow, and hesitant, dove, we say tjg selves . . . weU, you-Jcnow w] .yague sort of word that is, h» pin down . After, all, does , .mean wjshlng-people well? Is It Possible? No, -my friend,-it won't do showyou understand the mei of love when it Is somethmj want showered on you. It is when you are asked- to .spun] little bit of it on others tha pretend you-don't understand offer ell these feeble subside You -show something else, how difficult it is to have get love. (Some observers of hs nature would, say at this pi “Difficult ? Impossible lll complain a. good deal because kind of love you would like to! is so scarce. It Is scarce tec there are -too many people yourself—iand,indeed all of ni more or Jess alike in this In it is so difficult that many thu throw up their hands, so to sp they give up the problem Ifi is nee led islove, and if the reji quality of love is so haid to (■for remember all the time love at Christ's level and ot f- ird that is in quesi 'n’t we just not aim soli would he like saying ti ic: Because you canroti oon, you shall not lew 1! Even the “impo's ’ draws us closer to God J on ontlmei copjn;Mi ision of Christian Edm i Council of the ChnrJ in llm.U. S. A BcteM iifv J’.ress Service./ BY MAX SMITH