4 =-Lancwt«Vr Farip4»% Saturday,. Juno* 17., 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAN© - Can’t See The Forest For The Trees He can’t see the forest for the trees, is a familiar quotation used to describe a situation which occurs when some one is so close 'to- a very obvious prob lem that he can not see it.' Sometimes we are so wrapped up in the minor problems we let the maj or problems get out of focus. Some times we are so wrapped up in' the business of making a living that we forget the principles of life. Sometimes we are so intent on tak ing a Jiving out of the soil that we for get to leave life in the soil. We become so intent in wringing out of the soil every ounce of production that we for get to maintain the soil’s production potential. As we drive about this beautiful county we joy in. the broad, fertile fields, and well, kept buildings. We take pride, in living, in a county where the farmers express their pride in careful maintenance of their farms. We enjoy looking at the carefully laid out con tour strips in the fields and we note with satisfaction the many farm ponds and- wildlife, sanctuaries maintained for the purposes of'conservation. ]?ut just as we are becoming con vinced that, every farmer in this won derful county has finally become con vinced that he must conserve-the soil and-water on his; farm, we drive past a farm where the- field is plowed right out to the edge of the macadam. We passed one field recently where the corn rows ended less than 12 inch es, from the edge of the paving. The violation of the laws, of nature.were so obvious we stopped the car and check- Davldt** For several years now Sen- Sen Mundt said recently, ator Karl Mundt of South “has been proposed to fill a Dakota has been carrying on serious and continuing void a one-man campaign in the in our national effort to meet Senate for establishment of and defeat the forces of total a Freedom Academy to tram itarian communism. “cold war fighters-” “The communist countries Tire United States, he in- are spending huge sums to sists, has spent many billions train people for political and preparing for a possible mill- economic warfare. Such a tary war, but has almost program has extended over completely neglected train- several decades. The results, iiig. men and women for the from the Communist view type of cold war we hre at- point, are justifying the ef tpmpting to wage against forts ” communism Many people, including both as that backed by Senator military and civilian govern- Mundt and others, would be ment officials, concede that, on an equal footing with the so far, we have made a rath- Military, Naval and Air Force er poor showing in the cold academies war “We are,” Sen. Mundt Time Running Out insists, “almost totally un- Hardly anyone in Wash prepared for that kind of a ington would argue that we war ” have not been for sometime, Avenll Harriman, former and still are, falling serious ambassador to Russia and ly behind in the cold war currently President Ken- Communists have made sig nedy’s “ambassador at large” nificant gains in Asia, Africa said recently that we are los- and Latin America ing the cold war and that un- Last year the Senate Judx less Russia makes an unex- ciary Committee called the pected blunder we can ex- bill “ a practical fundament pect to continue losing it for al approach to our national some time to come. survival” and recommended Gaining Supporters that it be passed “at the ear- Recent U. S. set-backs in best possible time.” Cuba and Laos have brought The committee reported it Sen Mundt new support, considered the bill “one of both in and out of Congress, the most important ever in fer his proposal to establish troduced in Congress.” It is, an academy to train cold war the committee said, “the first lighters. Eleven other Sen- measure to recognize that a ators now are co-sponsoring concentrated traming pro the bill. gram must precede a signifi “The Freedom Academy,” cant improvement in our RURAL RHYTHMS x RAIN ON A FARM By: Carol Dean Huber The gentle rain is falling on the dry, parched ground; The chickens run for shelter but the ducks all splksh around The cow just turns her back to rain; it doesn’t bother her, And kitten scampers in and dries her wet, bedraggled fur. Rut ail the little green plants look up as i£ to say, '‘What a good cool drink this is on such a hot, dry day/’ THIS WEEK -r-In Washington With Clinton Davidson Freed am Academy A Freedom Academy, such ed to see just how near the road the com was, growing and found the little seedlings coming through the ground less than, a foot from’the blacktop, but we concluded l they would not. be there long. Unmistakable signs- were there. Little rills had already formed from rainwater running off the road and down the gutter. The com plants prob ably will not be there very long, for if they are not washed away by runoff water they will be dried up from lack of water,in the skimpy soil that near, the edge of a highway. Now if thi? were a unique case in the county, or if it were an extremely rare case, thi§ would be wasted dime-, and paper, but this is not a unique case nor is it rare. The road supervisor in one county township has already formally re quested ‘farmers not* to plow so near the highway that machinery has to use the roadway to-turn around. The county superintendent of state high ways has said there are farms where soil is returned to the fields several times each year. A deplorable situation does exist in many areas. Tool many farmers are so close to their quest "for production that they pah not see the destruction of production potential- The thundershower season with its cloudbursts is upon us. We must he ev en more mindful' of the dangers of soil erosion during' these months, just a head. We should all get out of the trees once in a while to take a. good look at the fgorest /At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. , , - cold war capabilities." The cost of, such an acad emy would be only a frac tion. _of- what we are now spending, through various foreign aid programs, in de fending the Free World a gainst the spread of commu nism. ' #- Small Grains' ary pasture in the fall. On 27 plots over the state during the past six years. Redcoat averaged 43 bushels per acre while Dual made 41 Seneca made 38 and Pennoll made 37 bushels. Pfeiffer said Redcoat is very resistant to leaf rust and mildew. Disadvantages of the new variety include a reported tendency to shatter in the field, but Pfeifer said this has not been a problem in Pennsylvania. Redcoat is also somewhat susceptible to Septoria, but new strains are showing more resistance, he sad. Supplies of Redcoat seed will be limited for planting in 1961 since only 1.000 bus. of foundation seed was rele ased to seed growers last fall. Harold G. Marshall, Plant breeder with the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture, stationed at Penn Stale, said among all the w nter oats varieties, Norline Jopks Jbest t It, is stif fest in the straw and more; winter-hardy than any other vanety tested, h 6 said. Nor line was released several years- ago, and seed is avail able in limited quantit.es. Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices: 5.! North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. ■*hone - Lancaster BXpresa 4-3047 - , Rohcrt o S en campben r > Advertising TO ROTATE THOSE PASTURES—On most, types ol t?*i3sS er ture a sou^d system of rotational grazing is the west Published every - Saturday by cient method of utilizing high production per acre pe f Entered Umt - A ' ter an area - has been S razed > ifc is Lancaster, Pa. under Act ot Mar. the remaining weeds and grass be mowed and then IJ3L U!*Pa. addUional entnr ** Moun ' fertilized w.tn either nitrogen for the grasses, or a cram Subscripting Rates- $2 per year; fertilizer for the grass-legume mixture. After these P r3 ' PSnts®*" y °’ SlnsJft copy Pric * es axe done, the area should be allowed a 10-day to 2- Psu Newspaper Publish- rest beiore the animals are returned. This rotations' srs Association: National Editor- . , ~ , lai Association. tem, where the grazing area is divided into three or ■— .» ** plots, will permit new growth and greater production- (From page 1) is inurder, .and itt* real » )l£ j H,ad; but,how.; cap,, talk, hurt S 1 body? Thai is t hadyogic> Most begin with thought, then ai break out into words,. words ii] bring forth alf-the -sins there 5. In the Bible story of the first Why did Eve disobey God’t talked into, it Why did , OlWe Ma Uriah Proverb# 6 13-lSj *m? Eve talked.him into it. Thai 3f : Viu.iz eU »! *•"><* &“*»». 29: the. way it goes, We aren’t us U jJ Deratiimai Raadtaci pfttferbs Wi-l-7. pushed or prodded into sm bj r---- .—■ ,1 gun in our ribs; somebody A I *. I us into it. * Burning Tongue T(r« Tongue Is a Fir# When. James (Jesus’ hall bi o n er) says_‘'The tongue Is a fi t( ■ - i 1 he did not mean anything g o ' T?HE first date he had with the ttie saine Passage he calls u ■k girl, he enjoyed so much her tongue a restless evil, full ol d t!| asked for a second The next time P° lson - It to like a diseased 0] he went' to her house, instead, of Naming the whole body, jjj Ills talking most of the time (as a diseased liver causing jaunty she intended he should), she car- llke certain fatal poisons v.h lt ried the conversational ball, so to turn 1116 victims’ faces blue ; ipealc. She was a be is remindmg us ol v,; 1; smooth and easy every sensible person-knows, ft ; lalker, but when- tongue can be destructive, the young man ® re * bke P°isoh l " Joke a caneei lot home and bad Fire < " hen jt destroys, does J ime to think it re b ulld - ! Jrl did not acta- So lt is with the tongue A bil illy have a good lifr told m secret is repeated s n : /ord to say about repeated, and it loses no fat m tij anybody but her- tolling A ca>-eless mean remit trelf and her one close girl friend. can spread till' it ruins some one Everybody else she mentioned— reputation. Would you rather i and she seemed- ta know every- stabbed in the back, with that «•, body—she tore-down; wittily, dev- P ick and have it over quicklj, erly,. in a,.very interestmg fashion. do you want to be stabbed m The young man could not help back with a slander, see ; thinking; When I am gone, what world melt away from you, does she say about me? He never suffer a lingering living di went back to <*n/t out. from the fire of suspicion and .... , which that slander has k; i' l *' TOiglti IS An The fire of the tongue lasts Unrifbftous World” and goes farther and can do The- world of the tongue is. a. barm than any flames that' wide one. It is as wide as human the wlJ d game or turn great language. Even today, with all our- s i° ns to ashes. Nevertheless, printmg' presses, microfilms, and is nQt always had. Without recording, machines, the spoken man could never have become word,is much more common than llized - But lh e only way to m the written or recorded word. The tore good is ta control it. Fire world of the tongue, .however, is tended, unwatched, is almost wider than what reaches the ear. ways bad. xi 13 the guarded, c It Is advertising, novels, books of tloUed bie, in the furnace or poetry and science, it is fact and stove Qr the motor car oi fiction, it is useful and useless, it or the laboratoiy, that Is ats is ugly and beautiful, it is true and to man So ll 3 e tongue lingua it is false. The dictionary can be clattering wild, can do dama; used just as easily to tell lies as insurance can replace Can to tell the truth. The. tongue can control your tongue? Best waj be, used- to build people up or to st °p a fire is before it staits. tear them down. (Based on- outlines eopyrifliiei NVrar tv,. ■RiMa the Pivlsion of Christian Educaf •now tne Bible warns over and National council of the ciumm over against the sins of the tongue, chrut. m tte u. b-. a. micas, c , .. ~, & , Ccjnjuuaifj I*ress Service.) name, people think, that the only. , real sins are acts that are done, not words that are spoken What is a word but a sound, a noise? Stabbing a man with an ice-pick Lesson foe. June It, 1961 Now Is The Time . TO CLEAN AND SPRAY EMPTY Gi 'BINS— Winter Barley and Wheat hai is approaching rapid ly. Grain bins shi be thoroughly cleaned and sprayed ’ an insecticide to prevent any carry-ov' grain insects. Use % pint of 57% thion in 2 2 A gallons of water per 1000 feet, or 1 quart of 25% Methoxychlor ulsion in 2Vz gallons of water. This ) tice is strongly recommended to prei puttmg clean gram m an infested bm. MAX SMITH TO SPRAY SECOND CROP OF ALFALFA AND TREI —These two legumes are suceptible to injury from * hopper for both the second and tim’d cuttings; the spray IV2 quarts of Methoxychlor per acre should be appl when the new growth is 4 to 6 inches high. In the past control of this insect has. prevented much of the ye) stunted second growth on alfalfa- and trefo 1. TO MAKE SURE YOUR WATER SUPPLY IS SA! general appearance, taste, and smell of water is no ance that it is safe to use. In some areas of the country veys have indicated that more than 50% of the rural supplies are cohtaminated with human and animal sew All farm and rural residents are urged .to have their supply tested m order to prevent diseases and mt® disorders. S BY MAjX SMITH ♦ «
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