—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24, 1961
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FROM WHERE WE STAND -
A Lagoon Is A Legume Is A- Lagoon ’
The following is a news story as it
appeared in a weekly farm paper from
Michigan;
“BRYAN, OHIO Two Wr.,s. Co.
swine men are in the so-called baby
free pig disease raising program. Russ
ell McKarns nearly a year ago pur
chased sows of different breeds and is
raising pigs and Maurice Perry of
West Unity in cooperation with three
other swine men, purchased' 20 Hamp
shire sows and have 20 gilts that are
about 4 months of age. The 3 other
farmers working with Mr. Perry will
receive the pigs from the first farrow
ings from some of the sows. Three
farmers in the County in the swine
business have also constructed legum
es as a method of handling their man
ure mainly Maurice Perry, Kenneth
Culler and Douglas Funnell, who just
recently constructed his legume.”
After reading this, we don’t feel so
good. Unless Michigan fanners talk in
a different language, have a new crop,
or piece of equipment, or the paper
got the story garbled, we feel our edu
cation has been neglected.
Or, perhaps. like one newspaper edi
tor, the Michiganders just put in a few
errors for the people who read to see
how many mistakes they can spot and
afe not happy if they don’t find any.
At any rate, the story made us take
a little time out to wonder if we are
as smart as we had been thinking we
were.
At least, that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Fresh Water
“It pours down from the skies in
Vast quantities ... at times it floods
over large areas of the nation . . . yet
today our top problem in conservation
is , . . water.”
This vivid sentence leads off an ar
ticle by Robert B. Keane in a publica
tion of a major oil company. Mr.
Keane has an odd and fundamental
story to fell, and one which is full of
contradictions. At times residents of
cities have been forced to buy water
from tank trucks at 50 cents a gallon.
Heavy penalties have been prescribed
for such things as leaking faucets.
Schools and factories have been closed
for lack of water, and it is common
place for restrictions to be placed on
garden sprinkling and car washing in
many parts of the country each sum
mer.
Yet at the hame time, as Mr. Keane
observes, water is the most abundant
commodity on earth except for air. In
this country precipitation accounts for
Rural Rhythms
SPRING SALE
By: Carol Dean Huber
Three Lancaster Count.ans feed additives and their e£-
are scheduled to take part in feet from the manufacturer
the program of the Annual of the feed to the ultimate
Conference of the Pennsyl- consumer of the poultry pro-
And neighbors came' to see. vania Poultry Federation at ducts.
, ~ ... ~ .University Park next week. on a panel to discuss poul-
Though they bid andbougnt R L Rober£son of John try condemnations wiU be
The orie who paid was me. w. Eshleman and Sons will Benjamn Burkholder of V.c
be a member of a panel to tor F Weaver, Inc., New
discuss the importance of (Turn to page f»'
The Auctioneer cried the
sale
All the things for sale
Were bought with toil and
tears.
And this is all that’s left
Of half a hundred years.
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the almost unimaginable quantity of
4,300 billion gallons a day which, if all
Were saved, would cover the whole
country to a depth of thirty inches a
year. "*
The question, as Mr. Keane puts it,
is, “Why such scarcity, in the midst of
apparent abundance?” He - proceeds to
give some answers.
First of all, most of the worH’s wa
ter contains too much sdlt to be usable.
You can’t drink it, or give it to ani
mals, and it is unfit for many indust
rial uses as well. Much work is being
done in processes that will eliminate
brackishness, but the cost, as yet, is
very high. ,
■ Second, our rainfall, abundant as it
appears to be, is an uneven thing. We
get too much water in one area, arid
not enough is another. It often somes at
wrong time. In many regions it floods
on to the sea, and is wasted so far as
individuals, agriculture and industry
are concerned.
Third, evaporation and absorption,
account for huge amounts of the total
fall. In fact, Mr. Keane says, these, ad
ded to runoff reduce the available na
tional supply to-scsne 500 gallons a
day and much of this isn’t available for
consumers.
On top of all this, our use of water
—in homes, industries, on the farms—
is next to incredib’e. Thousands of
gallons are used to make just one ton
of steel or aluminum. A ton of explos
ives calls for 200,000 gallons. All in all,
industrial demands now run to 160 bil
lion gallons a day. Fortunately, much
of the water used gets back into the
lakes or rivers from which it came.
The problem grows greater by the
year. By 1980, Mr. Keane reports, pop
ulation growth plus greater per capita
consumption is expected to increase
the nation’s daily needs to 600 billion
ga’lons a Day. And a Senate commit
tee has estimated that to prepare for
these 1980 needs will cost $54 billion.
The outlook, however, is far from
bleak. Concentrated work is being
done in search of economical means to
reclaim and purify water not now us
able. And science, Mr. Keane says is
laboring away in other directions. For
example, the search is on for a means
of guiding rainfall away from areas
which don’t need it into those which
do. His conclusion: “So hopeful are our
scientists that they visualize not only
sufficient water in the faucet to serve
the needs of all our communities, in
dustries, and present farm areas—but
enough to reclaim vast arid areas of
great potential value. ‘The deserts’,
they promise, ‘will become rich in veg
etation’.”
Three Countians On Program
At Poultry Federation Meeting
MAKING PLANS FOR the Pennsylvania Pou fed
eration’s Annual Conference to be held at University Park,
June 29 and 30 are (L to R) Dona d E. Horn. York, Banquet
cha rman; W 1 am Durboraw, York, general chairm > and
George Schroeder, Honesdale, president of the Fede*ation.
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Fruits of Faith
Lesson for June 25, 1961
ftf want what you have,” the
* young man said. But this was
not a stick-up The young man
was not a bandit, the older man
was not rich One was a brilliant
young Brazilian, the other a Clins
tian missionary in that country.
The young man
had been the mis
sionary’s com
panion and help
er for several
months, living un
der condi
tions In the back
country of the
Amazon. In. that
counfiy one does
not put on' a
'■front." -What a man is* comes
out very plainly. So when the
i oung man said "I want what you
-have” he knew what he meant:
it was fee imsslonaiy’s religion,
his faith. This kind of thing has
been happening for a long, long
time. It began with Jesus, -didn’t
it? His friends wanted what, he
had, or to put it another way,
they wan fed to be the kind of per
son he was
Dead Faith or Living?
What is (hat "sells' Christian
ity? Why is it today the woild's
leading re’ t on’ A great deal of
what we m call sales talk is
going on all me time. But why do
people buy anything’ They buy
on perloirr'nce, not talk. The
other day of the big motor
companies d 'continued themanu
lactuie of a certain automobile.
This cat had had wonderful sales
talk; the c /n-nercials for it on
TV would make you think that
there was no car in its class But
the public d dn’t buy it. When
they went to onk at the car itself
and try it oui, and compare it,
they found t it if they had that
much moi pv „ 0 put on a car, they
might bet.e- buy' some oU er
make The was good; tne
peiform?nee v as poor.
So, if them K d nef’cr been any
thing you cmi’d see, anything in
Now Is The Time ♦ . ♦
BY MAX SMITH
TO REMOVE THOSE BLUEGILLS -
returns from the land occupied bya
pond may be realized in the form d
reation, fire protection, and a supj
fish for the farm family. In most pom
population of bluegill sunfisli w
crease faster than advisable unless!
ial effort is made to remove a max
amount each year. Most fishermen 1
catch the larger bass and refrain
fishing for the blue-gills. This will*
ly end in an over-populated pond a
MAX SMITH species of fish will be stunted $
owners are urged to remove three pounds of blueP
every pound of bass. P oyer fi n balance s necessK
have larger numbers of large fish of both kinds i
TO SPRAY SHRUBS AND TREES All home 0 !
should practice a regular spray program on a nun»J
their tuees and shrubs. Ths is very important®!
such as ro~es and mums. A very common contact 3
malathion to kill most of the insects; DI
for chewing, insects such a= worms am
on leaves of plants and shade trees. Alsi
birch leaf miners are quite common u
the leaves to d c Leaf miners cont 1
with DDT.
TO REMOVE SPRING OATS AS A NU'
fields where a light seeding of spring <
nurse crop for alfalfa or clover, it is ad
the oats for hay or silage just after hea<
ing to mJk stage the oats will make gc
give the new legume seeding a better ch
TO FEED HAY OR SILAGE ON PASTU
are beg nning to show the results of
growth is slowing dbwn; this may met
herd of cows is not getting sufficient f<
of effort. Dairymen are urged to provid<
hay at all times or feed silage two tme;
of quality hay or silage during the bal
season is a good practice and should pa;
TO PROVIDE AMPLE SHADE AND WA
weather has already visited southeastern
livestock and poultry suffer from this
given max mum protection. For anima,
shade will help; for confined animals rei
windows and get as much cross venti!
Fresh water should be available at all
FaJure to provide these items in exti
will decrease gains and production and
of property.
action and behavior, a u.
of “faith,” Christian i
have died off long ago ‘J 1
fruits you shall know thor/
Jesti? onto, comparing t t '
wltli hollow men And j?
been the ical test aKa,. 1
ii
tians aic men of faith, I™
.“faith ’ is not matched t
Jesus called “fimts,” J
James called "works,”
Fruit of Tire Word
We can call what wo n re)
about, fru’ts of faith, hull
not the whole pictuie fj, 6
New Testament teach,.,,
on this point - that the°t
human goodness is not a f
human pmduct. The highest
ness fand if that woid setm
to you, then say th'- highyjJ
perfection, or strength 0 (
actert is God's piodact, t,
forth in the lives of fnosevj
open and i eceptive to jjj
Baron \on Hugel p u t ,[
Christian virtues are superr
virtues The highest and k<
man can attain, he cannot
by himself, but only as j,.
in God IThc deeper truth i
even the lowest lev els oi
ness, if they are gentundj
are also from God But th*
ten are attained without
God a thought. To live j
heights, it is absolute!} i ;(Cl
to be consciously devotedtj
So James speaks ol the
planted Wold,” meanmjtiii
®f God
Fruit of Thi Spirit
Does all this sound clout
mystical to some people’]
not, V’e are fortunate t
three oX the most inAuenlv
sons in the New Testament
words have come down
were plain and outspoker
Jesus, and P->ul, and J
James doesn't sneak o[ “
dl the time, he n eaksol“«
Put jour faith *o work, h«
in all he says. /’ nd he give
olein and simple ''tampfei
he is dm mg at ns anyone!
oy reading his .’mrt letter
messengers ca e to Jest
John, asking, X - yon the
• e illy the Man ' God 1 Jes
not i eply by g’ g f’em n
nsis of his min , and fHt
look them aioi 1 with nit
ousy day, and it cvcmn!
“Co tell John i -ty-nhai
?nri heaid ” V n Paul
ovn way, spea’ of “fiuJ,
Smut.” and n >es them
5 22-2!) he nan s such tit
love, kindness, '-’'if-co.itiol
"an ncvei be succctsM
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