4 —Lancaster' Farming, Saturday, October 14, 1961
FROM WHERE WE STAND -
Inactivity Can Not Overcome Problems
As one who rooted for the under
dogs in the recent World Series, we
had to say many times, “You just can’t
Jo much about pqwer like that!”
But even though the losing team
couldn’t seem to do much about the
power displayed by the victors, they
wefe in'the game, playing as though
they expected to win, right up to the
last out of the ninth inning of the fifth
game.
In Agriculture we sometimes get
the feeling that “You just cant do
much” against the power of well or
ganized markets which use the com
modities produced on the farm.
Part of the feeling has developed ov
er a period of many years. We are
used to being told that the farmer
must pay what the dealer asks for the
raw materials and tools of agriculture,
but the farmer can not set the price
of his products. We have been told the
farmer must take whatever he is of
fered in the marketplace.
To a degree this is the case. It Is
not nearly so much the case in all
phases of agriculture as it once was.
There was a time when the farmer
was absolutely at the mercy of the
machinery dealer, the feed and seed
merchant unless he could produce his
own seeds and manufacture many of
the tools of the trade.
But competition among the suppli
ers of agricultural needs and coopera
tive buying among farmers has done
much to keep the price of agricultural
raw materials and tools in line
In a few instances, competition in
the market place and cooperative sell
ing has tended to keep consumer pric
es at a level to allow the farmer a rea
sonable margin of profit.
All- too often, however, the effici
ency of the farmer has been his un
doing in the market place. He has pro
duced so profusely that the competi
tion has been taken out of buying agri
cultural products. Farmers faced
with an abundance of perishable goods
have been slow to enter into coopera
tive agreements. In many instances
larmers feel they would rather take a
price too low to allow a profit than to
risk losing the entire product.
When farmers look at this market
situation, many of them are prone to
stand back and say. “You just can t do
much about power like that.”
Many farmers hesitate to affiliate
with any group interested in bargain
ing for prices because they remember
some sad experiences farmers faced in
early endeavors along this line.
To many farmers, marketing coop
eratives conjure up such pictures as
the violence of “milk strikes” where
milk was dumped, equipment was des
troyed and ill will and hard feelings
developed among neighbors, friends
and families.
Even the words “collective bar-
6 Farmers Assn.
(From page 1)
The complete resolution
was - Prohibit the pooling or
blending of milk produced
beyond the limits of any
milk marketing order with
milk produced within its
marketing order. Fat test
shall be made when the pro
ducers’ milk is received at
plant No seasonal change
shall be made in the price
of milk The price of Class
i and the price of grade A
shall be based on not less
than 80% of the .dairymen’s
production to his dairy plant
The defeated resolution re
suited from a misunderstand
mg between the legislative
committee and the persons
preparing the list of reso
lutions for presentation. The
printed resolution read,
“That the brucellosis and
TB indemnity be increased ”
Mter defeating the resolu
tion, the group passed a
measure turning considera
tion of the idemnity ques
tion over to the state dairy
committee of the PFA.
The accepted resolutions
ranged from opposition of
Federal Aid to Education all
gaining” are repugnant to many rural
lesidents because of the misuse of
-power by some labor leaders in the
past.
There seems to be a question in the
minds of many farmers as to the right
of the farmer to bargain collectively
for better prices. Many farmers feel It
is unethical to use this potent econom
ic weapon to secure a fair return' for
investment and labor.
Even cooperatives are reluctant to
use collective bargaining to its fullest
extent since cooperatives are, after
all, farmer members with the same
feelings collectively as individually.
Legal representatives of farmer or
ganizations do not agree at present on
the extent of farmers* rights to bar
gain collectively, but in all probability
farmers have many more rights than
they have been willing to use.
Farmers do have basic rights to
bargain through cooperatives to en
hance their position, guaranteed m
three separate laws. The first is the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act which was
passed at the turn of the century. The
Clayton Act of 1914 guaranteed furth
er rights of bargaining, but it remain
ed for the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922
to spell out the specific right of farm
ers to organize, bargain through co
operatives and do business for. them
selves Congress reaffirmed these
rights in the Agricultural - Marketing
Act of 1929.
Farmers have the tools to fight
their own economic battles. We believe
farmers had better begin to fight their
own battles before economic pressures
squeeze so many farmers out of the
business that the federal government
will step in with more controls.
We believe the farmer should not
stop thinking about production,' but
we believe he should put some- of his
energies and skills to work in market
ing the product of his toil.
It gains nothing for baseball teams
or farmers to sit back with the atti
tude of, “You can’t do much about
power like that.”
You have to keep swinging till the
last out of the last inning.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
From the Los Angeles Times:
“Somebody said newspaper readers
will recall a snatch of an editorial
longer than anything else except the
spot news. We can’t remember who
said it and we can’t prove it is true,
but it comforts the lonely inmate of
the editorial writer’s cloister. He
knows he has no name, and therefore
no fame; he only hopes, if his heart is
in his work, that some reader may be
confirmed in an opioion or act on a
conviction because of a sen
tence or two in an anonymous editor
ial.”
the way to support for a bill 5. Resolved That voca
to legalize gas bombs to kill tional agriculture continue
groundhogs to be taught in Pennsylvania.
Members elected the fol- It should be taught m 9th,
lowing directors-for the year- 10th, 11th, and 12th grades
J Robert Hess, Strasburg We would encourage that all
Rl; Herman Shirk, Quarry- academic courses be integra
ville R 2, J. Roy Greider, Mt ted in the agricultural curri-
Joy Rl, Clyde Wiwell, Col- cula.
umbia Rl, Robert Brubaker, R ~ . m. ~, T
Mount Joy Rl and Donald .. 6 ‘ Resolved-That the Jus-
Nev Marietta Rl ice Department investigate
i\iey. Marietta m. ( Tu rn to page 5)
Following is a list of the
passed resolutions:
continued and enforced.
1 Resolved We oppose
Federal Aid to Education
2 Resolved We are not
against welfare —but to de
velop a program whereby
physically able persons on
welfare work for their wel
fare checks.
3 Resolved That the P.
F. A Dairy Committee be
given the assignment to stu
dy, review, and make recom
mendations to the counties
on the several margarine
laws; and the proper label
ing of margarine should be
4 Resolved—The Recipro
cal Trade agreements pro
gram be extended by Cong
ress.
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ictTs Word
There is no substitute tor God’s
/oc4t ‘There is no question ol
Bible Material' Matthew 5 17-20. 36-48: either-or -that IS, it is not « quos-
John 10:12-15. tion o 1 learning about God from
Devotional Reading Psalm 111. Holy Spmt or from, the Scrip.
1 tures. -It is 'gather 'a question ol
learning through the Scriptures
by the illumination of the Spmt.
Many ol us make a mistake at
this point. We read the Bible
Know God Better
Lesson for October 15, 1961
through once, 'or we read the
THERE may be many things I Sermon on the Mount, or some
should like to know, but the other part of Scripture, and be
only two things 1 must know are cause we have read it once \ve
not things at all but persons: suppose nothing further can be
God and myself. So thought John learned. On the gontrary, just
Calvin, and most people would as J® sus 111 the synagogue, and
agree with him if they take time two friends on the road
to think it over. 1° Emmaus, "opened” the Sctip.
But there is a se- tures which had been familiar
rious hitch here. y et never rightly understood, so
God and myself 1° t* ll3 day. Much of Jesus’ teach
are not only the ln § (as in the Sermon on the
most imnortant Mount) consisted m casting fresh
Sfcts of Wl- light on the Scripture. So we can
edge, they are sa y 'that one way to learn about
the most difficult. God is to stud y the Blble a ® dln
though for differ- and a S ain - m the confident hope
renqnns Wp that the same Spirit who mspued
shaU noi nowTn! * will illuminate us.
vestigate the' knowledge of our- God’s Will and Work
selves. Let us think a little about Another way in which our
how we can—if we can—know knowledge of God can grow is
God better. this; to share his will and to
One point we have to be clear
about, at the start. God cannot
be known as we know cats or
butterflies, by collecting sam
ples. You cannot, at will, pro
duce a laboratory specimen of
God to be put into a test-tube.
The Holy Spirit
“No one comprehends the
thoughts of God except the Spirit
of God.” (I Cor. 2:11.) In other
words, only God knows the inmost
truth about God. We cannot walk
right in to God’s mind as if we
were a team of investigators
authorized to ask questions even
of the Almighty. We have to
wait humbly until God sees fit
to reveal himself. Yet on the oth
er hand we need not be idle while
we are waiting. Besides, we
should not expect the knowledge
of God to flash on us all at once
like a stioke of lightning. It is
not possible to know all the truth
about God, now or any time, be
cause God is infinite. What can
be known of God, only God can
show us, by his Spirit; and this
will be gradual, not all at onqe.
One thing is clear—namely, that
whatever we do know of God, we
know through the Holy Spirit.
There are two points about the
way the Holy Spirit teaches men
about God: The Spirit speaks
Now Is The Time . ♦ •
MAX SMITH TO PREVENT CHILLED UDDERS —Dauy
men are urged to give special care to the milking herd al
at this time of tre year. The ground is getting colder along
‘with the air temperature; this means that cows left out at
night have to lie down on the cold ground and there is
danger of chilling to the udder tissues. Many cases of ud
der flare-ups can be traced to this cause. Any irritation to
the udder such as chilling, bumps, drafts, or, too high
machine vacuum for too long a time may cause trouble
TO GIVE YEARLING HEIFERS FREEDOM—The stabling
of yearling heifers in a stanchion or box-stall is not neces
sary for proper growth and development. Many successful
dairymen prefer to permit their heifers to run out into a
small pasture or exeheise lot from an open shed oi P° Je
barn The liberal feeding of quality ‘roughages such as hay
and silage and the limited feeding of gram will help keep
down feed costs. The heifers will develop larger middles
and greater capacity along with straighter and stronger legs
if allowed some exercise, and this adequate loughagc P l0 ~
gram.
TO INSPECT CATTLE INTERNAL PARASITE PROBLEM
—The production of an animal infected with internal para
sites is greatly reduced. This problem is in many herds and
is not getting the proper amount of attention In the local
dairy and beef herds many of the younger animals may
carry a high degree of stomach worm infection. With the
feeder cattle that are imported from nearby or southern
states it is quite likely that many of them carry far too
many worms for efficient gams. Local livestock producers
are urged to contact their local veterinarian to check on
this problem. It may pay very high returns.
inly to those who want to know,
id the Spirit speaks through
imetlmes common, sometimes
'ondefful onro-ln-a-lifetime ex
sciences.
share his work. This is the way to
know any human person; it is the
way to know the divine Person.
To know God’s will is to get into
his mind. But how can we do
this? Best way is to get into the
mind of Christ. We do know
what was his outlook on life
We know enough (or we can learn
enough) about what Christ want
ed, what he taught and desued
and commanded, to decide whetn
er we dare (as he dared us) to
share his min'd, that is to saj,
to make his will our own (And
this also can be done only by help
of his Spirit) Combined with this
approach, not to be separated
from it, is learning to know Gud
by sharing his work There need
be no impenetrable dark mysteiy
about what God’s work in this
world is. God is at work making
this world better; are you’ Gud
is at work making better people,
are you’ God is working for
peace not for war; how about
you? God is working "for meu,y
and kindness and justice, aie
you sharing or are you hinder
ing his work?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
(he Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches ol
Christ m the U. S A Released by
Community Press Service )
BY MAX SMITH
TO SPRAY LEGUMES WITH HEPTACH
LOR—The use of Heptachlor as a fall
spray for the control of spittle bugs and
alfalfa weeviL is called to your attention
Mid October is one of the best times to
make this application of two quarts of the
#2 E heptachlor per acre Dieldnn will
give better results if used in November
Livestock producers are urged to use spec
ial care in preventing animals from glaz
ing the area after spraying this fall.