—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. October 21.* 1961 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - The Land Of Neither Town Nor Country Suburbia has been defined as that area, neither town nor country with the problems of both and the conven iences of neither. Lancaster County is fast becoming a vast suburban jumble with good pos sibilities of becoming an area with all the problems of both the town and country and with few of the conven iences of either, If this sounds like a pessimistic statement, we challenge you to drive - with us around the county to see some of the recently-developed residential • areas where little or no planning pro ceeded the laying out of building lots. We challenge you to drive to some of ihe areas which were open farm lands lust a few short years ago and see the deplorable conditions of streets, curbs, lawns and buildings of the so-called '‘economy developments”. We chal- lenge you to follow some of the drive ways with hidden intersections and dead ends with no space to turn a - xound when you have discovered there is no outlet trom that street. We challenge you to talk with some of the farmers in areas where neigh bors have sold to developers. We sug gest you ask them what has happened to the country atmosphere of their community after 50 or 100 families “■ moved into the space where a herd of cows grazed less than a dozen years ago. We challenge you to seek out the farmer in an area of housing develop ments and ask him how his taxes have been effected And while you are about it, ask him what extra benefits came to his property because of the rise in taxation. But then we think you should ask ihe non-farm resident of suburbia how he fee’s about the whole thing. Per haps you will learn, as we did, that many of them are dissolusioned about “life in the country”. Many a city resi dent moved to suburbia to be away hom the annoyances of city life but all too often he took those annoyances right along with him. This is not to say that all city resi dents who moved to the suburbs are malcontents or trouble makers, but in many cases, people reared in town find life more than walking distance from a shopping center a frustrating experi ence. Many young couples move to sur faurbia with the idea that it is a better place than the city to bring up child ren. But too often they find the schools .totally inadequate in size, facilities and personnel to handle the rapidly expanding enrollment. They find the recreational facilities they took for granted in town are non existant. Farm Women 19 Mark Birthday Past presidents were hon ored at the recent 15th anni versary celebration of Soci ety of Farm Women 19 at the home of Mrs Richard .Nolt, Manheim R 1 All except one of the past ■©residents were present at the covered dish luncheon. The group sent flowers to ‘Mrs. Mark Herr. College ville, the only past president not in attendance. Mrs Robert White was nominated as corresponding secretary and Mrs Nolt as recording secretary Ushers at the county convention of farm Women’s societies will tie Mrs John Ruhl, Mrs Ver non Newcomer, Mrs Isaac Miller, Mrs Leroy Hotten stem and Mrs Abram Root. Members completed plans £or packing a Christmas box for their adopted Korean child They will include a present for every member of the family—four children, a 'mother and an invalid father. Mrs White, Mrs Newcom er. Mrs Root and Mrs Her bert Rowe have volunteered to process Christmas seals for the Tuberculosis society Of Lancaster County. Children of norr-farm rural * residents have no outlet for their energies such as those built into every family farm operation. Recreational facilities and programs become a necessity in areas of large numbers of rural non-farm residents, and the farmer must be pre pared to pay his share of the cost of furnishing such facilities. As an area becomes more and more urbanized, the- demand ' for utilities, sendees and, streets grows. The bal ance of power swings from the farmer to the newer arrivals and the city-bred property owner begins thinking in terms of bringing the conveniences of the city to suburbia. This is, not all bad. Rural residents have for years been lagging behind their city cousins in creature comforts, but 'they have been catching’ up in the past few years with vast home modernization plans on the farms. But when the political power is swept swiftly away from the long time lesidents of an area to the new resi dents, the situation for strife is ripe. Farmers, independent by nature, tend to resist any zoning laws which might restrict their operations and the rural non-farm residents, eager to maintain some of the features of their former life in town, begin to think in terms of putting restrictions on any operation which might be considered objectionable. In the .scramble to “do something a bout the situation” as soon as possible, there is a danger that municapalities will push through zoning ordinances which will not help either the farmer or the rural non-farm resident. At present there are 12 boros and townships, in addition to the city of Lancaster, in the county with zoning ordinances. Four are actively work ing on plans at the present time, but there are another 47 municipalities with no zoning ordinances and presu mably no plans to draft laws soon. We would urge farmers to take the initiative in forming planning'cbmhiis sions within the townships so that when the time comes to draft zoning ordinances there will be some basis for the ordinances. In all too many cases zoning laws have been written with no plan for the future and very little idea of the kind of municipality that can develop under the hurriedly drawn laws. Farmers must become informed on this vital question apd they must act before they are drawn into an area which is neither town nor country, with the problems of both and the con veniences of neither. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Award Program Announced By Utility Co. Pennsylvania Power and Light company has announc ed the continuance of its program for educationl as sistance under which 13 scholarships will be offered to young men and women whose parents are P. P. & L. customers Three undergraduate scho larships will be awarded on the same basis as above to be used for study at the Penn State University’s Col lege of Agriculture. The an nual amount is $2OO, payable to the 'University on behalf of the grantee The company’s program of educational assistance in the field of agriculture education is in line with its announce ment that agriculture is firm ly linked with the progress and prosperity of this area’s general economy and that there is a continuing need for high calibre farm leader ship .Advertisers win ne glad to have you mention Lancas ter Farming when answering advertisements. tp ~l 4-HAyrshireClub Enjoys Party A Halloween party was held recently by the County 4-H Ayrshire, Jersey club at the home of Mr nd Mrs. Stanley Kreider, Drumore. Next meeting of the club will be held November 13 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Eshleman, Eliza bethtown Rl. Barbara Ann Kupp is re porter for the club. Lancaster Farming Lancaster Courrty’.s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices* 53 North Duke St Lancaster, Penna. Phono - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 Jack Owen. Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director & Business Manager Established November 4 1955 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lancaster, Pa under Act of Mar 8, 1879 additional entry at Mount Jdy, Pa Subscription Rates - 52 per year three years 55. Single copy Price 5 cents Members Pa. Newspaper Publish ers Association; National Editorial Association. ti»n, fhifydu wjU n*v*r fln<Totli{ r Christians a problem, or that they in turn will have no problems caused by you. This writer hs s lived at various times in com. munities in which every one v Bj a professed Christian; but per. sonal relationships could get tc some acute crises all the same. Paul found this to be true in the throSjS’ * ? * Christian communities (churches) Devotional Resdinr: I John 4:13-21. to which he wrote. The most com. mon destructive factor, often, v.’sj quarrels, sometimes over impor. tant but sometimes over trifling matters. Paul’s remedy is always the same; Be like Jesus, and put yourself in the other person’s W„ a KTim u , ™ place. Easier said than done? E CAN’T help it. -When we To be gure but remcmberin , marry, we discover we have ls the wjU of God> we can h s not married one single person, we d h that he Wlll bless are suddenly in the midst of more eflort t 0 live as the familj in-laws than perhaps we had reck* God # oned on. But this should not sur- _ . ’.. . . _. .. prise us. Already at birth we are Related to Outsiders related to people Bem ® related to outsiders pre we never saw be- sents another problem. They do fore' and did not not recognize us as brothers and choose. They sisters; if they did, they’d have might not have S° ne a long way toward being IN chosemtis; either, siders. But how can we be ie. to teH tho truth if lated to unmterested or even hos they had known tlle Persons? Here we have to re how we were go- member what has already been ing to turn out! said: We are related, no matter That’c hfo Prom how we botch the relationship, beginning to end lt>s . stm thcre - question re we are related, willy-nilly, to mains, though, if the other party people we hardly-know or don’t wan ts to have no part of us; if know at all, as well as to people we re dealing with people who we do know and love. Being re- are uncongenial, mean, not Chus lated is the inevitable human ex- tians by mtention or in fact, per perience, along with death. The sc ® s who don’t know the first Christian way of life, at base,'is syllable of brotherhood, who pio simply recognizing our related- ess no mterest in God or his peo ness more and more, and living p * e ’ wbo are related to us up tn it. m s °me way or ways (as e.g. by _ . . .. marriage, business relations, so- Bemg Related to Other Christians Cia i contacts and so forth), then Samt Paul, that world-famed what? Paul puts it one blg letter-writer, never finished a httle word: SHINE! letter without having something _ w to say about a' Christian’s rela- ’ tionships. Most of the troubles W ka t Paul means, no doubt, .s m the church'and m the world that start of Christian rela come from, and in turn produce. bons “ bc u a Christian first, perversions, diselocations or dis- ***** the other parson IS aot a turbances in relationships among ChrisUan, you can be one. Even people. It would not solve all lf the world around you 13 dark * our problems if each of us could yOB can 3binB ; be shut up in a tight little cell Br ° bably there is no need to all his life; for then we should ask the question; Can we grow never be human. But we can’t “ ° u / Christian relationships? live an unrelated life no matter That does not mean haying more though we tried. So what the in- frlBnds ’. jt ™ ay have llttle do , spired Apostle has to. say about ships. It means being relationships is always just what' mdrd’Chnsthke m all our rela we need. The world has changed tlo " siups b ° th Witb the Christians in appearance smce New Testa- and non 'Chnstians, with the ment times, but the inter-related-' n f lgbbors yo ? see every day aad ness of men is a more vital prob- a * so * be peop^e you never actually lem than ever sea. 0f course we can grow in In Phil' 2:1-18 and in Colossians 0113 as aU tbat is good-if 3, most of what Paul has to say'is wfc are reaßy ahve! directly on the problem of the re- th < B K'4i^ lation of Christians to other Chris- National Council of the Churches of Tt’c n ii i. Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Clans It S a mistaka TO think Community press Service.) - that Just b.e’cause you are a Chris Being Related Lesson for October 22,1961 Now Is The Time • ♦ ♦ MAX SMITH is also essential TO DRENCH SHEEP—Good flock management requires at least two drenchings per year of the entire flock of sheep, one before they go to pasture in the spring and again be fore they are removed from, pasture m the late fall These two drenchings in addition to the providing of a phenothia zme-salt mixture before them at all times and the rotating of pastures, should keep the internal parasite infection to a minimum. With the spring lambs additional drenchings are recommended during the summer months. TO MAKE COMPLETE SOIL TESTS—Trying to produce good crop yields on low fertility soil, or on soils of un known needs and fertility, is not one of the recommended farm practices of the sixties. The fall of the year before the ground freezes is a good time t'd'take soil samples and have them tested at the Penn State Soil Testing Labora tory. This testing work at a cost of pne dollar per sample is very' worthwhile in planning,, foij more yields at lower costs. Any one of the major soil elements such as lime, phosphorus, potash, or organic matter.may; reduce and pre vent good yields on most any crop, A complete soil test will reveal the soijl needs. TO BE CAREFUL WITH FALL SPRAYING— The trend m forage insect control is to spray the legume fields in the fall for the control of spring insects. During this month of October many fields will be with Heptachlor and during November a greater number will be sprayed with Dieldrin. Both of these materials are toxic to farm animals if consumed before the regular forage harvest season next spring. All livestock producers are urged to be very care ful and keep animals from these areas this fall and winter. BY MAX SMITH TO FE£D THOSE FRESH COWS— Dairy cows have a high requirement for feed nu trients immediately after freshening; thus it is important to feed them grain befoie they freshen and'continue them on a full gram feeding program as soon as possible after calving. Many good dairymen feed 10 to 12 pounds of grain daily before freshening and then three days after calv ing the ration is gradually increased up to 20 pounds per day depending upon the size and production of the cow. High quality silage and hay in liberal amounts
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