4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11, 1961
FROM WHERE WE STA
Not Just Cooking - -
It has often been said that the live
stock on American farms are better
fed than their owners.
Even though this is the best-fed na
tion on earth, there is a lot of truth in
the old saying. Many of the rations
fed to livestock and poultry are much
better balanced nutritiona ly than the
meals prepared by the housewives ot
America.
Now, before the wives and mothers
of America rise up in arms, let me has
ten to add that no insult is intended.
The meals on the tables of America
are more nutritious and well balanced
than ever before, but the rations plac
ed before farm animals have been for
mulated in laboratories where analysis
of the ingredients can be made on a
scientific basis While we could have
more rigidly balanced meals on a diet
compounded in a similar manner, we
human beings would soon tire of the
lack of variety.
A group of agriculturists who are
usually regarded primarily as experts
on the subject of raising and feeding
livestock were described recently as
being among the best trained people in
the nation in the field of human nutri
tion.
Carll F. Neumann who is general
manager of the National Livestock and
Meat Board told members of the Uni
versity of Missouri Block and Bridle
club that animal husbandry students
and graduates during their schooling
receive more training in human nutri
tion than do many physicians.
Except for those who study specific
ally for the field of nutrition, it is pos
sible to enter the profession of medi
cine in some states after having only
one formal course in nutrition during
all the years of training that are re
quired lor an MD degree, Mr. Neu
man said, and this is a fact about
which peop e in the nutrition phase of
the medical profession are greatly con
cerned.
At the same time, Mr. Neuman said,
many of today’s wives and mothers are
among the most poorly trained to as
sume the responsibilities of planning
nutritionally adequate meals for their
families
We have in this country the most
wholesome, healthful, adequate, com
plete, plentiful, and readily available
supply of all the foods supplying all
Ihe food nutrients necessary for good
health and the maintenance of strong
bodies, yet because so many people in
our population have had no formal
training, or very little, in the subject
of nutrition, the people of the United
States spends a half billion dollars
each year for nostrums, cure-alls, gim
micks and so-called food supplements.
Many girls of today are depending
almost ent rely on their mothers for
training m cooking and nutrition.
There are those who will say there is
no better p'ace for a girl to learn do
mestic sciences than at home, and we
will have to agree. But when we ob
serve some of the meal skipping and,
skimping habits of the young mothers
and mothers-to-be, we have to pause
and wonder what the meals of tomor-
Lebanon 4-H
Hosts County
Holstein Club
-By James Kettering, reporter
Members of the Lancaster
County 4-H Holstein dun
have been incited to be the
guests of the Lebanon C
4-H Dairy club at a meeting
on November 21
The local group will meet
at the Lancaster County
Harm Bureau Cooperative
building and travel to Corn
wall High School Last year
the Lancaster group played
host to the Lebanon club.
In other business at their
recent meeting, the local
club planned to hold a
Christmas party at their Dec
ember 14 meeting The place
will be announced at a later
date
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low will be like.
In days past when people spent long
hours in hard labor, bodies got plenti
ful supplies of minerals and vitamins
and all the other minor food elements
essential to nutrition because they con
sumed large meals three times a day
and burned off the extra calories in
producing energy. With our lighter
work loads and shorter work hours,
even on the farm, meals are lighter
than they used to be. They are lighter
out of necessity. Since people work
less, they use less energy and there*
fore burn up fewer calories, but while*
fewer ca l ories are needed to do the
work of the world, no less vitamin and
mineral intake is required to maintain
a healthy body.
It is ironic that as our nation’s popul
ation has increased and its food supply
has expanded and improved to meet
the demand, the emphasis on home ec
onomics and nutrition in many schools
has been decreased. Unfortunately
many young women preparing to en
ter marriage and eventual motherhood
are almost totally unprepared when it
comes to nutrition knowledge.
and supplements and pre-prepared
- foods, young homemakers need all the
knowledge of nutrition they can get, if
they hope to keep their families as
well fed as the livestock of the future
is going to be.
At least that’s how
where we stand.
Would a pay raise for every wage
earner in this county rate a headline
m the newspaper?
This question came to our desk a
long with a leaflet called “Food is a
Good Buy”.
The leaflet, published by the Feder
al Extension Service of the U. S. Dept,
of Agriculture shows that all of us
have spendable income because of the
bargain in food available to all of us.
The booklet points out that the av
erage factory worker in this country
today can buy a market basket of farm
food for one month for 43 hours of
work. In 1947 he worked 64 hours to
buy the same amount of food. Food
costs last year represented only about
20 per cent of our disposable income,
but in 1947-49 it was 26 per cenL
Consumers do spend more at the
grocery store than they used to. In ’6O
they spent $394 for each person for
food, in 1949 the amount was $319. But
if consumers bought the same quanti
ties and amounts of food they bought
before World War 11, they could eat
for even less If they ate the same
foods they did in 1939, only 15 cents
of the spendable dollar would go for
food instead of the 20c.
We believe consumers should be in
formed that they are eating better, and
that a smaller portion of their pay
check is paying for the food they eat.
At least that s how it looks from
where we stand.
® Rodent Control
(From page 1)
ordered a supply of the bait
for use in controlling ro
dents, the materials will be
mixed and ready for distri
bution at the above time at
the Lancaster County Farm
Bureau Cooperative’s build
ing on Dillerville Road, ac
cording to information re
leased by Arnold Lueck, the
Assistant County Agent
Materials ordered m ad
vance will be held at the
Lancaster branch of the
Faim Bureau for three days
after which the material
will be available to farmers
at the other branch ware ■
houses
Lueck recommends the
Strychmme-treated wheat for
the control of mice in or
chards, lawns, and farm
buildings Care should be
taken, he cautions, to keep
the material out of reach of
children and domesticated
animals
Menu Planning
Even with all the food additives
Food Is A Bargain
We scatter seeds in almost
unbelievable quantities. We
sow more than two million
tons of wheat seeds and a
quarter of a million tons of
cotton seed in the U S in a
year
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WMi Material: Matthew 23.1-36, 25:14-
Devotional Reading; Matthew 5.1-16.
What We Have
Lesson for November 12,1951
VX/'ITH two exceptions, all the
’ * columns from now till
• Christmas in these Bible studies
will be concerned with one ques
tion and its several answers By
what means does a Christian
grow? Up to now we have been
thinking in whal
parts or activities
or attitudes of his
life a Christian
grows; now we
try to see what
makes that growth
possible, how it is
done.
We must re-
member
that it is God who
is the Giver of every good and
perfect gift, that it is God who
works in us “both to \VilI and to
do” what is pleasing in his sight.
But we must remember also that
“Grow” is used in the imperative,
as a command, in the New Testa
ment. These next few weeks be
fore the New Year will give us
a chance to think how we can
obey that command. If you want
to keep it, use it!
Some people, reading Jesus’
parable of the Talents, are both
ered by it. Why was the man’s
poor little one talent taken away
from him, and why, oh why was
it given to the man with ten tal
ents already?—Maybe Jesus’ par
ables are not all to be taken
literally, but they all mean some
thing. The meaning of this par
able is two-fold, positive and
negative. Positively: If you want
to keep it, use it! Negatively:
What you do not use, you may
not keep. It is pretty plain
that Jesus cannot be taken liter
ally and make sense. It is not
true that if you want to keep a
skyrocket, set it off. It is not true
that if you want to keep a dollar
you'-must spend it. But it is cer-,
tainly true in the mental and
spiritual realm. Do you have a
good head for mathematics. If
you want to keep it that way,
don’t give up your math, keep
with it right on through school.
Now Is The Time * ♦ .
BY MAX SMITH
TO SPRAY FOR WILD GARLlC—Dairy
men who are bothered with wild garlic in
the cow pastures should note that early
Spring and late Fall are the two best times
to spray with the ester form of 2,4-D to
kill the growth, use one to one-and-a-hau
pounds of material per acre during Nov
ember before the ground freezes
TO GIVE BATTERIES SPECIAL CARE
MAX SMITH Batteries of tractors, trucks, and other
farm machinery should get special care
before cold weather arrives On vehicles in regular u.a be
sure the water is kept at a high level and corrosion deposits
washed off with baking soda, on equipment not being used
the battery should be removed and placed in storage away
from severe cold,
TO •VACCINATE HEIFER CALVES—AH herd owners arc
urged to conLnue to vaccinate their heifer calves when
four to e.ght months of age to build up resistance against
Bang s Disease Even though all herds are now under state
test the use of the vaccine is strongly urged
keep the casea c down to a minimum Added resistnace a-
mse is always a good investment This vacci-
gainst any dir
nation service is free
TO PREVENT LIVESTOCK PARASITES—For many yeais
most shec i pr ducers have recognized the importance cu
the control of tomach worms by drenching and pasture i ci
tation, howe er, it is the opinion of this writer that far too
po-ucers and feeders, do not recognize the a
i ernal parasites m their cattle Both in young
md m feeder cattle many animals are suffering
many cat
mount of
dairy stoc
from stom'ch worms Owners are urged to prevent then
animals from eating hay from the floor of the pens by pro
viding mutable hay racks. Consult y/our local veterinarian
to learn if parasites are present.
Do you Have a gift for Mend,'
ship? It will grow in proportion
as you make friends. Do you have
faith in God? If you want to keep
it, use it.
Hindrances
The Christian word for using
what you have, in God’s service
and for the help of your fellow
man, is Stewardship. That word
has come to have, in many peo.
pie’s minds, the sound of money.
"A good steward, we are told, is
one who tithes his income, is
•generous with the less fortunate,
and so on. But while that is good,
-it is not the only kind of steward
ship. Time, gifts and aptitudes,
skills of any good kind, are equal
ly the concern of the good stew
ard of the gifts of God. And of
all such things, it is true that
what you do not use you may
not keep.
Take the Pharisees, for ex
ample. They had everything,
learning, leisure, the Word of God
in the Scriptures of which they
thought so highly. They had
enough to be what they thought
they were, but were not: the spir
itual leaders of Israel. They be
came enemies of the Son of God.
His most outright attacks on any
class of persons were aimed at
the Pharisees. Why, with all their
opportunities, did they sink so
low? The reader of Matthew 23
will find more answers than one.
Hypocrisy, self-righteousness,
pride, possessiveness and sancti
moniousness are all there.
Day-by-Day Choices
always
So—unless we wish to follow the
Pharisees’ tragic road—if we
want to grow as Christians, then
we shall have to use, as Chris
tians responsible to our Father
in heaven, whatever gifts and op
portunities He sends us, in a Chris
tian spirit and for Christian ends.
This cannot be done by one great
effort of decision. It is rarely in
a lifetime that we make tremen
dous, dramatic, crucial choices.
Most of the time we just go from
day to day* making small deci
sions all the time. The impor
tance of these day-by day deci
sions and choices is greater than
some of us think. A minister be
gins his course as a minister by
a great decision to spend his hfe
in God’s service through the
church. But it has happened
sometimes that the man’s day
by-day choices were self-centered
and self-indulgent, until like the
Pharisees the last state of the
man was worse than the first.
For high and for low, the rule is
stern. What you do not use, you
may not keep.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the U. S A Released by
Community Press Service.)
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