4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 16, 1961
FROM WHERE WE STAND -
Are You Selling Yesterday ’s Eggs? ■
NEVER MIND YESTERDAY’S EGGS,
or yesterday’s ways. A better tomor
row is at hand for our industry here.
- Let’s share it together.”
Although he was talking to egg
dealers, it would be well for all of us
in the AGINDUSTRIAL community
to pay heed to his plea.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Are you selling yesterday’s eggs?
This is the provocative question put
to the Pennsylvania Egg v Marketers
Association recently by Mr. Hendrik
(Henk) Wentink, Sales Manager for
the ft l-I * l of Miller and Bushong at
Rohrerstown.
Wentink asked the egg marketers,
"Are you just packaging eggs, or is
your business the marketing of a food
product produced in your own back
yard?” He went on to say, “The stores
you serve do not buy eggs, they want
customer satisfaction—at the least cost
to be sure—but satisfaction first.”
Wentink reminded the egg dealers
that things have come a long way
since the day when the farm mother
hunted the favorite places where the
backyard flock deposited its few eggs
in the spring, and if her family could
not -eat them- all, hung a sign on the
front gate—“ Eggs For Sale”.
If we draw an imaginary circle
with a radius of about one and a quar
ter hour's travel by automobile, Went
iak said, we pinpoint an area in which
there are roughly eight million mar
ket egg producing hens busily at work
producing an estimated volume of bet
ter than 85,000 cases weekly. The rest
of the state has perhaps an additional
nine million hens, equally productive,
-and the marketing of this many eggs
is your challenge and your job.
Wentink reminded the egg dealers
that 80 per cent of today’s food tonage
is bought by eight per cent 'of the buy-
ers numerically. These buyers require
huge volumes in a constant supply
and a constant quality.
In reflecting on the competition
Pennsylvania egg producers have been
facing from other sections of the coun
try, Wentink asked the dealers, “Are
you searching for an easy way out?
Axe you unwilling to come to grips
with the real problems facing you? Is
the inertia of traditions and the mom
entary easy solution leading yofl into
conflict'with the inevitable?”
In summing up he said, “There is
- nothing in the field of agriculture
done elsewhere, which our own com
munity right here in Pennsylvania can
not do better and, more efficiently, if
we put our shoulders to the-wheel.
Agriculture Careers
There appeared to be distressing
mews recently in Minneapolis when
t,OOO rural youths from all parts of the
country met to explore career oppor
tunit.es.
Most of them were firmly convinc
ed they had no future in the business
of farming. The technological revolu
tion has turned farming into a busi
ness where more and more machines
and fewer and fewer men are needed.
1 This situation has speeded up the
movement of rural youths into the ur
ban areas, so that now the farm popu
lation has been cut in half since World
War 11. Farm people now make up on
ly 8.7 per cent, of the total population
of the country.
Spark Plugs
Just V/ear Out
“A spark plug either works
or it doesn’t . ... there’s no
in-between ”
This popular misconception
among farmers was smashed
ones and for all recently
when a group of the coun
try's top tractor engine and
oil company engineers met
at a spark plug company’s
annual ’gnition performance
con "erence
In essence, they agreed
that old spark plugs don’t
just suddenly die . . they
slowly fade away
In other words, just be
cause the old plugs in your As a result, the charge is
tractor still spaxK, don’t kid fired by a spark up inside
yourself into thinking they the plug instead of at the e’-
lare' still doing the job they ectrodes The result’ Timing
shoud In'tead, say the ex- is effectively retarded, and
perts, there can be measur- causes a seriou" loss of per
aftle losses in both perform- formance and economy.
Jousting With Windmills
One of the most ludicrous charact
ers in fiction is the misguided knight,
Don Quixote.
One can scarcely conjure up a more
laughable picture than this mqre-than
slightly unbalanced horseman charg
ing full-tilt across the plain' at the
whirling blades of a windmill.
Yet, in these days of “exploding
productivity,’ we sometimes see the
farmer playing, not too well, the role
of a ’misguided Don Quixote.
" We go riding off in all directions
every time we see some new product
ion gadget that is producing ” another -
bushel of grain, another pound 1 of
meat, another dozen eggs or another
pound of milk for some other farmer.
We see production as the big giant and
go on the field to joust with the mon
ster.
But all too often, the farmer only
manages to get caught up in the wind
mill and whirled around and around
with all the rest of the Knights Errant,
and they all have to keep on produc
ing more and more, because the giants
don’t get any smaUer.
If Don Quixote had stopped just a
few .minutes and studied the situation,
he would have seen the monster was
an entirely different tiding from that
he had been belaboring.
So too, in farmiAg, the monster is
not so much production as disposition
of the produce. If we will just dis
mount long enough to realize we have
to sell what we produce and put some
of our energies in that direction, our
agricultural monsters will be far less
grim than any of us would like to ad
mit now.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Are Going Begging
Urban residents can not afford to
be indifferent to this situation. A soynd
agriculture is essential to a balanced
economy, even in-a great industrial
nation. For the most part, the raw ma
terials of industry come from the
farm.
Agriculture is still the chief means
of existence for a vast majority of the
peoples of many of the countries of -
the world. \
If the United States is to hope to
understand the problems of these
countries and help their peoples solve
the problems,-She must always have a
new supply of youths who have lived
close to the soil and speak its univer
sal language.
ance and economy without The -engineers call* this
misfiring even existing. kind of a spark plug “border-
How can this be? . . . Be
cause there is a gradual ta
pering off of a spark plug’s
efficiency as it remains in
the tractor As explained by
ignition experts at the con
ference, this condition is due
to a phenomenon called
“spark tracking which hap
pens when small patches of
carbon and other fouling de
posits build up on the firing
end of the plug.
In such cases, the high vol
tage spark jumps from one
patch of deposits to the next
- - instead of across the elect
rode gap where it is-suppos
ed to.
line”, since it is neither mis
firing completely nor firing
normally.
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Adoration
Lesson for December 17, i 961
ft ADORATION” is a cheap
-**word and a word of high
dignity too, depending on who is
using it, and for what. “I adore
chipped beef” or “I adore these
new hem-lines”
are feminine
ways of saying
“I like it a lot.”
That’s the cheap
use of the word.
It’s an extrava
gant compliment
that means very
little. TDhe high
and even sublime
use of the word
means worship. It comes from
two Latin words meaning “pray
to.” To adore God is£to pray to
Him and worship Him. In all
the high use of “ajjbre” and
“adoration” it is injplied that
what you adore is above you,
J 'superior to you. It is the high use
of this word that we should look
into.-
Adoring Nothing
There are persons, as there
have always been, wlw> bow to
no one -and nothing. They ac
knowledge no superior on earth or
anywhere else. They may be com
- pelled to admit there are forces
they cannot control, personal or
impersonal. But they do not bow
to them except of necessity, as
a lawyer may yield to the judge’s
ruling even when he despises it.
Such people regard adoration as
a sign of weakness, of willingness
to be trampled on. Now this at
titude is good up to a point. Some
things there are which we. should
not adore. There are powers of
wickedness to whom it is wicked
to bow. But that is not the point.
The people of whom we speak
just here are not bowing to any
body or anything, they respect
nfithing and no one. This 'means
that they do not even adore what
Is adorable; respect what ought
to be respected, or worship One
who ought to be worshipped.
Adorlng-what is mean
Which is worse, to adore noth
ing or to adore what should never
be adored? Among the various
Nqv\ Is The Time ♦ • .
MAX SMITH TO BE CAREFUL WITH MOLDY COEi
/ - —."This should not be a problem on mos
farms th.s winter; however, moldy corn may, be proper!:
utilized by feeding it to growing Or fattening hogs if it i
fed free choice and if there is other good quality grains a<
ailable, this permits the hogs to eat as much of the mold
corn as they want and continue to eat some of the oth(
good grains Too much mo dy corn will be toxic to the,*
but with the free-choice system little danger will be fomU
Moldy corn or grains of any kind should not be fed i 1
breeding animals.
TO MEET FARM HEALTH REQUIREMENTS All c'|
hibitors o. livestock: at State Farm Show should study
health requirements and get their animals properly prepay
ed. Bure u of Animal Industry authorities intend to e»
force al regulations this year. Local veterinarians shoal'-,;
be secured to make the proper injections and treatment
for the animals. -v
TO PROTECT BARNYARD MANURE This product ccr
tinues to o: one of the most important to average
er and every effort should be made to retain the fertiliz-’;j
elements .1 the manure. In most dairy farm operations thjr
manure is hauled to the fields daily; in this manner the so’ I ,*!
gets the benefit of the manure during the winter montlrkj
However, f the manure is to be piled until spring for hau||
ing, then t is very important that the liquid part of Ihflj
manure be held in a water-tight pit; even the rains an®
melting snows will leach out much of the true fertilize®
value. C wered, water-tight manure pits are-
for outside storage on livestock farms not in the dairy busflj
ness. ■ ®
off-beat religions of the world ai
found devil-worshippers, bowm
to idols which not onljrlook fierc.
frightening and ugly, but whu
stand for crimes such as murdi
and fornication. But you won]
not have to look far, even
America, before you would f«
people who, while not signed i
as devil-worshippers, neverth
less admire bad things and b ;
men. Such people will, of cours
oppose what is good. Incidental
it is hard for “nice” people wl
have perhaps lived among Chu
tians all lives, to believe th
there'are 100% scoundrels in fli
world. It is a popular notion tin
everybody, no matter how bad I
is, has good intentions. This
not true. Some people intend r
good. When that man out we
picked up a bag with $240,000
it and returned it to the owner
he got stacks of mail condemnm
him for being a fool. Those 1c
ters came from people who cou!
not understand honesty and di
not admire it. What did the
admire?
Adoring the Highest
In absolute contrast are thos
people who adore what is adoi,
ble, who bow only to the Mo
High. This is what we do, or wis
or intend to do, in public worshi]
It is an interesting question win
would happen if it were suddenl
discovered that the all-powerfi
God is wicked. That will not haj
pen; it is not true; but if it coni
be true that the Maker of heau
and earth is a devil, perhaps son
would keep on adoring him ju
as men of a certain type look v
to a known killer. But others, v
hope most others, would refu:
to bow to a devil no matter win
throne- might be under him. I
the famous Song of Mary sii
praises God not alone for h
greatness but for his goodnes
Mary worshipping a devil woul
be grotesque and horrible. Mar
praising the God who shon
mercy is sweetly right. Worshi
in itself is neither good nor bai
It is good only when the One wl:
is worshipped is good above al
Adoring can be dangerous
We grow more and more Lk
what we adore. If we adore not!
ing, we ourselves become empl
and cold. If we admire peopl
who “get away with murder" bi
cause they are smart, we shsl
try to get away with all we cat
ourselves. But if we admire vvlu
is admirable, adore what deseru
adoration, we shall come to ha\i
some likeness to the object of ou
prayers. To adore the God of IoJ
is to begin to live as one of lit
children.
(Based on outlines copyrighted I
the Division of Christian Educalu:
National Council of the Churches
Christ in the IT. S. A. Released t
Community Press Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
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interested in getting the complete facts i
bout radioactivity and what to do in tinu
of emergency. The proper handling o
livestock and feed supplies is available
and should be a subject of study by a|
farmers. Fallout is dangerous in large «
mounts but there are effective mea.ure
against it for both human and animals, j