—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 23, 19&1
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FROM WHERE WE STAND -
Who Art Thou, Lord?
“Fear not; for, behold, I bring you
good tidings of great joy, which shall
be to all people. For unto you is born
this day in the city of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord.”
•• In these days when men are breath
- ing out threatenings and slaughter a
gainst other men as did Saul of Tar
sus in those days of long ago, the
words as written in the Gospel accord
ing to Saint Luke take on a strange
significance.
And men around the world pause
in their headlong plunge after- the
things of the world, just as Saul did,
and ask, just as Saul did, “Who art
thou, -Lord?”
And a babe in Bethlehem replies,
T am the good shepherd, and the good
shepherd knoweth his sheep.”
There are those doubters who will
tell you it is all,a myth, this story of
the Babe in the manger a pretty
story for mothers to tell their children.
There are those who will say that per
haps there was a Mary and a Joseph,
and perhaps they did have a son in a
stable in Bethlehem, but many other
couples have had sons in stranger plac
es than this.
These doubters may even go so far
as to admit that this child, while just
another child, might just possibly
have been a little bit brighter than
most children.
They, these doubters, will say that
this-Babe, when he grew to manhood
was probably the best teacher who ev
er lived, but he was just another man.
That is as far as the miracle goes.
But every time we see 1962 A.D. we
will be reminded anew that this was
no ordinary baby born in the lowly
cave in the hillside near Bethlehem so
long ago.
' The birth of the child, unnoticed by
all men, except a few ignorant shep
herds of his own rgce and a few as
tronomers who had traveled far in
search of a star and a king, heralded a
new era on the earth-—an era in which
even the calendars of most of the peo
ple on earth would recon time from
this night.
Born in a stable, never owning a
single possession except the clothes he
wore, never having a roof he could
call his own, the Babe of Bethlehem
left the world a bountiful heritage.
Never writing more than a few
words in the sand, jhe gave the world
some of its finest literature.
Never having had formal education,
he became the greatest teacher the
world had ever known.
Teaching patience and non violence
he helped bring about the downfall of
the Roman Empire, one of the might
iest man-made forces of all time, and
left to-the world a rich legacy in his
tory and government even though he
never ran for nor held a public office
or entered into government himself.
Out of what he taught has sprung
governments, philosophies, educational
precepts, and a new way of life. Out
r . r out making some drastic Denver R 2; Larry N. McCom-
CCOnOmiST bays Changes in their operation, sey, Christiana Rl; Glenn A.
, , , Also it is well to note that Musser, Mount Joy El.
Swine Outlook the bi ® increases in produc-
VU tion in 1955 and 1959 came Also > Hampshire gilts - Jer-
Ic Pnmiiranlnfl after prices were above the Snader, Ephrata R 3, and
IS cncouidging 20 dollar mark for several Martm Wenrich, Denver R 2;
Don’t look for a big in- months. Duroc-Jersey gilts- John W.
crease in hog production and Farmers across the coun- . or nonville Rl, and
a sharp drop in prices dur- try indicate they plan to msey, Shendan El
ing 1962, says W. T. McAL market six percent more
lister, Farm Management hogs next spring than in the
Specialist, University of Del- spring of 1961. The summer
aware. outlook is for a five percent
It would be dangerous to increase over last summer,
predict that prices for 1962 These are small increases
will be as high as those for compared with other years.
1961 but all indications A decrease in broiler produc
point to favorable and steady tion and increased consumer
p nces buying may largely offset
this, McAllister believes.
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Unusually strong prices Jack Owen, Editor
over the past 20 months have Robert G. Campbell, Advertising
,ed a lot ot Mb to A sh
a big build-up in swine num- • rr/A snowmen Published every Saturday by
hers This may not happen (From page 2) Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa.
for these reasons Many far- pected to compete in the op-
mers have reduced their to- en classes with commercial s, 1879 additional entry at Mount
tal corn production and are breeders. The local entries Jo J Pa „
wi'lmg to sell what they do are as follows: th?c e S sears°js slngie J copy 1- p^ce
raise to the Government for Guernsey. Willis M Hack- 5 cents.
51.20 per bushel; a lot of man. EHzabethtown R 3; Hoi- Emtor^
producers have reached their stem - Stanley Graver, Lan- Association.
capacity to raise hogs with- caster R 7; Ray A Klino, ci «. .» «»«
of. his ideals have come the desire to
build hospitals, to perfect new medi
cines and practices to help the sick,
and aid the poor, the unwanted and
the needy in hIF walks of "life. '
Libraries Have been written about
this Man—yes even ab'oilt his birth,
and yet the half has not been told
never will be told. For as it is writ
ten in the last chapter of the Gospel
according to Saint John, “And there
are also many other things which Jes
us did, that which, if they should be
written, every one, I suppose that even
the world itself could not contain the
books that should be written. Amen.”
-And so when this Christmas season
has passed, there will have been the
doubters still, who said, “There was
no miracle,” but while they maintain
this was.just another baby, they re
member his oirthday after one thous
and, nine hundred and sixty-one years.
And they remember tips miracle and
say with us, “MERRY CHRISTMAS.”
il. At least that’s how it looks from
wrhere we stand.
Watered Hams
■Do you like the gelatin in canned
ham?
We do. We think it is one of the
pleasant reasons for buying ham al
ready cooked and ready for slicing or
slight additional browning in the oven.
We would not like to see the ham
turn out of the can completely dry
and with no liquid.
But recently the stabilizing influ
ence in our home brought a canned
ham for her devoted slave to open.
We like the gelatin, but this was
ridiculous.
We probably wouldn’t have thought
too critically on the subject except for
the bombardment of propaganda we
had been getting in the mails from the
National Meat Board—an organization
sponsored mainly by the large packing
companies.
The literature had almost convinc
ed us, that the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture ruling (that hams
may not have more water pumped
hack into them than the fresh ham
had) was an uhfair and unjust ruling
But'now'they have killed their goose
of the golden egg so far as we are con
cerned. Let them sell us dry hams
and we will manufacture our own gel
atin at a lot less than $1.25 per pound..
The last propogonda we received
asked, “Are consumers to be allowed
to buy the particular kinds of food
they want, or will regulations imposed
at the whim of bureaucracy determine
what they may have?”
If another “watered ham” comes
into our house, one consumer is going
to have-the right to choose, and the
choice will be to purchase our meat
and our water separately.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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crowds,—suggested poverty,
struggle, the lot of the dispos
sessed.'We know that when Mary
went up for the purification cere
mony a few weeks later, her
offering was one which was al
lowed only in the case of people
who were extremely poor.
Our Own Disappointments
K some recording angel went
B a: , i-2o!* Ur a : Slatthew 2: H 2: . Lukß about the country on December
Devotional Heading: Matthew 1.10-25. 26,' asking the Same question of
every Christian: Did you have a
perfect Christmas? he might sel
dom get the answer Yes. Yes, it
would haye been perfect if she
Tearsat Christmas
Lesson for December 24, 1961
been perfect if I could only forget
pHBISTMAS is not always what the terrible state the world is in.
°we expect it to be. We have ~T here 18 J°y “ Christmas, and
been to church, we have received “ OU Sht not to be a season ol
presents and given them, we have tear f • ”*• beneath the carols there
toured the stores, all decorated are hearts heavy with frustra
for the season, tion, disappointment, bereave
and we have seen and the sadness of those
who knows how realize that after all these
many lighted centur i es Peace is harder to find
trees and Christ- than men o£ good will too
mas stars. Maybe £ew . Christmas may remind us
■we went home for taat 111 this life we cannot put off
Christmas or if J ' oy until aU causes of sorrow and
we are older the re g ret have been abolished, Jesus
younger members P lll k° rd was born where and as
of the family ae was > o ecau se of the military
—— v — came, to jsee us. P? we r of a pagan people. The first
Surely there Is left out of Christmas had its shadows, and
what it would take ,to make a taay were deep
happy Christmas.' And- - yet the Tears
passing of the Day does' leave The Christian’s joy is not built
heartaches amidst all-the .op a make-heheve. There are peo
ness. This is nothing new; it has pie who can persuade themselves
been so since the first Christmas:'* tjiatthere is nothing wrong with
Disappointments world, nothing really bad in it.
Put yourself In the nlace of 1S IS no£ r£s tian view.
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the Christmas stories in Matthew tn „ I ? USt n °i
and Lukp Tnwnh wp know wai turn the Chnstmas-carol record
TcaSte/ nSch mS hut not UP 50 loud as to drown the sounds
L S of weeping in the darkness. Christ
on the bottom of the heap either.
We can imagme that he must have wo . nf th , ,
ivanfpii for IWarv’a first horn tho WOeS 0f the world > lt 13 a time to
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The child was robbed of all that ti d is a p pointme nt and regrets.
Mary and Joseph had planned for poss ’ ible to cherish hope
cpSi’t hiir by If* d j‘ deferred. And Christmas-tide may
scent heir-to the throne of David. even rebu h e us; p or the troubles
Z g . sm( ; e abol ' of the world, are we not partly to
lf d l hat Heirs to van- blame? C an \ve hone s tl y say that
thrones got no favored treat- we liave ’never caused a single
tnent from the Romans. tear in the sorrowing world? Is
Mary must have been sorely our Christianity all a matter of
disappointed no less. That her Son carefree carols, or of outstretched
was born to be a king, she had no helping hands’
doubt, hut a king S first appear- (Based on outlines copyrighted by
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Now Is The Time . ♦ ♦
BY MAX SMITH
TO PROTECT FARM POND FlSH—Win
ter is at hand when low temperatures will
freeze the surface of most farm ponds, if
the pond is frozen solid for a period of 10
days or more, there is danger of the fish
suffocating from lack of oxygen; this is
especially true if the ice is covered with
snow. To chop holes m the ice daily
when temperatures are low is not very
appealing to most pond owners It is sug-
gested that rails, logs, or brush be put in-
MAX SMITH to the water at several places around the
'■'pond with part of the material out on the
edge of the bank; this will permit some air to get into the
water at all times.
TO PARTICIPATE IN TOBACCO SHOW—The County To
bacco Show is set' .for January 4th, Lancaster County grow
ers are urged to take part in the show in order to represent
this great product; this is the only tobacco show held m
the state of Pennsylvania, /ill exhibits are taken to the
State Farm Show for state-wide competition Greater parti
cipation in this event will make it more worthwhile.
TO KEEP ACCURATE FARM RECORDS—Farming is a
business on every single farm and complete farm records
should be kept at -all times. This good farm practice be
comes more important each year and all farmers are urged
to start out 1962 with a good set of Farm Account Books.
These are available at our Extension Office.
TO GET YOUR AGRONOMY GUIDE—The 1962 Agronomy
Guide is now available to every farmer in the county; this
is one of the very best publications from Penn State Uni
versity and we urge that all farmers get a copy and study
it carefully. .You can’t afford to be without it.
TO CARE FOR HEIFERS PROPERLY—Your future dairy
herd depends upon your present heifer raising program.
With good quality hay and silage fed in liberal amount
most heifers over six months of age will need very little
grain; with poor quality roughages they wall need more
grain. Feed alone won’t insure good healthy heifers at
freshening time; they must be given exercise, kept free from
internal and-external parasites, and be handled „ under sani
tary conditions. Special attention to growing heifers will
pay dividends
had been here. Yes it would have