A —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 27, 1962 FROM WHERE WE STAND - We Were Wrong And We Are Happy We were wrong, and we are glad. Usually when an editor is wrong he would rather not have any more said about the situation, but we were wropg and we are happy. No, we are not happy about being wrong, but we are happy that the situ ation we predicted did not develop. On December 2nd in this column, we said, “There are poultrymen who are hoping for broilers to go again to the 20 cents per pound of a few years ago. We believe this is a vain hope. Increased efficiency of labor and rate of gain of broiler chicks have proved that some broiler producers can make a pound of broiler and realize a profit at less than 20 cents. As soon as the ■quantity of broiler meat falls below the demand and prices rise to a favor able level, there will be plenty of pro ducers just waitingjo go into the busi ness. Competition is not going to let the price go very much beyond the break-even point. This is the cold fact, and we might as well accept it.” That was written when broilers were bringing about 14 V 2 cents at Lan caster Poultry Center and it looked like they might go even lower. But the sure-est way we know of to make a thing happen is to say it can’t happen, and if you looked at the poul try market report of last Thursday you already know broilers brought more than 20 cents for the first time in al most a year. These good prices just can not last. The bottom will drop out of the mark et in a few weeks and prices will plunge back to the depths again. Now! Fate, go on and make a poor prognosticator out of us again. We hope you do. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Future Machines Taking a long-term look at the fu ture of agriculture, the American So ciety of Agricultural Engineers, at its meeting last December in Chicago pre dicted: 1. Air-lubricated plows, that would scour, even under the most severe con ditions. With an air compressor, run irom the power take-off pumping a strong stream of air around the mold board, even gumbo soil could be plow ed easily. As a result, more bottoms could be pulled, or the same number of bottoms with les =★= LETTE To The Ed i Tobacco Groi Not Scarce Farmer Says Lancaster Farming Sirs In regard to your on tobacco on January would like to voice m ion on this subject. 1. We do not begruc farmers of Kentucky tl they receive for their 2. These people fan ley tobacco. on contro terns but farm this La’ County type to $ll the ketbook 3 Further the artich that our good ground for building purpose still have plenty of to farm tobacco. 4. The man that piece of ground shou able to grow crops he that does not interfere his neighbor’s health o the price of his prope 5 Every property should enjoy the privi using his property pleases without inte ■with his neighbor’s int 6 If we quit our £ ture activities we wil have more unemploym* 7. Our real estate 2. A light weight, inexpensive, am phibious, ground-effect tractor with no wheels. Called the air-track, the vehi cle would be similar to, and have uses similar to a light crawler tractor. 3. Prefabricated, reinforced concrete panels for farm building construction. These will cost more to manufacture, will look better and insulate about four times better than concrete blocks. But, because of lower erection costs, in place costs will be about the same as for blocks. - The engineers also guessed that the 40 to 44 inch corn row is here to stay at least for awhile. This they find to be nearly ideal width for best crop growth and- tillage. This distance will remain about the same, they, say; until herbicides have proved, eonsist antly more effective than cohventional tillage methods. The Farmer’s Exchange Problem of Feast During 1961 each farm worker in the United States produced enough food, fibre, and tobacco to supply him self and 25 other persons. A hundred years ago, the farmer could supply himself and only four other, persons. Farmers across the country are con tinuing the magnificient job of produc ing more than enough food for the in creasing population. Farm output has increased at an an nual rate of 2 5 percent per year over the past 10 years while the population increased by 1.8 per cent per year. Farmers achieved their record out put of the past few years with the few est acres planted to crops in the past 40 years. Stepped up production per acre and per animal accounted for the larger yields At the same time, farm output per man-hour continues to in crease and has more than doubled since 1947-’49. This staggering record of farm out put means that Americans enjoy an increasing supply of farm.goods for an increasingly smaller portion of their incomes. It also means that for the first time in the history of man, the terror of famine has been replaced by the problem of feast. May we never have a more trouble some problem than the problem of feast. Many of the countries of the world would give anything in their power to have that problem. At least that’s how it looks from what he was driving at. He spoke (Matt. 5) about "harmless” oaths? Bl , b J o ,s u lS r i?i : Exodus 2°:7; Leviticus of that time—swearing by heaven; 6?46?‘ Ma lew 5 33 ' 37: 6:5 ‘ 9: e or by Jerusalem, and condemned; Devotional Readier: Psalm 145:13-21. them all. What good Would at oath do even if it were not irrer crent? If a man cannot be trusted when he says “Yes” or “No," putting him under oath will noi make him more truthful. (Jesu<r God’s Holy Name Lesson for January 28, 1962 1 - 1 himself did not refuse to testifji TN ancient times, and among when the High Priest “adjmecl 1 primitive people to this day, the Wm by the living God.” That wa< | name of a person was closely con- a case where refusal to speak ai | nected with the person himself, all would have been considerablj | Actors and writers—not to men- worse than speaking out, Jesus | - tion immigrants poured a drop or two of scorn on | with names that people who pray long prayers | sound strange to even repeating themselves ovei - American ears— ahd'over, fancying that God ap change thjeir proves our prayers according tt $ names easily and their length. He also warned I think nothing of against praying for show. Yoi | it. But among the would hardly think anybody would § ancient Hebrews, he so foolish as to pray in ordei 3 if a person to make an impression on changed his name body but God, —and yet peoplt | it was supposed will sometimes do it. Did you | to be only if some radical change yourself ever pray in public and J had come over the man himself, wonder, then or afterward, whsl J So when the Bible speaks of So-and-So thought of your effort?! | reverence for God’s “name,” The worst offenders J what is chiefly in mind is not a The worst offenders against rev | sound in the air or marks on. pa- erence are sometimes religious I per, hut reverence for what the people. They are worse becauss | name stands for—God himself, they should know better. Non 1 Irreverenco there.were people in Galilee who Americans are notoriously ir- had no use for Jesus, and they did IS reverent. At least, such is our not treat him with decent respect, | reputation in Europe, and to some Indeed, some of them actuallj a extent we deserve it. Our trouble plotted his death. But they wen is that it is a kind of tradition in °P en aboveboard, or some ol a this country that everybody is as them were. Jesus raises a ques 3 good as everybody else if not a turn with his intimate friends who S little better. Reverence seems such a high regard for hm 1 like kow-towing, groveling, being that they called him Lord. But | an “Uncle Tom,” boot-licking— —said—Jesus— Why do you call Jj we have all sorts of contemptuous m , e L<jra« Lord, and do not dol 1 words for the attitude of humility, what I tell you. (Luke 6.46 : We feel (even if we do not'come se ® l * 18 a Question ot, out and say so) that to be rev- words. The word “Lord” is a good'| erent is sissified, it’s a sign of wol *d, it was no doubt used re j weakness, an admission of in- speetfully, but it was a hollow t feriority. , word as some people used it, be 1 What we forget is that God is eause they did not mean it. The, not only not a man. He is infi- who goes to church and sings ■ nitely higher than man. He'is our Jesus, Lmy cross have taken— ■ Creator. To show reverence in an r °P s mto the collection plate the presence of another human be- only half of what his Simday din ,|| ing may well be uncalled for and 11 fr is gomg to cost him, the pew* bemeaning [sic]; but reverence 51 tters who cannot be told fronj a in the presence of Almighty God P a g an . s except for that occasional 3 is—at the very least—a-.simple hour m the pew,—are all irrev- a honest admission of the fact that 2rent- the essence of irrever- * the one God is infinitely higher 2n J ce ,. ls treating God as if He JJ and holier than any of us or all t really count. jj of us together. To treat God light- ihe B D S iviston of EciuVation! * ly, with indifference or contempt, gggpft.' %[ bj I is irreverence, in any form. Pro- Community press service.) Now Is The Time • ♦ ♦ BY MAX SMITH TO 'PROTECT TREES AND SHRUBb| FROM RODENTS—Winter is far from cw J er and heavy snow cover presents thcj| problem of mice and rabbit injury to trees J and shrubs. Trees may be given by encircling the trunk with alummuni|j foil or common house screening; place th’iSj material high .enough-on the trunk so rab|| bits will'be unable to reach the bark aft3i|a a heavy snowfall. Also helpful will be tara tramp down the snow around the trees anduj shrubs to lotver the reach of the rodents 1 ! irubs" or trees' that are already damaged should, be wrap ji| |d with burlap or painted with tree paint or grafting wa'i|i reduce the damage. . .J 1 , 3 PREVENT DRAFTS • In the dairy bam there is ace for any kind of drafts; all dairymen should be on tlv^ ert for this condition and eliminate it. Drafts from hay^ gutter .cleaners, open._doo£S.arw? ■wujdovfs are danger^ is’ to young calves and to the milking cows. Many cases of ft Idqr inflammation have been traced to Exhaust fa n | ntilation systems rather that manually controlled doors'^ id windows is strongly recommended. j P CONTROL LlCE—Many livestock and dairy operator e getting poor feed consersion because of lice on thch ttle or hogs. Very few animals will provide gains or milk Eiciently when they are kept busy most of the time scratch g the lice. During the winter with heavy liair coats li CL ’ testation becomes very heavy unless some control practu ' are used. Materials such as Rotenone or Lindane wil* ve good results when used as a dust during cold weather 1 least two treatments about 12 days apart should be g IV y PLAN BEFORE EXPANDING OR BUILDING' —Many liners face the problem of remodeling, expanding, ot lilding additional space for their livestock or poultry. Be pe such moves are made, it is very important '';to study meeting conditions, to_obserye similar types outbuilding 5 id operations, and try to carefully plan all angles on H l * ogram. The observations of other bams or houses a n “ e discussion of good management with these operators lS [ongly recommended -made. fanity, dragging in God’s sacretl name either casually or in anger, is irreverence- Jesus on irreverenct Our Lord never used the wordjJ “irreverence” or “irreverenl,"H but he spoke of certain acts whic||l he described or referred to in jH way that leaves us in no doubil
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