4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10, 1962 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Let’s Begin A Fad For Milk A teenage boy told us recently he had eaten a hot dog and a soft drink lor lunch every school day for over three months. His parents gave him enough money to get a balanced meal in the school cafeteria, but he prefer red to go downtown where he could put a nickel in a pin ball machine while he ate his hot dog and sipped his carbonated sugar water We do not propose to pick a fight with anyone m particular, but if the dairy industry could just generate as m»tCh enthusiasm for milk as some of the other beverage companies have generated for their products, we would not 'be staring a surplus milk situation in the face. We believe the dairy industry is missing a bet when it fails to take full advantage of the teen age fondness for fad, for many times these fads grow to be habits which shape the life of the young people long after they have passed the adolescent stage. We believe the dairy industry would do well to put more emphasis on the fact that milk is "GOOD, - ’ even if it means putting a less emphasis on the fact that milk is “Good For 3Tou.” We know that man is a creature of habit and it is in adolescent or pre-ad olescent years that many of our lasting habits are formed Especially should the “good” image of milk be projected to the teenage girl of America. We have painted the other picture so long that girls have come to think of milk as a'food which will make them “big and Strong” just at a time in life when the girl does not -want to be “big and strong” but dain ty and appealing. The image of milk as a producer of strength is shown m a study conduct eed in Williamsport some years ago Iby Dr. M. E. John and Harrison Price of the Pennsylvania State University. The study was made with a sampling of sth graders, Bth graders, 12th grad ers and a group of out-of-school young people 18 to 24 years of age ' Very briefly, the findings showed that sth grade boys averaged 3 5 glass es of milk per day, the girls 3.2 glass es. Ninth grade boys averaged 3 4 glasses per day, the girls 2.6. Twelfth grade boys averaged 3 9 glasses per day, the girls 1.9. Among the out-ot school youths, men averaged 2-1 glass es and women 1 glass per day. Three major reasons why adolse cents do drink milk, the researchers found are the belief that it 'contributes io health, energy and personal appear ance; They like its taste, and they are in a habit of drinking milk. It is very interesting to note that some of these positive reasons become County Native Gets High Post In Farm Bureau A well known Lancaster County farm leader has been promoted to a top executive position with the Pennsyl vania Farm Bureau Coopera tive Associ-lioh Mark Hess, who resides In Glen *Ac.ec, Hershey, but owns and maintains opera tion of a farm in Lancaster Countj, along Lancaster R 6, has been named director of marketing, according to Geo G Connor, Farm Bureau general manager and execu tive vice president Hess has been an executive with Pennsylvania Farm Bureau since 1959 when he became manager of the feed division Smce 1960, he has been man'ger of contract production service He has been active in co operatives for some time, be ing a former president of the Lancaster County Farm Bur. eau _ Cooperative Association and a former urer of the Pennsylwnia Farm Bureau. In addition, Hess is former manager and director of the negative reasons among teenage girls. Reasons given for not drinking milk included; 1, They think it is for babies and children; 2, They believe it helps make them fat; 3, Others in the group do not drink it; 4, They have not found it as stimulating as other drinks; 5, They do not consider it a social drink. Milk is still -the most nearly perfect '1 food, but We must find a way to make it acceptable socially on all occasions. We must dispel the notion that milk is •only for babies, that it will contribute to making a person overfat, and-that it will stimulate growth to an excessive degree. Milk is good for you, but it is also GOOD, and that is the story we ought ’ to be selling to the teen age members of the American consuming public At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. G B. Wood, head of the Agricultux al Economics Department of Oregon State College said recently, “Agricul ture is going to move closer to produc tion according to specifications -based upon one-to-five year contracts*. These specifications will be determined by the food marketing and distributing organizations Farmers who prefer not to meet the new requirements have two alternatives. They will not have markets for their products or they will be able to sell products that do not come up to the ‘specifications’ of the integrator Along the same line is the quota tion from the Canadian federation of Agriculture: “Integration, while it may mean efficiency and relative stability for some, means restriction 'and exclu sion for others if it is to be fully car ried through.” Vertical integration, i. e, contract farming, is a relative newcomer to the business of farming, but it has grown so fast that in some commodities it has become the tail that wags the dog. Is vertical integration a threat -to the farmer’s independence or-is it a boon to life on the farm?. It can be either, but when it is used as a tool for unlimited production for the purpose of consuming the contrac tor’s raw materials, with no thought of where the finished product will .be marketed, then vertical can be more ruinous to the business of farming than droughts, floods or plagues of insects. At least that’s how it looks fioni where we stand. Lancaster County Tobacco Cooperative, vice president of Producers Cooperative Ex change, Coatesville and sec retary of Producers Live stock Cooperative, Lancaster. He is a trustee of Messiah College, Grantham Hess is married to the former Helen Denlinger of New Holland Farm Women 10 Hear Travelogs Journeys made last sum mer were described in detail by members of the Farm Womens’ Society number 10 at a recent meeting in the home of Mrs Jacob Esben shade, 2051 Butter Road Answers to roll call re vealed members made trips to such varied places as Mex ico and the back yard truck garden. The truck garden traveler revealed that the trip was made entirely by shoe leather express Reports from the state convention in Harrisburg last month were made by Mrs John Habecker, Mrs- E R Royer and Mrs H. S. Sloat. The group voted to donate $l5 to Heart Haven and will raise membership dues to ‘s2 per year A bus has been More On Contracts scheduled to take the group to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 5 Next meeting of the group '7 TAV <j M rr» resultsTof those who vote The important will be on March 3in the MAX SMITH thing is to evaluate the program and vote home of Mrs Habecker at your decision on ’February 20th Lancaster R 4, ww., i, , ~ prune the old grape vines m order to reduce the amount o wnen harvested at the f, , , „ . , , proper stage of growth for b,eedln g from the vine, which may occur m later spring silage, corn has a tremen- P runin § It 15 important to remove most of the last year s dous capacity for self-pieser- growth from the vine, -but not all of it; the bearing wood vation Farm investment in the or weak vines and 60 to 70 buds on strong vines, these aic States exceeds 200 the buds that are now on the last year’s growth. This will i ion o ars mean that most laterals will be pruned back within Bto 1" inches of the old Wood These buds will grow quickly this Spring and furnish the bearing part of the, vine Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P- O Hot 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices: 53 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phone - 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. I, 1879 additional entry at Mount Joy Pa Subscription Rates: 32 per year three years $5. Single copy Price 3 cents Members Pa. Newspaper. ers Association; National Editorial Association result of it. But where thet, true lasting determined hop, Christian love, there you havei right foundation for a home This docs not mean that c . with a father-mother combinatt and partnership, can there W true -home. A mother can cjtJ though the burden i -—when her husband is taken fr o nißie M»tcri*r- Exodus 20 '12; Prov- ’ aa< * a father can carry eibs 1 8, Mark 7.9-13, Luke 2 39-51; n(though not SO well as a mothf J °ocvMion*? Keadmi:: Coiossians 3-i2-vi f he has to be father and moth both. Indeed there are hom where.there are no children, ai where those who live there a "not even related to one anothc For example, we have the we i- known story of how Jesus sj * — 1 from the cross, “Son, behold it HE English language is one Mother' I ’-.-, and “Mother, beho of very few that have a-word- thy son 1 ” And how John toi for home. Other languages have Jesus’ mother Mary into his ov, words meaning family, or house, home John and ,Mary were i but not home. It is a Christian relation that we. know of, yet v word, though we can be sure, that their home w; did not so much a real one We do not know wh invent it as in- John’s wife said to this; but it hent it from n ot likely that Jesus, who mu our mother-reli- have known John’s home situl gion, the Jewish tion well, would have said whl faith. The Bible he did if he thought for a momei| does not say that John’s wife was a selfisj much about the woman. At the very threshold I Christian home Christian history, then, we s<| as such, for of already what has been multiplies Dr. Foreman course~-in Old many times over and over.—th| Testament times there were no making of homes by, and fo| Christians, and in New Testament those whose own homes have beef times no writer of those books broken by death and disaster. I had been born into a Christian one of Jesus’ puzzling sayings a home It was something quite new. that one about Corban. The reader To Make A Home Lesson for February 11, 1962 Nevertheless, as was just said, may wonder what that has to d| we inherit the home, as" an instf- Wl th a home.-Well, our Lord tution, from the Jews. We may speaking,of a situation where | well be grateful, for no other one man who should be contnbutm| thmgis so fraught with blessing to the borne where his father an| home. mother live, makes excuse foi Famr Mother not helpmg'them by claiming thsl What does it take to make a "he gave the money to the churci home? A modern popular poet (as we would say). One point il .. wrofe, and truly, that “it takes certainly clear. The home has firs| a heap of livin’ to make a house -claim among all our creditou~ a home.” Another poet retorted For it takes money to support that it takes a heap of plumbin' home This doesn’t mean we a| and a' heap o’ mortgage, and a have to be rich. What it doei heap of repairin’, and who knows mean—among other things—l| what, 'to make a home. Indeed that such matters as income, min® this is all true. But before the imum wages, and so forth, aiS living and the mortgage and all not just “economic” matteisß the rest of it, two people must They affect people’s ability t® love each other and want a home make homes at all. A bus brokfi together. Homes do not spring up down in Louisville, Kentucky, lasi by magic. They are planned. So summer It was filled with nuS the Old Testament Scriptures sel- grant workers headed for then dom if ever speak of a home (in- cherry orchards of Michiganß deed they didn’t hare' the word Those hard-working people had ni in the Hebrew language); but money at all, and only the clothes! they do speak often of Father and on their backs They are not covl Mother. Now a father and a erg d by minimum wage laws| mother do not by themselves How much of a home can you! make a home. They may both have on a migrant’s wages? Tc| travel and live in suitcases, he deny people a decent living is| may be away so much he seems deny them life’s greatest blessing,* almost like a stranger when he a home. | does come home." Father • anti" .. , Col,)r JA ht ' a l h ?| , . . th* Division of Christian Education,? mother may achieve nothing but National Council of the Churches otn a madhouse, and a divorce as the cemmumty‘pr«i. ierTjce.f' 1 '* 8 * 4 b, | Now Is The Time . ♦ ♦ BY MAX SMITH TO PRUNE GRAPE VlNES—February is a good month to will come from last. year’s growth and in most cases a ■guide that m.",y be used is to leave 40 to 50 buds on small TO BUY ADAPTED SEEDS—Many seed purchases are now being made and it is very important to-buy varieties that are adapted and ones that are known to be-high yielding good "germination, and free from weeds The purchase ol certified, seeds is one >of the best ways "to 'be assured ol these items. In the case of cloyer _ and.., alfalfa seed foi spring broadcasting growers are urged to buy the local adapted strains rather than foreign seeds' TO BROADCAST LEGUME SEEDS. EARLY—LocaI alfalfa and red clover growers who are planning to establish a new hay seeding by broadcasting the fegume seeds on lop of winter grain should plan .to make the seeding during late February or the first 10 days in March These early spring seedings have been more successful than broadcasts made late in March or during April. These articles is not in tended to state that broadcasting of seeds is the best meth od of getting a good stand; "however, if the seeds axe to be broadcast, do it early. TO VOTE IN TOBACCO REFERENDUM— All tobacco growers are urged to become acquainted with the facts of the Tobacco Referendum to -be held on February 20 The local ASC office will handle this pro j gram'ahd-plan some" educational activities! before the vote The control program will! go into action providing at least two-thirds of those votm'g, approve it Those not vot mg will be required to go along with the
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