—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 24, 1962 4 From Where We Stand... Farmers Must Decide Who Sets Controls Last week a group ot Lancaster Jounty farmers went on record as favor ing a system of self-imposed controls on tobacco production. We believe this is a step in the eight direction We think it is a step that should aave been taken years ago. Recently the Lancaster County to bacco growers turned down the govern nent contiol piogram for tobacco quotas and marketing allotments We would not criticize any farmer *or voting his conviction If the Lan caster County farmers were opposed to :he piogram, then they did the light thing in voting it down But it is well to remember what Secretary ol Agriculture, Orville Free nan said at a press conference in the spring of 1961 He told newsmen that farmers had -he privilege of voting down any pro losed program, but if they did, they had better have a program to propose in place of it. Unless farmers come up with a workable program, they will get a orogram of some kind, he said. This, we believe is logical We oeheve farmers can no more go on pro •fucng commodities, giving no thought .o the distribution and consumption of .hose products, than can general motors, or general electric, oi any other manu actunng concern produce to the peak if their capacity without concerning hemselves with consumption We believe farmers would do well .0 consider all phases of farm produc -1011 with the idea of planning produc ~ion to meet the market, not only so far as quality is concerned, but taking into lonsideration potential of the quantity he market can absorb. Any program that is self imposed ias a better chance of keeping the effect ed persons happy than does a program mposed by some outside person or tgency However, we believe the chances .or success of the program are in a precarious position Such experiments in the past have .'hown that farmers are reluctant to cooperate fully enough to make any coluntax’y program ot production con trols work Read And Heed The United States Department of Agriculture has recently released a Re vised Handbook on Pesticide Recom mendations. There are those who would still have us believe the use of pesticides will put us all m an early grave Pesticides play a vital role in the production ot high quality foods in the linited States, says Dr Dale Bray, Uni versity of Delaware entomologist They contribute to the most efficient agricul ture m the world They help to make Americans the healthiest and best ted people on earth Pesticides can, and are, doing these things without endangering public heal- Lancaster Farming j>an< asiei t Own lawn j> o T>,o\ iui Lam asitn Pt nna I’ O l:o\ J(iii - lani/ I’a (Mill ( s 22 1, Mam SI Lil 11/ J’ i I’lnini - I,am asti i J,\|n< ss I-!0 I 7 m 1 Hit / M \ I‘l I Ink ()« i n Ildiloi Uolu ill. (' unpin II \d\ (i I imp-, IJI I m ini !■ si ' nl ishcd N o\ cm In I 1 1 I’u lil i,lk (I f\i i \ Sl l ni - , \ in I ain i -t( I-I 11 nun-, I i/ l’a We hope we are being too pessi mistic. and that the farmers of the county prove us wrong We think the Lancaster County- Farmers Association are to be commend ed for their foresight and leadership in this venture, and we hope the tobacco iaimers of the county back them up Only with the cooperation of all tobacco growers can the program hope to succeed At least that’s how it 'looks from where we stand We have heard it said time and again, “The big get bigger and the small get swallowed up ” The facts may seem to prove this but the implication is wrong It is not bigness alone that guaran tees the success of a venture, nor is it smallness alone that condemns a ven ture to oblivion Rather it is excellence and effi ciency of operation that allows a busi ness to prosper, and it is poor manage ment ,and inefficiency that causes a business to close its doors forever There is still, and in our opinion always will be, a place for the small business that is run efficiently And this includes the business of farming When asked how many cows are needed for a profitable dairy operation a Penn State University dairyman said recently, “It is not the number of cows that is important It is the number of pounds of milk each man can produce from his cows ” The specialist then asked three out standing county dairymen about the size of their herds. These three men, tops in Dairy Herd Improvement Asso ciation records, normally milk 25 to 30 cows, and they do it with little or no outside labor Wasted skills, wasted space, wasted macihnery, wasted time, or wasted pro duction ability on the farm all result in wasted money, and wasted money results in failure of any operation. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand That Pesticide Label th, says Bray The important thing is to use them according to direction on the label There have been no cases of death or even illness traceable to pesti cides used according to lable instruc t’on, he says There is really no problem with the pesticides on the market today Manufacturers are controlled too close ly to put a harmful product on the mar ket It is simply a matter of reading the label and doing EXACTLY as it says At least that’s how it looks from where we stand Letters To The Editor Kditoi Laiuastei Rnmiiin Den Sn 11 <■ v mv, onh if( eiith i( ad Mini <cl 11 oi ill ol l''(dn mi i \ 111 (■untied la-i s ItoiMii \ Kad KiiK i ed as 2nd i lass malt » a latit/ I’a nild( I Ac I oi M u s IsT'l Sntisi i iption Half's '■’i |um 11n i e %on s s"i Smnli % I' 11 I op\ I’l n f 1 1 enls Mi ’nbi'i l’a \i w sjiapn s Piih- I I hois \ss if i, it ion \l l ion.i ] 1 .1 nin id \s"-di t i non ★ ★ ★ ★ Is Big Best? ★ ★ ★ Foi MilK the >m idea Win not bottle ni.lk in indnidu tl senms-seniiM sired bottles lollowini, tile le.ul ol soil rtiiiiK inanutactni ei s ' I’ei sonallj T tlioi oimlilv dislike milk lioin am contain ei bin glass 1 agtee with \ou all should dimk iiioib milk Sine pi eh (Mis ) \an<\ S .Mjeis Kclitot Lancastet Fanning Deal Sii 1 .mi w i it im, in (onuei I ion a ith I lie <ii Ik les which \ on cll i \ m vohi in w spajx i loi \v mien Reconth 1 was cltscus- (( oiiliiuic d on pa-,o iv, ■SL- Sundty 5 hoot Le s Bible Material. Dcuteronom Leviticus 10 18 MnttheW It 22 i 5 10, Luke 10 25-37 Dev otional Heading IJ, J i 8-10 Law of Love Lesson for March 25, 1962 IN the sight of God, what is my most important duty’ What can I do that will yield the best letuins in life’ It is a happy dis covery to learn that the answer to both questions is the same We iw know this is hue |F 11! b ecause J esus H**' himself was asked in! same answei each Mm time Theshange ■Bhp ness IIS an MBS Sbm swer is that he Dr. Foreman d i d not dliec tly say to either questioner DO— anything whate\ er The highest duty and the most lew’aidmg efloit is not action but attitude Foi Jesus’ reply to these ques tions was Love God; Love your fellowman Jesus was not the fust to sum up the Law and the Pioph ets—in short, the entire Old Testa ment—in these two commands, love to God and to neighbor, but he gave his approval to this way of summing it all up. Love to God We have called love an “atti tude." This is not quite fair, for love which is only an attitude, never resulting in action, is not what Christ and Christians after him mean by the word. Neverthe less, love is an attitude before it is an act. You might say, love should be the atmosphere, the light, in which you see, or think about, God and your neighbor. Now it is clear that love to God can’t be precisely the same as love to men, even the best of men. From all that is said of “love” in the New Testament—for instance in I Corinthians 13, or John 13 through 17, it is plain that love, as God approves it among men, involves helping them when ‘in need But God is never in need. Also, love is at its high point when it is expended on the unloving and the unlovable; but God is never unloving nor unlovable. Perhaps we can put together love to God and Jove to man this way; Love Now Is The Time . . . To I’li'M'nt Chilling ()1 I ddcrs . . . •gp- All iliiimuen aie lennnded ol the dan gei of allowing the milking heitf to lie down on the told gi ound this time ot the yeai when the weathei gets nice dm mg late Alauh 01 eaily Apnl the tattle are tinned outside toi too long a time and they will lie down the giound is too cold and the uddei becomes dulled and udder m- Uaniation (oi mastitis) may lesult Turn the held out daily but do not let them lie down m the cold giouncU MW SMITH Ileds Light h introduced Both the Pennbel and the Pennleal vaneties are hjbnds and theiefore the seed, liom them is not to he planted this >en Growers will be dis appointed in the plants tf they ti\ to keep these seed New sotd ol these two \anetie~s is available at a nuinhei ct plates and Rroweis ai e encouraged to i?io« some of this disease (wildfue and mosiac) lesistant tobacco I'obacc o (Rowers wno aie pi sparing then tobacco beds tor seeding should be caietul not to lake moie than one to two inches deep in oi del to bate a weed lieo lied When taked deepet some ot the weed seeds maj not bi killed and Ute> w'tl! be bi ought to the sin lace ol the bed Rake \et I ligbth be cause its milt Lite lop inch oi two that nee Is to be pie pai ed To Obsene Semi \<n icties Ol Tobacco 'I oh u i o gt ow ei s <ite : eni’nd cd that it is not let unintended to k<ep then own seed Irom lan \eat s cion of e ihei c- f the two new hvbiii nineties Rofnam K oncci \hich w .haie gladly n us But the >. lifferent They a. weakness and sin, „ oncems arise from . md power Much of the if every man can be sumn. n one question How can 1 .. nit of the iam I’m in’ Not every me is m the same kind of “jam.” Hie troubles of an intellectual nmd wrestling with soie doubts ue not the troubles of a mother uthout enough food for her chil li en, and neither of these kinds if tiouble is the same as those of say) Piesident Kennedy But all he same, love to om fellow man mohes being sympathetic with ill those in tiouble, of eveiy sort, i concern and sympathy which Mil pull us into sharing the load, iclpmg where and as we can. )n reading the Bible We must add a little but impor ant postscnpt When this ques lon came to Jesus, on one occa .ion he gave the answer himself; m another, he got the answer out if his questioner The point is that hC answer came fiom the Bible; ■jut not (so to speak) from right >n top of the Bible How often do mu, for example, read the book if Deuteronomy or Leviticus? That chapter 6 in Deuteronomy las quite a bit in it which does lot fit us; but verses 4 and 5 do ntensely concern us In that 19th 'hapter of Leviticus (perhaps no me’s favorite chapter of the Bi de 1 ) there are some very pecu lar laws, which passed away vhen the nation of Israel ceased o be Today people plant two :inds of seed in a field, or wear •lothes made of more than one natenal, and never think of it; nodern people are not tempted o tattoo themselves as a sign of nournmg There is much here hat no longer has force with Christians But “Love your neigh bor as yourself” does have force, t did not pass away when Jeru .alem fell (Based on outlines copyrlehted by he Division of Christian Edu'catlon, National Council of the Churches ot Community Press bervlce.) VA MW SMITH To \llovv Dairv Calve*-. Young ( ihes and heifers being gi ovv n loi ht’-d re placements should have daily outside exist iso, if these calves aie contmed in small (Continued on page o) Kvetuse
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