—Lancaster Farming-, Saturday, March 31, 1962
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From Where We
Spring -
A slender V, pointing north, silh
autted, itself against the leaden sky
die eerie honk ol the wild goose, on the
long-awaited lourney to his ancestral
nesting ground, echoed in the first faint
giej of dawn, and Spring slipped North
on slender wings
Knee-deep frogs peeped their
awakening chorus, cat tails and skunk
cabbage thiust exploring'fingers through
die surface mud of the swamp, so re
cently thawed, and Spring sneaked
North on quiet feet
Mosquitos buzzed and hummed
around the old apple tree stump in the
backyard orchard, the honeybee ventur
ed forth in search of the blossoms which
wall nourish the bodies of his brothers
±ong after, he has gone back to the
earth from which he came, and Spring
wended her way North on gossamer
wings
Robins hopped hopefully along the
rrozen lawn and flew back to the apple
„ree to squawk at the impertinent black
birds alieady carrying the winter-dried
weeds to their nesting sites, and Spring
awung North on a magnolia-scented
zephyr
All across America millions of snow
shovels gave way to garden spades in the
.show windows and the minds of subur
banites and Spring swung North with a
\'engence, on stout legs and nimble feet
And all across America, on farms
and ranches, thoughts turned from fro
zen water pipes and drifted lanes to
lowborn lambs and newsown seeds,
houghts turned from the brightly color
ed seed catalogs to the brown earth with
he wake-up smell behind the plow, and
Spring came on with a bound
“Spring”, whispered the swelling
bud on the cherry tree.
“Spring”, answered the grass from
beneath the snowdrift.
“Spring”, insisted the catkin on the
Pussy Willow.
“Spring”, grumbled the mud in the
lane
“Spring”, cried the bluejay in the
walnut tree.
“Spring”, screamed the weasel as
she traded her white coat for brown.
“Spring”, shouted a million noisy
mid silent voices in chorus and in dis
cord all at once and all of a sudden
“Spring”, said the farmer. “Thank
God for another seed time and the pro
mise of another harvest”
In spring it is somehow hard to
worry overmuch about the woes of man-
Nan,] An.ihsis ol tubei r ulosis <as
uairymen Weed , PS slU)ttt , c , the nunoi SOUI(P
Health Char 1 -' of ,ntm,0 ‘ n 11 id l,ppll ieoenth
IS
To Move Cows
ii.ii i isbi.i l, ~ t,i m,,n,
<II<( I n e Vin 1 ] will i i>(i mi i
1.0 lit li papois to ao timpani
mu ' < .iIIJo ooiiii, mined to
ie« lieids ,m* Si.ito l)i pai t
iion I ol A _ 11< ul l ui < annonm
ed todai
The i ognlal ion .mm cl at ie
rmmg spieacl ol Ineslock cii
ease i e(|uu es a ceitihcate
Hi.H the animal hish ul with
ni lln pi e\ ions t\ii he months
both a mgalite hloo 1 lest
toi hi n< ollosis and a negative
test loi bonne tubei < nlosis
Piesenll} the only desi 11pt
ion ol the animal s healts sta
ins is a <aid slating that tin
eiiimal ivas in the herd at the
timi ol ilie lasi milk-iing test
> nd that il was in the held or
is piogcnt ol a herd animal
i* hen the last tnbeit nlosis test
las c ond tit ted Disiased ani
-3 la Is are reunited liom herds
llejiarinient ofln mis said tin
u-illations «ere being re-ap
j'lied afl< r i tlme-teai tem
joiait suspension because (he
campaign iottaid complete
iiidnation had slotted dm mu
the tual jienod
Stand..
- The
kind and his self-inflicted suffering His
,var-mongenng and incessant wranghngs
ovei the material possessions of the
world seem somehow to pale into in
significance alongside the orderly a
wakenmgs of Mother Nature’s children
We feel proud, but humble, to have
witnessed this awakening, and we feel
sorry for those who have never had the
opportunity to witness it But we feel
more sorry lor those who* have lived in
the midst of it all their lives, and have
never yet, had the time to see or feel
it.
At least, that’s how it looks from
where we stand
People who are well rarely think
of being sick Men working in shops and
in the forests give little thought to being
hurt Drivers, even knothead speeders,
regard a car accident as a misfortune
that happens to someone else The farm
er believes it is only his neighbor who
can’t get his hand out of dangerous
places soon enough
But Old Man Statistics points a
warning finger Crackups on the road
are not a respecter of persons. A man
perfectly well today may be desperately
ill of a suddn seisure tonight
All too often a man in perfect
health suddenly leaves his family and
never returns
Although this though is neither
pleasant nor hopeful it is a place we
must all come to some time
But when a man is well it is diffi
cult to think that times may sometimes
change
When a man is well is is difficult
for him to give much thought to the
disposition of his wordly possessions af
ter he is gone. It is not easy to con
template the financial condition his
family would be left in if he were sud
denly taken from them.
But when a man is well that is
the time to consider That is the time
to plan.
Every farmer should have a will. It
is a simple thing to prepare and could
be the difference between ease and hard
ship for the family.
Have you made your will? It could
easily make you more money than any
thing else you do today
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand
pun based .idditions to a held
the Jlopai tinent Mid 7he lean
la.ion .no to piotoit tljo
■inhast i non) nitiodiums; m-
I'alion into a punioush heal-
Hi iieid
Weed Control
In Lawns Takes
Management
Ciahgiass imades most
lawns because mutual mat fi
lename piactices hate been
neglected sajs Prol Claude
10 Phillips, (hairman of the
.Kionomy depaitmeni at the
TTnteisity of Delaware Ade
quate sod leiuhtt and pi op
per luight ol cutting are the
most import,ml maintenance
practices lor an attiactive
law n
11 crabgiass has a lootholl
in tour lawn, pre-emergence
chemicals >pp]ied now can be
ell i cut e
A number ol ( hemicals hat e
been used loi conti ol of crab
giass, but only two bate boon
tert consistent in giting ef
leelitc conliol 'these are Z>-
Hope Eternal
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Made Your Will?
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TO TOP-DRESS GU\SS-LEGI ME STV\I)S . . . Grassland
tanners aie reminded that earlv spring is one ot the good
tunes to lop-diess allalfa, red clovei, or jiaslure fields with
lertili/er With the grass legume nuxtnies tertihzers such as
0-15-30 or 0-20-20 at the late ot 300 to 100 pounds per acre
should give good results, some producers will wait until im
mediately after the lirsl cutting to make this fertilizer, apple
cation With pasture lields th.it are niostlj grass straight ap
plications ot nitrogen at the late ot 50 to 75 pouuds per acr®
will gne excellent growth
l<) IMU NIC SH IDE TREES . . . All home owners and
giomuls Keepeis are advised that early spring is the best
tune to prune both young and established shade trees (not
evergieens) The cutting out of diseased or dead wood and
tin cutting or shortening ol branches to improve the shape of
tlie tree will add to the pioperty value Sharp pruning shear*
and saw are essential and make all cuts clean and close to
the liinh or trunk of the rice
Bibit Material I Timotirv
Devotional Reading Phihppians
I 12 21
Christ the Center
Lesson for April 1, 19G2
TESUS CHRIST is often called
the center of the Christian
faith, and with good leason Tine
Christian faith is quite definite,
however mysteiious some of its
aspects may be
Just ‘‘l believe”
doesn’t make a
Christian out of
you Mohammed
ans believe, so do
Pharasees and
Jews and Spm
tualists and Mor
mons and Budd-
hists So, for that
Di. Foie,man matter, do Voo
doo witch-doctois and devil-wor
shippei s Everybody believes
something- just believmg in gen
eral isn’t Chustian It is not even
common sense What can possible
be meant by “believing” or
“faith” without faith in something
or somebody' A “believer” who
isn’t in the least sure of what or
whom he believes is as pathetic
a figure as a “Goei” who has no
idea wheie he is going Just “go
ing” will get you nowheie, so
just “behevine” gets you nowheie
either
Center of grace
Christ is the center of Chiistian
faith, the pole to which faith’s
compass swings This is true first
of all because Christ is the center
of God’s grace As the New Testa
ment vv liters use that word
“grace,” they most often mean
by it the undeserved but freely
given favor of God to men. Paul
puts it in a nutshell in I Tim. 1:14:
“The grace of our Lord over
flowed for me with the faith and
love which are m Christ Jesus.”
Grace—faith—love—Christ Jesus:
they all go together, Paul cannot
think of one apart from the rest.
The kind of world we have to
live in sometimes discourages u*
about a God of love. If we believe
that God is a God of love, there
must be a strong reason for our
faith, something because of which
we believe, to offset all that in
spite of which we believe. And
this “something” is Jesus Christ.
Now Is The Time . . .
TO TKKIT TOI{ \<X'o SKKOS Growers
aie mged to treat then home-grown tobacco
seed in a 1 1000th solution of silcer nitiate
loi 1"> minutes in oidei to kill seed-home
diseases altei this soak penod it is \ery
nnpoi taut to i mse tlie seeds thoioughlv ui
eithei distilled watei oi tain water and the
second iinsing in mgiilar watei Spiead the
seeds out to di \ oi seed with a watering
can, Tlie sihei nitiate treatment should be
made in an earlhen-waie or jclass container
nevei use metal utensils around t>il\er m-
MW SMITH
ti .t t e
(Contiuued on page 5)
ft Is became' lelteve Mrti*
De God’s gift to us, to each on*
»f us who will take him,—it is baa
cause we understand as St. Paw
lid that Christ’s life and erenl
Heath were for our sakes, that h«
literally poured himself out ha
lacnfice for us, —that we find ia
aim the center of God’s grace
Jenter of redemption
There are many ways used la
die New Testament,\ by Paul and
ithers, to describe in metaphors,
what we call Salvation—for Sat
iation, we must always remem
oer, is the mam aim of all reli
gions Salvation is what God does
o nd us of what despoils and
rums us, namely sm, Salvation us
ihe name of all that brings man
nit of the ‘ far country” and mtoj
ns Father’s home One of tbei
ivoids, used sometimes m place
if “Salvation,” is “Redemption, ’*
ir litei ally “Buying Back.” The
picture is of wretched people who
are being held for ransom, sud
ienly set free through the pay
ment of the price demanded.
Christ is the ransom, it is he who
paid the price, who was the price,
if our freedom from sin, our being
“alive to God” as Paul put it
ance So Christ is the center of
.ademption Without him we would
be unredeemed Almost m the
>arae sentence Paul calls Christ
he Mediator between God and
man He is the Bridge, the Way.
It is he who opens the door to
God, it is he who breaks down
aur opposition, makes us as one
with God Centei l How could.
Christ have any other place?
'enter of hope
Because some Chiistians have
lot seen cleailv the meaning of
Chnst and Christianity for this
oresent life and world, and have
as good as said that we don’t be
gin to “cash in'’ in our faith till
after we die, othei Christian#
have fled to the opposite extreme,
and found the entue meaning of
Christianity in this world and
ame Today theie is a swing of
ihe pendulum back toward where
it used to be, though not all the
way. We can see that both idea#
are true our religion is for to<Ji»y«
omorrowand always Christianity
is a religion of hope', ’ and that
needs to be remembered in dark
lays like the present. This earth
will pass away, and God knew it
when he made it. But that doe#
not spell the end for God’s people.
Christ will come again. The “ap
pearing of our Lord Jesus Christ"
—though m ways we may be sur
prised to see—is a constant hop#
of the New Testament. So Chnst
is again the center of faith, for
he is the center of our hope.
(Bue< *n oitlluM copyrighted bf
the Division of Chrintlss Education.
KnUtitftl Council of the Cbunhts •*
Community Press Service.)
151 MW SMITH