—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 23, 1962 4 From Where We Stand ... Weil Dear, Here’s Another Egg. Well Dear, there’s another egg' | That’s just the way she said it' When asked by her husband, “Why all the enthusiasm?”, she answered, “Well, when you’ve seen one egg, you’ve seen them all.” Now we know this isn’t true We can not agree with her or with Gertrude Stein’s philosophy that “an egg is an egg is an egg”. We know that a fresh egg is a fresh egg, and an old egg is .something else again. But when we heard the “there’s another egg” story, we began to wonder how many women really know the dif ference in a fresh egg and one not-so- good In an independent survey conduct ed in Lancaster county it was found that not one woman in 10 knew how to tell a fresh egg from an old egg, and one woman in 10 had only a nebulous idea of what she considered a fresh egg. One remark is worth repeating. Well, if it is rotten, you know it ” And we don’t see how you can argue with logic like that But there is a lot of difference in a stale egg and a rotten one We believe almost anyone can determine if they have one of the latter, but poor quality hen fruit is purchased and fried, boiled, scrambled or poached with no thought to its freshness past the cover on the box which describes the contents as “Farm Fresh” or some equally meaning less term A few years ago, the term “farm fresh” meant something. Eggs of sev eral years ago were handled carelessly and slowly from farm to retail market and by the time they got to the city consumer, the contents, while not spoil ed, were certainly not in the same con dition as they were when deposited in the shell by the hen. But, by and large, eggs from com mercial producers today are handled much more efficiently, with a corres ponding protection of internal quality. All too often, eggs promoted as farm fresh lose more quality on the shelf of a roadside stand where the sun can beat down on them all afternoon, than a similar egg loses in a_ week in proper storage. But because eggs are touted as fresh, the lady of the house will buy and serve to her family with very little thought that she might be getting a poor quality item Each year thousands of dollars are spent by the egg industry to try to in fluence housewives to demand strictly fresh eggs This is an admirable pro gram, but we believe it is wasted mon- ey from the producer’s view point Un less the housewife is first educated to know what to look for inside the shell not just on the carton overwrap the term “Fresh” will not mean any thing more than that the eggs were bought at a place other than a super market To all too many home makers, any egg is fresh if she drives to the country to purchase it The contents of the shell I of ioi n oil in mai ic.i i - mi in.inul.K Im p Ills iii(ii.is(rt <i ss thin 1 million jiuiiihls in j'm, i mean so little to most of the women interviewed, that one gets the feeling that they might 311 st as well crack and fry the carton and throw the eggs away. Now, before the women of the county get up in arms, we might remem ber that we have not done the job of education that we ought to have done. We have convinced the lady of the house that she ought to demand fresh eggs, but we have not told her how to know if she is getting what she de mands. We know of women who will fry a thin, watery egg, as long as it does not have a bad odor, but scream like a banshee if a tiny blood spot shows up in an otherwise high grade egg. One cook of our acquaintance even goes so far as to dip out the germ spot on the yolk if she can find it, but she will serve a flat, anemic fried egg to her family and think it is wonderful because she bought it from a roadside stand. She doesn’t worry that it has been on the shelf in the sun, or that it may have been collected a week earlier in a bucket that had been used for mixing disinfectant for the roost Now, before all the roadside stand operators have apoplexy, let us hasten to say, we know that many stand oper ators protect the quality of their pro duce, but all too often there are the other kind of operators. We believe an educational program is called for. If we want to sell fresh eggs to an appreciative consumer, we have to educate her so that she knows when she has what she demands. At least that's how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ There Is Poison in Your Home! How are you fixed for poisons in your home? That is far from an idle question. For, says the American Medical Asso ciation, there are 250,000 products in home use which contain some form of poison. These serve necessary and de sirable functions But, on the debit side, 600,000 children manage to poison themselves each year, about 500 fatally. These poisons include cleaning and polishing agents, detergents, cosmetics, paint, and a next-to-endless list of other items The best of all precautions is to keep them under lock and key. But that is not practical in many cases so the AMA offers a number of pre cautions uiat should be kept eternally in mind - If your child takes something that is possibly poisonous, call a doctor at once—don’t wait for developments Never transfer poisons from their ori ginal, marked containers. Never leave a child alone when you’re working with cleaners, polishers and other poisons and wash contaminated utensils im mediately. Give medicines only in a lighted room and discard old medicines no longer in use. When you get rid of hazardous materials, put them where children can’t reach and rummage into them. Lancaster Farming Established November 4, Lancaster County's Own Farm 19o5.JPublished_ every Satur- Wcekly day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- P 0 Bov 1524 Lancaster, Penna, P O Rox 200 - Lmtz, Pa. Ollu es 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster EXpiess 4-304 7 or Litil/ MA 0-2191 Irulv Owen, Editor Kobe rl 0 Campbell, Adiertising Director itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1879. Subscription Rates $2 per year, three years $5. Single copj Price 5 cents. Member Pa Newspapers Pub lishers Association- National Editorial Association. BP» f c Material: Psalm 100 Reveli tlon 1 4-6, 15 3b-4, 21 and 21 Det-otional Heading 1 Coilnthfans 15 51 5S When God Has Won Lesson for June 24, 1962 THE bloodiest book m the Bible is the last one, Revelation. Weird and terrible, its pictures, tejl the story of the war between 'od and p”,l, between God and Satan. In this war God's ser vants sutter ago nies, and are in deed tempted to despair Yet in the end the vic toiy is God’s, ifnd his faithful peo pie share it A 1 note running fiom Dr. Foreman f llbt to last is “overcome,” “conquei,” ‘ victo rj ” While all the books of the Bible point foi wai d, moi e 01 less this is specially tine of Roveia tion, which through all the icd fog and the daikncss focuses on God’s final triumph God keeps promises As every one is awaie, this stumge boot lias aroused mtui merable aiguments ovei >ts pie Cise meaning, especially in de tails But the main point is agioed on by all serious students ot it GOD WILL WIN This does not get rid of all the questions we may have about it These last two chapters, for example Do they retei to something still in the future, or do they refer to something going on now’ Are these pictures of heaven, or are they pictures of this earth in some futui e era > Let us venture a suggestion which might include both these possibilities. Let us tiy taking what is said in these fa mous and beautiful chapters, as an assurance, made in word-pic tures, of what it will be like when God’s great war with evil on this earth and in this universe is ciowned with victory If you like to think of this as in heaven (be cause we have heaid this so often at funeials), or on the renewed eaith m a new universe, either way this is the kind of vvoild which it is God’s intention to bring forth, the kind of world which will be a fit home for his Now Is The Time . . . The small gram harvest season is at hand and all growers are urged to clean out the old gram and thoroughly clean and spiay the bin aiea to conti ol stoied giam insects The use ot malathion, methoxyclor, 01 ihothane is all cracks and surfaces when the bin is empty should stop the carry-oier of insects This dreaded disease of the swine in dustry must be prevented rather than de pending upon an unknown cuie. Feeders and breeders are urged to vaccinate all pigs, if garbage is feed, feed only cooked garbage, isolate new animals tor 30 days, pi event visit- MAX M. SMITH ors from getting into the hog barn or insist upon the use of a disinfectant on their shoes or boots; owners should be care ful about visiting other herds with any kind of Infection, and practice good sanitation at all times To Spruj For Hod Spider Mites During the summer trees and shrubs like spruce, hem lock, arborvitae, and jumpers get heavily infested with mites, these insects are very small and difficult to see with the naked eye; they are red dish-brown. to pale green in color and cause giay or yel lowish spots on the foliage, in cases of severe infestation and damage the foliage be comes a bronzed color. The use ol Aramite at the rate of 2 tablespoons per gallon of people. It is a world in wi llcll all the good promises of God «.,{ be fulfilled. What manner of world will 1( be, the world of the heart’s de.su e of the God who is Love 9 We can note only a very few of its special glories. For one thing, it tb world with evil shut out Not only has that great serpent, the de ceiver of men, been destioyed at long last, but all those human beings who have said to evil, Be thou my good, are shut out,—*n the unclean, the cowards, those who love and make lies. Evil, a 3 we have all long since discovered has many forms. Wickedness i 3 only one form of it. There is also suffering, and this can be of the heart and mind, not only of the body. But there shall be no moie pain, no more- crying, nor tears, so we know that when God has won his victory, all the dark bur dens that weigh now on the souls of men, even those griefs in which no evil mingles,—these will all have vanished. The last enemy, Death, will he conquered, and only Life fill all God’s new world "And night shall be no moie ’’ Considering how often, in the Bible and out, darkness is a sym bol of ignorance and error, we may believe, and the Chustian church does believe, that in God’s w’orld, when it finally dawns, (and indeed in heaven now) the mists of half-knowledge and groping ig norance that now surround even the wisest mind, will be blown away in the dawn-wind of eternity “—and God Himself will be with them” Best of all, and including all that is good,—God himself will be with his people, giver of life of light, of healing and of comfoit Here some one may think of a question. Are not all these things true in this life, here and now > Do we not have eternal life” Is not God here on earth as he Is everywhere? Are there not rare spirits in whom good has driven out evil? Does the Spirit of God not already bring light and heal ing and peace? Yes, this is true. God grant* to his people, here and now, such “foretastes of heaven" as assure of his presence and power, stir us to strive with him, and give sure promise of victory at last. Heaven has its colonies on earth. Wherever true, unselfish love has its flower and fruit, wherever faith and hope join with love to make this dark life brighter,—m every Christian heart and home, in every fellowship where the Spirit of Christ draws all together, there God’s world already comes. (Buicl on outlines copyrighted by th# Division ot Christian Eduoellon, Nations! Council ot ths Churches at Christ In ths U. 8. A. Released by Csmmunity frees Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Prepare Grain Bins To Prevent Hog Cholera ■water, or Malathion with 2 teaspoons per gallon ol water, sprajed at 10-day internals for two or three treatments will kill the mites. To Survey Liability Insurance Many automobiles and other vehicle owners lack sufficient pi election irom the other per son m case of an accident It is the feeling that many folks should discuss this matter with their insurance agent to be sure they are well protected, the cost of extra insurance might be definitely justified*
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