—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 14, 1&62
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From Where We Stand ...
Isaiah Said, All Flesh Is Grass
' How can you spend a whole day
just talking about grass?
This was the question of a col
league in the newspaper field when we
returned from a press conference at
Hershey recently.
Members of the press from as far
away as Des Moines, lowa and Fort
Atkinson, Wisconsin were on hand to
hear a briefing on the First National
Grassland Field Day and Conference to
be held on the Hershey Estate next
month.
It might have been hard for a news
paper writer to understand that there
could be enough material about grass to
fill a day, but we are sure it will come
as no surprise to farmers that three days
during the middle of August have been
set aside to discuss, demonstrate and
observe grassland practices materials,
and procedures
Scheduled to be held on the site
of the 1958 National Plowing Matches,
the Grassland Field Day promises to be
the biggest agricultural event m the
state, perhaps the eastern United States,
this year
Almost 300 acies of farmland have
been reserved for demonstration and ex
hibit purposes Some 57 machinery
manufacturers have already purchased
25 acres of space in which to display
their wares, and a dozen more are ex
pected to purchase space before the date
of the event This exhibit space is in ad
dition to the area under the huge sports
arena grandstands which has also been
totally allocated for exhibits
Farmers and professional agucul
turalists interested in any phase of
grassland management from soil tillage
through seeding and harvesting to utili
zation of the forage should find demon
strations ot interest
John Baylor, co-manager of the
event said interest in the North Ameri
can nay show, to be held in conjunc
tion with the event, has been keen, with
many inquiries coming from Canada and
one sample of Alfalfa from California
aheady in the hands of the committee
Bus and airplane tours of Hershey
as well as Lebanon and Lancaster Coun
ties, field demonstrations from seedbed
to cow, machinery exhibits educational
exhibits from more than a dozen Land-
Grant Universities, materials handling
exhibits, and a speaking program each
of the three days, m addition to the
North American Hay Show and the
Pennsylvania Plowing contest should
provide a program of interest for every
member of the farm family
The latest in mechanical and
chemical grassland farming equipment
apd materials and the latest varieties
bf forage in growing conditions will be
balanced out with a demonstration each
day of an old time threshing demonstra
tion
And to round out the activities,
there will be an Ox roast and a booth
where the “inner man" (according to
John Baylor) can be satisfied with a
milkshake at a price
<«i\e Coyys shelter
(’oyys need shade in hot
weather II trees are not
available, Joe Taylor, Penn
Slate Exit iiMon dairy spec-
ialist, s.tvs a cheap shelter
will serve the pm pose and pay
dividends Where zero graz-
ing is piadiccd ioyys evil] con-
sume mare chopped grass if
feed bunks or sc If-feMding
wagons are located in the
shade,
It is difficult to convey the magni
tude of the event in the space we have
here, but we urge all countians to take
time out on August 15, 16 or 17 to visit
the Field Days.
Farmers should come away under
standing better the Old Testament
philosophy that “All flesh is Grass ”
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
It seems that almost everywhere
these days, the most common topic ot
conversation is the weather In most
parts of our county it is lack of rain
that is demanding the most attention
When we mentioned to an acquain
tance that some rain fell in another
section of the state during the past week
end, he said, “they must be living right
down there ”
Perhaps, during weather such as we
have been having this summer, an ar
rangement wheie right living would
bring rain might be quite an inducement
to farmers to live right.
But we have been told that the
ram falls on the just and the unjust
alike
That being the case the only thing
that remains for us to do is to do the
best we can all the time 'and trust that
the Lord will send rain whenever we
should have it
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand
Don't e hrow Awoy The Key
Sound conservation ot natural re
sources doesn't consist of locking the
door and throwing away the key
Tnat, in essence, is the position
taken by Chairman Aspinall of the
House Committee on Interior and Insu
lar Affairs Speaking to the White House
Conference on Conservation, he said
“It is my hope ana prophecy that Con
gress will continue to act with modeia
tion in the field oi conservation We
aic not going to engage now, any more
than we did 50 or 100 years ago, in
either wholesale giveaways or whole
sale isolation of our resources We are
not going to create mausoloum-hke
museums in which people can go see re
sources that cannot be utilized or, even
worse, see the surface and be compell
ed to wonder as to what resources might
be uncovered if only we were allowed
to look ”
If some people, wnose good inten
tions far outweigh their qualities of
judgement, had their way this burgeon
ing nation would be denied the utiliza
tion of vital resources minerals, oil,
timber, water, land which we will
surely need as time moves on
The goal is to make careful use of
our resources, while preserving wildlife
and scenic and recreational assets That
can be done, with complete success, un
der wise and moderate laws and regula
tions
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Bible Maitrlali Habakkuk; 2 Kings
13 29 37
Devotional Rcadtnf. Psalm 77 5-1 B
0, God-Why?
Lesson for July 15, 1962
DOES it seem to you that this
world doesn’t make sense?
Move over; you’ve got company.
The bench that will scat all the
people who find this world a mad
l ijip dening puzzle,
I ojjl will have to be a
|f n long one. And >ou
f sl find distm
gmshed company
' '| there Here comes
V JB a man in the
robes of a fai
away land Yet
Mm ycu can iorn
taila JS J&il the look in his ej e
Di. Foreman that he is one of
the world's truly distinguished
men For he has about him the
look of a genuine prophet, a man
of God Habakkuk does not come
to the inquirer's bench at fiist
like a man,with all the answers.
He brings questions, not answcis
The few pages mat remain to us
of Ins prophecies are unique, for
other prophets come to us with
their minds made up; Habakkuk
(so to rpeak) males up his mind
in public The answer he seeks
comes to him, not from him.
A Time of Violence
Habakkuk breaks out with a
ciy of “how long’” and “why’”
lie lived m the time when the na
tion of Judah was in the gup of
what today we call a crime wave
only that was moic like a
tide It was a time of violence,
of brutality and lawlessness, of
pci veiled “justice ” What Habak
-1 uk cannot understand is why God
does not at once put a stop to it
He was not the first nor the last
man to be so discouraged about
the slate ot the world that he gives
up hope of human help and be
lieves that only some sudden act
of God can sweep the many evils
aside and usher in peace and
justice But God slays his hand
It seems clear to llabakkuk that
God will not mtcivcne, —and this
Ohij adds to his desperation God
do:« not ulvvays do what vve want
h m to do, and, pailicularly God
at as not ulwvys do vvnat we waul
nun to do v.'ien v.c want him to
Now Is The
Corn pioduceis are lenunded of the
/ tnti-sl Ist deadline to enioll in the Pennsyl
vania Contest entry blanks ate available at
*he Extension Ofiice
Mid-\ugust seeding-* ot alfalfa and late
/ ukast sot dings ot led cloiei should make
s-'o.id lorage pi eduction foi iTie lefi*} reason
(■rowers ait* uiged to inepnie the ground
s' .er.il weeks m advance ol seeding in order
tr gvt i linn, weed-tree seedbed lime and
fcr'ilizei applications aceoiding to a com
jdeto soil test should be woiked into the
ground betene seeding, the band se’edmg
method is siiongly lecominouded.
M VX M. SMITH
To Control Canaria Thistles has stopped the growth of pas-
Many property owners are tl,re crops, held and flock
guilty ot not controlling this owners should turn to stored
noxious weed State law re- feeding in order to maintain
nunes the control tif this weed , , . . .
, , , , condition and production Ani
aud local lane owners are urg
ed to mow the thistles at ome ma * s that are allowed to get
and spray the new growth in tbm durmg the summer and
order to kill the roots More ear * y are costly
attention to the eradication of producers durmg the following
this weed is badly needed winter. Hay and silage will
take the place of pasture and
perhaps some temporary pas
ture crops may be seeded for
late fall grazing.
To Feed Hay and Silage
To Suppdement Pasture
Dry .weather Jn many, areas--
ilo it We are like children—im
patient if God does not opeiate on
our schedule But God has his own
plans and times lie novel comes
100 late
Scourge of God
Now the Lord gives Habukkuk
an answer, an ama/ing answer.
“I am rousing the Chaldeans,”
God tells the piophct That would
be as shocking in Habakkuk’s ears
as if some one weic lo tell us that
God is rousing the Russians.
Chapter 1:5-11 gives a grim pic
tux e of the Chaldeans. Any Israel
ites would have agreed 100% with
it. This was a cruel, strong, ruth
less, plundering, tyrannical,
atheist nation. They are well
aimed, ‘‘they come for violence;
terror of them goes before them."
God does not paint them in pretty
colors. What would seem strange
and incredible to Habakkuk is not
the darkly violent description of
the Chaldeans, the nation all other
nations feared and hated; what
Habakkuk would find all but im
possible to believe was that God
would stir them up
Yet that was the fact Those
ciuel people weic “the scourge of
God,” to punish the people of God
for then own sms The prophet’s
question, we lemember, was, Why
doesn’t God do something about
the sinfulness of this nation?
God s answer is I am even now
pieparing a temble scourge with
which to lash this people for their
crimes. And the name of the
scornge is—Chaldea!
A Lesson for Faith
This answer still does not sat
isfy the unhappy prophet How is
it that a just and good God, to say
nothing ot his wisdom,—how is it
he will use such a wicked nation
as the Chaldeans to punish his
own people ’ Space fails to tell all
that Habakkuk learned m this
time of crisis about the ways of
God One thing was that God is
in eontiol He sets bounds to evil.
Neither on this eaith nor any
wheie in his cieation does God
odei his tin one to Satan Nowhere
does God relinquish conti 01.
Anothei thing the prophet learns
is that we have to look beneath
the smface of things to see the
tiuth All things must be judged,
not by what can be seen in a
moment’s glance, but by the long
run Habakkuk learns that God
does not pay all his accounts in
October, but God does pay. “The
airogant man shall not abide,”
as Hitler's ghost could tell you.
He who would undei stand the
ways of God must be a patient
man of faith, for the man of
faith, in contact with the mighty
God, shall foiever live.
(Based on outlines cop>r!?hte(l by
th Division of Christian
Isa'mial Council of the Churches of
Chiist in the USA Released by
Community Tress Service )
Time . . .
HY M \ \ SMITH
To Kmoli In Five -\( re Corn Contest
To Ptepare For August Seedin^s