—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 28, 1962
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From Where We Stand...
Winning Is “Have Your Heart In It”
“Having your heart in it is a big
part of winning, and I love to plow.”
That’s the way Everett Kreider ex
plained his championship in the Lancas
ter County Plowing Matches
Now we all know that a certain a
mount of skill and preparation goes in
to any contest, but we think that this
business of having your heart in it is
sometimes overlooked or at least
overshadowed
It reminds us of something Dr.
William Henning, Pa. Secretary of Ag
riculture used to tell his students in
Animal Husbandry at the Pennsylvania
State University.
“You can not make a champion out
of a poor calf, but you can take the best
calf ever born and ruin him by poor
feeding, fitting or showing.” he would
say. *.4*
To say it another way, we believe
a contestant can never finish higher in
a contest than he has a desire to finish.
We believe that many farmers make
no more money in the business of farm
ing than they have a desire to make.
We believe there are many farm
ers on the land today who have no feel
ing for the land or the crops and ani
mals that grow from the land. Too many
times the unsuccessful farmer is on the
farm because he inherited the farming
business or other circumstances pushed
him into the business without too much
choice on his own part
We believe, for the most part, the
successful farmer is one who conscious
ly chose the business of farming as his
way of life and has a sincere desire to
make it the best business he is capable
of making it We believe the successful
farmer is one who considers farming a
business as well as a way of life and
does not think it is undesirable to learn
all he can about the business We be
lieve the successful farmer is not afraid
to try new ideas in his business whether
they be proposed by his next door nei
ghbor, the county agent, the teacher of
vocational agriculture or the professor
at the state Land-Grant University. We
believe the successful farmer loves the
land and his animals and will do all he
can to make them earn a comfortable
living for him and his family even
when it means abandoning some of the
tried and true ideas of yesteryear and
substituting some newer methods
There are still those who are trying
to keep the farmer and his family living
in ignorance, but they are not succeed
ing While farming is still, a way of
life, it is also a business, and it must
be conducted like a business
We do not believe a farmer can
‘'have his heart in farming” without
wanting to learn all he can about his
chosen way of earning his daily bread.
And we do not believe a person can
learn everything about any business if
he is going to be prudish about the
source of his information.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Come to The Fair
Heigh Ho Come To The Fair!
Fall fair season begins next week
in Lancaster County. Every day of the
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week will see a dairy cattle exhibition
on the grounds of the Southeastern Ar
tificial Breeders Cooperative grounds on
Route 230 Bypass
Following one fairly quiet week
in the show rings, the 4-H swine round
up will be followed by the 4-H and
FFA dairy shows and we are" almost in
to the local Farm Show and Fair season.
While the number of local exhibi
tions has dwindled in recent years, the
quality of exhibits and the keenness of
competition have not lost any of their
appeal.
We would like to urge support of
local shows and fairs as one of the best
methods of teaching young people the
business of farming and the fun of do
ing something worthwhile in a spirit of
friendly competition.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Solids Not Fat
Like liver before nutritionists ex
plained its worth, the solids that are not
fat in milk may be greatly underval
uated, according to T. J. Claydon, dairy
manufacturing professor at Kansas State
University, Manhattan.
Dairy processors long have been
concerned about the, solids not fat in
milk as they affect the quantity of che
ese, powdered milk and condensed milk
that can be manufactured from milk
The sohds-not-fat are primarily
proteins, minerals and lactose The pro
tein in cottage cheese, for example, is
as good nutritionally as the protein in
T-bone steaks Lactose is the sugar m
milk but it also contains elements used
in medicines Milk is an important sour
ce of calcium. Nutritionists more and
more are stressing the nutritive value
of the solids-not-fat in milk, and in
dustry is putting less stress on fat con
tent and attaching more importance to
the solids-not-fat, so producers soon
should be paid for solids-not-fat (S.N F.)
Claydon thinks that dairymen will
be paid partly according to the solids
not-fat in their milk as soon as a satis
factory method of measuring them has
been accepted Sjmple methods have be
en developed and tested and appear to
be suitably accurate. They are being
used by cattle breeders to select lines
high in solids-not-fat. In California,
some milk is being marketed on this
basis
Like fat content, solids-not-fat gen
erally are highest in milk from Jerseys
and Guernseys and lowest from Hoh'
steins. Many, but not all, of the same
conditions that lower fat content lower
solids-not-fat in milk As cows get older,
the solids-not-fat in their milk decreases
winter increases, summer decreases sol
ids-not-fat; diseases lower S.N.F.; low
temperatures increase theim, high tem
peratures decrease them; and inadequate
ration decreases S.N.F.
Claydon thinks it not unreasonable
to visualize the time special feeding and.
special care will be used to produce
milk low in fat content and high in
solids-not-fat, for a product tailor-made
for nutritional standards.—
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Bible Material 2 Kings 24 11-16;
Jeiemiah 28 1-14, 30 18 24, 31, 32 38.
42, S 3 14-26
Devotional Reading: Psalm 36 6-U,
Beyond the Tears
Lesson for July 29, 1962
WHEN « disaster falls which
you have long predicted,
when your warning* have been
cast aside year after year, wheh
the thing comes to pass that no
one but yourself
would believe wa»
possible, it is a
strong tempta
tion to lay, or
even shout: I
TOLD YOU SO!!
Jeremiah had too
good a heart tit
say any such
thing. His dark
and dire predic
tions came true, and he Was not
surprised, though every one else
was more than surprised, they
were thunderstruck. But he did
not rub it in. What the people did
not realize was that he grieved
over the tragedy and the tears of
his people more than the people
themselves, if possible. His fel
low-citizens had long since typed
him as a man who looked on the
dark side of things by choice, in
deed a man who enjoyed being
gloomy, and took pleasure in
other people’s distress.
Life Goes On
A major disaster fell on the city
of Jerusalem and the surrounding
territory of Judah, when the army
of Babylon marched in Or rather
when they marched away; for in
returning to Babylon the army
took with them a notable roster
of V.I P.’s. Think of it- -Not only
the king, the high executu e, and
all the palace stag both of officials
and servants; hut all the classes
of the common people who had
Intelligence, strength and skill.
Those who would be interested in
seeing how a poet of those days
'ooked at the desolation of his
city, should read the “Lamenta
,ions” which are anonymous in
he original, but which tradition
iscnbes to Jeremiah himself. It
ooked-like a completely hope
ess situation. Yet the prophet
wrote a letter to the exile*, with
out a word of condemnation in it*
mcouraging them to settle down
Now Is The
crops later this fall and early next spring!
During August or September such crops as
winter rye, domestic ryegrass, field brotne
grasb, and both Dual and Redcoat wheat
may be seeded for livestock grazing; all ot
these forage crops will inake excellent fop«
age late into the fall and early next spring l .
Some plans should now he made to fufnish,
roughages to help take the place of the ail
age and hay fed during these summer ibon*
ths
MAX M. SMITH
TO PEKTIbMK GRASSLANDS August seeding of alfalfa and
Both Dasture ahd hay fields a late August seeding of fed
should be fertilized to produce dover. If more rams do colfte,
their maximum -when soil these August seedings should
moisture improves Straight tie fertilized and limed acdbr
grass areas should get 50 ding to a complete soil lest,
pounds of actual nitrogen per The hand seeding method is
acre and grass-legume stands the very best means of estab
treated with 800 to 400 hshmg a summer stand.
TO OBDER SEED SCPPLffiS
add several -weeks to the graz- The grower who obtains his
mg season this lall ahd make supply of seeds early usually
a late hay cutting possible gets the variety ahd quality
that he wants The quantity
of some varieties of winter
grains is limited and there-
TO INSPECT NEW
IjEGUME ST.V NOS
Many fields of new alfalfa fore, it is advisable to £et
and clover have dried up due your needs on band just as
to the dry weather A good soon as possible. Store the
hay crop for 19G3 may still seeds in a dry place away
be secured by making a mid- from all livestock and rodeilts. '
where they were, to build house*,
plant gardens, hve normal happy
lives.
"A Future and a Hope”
One difference between dogs,
cats and other beasts on the one
side, and mankind on the other,
is that the lace of man lives much
in the future and in the past. We
aie particularly unhappy when
we see no future. Ours is a dark
time for this reason; many shud
der at the danger of the atomic
age looming with sinister horror
over the heads of all the little
children of the world. The young
er generation is peculiar in being
the first younger generation in
recorded time that was not en
vied by those who are older. What
we desire, what we can scarcely
find, is (in Jeremiah’s word*) a
future and a hope. That wet the ,
two-fold promise that the prophet
made to his defeated people: Can
God make us the saihe promise
today? Only a prophet could an
swer that question for certain.
But one thing we may notice:
The future for Israel, bright an
.it was destined to be (and this in
regarded as one of the great
Biblical prophecies yet to be ful
filled) was a future with in IF
in it.
tho iNiw Covmnt; the New Uriel
The prophets of the Bible sel
dom explain their prophecies.
They left it to the Holy Spirit, S
He will/ to illumine the minds of
those who in future centuries
would read these ancient proph
ecies. Now there are two proph
ecies of Jeremiah in particular,
both of them messages of hope,
which the Christian generally un
derstands as not ever completely
fulfilled. They are partly fulfilled
in each generation; but complete
ly in none. One of these prophe
cies is that of the New Covenant .
(Chapter 31). Have we reached *
the time, has the world ever
reached a time, when the law of :
God is written in all men’s hearts,"
and when all men from the least
to the greatest, shall know th* ,
Lord? No, we are a long Way •-
from this blessed future, to aU"
appearances. Then that prophecy
anout the Branch: Has any Uhl
person ever fulfilled the- wotdaj .
about the “righteous Branch/’,?j«"
Has any earthly monarch merited i
the title? The Christian Church '
thinks not; and so as the “NeW
Israel’ 1 bound to God through th* r
“new covenant” in Christ’s blood? ~
looks forward still to a new heav
en wherein dwells righteousness.
(Sited on outlines copyrighted >r
the Division of Christian Education*
National Council of the Chhreheil of
Christ in tho U. S. A. Released hr
Community Rrtsa Service.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
TO PDAX TEMPORARY FORAGE CHOPS
Reduced supplies of hay and silage may
be supplemented with extended grazing