4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4, 1962 From Where We Stand... Bumper Crops Are On The Way “Ask any farmer m this area how his crops are doing and you will hear a joyful answer from most of them; ‘The best ever’’ • “Observation will bear this out as one travels along the roads and high ways in the county and sees the won derful green of the crops, the height of the corn and beans, and the bountiful second growth of clover. “The corn is promising to be a bumper crop this year Most of corn seen was fence-top high by the fourth of July The corn is thick also and the rows have been observed to be very dean of weeds, again the result of good weather ” No' the editor has not taken leave of all his senses The above is just a few paragraphs copied from the July 24 is sue of the Eastern Indiana Farmer. A crop forecast in the same paper predicts a bumper crop of corn, soy beans, hay, grain and tobacco through out the state Only cutbacks in acreage will prevent almost all the crops in Indiana from producting the highest yields on record. And all this points up the argu ment we have fostered for a long time It is not so much a problem of pro duction as it is a problem of distribution A friends, recently returned from Wisconsin, told of dairymen in that state who let some of their alfalfa crop lie in the field this year because they had no storage space. We know some local dairymen who practically drool at the thoughts of all that hay going to waste while they wonder if they can scrape enough together to get herds through the winter. Well, there ought to be a moral here somewhere if we can find it' Maybe it is best summed up by a farmers from north of Lititz who said a week or so ago, “We had three good years in a row, and maybe we got spoiled.” Perhaps the best thing to do is raise the old battle cry of the Dodgers when they used to lose ball games in Brooklyn. “Just wait till next year ” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand ★ ★ ★ ★ No ONE Way! Two dairymen breeders of pure bred cattle last week presented their theories on the best methods of improv ing the dairy herd. We believe it reiterates the idea that there is no one way to do a thing in the business of farming • Brubaker (Continued from Page 1) not a new experience for the 10th grade student (he m 1 enter 11th grade at Donegal High School m September) v>ho plated hvst, in the <-iat 3 Future Farmers d.urv judging contest in Tune He will rep resent the stale FFA assen tation in the national dairv judging contest at Waterloo, lowa in G( loiter Many honors have form 10 fke young dairyman through his fine Ifolsu in dairy caltli In I'JGO his junior ralf vwnt through loral and district <om petition to first pUic m state competition J>mi y«ar he had the regional grand (harr plon at th< Jun'or Itair/ Show He has built (juile a bird in his two years in the Future Farmers of Amcrita with i present inventory of 12 anim als. In adition he farms 5 l «2 acre* of tobacco and raises K,OOO broilers for his present TFA farming program. fji» A~H ■> program. add*, ap- Raymond Witmer, an exteremely successful breeder of Guernseys at Wil low Street Rl, told members of the county Guernsey Association meeting at his farm for a practice judging ses sion, the job of the breeder is to select bulls which will overcome some of the faults of the cow. He explained that a bull with the ability to transmit strength to his calves should be mated to the over refined cows and the bulls with extereme quality should be mated to the rugged cows. Donald Seipt, a well known breed er of Holstein cattle at Keystone Farm near Easton, Penna , said at the county Holstein field day. the temptation is great for dairymen to use too many bulls and thus introduce too many diff erent genes into the herd. He said this is possible because service to almost any bull in the United States and Canada is available through artificial insemination. Now anyone who can see the re sults of these two theories put into practice must know that they are both successful practices for these two men, but it is rather hard to reconsile the two ideas We repeat, there is seldom one best way to do a thing in this business of farming. If it works better than any thing you have tried before then use it till something better comes along At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Reporting is a peculiar business. There are those who report for world wide news services, for domestic news services, for individual newspapers, and for magazines which deal primarily with the daily happenings all over the world There are other reporters for radio and for television, for networks, and for in dividually-owned broadcasting firms Reporters and reporting occasion ally get into trouble. Recently a pro minent U.S. Senator blasted reporters generally, and newspaper and magazine reporters specifically for what he said was “pitifully inadequate” coverage of the very complex,, highly controversial new farm legislation. This particular Senator’s scattergun blast at reporters followed right on the heels of Secretary of Agriculture Free man’s tribute to the press. Mr. Free man termed the same reporting job “excellent reporting.” So, you pays your money and you takes your choice The Enterprise-Courier, Charleston, Mo other three dairy anuijals. 1 000 bi oilers and two acres of eorn For hts activities m f-H he was chosen to attend state club congress at the Pennsv I\ania State Universe v 111 7 une He holds the office of Par liament! man m the* Witne-s Oak C h. l liter of FFA and is r ‘“or,<r for the Blizabeth tow n-l)on< gal J-H (luij will nin from Aukiis! '■ lim,u "b 8 at rbr* Ohio Col- o-frooo OO 00-O-O-frwo-* Uncoster Forming R hta bi,si.6d N«™ bo r 4, C’ountyH Ovvu l*'urni IMiblitjhcvJ (very Safur- (Jay by Lancdhter-Fariuinir, Lit y O Eos 1524 it/t J. a Earn ,i3lf-r. Fdnna ~ P O Eox 280 - L uju, i'a Entered us 2n<l (lass mailer at I'a. un<]r r Act of Mar S. 1879. Offlc <-v 22 E Mam St LI tit/, Pa. Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-304 7 or Lititz MA G-2191 Jack Owen, Editor Member Pa. Newspapers Pub- Robert G Campbell, lishers Association: National AavertMitog Director Editorial Association. ★ ★ ★ On Reporting Hissed opportumi v is the price of total reliance on com fortable security—Dr Kd nmnd C -Neuhas For .1 siimraci \at alum m Ihe wide out-of-doors, try a slate park or national lores' These natural uiieatiou areas a wide taii e t y of out door a< initios places to tish, hunt, hike and swim, jntnu areas tamp sites and some times Subscription Ratos $2 per vcar, throe years $5. Single (opy I'm e 5 cents. Bible Material' 3 Kin** Si througl 35, Jaremiah 40 1-8, 42 1-8 Oeiotlonal-Rradlac Psalm 137'1-8 The Crash | Lesson f«F Angnst S, 1962 | np HEY cried when Queen Ne hushta left town. For the queen-mother did not leave of hei own accord; she was a captive And as we know, the only people left behind to weep were the “poorest of the Land.” No one ca pable of dream ing-up a revolu tion was left behind, Nebu chadnezzai thought. For along with the queen mother went her puppet son Jehoiachin (or Jeeomah as he was some times called). It would really have been a service to the coun try if Nebuchadnezzar had stop ped right there; for neither she (a local girl of no brains, apparently) nor her son (a mere boy whose father had set him a poor exam ple of how to be a king) was any credit to the country. But with all the young men of the army gone into exile too, and all the skilled workers, and all the gov erning class and all the people with any property, there was enough to cry about. . Wont to Como It was hard to see how things could be worse. But there was worse to come King Jehoiachm’s successor was appointed by the King of Babylon, and incidentally his name was changed too—per haps to demonstrate that he was the last, weakest, and most stupid of Josiah’s sons. He did not know on which side, so to speak, his bread was buttered. He paid too little attention to Jeremiah’s warnings He somehow persuaded himself that (with the help of Egypt’) he could break away from Babylon. This time Nebu chadnezzar made a complete shambles of the city. All previous invaders had spared the temple, though they had robbed its treas ures. Zedekiah may have thought that since the temple of God was still in the city, God would not Now Is The Time . . . MIX M. SMITH silage rather than husking' corn. With fodder and a poorly developed ear ot corn it is ret o~nmended that the t rop be made into silage in order to utilize the maximum amount of feeding value This kind of corn may not make ext client corn silage but it is the--best way to get the most from it Trench silos or bunker silos pro vide good, «t Gnomical storage Plans are available. To Treat, Small Grain Seed The proper cleaning and trr d,tjn« of homegrown heed Tobacco growers who -are is very important to have a Planning to spray their crop to good cop next summer Grams stop Suck f, r gl ° wth * e ' come well informed on the should oe treated with a fungi- pro per time and amount t)f the tide such as Ceresan M m or- spray to be used. Haay an der to <be(h diseases. If the s tances of poor result* 'tbjwe crop should any evidence of been blumed 00 ‘ usin « , ... . much of the material anU.'by disease this past season, then spraying when the W-lis the purchase ot certified seed too im-mature. Information-i« is .strongly- recommended. - available. ‘ " IS it be destroyed. If he thought so, he was terribly mistaken; for the temple was burned to the ground, the great and beautiful temple which had stood there for about 300 years. With it were burned not only the royal palaces but all the “great houses'' of the city. Could it Happen Hero? When a nation goes to war It usually thinks of itself as win* mng. Spain thought of course she could crush England with the famous Armada; instead, the loss of the Armada marked the long down-hill road of once proud Spain. England fully expected to vs in the war of the American “re* hellion. ” The Confederate States of America were confident that they could force the United States to recognize their independence. The Kaiser, and after that Hitler, thought “Deutschland über AUes” —Germany Above All—could be ananged by a snappy Blitzkrieg. It is a sad experience to stand in a modern city that once was as bustling and proud as our New York, and see the war-shattered wrecks of the tall beautiful build ings laid brutally open to the sky. It is a bit of a shock to hear in a great Japanese city that fires started by American bomb ings laid waste more than 90% of the city that used to be. Now we live in a time when the two most poweiful nations on earth possess weapons beside which the bomb that fell on Hiroshima was hardly more than a large fire cracker. We live m a time when all it takes to demolish one city Is one shot. Our cities, and Rus sian cities, are not even as hard to destroy as Zedekiah’s Jerusa lem was. It took the best army in the world two years to smash Jerusalem; but the next “war" can be over in two hours. There are no victors in an atomic war,, only victims. What Israel Learned There was one precious thing' not destroyed or deported in the 1 crash of Jerusalem: it was A lesson. They learned, the hard 1 ’ way, that God plays no favorites. He is merciful and long-suffering l and very patient; but if people> do not really love the ways of peace, eventually they pay, ifc bloody death, for their folly. This, xs just as true for great nations,- as for little ones It is just as* tiue for church-going nations as for nations without churches. If, the great nations of the world would put as much money and gemus into keeping peace as to making war, men could breathe again. (Based on outlines copyrighted' by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ In the U. S A. Released by Community Frees Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Peed Hi»j Caret ullj Most dairy and livestock producers .have oeen forced to feed hay or silage during the past month, in many cases the hay is thrown upon the giound for the cattle and much of it is tramped and wasted This is not the proper way to leed hay m the first place because ol danger of worm intestation and secondly, it is wasting pait of a very valu able feed Hay should be fed fioin a rack or manger Plans are aiailable To Plan For Silage Storage It appeals that dry leather may result jn man> fields ot cun being made into corn To Apply Tobacc* Sprays Carefully
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