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—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
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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
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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
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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