2—Lancaster Fartnino ctaturrlair Aurtnc* 10 mco 4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18, 1962 From Where We Stand... What Makes Tobacco Worth $9.00 We used to think, along about late August that Lancaster County tobacco made about the most work of anything m the world But last week on a vacation trip through Connecticut Valley we found ■>ut there is a crop that takes just a little more work than our tobacco We saw several hundred acres of tobacco grown under muslin shade and every stalk in all those hundreds of acres had been tied up to an overhead wire with a string. Not only is all planting and culti \atmg done under the muslin tents, but all the harvesting as well Cutting, spearing and hanging tobacco is quite a chore, but once it is done, it is done In the shade-grown fields the harvest goes on and on in the same field for several weeks with two or three leaves being primed from the bottom of the stalk at each harvest. Even the harvested leaves must be protected from the sun Large canvas baskets covered with a cloth for shade carry the leaves to the drying shed where high school girls fasten them, with string, to a lath. When the girls nave 40 leaves on the lath it is hung in the barn for curing by heat for about 40 days This all sounds like a big job, and we can vouch for the fact that ix is a big job We began to wonder how anyone could afford to hire all the labor to run an operation such as the one we visited. Eighty-six acres were grown by one man, and all the work was hired. Even with high school boys and girls, the labor bill for so much hand work would have to be terrific. Then we found out that nearly all the tobacco in the valley is under con tract to cigar companies with the land owner furnishing only the land, labor and the management. The . cigar com panies furnished the muslin cover, the processing machinery and equipment and the heat for curing. We still wondered how the land owner could ever break even with such labor requirements. Then we found out that the con tract price for the cured leaf is $9 00 per pound And we try to produce our crop for slightly more than 30 cents a pound We know two different types of to bacco are involved, but maybe we ought to find out if there is that much differ ence At least that’s how it looks from v here we stand ★ ★ ★ ★ Lancaster Farming .Lancaster County’s Oun Farm Weekly P 0 Box 1 j 2-1 Lancaster Penna. P 0 Eo\ 2GG - Litur, Pa Oni< cs 2J E Mam St Lit it/:, Pa Phone - Lancaster EXju ess 1-20 17 or Lint/ M V fi-Jl 01 Jack Owen, Editor Robot G Campbell Advertising Diiector Established November 4, 1 till Publislicd eveij Silm div bv Lancabtei-Fai mins; Lit at/, Pa Enteied as 2nd clasx matter total ol Jo bujeis paid an at Lituz, Pa undo Act ut -Mar. ,|X( l,l! -.e ot 1 ’ > ccmts a ocmncl J>, IST') We had often heard of the vine yards of the Lake Erie section of New York and Pennsylvania, but we were not quite prepared for the sight that greeted us as we 'drove down highway number five from Buffalo to Erie. We expected to see grape vines, but the sight of great fields of the things was overwhelming. Our better half kept remarking about the huge job of harvest with all those purple beauties having to be pick ed by hand, but all we could think of was the gargantuan job with the prun ing shears that would face a grower with 15 or 20 acres of vines next Janu ary. Maybe we both needed the vacation since we both thought of work instead ot the wholesome goodness of the fruit, or grape juice or grape jelly Or maybe we looked at it through the sympathetic eyes of people reared on farms rather than through the eyes of city consumers. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand Lancaster county, when we left it two weeks ago, was just about as dry as we have ever seen it. As we drove through New York, New England, Quebec and Ontario, we kept thinking that few areas were as hard hit by the summer drought as was our own beautiful county. Even when farmers and towns people all along the route told us of the dry conditions we kept thinking they were well off compared to southeastern Pennsylvania. Hay in most areas was short but still green and growing. Corn wherever it was grown at all, was short but still green. We kept picturing Lancaster county with its well kept farms, its beautifully painted buildings and its carefully trimmed lawns,' and all the while com paring it to the picture of poorly painted farm buildings and ill trimmed lawns and gardens which are all too common a sight throughout the country. Then we returned home to a sight that had not greeted us .since June. In our garden was mud real mud, and the lawn was already beginning to show some signs of green among the brown And on the faces of farmers were the signs of more hope than had been there a week before It is truly amazing how a little ram can change the complexion of a land and the attitude of a people. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand • Beef Show (Continued irom Page 1) Until on explained that con ventional ‘tvpe judging not given vei.' much emphasis bv the judges who vveic pacK ei tun pis (leilbion said tlie decision to discontinue the show altei tin-. \o n uis made in oidei to allow the exchange to put men c emphasis on the an nual l-II icnindiip held at the stock (aids, but also the ex change telt the show did not have the mteiest it should hive wnh onlv JO head ol cat tle exhibited Livestock produceis are mouth-stricken cops, es- U] B ed t 0 l )lan then ? eeds , for . Witme. 2 Hess 3 AC pecallv coin that has been Pastuie, silage, and hay from. Kiev 4 Roh.e. fi Magda heavily lei tilled with mtio- now " ntl f ed * Kiev G i)ehia L Edwa.ds «.en may ,esult in the fo.ma- ln B of eU.a temporary pasture Lampctei 7 John Long, Man- tion ol mliates and be to\u c,0 1 ,b 01 16 app ymg o e hem, U 1 S John F.ey to livestock These stunted tia »'t.ogen now may be of Qu.n iyv ille R 2 ') Ailenc plants aie the most toxic s,eat help Some of the by Loan Manheini R 1 10 Mary within 1 davs following a feeds may be a - KaUnjn iNolt, Raieville, 11 soaking lam -while vjsable large s “ ppU ®® Ella I-'ayc Hoovei Leola 12 stunted ci ops that have been nj,e medn ene ° Call Utavei OSc w J!ollaiu( made into silage or led as> ha> Don t be too hasty in. R 1 1 ! Leslie Olivei Elira- gieen chop, it is suggested buying large amounts of high bcthtown 14 Ranj E Ston- that giain intake he me leased p )lC ed hay at this time; the ei Mount Joy R 1 and 1 A to furnish adequate energy, mal ]- et c ould. change. lO.ii I Eugene is'olt, Baieville oi feed molasses as an addi the 10 head r llu steei s avei- Rl. * tional enei gy leed (Continued on Page 5) Sale \\4i 1 I I) 1() 1 1 loi Of Grapes and Gripes ★ ★ ★ And Rain ★ ★ ★ ■mold out at 010 pounds a head and totaled 37,000 lbs ol lue beet Biggest bujei ot Ihe show was Abiogast and Bastian ol Allentown w'bo took awa\ nine bead Amtioueei was Abe Dittenbach w as The Inst 1" platings aw aid ed monei puzes weie as hol- lows Bible Material Ereluol n 1 20 Dc\otioml Heading Psalm 145 1 1» Persistent Love Lesson for August 19, 1962 «T OVE” comes without reason, ■*-' goes without reason “Love” can be easily hurt, “Love” washes out in a rainy day like a cheap vrf id to the weather. We put quotation marks around “love” of which that can be true; for it is not gen uine love, only a cheap substitute invented by teen age romancers. The Christian religion is a reli- Dr. Foreman gion of love; but the love of which we speak has no more resemblance to the tiling that crooners mumble about, than it has to a ham sandwich. Love as we meet it in the Bible is not a merely human word. Whatever genuine love human beings have, is based on, modeled on and called into existence by the love of God. The ancient prophets, among them Ezekiel, speak very strongly of the love God has for his people in this world,—a love which persists in spite of all that men do to dis courage God. If you were God, any affection you might have felt for the human race would have evaporated long since, so let us all be thankful you are not God His love is everlasting. Blessing mmtm In the brief passage Ezek. 34:23-31 three ideas stand out. Each of these points up what God’s love is, or rather how his love is shown. God’s love is not (as ours sometimes Is) a feeling to be cherished in secret. It is always made known—to those who have eyes to see. First of the three ideas we select for underscoring, is blessing. The reader notices that the prophet does not say, as we might have expected him to do, “I will give you a blessing.” He says rather, “I will make you a blessing.” God’s love comes in fullness not to those who try to hold it for themselves. The best way to ex pi ess our sonship to God Is to pass on the blessings he gives us.. Now Is The Time . . • In the diouth areas where the third cutting ot alfalta is very short and m bloom, it should be cut so that a uniform growth will come along aftei the tains It is quite possible* to get one very good cutting of altaltn befoie cold weathei arnves Tins may also be tme in glass clover mixtures or stiaight giass stands if nitiogen fertilizer is applied at once When hay puces get evtiemely high theie may be olhei teeds that will replace the hay m the lation and give as good re- MAX M. SmTH suits at a lower cost pel p.ound of TDN. Such leeds as beet pulp, citius pulp, alfalfa meal, soybean tlakes cottonseed hulls, and otheis may be used in the giam lation to leplace some ot the hay. To Bo \loit For Nitrate Foisonni" Yes, but some one asks, does noi that keep us robbed of happiness? Quite the contrary; there is ni such great happiness in holding on to blessings as there is ia sharing them. Do people ever thank God for you’ You may not be able to answer that, becausi you don’t know. Peace Another gieat word here .. “Peace.” God makes a covenant —an agreement—of love with hu people Eveiy dealing of God with men is looted and founded in love This cannot be otherwise if God is love But this prophet brings out the way love is shown—and one way is the way of peace. Om God, the only true God, is a God of peace, not stiife, anger, vio lence There is something wrong with the picture when so-called and self-labeled Christians keej sniping at one another and calling names There may be no pos sibility of union between youi chuich and some other; but even where that is true, you do not manifest your Christianity by call mg names and “running down* other Christians wno do not tf heve just in the way you Furthermore, to take anothei illustration, it ought to hurt our consciences that the so-called Ihnstian nations of the world