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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
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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)
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Of Grapes and Gripes
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■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
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The Inst 1" platings aw aid
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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
<eem to be the most violent
war-makers As individuals, as
churches, as a nation, do we really
act as if we belonged to fee God
of pea-’e?
Security
A third gieat idea, a third great
promise of God to his true people,
is security. We know, if we hat'*
anv exnenence at all. that God
guarantees no man security trom
all human and earthly troubles.
Cornmentatoi s are not all agreed
whether this icfeience in Ezekiel
to security should be taken lit
erally or not. One thing should b«
clear. If not even the prophet
Ezekiel was immune from trou
bles (he lost his wife, and mourned
deeply the fall of Jerusalem),
God’s people should not expsat
total, freedom from pain, frustra
tion and death, not to mention
other ills. So those who think w*
should take the part about sec*
rity literally, usually believe *
must mean at some time after tht
last judgment, not now. However
this may be, the believer in God
can be assured that God will not
I'st him be wholly destroyed, nol
even by death. To the Christian,
death is not the final crash; it if
God’s summons to a world ol
glory* The Christian has tiM
deepest security of all—security
against the fear of death.
(Based on outlines oopyrlchtod felt
tho Dlrlslon of Christian Educations
Notional Council of tho Churchoi m
Christ in the U. 8. A. Released W.
Community Press Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
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To Inspect Hav Replacement Feeds
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