4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 25, 1962 From Where We Stand... Don’t Play “Dog In The Manger” With the recent rains, farms are in better condition than they were three weeks ago. Lancaster County’s tobacco crop is going to be better than most of us thought it could a month ago. Some of the corn fields that looked dead and dried up are forming ears—though the cars are small and many of them little more than nubbins. Pastures are grow ing again and producing some feed af ter several weeks of dormancy. Soils have enough moisture to ger minate August alfalfa seedings and with normal rainfall from here on out, fall seedings of small grains should get a fair start. But hay and roughage continues to be one big question mark on most dairy and livestock iarms this fall and win ter We don’t know of any farmers planning to sell out because of the shor tage of forage. That is just not the way farmers do business. One sjate-wide cooperative has lo cated a supply of hay at an out of state source and is moving this hay into the commonwealth for members at cost plus transportation and minimum handling. Farmers themselves are turning to emergency programs such as temporary pasture seedings and ensiling of corn •originally planted for grain. Many dairymen are already feeding various forms of forage extenders to try to make their short hay supply go as far as possible Many people not living on dairy or livestock farms fail to realize that these emergency measures are just that —emergency measures Many people writing and talking about the drought and the problems it has brought do not appreciate the seriousness of the prob lem. Too many people who do not have cattle on feed take the attitude of the dog in the manger He could not eat the hay, but he would not get up and let the cow have it. Many self-appointed experts have said that Lancaster County should have never been designated a disaster area, and we agree that there will be no widespread famine among Garden Spot farmers, but if the designation helps some hard-hit dairymen to get hay cheaper, or to harvest hay from land voluntarily taken out of production of surplus grains, then why should there be a hue and cry from those who do not want to participate. Why should the stubborn pride of persons who do not wish to transport hay at reduced rates be allowed to punish those who may need the financial relief to help them over a cncis. Lancaster County has always been in an enviable position as far as agri cultural potential is concerned, but x we should never let our pride get so strong that we are ashamed to admit that sometimes things can and do go wrong —even in Lancaster County. And we should never allow our pride to over come our common sense. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand Farm Calendar (Continued flora Page 1) p.mlion Lincoln Highw.iv i .I'd ol L.incastei 12 noon Lia < isl( i Kiu.itus Club «i\% .11 rt<4 v holai''hips to two !-i[ ( luh ni(iii>b( is 7 !<i i) in —l)i union? .Aiu, 4-1 i f’oinmiuntv flub menu in the Qn.ii i v\ illt Lpj-.o'i I'l’k I.ini olii < lull to lie L II ("-.t s .S pin l’( nn \l.inoi 4-II < omnium!'. (luh mi i 1-. a) tin homo ol (lub l j id(i John \\ .mlmuttoii Doio Rl. Still Good Advice In these days when some new prac tices are outdated before they come into widespread use in this business of farm ing, it is comforting to know that there are still many things that have not . changed very much in the past 50 or ! x— -100 years. TT IS hard enough to share ex „ . , , . „ periences even with those who Dairying, in most respects, is a. far near and dear. “The heait cry from the business grandfather knew., knows its own bitterness, and a Most of the methods of handling milk stranger does not intermeddle and feeding cattle are examples of effi- WRsE with its i° y >” the ciency that grandfather could have not SkH 2“ P r °y erb say ®- imagined in his wildest dreams. | ' - S enC gj w ® But good cows were good cows J Sst^ofpeoS three quarters of a century ago just as ’•yL* " J dead for more much as they are now, and cull cows than two thou are no more profitable now than they »and years, shar were then. in ? their experi -0 , u/r tit T-, IHA Mi ence may seem Seventy-six years ago Mr W. D. D r. Foreman Impossible. Yet Hoard wrote in a magazine for dairy- such is the universal reach and men, “Fodder is going to be scarce this meaning of the Bible, where we winter in many sections and the present &id this ancient story, that we is a good time to get rid of the poor |j a " s learn some thing for our own cows. There are thousands of men in this u *' . „ , . , country who would have had more cash g £ng again!* especially it in their pocket last spring if they had ginning again on the scene of a got rid or half their cows for what failure or a disaster. Yet that is they would bring in the fall before. Just what the Hebrew people, “Don’t think you are richer for ex j led from their beloved Jeru owning and wintering a poor cow or city w°as nof There any that you can sell her next spring for more . The glories of the city enough to make up for what she has Solomon built have never ic taken out of you. turned, to this day. All around the “What a grand move ahead the returning exiles were the rums of dairy industry would take in good solid St ° f v,hlch /, j, J j . „ , they must slowly bund a new one. profit if every dairyman would get a We remember that the little na- Babcock test and proceed to know what o£ j u dah had Veen smashed, sort of cows he was doing business with, and that its destruction was God’s ‘Don’t know’ costs vastly more than to will, to punish the nation for its know ” sms. Before the crash, few would You can’t improve much on a state- ° elieve e ° uld happen. But after lib-P that the Crash; thG mo ° d 0f the natlon ment like mat. shanged at once from a sdly op- At least that s how it looks from hmism to a deep and bitter pessi where we stand. mism. From singing the song “We ★ ★ ★ ★ ,re Goci ’ s people and he will not let anything destroy us,i’ they I ivAclnrlr I ntirc «ang 8 different tune—how dif- lutx wo ierent can be seen by reading the Now and then we hear a livestock °* “Lamentations” written producer complain against the animal plumed vSIyToS-Se! laws that make tests, vaccinations and sod had turned against them, other treatments mandatory for the Jiey felt. And so he had. But until person who sells or trades livestock, he prophet* persuaded them or who sells the product from live- rtberwise, they did not think God stock. What the complainer fails to J! 16 " 1 ' realize is that such laws are not only ' rophet3 had to pmoh ov * r and a protection for a neighbor, but also for himself. Disease is no respecter of individuals or farms. An epidemic, or a costly disease that can wipe out a profit of years can as easily spread from a neighbor’s farm to ours as from ours to that neighbor’s.. A good many ■of us recall the days before animal protective measures, when streams were sometimes glutted with the car casses pf hogs or cattle that had died . , , . ... _ - x • t ~ ~ j (Eptam worked into the soil before seeding from contagious disease, a practicethat the leguin e: (2) a Dm.tro spray (pre-em spread it far beyond our own neigh- e or Sinox PE) when the llttle legume 9 borhoods at times. None of us wants _ 0 ~ tii tvv i* . aie m the 2 to 4 leaf stage, ana (3) 2,4- those days to return. None of us wants db when the weeds are l to 2 inches high, to go back to days when we had no The proper U se of any one of these should protection against a disease that ongi- , , ~ .. * , , , & give good lesults Don t wait until the we* somewhere (Md) max m. BMXH t 0 8 l!ichefe hl * h and then spray ‘ - Appeal Aug 3U - 0 a m 4-H Aug 31 flam Regional First, evaluate your roughage needs and don’t be hastf Distnct Dauy show at the X<FA dairy show at the m i, U y mK too much hay at high prices or m buying poor Guernsey Sales Pavilion Guernsey Sales Pavilion ht hay . some hay substitutes may furnish the feed nutri- Lincoln Highway east of Lincoln Highway, east of , , , . , L |ster Lancastei ents cllea P er Gian some high priced hay, more grain feeding or the use of more beet pulp or citrus pulp may be the ans ❖ <--0-■s-<• < wer States to the west and to the south have hay to sell; of ferings aie available Don’t buy any more weeds we have enough alieady TO- HKW 4UL Ol< SILO (< \S uo]) an( j 1<? dangerous to both Silo filling time Is appioac'i- man and beast, it is heavier Established November 4, mg and much stunted corn than air and will hang in the 1955 Published eveiy Satur- may end up in the silo II this bottom or the silo. In the day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- corn was pioduced on high chute or seep out into the ltz _ p a feitilized soils, especially nit- ham Keep the barn well rogen, then some caution ventilated after Idling and al- Entered as 2nd class matter should be used in the detec- ways run the blower before at Lititr, Pa under Act of liar, tion of mtiogen dioxide, it going into the silo or the S, 1379. may develop irom the corn chute Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm W coklj P 0 Eo\ 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P O Box 2CC - Lititr, Pa. Offi( es 22 10 Jl.im St. Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster EXpiess 4-30 i 7 or Lititz MA C-2191 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Bible Material: Isaiah 40 I XI, 52.7 Devotional Reading: Psalm 84 1-8 Beginning Again Lesson for August 26, 1962 Now Is The often injuied by heavy weed, growth. There are thiee herbicides that may be used: TO BUY HAY CAREFULLY tver again: Just as (or sin there must be punishment, so for re pentance there is forgiveness. God punishes his own children, but he ioes not disown them. Utsr Disaster The clock and the calendar de iot run backward. What’s done is lone. Not even the Lord in heaven would restore Jerusalem as it was. But few disasters are totally without remedy. The storm leaves wrecks behind it—but it passes on. Fhere is always an afterwards to :he worst of calamities. It may oe that a few readers of this col umn will be able to survive tha terrors of a nuclear war, so called. It would not be like any war ever fought before, and if pou do survive, it may be five lundred miles to the nearest oerson who survived as you did. Sfou will have many other prob 'ems and much distress; but one thing will be sure—that kind of 'war” can happen once but not again. You will have lived through the worst disaster in human his tory; and after that, other things will be mild and tame by com parison. But the thing- you will lave to remember (the books will le burned up and what you know rou won’t get from books any more)—you must remember that God is always on both sides of ivery disaster: before and after, ae is there. Mtir Confusion The well-known passage from [saiah about making a straight road in the wilderness brings up a oicture of a vast desert in which t is very easy to be lost and die . . unless you keep to the road, rhe road to life is narrow and Hard to find, Jesus said;-but there is such a road. Lost in woods or in the desert, or in a snowstorm, Deople are very likely to move iround in circles, instead of fol lowing a straight line. So in our confused time, with the best mind* lardly knowing what to do next, md nobody knowing how to bring about peace, if more people would listen to God there would be less :onfusion in the world. A national uagazine not long ago carried a lebate between an agnostic and Billy Graham on the question: Should our elected leaders be religious men? Billy Graham wa* surely right: they ought to be men of faith, for one reason in Particular, the God-fearing man loes try to hear the voice of the aod of truth. Such a leader mar make mistakes; but surely he ie letter off than the man who doe* tot think there is a God to listen o! (Bated an outlines copyrighted hr ■ha Division of Christian Education* National Council of the Churches of Christ In the V 6. A. fteleaeed hr 3ommuuliy Press Service.) Time . . . BY MAX SMITH TO CONTROL WELDS IN’ LEGUMES August seedings of alfalfa or clover are
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