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
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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
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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