Farming, Saturday, September 1, 1962 From Where We Stand... Some Kinds Even Taste Good “Na Daddy, not that one. Get the one with the space men on it.” It didn’t matter to him what was inside the box. But he had to get the space men to complete the set. Remember when you had only three or four kinds of cereal to choose from? You could get oatmeal, or corn flakes, or wheat flakes, or a wheat cereal that tasted a little like corn meal mush but really “stuck to the ribs” on a cold winter day. But most important they came m a box that told you on the outside what to expect on the in side. Now the breakfast food boys put them in full color comic books, cut out castles, space ships, zoos, playhouses, cardboard records, coloring books and coupons for this and that But inside things are even more fantastic! You can still get the old flakes and meal if you look hard enough betwe en the stars, letters, wheels, granules, waffle shaped biscuits (spoon size),-and little marble shaped objects that come in all colors yet. - And the flavors - wow' ! You can get cereals that taste like raspberry, strawberry, orange, lemon and lime, vanilla and chocolate and once in a while one that even tastes like corn. A little. The kids are bombarded by propa ganda about this cereal that is sugar sparkled, and that cereal that is shot through and through with sugar, and another that is sweetened with honey, till they think it is absolutely unpatrio tic to think of sugaring your own break fast food to your own taste. But most of the kids never get be yond the container anyway when it comes to preference. They still eat what is put before them if they are hungry, or refuse to eat it if they happen not to be hungry One cereal maker, realizing that kids are not the only ones who start out the day with something less than two fried eggs and a generous slice of ham, are trying to appeal to the intellectual types among us. They are offering a cereal box with a message on the side Now it is our belief that anyone who eats less than ham and eggs for breakfast is in no shape for a message that early in the morning. Personally we have about all we can do to get past the headlines of the morning papers— without looking for deep, thought-pro voking missives on the side pannel of a cereal box And sizes' You can get giant economy size, the huge family size, and the large size. In a few instances you can even get a stan dard size, but they ]ust do not make cereal boxes in small size Oh yes, there are small boxes, but they are not ‘small’ il Wheot Vote (Continued from Page 1) eligible voters who cast votes last year when a change in definition of eligibility let many more county farmers qualify. But the vole in 1960, when only about 800 growers were eligible to vote, was still ’lighter when only 4 9 per cent turned out, but in both cases the vote was overwhelmingly opposed to controls for the crop. The breakdown of votes by communities is as follows: Community, it 1,,. YcstO, No-19, sizes, they are individual servings. It doesn’t matter that most kids eat less than one pre-measured individual serv ing, and most adults would prefer to have a little heftier serving, the indi vidual serving has to be used up or thrown out once it is opened. If it is not, the boxes soon begin to take up more space than the supply of potatoes and- canned goods for the rest of the meals in the day. Oh well, maybe we are getting past the rough and tumble cereal stage any way. Digestion, teeth and temper are not what they used to be. Guess we might as well say, “Pass the corn meal mush, Ma.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. A group of dairymen were discus sing the role of the farmer in providing the markets for his products the other evening. We sat and listened to both sides. Some thought the farmer had enough to do m producing the stuff without worrying about selling it, and we have to agree that producing farm produce is a full time job. Others in the group argued that no other industry produces a commodity without making preparations for the sale of that commodity. We had just read a report on some of the advertising budgets of national companies; and couldn’t help interject ing here that some of the farmer’s com petitors are v spending millions of dol lars to sell their products to the public. Last year one soft drink company spent almost $2O million to promote a product which is in competition with milk Two other soft drink companies had advertising budgets of over SIOVL> million and $6 million, and this does not count all the hundreds of little in dependent companies around the cou ntry with budgets of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, nor does it include the manufacturers of other bev erages who spend millions and millions to promote their products. Of course some promotion of agri cultural products on a national basis is being undertaken, but the budgets of these groups are pygmies among the giants of the advertising world. The American Dairy Association and the Florida Citrus Commission are the two largest organizations dedicated to promoting farm products, but there are many, many farmers producing milk and citrus fruit and not contributing a penny >to either of these groups. We believe that the time is coming when the individual farmer will have to tax himself for the purpose of ad vertising if he hopes to compete for the consumer’s dollar At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Community £2 Yes-1, No- Community #3 Yes-0, No- - £4 Yes-1. No "'ommuniiy 3p r > Yes-0, No- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly P O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Mam St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster ..EJJw’em. 4-36*47,0r *’•ip r, ★ ★ ★ ★ Paid Promotions To advertise or not to advertise, G Challenged ballots-! 1 Community #6 Yes-2, \o- 4 5 Community #7 Ves-0, No- 3 3 Community if: S Ves-0, No- G Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit !tz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter ~^tr X iitltzl t under A£t ol Mar* 5 if*3 Dibit Material, E*r«i 1, 2 64*69, 70, 3. 7 D«t«(Ioyi*1 ’Reading* Ezra 3 10*13 : Foundations Uiwb (or September 2, ISMS 2 IT HAD been 50 yeais since the * great Temple of Solomon was burned to the ground, and the beautiful objects of silvei and re so famous, had been carted off as loot by the in vaders from the Euphrates Fifty years is a long time. Men now with grey beards, 60 years old or so, had been young children when the city fell to Nebu- Dr, Foreman chadnezzai But old people remember far-past events better than most joung ones do; and the splendor of Solo mon’s temple was not to be for gotten. Foundations But though not forgotten, Solo mon's temple could not be re placed either. The first gieat public work undertaken by the returned exiles, who brought no wealth with them, was to begin the erection of a temple on the site of the old When the founda tion was laid, the old men wept, because they remembeied the magnificence of the old temple and realized that this would never look like that. But the young peo ple shouted for joy, for they had never seen a temple at all And the young ones were right, for those foundations were to bear the weight of a temple that was destined to last as long as Solo mon’s, or even longer. It would become a center of religious life for thousands of worshippers. Its successor, even if a king built it (and a king did), would nevci be loved as this one would be In cidentally this became the temple where our book of Psalms was fiist used as a hymn book. But it all began with the founda tions. All foundations look about alike; and they don’t look like much. It takes imagination to see a shrine for God rising above tho dusty rock of the foundations. Foundations of Lift All this might suggest to us a Now Is The Time . . . Lnestock that are being fed on limited legume hay rations, or roughage of low quality, should get additional amounts of minerals. This might mean the use of 40 to 50 pounds per ton ol dicalcium phos phate or steamed bonemeal In addition it is advisable to provide tiee choice of min erals to the herd MAX M, SMITH roughages, and especially those who are using only low quality silage as roughage should increase the protein content of the grain ration, in some cases a proton level as high as 30% (crude protein) should be used Without good legume hay or silage this extra protein is needed, t‘ TO USB SODIUM MBTABI SULPITE ON OOBN SILAGE When ensiling stunted corn research work has discovered that the ’use of 8 pounds per ton v of sodium metabisulfite will reduce the formation of silo gas, preserve Vitamin A activity (carqtene) and aid in the preserving of the low quality corn crop. TO SEED WINTER WHEAT FOR PASTURE , V.. 1 11 i in i 'Jk J; ai-t 1-1 parable. Saint Patil Christiana a temple of the Lord* to we may apply his parable to ourselvei. All lives are built on foundations of some kind. Jesus (poke of two houses, perhaps just alike except that one was built on rock and the other one built on land. Foundations may be out of light, indeed have to be out of light if they go down far enough to do some good. Scaffold* Ing is necessary but temporary; foundations are necessary from first day to-last. Each, human Ufa is built on-other lives. The kind of home which a father and es pecially a mother make, the kind »f care they give their children* the spirit of the 'home, the faith ind hope and love of that home, lie a foundation on which a good life can be built. A home where there are doubt and hopelessness ind hate, a home from which the children escape as soon as they possibly can, is a foundation for the life of a criminal or a beatnik. The probation officer of a large city said that all kinds of juvenile delinquents, with all sorts of back giounds, had come under his eye; but never yet had he seen a ju venile delinquent from a home where husband and wife lived in harmony Dn What Shall A Nation’s Walls Be Set? Nations like persons have foun dations, good or bad. People lometimes wonder if we deceive ourselves when we prefer a demo cratic state to any other kind, booking at other experiments in democracy, with the exception of the northern European nations, to-called democracies will not teem very attractive. Is there anything special about American democracy (w’hich is a child, or a first cousin, of the democracies In northern Europe just men tioned)? Yes, there is, and this ihould be said in thankfulness and without pride, for we had nothing to do with it. There was a long, long period of growth, of trial and error, of practice, you might say, m democratic processes, before we started it over here. We blaipo the Congolese for making a mess pf their country the minute they reach freedom. But would Wi have done any better with our na tion if we had had no foundation’s? And it should not be forgotten that a corner-stone of our founda tion is a long-time faith. “In God we trust” as a motto is worth little; as a foundation it is indis pensable. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education. National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U s A Released by Communit> Prcfe* Service.) BY MAX SMITH TO TNrilK VSE MINER AL FEEDIXG TO ADJUST PROTEIN LEVELS IN' GRAIN RATION Ddirjmen that aie feeding ter wheats may be seed*4 durp mg late August and ««rly September and used for 4&auh mg later this fall and Oftlftf next spring These two -varieties are resistant, to Hesalan- 4a*jr trouble and should gir« -ebm& good forage. The usa of ft complete fertilizer at eeedfffiC time will give - more growth. i *“ TO APPLY LIME THIS *flpL Gram fields that aro-to^Ub low quality
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