4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 8, 1962 From Where We Stand... Land And People Conferences The United States Department of Agriculture has slated a senes of five regional ‘‘Land and People” conferences during the months of September and October One of these conferences is to be held m Philadelphia on October 22 and 23 The other ones will take place in Missouri, Oregon, Colorado and Louis iana The public has been invited to par ticipate m all of these conferences Specifically, the Secretary of Agricul ture is inviting both rural and urban leaders alike to come and discuss mat ters of vital concern to Rural Develop ment and Conservation. At each of the conferences a panel of regional speakers familiar with local conditions, headed by the governor of the host state, will present information on two basic subjects Rural Changes in our Region and Stimulating Econo mic Growth in Rural Areas. ' At one session of the conferences the public will have an opportunity to express individual views in discussion groups Each discussion group will have a recorder who will attempt to capture the consensus of the group to be report ed to the final session of the conference The four discussion groups include the following topics - 1 How can family farms be stren gthened for rural improvement and de velopment ? 2 How can uses and conservation of land and water expand income, em ployment and better living m rural communities ? 3 How can planning and imple mentation of economic development for a county or rural area be accomplished? 4 How important is Rural-urban community planning? There will be many in Lancaster County who will say we have no need ior such a conference and no good can come from such a meeting. We are sure the last part of this thought will be true unless there are rural leaders and farmers willing to attend the confer ences with an open mind and a willing ness to discuss and act upon mutual problems Lancaster County certainly is in a most fortunate position economically compared to many counties of the state, but this is not to say there are no prob lems here. We believe Lancaster County does have problems of rural-urban relation ships that need to be aired and discus sed at such a conference. We believe great good could come from such a con ference, but we believe that great good will not come unless the conference is well attended. If you feel that Lancaster County should be represented along with the other rural counties of Pennsylvania and the other northeast states, we urge you -°- Letters Editor Lancaster Fanning Jiear Sir I want to compliment you on the rourage on jour edi loi ml on the slowness of the <omnnttee to dedaie Lancas ter County a disaster aiea I <oulcl not see how anyolie who knows anything about iiiimiiK (mild dine fhiough file noithein pair ol our coun- U and not n.ili/e lh.it many Jainiiis wfie veiy seriously hint Siitional mile is a pool n asim loi InMin thase tannins ol all flu help that (.in he made available to help 1 hem Also 1 would 'ike to unite imi to stop hete at the larm when yon (an Our son is m ihe process of building up a to make an effort to attend one or all the sessions in the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. This is an opportunity to let the U S. Department of Agriculture know what the farmer is thinking. It may do little good to-attend the conference, but it does NO good to complain about pro grams after they have been initiated. , Further information about the con ferences is available from the Farmers Administration. We urge all rural people to become informed about these meet ings and to attend them if possible. We owe that much to ourselves in the interest of rural Lancaster County. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Neighbor’s Once in a while we run across something written by someone else that we would just like to share with the readers of this column Especially is this true if the piece hits particularly close home Such is the following article writ ten for a farm magazine by a Ruth Norton. It caused us to take a look at our garden Perhaps you will look at yours too “Bothered By Neighbor Crab Grass? The other day I was looking at my neighbor’s garden, and couldn’t help thinking that the weeds were flourishing as well as the flowers When I came home, I looked at my own garden and to my amazement saw weeds I didn’t know were there One short, critical glance was enough to reveal my neigh bor’s weeds, but I missed my own—and I see my garden every day. How easy it is, I thought, to reform other people— but how much more difficult to “weed” out our own faults. “A woman I know moved into a run-down neighborhood. She tended to be critical of her neighbors at first, but hit upon the idea of washing her own doorstep spotlessly clean. Day after day she scrubbed, saying nothing about it. Within a few months, the neighbors were using their own scrub brushes. “Instead of criticizing a friend or relative, wouldn’t it be better if we took a closer look at our own faults and tried to improve ourselves? We might find that the very thing we criticized is something we have been guilty of our selves. “Try looking for the good things in others, and you will be a happier and better person for it. And don’t forget to keep that garden weeded!” ★ * * ★ The magazine, Chain Store Age, reports that sales of canned and bottled juices by the food chains will top $330 million this year. The typical American family spends $154 a year for these pro ducts. dairy enterprise that I know would be of interest to you The barn we have built has proven more than satisfactory - cow comfort, good labor efficiency and automatic sil age feeding without expensive mechanical device, to say no thing of low investment per cow You will also be interested in oui hybrid poplar project -O-O-fr O- ❖ ❖ -0-4 Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Bov 1324 Lancaster, Penna. P O Box 2GG - Lititz, Pa. Offices; 22 E Mam St Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 or Lititz MA G-2101 ★ ★ Crabgrass ★ ★ ★ ★ We this year made a small planting on the old iron ore bank east of Elverson. This bank has been completely bare ot vegetation in the fifty jeais I hare known it The re sults of this planting show a lot of promise for the many ugly eyesoies in the open pit non and coal mining areas Sinceiely yours, Miles W. Fry Jack Owen, Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- itz, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Latitz, Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1879. Bible Materiel; Hageal; ZecharUh 4 6-10, 8 18-22. Ezra 3, 4 24 , 5 8-11 Devotional Beading. Psalm #8 1-6. - Start and Finish Lesson for September 9, 1962 THE two parts or stages of any job, or of any enterprise, which are the hardest, arestarting and finishing. It is more difficult it liner on her way, harder to bring it thrdugh the har bof traffic at the end of the voyage, than to handle the ship on open wa ter in mid-voy age. It is harder for a student'to get himself or ganized and get Dr. Foreman to work, than it is to keep going once he has started. And it is harder to bring that term paper together as it ought to be finished up, than it was to write on and on. What were the critical moments in the histoiic space flight of Col John Glenn 7 Getting off the pad and into orbit, and re-entering the atmosphere and being picked up by a ship, were much trickier and dangerous than roaring through space at 17,000 miles an hour. The Blueprint’s Getting Yellow Once there was a church that decided to build a new sanctuary. They employed an architect, who drew up plans, and had bluepnnts made. Then the church officers began to be afraid they didn’t have quite enough money, so they put off starting . . . and kept on putting it off for years Nobody had a bad conscience about it, because they had started, hadn’t they? But finally it dawned on a new preacher there that the blue prints were actually lost. And when after quite a search he found them, they had begun to look yellow. Not only that, but the town had changed so much that the old blueprints were out of date. Some thing'like that happened in Jeru •alem long ago when the second Temple was started. It was 2C years between the time the foun dations were finished, and the final work on the building. Indeeo if it had not been for those persis tent prophets, Haggai and Zecha Now Is The one Highways are full of trucks going- to and from the many sawmills; the scent of fresh lumber continues to give this farm hoy an appreciation of natural resources and a bigger appetite for supper. Here ★a find millions of acres of good lumber in the making. MAX M. SMITH OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS makes one lealize that the west is still mighty big and open country The .ranges aie badly eroded wheie sloping teiram is piesent Conserva tion practices with diveisiou tei races are being introduced The livestock visible fiom the highway are in need ot quality improvement and many sho v the continued piesence of Te\as Longhoin type Large acreage of cotton and grain sorghum covers the fertile areas where nngatioii water’ riah, who knows When the Tempi* would have been finished? These prophets vVeST* an in* teresting contrast. Zechariah was a dreamer of dreams, a seer of visions; much of hiS prophecy i* obscure to this day. Haggai wa* no mystic, every word of hi* prophecy can be plainly undeN stood. But prosaic as Haggai waa, and fanciful as Zechariah was, they united on one point: Th* Temple must be FINISHED. Stalling is not enough. Things Don’t Finish Thomselvas A mistake that lazy people make is to think that by some kind of magic, things will finish themselves. Who has not known the amateur gardener who ia springtime was full of enthusiasm, but whose garden by midsummer looked like the prize weed-bed that it was’ Every school knows about the teen-age ‘drop-outs,” the boy* and girls who can’t take the tim* or the trouble to finish high school and so all their lives are under the handicap of not having even 1 a high school diploma. Many a woman has a bureau drawer Med with things she started but didn’t finish—pieces of sewing, mayb* a pile of unfinished letters, photo* graphs she meant to put in her *l* bum but stuck in here till they’r* all curled and mixed up. Teacher* of language know too well the stu* dent who starts easily enough, and expects the gomg to be easier and easier once he has passed th* first week’s lessons . . . and when it doesn’t turn out that way, h* gives up and gives out. A Thing Unfinished A thing unfinished is that way either because it couldn’t possibly be finished no matter what, or be cause although it could have been finished not a soul was willing to work hard enough to get the job lone If a thing stays unfinished because it couldn’t be helped, maybe it is a sign of lack of fore sight on somebody’s part. There is such a thing as starting to>o soon Jesus told a parable about a man who started a house when he did not have and coidd not get money to finish it. One such house stood in a village for years, knowia for a generation as “So-and-so’S Folly.’* Or maybe the thing is un finished because no one has the ambition or the gumption to what it takes to do it right. A contractor once said that he ban ished the word “practically” froia his organization. A thing “prac tically” done is done all but th# most difficult part! A thing un finished may as well not hawk been begun. (Bused on outlines copyrighted kf (hi Division of Christina Educatlalak Nation*! Council of th* Church** ol Christ la th* V 3 A. JleUated Community Proas Barrie*.> Time . . . BY MAX SMITH My next two reports xv ill be written enronte to and from the annual meeting o( County Agricultural Agents at lias Cruces, Xew Mexico. OHIO RIVER VALLEYS are color ed with acres of golden-colored burley to bacco this time of year, this tobacco ia planted very thick, grows to six feet ia height and turns yellow as it ripens. It ia cut, speared on a lath and left in the field several days before hanging in the shed. Crop is on quota and support price. OZARKS OF MJSSOURI are very scenic and the lumber business is a Bie is available. Many areas ot lowland are still under water in these two states; rams have been heavy this summer. Sky reachine gram elevators dot the horizon in every direction to remind us of the recent gram and cotton scandal o£ a certain Te\an. NEW MEXICO will ba the most distant of our travels, and possess little of our Lan caster County agriculture. The meek little ranch buildings surrounded by -thousands' ot (Continued on page 5)
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