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!”
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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
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Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
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Crabgrass
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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.
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(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
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