I—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 29, 1962
From Where We Stand...
Why Didn’t My Exhibit Win?
But win didn t my exhibit win 9
We heai that icliain cweiy year
about this lime fiom some disgusted
exhibitors who thought the lair associa
tion had lined a colorblind judge with
only one eve
‘ I don t see why nn potatoes didn’t
win They weic bigger than any other
exhibit on the table, wo overheard last
w oek as w e looked o\ ci the exhibits at
a local fair
And it was true We saw the ex
hibit and the five tubeis w’ere fai-and
aw ay the biggest specimens in the
show 7
The giant spuds were so outsize
that we doubt if you could have sold a
Hundred pound bag of them to any
housewife in the county
That is precisely the reason they
did not get first prize In most cases,
the fair book will specify that the ex
hibited produce should be of good mar
ket size Even though the big potatoes
weie free from disease, all of one size
and shape, and uniform of color and
skin texture, they could not qualify for
the top prize because they were not ap
proaching the ideal size
After all, the mam purpose of any
lair exhibit is to encourage excellence
of production and raise the standard of
excellence of the product If the judge
gives prizes tor exhibits which tend to
lead producers away from the ideal, the
fair has failed m its mam purpose
It is a good idea always to read the
premium book carefully before entering
an exhibit, but after the entry is judged
it is even more important to have the
facts' before passing judgment on the
placmgs All too often the critic has no
clear idea of what the judge was looking
xor in the exhibit.
It is not always bad to question
a judge’s placmgs, if you have all the
facts at hand, but you must remember
one thing the judge -is not above
making mistakes, but on the day of the
show, he is the boss.
If after the show the fair association
feels that the judge deviated too far
from the specifications in the premium
list, they can select a different judge for
the next year.
But if the judge sticks to the guide
lines set up, the only thing you can do is
understand why your exhibit was not
first and prepare a better exhibit next
year
• Lampeter Dairy
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t.non went to the senioi \ea>-
jiu ol Fuuc Fie\ G\ps\ Hill
Hoad Robeit Kaiillinan, Eh
/ibethtovn lam \eai’s cham-
pion was not m competition
Thin -da\
Fk\ colic (ted thiee othei
blue Millions and combined
> ith Hess to win both the op
ui and ninioi get ol sue clas
s< s Hess won two classes
Via nan Hen the 17 teai
old dau-thtei ol Mi and Mis
i'aul II Hen Holtwood Rl,
dioned he*i two jcai old .Ter
cet Wonckitul Rum ess Jane
10 tile to]) spot in that com-
P'tition The Solanco High
School semoi showing a 4-H
i>ioj i {t in Thuisda\’s evhibi
, ion won hi i second rosetu
Shi had the Lop Risen at Sol
imo tan in l')7h \o ii sene
champion was named in th,
lo f eel
linn Knidei s Am shin ano
Hi own Swiss innioi c.ihc s
wile aw, ll ded him nhhons
]j,ist \eai s champion Manhn
llamish. Quart ttille R 2 did
not defuid Jiei title Miss
Ki eider is from Quan ttille
Maybe you still won’t agree with
the judge's decision, but if you under
stand why lie placed the class the way
he did, >ou lave learned something, and
that, alter all, is the purpose for fairs
At least that s how it looks from
where wo '-tend
A fa\ onte reliain of many urban
farm policy “authorities” is to get the
government out of agriculture Many
farmers, too, argue that the sun would
shine perpetually if the government
would quit meddling
We are just as anxious as anyone to
see our dairy industry on its own feet
and running its own business at the
earliest possible hour But the simple
solution of getting the government out
has consequences few people appreciate
What would happen? Over the past
few years several projections or esti
mates have been made by well-qualified
economists Depending upon the basic
assumptions which were made, project
ed price drops have ranged from 54
cents to $1 39 per hundredweight for
milk A figure recently used by Dr
Truman F Graf, of the University of
Wisconsin, estimates that milk prices
would drop 70 cents per hundred by
1965
The average Hoard’s Dairyman sub
scriber last year sold 352,300 pounds of
milk At 70 cents per hundredweight,
the estimated decline means a loss in
gross income, per subscriber, of $2,466.
We would not deny anyone the
right to advocate any type of a farm
policy he may desire, but the results of
effecting his recommendations should
be known
There are those who claim all such
projections are made bv incompetent
people or who try, by other means, to
discredit the findings. It is significant,
however, that every study we have seen
(and all have been made by indepen
dent, well-trained economists) projects a
very major drop Can they all-be wrong?
Possibly, but not probably.
The present price support program
is a poor one and one which we will not
defend. But it has prevented greatly de
pressed prices. When you’re in a leaking
boat in the middle of the lake it’s rather
foolish to abandon the boat until better
means of survival are in evidence.
Judge Roc Boutwell, Mas
noic Home Fauns Elizabeth
low n placed the classes as
lollow s
WRSHIRE
Tunioi Calt 1 )o\co
Kieulei Quanvwlle R 1
Isl{<m \ SWISS
•Tunioi Calt
Ki eiclei
JIIUSMV
Innioi Calf —1, Nairn
Kieidei, Diumoie Rl
Innioi \eaihng —1, lean
Kieidei Quan vulle Rl
Semoi Yeailing —■ 1, Mar
tin Heir, Holtw r ood Rl
Two-vear-old .—1, Malian
Hen, Holtwood Rl (champ
ion).
OLKKMsHV
Junioi Calf —1, Dorotln
Oaibei, Willow Street R 2
(minor and resene giand
champion), 2. James Mjeis,
11.70 Village Rd
Senior Calf —1, Kenneth
Oaiber Willow Stieet R 2, 2,
Lam l?i enem.in, Strasbum
Rl t H Melt in Bieneman,
Sn ashing Rl 1, Rot Brene
nian, Willow Street R 2
Junioi Veailing —1, Dons
Dieneniun, Willow Stieet Rl,
★ ★ ★
Dairy Programs
Hoard’s Dairyman,
★ ★ ★
2, Eddie Bieneman. Willow
Stieet Rl, 3, Tames Myer
Semoi Teailing —1, Roh
lei W itmei Willow Stieet R 2
2 Lan\ Bieneman 3, Maclm
Sc him pi) 1230 G\ psj Hill Rd
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Lesson loi September JO, 19G2
ILTE V« \S a stiange man, John
the Baptizci Stiange in
mam’ wajs Ills bnth was a inu-
and jet m all Ins lite he
ne\ci perfoimed one single mn-
acle and nevei
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'yt'J tiled to He came
» ln<;0 * , ' lls " by
| a mn acle, and
flw&y '% yet when he died
i ' i with his head
V chopped oil, no
, 3 miracle was theie
fig to save him He
knew mole about
*»*S A &M Jesus than Jesus’
Dr. Foreman own biotheis did,
and jet he doubted Jesus in a
public soit of way such as his
biotheis nevei showed Jesus
called him the greatest of men up
to his time, yet the world, even
the Chnstian woild, pays moie
honor to many another ancient
figuie than to John.
In the Desert
People who chess in camel’s
hair clothes and eat locusts and
wild honey as a regular diet aie
not common nowadays and they
weie not in John’s day eithei A
man eccentric as he would not
get many to listen to him nowa
days, but John had a tiemendous
audience The load fiom Jeru
salem to Jeucho was—and still is
—a steep winding highway, in
fested with bandits, yet crowds
would w alk the fifteen miles or so
from the city to where they could
heai John pieach and be baptized
by him No evangelist m Amenca
would set up his tent 15 miles fiom
the nearest sizable town, but John
did, and the people came. His
seimons all could be boiled down
to two sentences Repent' He is
coming' Consideung eveiythmg,
especially considering the fact
that some people thought he must
be Cluist himself, John must have
been a \eiv lemarkable chaiac
tei Ho did not fit any pattern
then oi now His long s'ay in the
wJdeiness be,inn ng wnen he
cvas a bo\ (f .i no dmut his aged
■>nens did ni Ine tul ie gitw
i) i. a j ,U n us on rum 'l l s
is goo i ii 1 i a ns (U .ih nut s
Now Is The Time . . .
Several days after a killing frost it is
possible to lemove the final crop of alfalfa
hay without doing much damage to next
yeai’s stand This fall with the shortage of
hay on many farms this roughage will be
quite useful and with good drying condi
tions it should make good teed With poor
diying conditions it might be well to put ib
into the silo as silage.
To Top-Dress Hay Fields
After the final cutting ot alfalfa is re
moved in the fall, it is advised to top-
diess the field with tluee to four hundred
pounds pei acre of a 0-20-20 or 0-15-30
MAX M. SMITH feitilizei This will help replace the soil ele
ments removed during the year and meiease yields next year.
To Spray Ijeguines
For Insect Control
The month of October is
lecommended for the applica
tion of either Heptachlor or
Dieldnn on alfalfa or clover
fields for the conti ol of spittle
bugs and -alfalfa weevils next
summer Be sure this is done
after all haivesting and graz
ing is done foi this year and
Keep all animals off until the
noimal harvest season next
May or June These fall appli
cations have given excellent
lesults for insect control and
all ,]Qgujne producers .qrp urg_- ,
ed to adopt the practice.
too A desert child, John would
not be tied to the conventional, the
customary. He had few if any hu
man ties He could look at the
world, so to speak, fiom the side
lines, he had a fully detached view
of life On the other hand, because
he lived all alone, he did not have
the “common touch” that Jesus
had Unlike Jesus, John had
nothing to say to the sou owing
and sulteung of the woild Wheie
Jesus saw the multitudes as sheep
without a shopheui, John spoke of
them as a “biood of upcis”—
snakes’ babies, to put it in plain
English.
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In Hope
Yet the people, no matter what
John might call them, however
fieite Ins denunciation of them as
smneis, —the people swaimed to
heai him The leadei can think
ot reasons . and bj the way,
any one who is interested in
John’s stoiy should read all the
Bible mateual, not the few printed
veises One of the reasons, surely,
why John was so popular in spite
(you might say) of all his efforts
-not to be, was that he pleached
just what the people wanted to
heai about the future The people
who came to hear him and stayed
to be baptized weie poor, they
were undei the crushing heel of a
long-staying occupation army.
In Confusion
Jesus indeed came, though as
we saw, at fiist only John knew
who he truly was But he was not
the kind of “Messiah” or God’s-
Man John had expected We know
that a year oi two later, when
John was near his death in a
dungeon, he, the pieacher of hope,
began to have doubts He even
sent to Jesus to ask if he, John,
could be mistaken We do not
know whether what Jesus said to
him by his messengers comforted
him, but we may believe it did,
for Jesus always knew' the right
thing to say So we may feel sure
that hope returned to him in Hie
end (Read about it m Luke chap.
7 ) John is not the fiist or the-last
hei aid of hope who has been right
about the hope, but wrong about
how the hope comes true. John
had thought the Messiah would be
an Avenger, a Destroyer; Jesus
came a man of peace John looked
for something spectacular; Jesus
showed him miracles, but the
kind he looked for. God has his
own ways in his world, and we
cannot dictate how hp shall man
age it. But we may be sure, as
John learned, that “Jesus doetb
all things well ”
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BY MAX SMITH
To Remove Final Alfalfa Cutting
To Protect Summer Seeding!*
August seedings of alfalfa
and clover are off to a slow
start; the growth is very short
in many fields and little
ground cover is present. I£
weather conditions prevent
good growth before winter
weather sets in, some projec
tion may be secured by
applications (5 to G ton) of
strawy manure during Novem
ber or early December; b»
sure the material is spread ev
enly ovei the field This cover
will . .cpnspcve .and.,
help * prevent" 'winter" Heaving. "