4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3, 1962 From Where We Stand... Change And Resistance To Change. Change is inevitable but resistance to change appears to almost as inevit able. Two missives came across the edi tor’s desk this week showing once again just how slowly people accept changes. The opening sentence of a news article from the federal Soil Conserva tion Service says, “Nearly two million farmers have switched to conservation farming during the past 25 years, but lew of them did it all at once.” Now without doing too much re search on the subject we would ven ture to guess that a'lot more than two million NEW farmers have gone into the business in the past 25 years, and these young farmers have grown up during the time when soil conservation was not a wholly new kind of program Most of them have seen the obvious benefits of using the soil wisely. Most of them had the opportunity to com pare soil wasting principles with soil saving programs before they ever went on a farm of their own. Why then, have not more than two million farmers put these programs in force on their lands’ Why have so many new farmers, who should have forward looking minds, continued in the old, wasteful farming methods, which might have been good enough when there was more land than we could explore, but which are woefully inadequate in these days when population continues to cover more and more of our acres with roofs for dwellings and macadam for drive ways. Not all the practices tried in the early days of the Soil Conservation Ser vice were found to be 100 per cent ac ceptable as a means of combating ero sion, but many of the original principals of soil management are still in wide spread use on farms today. Their value has been demonstrated time after time and in all parts of the country. , Why, then, are farmers so slow to accept these proven methods of conserv ing our precious natural resources The other article mentioned earlier has to do with something entirely foreign to soil conservation, but points up the resistance to change just as sure ly. The United States Department of Agriculture has finally altered, a long standing regulation to allow the use of smoke flavorings and artificial smoke flavorings in the processing of certain Federally inspected meat products. We know farmer-butchers who have used smoke flavoring in meats for years Of course, these meats were for their own consumption and never went into the channels of trade. To many men and women who grew up on farms a few years ago, sausage just was not sausage without a liberal soaking in “liquid smoke”. Now the USDA has decided that ‘‘smoke flavorings consist of the safe, soluble ingredients in smoke.” And all through the years that • Farmer Co-op. (Continued from Page 1) Baltimore Bank Lam Johnson loi Cooperatives John Gauss, file Pennsylvania State Um vci snv Men ill N Knapp, G 1, F T B Jones Baltimore Bank loi Coopeiatnes Dan A\ ev blight Bdltimoi e Bank for Coopei .’ln is, Ui livvm W Bust, Fai mer. CJooperatjve Ser vice farmers were adding smoke flavoring to certain meats, the regulations said meats could be flavored only from exposure to smoke from burning hardwood or hard wood sawdust. Well, changes march on to become part of the past and new things continue to be pan of the present and future. That much of life, at least, is certain. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. All of us like the chance to say “I told you so” once in a while. Recently a statement came from the American Medical Association which ex ploded a highly popular myth among the food faddists. The statement said, in part, “Scien tific reports linking Cholesterol and heart attacks have touched off a new food fad among do-it-yourself Ameri cans But dieters who believe they can cut down their blood cholesterol with out medical supervision are in for a rude awakening It can’t be done. It could even be dangerous to try . . .” “ . . the elimination of certain foods of proven nutritional value could be detrimental to health . . .” “The carefully calculated diets used in medical research to lower cholesterol actually are not yet of practical im portance to the general public.” “It is for these reasons that neither the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council nor the AMA 'Council on Foods and Nutrition has re cognized the need for modification of dietary fat for the general public.” ‘ “The anti-fat, anti-cholesterol fad is not just, foolish and futile, however J lt also carries some risk ” We have been saying editorially and verbally for quite a long time that mdisctimmate cutbacks in the intake of good, wholesome, nourishing foods could have more harmful effects than good ones When certain foods are dropped from the diet, others must be substituted to make up for the lack of nutrients which the body has become accustomed to using All too often these added foods tend to lay fat on the body and com pound the problem. Well, it is gratifying to know that To < lloclc For Int< ‘ nial Parasites a such an august body as the American Many cattle feeders are feeding too Modical Annotation has finallv rpali7«id many stomach worms m their beef cattle as ivieaicai Association nas unauy realized we il as joung dairy animals These internal the truth of a principle we have been parasites will reduce gams and increase feeds expounding for such a long time. It costs Producers are urged to consult their makes US feel just like the oracle at Mhtx M. SMITH local letennanan to determine the extent Delphi and kind of worm infestations, several types of treatments "Will ' eiadicate the worms and give more profitable returns. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. The deadline for spraying al <■ ❖❖ ❖ ■s■ falfa and clovei lields for the control of spittle bugs and al lalla weevil is November 15th, both ot the recommended ma tenals, dieldnn and heptach lor, shoul 1 not be applied af- Established November 4, tei this deadline Groweis and 1955. Published every Satur- custom spiay operators are day by Lancaster-Parming, Lit- 111 ged to comply with this .. „ deadline for best lesults Itz, Pa. Lancaster Farming Lancaster Comity’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna, P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 ★ ★ ★ As We Have Said Now for the “I told you so” part Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa, under Act of Mar. 8. 1879. ' ‘ Blblo Malarial: Psalm 18:7-11; 119 33-40: Acts 8 28-38; II Timothy 3.14-17; II Peter 1:10-21. Devotional Beading i Psalm 10:7-14, The Bible ** Lesion for November 4,1982 \\T HY the Bible? Some one might think that the Chris* tian religion has a Bible Just to keep up with the procession; tot every religion in the world,that has as many as a million mem* bers, has a Bible of some kind, and Christianity would be very odd- if it did not. But this Is not the reason we have a Bible. Is this the rea* son—that God can speak to man only in a written Word? Not at all. Did you ever stop to think that the whole Bible was written by persons who did not have a whole Bible? In fact, a great deal of the Bible is devoted to accounts of how God has been found in other ways as well as in the Bible. Is the reason for the Bible our need of a book of rules? No, the Bible itself does contain a few rules, but nearly every page of it is something else besides rules. Inspired One reason the church cherishes the Bible is because we believe it to be inspired by- God himself. This does not mean that God dic tated the various books of the Bible, certainly not in English. What we do mean is that God was st work in the entire process by which the Bible has come down to us. You would cherish every letter of one you love; if your loved one was (for instance) a teacher of art, you would,no doubt be glad to have pictured or sculp ture d .e by her pupils. Perhaps your ,uend the teacher did not paint this picture herself, but you can tell it must have been done by one of her pupils. “It looks like her,” you say. In the same way, God did not hold the pen for the writers of the Bible; but persons who have assuredly known God, have through the ages recognized the unmistakable marks of God’s thought and ac- Now Is The Time . . . Now that winter is just around the coinei and milking heids aie being kept in at night, the cows should he turned out for e\eicise at least once a day, when out the cows should be observed tor heat peuods, lameness, oi other illness The tune and eltort should be lewarded with a thriftier herd and inci eased pioduction To Spray For Crop Insect Control To I’r.u tice Strict Salutation Measures The disease' control pi'ograiii tion here. It is as to 1 “prove” the inspiration of Scrip* ture as to prove that Mozart Wail a great musician. But both the Bk hie and the music can be studied) Out of the study comes tion, and out of the appreciation grows the conviction of inspirit tion. m You can put up a shack on dst* ert sands or at the edge of the swamp. But if what you want ty erect is s skyscraper or a csthe* dral, you have to look for soli rock foundations. , So when you are building a Uft as Jesus said, you need to bull it on a rock, not on sand, fre fei the need of a court of last resor a Judge above all judges. W* an accurate compass, we need dependable light, a map #ll roads plainly marked. Now ti Bible is all of these things, as people who have discovered J( value have used such word| '| these about it. For the Protest*! Christian of avery kind, in ipife of all our smaller or greater «| ferences, the Bible stands as ttaj supreme authority, even abovi the church. We do not find opiej of rules here; we find living tepj and women who had authentioa]| known God. In their life-expea ences and in their reflections an) conclusions, we find again will of God for ourselves. Some treasured heirlooms valued highly because they irreplaceable. So the Bible is b valuable, because it is uniqw Most books answer some quei tions, the Bible answers the cete tral questions. The Bible gives ui the answers we do not find elsaiJ where. The Bible speaks to 01 most agonized questionings, 01 most insatiable quests. What i$ my destiny, as a human beingf* Am I a kind of accident, along with other human beings,'or are we all part of the plan of Godjl How can I, poor, sick as I am, come to terms with the hign God? What is God like? What can I believe about Him, anil what does he want me to dos IVhen I come to the inevitable end of this life, and face the'lasi Sark doorway, the last toll-gate*] what lies beyond? When I standi lit the graveside of a loved qn#,S£ must I stand forever alone? When's t look into the vast reaches oj’* space to the galaxies ever beyond our reach, do I there only mindless energy or d*ij [ dare to see above all, above all*:? infinite and eternal love? Thi3 Bible and the Bible alone gives-" is the answers to such questions.< (Based on outlines copyrighted bf .he Division of Christian Education* National Council of the Churches o t Christ in the U. S A Released hr Community Press Service.) BY MAX SMITH To H\ercisc Milking Hold in any livestock or poultry operation should include, strict regulations concerning visitors, newly-purchased animals, and on ner i isits to other herds or public places Service men who go from farm to farm should be evtiemely careful about en- tenng buildings at other places without a thorough disinfec tant opeiation Owners should not wear the same shoes or boots at home as they do at sales barns stock cards, or in other livestock or poultry oper ations, ,unless , tljpj-oughly 4 18 *, - ‘ s Ul
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