—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 17, 1962 4 From Where We Stand... MAN, Important Part of Management We get to see a fair portion of this Garden Spot County every week of the year As we drive along the country roads, we can't help being struck by the differences in the farms along the way We would like to say that all the farms we see in this most prosperous county are all show places. The truth is there are probably more farms in this county that could be called show places than in any other area of this size in the world But we have to admit that not all the farms look like the covers on the national farm magazines. True, there are many that would put to shame some of the so-called beauty spots from around the country. There are many more that are not dress ed in finery, but you can see signs of a highly successful and profitable opera tion But in any drive around the county you will see some farms where the farm er is obviously having trouble. If you examine one of these less prosperous farms closely, you will find that the differences in the farms is not so much in the kind or fertility of the soil The differences in the basic build ings are not so great. Chances are the differences in the amount of capital or credit available are not really too great. In many cases the differences do not de pend to any great extent on how hard the farmer or his family works at mak ing a living Usually the difference lies in the farmer’s ability to make and-carry out sound management decisions Good management includes organi zation of the farm, efficient use of labor, choice of the right enterprises, adoption of new and proven farming methods, and the selection of profitable marketing ar rangements A generation ago farming was largely a matter of muscle an.d man power; today, success in farming lies more in the use of mind, machines, mar kets and management. The University has come up with a list of guides for the MAN in manage ment. Farm management specialists sug gest that the successful farmer will con centrate on the most profitable enter prise There are a great number of enter prises that can fit into the farming com munity of Lancaster County, but out of this large number there are a few which have always been more profitable than others Concentrate on the profitable ones. The business must be large enough to return the net needed to maintain the family If the gross is too small, the net will also be small But this is not to say that size is the only consideration in a farming enterprise In any size business you must use labor efficiently This most costly item is becoming a more precious commodity every day The value of labor lies not so much in how much is available, but in how efficiently the available supply is used But perhaps the most important single factor is to get high yields from whatever crop or livestock is in the farming program This is doubly impor tant since the best way to cut unit costs Farm Income Tat Coin sc Offeie<l A two.da.v snort course on , J.iim imoine tax and soi lal vOnCOSt©! 1 FOfTOIIICJ will lie piesented b> Lancaster County’s Own Farm The Pennsj I\ama State Uni. Weekly ■\ c i -,it\, De< 10.11 For ap- P. O. Box 1524 filiation blanks and turther Lancaster, Penna. infoi niation, wnte Dnettor' P O Box 2GG - Lititz, Pa. <il Shoit Comsfs, 211 \imsln Offices: 3:ii l ldinor College of Agiicnl. ® Main St. line The Pennsylvania State pho J l ““' Lancaster i iiiversitv Uimeibitj Paik, Express 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 J’ennsj Iv ama is to have more product per unit to sell There is really nothing new or startling in these guides, but we each need to step back once in a while and ask ourselves, “Are we doing the beat possible job of management in this busi- ness 9 ” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Ambrosia, Nectar for the Gods, or even Omar Khayyam’s loaf of bread in the wilderness comes up wanting when compared with, “stacked pie” the way mountain women make it in the hills of Virginia and North Carolina. The aroma of that old delicacy is enough to titilate the olefactory lobes of the most immovable, and drive to abso lute frenzy those of us who practically cut our milk teeth on stacked pie and good, thick country cream. We suppose there are as many variations on the basic recipe as there are cooks in the mountain clans that have preserved the idea from the dawn of recorded history. But the basic ingre dients are always the same. A cookie layer and a layer of fruit. Most any fruit will do, but most of the old-time cooks say the only really acceptable filling is cooked, dried-apples with a little brown sugar added during the cooking. The name, too, varies. Some insist it is a cake, while others declare it is a pie, but by whatever name it is called, it is spoken of with near-reverence by those who have eaten it. Even the very act of eating has end less variations. There are those who say the desert or snack is best consumed fresh from the oven while the cookie layer is still crisp and crunchy and the whole thing can be taken up in the fingers. Others of us maintain that the pie is good on the second day and a little better near the end of the week when the juice of the fruit layer has soaked all through the cookie layer. But however or whenever you eat it, a generous portion of cream enhances the spooning quality and certainly does not detract from the flavor. If by now you are not convinced, look on page five for the recipe sub mitted by Mary Cooper and try it for yourself. If you do, you will soon be just as enthusiastic as we are. At least that’s how it looks from where we Stand. We believe a poultryman in Snyder County might have come up with a solu tion to the labor problem. According to a report in a statewide farm publication this poultryman has a home-made WENCH which opens and closes all the windows m his chicken house at once. Now if he can just train -her to gather the eggs, he will just about have this labor situation licked. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. > ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ < 3 ❖-O-W Stacked Cake # m $ Wench Or Winch? Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, the addition of super-phos. outside exercise lot daily. 1955. Published every Satur- phate in the gutters of the Many thrifty heifers are win day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- dairy barn or in the steer tered in open sheds with only j tz p a pens will increase greatly th§ protection from rain and pre value of the manure; the rate vailing winds. The ration may Entered as 2nd class matter f or <jairy barns is iy 2 pounds consist largely of .quality hay at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar, per cow per day and in the and silage with limited grain 8. 1879, steer pens about G to 8 pounds feeding. Bible Material Isaiah 53, Acts 8 1-3; 9 1-9. 22 3-11, II Corinthians 5 18-21, Kphesums 2 1-10, Colossians 1 15 22, I Timothy 2 5 6 Devotional Reading. Psalm 107 1-9 God’s Gall Lesson for November 18, 1962 HP HERE is a word older than the Christian religion to ex press what happens to a man when God gets hold of him. The word is “saved ” To its hearers in times past the word meant rescued, delnered, set free. That is still what it means, though many Christians are not aware of it. Some people, especially people without religion, think that when a man becomes a Christian he gives up his freedom and his pleasure, and thereafter lives a tied-down wretched life. Quite the contrary. The Christian is not tied, he is untied, not chained but free, set free. Saved from whai? So much is said about this in the New Testament that we can take only one single passage of the many that have been listed for this lesson: Ephesians 2:1-10. The great word here is “made alive.” The new Christian hasn’t stopped living, he just never knew before what it is to live. The dif ference between before and after is the difference between death and life. What kind of life is the “dead” Me? Three things are said of it: it is a life enslaved by the “spirit of disobedience”; it is a life enslaved to impulses and passions shared with the beasts; it is a Me under “wrath.” To put it into our everyday language, we may say that what God saves us from is (1) the habit of disobedi ence to God (and how self-destruc tive it is to be living as an enemy of Life'); (2) the habit of piggish self-indulgence; and (3) an exist ence shadowed by the constant fact that one has-turned one’s back on God himself From all this, God calls us away, Savtd by what? A reader will object at this point. Does this mean that all Now Is All farm trucks, tractors, and motors should either be drained of their water sys tems 01 tilled with anti-freeze before freez ing weather arrives. Cold snaps come quickly at this time of the year and serious damage may lesult unless proper attention is given. All machinery should be housed to protect the metal fxom water and snow which causes rust. age should be getting the best qnality hay in the barn, legume hay is strongly recom- MAX M. SMITH mended because of the protein and mineral content Free choice of good hay will develop large middles and greater body capacity. To Add Phosphate To Farm Manure Soil tests reveal that the majority of soils are low in available phosphorus; barn- Yearling dairy heifers need yard manure is also low in not be housed in a warm harn phosphorus; this means that and shp.ud have access to an Christians were at one time crim inals, outright and outrageous tin ners? Do I have to be God’ll enemy before I can be his friend* Not at all. Many readers of thps*| lines cannot remember a time when they did not think of them-, selves as Christians. In many cities there are “rescue missions”' in the dirtiest and meanest parts of town, for derelicts, hoboes, down-and-outs These rescue mis- sions do a great deal of good. But there are also what can be called Prevention Missions if they do their job right, ordinary ruji-of mine unpretentious mam-line Christian churches, which by their life and work are every day sav ing their young people from start ing on the road that ends in Skid Row. Whether it’s a prevention or a rescue mission, what we’re all either dragged out of or kept put of, is all the same thing. So wiiat is jt that saves us’ Again ifs all the same. We are by "grace,” that is, God might have let us'go—“good riddance to bad rubbish.” But instead, b* bared intensely for us, the pure and holy God actually loved and loves the soiled and selfish race of man. The point is that it is not because we were so good, God was bound to save us. He was so good that be saved us. Saved through what? One thing is made clear aII through the Bible. If man.—the lace of man or some particular man—is going to be saved, he cannot save himself. God saves him; God’s grace, that is to Say his freely given love, saves «s. But a life preserver wjll jnpjt Jipld a man up if he will not take hold of it. A word of wisdom might .as well be a word of foolishness if no one pays any attention. Saved for what? If a lifeguard has rescued a drowning man at the beach, the rescued man will not be so silly as to set up a tent beside the life guard’s chair and every five min utes for the rest of the summer come to thank the lifeguard again. He will be eternally grateful for having been rescued. But if he never thought before, he may well think now: My life was almost washed away, and now it has been given back to me: what shall J do with It? So when God’s call comes to a person, it is not a' call to a perpetual vacation, it Is a call to work. We are saved not be cause what we have done, earns the priceless love of God, We are saved to do the kind of worjc that God can do only through human beings,—saved to work with God. (Based on outlines copyrights*! by the Division of Christian Education. National Council of the Churches of Christ in the XJ. S A Released hr Community Press Service.) The Time . . . BY MAX SMITH To Winterize Motors To Feed Calves Top Quality Hay Young dairy calves under one yeay ol per head per week applied, just before bedding is added. To Provide Exercise For Yearling Heifers
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