—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
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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.
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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