—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 1, 1962
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From Where We Stand...
Farmers Are Rugged Individualists
We are all for rugged individua-
lism
We believe a person has to be an
individual has to do what he thinks
is right even if it means standing alone
while all the crowd goes another way.
We believe in the right of the individual
to pursue any course he chooses as
long as he does not infringe on the rights
of others.
Sometimes infringement on the
rights of others can consist in simply
doing nothing when something ought to
be done.
At a recent meeting of the North
east Poultry Producers Council, the pre
sident, Oscar Turner, told poultrymen
that they must compromise their differ
ences, abandon their rugged individua
lism and really work together as a team
if they want to avoid becoming pawns in
the countinuing struggle between big
government and big business
We believe the word “abandon” is
just a little too strong. We do pot believe
poultrymen or any other farmers should
totally abandon their individualism.
We do not believe farmers should be
come so many sheep following the lead
of the first bell wether that comes along
with a tinkling bell, but we do not be
lieve that a farmer should be too stiff
necked to bend a little if that bending
will help him and other farmers to bet
ter their lots.
Mr. Turner really did not mean, we
believe, that farmers should relinquish
all their claim to being individuals.
What he really meant was that the con
tinual bickering between commodity
groups and even among factions within
commodity groups tends to weaken the
farmer’s position at the market bargain
ing table.
We have often been asked, “Who
speaks for agriculture?”
We could answer, “almost every
body,” and go on to name NEPPCO,
and the turkey growers association, and
the milk producers associations, and the
grain producers associations and their
subdivisions made up of com producers,
wheat producers, barley producers, soy
bean producers, and other grain produc
ers, and the sheep growers, and cattle
men’s associations, and hog producers
associations, and ad iniimtum ad
nauseum
Add to this list the National
Grange, the American Farm Bureau
Federation, The National Farmers Or
ganization and the National Farmers
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Union all claiming to be the voice
of the farmer and each fighting with
the other on matters of policy.
And when it is all said and done,
we have to admit that while nearly
everyone speaks for the farmer, actually
no one does.
What is still needed is a clear
voice speaking for all farmers to let the
urban dweller know that agriculture is
still by all odds the most important in
dustry in this nation.
Until this story is told, and told
convincingly, the ever-dwindling num
ber of farmers can look for nothing bet
ter than becoming pawns in the strug
gle between big business and big govern
ment
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Next week you will notice the line
on our front page changes from “Vol
ume 7” to “Volume 8.”
In newspaper language this is our
way of telling you that Lancaster Farm
ing has passed its seventh birthday. With
each year we have gained new adver
tizers without which we could not
operate for very long, and with each
passing year we have gained new read
ers without which our advertisers
would soon cease to be advertisers.
May we take this opportunity to
thank our many loyal readers for your
support of Lancaster Farming and for
your support of our advertisers. And
may we take this opportunity to thank
the advertisers for their continued confi
dence in our services.
You have given us our happiest
birthday wish
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
’ NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, the
end of surpluses in wheat and feed
.grams is clearly in sight That day is not
far off when the farmer will no longer
be worried about surpluses depressing
the market or standing in the way of ef
fective assistance By 1965 our supply
of both of these crops should be about
equal to the amount we need to keep on
hand for stabilization and security, and
the annual cost of carrying farm sur
pluses will have been cut in half ’’
The Wrong Cow
Can Lose Money
A beef cow may wean a call
each jeai but still leturn onlv
two-thuds as mudi prolit as a
tow' that inises the same mini
bei, but heaviei calves This
is emphasized m a VSDA-
Oklahoma compaiison th.it cites
actual case histones of two
biood <ows
The two tows calved fust in
l‘i')o and have received like
I< > dma and management In
most veais thev were exposed
to the same bulls Doth have
piovcd regulai produieis one
lias weaned f_> < ihc-. iheoihct
1 !
Hut a big inbfient difteien
ie has made one cow nun h
,iioie protitaole This dillei ente
.s levralcd b> molds icn the
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We Are Seven 1
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Farm Surplus
President Kennedy
12-vear peuotl 19-,0-i961 (fi
c:uies are not >ef available for
ibe two calteb pioduced jn
1 9(52)
Cow I weaned 11 oahes in
tile 12 >eais llei i.ilies aver
se 353 pounds each at about
7 months, the age most lead
ers aie sold At a sale price
of 25 cents a pound, these
calves would have giossecl
>1 050 Cost of maintaining,
the cow vvJS >l3 5 So she nett
ed >‘sos oi about Sl7 pel
veai
Cow IJ weaned 12 calves in
the 12 veins Hut her calves
aveiaged 512 pounds at 7
months Funning the same
cait pi ue and maintenance
(osts cow ft has ncitcd >1 -
050 oi »S pm veir Take
aw a} one ol hm- calves to
mat< h cow \ s pioduct'on and
cow B still would have return-
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Bible Material' Matthew 18 15-17;
18 15-20, John 17 20-28, Acts 2 1-4.
38-47, I Corinthians 11 23-26, 12.12-13,
27-31, Ephesians 2 1-10
Devotional Ke#dfo(. Psalms 133 and
134.
Home for God
Lesson for December 2, 1962
OERE we have five sentences
*■ translated from a letter writ
ten to a church, a good nineteen
centuries ago. And yet the word
"Church” is not used in these sen
tences, though the thing is there
from beginning to end. It is a
good thing he did
not use the word
"church” because
otherwise we
might think (as
we so often do) of
an organization or
a building Paul,
who wrote this let
ter, never saw
what we would
Dr. Foreman call a church edi
fice, something that photographs
nicely and “looks like a church.”
Bo he never wrote about build
ings. Paul never went beyond
what nowadays should be called
the "skeleton” organization of his
churches; so he was all but silent
about what we would call “struc
ture” and “form” in the church.
Paul was concerned with some
thing more profound, something
more basic He is speaking to a
community of the friends of
Christ He is speaking to people
who have had a Christian.expen
ence and live Christian lives. How
they are related to one- another
and how they are related to God;
this is the basic thing that makes
a church; not organization or the
kind of place where they worship
and study.
Without Christ, what?
The reader is invited to study
these five sentences (Eph. 2 11-22)
to see what they mean to him By
way of suggestion, the following
thoughts may serve as a guide
line. Sentence 1: Eph. 2 11-12.
Paul reminds his readers what
their status used to be, and it was
a pretty low one Indeed a lower
state could hardly be pictured;
separated from Christ, separated
from God s people, strangers to
God’s promises (they had proba
bly neier read the Bible), without
Now Is The Time . . .
Now that the spiaj season is nearly over
for most taimeis it is important that all
spray matei lals be salely labeled„and stored.
Be sme all contameit. are identified
with the name of the contents and the 'pro
per label oi dosage Also, be certain the Ima
terials aie out of leach ot Children and away
from any food or feed Seeds needed for
planting ne\t spring should not be stored
near any 2 4-D 01 othei herbicides.
tage ot the trapping season to catch musk-
MAX M. SMITH rats that aie in oi neai the pond, this extia
income should encourage owners to protect
their ponds by eliminating all muskrats Good farm pond
management does not include a single muskrat hole in the
bank at any place.
To Spray Brush Or
Fence Rows
Lind owners wanting to
ehm.nate second-growth al-
ong fence rows or any bnais
or bnisn growth may spray
during the winter months
with a mixture of the ester
-iirm of 2 l-i J and 2, i-5 T.
tncM hc,bic>«es mixed with
luel Oi' (one part heibicicle
to tO pai's of fuel oil) will
Kill tree- and brush when
-jiraved in the dormant sea
son
hope and without God. Notice that
Paul puts together, two -separa
tions”: from Christ, and from the
“commonwealth of Israel”—that
is to say, the association of-the
people who know God, and desire
to do his will. To be cut off from
God’s Son and cut off from God’s
children, is all the same thing.
To say (as some have tried to
say). I want to be a Christian *but
not to belong to the church, is the
same as saying I want to have
the love of Christ but I do not wish
to share it. It is the same as say
ing. I love Christ but I do not
love those whom he loves. Anyone
can see how inconsistent that is.
Ha is our Peace
Now for Sentence 2: verse 13.
The key words are “in Christ
Jesus” and “brought near in the
blood of Christ.” We are members
of Christ’s fellowship, not because
we belong to the fellowship in the
beginning but because our rela
tion to Christ puts us into right
relations with one another. To put
this another way we are not
Christians because we are church
members. We are church mem
bers because we are Christians.
Tvvo strangers on a bus may find
that they are both friends of the
same person This at once links
their lives and minds; the strong
er their affection for their mutual
fuend, the stronger their attrac
tion to each other. And if this
friend of each of these (hitherto)
strangers has risked Ins life for
each of them, their bond is
stronger still What links Chris
tian to Christian, believer to be
liever, is that Christ gave fyjs Me
for each of them.
Sentence 3 verses 14-16 Christ
is “our peace ” The underlying
and almost unspoken reality lieie
is the bitter race prejudice be
tween Jew and Gentile Paul is
saying that Christ is the one bond
strong enough to bring together
in harmony people individuals
and classes—who “naturally” aie
bitter and scornful enemies. Sen
tence 4. verses 17-18 Men who
had in times past prayed aga nst
each other, so to speak, prayed
selfishly, now pray in one Spirit
to the same Father.
A place for God to live
Sentence 5 verses 19-22. P4tul
now leaves with us a simple pic
ture that a child can understand.
The church the fellowship ‘of
those Christ loves—id like a build
ing Not just any building, but a
residence for God. One brick dpes 1
not make a home, no brick is
without its place and use. The
church—the people who make it
up, who are the church —is; a
home for God on this earth.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by(
the Division of Christian Education,!
Rational Council of the Churches of
Christ in (he USA Released by
Community Tress Service.)
BY MAI SMITH
To Store Spra> Matei nils Hately
To Trap For Muskrat*
Farm pond owners should take advan-
To lllmiinato Ldoe
On Liv estock
Cattle and hogs often .be
come heavily infested .with
body lue during the fall and
■winter months, this reduces
animal comtort and results m
lower milk pioduction or dai
lv gains, producers are urged
to treat then animals befoie
winter ai lives, two treat
ments die acquired from 13
to 14 da\s apart. Animals
with heavy numbers of lice
.are not efficient producer?,
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