( w-TT" " - „ US'* > v >• , A. • 4^—EiancasteFFarming, Saturday'. 1562 *** - From Where We Stand... What WiU 1963 Bring For Farmers? The time of year is' drawing nigh when the pundits will begin to gaze into their chrystal balls and come up with the' agricultural outlooks for next year. These outlooks will range all the way from total financial calamity for all the farmers, through all shades of de pression and profit to glowing reports of “brightest outlook in more than a de cade.” Depending on who is doing the predicting and upon whose figures he is using, the predictions of professional prognosticators (many of them never having lived on a farm or come in con tact with farmers) will range all the way from the ridiculous through the sublime and back to the ridiculous. Figures available from agriculture census reports indicate that grams of all kinds (except soy beans) are m lighter carry-over supply than for several years, and forecasters will look at this as an in dication that the market will be ready to absorb greater supplies of grains and therefore willing to pay higher prices. On the other hand, the numbers of livestock on farms, while not as large as was thought earlier, are above the normal carry-over needed. Dairy cattle numbers, too, are at a high point and production per cow continues to in crease. Many of. those who predict the fu .ture of farming will fail to take into ac count the local situations which in fluence the agriculture of any particu lar area, and there will be those who will look at the local situation only and fail to see the total national picture which colors any local market. And when it is all said and done, and the smoke of the burned up market reports has faded into the upper atmos phere, it is still the farmer who has to make the decisions on what he will grow and how much. It is of little consequence to a farm er that a forecast says the world is cry ing for safflower oil, if he just has no access to the market for safflower seed. All the forecasts in the world can not make a dollar for the farmer. They can only help him to make those manage ment decisions which wilLlead to either profit or loss. This is not to say that forecasts and market reports are of no value. To the Letters To The Editor Fund Chairman Writes Thanks Gentlemen The presentation of the facts about the United Cam paign. its aims and objectives, to the pepole of Lancastei County would be impossible without the help of our news papers You have been most gener ous to our campaign again this vear, I hope vou will find satis faction in the knowledge that your help will mean that your fellow citizens of Lancaster County will know better health and peisonal happiness in 1063 tlnough the services of United Campaign agencies Our sinceie thanks Sincerely, C. E Bui nett Geneial Campaign Chairman United Campaign contrary we believe a farmer must continually keep himself informed on the latest market information, and them base his decisions on that information. But after the management decisions are made, the farmer has no one to, blame but himself. He can fuss and fume all he wants about how he was mislead by the predictions of doom-'or rosy bloom, but by then the prophets have folded their tents and slipped into limbo, and the farmer has to make the best of his plans. ' - But this, after all, is what makes ■ farming a challenge, and challenge is what makes life worth while. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Soviet Premier Khruschev is re ported to have said, “One can not de mand high productivity of labor and hack com with an axe.” We believe this statement pin points one of the major reasons for the poor showing of Soviet agriculture in the past three years. Farmers in Russia just do not have enough tractors, combines, plows, har rows, forage harvesters, and trucks to handle the work of modem farming. Even on the large state farms with an average of 22,000 sown acres and the collective farms with about 6,800 acres, the machinery is not available. Further more, the managers of these large farms have a hard time getting replacement parts for the machinery they now have. Of course this is only one of the obvious signs of a deeper problem. The communist policy itself is much to blame for the current food shortages. Without the freedom to decide what machines are needed and when they should be replaced,' the farmer in the Soviet Union does not create the market which will cause the machinery to be produced. Demand creates the market and the market creates greater demand. We must not forget our agriculture is based on the freedom to create a market as well as produce for one. At least that’s how it looks fr6m where we stand. Farm Women _ _ The ne\t sebbion is sched- Name Delegates 'uled for Sunday, .Fob 21, at the Child De\elopmgnt Cen- Plans to bend delegates to tg‘, the state convention m Harr isburg on January 7 and 8 vveie discussed at the Tuesday meeting of the executive boaid of the Lancaster Coun ty Farm Women Societies The meeting was held in the Colemauville Methodist Chun h It was announced that So ciety 10 will sponsor a bus to the convention It will leave Monday, Jan 7, from the CTC garage In the absence of Mrs Ken neth Eshelnian president, who was convalescing at the Genera! Hospital, Mrs. Landis Mver county vice pi evident, piesiclecl Enieitainment was piovid ed bv Mrs William Gnna and membeis of Society 9, while Mis Paul Witnian. =ccond vice president, had charge of idevotious. The 101 l call was iv' Tj ★ ★ ★ ★ Machines And Food ★ ★ ★ ★ answered bv introducing new presidents for the coming year > ❖ V «• -0 O- <- ❖ ❖ Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0. 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 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955, Published every Satur day by Laneaster-Faming, Lit- itz, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. S. 1879. ❖ ❖ -9- ❖ 5. ' ) c rr • •T+'r f» *■*,£»;>/*< -4 / - Bible Material: John 14:1-3; 17:1-3; .Romans. 6:4-33; I.Cormthirns l*:3-28: 'I Peter"! :3-S; I John 5:11-13. . -Dcrititul Read Is*: Revelation 21:1-*. Eternal Life Lesson for December 9, 1962 DO- -YOU have an ambition to live forever? That defends, doesn’t it? It depends on what land of “forever” you are thinking about. There are some forevers mldn’t want a minute-of. There may be other forevers so perfect that a sin gle instant would more than atone for all the sorrows and agonies of this sad world. Merely to-survive is no wise person’s am bition. There is a famous French play, “No Exit,” in which three characters, all strangers, to one another, meet in a botel room. There is nothing, there to hurt them, they are just there—only they can never get out. They get worse than bored, they become desperate, they try to kill one another. But they can’t ... . be cause they are dead and they are all in hell. That’s what it would be, sheer hell, merely to live on and-on anu on .. . To Know -Christian hope has never Cwhen 'it wastruly Christian);'been for simple immortality/ If heaven is just more of the same we have known here, most human beings would say No thank you. Once is good, but once' "is enough. But Christian hope has always been centered around a different qual ity of life, not a different length of life. To be sure, Christians hope for a continuance of life, but that prospect us not even bearable un less it is a continuance of a better • kind of life than is possible with out God. JSternal life, as the New 'Testament shows it to usr’is not something you get after you die. ( You have it now, or you don’t have it. If you have it now, death cannot destroy you. If you do not have it now, no possible length of post-mortem existence is going to be anything but misery. Now Is The Time . . . : All types of livestock and poult) operations may need some special ventilatk attention, many dairy and steer feedir barns are too tight and the inside air b comes loaded with moisture, odors, and tc warm Condensation on walls, ceilings, an windows are danger signs of improperventil, tion Animal comfort is essential to hig production or gains, most ventilation n stallations soon pay for themselves. To Check The Inside of Bulk Tank Too many tanks are inspected only 1 visual means and may be carrying a pr tern film; producers are urged to thorough ftlikx. M. San la c j ean a bm ali area of the tank with s abrasive powder or washing compound to discover it a lili is present, if this small area looks different than the rest c the tank, then the film is present and an acid cleaner follov ed by an alkaline cleaner should be used to clean the entu tank To Check Manure Spreader The manure spreader has the farm’s most undesirable duty >et in most cases, gets the least amount ot attention Moistuie and daily use are the enemies of all types of machinery causing wear and - tear The spreader should be lubricated often, gear boxes, chains, and sprockets cleaned and oiled monthly during the winter, and the entire spread er cleaned and painted annu ally. Dry storage at all times is good management. ’'l , » -4 ■£- '>«SWZ-,T r ‘ »_r vifc. «>» • -ySSA- Cl:,, j-' >• - - *»>- J 3 *• % ' ''• 'What quality'- ■ then, which we should want to go ozt .through death, forever? -We can' put all that- Christians believe about-it-in three, profound -ldetf| drawn from, the New Testament*) First," Jesus himself said', “Thit i* eternal .life, that they know Thee the only true 'God, and Jesus Christ' whom" Thou hast ■ent.’*i (John 17:3.) To know Christ—not know about him, still less to echo what somebody else knows—tola 1 is life eternal, this is what snake* the vital difference in life. To hava John also says that he who "haa the Son” [meaning Christ] has eternal life. Some Christians think this is an expression too bold fbr them, they are afraid of it. Sut there it stands. What is it to have Christ and is it the same thing as knowing him? We might illus trate from the pupils of some lf he has been a truly great teacher,- when we hear his former pupils in a conceit, we say to ourselves at once—Why, that sounds like the old maestro,— I could shut my eyes and imagine it was the old genius himself. To share The inspired writers of the New Testament were not much given to drawing pictures of a future heaven. The center of their teach ing was life here and now, life this side of death. Suppose a boy" In his-teens finds the question bob bing up inhis mind: How shall I ever be a good father? Now that is a good question, but the best way to answer it is not to spend time thinking about it. The best way to prepare for fatherhood— at the age, say of fifteen, is Just to be the best boy possible. If you aren’t a real boy you don’t hkve much chance of being a real man. Paul, for example, in a famous chapter which works up tol'jlho great thought of eternal life, ijjpes not spend that chapter (Roman* 4) describing heaven. He speak;* of it in what may seem a strips* way: that is, sharing the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The main idea is thaVjjthe Christian shares the of Christ, and also shares his.,vic tory. Victories, we might better say; for as Christ was undefeated by sin or by death, so the Chris tian’s life shares this victorious quality. He hints at something he suggests more than once: namely that the Christian should begin, now and here, to live the life of heaven. Then “heaven, with ityvo abrim, will not seem strange to him.” (BtseA on outlines copyrlfhtod,' "bj the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the V. S. A. Itoloasei hr Community Dress Service.) 4 i BY MAX SMITH To Provide Good Ventilation. To Buy A Natural . Christina* Tree For the holiday seaso: many home-owners may cor sider the purchase of an an flcial Christmas Tree in pirn of the real evergreen tree. 'VN raise the questions Wh do farmers and other rni■ ■people go for the manufactu’ ed article when their own pu’ duct is competing for hour consumption? J I '» * } , It
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