4—Lancaster Farming, .Saturday, January 12, 1963 ~ From Where We Standi... Incentives To Do Better Work Have you ever seen the sport of dog racing? If you have, you’ve noticed that the dogs don’t do much running until the rabbit is turned loose. In. the case of the greyhounds, it is just a mechanical rabbit, but at least there is an incentive for them to run. Without the rabbit it probably wouldn’t be much of a race. Many farmers have found it is profitable to place a “rabbit” in the form of incentive payments in front of their farm workers. Incentive payments m many cases encourage employees to work harder and do a better job As a reward they re ceive extra benefits usually in the form of dollars Although at first glance this appears to be a very expensive way to pay farm workers, usually the incen tive payments are earned by the work ers through increased productivity, bet ter quality work, or lower production costs. Incentives are a way of rewarding workers for superior performance performance beyond the expectations of normal day labor But unlike the rabbit in the dog race, the incentives should be within the reach of the person who will reach for them. Also unlike the dog race, in centive payments are not always easy to manage. Often they create as many pro blems as they solve. Finding performan ce standards that are above the average but not out of reach may be difficult to establish. It is a good idea to make the in centive payments separate from the usual wages so the worker won’t con fuse them with his pay. Spreading the payment out over the year is usually more desirable than making payments in one lump at the end of the year or the harvest season. Usually, incentives based on added output are better than those based on net income because of the difficulty of arriving at a net income figure that is suitable to both parties. While such payments are often made in cash, they can also be made in the form of livestock, crops, paid vaca tions, or other substitutes. The form of payment can usually be worked out to the satisfaction of all concerned. Incentive payments are by no means a cure-all for the farm labor pro blem. While many plans have met with marked success for both farmer and worker, others have been dismal fail ures. If the plan is properly set up, how ever, and carefully worked out and un- Lancaster Farming VI/l Lancaster Conn tv’s Own Farm W JvlXlCivfl Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 B. 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 Lancaster-Parming, Lit itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar. 8, 1579 ■fr-O- •>•>< derstood by both parties, incentive pay ments can be successful. If the hired man understands and appreciates the op portunity to improve his income by putt ing forth a little extra effort or assum ing added responsibility, and the farmer sees the expenditure of the extra cash as an investment toward more efficient production, a happy arrangement is pos sible. While not the complete answer, in centive payments do provide a way of getting and keeping good hired help, plus giving the farmer added return for his investment in farm labor. We believe good hired labor is one of the most precious commodities on the farm today If incentive payments help you keep your good workers, we believe you can well afford to make them at tractive. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand The number of farm-accident fatali ties is not declining in proportion to the decline in farm population, according to a report issued recently by the U S. De partment of Agriculture. One reason for the continuing high death rate in farm accidents is the in creasing average age of people on farms. Another reason is the increased amount of powerful machinery and the absence of any organized supervision of the operators of the machines. Rural traffic is usually less well controlled than the traffic in urban areas. Furthermore, with farms more isolated, the opportunity for the injured to receive first aid promptly is less abundant. While falls are by far the most numerous causes of farm accidents, in juries on farm lands are usually asso ciated with the use of machinery. While many of the accidents to farm residents result in death, many are non iatal. Researchers found last year that nearly one third of all farm workers in the United States were injured in some sort of accident. About 19 per cent of the farm population, was injured serious ly enough to lose time from their work, and about three per cent are disabled permanently each year. We believe it is not too early in the new year for all farmers to begin a systematic, organized campaign to make all members of the farm family recog nize the value of working safely. A hit or-miss safety program is not enough. Safety on the farm is a full-time, all year job for everyone. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. The traditional bountiful neighborlmess of the people of Lancaster County went into full play this week to aid a family who lost all its possessions m a lire. The family is that of Mr. and Mis Clarence Franktford. at Poplar Grove, Lititz R 3, whose home was destroyed by fire last Sunday evening, leav ing seven people homeless and causing more than $9OOO loss Within hours a vacant dwelling in Bnckerville was made available to the farml> by its owner, Homer Klemfel ter, of near Bnckerville. the lincker- Immediately ville Fire Comany, of which Charles L. Adams is lire chief. ★ ★ ★ Farm Safety Family Fire Loss hegan collecting furniture and clothing for the family, and 'within a short tune the work was taken over by Stei gel Lions club of Bnckerville, which has assisted many fam ilies in the past who have been 'burned out of their homes. Offers of supplies from people over a wide area of the northern part of the county, and the Lancaster Water Street 'Mission aflso of feied aid Within a couple of dajs the family had received a stove, i efngerator, living room furnitue, complete bed room sets, rugs, two break fast sets, silverware and dish- ' Bible Material* Mark 1 14-45 Devotional Beading: Philippians 2.1- Jesus Beginning Lesson for January 13, 1963 JESUS of Nazareth always had grumblers or complainers in his audience. They could always find fault—though that was no discredit to him. God on high has many self-appointed critics, but he was never . ■‘“jß known to change SK his way on their ° ne can easily . rL'3 g imagine what [ some of Jesus’hs /||| teners might have ffjpnr said when Jesus aa jpi preached his first eeß» ill *aa sermons. Neither Dr. Foreman MatthewnorMark gives us a whole sermon, only a sketch of his geneial line. The leader who will compare Matthew 3 2 with Matt 4 17 can guess what the unfriendly listener might say. ‘ There's nothing new here, I ve heard this before ” Word for word, the report of what John preached is lust what Jesus preached The Master added some thing, but it did not change the fact that—at first—what Jesus Jesus preached was so much like what John preached that you might be tempted to call it an echo. Carrying On Mark connects Jesus’ beginning to preach with the arrest of John the Baptist. As long as John was preaching, Jesus remained in si lence. When John’s brave voice was shut into the dungeon of Herod’s castle, then Jesus came into Galilee and preached. It should not surprise us that Jesus had a message so much the same as John’s. It was not that Jesus was an echo or that he had no min'd of bis own. Rather, he evi dently felt that what John had proclaimed still needed saying It was of the utmost importance that as many as possible should hear the news, should be faced with the demand. The Kingdom of God is at hand 1 Repent! Believe! This w'as no light matter Human des tinies depended on whether people were ready for the Kingdom, whether their wills and purposes were attuned to God s. Now Is The Time . . . In many cases of livestock feeding where the self feeders are' used, there is too much waste of valuable feed In some re search studies with hog feeding it was found . _ finrrrn that man y feeding operations lost from 3 to MA * V 7 percent ot the feed. This is not the way to make a net return on any feeding operation. Feed is expen sive and one of the objectives should be to get a good feed conveision into meat or milk Local feeders are urged to inspect their teed operations m order to reduce the waste of lee'd. the flock. To Prevent Wool Blindness Experienced shepherds will nnn the wool from around tho ejcs of their sheep at this tune of the year This is quite oiten necessary in some 'bleeds such as Shropshires or Southdown? where there is a lot of wool about the head, lu other breed such as Chev iots and Sulfolks this wnll not be necessary. If the wool has grown tight around the eye opening, it is very difficult for the sheep to see where to go and to see feed and water. Some attention in these cases W’ll produce more profit from Prayer and Planning , Jesus did not spend all his time preaching. When a woodsman has a hard day ahead of him, he does not rush out and start chopping. He spends some time m sharpen ing his axe. So it was with Jesus. One of the first things we hear of his, doing, was to call certain fishermen to be his followers. Some people think that the little scene Sy the lakeside, pictured in few words by Mark, was the whole story: Jesus just walked up to four total strangers and said, “Follow me.” Other Bible students see this in cident a? part of a longer story, most of it untold, of gradual acquaintance, climaxing in this definite “call ” However that may be, it is clear that Jesus was al ready planning ahead for the days when he would no longer be on this earth as he then was. To put it m one word, he was thiinv.ng ahead to the church If the life of Jesus m Chapter One in the great story of Christianity, the lest of the chapters are the life and adventmes of the Church. Jesus was a'ready thinking into the distant future, when he began to chcore his Twelve. Bafore everything else Mark first mentions Jesus’ pray ers after all the healings at Caper naum, after the calling of some of his disciples and the casting out of a demon in the synagogue. But it is likely tha* Jesus would have put oft praying till then? Mark, the shortest of the Gospels, does not try to tell us eveiythmg —and neither did the other three gospel-writers. Luke tells us that Jesus was praying at the time of his baptism; and w’e may he sure that that was not the first time. Along with planning, ahead of planning, goes piayer. Knowing what we do about Jesus, we can be sure he did not just make Ms plans first and then ask his Father to approve. The best planning is that which takes God in—not as a postscript, a formal last minute unnecessary bit of religious cour tesy. The best planning is that which consults with God first, makes the plan step by step with prayerful listening to hear God’s whisper. If Jesus found it sp|t im portant to pray that he would rise before dawn, to find time for it, surely the ordinary Christian needs to pray even more. For prayer is not only telling God what we want —he knows that already. It is listening for him to tell us what He wants. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division o( Christian Education, National Council ol the Churches o( Christ in the USA Released by Community Press Service.) BY MAX SMITH To Buy Certified Seeds One of the best ways of actually gett ing ■what you leally want is to plant certified seed In order to have some assurance of good germination, fiee from weeds, and the best yield ability of certain varieties, it is strongly recommended that the best seeds • be'used. In most cases with the buying of seeds, you get in proportion to what you pay. To Out Down On Feed Waste To Prevent Snow Mold In Lawns Snow mold is a fungus that thrives under conditions found under snow cover. Mold appears in gray or dirty white patches a few inches to a foot or more in diameter after the snow melts This condition may be prevented by spraying with chemicals containing calomel, corrosive su Jhmate, or thi ram-mercury compounds; the rate is 3 ounces in 3 to 5 gallons of water per 1000 square feet of lawn between army covers, .[
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