4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 16, 1963 From Where We Stand... More In 1962, the nation’s farms produc ed enough food for our needs and for adequate reserves In addition, we ex ported near record quantities of some foods to other countries. We used only 54 per cent of our potato supply and 58 per cent of our canned fruits and vege tables. We used most of the total pro duction of livestock products in 1962. Adequate supplies mean-favorable price levels to consumers The total spent for foods bought may be higher than in the past year, but money spent for food takes a smaller proportion of family income now than in previous years 'Expenditures for food take about 20 per cent of current spending. The small increases in food price levels are less than for many other items families buy Processing foods, adding conven ience features, packaging, and marketing account for a large share of total food costs. Some of these costs are reduced when items become widely accepted and mass-produced Frozen concentrated orange juice, instant coffee, and cake mixes are less expensive than forms of these products without the built-in con venience. Use of potatoes had been declining for several years This trend has been reversed because of the acceptance of the convenient forms in which potatoes are now available Dehydrated potatoes are being produced experimentally in the form of flakelets This product is more dense, fits into a smaller package, and will save packaging costs and shelf space. Per capita use of eggs continues to decline, and as use declines average price goes down Supplies of chicken and turkey were adequate in 1962 but not at the record high of 1961 Supplies of broilers were significantly higher in 1962 We can look for lower prices for broilers in 1963 and prices the same or slightly higher for other poultry. Use of milk and milk products will probably continue to decline. Decreas ing use of fresh milk, evaporated milk, and cream continues It is hoped that fresh low-fat milk will partially coun ter the declining use of fresh whole milk Fresh low-fat milk is being well received in some test markets at pre sent Some of the decreased use of milk products has been offset by government distribution programs. For example, dis tribution to school lunch and welfare Solanc:' FFA Presents Award To Heberlein 7 typMbmtkj Li FFA ill WEE,< Feb. Jfi-23 Bv • Bill Wilson, Reporter On Thiusdav, at a combined Ji - Si Higty School assemh- iv Robert Wenger, president of ihe Solanco Futuie Farmers of Amenta, on behalt of the Sol mto chapter presented a pla nue to Herbert Hebei lem “for outstanding service to the Fu- Ime Farmeis ot America’’. The membeis teel the Solan l. »MuH t es t e d. To avoid the rush and for quicker! service we suggest-the samples ,be taken 1 soon as the ground is thawed so that lime a.nd fertilizer orders 1 may be placed. The ajiplication of lime and fertilizer on the J basis' of a complete soil test is strongly recommended. \ To Plan For Nitrogen Top-Dressing Many livestock producers will welcome the lush growth of new pasture this spring, the time of first grazing may be achieved earlier by ,the appli- cation of some nitrogen on pas tuie land, the spreading of 50 to GO pounds of actual nitrogen per acie during March or early April, on a %-acre per animal unit, will relieve the short roughage supply. it is easy. It is easy to’memorize a set of rules tod keep them—as can be done without'much think ing—than it is to think out, maybe desperately, what is right to do in new situations and conditions. Jesus called the people who had i this, dead kind of religion hypo crites, and so-they were. For an other characteristic of non-vital j religion is that there is a wide] gulf betwen what the man says 1 and what in his heart he really I wants and prefers. In vital reli-; gion there is no such gap. What a i man who has a genuine case of, religion says, comes out of his ; heart. As Middleton Murry once 1 said, “Jesus would rather be de-, nied by a true man than con fessed by a liar.” Insincere reli- 1 gion is on the death-list because! being the kind of thing it is, it 1 can’t live. Take two important; activities, Bible reading and pray-1 er, as an example. These are the source of life in true religion. The sincerely religious man will do what feeds and strengthens, the' faith within him, the insincere! man, having no real heart-interest' in,,God or bis. people, does not 1 feed on the “bread of, life,V he| does not seek God,in prayer (uh-J less he is scared to death). Audi of course his religion can’t be! vital. - - Vital religion faces forward Another, criticism Jesus- made, of the Pharisees was 1 -that 4hey,' thought .too much about tradition.. AH, men, including true Chris tians, have morethan a touch of, this habit of looking backward. We all know people who have one smashing argument (they think!) for not doing something they -plainly ought to do: “I’ve never done, it before.’’ Religion that keeps a memory book but no hope chest is not vital. It may be an interesting a quaint skel eton; but it is not vital. Tradition is not .a bad thing in itself. But when tradition becomes, as it did for the Pharisees who op posed Jesus, a substitute for per sonal and living faith; when it gets into the eyes like smoke so diat one cannot see what the world around us is like;' when it hypnotizes us into looking back ward, instead of forward, when jt ( so occupies our minds that wej think the only good "day was" Ye?-' terday; when it lays upon' ouri living-hands and. hearts the dead ' weight of our ancestors’ beliefs ; and prejudices, and would substi tute their dead minds for our liv ing ones, then tradition has killed! religion. (Btnl an, eaUlnas ufriliUii if 1 the Dlrlaloiu. of, j Chrlitlan EliMHoti National Connell at tbe Chnrchoa el Chrlat In tbe V. B. A. Belaaiaß M Community Praia ferric*.) Time . . . BY MAX SMITH To Cfiill Dairy Cows \ The spring months usually bring an in ease in milk production from many herds; < .is burdens the milk markets still more and dps depress milk prices Local dairymen .’e urged to stress the importance of each nv returning a maximum net profit; it’s not ie large number of cows milking but the j gh production of each cow and return ' iove costs High priced feeds should be con- , med only by efficient producers i To Attempt To Cut Costs ", WILL BE A VERY IMPOR- TANT EFFORT ON i MOST FARMS, however, some careful , study of tarm records and pie- > vious farm accounts might b* f-' . J gram.