4—Lancaster -Farming, Saturday, February 23, 1963 From Where We Stand... Milk Is Not Medicine Milk is good. Let’s leave it that way lii a news story that came across our desk this week, the writer said, “Milk from properly treated cows can be useful in preventing and treating cer tain human diseases ” He explained how milk from cows injected with antigens or germs of hu man diseases can be used in treating certain arthritis and hay fever cases. When the substances are injected into the milk producing glands of the cows/ the organisms cause a buildup of im munities to the disease in the cows’ milk. If enough of the milk is consumed by the affected person, the disease fight ing organisms are picked up in the blood stream and fight off the disease, the story went on. Now, we believe that every tool at our command should be used in the fight against disease, we just hate to see the scientists fooling around with a whole some food like milk. Most children, fortunately, just na turally like milk. We would like to see it continue that way. Most children instinctively dislike medicine We would not like for a mother to have to say to a child, “Now drink your medicine,” when she pours a brimming glassful of delici ous, nutritious milk. If a new medicine is developed, and it is proven effective, let’s use it by all’ means, but let’s call it medicine. Let’s keep milk the good, wholesome, delicious drink it has always been. We ought to begin telling the mothers of this country that milk is good not just good for you. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ Heralds Of Spring As we look out the window this morning, the flakes are again falling. It has been a long, hard winter. One of the most often heard complaints re cently is, “Won’t winter ever be over?” But in the mail came a sure sign of spring. The annual seed catalogs again sport magnificent color pictures of fruits and vegetables big and perfect enough to gladden the heart of the most avid gar dener. The pictures carry a promise of spring and summer and harvest time, much more surely than the groundhog, or robins, or crocus, or any of the other more widely acclaimed harbingers of Spring. They set the heart of the gardener to singing and his hands itching to be in Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa, Offices: 22 E Mam 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-Farmlng, Lit itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act ol Mar. 8, 1879. sweet corn, and rich green cucumbers, Materials Mark s 27 through kindle a desire for warm weather and Devotional Reading: Phiiippiana growing, things that has lain dormant all : 2 ' 21- through the dark, dreary days of winter. 'T'HE word "Credo” comes from We have to put a tight check rein th ,® and it means “I be „ ,5 T „ lieve.” Most Christian churches on our emotions to keep from ordering a re p ea t the “Creed” during the big packet of every seed described in Sunday worship But a person the glowing terms the ad writers reserve might know the Creed by heart for their most special items. and still not really believe it Some So, while it looks like anything but Christians fly on spring outside today, we know the seed th ® wm ® s of ot £‘ catalogs can’t be wrong. Spring will They^expect^to come. ' “go to heaven on Spring came last year, and the year their grandmoth before that, and the year before that . . er’s ticket.” They and as long as this earth lasts, Spring expect to get cred will come on forever. At least that’s how it looks from It can > t done ; where we stand. Dr. Foreman Some churches have no creed but the Bible. They Startling Statistics Someone has feel that nobody understands a tabulated that we have put 35 million creec J anyhow, and tiiat creeds laws on the books trymg to enforce the S.’As'TmfSef SV? & Ten Commandments. Christian creeds are based on the ★ ★ ★ ★ Bible, and it is a striking fact that A Lot of Milk Vendors Consump tion of milk should be increased through the operation of vending machines. A Bureau of the Census study reveals a total of 5,176 vendors valued at $4 mil- lion were shipped by manufacturers in 1961. Big Insect Appetites Insects at tacking our farms and forests cause loss es estimated at from $lO Billion to $l5 Billion a year. It is expected that new chemicals may ultimately reduce a very large part of these losses. ★ ★ ★ ★ Fluoridated Milk Benefits Chil dren’s dental cavities have- been -reduced as much as 75 percent through use of Fluoridated milk, according to a Louisi ana State University study. Researchers say fluoride combines with calcium to help bond enamel to growing teeth and dairies eagerly await a Federal okay to use it. They figure demand would be particularly keen in areas where water supplies aren’t fluoridated. ★ ★ ★ ★ Youth Moving Out The Agricul ture Department reports that rural young people are moving to the cities so fast that the farm population is now de clining due to the shortage of potential young parents. In some rural counties the number of births occurring has re cently fallen below the number of deaths. Farm Calendar (Continued rrom rage 1) Feb 28 10 a.‘|i to 3 p m Farm and Home planning session for Chester, Berks and Lancaster Counties in the Morgantown fire hall. 10 a in to 3 p m. Slip co ver meeting sponsored by ihe home economies extension service in the basement of the Poultiy Center, 230 by pass and Roseville Road. 7 30 pm Educational poultry meeting in the Poul try Center, 230 bypass and Roseville Road. 7 30 pm New Holland 4-H club to organize in the New Providence Elementarj school. 7 30 pin Holstein 4-H club to meet in the Produc tion Ci edit building, Rose i ille Road Mar 1 • 7 pm. New Hol land PiFA Parent and Son banquet at the New Holland the warm, brown earth of the garden as nothing else can do. (except, possibly, the fresh-turned soil of the garden it- self) The catalogs, with their bright red tomatoes, dark red beets, verdant green and creamy white beans, golden yellow ★ ★ ★ • Local Youth (continued from page 1) Bauman, 419 Penn Grant Road, West Lampeter Twp. received his award during sessions on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. He attended the meeting as a guest of the coop eiative Bauman, a 19 61 graduate ot Lampeter-Strasburg Hrgh Sch ool m the vocational agricul ture curriculum, is cunently farming a 150 acre dany farm with his parents. A former presidents of the Garden Spot chapter' and - the, Lancaster County Association of Future Farmers of America, Bauman is the current sentinel of the state Association of FFA. ■He was a member of the high drouth next summer. The prac- milking herd Bare conciets M school student council and a tice of direct-cutting into the has the ability to cause numer- a member of the £\ T ational Honor silo continues to produce a ous udder problems and should a Society at Lampeter-Strasburg poor, low-quality silage and be kept covered at all times. If 1 High School should be dis-continued. straw is not available, then i He received ?the Red Rose .' r Vfelting'for ; :gevdr^l'pidVirh’aftet; shreddedj OTrmfoddef, sawdust, £ Farmer degree' and ’the Vns'befbie''ensihhg^s ' :'ihir^ttgs7o r %-'ii'eanh#l h,^^^^^J j' ' r ■> - Christian Credo Lesson for February 24, 19G3 they are all much alike, and often in the exact words of the Bible. If a man believes just one single thing, he has that much of a creed. Relieving what we cannot see Let us look at another word; Science. That comes from another Latin word, meaning “I know.” What is the difference between a Credo and science? What is the difference between a Creed and knowledge? One difference is this: If I say “I know” something, and I do know it, then I can prove it to anybody who is not blind or crazy. But if I say “I believe” something, I can be just as sure about it as if I “knew” it, and it can be just as true. Only, what 1 believe ,ia not-public;knowledge, shared by everybody. It is private and personal. It goes beyond what any fool can plainly see. The most important truths in life are precisely those that can not be proved, but must be be lieved: When a girl promises to love and to cherish a young man, how does he, how does any one know she is telling the truth? It Now Is The Time . . . To Test Held-Over Seed Some farmers and gaidners may have max m cvittw some seed lett from - the 1962 season; if th# MAA "*• seeds have been stored m a cool, dry place. no doubt they will grow The safe procedure is to run a germination test on a small amount of the seed and count the percentage that sprouts. A flat containing moist soil or sand, or two blotters, or roiling seeds in a moist cloth will serve as methods to run the test. Don’t take chances; either test old seed or buy new seed. To Plan For Better Grass Silage In a few months the new hay crop will be approaching har- Keep Cows AVell Bedded vest; some livestock men will In spite of the bedding short contmue to make part of their age dairymen should make a first hay crop into grass silage; special effort to keep some lit this is good insurance against ter under the udders of the is the most important 1 thing hi hii life; but he must live by it, not prove it. We believe that God if love; but not every one knows that, though everybody knows (ho sky is blue. You can know that God is love not by having soma one prove it to you; you have to live by faith that it is true. The first Christian creed The first Christian creed was probably the shortest. Jesus asked His closest friends: Who do men say that I am? Peter’s answer is leported by Mark as a very short one: You are the Christ! With that single sentence Peter regis tered his belief about Jesus and his belief in Jesus. From that day to this, Christ has held the cen tral place. There may be all kinds of churches, but one kind you wifi never see is one where the peo ple won’t say whether they be lieve in Christ or not. Any “Chris tian” who hasn’t made up his mind about Jesus is hardly ready lo be called a Christian. Mind you, Peter did not say all 'he things, he did not use all tho words, about Jesus that the church would one day use. But in that simple declaration, You are the Christ, was packed something vi tally important. For one thing, Peter places Jesus in a class by Himself, No Jew in those days thought there could be more than one Christ (or Messiah—the two utles mean the same). Further, Peter meant to say that Jesus was the Number One Authority wer men. To be Christ means to share the sovereignty of God Him self. How could Peter know this was true? he never tried to prove it, but he dared to live by it. Call to all, call for all There is a very important fea ture of Christian faith, at its cen ter and heart. That is, genuine Christian faith is much more than reciting a list of what you believe. More important than belief-about is belief-in. There is a poem called “Not What but Whom I do Be lieve”; it speaks for Christians everywhere, it declares faith id a Person not in a Proposition, There are millions of things oh* can know or believe, without h«£ mg changed at all. A man who believes oatmeal is good for h»n| is just about the same man if ho changes his mind and conclude* that oatmeal is bad for him. But if a man believes that God is good; if he goes oh and is not changed by (hat belief, he doesn’t reall? believe* it. Christian belief chal* lenges all men, calls to all; and true Christian belief calls, on s man for all that is within him. i (Bnsoa an onillats coprrlrhUa br tb« Division of Christian Efmthll National Connell of tho Ghnrolioa « Christ In tho V. 8. A. Bolonsod h? Community Bros* atrrioo.) 1 BY MAX SMITH' To Give Lambs Extra Caro Lambing time is one of the most im portant times in the sheep production year. Sheep producers should)make a determined effort to raise every lamb that is born. Be on. hand when the lamb is born, keep it .viterm, get it to nurse as soon as possible are all practices that will get the new-born off to a good start .During cold weather heat lamps should be used to keep the pen warm and dry. operators are urged to adapt their machinery to this wilting ‘method.
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