4 Lancaster Farming, Saturday,- March 2, 1963
From Where We Stand...
Conservation - What Docs It Mean?
If you are ever looking for a topic!
for good, lively discussion, try this one.]
Just say, “If a man has $lOO in his
pocket, it doesn’t do him, or anyone else,
any good as long as he keeps it there.” (
We have hashed this over loud and
long with a good friend of many years.
His contention is that the money in the
pocket is a form of security to the per
son who has it, and perhaps it is if the
person can put his dependence m mater
ial things, but it still brings him nothing
of tangible worth until he drags it out
and spends it.
We believe conservation of our na
tural resources falls into a parallel with
this example. Conservation does not
mean simply saving what we have in the
way of natural resources Rather, true
conservation means the WISE USE of all
the resources at our command
There are those among us who
would like to see all our woodlands kept
just as they are. If these people had
their desires fulfilled, not another tree
would ever feel the woodsman’s axe;
not another foot of sod would feel the
plowman’s blade, and not another stream
would be used for hydro-electric pow
er, or irrigation of crops or for mimcipal
water supplies
SAVE what we have, they say.
Save it for what 7 we ask for
the next generation, for posterity, for
our old age, for security 9
In many other countries of the
world particularly in South America
. there are thousands upon thousands
of acres of forhsts and grassed plains
with untrammeled streams which have
been ‘•saved” in much the same state
they have been for thousands of years.
But living on these acres are thou
sands of people with barely enough to
eat, and shelter which barely rates the
name
Is this security?
We hate waste We were brought
up to believe that you should finish
the first apple right down to the core
before you bit into another.
But isn’t “saving for saving sake”
a form of waste? Isn’t it just as bad to
let a tree stand until it dies naturally
and falls into decay as it is to cut a tree
before it is ripe for harvest ? Isn’t it far
worse to let wildlife so overpopulate an
area that there is wholesale starvation
every year than to harvest a reasonable
amount periodically 9
And isn’t it just another form of
waste to let trees or grass stand on
ground that could be used to better ad
vantage for the production of food?
We have become so accustomed to
thinking of waste as the over use of
abuse of natural resources that we some
times overlook the fact that lack of use
is a form of waste too
We will not have accomplished the
job of conservation until we have put
Future Farmers
Study Methods
To Save Soil
As nual lonng people grow
into matiniU, the shadow that
has fallen anoss mis-used land
hoi ei s above them also, lepoits
Thomas At Valin aiea supetn
-01 of Vocational Aguoultuie
and Futnie Fainieis in the
A 01 K-Lancastei Aiea
Young people icmlire that
ithe hind which nounshed them
in then voutb will no longer
sustain them, thev must go el
f-ewlicic Clone a'e the dose ties
ol lamih, he said \\ hm rani
ilies leave the foundations of
the chinch, school and com
rninitv aie shaken
The Futuie Farmeis of Am-
Kci do not want this to ha;-
pui The lu local chapteis and
their 14 locational ain ic uJJ in e
I When speaking of published dairy
records, recently, a farmer said “Go easy
on mentioning Butterfat.”
He believes, and we suppose right
ly so, that many people in our society
today instinctively shy away from any
food item that mentions fat in any form.
He believes that misinformation or
lack of information has made many con
sumers wary of foods which might con
tain a few calories. He believes educa
tion is needed to help farmers market
foods which suit the modern market.
We agree that education is needed,
but we believe it is a mistake to apolo
gize for the wholesomeness of any food
product We believe it would be of far
greater advantage to the health of the
nation to educate the consumers to the
value of good food than to try to alter
food products to fit a fad.
We believe dairy farmers should
quit apologizing for the richness of milk
and plan a campaign of promotion and
education on the value of whole milk
with the richness left in.
We realize that much undesirable
publicity will have to be combatted, but
isn’t that better, in the long run, than
giving in to a fad which has no basis
in scientific fact.
We have no quarrel with other
methods for determining the value of
milk. They are good, and probably
should be added to the present method
of grading milk, but let’s not lose sight
of the fact that butterfat is a wholesome,
natural part of milk too.
When we start apologizing for the
goodness of food, we will begin produc
ing food which is not good.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Water-saving practices eased drouth
Northeast region farmers report
“less damaging results,” from severe
drouth beginning last May, when they
were using such moisture-saving prac
tices as terracing and contour strip crop
ping. An upsurge of interest in farm
pond construction led nationally known
conservationist, Kent Leavitt, Dutchess
county, N.Y, to speak a word of cau
tion; “Ponds unprotected against erosion
can lead to disappointment. Many are no
longer of any value because they are
silted up In our area, strip cropping,
diversion ditches, and other appropriate
measures making a farm-wide conserva
tion program, are necessary to preserve
upland areas and w protect ponds against
silting ”
msti uctors do not want tins to
happen They and then instr
uctors aie evening their ellorts
towaid building a better £aim
lile They believe in then mot
to
Learning to Do
Doing to Leam
Earning to Live
Living to Seive
They are learning to do thro
ugh the use of visual aids, con
tests, field itnps and lectures
which are a part of their course
of studies They are willing tq
assist as shown bv past deeds
in helping elect road sign,
helping set up watershed meet
ing prepanng speeches on Con
sei ration and above all trying
to convince Dad and the neigh
bois that practicing Conserva
tion is pait ol good faun man-
agement
The Belgian Congo claims
to,ooo vaneties of buds and
IJISPCt life .
hvery acre of our farmlands and forests
to the best possible use for which it is
suited
At least that’s how it looks from
iwhere we stand.
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Offices:
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Phone - Lancaster
EXpress 4-3047 or
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Jack Owen. Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
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1955. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster-Farmlng, Lit-
Itz, Pa.
Entered as 2nd class matter
at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar,,
S, 1879.
Weekly
Eastei-Time In order to get maximum leturns these lamb)
should be fed giam daily in addition to the ewe’s milk 'A creep'
feeder including equal parts of cracked corn and whole oats
will put on extra pounds Many well-fed young lambs at Bastef
will letum as much per head as older lambs during the sum'
v mei.
Work and Worship
Lesson for March 3, 1963
Bible Material: Mark 9.2-50
Devotional Reading: James 2:14-29.
\\T ORSHIP can be called words
v v uttered to the glory of God.
Work can be called actions for the
glory of God. A sincere person
like J. S. Bach, the great musi
cian, can write music to the glory
of God Men have written hymns
and refused to
seek a copyright
on them; let them
be used by any
one to the glory
of Godrthey said.
A mother, asked
what she had done
during the week
to glorify God,
could point to her
Dr. Foreman children. Every
act a mother does, no matter how
trivial, which goes to the making
of an upstanding citizen of church
and state, is smely woik done for
the glory of God Which is a bet
ter way to serve him and bear
witness to him, work or worship’
In winch way do we best glorify
the Father of all?
Work is not worship
That is a rather stupid question.
It’s like asking, when does a man
love his wife the most, when he’s
sending her flowers or when he
is working hard for her sake?
There’s no question when he feels
most romantic—of course it’s
when he sends the flowers. But
that’s not the question - when does
he love her the most? You can see
it’s not a sensible question, be
cause he loves her all the time,
but he shows it in different ways.
So work and worship both grow
out of our love for God and de
sire to do His will. (We are talk
ing about Christians, not people
in-general.) Yet, though so much
alike at base, work and worship
are not the same.- There are peo
ple who seem to think either one
can take the place of the other.
There are men in monasteries
who have taken a vow of silence,
and never so much as speak to
their own relatives any more.
They do nothing all day and night
but meditate and pray. On the
other hand there are persons who
feel that if they are sufficiently
Now Is The Time . . .
Many dairymen aie plagued e\ery win* a
ter by pneumonia in then small danf \
calxes This is often caused by damp, drauf.-jj
conditions. Piopei ventilation is veiy
portant in the dairy bam as well as
calf pens, if the fan exhaust system is used/
the warm air fiom the barn should be pull'll
ed toward the calf pens rathei than a\\nf-|
horn the calves Pens should he kept dif ‘i
and well bedded at all times ( |
To Push Early Lambs ,
Sheep piodttcers aie leminded of
very tavoiable pnces lor spring, lambs at^
MAX M. SMITH
To Consider Veal Cali os To Plan For Fallout Protect i« B
With the abundance of milk Rural people should knotf
on most markets and the favoi- the dangers they face in c i'*
able price of choice veal calves, of nucleai attack, few im^
it is the feeling that some of areas are likely to be hit W
this xmik could be used on the bombs ’ but all „ are subjea j!
, , radioactne fallout Farm#*
farm to feed out moie veal are urge d to become aeauaintrf,
calves and return a greater with this subject and make dB*i
profit A Spe'ciaCExteriSion'Cn- finite plans for ttite prOitectw 11 j
cular on the subject is avail- of then families and then
God will (so to speak) ex
i
tually because they get tM
to read the Bible, too bus/|
ive even two minutes of pray*
day. Nevertheless both these
at worship and at work
tliis as in an ways, Jestuf
1 the right balance. He wa*
often so pressed for time and
space that He hardly had room
enough to move around. He was
so busy at times that He could
not find an hour for prayer all
day. If any one could ever have
said, My work is so important,
and it is done so plainly to the
glory of God, that the Lord will
excuse me if I don’t attend the
synagogue and don’t have a pray*
er time all week; if any one could
ever have said that it was Jesus, 1
But no, when His work grew
heavy He would get up long be*,
fore daylight and go off to
hills to pray alone. And on the
Sabbath when He came out from
the synagogue to find people m
need waiting in line for Him to
help them, He did not tell them
this was His day for worship and
communion with God, An old,
teacher in a Methodist school was
known never to miss prayer-meet
ing. One day a student who hadn’t
prepared his lesson thought ho.
had the perfect excuse. "I wa*
at prayer-meeting last night, sir,”
ne said. The professor, retortedt
“I’ve no use for any one who lets
religion be an excuse for skipping
work.” Jesus might have said
3ust that. Can you imagine a Jesus
who never prayed? or can you
imagine a Jesus who never did
anything but pray? Neither would
be the real Jesus!
He needed both «
Worship and work were not >S
“electives” in Jesus’ life. They fil
were not something to be taken
or not, as your whim might be. ■ai
Work and worship were necessi- A
ties fr~ Him Whatever else He (I
needed them for, it was at least ,1
this: He needed prayer and work
in order to be what He was. For '|
whatever we do leaves its mark
on us. There are bad marks, like jJ
the mark of Cain, and there are n
good marks, like the print of the |
nails in Jesus’ hands. If Jesus' I
life would have been wealc and
empty without worship and work
in abundance, bow can we dare
to try the dangerous experiment
of neglecting those two great sup
ports of the God-pleasing soul, th*
worship of God and work in His
name?
(Based on outlines oopyrlrhted bf
(he Division of Christian Education.
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the V. S. A. Roieasud *T,
Community Press Serrl-e.)
BY MAX SMITH
To Violent C.ilf Pneumonia
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