—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 13, 1963
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From Where We Stand...
One Man’s Meat - Another Man’s Poison
One man’s meat is another man’s
poison, as the saying goes. And nowhere
is the saying so applicable as. in wildlife
preservation.
Ask the Vermont dairy farmer
about his deer problem and be pre
pared for a half-hour outburst of anger
and frustration over damage to his crops.
But the West Coast gamekeeper can give
you twenty different reasons why deer
should be protected.
The West Virginia cherry grower
can lose thousands of dollars of fruit to
but the Dallas suburbanite quails
at the thought of the effect his neigh-
insect spray may have on a passing
robin.
It all boils down to the fact that a
bird, mammal, or tree wildlife, in
general which is valuable one place
by one person is a pest someplace else.
There’s a big hue and cry at the
moment about the alleged damage done
to “good” or “bad” wildlife by agricul
tural chemicals. Yet- the facts prove
otherwise. Such immediate damage to
wildlife as there may rarely be is quick
ly overcome by the forces of Nature.
Results of research carried out at
Mississippi State College indicate that
birds and other vertebrates (animals
with a backbone) can become immune
to pesticide chemicals and probably
do. Tests made on frogs showed that
those which had been exposed naturally
to pesticidal chemicals had become im
mune to damage from repeated ex
posures
Take the bobwhite quail, Georgia’s
top game bird. The Georgia Game and
Fish Commission has recently showed
that bobwhite quail populations have
suffered no bad effects from a pesticide
used to eradicate the fire ant from large
areas of the state.
Bird populations, in fact, have
shown a seven-fold increase over the
past 20 years, according to annual bird
counts made by the National Audubon
Society and the U S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. Robin populations have multi-,
plied nine times, cardinal numbers have
doubled. Flickers, mockingbirds, kill
deers, redwing blackbirds all have in
creased. Even the very destructive crows
and starlings have multiplied two- and'
eight-times respectively. Most organic
pesticides have been developed and in
troduced and widely used in the
last 20 years.
Several states in which pesticides
have been used extensively in agricul
tural production and large-scale pest
control projects have reported that hunt
ing “has never been so good.”
Pesticides have actually done much
good for “the great outdoors.” They’re
used to make fire breaks and fire roads
for forest protection, kill rodents in tree
nurseries, eradicate pond-choking and
-duck-starving aquatic plants, conftrol
eels which prey on trout, and make land
ing strips for geese in dense forest.
Right around home pesticides rid
your garden of grass and protect the
grass in your lawn. They knock the
Japanese beetles from your roses and
save the bees in your apple trees. They
kill pesky poison ivy, and protect your
shade trees from insects and disease.
“Good” or “bad”, wildlife is here
to stay with pesticide chemicals.
National Agricultural Chemical A,ss’n.
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Congratulations To FFA
A kingsized bouquet is due the
lanco Chapter of Future Farmers a,
their energetic advisor William
Fredd.
Winning the top prize in either the
public speaking contest or the parlia
mentary procedure contest is a feat wor
thy of praise, but this group brought'
both honors to the county and to their
school.
The win by Solanco is even more
noteworthy when you realize that the
department lost one of their teachers on
February and is operating with one
teacher on a temporary basis.
In our position we have been forc
ed to sit through so many dull, drab,
uninteresting speeches and so many mis
handled business meetings that we anti
cipate with pleasure the day when these
young Future Farmers will take, their;
places at the head of farm organiza
tions.
The training and encouragement
they are getting in the FFA should go a
long way toward making farm organiza
tion business meetings shorter, more
businesslike and more enjoyable for
all concerned.
Congratulations Solanco, and con
gratulations Mr. Fredd. We can all be
proud of your accomplishments.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Advisors Or Specialists?
Some folks will tell you that farm
advisors should specialize.
There is a feeling in some circles
that teachers of vocational agriculture,
county agents and others who advise
farmers should be highly trained in one
specialty.
Some people have proposed that
we should have one agriculture agent in
poultry, one in corn, another in beef,
another in dairy, and so on and on,
with each serving several counties.
Modern agriculture is a complex
business with new methods, materials,
equipment, medicines and chemicals'be
ing developed. It is impossible for any
one farm advisor to have all the answ
ers. It requires an engineer to lay out a
modern farmstead. Feeds are being for
mulated with hormones and drugs to do
all sorts of things to livestock. And more
and more the farm leaders are being
called on to diagnose the trouble with a
sick rose bush.
But will technical help solve the
farmer’s biggest problem. The engineer
can tell a farmer how many inches’of
insulation he needs under the roof of a
chicken house. A feed expert can tell the
farmer which additive in the feed will
bring a desired result, but could he help
the farmer decide if he should build
"the chicken house or feed the livestock
in the first place.
Where can the farmer turn for To 186 Careful with Chemicals
training toward being a better manager? max m wiiTH AH farmers - and cust °“
We believe technical advice is im- - sprayers are remmded of the danger ln tUe
portant, but we believe the county improper use and storage of agricultural chemicals. With the
agents and teachers of vocational affri- growing season at hand and the wide interest in the proper use
u. lulT , "of chemicals, we must be very careful All sprayers are urged
. . ure nee( * be more than mere tech- to rea( j the labels and the directions, and to follow them care
nxcians. fully. You are responsible to protect the pioduct and the
At least that’s how it looks from consumer,
where we stand.
*J™ e ” a complete soil test is very
mended practice of plowing important in determining tie
down most of the nitrogen for needs of a soil for any crop!
this year s crop, this may be m in many cases dollars are spent
the form of granular or liquid . , ■
established November 4, terbhzei. or barnyard m M - of tha 8011 elem f at3
1955. Published every Satur- ure ’ each ton of manure that « not needed to produce
lay by Lancaster-Famlng, Lit- &hould add approximately 5 a good crop. Corn and tobacco
pounds of actual nitrogen. If t ie ids should by all means be
’ f sreen manure crop is to be tested as a gmde m maklnff
Entered as 2nd class matter turnedfl then it is advisable to application Soil
, T .... „ , . , . apply the nitrogen to the cover lert nizer application. sou
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Devotional Rending: Matthew 28:1-
10, 16-20.
/"'’HRIST is risen! That will be
said countless thousands of
times this Easter day. If the hu
man, race has not wiped itself nut
by this day, there will be millions
of Christians throughout the world
who say this amazing sentence
/ith thankful joy.
The words should
'ver become
tmmonpiace.
msider what the
ly Christians
;ant by this. All
e first Christ
dievers jyere
'Ws;, at that
ic they all bp
zed that some
how, somewhere, many if not all
human beings who had died since
the human race began, would
come to life again. “Many of those
who sleep in the dust shall awake,”
was the way they put it. (Daniel
12:2.) As we would put it, they
believed in a kind of delayed im
mortality. If you had asked the
ordinary pious Jew of Jesus’ day,
“Where are the dead, now?” he
might have said, “Asleep in the
dust,” or “Among the others in
the shadow-world of the grave.”
He lives!
But after the first Easter Sun
day, the Christians did not go
around saying, “Christ is asleep
in the dust! Christ is a ghost
among ghosts!” Those are far
from comforting thoughts. What
the Christians said was, “He is
risen!” which means, if it means
anything, “He lives!” And they
didn’t mean “in heaven.” They
meant right here, where they had
seen Him and spoken with Him,
It is true, after a time He disap
peared and was seen on earth in
the old way no more. But that did
not depress those Christians. They
never knew how to explain it, and
they did not try. But what they
had seen, they had seen, and noth
ing ever shook them out of the
conviction: Jesus lives! To put
this in another way; The charac
teristically Christian way to think
Now Is The
To Plow Down Nitrogen To Mnkc Coinl)let e Soil Test
He livesl
Another way to look at thii
Easter-faith of the church is td
emphasize that little pronoun HEi
He lives. The early Christians
could see a difference between tlw
Jesus they knew before Calvary
and the Jesus they knew after
resurrection. The difference was
great enough so that they some-j
times did not recognize Him at
first. Nevertheless when they did
break through their hesitations
and believed what they saw, i|
was never as a stranger that they
saw Him. If the man next door ta
you is a man you know little ol
except that he is a friendly greyj
haired man who always has a
pleasant word for his neighbors
and works on his yard - op Satpri
days,—and then nne day you dis«
cover he is a superior court judge, 1
you may be taken aback; you qiay
not recognize him with his robes
on up there on the bench. But it’d
the same man. So the Jesus,
whose living-forever the church
celebrates at Eastertide, is the
same Jesus we read about in the
pages of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John. Not somebody better or
different, but Himself. HE lives!
“Risen in you”
“If-Christ be risen in you,—” so
begins a famous chapter in Colos
sians. This seems at first like a
strange way to think about the
Resurrection. Not as a historic
event outside us, like most events,
but an event that happens inside
us. Is this a miracle? Perhaps it
is. But perhaps it is what God in
tended for us all along, that we
should not be burial-grounds in'
which the thoughts and the love
of Christ are laid away, but resur
rection places, from which Christ
rises every day, not once in a life
time,—rises to think in ouy
thoughts, hope in our hopes, work
in qur work; or rather rises in
us so that we have to say at la|t,
All the good in me is not mine
but His! ‘
(Baud on outline* oopyrlehtei fey
the Dlrlelon of Chrlotlsn Eluoatlffl
Nation*! Council of tho Chnrohts of
Chriat la the tJ. 8. A. Reltaied
Community Broil lerrlco.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Be Alert For Termites
Many buildings in southeastern Penn
sylvania are infested with the wood-eatms
termite. During early spring they swarm and
may be found at or near windows; these ter
mites are often confuseji With flying ants,
that are not so destructive The termite will
have one elpngated body with four large
wings, while the ant will have a two-section
body with two pairs of wings different in
size. All home and farmstead owners aye
urged to be on the alert for tremites at this
time of the year.