—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 25, 1963
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From Where We Stand...
Wheat Farmers Have Spoken
Farmers have had their say,
In a democracy, this is as it should
be. Farmers had every right to vote thejr
own convictions in the wheat referen
dum or any other referendum, and this
apparently, is what they did.
We sincerely hope they were not
misguided.
It is our belief, based on conversa
tions with legislators in Washington,
that the congressmen will take the over
whelming negative vote to mean that
farmers do not want a wheat program.
If the vote had been close, we believe,
some sort of wheat plan with less con
trols would have been devised, but the
tremendous voice with which wheat
growers turned down the program will
be an indication to legislators to keep
“hands off” for at least a year.
Farmers have said they do not want
tight controls with high price supports,
and we do not believe it is fair to tax the
general public to continue paying high
supports and high storage rates on a
commodity that is produced without
controls.
Undoubtedly there will be some
program devised and some effort to
have it passed, but none has yet been
proposed that has anywhere near enough
support to becoipe law. The opponents
of the bill said farmers should- vote
“no” in the referendum and hope for
better legislation, but that “better” pro
gram has not yet been devised. We sin
cerely hope that it will be, but we can
not be optimistic at this point.
With only eight per cent of the
voting strength in this country in the
hands of farmers, it is becoming more
and more difficult to pass any legislation
that benefits the farmer at the expense
of the urban consumer. Legislators with
wholly or largely urban constituiencies
are less and less anxious to be asked
continually to vote on farm legislation.
It is now up to the wheat producers
to come up with a workable program for
all sections of the country, or fight it out
on the open market in competition with
each other.
In the opinion of many, this is the
best approach, and perhaps it is. It is al
most certain that many producers would
be forced out of the business under such
a system, but perhaps this is what -the
farming economy needs. Perhaps there
is some merit to the old saying, “If
you can’t stand the heat, get out of the
kitchen.”
Farmers were nearly solid in op
position to the program as offered. If
there is a better one available, farmers
had better be solid in backing it, or there
will be no program.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Dairy Regulations
The news this week that many
dairymen in this county might be forced
out of the dairy business by regulation
has drawn a variety of comments.
There are those who feel that it is
unfair to expect certain farmers to mo
dernize their barns if it violates reli
geous principles. Others feel that it is
unfair for some farmers to be required
to remodel barns and milk houses while
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be the market hog show and , , _ . . _ _
. . . _ “ Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Bale at the Green Dragon auc- Weekly
tion barn on July 30. Four
boys from the Elizabethtown
Chapter are fattening a total
of 29 head of hogs for the
show and sale. ol^l? S w ~ •
. . 22 B. Mam St.
Eivm Hess is teacher of to- Lititz Pa
eaiional agriculture at the phone Laacaster
school and advisor of the chap- Express 4-3047 or
ter. ’ Ldtitz MA 6*2191
others continue to produce milk aS it
has been done for fifty years.
We have often said that dairymen
barns may work a financial hardship on
some small operators, but this does not
seem to be the major objection to the
order.
W ehave often said that dairymen
should be thankful for the health re
gulations in this area since it is our
belief that health regulations are the one
thing that has kept out of state milk
from taking part of our markets.
There is no farm product that en
joys a more universal acceptance among
consumers than does milk. No farm com
modity is taken more for granted than
are dairy products even though few
products are more prone to contaminants
or spoilage. Very seldom does the con
sumer question the' freshness, whole
someness or cleanliness of the milk of
fered for sale in the state, and this is
as it should be We believe that this ac
ceptance must be maintained if we are
to retain our markets.
We do not maintain that pure milk
can not be produced in a barn without
electricity, and we do not believe that
all milk stored in coolers without auto
matic controls is of poor quality, but we
do believe the chance of producing a
high quality product is greatly increased
with modern methods.
Furthermore, we can not see the
purpose of requiring some producers in
a milkshed to abide by one set of rules
while others are governed by another
set.
We do not mean to sound harsh,
and we respect the farmer’s right to
decide, but we believe that a dairyman
who does not wish to abide by the rules
governing all other dairymen should
look for another business.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Speedy Sour Cream The Wall
Street Journal reports the Battelle Me
morial Institute has developed a method
of producing sour cream in 30 minutes
instead of 18 hours. Instead of the cen-
turies-old method of letting bacteria cul
tures grow in cream, then souring it
with lactic acid, a stabilizing chemical
and then an edible acid are used. The
same method is reported applicable to
buttermilk and yogurt.
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tie old aerosol can that contains every-
thing from shaving cream to paint has
■i-done i^agah^—,now they’ve come put
with a cheese spread which can be" shot
onto a piece of bread at the press of a
button.
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Home Delivery Declines Home
delivery of milk dropped from nearly
51 percent of all milk sold in the St.
Louis, Mo. market in 1952, to around
21 percent in 1961, a recent report
showed. Each year since 1952, whole
sale sales to retail outlets increased until
they now reach 78.22 percent of total max m. SMITH
sales. Nearly 63 percent of the milk sold
is sold at wholesale in half-gallon con
tainers, said the report.
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A Bottle of Laughs Foremost
Dairies hopes to enliven breakfast time
and any other milk drinking time by
printing .comic strips on its milk cartons.
P. O Box 1524
Lancaster, Penn*. 1855 - Published every Satur-
P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, P*. lay by Lancaster-Farmlng, Lit-
Itz, Pa.
Chee.se Under Pressure That lit-
Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
Established
Entered a? 2nd class matter
at Lititz Pa. under Act of Mar.
8, 1879.
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Novemher
Worship At Church
Lesson for May 26, 1963
Blblt Material! Psalms 24; 84: 121;
122, II Chronicles 5 and 6
Devotions! Bending: John 4:19-28.
WHERE were you at 10:45
, A.M. last Sunday? If you
were going to church, you were
doing something pretty special.
You were going to pray and sing
and listen to the Word of God. You
short, to worship.
People have been
worshipping God
for no one knows
how many thou
sand years; but
most of the wor
ship ha? not been
done m church.
So it was pretty
special after all.
If you are a good
Dr. Foreman run-of-mme Chris
tian, you worship the heavenly
Father every day of life;
only about one day in seven do
you worship in a church. If you
got to church and found it empty,
you probably wouldn’t stay. You
need some one else to be with you
when you worship at church. You
can’t worship in church just any
time the fancy strikes you. Such
worship has to be planned ahead.
You don’t dress up for your pray
ers at home; but most church
goers even put on special clothes
which in the country used to be
called “goin-to-meetin’ clothes.”
If you were in a plane that landed
in a tree, you would do some
praying then and there no matter
if your clothes were ripped half
off you. But you wouldn’t go to
church in torn clothes. It’s too
special.
A testimony
So, what where you doing at
10:45? For one thing, church-going
is a public testimony. You were
saying, without opening j'our
mouth, *‘l believe in God, I be
lieve in prayer, I believe in Chris
tian fellowship, I believe in the
kind of life the church stands
for.” You do not sneak to church
(as some of our ancestors had
to'), you ride or walk in open
daylight, you would not object if
some one took your picture.
(Would you be willing to be photo
graphed everywhere you go?)
Now Is The Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Make Quality Forage
In the coming weeks many tons of sil
age and hay will be made throughout ifhe
country. All livestock producers are remind
ed that the feed from quality for
age are usually cheaper than those from
grains. The most important factor in making
top, quality hay or silage is to cut it at the
proper stage of maturity bud to eai;ly
blossom stage tor the legumes and at head
ing time tor all grasses don’t lose feed
nutrients by waiting for maturity.
To Wilt Grass Silage
The wilting of hay-crop silage to remove
extra moisture is very important it’ the best
quality is desired. Wilting down to the 60 ! to
70% range is desired for wilted silage and down to near the
50% moisture content results in low-moisture silage or
The direct-cut method should be dis-continued for best ire
suits; if this method must be used because of available equip
ment, then some feed additive such as beet pulp or corn and‘dob
chop (100 to 200 pounds per ton) should be added at she
blower to increase dry matter and soak up the excess juicesj
about 4 inches deep; for pit
should he worked into the [soil
worms spray the area andj'do
not cultivate it in for at Ipist
3 or 4 days. Be careful that
atnzine is well washed from
all sprayers before using E on
tobacco ground. [ t
TO CONTROL CUTWORMS
AND WIREWORMB
Tobacco growers are remind
ed that one of the good ways
to prevent cutworm or wire
worm trouble in the field is to
have the area sprayed 3 to 7
days prior to planting. Chlor
dane may be used at the rate
of 3 quarts per acre for wire
worms or one quart for cut
worms; another insecticide is
heptachlor at the rate of 6
quarts per acre for wirewonns
or 2 quarts for cutworms. For
-wirewonns 4he. insecticide
wqiA, "church-goer’’
/able word, but some people
’Me it,,as they shouldn’t. K
aim tru^,' hypocrites go to
'h? 1 We have seen dogs in
:h, and idiots. But that does
idvout the fact that most ol
wficfare in church are there
irship, and even the dog, th«
idiot and the hypocrite would not
be there it there were no sincera
worshippers.
Confession
Another thing; at 10:45 last Sun
day you were confessing yourself
a sinner. Yes sir; you didn’t go
with a list of your sins la you
pocket or pinned to your coat; but
you were going to confess you
sins. It’s done differently in differ
ent churches, but they all do it.
Tell me where else in all the
world you can find any group
of people who publicly admit
they are not what they know they
ought to be? Most other organiza
tions love to tell the world how
good they are. At worship in
church the people say right out
loud how bad they are. It may be
in a Catholic church where the
priest exclaims in Latin, Mea
culpa, mea maxima culpa—“My
fault, my most grievous fault!” ox
it may be in a Baptist church
where the minister prays, “Thou
knowest that we [he means the
people sitting there] are sinners
and evil in Thy holy sight;” or in
an Episcopal service where all the
kneeling people say together, “We
have left undone those things
which we ought to have done, and
we have done those things which
we ought not to have done . .
For better living
If a man goes to church in the
right spirit, if he thinks of what
he is doing, if he feels the thrill
of knowing he is worshipping not
only with the other people he can
see around him, but with the mil
lions of others around the world
praising God this morning in a
thousand languages, and especial
ly if he has felt, ever so faintly,
the touch of the Holy Spirit on his
heart, then such a worshipper can
not go out and be quite the same.
All the week he will be a better
man for having gone to church bn
Sunday. So at 10:45 next Sunday
morning you will be saying with
out words as you head for church,
“I want to be a better person next
week than I was this. And I am
going to the only place where I
can get the help I need —the
mercy-seat of God.”
(Bated on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of iho Churches of
Christ In the C. S. A. Released by
Community Press Servlet.)
TO CLIP PASTURES
Proper pasture management
is necessary for top production.
Recent rains should give : iw
growth to v all pastures.. M ny
of the grasses and weeds Ire
about to shoot seed heads.and
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