4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1, 1963 From Where We Stand... The Fall Term Our youngest boy informed us proudly this week that he has less than one full week of school left till, vaca tion. Another school year is rapidly drawing to a close Farm boys and girls, unlike their city cousins will have plen ty to do to keep them out of trouble this summer, but if summer vacation comes, can fall school term be far be hind? Many of the farm boys and girls graduating from rural high schools this spring have defmate plans to stay on the farm, either as a partner with par ents or on a farm of their own, but many, many more can not stay on the farm for a variety of reasons. What will these rural young people be doing this fall when the school terms begin again? Some of them will be en gaged in occupations that have no re lationship to agriculture. Some of them will be m agriculture-related jobs, but these will find competition from people with training beyond the high school level. A few will be enrolled in agricul tural colleges, but unfortunately, the number will be far too small. According to recent best estimates, there are nearly 15,000 new jobs in ag industry each year, but the agricultural colleges are graduating only about 8,500 students. It is a well known fact that a person with a college degree, or even one with a year or two of college training, will receive preference over a person with a high school diploma or less. It is also known that a college graduate with a farm background will get the nod over a city dweller all else being equal ■ — in farm-related occupations* Reliable statistics show that high school graduates earn a higher average salary than do non high school gradu ates, and college graduates earn more, on the average, than do high school graduates We have been told repeatedly in the past few years that college class rooms are overcrowded. So insistant have been the reports that some stu dents believe it is next to impossible to “get in” the college of their choice. While it is true that general college enrollment has been rising, and some colleges have filled their quotas for fall before the spring term ends, it is also true that enrollment in many agricul tural colleges has actually fallen off in the past few years. Many agricultural colleges are in need of qualified rural youth to fill their classrooms. We urge high school graduates to consider continuing their education this fall, and we urge parents to encourage them to do so. Perhaps many parents can help with the finances of a col lege education; perhaps they can not, but they can offer encouragement, guidance and interest. Now is the time to plan for col lege. Now is the time to make arrange ments and contacts. As we said before, if summer vacation comes, can the fall term be far behind? Agriculture today requires tremen dous investments, and in this “Space Age” one of the best investments a young boy or girl can make is in high er education. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Need Rich Soil If you’re planning to plant vine crops, such as cucumbeis, squash, pumpkins and musk melons, you’ll find they do best on a rich loam soil con taining plenty of organic mat ter, explains James Dutt, ■vege table extension specialist. Vine crops also need plenty of fer tilizer and insect control If irrigation is needed, do it in daytinfe. 1 Is A farmer is a paradox he is an overall executive with his home; his office; a scientist using fertilizer attach- ments; a purchasing agent in an old hat; a personnel director with grease under his fingernails; ... a production expert with a surplus; and a manager battling a price-cost squeeze. He manages more capital than most of the businessmen in town. He likes sunshine, good foods. He is not much for droughts, ditches, throughways, ex perts, weeds, the 8-hour day, or help ing with housework A farmer must have faith to con tinually meet the challenges of his ca pacities amid the possibility that a late spring can bring his business tt> a stand-still. You can reduce his acreage but (not) his ambition. . . . Might as well put up with him. He is your countryman a denim-dressed, businesswise, fast-growing statesman of stature. And when he comes m at noon, having spent the energy of his hopes, he can be recharged anew with the magic words: “The market’s up ” Cato (N.Y.) Citizen * ★ More Foreign Machinery Com- does require obedience petition from foreign manufacturers of opiln.’ thLt righfand farm machinery, especially European, is wrong are Uke the ru i es of a on the increase, says the Department of game, they can be changed at Commerce. Import value jumped 24 per- will. Children, often do this. They cent in the first nine months of 1962 will P ls »y with chess-men but they over the same period of the previous JJ* 11 m , oVe .^.S ie ££ s in ways year. Much of the competition has come from special-model tractors and large neighborhood; She was always machinery produced by American manu- asking people -to play some game facturers in foreign plants. Also, parts or other with her, but whenever manufactured abroad by U.S. concerns found herself being beaten are imported and used in equipment suddenly change the j fttles of the game. No one could completed in this country, ever win a game-from her, be ★ ★ ★ ★ cause if everything else failed she _ij x- t,; „ would kick over the-card table. World Dairy Consumption Rises God }s not Mjre that little Substantial world incrsssGs in total con~ inaksߧ rules- for no reason to sumption of milk and milk products in speak of Except that He wants to 1962 is indicated by preliminary figures have His own way. from the Foreign Agricultural Service. n,e ® ible knows of no such World cheese consumption continued c f a^. yi selfi ? b Right is not , tt c -x i -x right merely because He com to rise as U,S per capita use hit a nine- m * nds it . £ e commands it be . pound high. Non-fat dry milk consump- it i s right. His laws are not tion showed a substantial increase over arbitrary rules that can be chang -1961. Total fluid milk and cream use •<£ any time He pleases. They are registered a slight increase. ★ ★ ★ ★ How About A Hiking Farm Want to convert part of your farm to a hiking area, skating rink, or barbecue pit? If so, Farmers Home Administration may loan the funds under the cropland di version program providing you con tinue to receive a substantial portion of your income from farming. ★ ★ ★ ★ Need Identical Calves Identical twin beef calves have been requested by Department of Agriculture Scientists for important nutrition and breeding re search. The calves may be either pure bred, grade, or crossbred but less than five months old. Identical twin calves are always the same sex, look remark ably like and react in much the same manner. Producers with twin calves, within a 250-mile radius of Washington, D.C, are asked to write the Animal Husbandry Research Division, Beltsville, Md. To Fertilize Farm Ponds weeds and pond scum. Fertiliz ing every 3 to 4 weeks with 5o The management of the pounds of fertilizer per half farm pond will pay dividends acre of water will add the de the same as other areas of sired coloi to the water and land. At this time of the sea- thus reduce the weed and scum, son the use of a complete fer- problems, tilizer (10-5-5 or 10-10-10) broadcast over the water will To Topdi*ss. AJfglfa andkClover encourage the green coloring The prfctiSWapplying fer of the water and prevent sun tilizer toi-leasune stands -im. Entered as 2nd class matter rays from reaching the bottom. me diately7&he removal Phone - Lancaster *t Lititz Pa. under Act of Mar. A pond of dear water is nice t]ae flrst cutt , ng JS a good * o ft e EXpress 4-3047 or g 1379 to observe but will quickly ; L i ltltz ; MA 6 - 2iSl - ST 1 ‘iii.fi ‘ ".Vi.us M >i iti hiifififf iMili * • ■ * • !h us,' u. »U iUh<!«r*!ULa}i t;.{ -,u .w ilu.f iMnttlidliimliml Lancaster Forming Lancaster Connty’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0 Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. 1955 - Published every Satur- P. O. Box 266 - Liutz, Pa. lay by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- Itz, Pa. Offices: 22 E. Mam St. Lmtz, Pa. On Its Way What Is A Farmer? Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, ★ ★ ❖❖❖ ❖ ❖ Law of the Lord Lesson for June 2, 1963 Bible Material: Nehemiah 8; Psalms 18. 119 Devotional Readlnc: Psalm 119.9-16 TF YOU believe in God at all, there are only about three ways in which you can think of God’s laws. One is to think that God may have a law for Himself or for angels, but not for us human beings He depends on us to find the right trails by instinct, He trusts us to the extent that He will not dictate to us. He will not intrude upon our freedom." This is not the Bi ble’s w ay of look ing at it. God knows us too well. Dr. Foreman We are His chil dren, to be sure, and just as par ent’s who may not try to “run” their neighbors’ children may have good rules for their own, so God would be a poor Father if He actually did not care what His human children do. The handwriting of God But among those who believe Now Is ;The Many tobacco beds are a bit slow this spring, growers are reminded of the need of frequent watering and of the many days and nights of cool temperatures. Most plants will respond to a top-dressing of 10 to 12 pounds per 1000 square feet of dried blood; this organic material should be washed off the leaves of the plants and_ watered into the ground thoroughly. This slow-acting nitrogen fertilizer will give the plants a push without making them too soft. MAX M. SMITH good grass silage when cut in the flowering to milk stage of maturity. Livestock produc ers with a shortage of feed for the summer months might utilize some of their winter grams in this manner. The gram crop should not be wilted before putting in the silo and some feed additive should be used as a presei vative. The mixing of 150 to 200 pounds, per ton, of corn and cob meal, barley or oats chop, or any of the sweet mixes will improve the feed value of the silage. the pattern of the univerae. A carpenter knows the difference be tween 'cutting with the grain and against it. God’s laws are just the grain of the universe, His uni verse.' 1 His laws are expressed in the made it. The hand writing of God is to be seen not Id some mysterious secret docu ment but in the laws of mathe matics, of science, and of human life. They are written in the rea son and justice of all good human laws, they are written in the con science of .all men with a spark of goodness in them. Rtjoiclng in the law of Qod The poet who wrote the longest Psalm, the longest chapter in the Bible, wrote it about God’s law. That psalm (Psalm 119) has 176 verses and only two or three fail to speak of the law, perhaps using various other words meaning the same thing, such as ordinances, commands, statutes and the like. But this longest psalm not only speaks of the divine law, which for him was summed up in the laws of Moses, it sings of the law. This is a poem of joy. The laws of God are felt to be, not a fence to shut us out from happiness, not a grim discipline like an obstacle course in a training camp for soldiers, but of an expression of the will of the God who wants only the best for His creatures. Years ago Walter Lippmann put the matter quite simply: Morality —he said—is nothing to crush vi tality; morality is what vitality would choose if it knew what it was doing. Put that into Christian terms: Right thought and action is what human beings would choose if we knew what we are doing. God’s laws are not chains, they are wings. The law of God is the will of God. Laws tor body and mind People wonder sometimes why the church is so interested (for example) in the liquor business, why in fact many churches simply mjtke it a rule: No drinking! Christians who stop short of total abstinence speak much of tem perance. And this not only in al cohol but inwall things. A life of excess,—excess of emotions, of eating or drinking, yes too much work or sleep or play— an un balanced Ufa, this the Christian church knows to be harmful. The church hangs out warning-signs along here not to destroy innocent pleasures but because, as Christ’s voice and hands on this earth, the church is concerned to see that life,—of the body, the mind and the spirit—does‘not weaken itself by disobeying the laws of life which God Himself has made. (Band on outlines copyrlrhted by the Division of Chrlstlcn Education, National Council of tha Churches of Christ in tho U. 8. A. Kalsaasd by Community ftesi Servlss.) Time . . . BY MAX SMITH Kov. 35, 1961 To Fertilize Tobacco Beds To Make Small Grain Silage Barley and -wheat may be made into
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