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4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 1963
From Where We Stand...
Why Don’t YOU Write An Editorial?
Twice in the past week the editor
has been asked, “Why don’t you write
an editorial on . . . ?”
His answer in both cases was, “Why
don’t you write a letter to the editor?”
There are many good subjects for
editorials. Some people doubt this
when they read an editorial about a
point they consider to be of minor im
portance, but that is just the point of
the whole bit.
We were serious about asking the
persons with the ideas to write letters
to the editor.
The first reason we didn’t write an
editorial about . . . was that we did not
have all the facts pertinent to the topic.
In fact, we were not even aware that
the problem existed until the reader
brought it to our attention.
In the second place, we were not
nearly so aroused about the problem
as the reader who brought it to our
attention.
Of course it is the duty of an editor
to keep himself informed and become
properly indignant when he sees injus
tices of any kind in the community, but
editors are only human too (we keep
telling ourself) and can not be aware of
all the intricacies of our modern society.
Thirdly, if an editor does ride your
hobby horse, or polish your pet peeve
with his most lavish and tenderest care,
or vent his bitterest spleen, you might
not recognize the end product as your
idea at all. As the saying goes, “If you
want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
This is not to Say that an editor
does not want to hear what his readers
think of the material in his column.
Brickbats and bouquets are both wel
comed by the conscientious writer (bou
quets are preferred, of course) and sug
gestions for editorials are always wel
come, but many times the thinking of a
neighbor can do more,.to convince than
the opinion of a dozen professionals.
Rural people are notoriously shy
about writing. Some letters are received
unsigned and these must be consigned
to the “ultimate file” immediately, no
matter how important they might be,
but most editors will withhold the writ
er’s name if requested to do so.
So if you have a hobby horse, a pet
peeve, bouquet or brickbat, compliment
or criticism, or just an urge to let off
steam, why not write a letter to the
editor? It might do a lot of good for
you, your neighbors and your com
munity.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Most Important Crop
We once asked an uncle, “What’s
the most important crop on your farm?”
He answered in one word, “Boys ”
He was a good farmer, but he
realized that things like oats and corn
A Forest Fire
Every 4 Minutes
Forest firefighting forces
throughout the country were
called out an average of 13
times every hour during 1963,
the U S Department of Agri
culture reported today.
Statistics compiled by
Letters
To The Editor
Editor, Lancaster Farming
Dear Sir
Will you please renew my
Lancaster Farming. I am en
closing the address label. We
enjoy your paper, especially the
editorials
Aaron O. Brubaker, „
'Gypsy Hill Road, Lancaster^
are only temporary when measured
alongside the value of young people.
Last week, Lancaster County farm
ers had reason to be proud of their most
important crop. The Garden Spot still
ranks first in the state in corn and
wheat and barley and potatoes and milk
and eggs, but last week Lancaster Coun
ty showed the state that quality in our
most important crop is not neglected.
We would like to add our congra
tulations to the many that undoubtedly
have been heaped on the five young
Future Farmers who were elected to
state office last week. We feel that it is
a fine tribute to the farmers of the
county, and to the teachers of vocational
agriculture as well, to have such a large
proportion of the state officers, come
from one county.
We believe it is testimony to the
fact that agriculture is not passing out
of the picture in Lancaster County. And
further we believe it points up the fact
that good agriculture draws good teach
ers of vocational agriculture.
Congratulations are in order to the
young men, their parents, and their
teachers of vocational agriculture.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Never laugh at a person’s efforts to
speak or write English correctly. Of
the four major languages, it is the most
difficult to learn. Here’s why;
We’ll begin with the box, the plural
of which is boxes; but the plural of ox
is oxen, not oxes.
You may find a lone mouse, or a
whole nest of mice; but the plural of
houses is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is men, why
shouldn’t the plural of pan be pen?
If I speak of a foot and you show
me two feet, or give you a boot, would a
pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and whole set is
teeth, why shouldn’t the plural of booth
be beeth?
Then the masculine pronouns are,
he, his and him; but imagine the femin
ine as she, shis, and shim!
The Fillmore (Calif.) Herald
Russia Has Its Farm Problems
Between 40 and 69 percent of Russia’s
farm workers are out of jobs in the win
ter, posing somewhat of a dilemma to
Soviet communist czars. Sounding off
on agricultural woes of the country,
Soviet economist I. Borodin, reported
in a recent publication that of Russia’s
31 million collectivized farm workers
employed in July, only 18 million still
had farm' jobs the following January.
Attempted cures, mostly ineffective in
clude expanded livestock production and
the shipping of field labor especially
youths to far flung farm' labor defi
cient area>=,
USDA’s Forest Service show offices, the States land man
that a total of 115,345 forest agement agencies in the De
tires burned 4,078,894 acres partment of the Interior, and
during 1.9 62, an increase over the Tennessee Valley Authon
-1961 when 98.517 flies burn- ty.
ed 3,036,219 acres Almost 90 In spite of the increase in
percent of the forest fires in 1962, the general trend in for
-1962 were man-caused as com- est fires has been downward,
pared to 84 percent on 1961. In 1942, for instance, there
This leport is based on 1.- JH*' 218 f °/ eSt fir 6S ’ ° f
gures from Forest Service Held "' hlch 96 percent „ were report
ed as man-caused.
Lancaster Farming
To Spray Roses To Carry Insect Repellents
Black Spot is the most dam- Many families will be tak
agmg disease for rose grow- ing trips and vacations in the
£stablished November 4, ers - This shows up as irregu- coming months. Mosquitoes,
1955 Published every Satur- lar black blotches on the upp- flies, chiggers, or ticks are
lay by Lancaster-Famlng, Lit- Z f BU / f ? Ce ° £ leaf „ and af 7 qu ‘ te co “ on ln woods - Parks
fected leaves turn yellow and and other vacation areas.
Itz, Pa. drop off. Weekly spraying of Many commercial insecticides
nworna .« o-n* either folpet, maneb, or cap- may be purchased in a small
tan should control the pro- can under pressure. For home
Phone - Lancaster Lititz Pa. under Act of Mar, blem. Insecticide such as DDT use or for camp locations
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P. O Box 1524
Lancaster, Penna.
P. O. Box 266 - Lmtz, Pa.
Offices:
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Lititz, Pa.
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Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
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God In His World
Lesson for June 23, 1963
Bible Material: Psalms 19; 95; 148.
'"-Bcioiional Reading: Psalm 97.
FS GOD in His world? Certainly,
says every Christian. God is
everywhere, and so He must be
in His world. Go as far as you
like m a man-made satellite ex
ploring space; catch the tail of a
comet as it sweeps, once in eter
mty perhaps, into
our orbit; take the
rocket-fuel of.im
agmation and
rush faster than
the speed of light,
far beyond all vis
ible galaxies,—al
ways God is th6re.
Certainly God is
in His world, this
Dr. Foreman world we see and
love or hate, this world of stars
and suns, angleworms and atoms,
sea and sky and earth and all the
creatures living in it. But the next
questions are harder -and tied
closely together. HOW is God in
His world, and what good does it
do us to know or believe He is
here? We can’t see Him, and an
swers to questions in astronomy
or physics or botany, and so forth,
would be just the same if there
were no God. The distance to the
sun from here is just the same
for an atheist as for a Christian
saint.
How God is not here
To be very short with a very
long question, let us face it: God
is not in His world the way some
thinkers suppose He is. He is not
m His world as- your soul, is in
your body. The universe is not
the garment of God, or the body
of God. God is not in the universe
in the way we are, namely as a
part of it. He is neither a part nor
the' whole of it, and it is neither
a part nor the whole of Him. God
is also not in the world as a spec
tator is in a stadium watching a
game. He is all there and maybe
yelling His head off for the home
team; but He can’t get out on the
field and mix in the plays, and
He couldn’t even if He wanted to.
God is not just here bemg enter
tained, and sometimes not know
ing just what the score is. More-
Now Is The Time . . .
MAX M. SMITH
Poultry manure that is to be stored over
the summer months will lose most of the nitrogen content and
considerable phosphorus it piled out m the weather. We ad
vise keeping it under root and adding about 200 pounds of
20% superphosphate per ton of manure; even in the laying
house add 4 pounds ot phosphate per 100 hens daily; do not
permit the chickens to eat the superphosphate Since poultry
manure is high in nitrogen, it should not be used on any crops
during the growing season. It’s greatest use is for stimulating
cover crops or sod crops or other land just prior to plowing
down.
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over, God is not here as * product
of this world. You are a product
of it, you would not be what you
are if the universe were utterly
different from what it is. But God
is l not' owing His existence to the
world or to any one in if. If the
universe ceased to be, you would
cease to be; but God would be
God with or without the universe.
How God is hero
All the same, God is here in
His universe, in two ways. First
He is here as Creator. When we
use that word, we do not mean
merely a deity who created all
things a long time ago. He is here
today as creator. A pilot in a
small plane runs into turbulent
weather. His little plane bounces
around, and out of the tail of his
eye he can see the wings go up
and down as they hit the down
drafts and up-drafts. It would
scare some people; but the pilot
is not afraid. A little instrument
on the dashboard shows the plane
can stand this much turbulence.
It was constructed so as to stand
it. The designer of that plane is
in it, seeing that the pilot gets
through safely. So God is in the
laws of the universe, He is in its
reliability, in its beauty no less.
Tht universt points to God
Two wrong ideas come up here.
One is that we can learn nothing
about God from the universe. It
is a waste of time (some people
maintain) for a Christian to study
the universe, in other words to he
a scientist, because no amount of
scientific knowledge brings you a
step nearer God. The truth is,
however, that we can learn much
about God through a study of
science. “Maker of heaven and
earth” takes on tremendous mean
ing for people who take the trou
ble to find out what is known
about the worlds God made. The
opposite and equally mistaken no
tion is that we learn all we need
to learn about God just from ob
serving the world He made.
Quite the contrary; some of the
most important and urgent ques
tions we can ask are not
answered by looking into tele
scopes or microscopes. How
come to terms with God? A ip''!
no more to God than other ani
mals are? When I have fallen into
sin, does God care? What does
God want me to do? How can I
keep from being lost in this vast
universe? These and other ques
tions turn us< from the Creator’s
wonderful works to His wonderful
Word. There we may learn how
the wonders of His power are
more than matched by won
ders of His grace.
(Based on outlines copyrlthted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Connell of the Churches of
Christ In the D, S. A. Released by
Community Press Service.) >
BY MAX SMITH
To Operate Hay Mow Pans
Many farmers have installed air ducts
with an electric tan system ot 'blowing air
up through the hay in order to cure it in
the barn. This is considered one of the roost
practical methods of barn curing hay 'for
the average livestock or dairy operator. How
e\ er, it is important to keep the fan running
day and night for the first several days after
covering the duct. Without the fan and air
movement, the tough hay will heat and be
lowered in feed value. Usually 5 to 7 da>s
will be required to remove the excess mois
ture. .
To PhosphateJ'Poiiltry Manure