—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 10,1963
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From Where We Stand...
Don’t Break Rule Number Six
Be careful you don’t break rule
number six.
, a friend came out with these words
the other day when one of his co-work
ers was blowing off some steam about
a fancied hurt inflicted by one of his
associates.
“What’s rule number
wounded one expot ulated.
Rule number six is simply, “Don’t
take yourself too seriously,” the placat
ing one soothed.
“0.K., 0.K.,' 7 growled the wounded
“But what are the other five
one,
rules?”
“There are no other rules,” said
the peacemaker, as smooth as oil.
We think this is a pretty good
philosophy. It does not pay to take your
self too seriously.
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in
what -we are doing that we can not un
derstand why everyone else is not as
interested in it as we are. We get so in
terested in our job that we sometimes
forget that those with whom we deal
may have conflicting interests.
Sometimes we become so wrapped
up in the business of farming that we
forget there are millions of people in
this country whose only interest in
farming is the food on their tables and
the clothes on their backs. As long as
they have a full stomach and warm
clothing on cold days, they could care
less about how these things came into
being.
The best time you could spend
once a week is the few minutes it takes
to try to get the viewpoint of the con
sumer. Millions of dollars are spent
every year, by manufacturers, in re
search to find out what the consumer
wants and in what form he will buy it.
Farmers need to know this information
about the products they have for sale.
They have to know what the con
sumer wants and how he will buy it.
They have to know this in order to tail
or production to meet the demand.
The farmer who does not have this in
formation at his fingertips is on the
road to bankruptcy
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Mad dogs
say, go out in the noonday sun.
With dog days approaching, we
sometimes wonder if we are mad dogs
or Englishmen.
But the work-a-day world goes on
and we earn our bread by the sweat of
the brow in the noonday sun or the
gray light of dawn or twilight.
Being of Scotch-Irish ancestry, the
thought of being an Englishman sits
none too well, so we have decided that
we must be the other variety.
But if Dog Days come, can fall be
far behind?
As we do the chores with icy fin
gers next January, we will probably
look back to August and think, “It
wasn’t so bad after all.”
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Editor, Lancaster Farming’
Dear Sir
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and Englishmen,
farmers will permit the corn land owners may not realize
stalk to develop into the dent the problem. Crops such as
stage before cutting for silage, winter rye, domestic ryegrass,
As the kernels in the ear pass field bromegrass, sweet clovei',
P O Box 1524 Established November 4, through the milk stage, into the and the winter grains, are all
Lancaster. Penna. 1955. Published every Satnr- dou § h sta S e > and then into the g°°. d cover crops that will.not
P. O. Box 266 - Lilitz, Pa. i ay by Lancaster-Parmlng Lit- dent stage the feed value in " oaly P rovide some late fali an ,
' creases. Corn growers are ur- early spring pasture, but ihoW
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.„„ „ . , _.. stage of maturity in order to should be. Keep the ground
Entered as 2nd class matter get the most feed value . covered with ve g e tation bve.
at Lititz Pa. under Act of Mar, the winter months is a good
s io7(i To Sow A Winter Cover Crop .... Hi
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Too many farmers take themselves
so seriously that they forget that they
have to be in the business of pleasing
people. They have to cater to needs,
wants, and desires, or they will end up
trying to consume all they grow to keep .
it from going to waste. Too much of B m e Msierlsl: Genesis 15-20.
that sort of thing and they will find it De»o«oB»i ne»am*: p**im 111.
going to waist. of the most important
But there is more to this thing of v-/ words in the Bible is “Coven
not taking yourself too seriously. ant.” It may not be a common
We believe that many farmers have word today, but it w
stayed in the business for a long time otSr official elected
because they could laugh at their own takes the oath of
mistakes. The business of farming is office, that is a
hard work, but a sense of humor can go covenant. When a
a long way toward making any chore y °™ g their mar
seem lighter. • . riage vows, that
Take a good look at yourself. Are is a cove nant. A
you breaking rule number six? covenant is a spe-
If you are, the rest of the rules cial kind of prom
can’t help you much. i se > U .is * two *
At least that’s how it looks from times^manwm
where we stand. Dr. Foreman ga y “I promised
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Live an Enlightened Life! Dr. not usual. Now the pomt of the
Calvin-E. Gross, New York City’s new Covemm, toe Bible is that re
superintendent of schools, calling for j, s a two-way street. It is a
“intellectual development” in the schools relationship, it is a promise of
made this perceptive observation: God to man and of man to God.
“Every citizen of this country, whether "pivotal promisa”
he pounds nails, raises com, designs Many things can be said about
rockets or writes poetry, should be the idea of Covenant in the Bible
taught to know and love his American and in the life of the Christian,
heritage; to'use the language well; to
understand the physical universe, and to ) us pic k out three,
enjoy the arts. The dollars he gains in First, toe Covenant stands for the
absence of enlightenment like this will fact that you are not supposed to
be earned in drudgery and spent in slide or glide into relationship
ignorance ” with God. You choose God, He
° * , , chooses you. Religion is not con
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“Going Whole Hog” might make a in it for contemplation. Religion
dent in your food budget, but the ex- is a commitment, a promise you
. * ® .j * • • are not to throw lightly to one
pression does not have its origin in is not
food, says the American Meat Institute. Bible re ji g i o n. Religion-on-pur-
Long ago a ten-cent piece was called a p OSe i s mo re like it. Religion is
hog. So a sport who was willing to personal or not genuine. It is per
squander a dime was said to “go the sbnal or a fake. Your parents
whole hog”. can’tsignforyou theycaatre
. spond to God for you, they can t
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C. Vann Woodward writes, in his your place. Religion is voluntary.
“The American Character”: “We have to Religion is lor always
assume that other people in the world The word Covenant also sug
simply do not have our fortunate, for- gests that religion of the right
tunate history. We have got to recog- kind is continuous, you can’t put
nize a world where there is diversity, °? as you
. j- . . . , , , ~. coat, now and then when a storm
not one divided into two antagonistic are peo ple who
forces in a cold war but a world in
which there are many -kinds of peoples,
with very different cultures. What is
they
good for America is not necessarily go
ing to be good for other people. We can
not export all the values that we our-
selves love and cherish.”
Modern Education
Because no' school financed by tax
payers’ money can afford to flunk out
too many kids, the education system has
designed a method of grading so that
most children get some kind of passing
grade. The height in strained encourage-
ment occurred when a teacher added
this note to an otherwise poor report.
“He contributes nicely to group
singing by helpful listening.”
The latest joke among East Berlin
ers, according to a letter from one pub
lished in a West Berlin newspaper: “Will
trade luxurious lakeside villa for hole To Ensile Com In Dent Stage
in the wall,”
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months is not good soil manage-
Many tons of corn silage will ment; this practice exposes val
be made in the coming months, uable topsoil to both wind and
Many more pounds of feed nu- water erosion; this loss does
■X tnents will be preserved if get severe on many fields and
JacJk Owen, Editor
Robert 6. Campbell,
Advertising Director
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Covenant People
Lesson lor August 11,1963
To Mark Wet Spots
On land with a drainage problem it is
advised to locate the exact source of the wet
area at this time of the year. When moisture
MAX M. SMITH conditions are quite low in the soil, these wet
spots will stand out green and may be mark
ed as the source of the excess wet areas at other times of the
year. If these are identified now, then open-ditch or tile drains
may be established later this fall or early next spring.
Now Is The Time . . .
Rhubarb needs time before winter to
store food supplies in the roots. The use of
four pounds of a 5-10-10 or 10-10-10 fertilizer
per hundred feet of row applied .along the
side of the plants in a band about 18 inches
from .the crown will meet the, needs. Keep
down the weeds .by cultivating or mulching.
Lack of fertility may cause thin stalks each
year.
do Just that, you know; they wsvef
enter God’s house nor retd God l
Word, but they holler for help
when they «re in trouble. God lot
them Is just a jraincoat to keep
life’s rains from their sensitive
skins. For other-people, religion
is something for Sunday, or
thing to take when you go viail
your grandmother, something old
fashioned, kept like an old rock
ing chair but too weak to bear any
one’s weight. On the contrary, the
Covenant-idea of religion suggest*
that our relation to God is not
only personal and undertaken by
an act of our free will, but it 1#
continuous. It may be out of youy
consciousness but it is always a
fact. You may not always be
thinking that you are a married
person; but fortunately you are
married whether- you are aware
of it every waking minute or not.
A Christian is just as much in a
“Covenant relation” to God vixen
he is at work on the farm or hf
the bank or the hospital as be i*
in church. Furthermore, the Cov
enant approach to religion sug
gests that our relation to God is
active not'passive. In the ~ Old
Testament and the New, Coven
ant always carries with the obli
gation to Obedience. It leads to
doing as well as to being.
Religion, singular and plural
We have been talking about
Covenant as if it were all a mat*
ter between the soul and God, a
private, individual matter. Well
it is; but it would belie the Bible
picture of Covenant if we stopped
here. There are comparatively
few cases where God is said to
have a covenant with some in
dividual as with Abraham, the
standard picture is God on one
side and the “Covenant People”
on the other. Our relation to God
is never what it ought to be if it
is strictly individual and no more.
The Lord's Prayer sets the key
note for'the New Testament. It
uses the first person plural: Our
Father . . . Give us this day . . .
forgive us as we forgive There
is a Community of the Covenant,
—which is another way of saying
there is a community of the com
mitted: namely the church. That
is, the Covenant which each per
son has with Gpd, and the Cov
enant which the community has
with Him, are two aspects of the
same thing. The church —your
church—any true church however
small or large—is not just a con
glomeration of all sorts and con
ditions of men, though it is that;
but the important fact about the
church is what the members have
in common; they belong to one
another, and they belong to God.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches ol
Christ In the 11. S. A. Released bj
Community Press Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
To Side-Dress Rhubarb