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4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 31, 1963
From Where We Stand..; •
Grandfather Had
More capital from city investors is
going to farmers every year, according
to R. B. Tootell, Governor of the Farm
Credit Administration.
Last year, he said recently, Farm
Credit System banks sold most of the
$4.3 billion of their securities to city
investors, which was the main source of
'funds for loans totaling $5.3 billion to
farmers and their cooperatives.
Governor Tootell said agriculture,
as represented by securities of Federal
Land banks, Federal intermediate credit
banks, and banks for cooperatives, is a
good investment for city people. “Agri
culture is our largest, most efficient,
and most encompassing industry, repre
senting a net worth of $lB5 billion.”
Grandfather may boast to his
■grandsons about the tough time he had
getting started in farming, but the farm
youth of today has it even worse.
Not only is the initial investment to
start farming growing each year, but
land is becoming scarcer each year;
farms are harder to buy, and more and
more are being consolidated into larger
units with higher price tags. There
simply is not enough farms to go around
to all the youth growing up on farms
today. In grandfather’s day, new lands
were constantly being opened to culti
vation, and while money was scarce, a
man could start farming with a mini
mum of equipment if he were willing to
work hard at it. Today, hard manual
labor can not equal the advantage of
high priced equipment.
As of July 1 of this year, the index
of average value per acre of farm real
estate was 127, based on the 1957-59
base, up six per cent from a year earlier
and three per cent above March 1 of this
year. ;
Add to all these facts, the situation
of farm youth leaving the farms for
jobs in cities where competition is al
ready keen, and the plight of today’s
rural youth becomes a real problem.
This problem will be the subject
of a national conference on problems of
rural youth in a changing environment
to be held at Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, on September 22 to 25.
In speaking about the conference,
Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Free
man said, “No resource is as important
as our youth. Within this rural segment
are many future leaders of our Nation.
Naturally, we in the Department of
Agriculture welcome the opportunity to
support the conference and subsequent
efforts and program for the benefit of
our rural young people. Both public and
private agencies and citizens in general
must sharpen and increase their aware
ness and interest and apply all avail
able resources to help augment oppor
tunities for this vital segment of the Na
tion’s population.”
Mr. Freeman pointed out that “this
is a continuing effort growing out of the
1960 White House Conference for Chil
dren and Youth and the 1961 Conference
on Unemployed Out-of-School Youth in
Urban Areas. It answers appeals from
many youth leaders and others for simi
lar consideration of rural youth prob
lems.”
During National Farm Safety . _
week July 2i to 27, it was an- Lancaster Farming j:
nounced that DS farm fire Jos- county’s Own Farm
ses for 1962 reached an all-time . WeeklV * ' ,*
high property loss of $175 mil- .. ,u ' ,[j
lion. This was 7 percent above p - O Box 1524 ' '
1961 end a million dollars more „ _ _ i J „ a „ nca f ter ’ P S nna ‘
than the previous high in 1959. P ’ ° - Box * j66 " Lllt,tz - Pa
In the last two years, Japan offices.
has Tjeen the leading world cus- 22 E Main Si
tomer for US. farm products Lot'tz Pa
In the 1961-62 fiscal year, agri
cultural exports to Japan to
taled $485 million
All farmers 'and other rural people
have a vital interest in the outcome of
the conference.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
The Red Rose Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association took a big step in the
right direction this week.
We believe purebred breeders have
long needed a record of the total solid in
the milk of their dairy cows, but up to
this time, there was very little chance
that they could get such information
without great expense.
We believe the time will come
when all milk will be sold on total
solids rather than on butterfat content,
and we congratulate the directors of
DHIA for taking this step.
Breeders of purebred, dairy cows
can now begin to build cow family re
cords which will be invaluable when the
time comes that total solids are consider
ed as a basis for buying milk.
Furthermore, the information gain
ed from the Lancaster County herds
should prove a great boon to statisti
cians who have long been trying to find
the exact correlation between butterfat
and the other milk solids.
We doubt that very many dairymen
could visualize that DHIA testing would
ever become the valuable tool it is to
day. We predict that SNF testing will
become an even greater tool for dairy
men, and that it will come into full use
at a much more rapid rate.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Dairying is important in every
state. In 10 states dairy products ranked
first in value of farm marketings ,in
1961, the latest available figures. This
does not include marketings of dairy
cattle. The top states were Connecticut,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wis
consin.
Good taste and good nutrition are
two reasons why the American consumer
likes dairy foods. Increased public know
ledge of nutrition and its importance in
human health account for remarkable
recent gains in the per capita consump
tion of cheese, ice cream, fluid non-fat
and low fat milk, and strong acceptance
of other dairy products.
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Over 46 percent of the nation’s
milk supply is used as fluid milk and
cream. Almost all of the remainder is
prepared as butter, cheese, ice cream and
other frozen dairy foods, evaporated,
condensed, and non-fat dry milk, and
many other dairy products,
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Dairy foods represent one of the
most economical, sources of food nutri
ents. During 1962, American families
spent only 19 cents of each food dollar
for dairy foods. No other single group of
foods can provide an equal variety and
quantity of essential food nutrients at
the same cost.
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To Beware Of Silo Gas colored gas is heavier than jair,
~ , will cause a choking and cough-
Eyery farmer should become j n g condition, and is danger
familiar with this poisonous ous to human beings and Tall
gas and not take chances at livestock. Don’t take chances
silo-filling time. With the hea- jjy feeling that it is not pre
vier use of nitrogen on our sent ln your sllo
corn and forage crops, and
with the drouth conditions m To Use Caution
many parts of the country, we With Alfalfa Pasture
could have some trouble again Some,? .3livestock producers
this''fall. For 2 to 10 days after are grazing their later cuttAigs
filling the silo extreme caution / of alfalfa, this is a good prae-
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Turning Point
Lesson for September 1, 19<>3
Bible Material: Genesis 29 through
3(5
Devotional Heading: Mark 10 13-23.
of the strange stories in
Genesis is this one of Jacob
at the brook Jabbok. Are we ex
pected to understand this story
literally or figuratively? and if it
is a literal story, was Jacob wres
tlir nth ' ingel (Hosea 12:4),
I or a man (Gene-
I sis 32:24,25), or
God Himself
(Genesis 32:30)?
If you had been
there with a cam
era and a flash
bulb, what could
you have seen?
The best thing to
do with stories
like that, hard to
take hold of and understand, is
to ask one question., about the
story and stick to that. We have
no doubt what the incident meant
to Jacob. For him it was more
than an incident, it was the high
moment of all his life. “I have
seen God face to face,” he said;
“and yet my life is preserved.”
A man before and after
Last week we thought about the
story of Jacob and Beth-el, and
raised the question - was Jacob
converted there? It does not seem
likely, because Jacob was the
same sort of sharp dealer after
wards as be was before. He had
been working for his uncle Laban
for around 20 years between the
night at Beth-el and the night at
Pemel (you notice Jacob named
both places), and in all that time,
while Laban was a tricky man to
Seal with, and cheated his son-in
law in various ways, it is clear
that Jacob was taking Laban for
1 ride at the same time. Each one
was trying to get some unfair ad
vantage over the other. Observe
»lso what he did the day before
that fateful night at the brook
labbok. He was about to meet his
brother Esau, and though 20 years
lad passed since Esau swore he
would kill his brother Jacob, Ja
tob feared Esau had not forgotten
bis bloodthirsty vow. So he sent
lome enormous presents ahead to
nake Esau feel better, and then
Now Is The Time . . .
More emphasis is being placed on silage
as one of the most economical feeds for many
types of livestock. Silo filling time is ap
groacni’n'i'* rapidly and one of the essentials
of a good silo is that it be air tight from top
to.bottom With many silos this means some
extra attention before the silo is filled With
the wooden silo it might mean tightening the
hoops or painting the inside with linseed
oil; with masonry silos it could mean point
ing up the joints or re-coating the inside sur
face. To furnish quality silage we need a silo
in good condition.
To Prevent Mastitis In Dairy Herd
MAX M. SMITH To correct the problem of udder trouble
in many cows we should pay more attention to better herd man
agement and less attention to chemicals and antibotics. Dairy
men should learn to recognize and eliminate the-sources of in
jury and stress on the cow and-udder. The most important
source of trouble is the herdsman himself or a poor milking
system. Over-crowded barns, poor ventilation, cold wet floors
and walls, parasites, and rough handling causes extra stress
in the cows. .
trees and shrubs. Only God can
see the heart, but neighbors and
a man’s family can see the life.
Conversion affects the way a per
son talks and works and plays, it
makes a diffidence with what it
takes to make him happy. Con
version can no more be concealed,
when It is real, than spring-time
can be. Spring “bursts out” as we
say; an'd so does conversion. But
true conversion, such as we may
believe Jacob’s to have been, is
not merely a change in behavior.
It can be imitated by any one who
can mimic or imitate the way
converted people act; but the gen
uine can be told apart from the
fake by the fact that the genuine
conversion “stays put” while the
fake breaks down when serious
dangers or difficulties arise in the
path. What makes a real conver
sion real? It is the fact that it is
rooted in the inmost life, centered
in and growing in and from the
heart, God does not promise us
good habits which will produce
good hearts; He promises new
hearts that will express them
selves in good habits.
God’s house or God’s face?
So the great turning points of
life are those in which something
vital and radical occurs in the
inner life. Now we may ask. Why
did this not happen at Beth-el and
why did it happen at Pem-el? A
clue to this may be found in those
two words themselves. Beth-el
means House of God and Peniel
means Face of God. At the one
place Jacob thought he had found
(so to speak) God’s front door.
At the other place he met the God
who has no doors, the God who
comes to meet men in lonely and
terrible places, the God whose go
ings cannot be scheduled and
whose house not even the heaven of
(leavens can contain. A man niay
go to the house of God, yes even
to church, and not see God there
at all. Most people are interested
in their friends first and in their
friends’ houses second. Maybe the
teason why there are so many
aot-quite-converted people around
is that so many of them think that
just going to the “house of God”
is enough. A Beth-el conversion i«
not epough.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the XJ* S. A. Released by
Community Press Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
To Prepare Silo