—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 28, 1963 4 From Where We Stand. How Long Has It Hold on there! Let’s not rush pell mell into this new year without sitting down and reflecting on the old one just a little. We are not going to ask you to make any new resolutions. Everyone else will be doing that; and besides, you probably wouldn’t keep them and then we would be a party to broken promises and we have enough trouble with our own conscience without hav ing to worry about yours. But we would like you to do a lit tle “How long has it been ” type of thinking. For instance —how long has it been since you called an old friend on the phone just to say, “Hello, how are you?’’? How long has. it been since you paid someone a sincere compliment? I mean a sincere compliment—not the kind you use when you hope to gain something, but just a word of appreci ation to someone who can be of no ma terial gain to you. How long has it been since you told your wife her hair-do looks nice? How long has it been since you expressed appreciation and satisfaction with a job one of the kids has done? How long has it been since you just sat down and did nothing? Just sat and stared. And how long before that did your conscience start to both er you when you just sat and stared for a few minutes? How long since you had a good belly laugh? How long since you just let loose and roared at something fun ny without worrying if someone would think you were a square? When did you last write a letter to the Editor on something you felt strongly about? How long has it been since you went directly to the source when you didn’t agree with a written editorial? How long since you read any litera ture deeper than Alley Oop or the T.V Guide? Shakespeare is still just as fresh as he was a hundred years ago, and you can understand him much better now than you could in high school. When did you last take time to savor the aroma of coffee or food be fore you bolted it down in the mad rush to get on with the business of this world before your neighbors beat you to it? How long since you called John nie’s or Suzie’s teacher and told her how much you appreciate what she is trying to do for your children? When did you last go to see for yourself what happens in the class room? We like the story of the teach er who wrote a note to the parents of her students saying, “If you promise not to believe all your child tells you happens in school, I promise not to believe all he tells me happens at home.” How long has it been since you have earnestly and fervently said, “Thank you, God, for bringing me safe ly thus far on my journey through life "? There is one more “how long” we • 4-H fContiiued from Page 1) Hie aveiage of two hamls, one ol Wiajipei U's and one o£ I>'illei JJ s Awards will be made on a diatnct basis, four in ibe (Oiintj, and a sweep stake aw aid will go to the hi-Jiesr total score in the (ount\ I’roT ot books m both (iuhl - be scored at the same 1 1 me * t i- < I I I • • Been Since Y0u...! ought to consider. How long till we have a big black smudge on the clean page of 1964? At least that’s how it looks from where we stand Here we are at the end of another year. A lot of words have flowed (crept, is probably a better word) from this old typewriter. We wonder what we will think ten years hence when we read back over some of the stuff we thought was death less prose at the moment. We wonder how some of the predictions we made so glibly will look from that distance of time. Just this week we re-read a column clipped from a national poultry news paper two years ago. We filed it at that time because we did not agree with the writer, and wanted to refer to it when developments warranted it. At the time we thought we might have to wait for five, or possibly ten, years to find out if he was on the right track. Here are a few excerpts from that column. Judge for yourself. Remember, this was just two years ago. “ ’What do you think of the present surge to wire cages for layers in this state?’ asked my caller. “I remember when one of those ‘big shots’ from the USDA called me a ‘stubborn, stiff-necked yankee’ because I couldn’t see a certain thing that he felt was of great value to the poultry breeders of the country, in the same light that he saw it. Maybe I’m still just as stiff-necked now about wire cages.” After about five hundred words tell ing how expensive cages are, how they will have to be replaced, and what a nuisance the discarded cages would be, he cited several widely separated cases of poultrymen going broke in the cage business and returning to birds on the floor. Then he ended the column with this paragraph. “As an afterthought, I just happen ed to remember that while my old friend is still a big shot at the USDA, the thing which he was so sure was a winner, and which I thought had a false bottom, is as dead as last year’s hay.” Well, we know, two years later, that the cage layer business is not “as dead as last year’s hay.” In fact, it is one of the “hvest” segments of the whole business of farming. Cage layer houses are springing up like mushrooms all over the state and the nation Cage layer businesses are making money and it appears that as more and more is learned about this method of handling birds and prospects are brighter. Well, that is one we won, but we recall our first visit to a prototype milk ing parlor We just couldn’t see how the thing could ever become widely used. So you win one and you lose one! We just wonder how it will look from 10 years hence We will probably have to say again, “Well, we lost some, but we won some, too.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P O Box 1524 Established November 4, Lancaster, Penna . P 0 Box 2GG - Lititz, Pa. 1955 ’ Pubhshed ever y Sat«r day by Lancaster-Farnnng, Lit- Offices 22 E Main St Lititz, Pa. Entered as 20-d class matter. Phone - Lancaster 3 9 4-3 04 7 or at p a- under Act of LHue.;j*26-2i9i, r , _ rv.i,: ;K' iv w Win One Lose One Jack Owen, Editor Advertising- Director itz, Pa. f mmmA Bm ....M litiriatiiul UaU*tm Snaday Sekiel LftiMia Freedom For What? Lesson for December 29,1963 Bible Material*. Mark 10:12-45; tatvlatiana 6 and 6. Devotional Retdinr: Eomnm 1:1-11. . £ » of the greatest enemies of peace FREEDOM IS a great word, a and freedom in the individual life rousing word, one that in all 816 fear and sin. When a man times has thrilled the hearts and commits a sin, even one that fascinated the minds of men. But hurts him personally, doesn’t ha it is also a misunderstood word. sa y> n * n ® times out of ten, “I It is no more than half understood couldn’t help it”? When he stop*- when people forget that freedom to think why he fears death, 1 is both freedom doesn’t he say again, “I can’t help from and freedom *t”? That’s simply admitting to f0r.... Moses had being a slave. Fear and sin are his 'troubles with hard masters, cruel, relentless and the Israelites on ruinous. But the Christian in their this point. All Presence is a free man. they could think Freedom for what? of was getting out But knowing this, or thinking of Egypt. Free- about it two weeks in a row, as we dom was their have tried to do, does not dear up , hope and dream, all the trouble we have in under- Dr. Foreman But when they ac- standing what freedom means, tually became free, when Egypt’s The New Testament lays equal chains were broken, those Israel- stress on freedom-for, as on free zes didn’t care for their freedom dom-from. Paul puts it in a single after all. They actually wanted to sentence; “Through love be sor go back to Egypt. They discovered vants of one another.” To use free that freedom meant work, danger, dom selfishly is to misuse it. To uncertainty, risk, and they pre- P se freedom selfishly is to go back ferred the protected assurances of lute slavery to ourselves all over slavery to the adventures of free- a Sain. To serve others in love is dom. n ot a rule, but like the “golden Freedom from what? rule” < of which it; is a twin) it is Freedom can be misunderstood * guide to the traveler through on the other side. This is particu- tangled world. To serve oth larly true of Christian living. All f r ? * s “°t t° ™eddle in their af through the New Testament the fairs - s f rve others does not reader seems to hear the bugles *? ean to force helpfulness on of freedom, Christians are re- them. Serving others grudgingly, minded on page after page that ®uviously, is to miss the mark en freedom is good and that Christ tirely. Serving in love is the right came to set men free. But people us ? °* freedom, then as now sometimes got a In a harbor of a great seaport,, wrong idea about this. They sup- two ships are free. Each is being posed that they were now set free Polled by tugs. A sudden burst of from obligations, they “wore no wfpd snaps the line that ties one 1 man’s collar,” so to speak. Paul . Pto one of the tugs. The ship (among others) sets us straight j s ee > but unprepared; and it about this. He underscores some- lurches, crashing into nearby thing quite different. Christ was ““t. spreading destruction. The not born to set men free from ob- °ther ship, at the right moment, hgation to each other nor to God. ca sts off its lines and is free—free On the contrary, the Christian to sa *t under power to the ends more and more recognizes the °* the ® ar th. Which ship is the duties, services, and ways of help J? e tter illustration of Christian which he can render to other freedom? people. The worst masters Being free from ourselves, we Now Is The Time . . . Sheep producers are reminded ol the need of daily outside exercise for the ewe flock, in some cases the flock may have to be foiced to walk by feeding hay or fodder in the lar end of the pasture lot Less lamb ing tiouble and stronger lambs will result in this situation ivhen exercise is a daily routine Plenty of good legume hay for the ewes at all tunes is also very important A mixture of phenothiazme and salt (1 to 14) will help prevent internal parasites. MAX SMITH manure with next year’s corn and tobacco ground usually getting the lion’s share. How ever, new forage seedings (alfalfa or clover) will benefit from a light coating (6 to 8 tons per acre) during the late fall and early winter Also, winter wheat will give greater yields when topdiess with manure The strawy manure will serve a« a mulch to prevent frequent freezing and thawing as well as furnish some cover Irom icy winds without snow cover. Man ure is usually rather high in nitrogen will help rapid growth In the spring. To Bo Alert For Foot Rot Cattle and sheep producers should be on the alert 'for sore 'feet on their animals during the winter months Sore ifeet are quite common in cattle feeding operations and even in some herds of dairy cattle. Wet, filthy con- Several species of wild, ditions are often Warned for ors6S existed in North Ameri tiia trouble add dor the, sbrdad-' (India** of tie infection W oW a ’m-“ white jMHtomjl alone. ire free from those tyrants that so cruelly dominate the lives of those who have lost touch with God. Fear, for one thins. The man who by God’s grace can forget himself, even for a while, has a vacation from fear. Fear of death, of disgrace, of failure, of unpopu larity, of pain, of frustration. If you were asked, what is the great est evil, the harshest cruelty, un- mW. der which men suffer? What are < the necessities to which men bow their heads—and their souls? You might well answer: Certainly two (Based on outlines copynchted by the Division of Christian Education, National -Council of the Churches of Christ in the IT. S. A. Released by Community Press Sen ice.) BY MAX SMITH To Manage The Ewe Flock To Topdress With Manure There are many places for barnyard mails Infected animals should be separated and treated, m many cases the feet should be trimmed Sore feet slovr down the animals and reduce deed efficiency Contact the local veterinarian for treatment.
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