•Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4, 1964
From Where We Stand...
Farming - Year 2040 Style
“Now it seems this farmer had a
dream one night,” said the old man,
“and there he was living in the year
2040 A.D., and darned if there wasn’t
the strangest things going on.”
“What was it like, grandpa?” ask
ed the smallest of the two listeners.
“What was the farms like?”
“Sonny,” he said, “There just
warn’t none to speak of. You see, the
suburbs had moved so far out the
farm land was all buildings. They was
a few farms on lop of some of the
buildings”, he added.
“Grandpa”, said the little girl
dubiously. “How could the cows live on
the buildings? How could they?”
“Cows ” said grandpa. “Who said
anything ‘bout "cows? Why they’d all
been butchered some years before and
all the milk yessir every last drop
come from them manufacturing places
■ — you know them plants that saved
the farmer way back.”
“Grandpa.”
“Yessxr, little doll, they had ma
chinery that could do just about any
thing why it tuk all the guv’ment
butter and all the guv’ment cheese and
powdered milk all the surplus that’d
been hangm’ round for years and
they shoved this stuff into the machines
and what’dya think cum out?”
“Milk,” said little doll. “But what
about when they used it all up? What
about that?”
“It would take so many years they
figured they’d have somethin’ else by
then,” said grandpa.
“Grandpa,” said little doll, again
“Anyhow,” continued grandpa,
“On th 1 surface it looked like all the
problems is licked no surplus no
drought, cause there warn’t nothing to
dry up, no disease, cause there warn’t
no cows, and best of all the farmer still
got his milk check from the guv-ment
cause this old stuff had come from
his cows.”
Grandpa paused and scratched his
head. “But it warn’t so at all,” he said,
“Not for a momment.”
“What was wrong, gramps?” asked
the little boy.
“In the fust place where could
city people go on the week-end? They
was all city folk, now, ’cept a few. And
some of them on the buildings would
forget they was up there and go plow
ing right off the buildin’. Then, they
was a lot of politicians that didn't know
v hat to talk about, ’cause they warn’t
no farm problem and the guv’ment jobs
were gettin’ less and less. Even the sec-
• 4-H Tobacco
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ot Mr and Mrs Tohn I Bd
waids, Ephiata El. It was the
Inst pm pie rosette foi Ed
iwuds in three yea is of com
petition
Haiold Leaman, 2554 Cieek
11 ill Road Lancastei, took the
honots in pioiect sronng i\ith
!)7 > points out ol a possible
10 0
Judge l ’ in the 2G exhibit
show wpie Ben Mann tobacco
biokei and Ruhaid Chailes
and Pans Cliubei ot Bajuk
Ciaais Inc
All exhibits m the cmintv
show wdl be enleied in the
Pennsyl\ania State Palin Show
at Banishing next week
County tobacco show lesulls
veie as lollows
A\ tapper
Cxoi (beast 1 1C Randall
ICdwaids, Ephrata RI (cham
])ionl 2 Richaid Beaman,
2114 Cheek Hill Rd , 3 Har
old Beaman, 2114 Cieek Hill
Rd , 4 El ic Slonei Kill Eden
Rd
Xoilbwest 1 ll,ii k Ves
tbiolli, Manheini R i 1 Wil
lis Hackman Jr, Elisabethtown
retary of agriculture was lookin’ for a
job.”
Grandpa looked slyly at his two
listeners and folded a wad of tobaccQ
into his mouth.
“Wust of all,” he said, “Was,the
eatin’. All the wheat surplus and such
had been made into pills, and that’s all
anybody et. The wimmen folk had no
cookin’ to do so they set around all
day walchin’ cineramavision, that was
the latest household entatainment, and
they got fat and lazy and it wade them
pretty ornery. On Sunday they’d just
roll a few extra large pills out an’ go
back to the livin’ room.”
“I don’t like it. I don’t like it at
all,” said little doll. “I don’t wan’t to
get fat and lazy.”
“I don’t like pills,” said the boy.
“I’m glad it was just a dream,
grandpa,” said little doll. “That couldn’t
really happen, could it grandpa?”
“Well, now, little one,” said grand
pa, “I guess mebe it might not happen
just like that. But on the other hand
the way things is going and all
everythin’ is sure progressin’ awful
fast.”
In Metropolitan Milk Producers’ News
A university of Arizona release
says: “Some chickens live a troubled
life. Give them aspirin to ease the pres
sures and they’ll lay more eggs.” It’s
pointed out that this is one conclusion
one might reach from research results
of Arizona poultry scientists B. L. Reid
and B. J. Hulett. They found that add
ing acetyl salicylic acid (common
aspirin) to a poultry ration resulted in
hens laying nearly 6 percent more eggs;
they don’t know why at this time.
If the challenge is jone of promo
tion and it is then the issue seems
to be plainly drawn. Just two of milk’s
soda pop competitors this year - will
spend more- than $6O million to tell the
story of their products. All competing
beverages, lumped together, probably
would show a total advertising budget
of many times that $6O million figure.
By comparison, the principal
spokesman for the American dairy in
dustry, will be spending little more
than $7? million to tell the story of
milk. The point here is obvious.
Rl, 3 Janies Spahn, Lititz
R 3, 4 Annette Long. Lititz
R 3; 5 Robert Miller, Lititz
R 3
Southwest 1. Richard
Thomas, Millersville Rl, 2.
Da\id Mjei, Milierstille Rl,
3 Philip Stehman, Conestoga
R 2
1, Kenneth
R 1 (le&erve
Southeast
Hess, Sti ashing
champion)
Filler
Noi theast IE Randall
Edwaids, 2 Richard Beaman
3 Haiold Beaman, 4. Eric
Stoner
Xoithwest 1. Mark Xes-
Lancaster Farming
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“Grandpa!”, said little doll.
By EDWARD C. O’BRIEN
HEADACHY HENS TAKE HEART
PAYS TO ADVERTISE
L. H. BULL
Penna. Secretary of Agriculture
tleroth (champion); 2. Rich
ard Buckwalter, Lititz R 3; 3
Annette Long, 4 Robert Mill
er; 5 Donald Forrey, Mount
Joy Rl.
Southwest 1 Richard
Thomas (le&erve champion),
2 David Myei, 3 Philip Steh
man.
Southeast 1. Kenneth
Hess
t Harold Leaman, 97 5, 2
Ricliaid Thomas, 9G 5, 3 Maik
Nestleioth, 96 0, 1 Kenneth
Hess, 95 5, 5 ’Willis Hackman
Jr , 95 0.
Jack Owen, Editor
Advertising Director
itz, Pa,
Entered as 2®d class matter
at Lititz, pip unde* Act of
March 8, 1879.
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Jesus' Own Mother
Lesson for January 5,1961
Background Scripture: Matthew 12 46-
GO, 13*53-68, Luke 2 19. 39-62; John
2-1-12, 19:25-27, Acts 1 14.
Devotional Beading: Luke 1 46-55.
JESUS is the hero of the New
Testament. Other characters
meet us in its pages, but no writer
in the New Testament takes an
interest in anyone else except as
they have some connection with
the life of Jesus himself. So Mary,
his own mother,
appears in the Bi
ble not as Queen
of Heaven or the
Co-Redemptrix of
the world, hut as
the simple, good
young woman who
was the wife of a
village carpenter
and the mother of
Dr. Foreman Jesus of Nazareth.'
We should like to know more
about her than we do. She was
probably quite young, and also
probably not given what we would
call a higher education. Yet we
know that she was the woman to
whom God entrusted Jesus. The
church through most of its history
has believed that Joseph was not
the real father of Jesus; but the
church has never thought of deny
ing that Mary was his real mother.
Mary pondering
Mary was a remembering wom
an. She thought long about the
meaning of things—that is what
“pondered” means. She took time
for events to make their impres
sion on her mind. We know she
was a woman of poetic mind.
Most of the words attributed to
her are in poems, presumably
made up, perhaps on the spur of
the minute. She was familiar with
that great poetry collection and
hypm book of her people, which
we know as, the Book of Psalms.
She was a woman who. laved those
Psalms and memorized them and
wove them into the fabric of her
own mind and memory. She re
membered the singing angels, and
the- angel- who first visited her,
and the comiofT of the Magi. She
remembers her son as a small
boy, and that notable trip to
Now Is The
Many farmers will be ordering their
seed supply during the winter months. Certi
fied seed usually costs more than ordinary
seed, but it’s worth the difference and ia
most cases will end up to be the cheapest.
Certified seed has the backing of purity, ex
pected performance and freedom from
weeds. With other seeds we have no guar
antee of any of these things and could b«
buying trouble and poor yields Be sure you
know what you are planting.
To Handle Idvestotk Carefully
Returns from feeding cattle or hogs
aie at such a lev. figuie that every possible
MAX SMITH management practice should be used to re
duce losses and biuises In hogs mote than half the bruises
occur on the hams and in cattle the loins get injured most ol
the time Both ot these areas are in the regions of the high
est priced cuts Livestock should be handled quietly, trucked
gently, with a minimum of injury to any part of the body.
To Kill Rodents
Snow cover has 'been with
us now for several weeks
Rats and mice hai e been cha
sed 'from the fields because of
the lack o.f food, farm build
ing's will he their winter home
if >farmeis the intru
sion The first step is to clean
up and eliminate all possible
nesting or harboring places;
then use poison bait stations
to kill the rodents. These rats,
and mice do millions of dol
lars of damage each, year on
our farms and good farm man-
Jerusalem when he was 12 years
old. She was not a woman to go
talking all the time with her
neighbors. She did not wear her
heaxt on her sleeve She was not
one to live only on the surface of
things. She was no doubt a busy
and often weary woman. But still
she had time to furnish an inner,
chamber of the heart, a secret
world where the wonders of life
were cherished and re-lived. -
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Mary commanding
Jesus as a boy was not given l
special privileges except no doubt;
those of any oldest son. One spe
cial privilege he did not have: he
was not allowed to disobey. We
read that he “was subject” to his
parents, that is, they directed him, 1
gave him commands. Perhaps the
burden of this fell on 1131% for
Joseph drops out of the picture
and is not heard from in the story
after that visit to Jerusalem. Mary
was what the poet describes, "A
perfect woman, nobly planned. To
warn, to comfort and command.”.
In the story John tells of thej
wedding at Cana, we hear Maryl
commanding the servants to do,
whatever her son directed. This
was a turning-point in her life, 1
perhaps. At any rate, somewhere!
along the road Mary knew the mo-j
ment which comes to every moth-j
er, no matter how loving and;
good, when she has to let go her,
control, when her child looks at
her with level eyes, the child no
longer a boy, a youth, but a man.'
Mary praying
The last picture we have of
Mary in the New Testament story,
is in a prayer meeting. It was in
an “upper room,” perhaps the
very room in which Jesus, six
weeks before, had held the Last
Supper on the night in which ha
was betrayed. If you can imagine
what that must have meant to
Mary’s imaginative mind, you may
well suppose that Mary was pray
ing as never before. Yet no person'
ever comes suddenly to a deep
prayer life. We may well be sure;
that Mary had been a woman of
prayer through the years. This is
important; but even more im
portant is the effect on the growi
ing child Jesus. If he was a real
person, and Mary a real mother,
we can be sure he learned about
prayer first where most of us leant
it, at our mother’s knees. The man
Jesus knew more of life, its joyatj
riddlps and agonies, than the child
Jesus,. But the- faith he breathed
in by his mother’s side would leaf
till his dying hour. i
(Bawd «t sntliaM copyrichtab M tto
Dilution ol Chri«tU> Education, Ktiiuut
Cauneil «f Churches ot CUit Kllni
V. S. A. KeliMed by- Coatwinity Frat
Service.)
Time . . .
BI MAX SMITH
To Order Certified Seed
Protect Taum
If we ‘have much saow this
wmtei, we can expect snow
mold in lawns or fine turf
where the disease has been
a problem, warns A H. Bau
er, extension 'plant patholo
gist, at The Pennsylvania
State University. Damage
fi om snow mold is reduced, or
prevented by not piling snow
on the lawn and by treating
areas with chemicals. Where
snow mold has been a prob
lem and much snow falls, see
your county agent for further
information on snow mold
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