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From Where We Stand...
eve In The Future Of Farming
I Beli
“I believe in the future of farming
with a faith born not of words but of
deeds achievements won by the pre
sent and past generations of farmers; in
the promise of better days through bett
er ways, even as the better things we
now enjoy have come up to us through
the struggle of former years.”
These words from the creed of the
Future Farmers of America should in
spire all of us young and old alike
to be proud of our heritage on the
farm.
Without a deep and abiding belief
in the future of farming, all our modern
conveniences on the farm can never
bring satisfaction. Unless each one of us
recognizes that we are engaged in a
stiuggle to make life better for the
generations of the future, we are engag
ed in a futile struggle Unless we enjoy
and appreciate the better things which
have come up to us through the struggle
of former years, we can not enjoy the
challenge of creating better things for
future farmers not yet born.
The creed continues -
“I believe that to live and work on
a good farm is pleasant as well as chal
lenging; for I know the joys and dis
comforts of farm life and hold an inborn
fondness for those associations which,
even in hours of discouragement, I can
not deny”.
To live and work on a good farm
can be pleasant as well as challenging
It is probably difficult for a city born
and reared person to understand the in
born fondness of a rural person for
those joys and discomforts of farm life.
It is expensive, and probably a
little wasteful, for our son to keep a
cow on our little half acre plot of
ground on the edge of a suburban area,
but when we see him help the newborn
calf stand on shaky legs to get its first
meal, we know he is getting a lesson no
school book could ever teach We know
he is building those associations which
he will never be able to deny. He will
never feel quite the same toward dumb
animals again
The creed continues
“I believe in leadership from our
selves and respect from others. I believe
in my own ability to work efficiently and
think clearly, with such knowledge and
skill as I can secure, and in the ability
of organized farmers to serve our own
and the public interest in marketing the
product of our toil. I believe we can safe
guard those rights against practices and
policies that are unfair.”
Rural youngsters learn at an early
age to be leaders. They learn they must
be masters of a situation, or it will be
come master of them How else can we
explain the large number of national
leaders with a rural beginning?
Future farmers learn the value of
organization. They learn to organize
and conduct meetings, and get practical
lessons in the value of cooperation
among people with similar problems
Only through group action can farm
ers hope to serve their own interests
and the interests of the public Only
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through cooperation can they safeguard
their rights against unfair practices.
The creed continues:
“I believe in. less dependence on
begging and more power in bargaining;
in the life abundant and enough honest
wealth to help make it so for others
as well as myself; in less need for
charity and more of it when needed; in
being happy myself and playing square
with those whose happiness depends
upon me.”
Less dependence on begging
more charity when needed. Where else,
except in rural areas, can you find a
group of people willing to give up a
work day to help a sick neighbor even
though he did not ask for help? Where
else can you find the cooperation be
tween neighbors who share machinery
and labor? In what other industry can
you find competitors for the same mar
ket helping each other in busy seasons?
In this way farmers help to secure
enough honest wealth for the life abun
dant even though it is sometimes a life
not filled with material things.
In concluding, the creed says:
“I believe that rural America can
and* will hold true to the best traditions
of our national life and that I can exert
an influence in my home and community
'which will stand solid for my part in
that inspiring task.”
If boys can subscribe to a creed
such as this, we need have no fear for
the future of farming in America.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Develop Fire Retarding Paint—Thg
USDA reports development of a durable
fire-retarding paint for outdoor use. The
new product, looks like ordinary paint
and can be applied with brush or roller.
When exposed to flame, however, the
paint develops a thick, carbon con
taining layer that acts as an insulating
barrier.
Milk’s Like That, Too The wheat
in a 25-cent loaf of bread is worth about
two and half cents wholesale and there
is about a dollar’s worth of cotton in
a $5O suit Which points up the fact
that it isn’t the raw product but the de
livered finished goods that up the price.
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How You Spend Your Life It has
been estimated an average American of
70 years of age has spent six years eat
ing, 11 working, eight amusing himself,
24 sleeping, five and a half washing
and dressing, three talking and six
months in church.
Production Climbs Production
per man hour of farm labor doubled
within the last decade, with the increase
in output per man-hour for crops twice
that for livestock largely due to
gains in crops per acre.
The Voracious Woodchuck Be
sides poking holes all over otherwise
perfectly good fields, the voracious wood
chuck, a small one at that, will eat a
ton of alfalfa in a summer.
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Background brnpliire Luke S 2(! °9
Detotonal Heading Colosßi.ms 3 15 17,
LUKE’S STORY of the "demoni
ac,” the many-devilcd man,
who did not know his own name,
being so many different poisons at
once —and all bad, this stoiy
raises more questions than can
well be answered here. What we
want to do is to
look at the sjmp
toms of the man,
who would today
be considered by
any psychiatrist as
a very sick man„
The man had
no name. He was
so wild he hardly
needed one. He
Dr. Foreman lived without
clothes, and (we may guess)
without much to eat He would
not stay under a roof, but
stayed in the open not in
the good green wood but among
the tombs of a burying-ground It
was a suitable place for him, for
the man was dead. He had lost
contact with living men and liv
ing affairs. What the devils were
—whether spawned by his own
brain, or demons moving in from
a dark other world—we do not
know Whatever they were, they
had charge of the man. His life
w’as eaten out by these sinister
infiltrators. When Jesus asked
the man for his name, the reply
was “Call me Legion”—using the
word for a regiment of soldiers.
Actually what was in the man
was more like a mob than a well
drilled regiment
20th Century demons
Today we say we don’t believe
in devils any more. This is
strange, considering how many
bedeviled victims there are all
around us You do not have to
go far or search lo ig, before you
find men i\ho are not men. They
do not know rightly who they
are They have many conflicting
desiics, yet no real pm pose. They
aio the slaves of habit, slaves of
their most beast-hke desues.
Some of these modern deraom
Now Is The Time . ..
Farmers producing teed for their live
stioclk want to produce the best and the most
feed, at tihe lowest cost. Th'is requires high
quality crops, maximum yields, and proper
feeding' The certain .crop to produce the
maximum -amount of quality roughage - mil
vary according to fertility, topography, and
harvesting methods. On the -great majority
of farmls com for silage leads all other crops
in the feed nutrients per acre In the grass
mixtures, the alfalfa-grass combinations have
Che highest potential.
To Check Vacuum Regulators
The vacuum regulator is a very imipor-
tant part of the imKkuug machine system. It
MAX SMITH
admits air init'o the miUcing system, and pre
rents the vatu urn level from going- too lug'll Regulators thlat
are worn, sticky, or dusty may be the cause of inefficient milile
mg and udder irritation Frequent cleaning with a dry ciot/h
xnd c',ie,A'ing for proper vacuum level is advised.
)To Jtecognizo
Peiuiscott (Red (plover
Lancaster County farmers
want to giow the best variety
of red clover should use the
Pennscott seed because it is
native, and has outyielded all
other varieties The few dollars
saved per bushel by buying
common red clover at seeding
time, is not a saving, but ac
tually costs money in reduced
yields later. Penjnsteott has av
eraged over ’/i-ton per acre
more than any other common
red c'ovei Don’t overlook the
variety that originated in
southern Lancaster Oountj.
ics ire obviously afflicted. A)
coholics, dope iddicts, driven
who ire never safe behind
a wheel, victims of hot temper,
fear, gnawing envy, or a thousand
other devils, walk our streets, im
peril our highways, inhabit out
jails, reformatories and hospitals
A person who has lost all control
of himself, who cannot resist
some particular temptation, who
perhaps knows very well what this
next drink is going to do to him
but must have it regardless of
consequences, such a man may
have a name; but it is not he
himself who bears the name. He
is no longer himself, he is a walk
ing habit, a walking bundle of
fighting impulses, he does over
and over what he swore to him
self he would not do again.
The cure
No one knew just how Jesus
did it; but one thing was cer
tain; the demon-i idden man was
cured. Whatever was wrong with
him was made right. No longer
a naked howling savage lunatic,
he was seen dressed, sitting and
listening to Jesus, once more |
member of society, a human
being. For the fiist time-in years,
perhaps, he could honestly say
“I” and not “we.” But it was
not his own self-control that had
won the struggle He had been
brought so low there was no
struggle left in him It was Jesus
who took hold of him, it was
Jesus who mastered the devils,
not he
In the treatment of alcoholics
today, cures need not be ex
pected so long as the victim in
sists he can “take it or leave it
alone.” For an alcoholic to be
cured the first necessity is ta
admit he is an alcoholic, that he
can’t get out of himself by him
self. And the Alcoholics Anony
mous has found that the best and
suiest helper there is, is God.
The Christian church knows that
this is true of others, too. When
a man is helpless in the grip of
evil inner forces, it is not a case
where self-cure is advisable—be
cause what really ails us is be
yond our own power to cure. To
admit we are defeated, to admit
we need help, is the first step
on the road to freedom, but
there always has to be some
understanding heart. Suppose
Jesus had been afraid of the mafi,
or despised him, or thought ol
him only as a disgusting interrup
tion?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by tM
Dmsion of Christian I-ducatioti, National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
I. S. A. Released by Community Preif
Sen ice.)
BY MAX SMITH
To Select Proper iPoragp
To iStretih Your OTjime
And Fertilizer Dollar
The proper use of lime and
fertilize! is one of the best m
lestments farmeis make. Most
fertilizeis die a better buy to
day than they were 2'5 years
ago, when contpai ed to the
cost of other farm materials.
As higher rates of plant nu-
trients are used, it becomes
more important to use them
property for better utilization.
Use the complete soil test to
determine your needs.