—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... Why Worry About Conservation? Why worry about conserving the soil 0 We’ll soon all be eating synthetic lood anyhow This idea seems to be in the thoughts of many people, but there are three major flaws in this philosophy First, while there are already a few synthetic food items on the grocery shelves, they are not yet perfected, are high in price, and are a long, long way from becoming widespread in their use It will, be many years before synthetic foods are commonplace Secondly, of the synthetic foods available, nearly all are made from other agricultural products While syn thetic beef may not be manufactured by animals eating grass, and gram, the soil must produce the soybeans or other crops which form the raw material for the artificial food products We will have to depend on soil for many years yet to produce the food for an ever growing population But if tomorrow, by some miracle, we would no longer need agriculture to produce food, there would still be a good leason to conserve the soil While the earth’s surface is about three quarters covered with water, most of it is not fit for consumption Man has learned to remove the salt from sea water, and the impurities from sewage, but the processes are still costly and time consuming We must learn, and very soon, to use properly and wisely the pure water w hich falls on our land surface We must devise methods to keep contaminants out of streams, wells and reservoirs We must learn to keep the soil on the hill sides instead of letting it run down the 3 ivers to divert channels, kill fish, cause floods, contaminate domestic and indust rial water supplies and fill water re servoirs We all know that man can not live for very long without food, but he can live even a shorter time without water While there is no immediate shortage of water for drinking in this area, we have seen the total supply cut sharply in recent years because of greater demands for many purposes Food continues to be in more than Letters To The Editor Reader Doubts Need For Farms FPlilOi Laiur-tei Fanning Ilf u Sn Latch sc u.tl ait’de- hate n uptM 11 a 'n \a i ioih puVica ii.in- unhiding ilu' L ijic ut i I miiiiia ic euhoi the Mal- Uiti-icin J iieoi' 01 the popula tion evploMon oi the ncccssiu Oi both fonfol and most tbc.in to believe it will be the -Amencan laimei who will tue to the ucfcision and feed -he tiemendous mu ease m hnmanitv It I mav take tli e libei tv, I should like to voice mv own peisonal “theones” on these matteis Fust, I have no doubt Mi lUa-ltlius believed unequivocally m what he theorized and if the world’s population had e\- ;;l3lons ,n n.av S Hue Fommateh, 101 us, m Loncoster Farming 17 f tS he could not foisee nor 3 I,H .iw.ue of the unbelievable i, ancaster County’s Own Fawn It, hnoloqicdl advances soon to Weekly take place 01 course, ceitain Inters stub as medical know- P O. Box 1524 hds,e have qiven support to his Lancaster, Penna llicoiv but vvms and the PO. Box 2G6 - Lititz, Pa I'in eat of a nuclear holocaust , „ , , Othces: i < Meet anothei suit of the pi ob- 22 E ;y fain S( . ln- Lititz, Pa Sicond buna a Lunin in Phone - Lancaster bund and 'jin it and an 'mei- 3 , 14-‘3O4T or b n I am iii-'ilv and menelv Lititz G2G-2191 pioud ot at,iicullmal advance- isn’t? If it sounds confusing that’s because synthetic beef and chicken are on the market now . . made from protein in soybeans And a Philadelphia firm is making synthetic ham loaf and experi menting with meatless hot dogs In addition to the meatless meats, the soybean protein products have been used to make foods that resemble potato chips, dried fruits, nut kernels and some fruits and vegetables Much of the work has been done by a mid-Western gram company that isolated the proteins in soybeans and processed it into fine filaments. These filaments are used to duplicate the fib rous muscle structure of many foods. At the present time, the retail price for synthetic meat products ranges from $1 00 to $1 30 a pound. Julius F Bauermann, extension food technologist at The Pennsylvania State University, points out that these products will be useful in special medi cal diets, or will appeal to people whose religious beliefs affect eating habits Development of these edible pro tein foods will have particular signifi cance for world areas where popula tion increases are outstripping the food supply, Bauermann said In Pennsylvan ia. agricultural leaders are interested in whether these foods may replace pre sent animal protein foods and, if so, to what extent Time will tell. Market Horizons Pa. Dept, of Agri. meins and pi eduction The Amei tan farmei ceitamlv met the tests ot wai and peace which weie placed befoie him and I in ceitam can con tinue to meet them but will h'‘ hue h' ’ This is a question Io w '"ili i I 1 1 1-o an answei I we i ici it pi duade- to come the woild tout own < ounti v m hide d > w i] have to ieh so'ch on the iarnn i fot his lood Foi the sake ol those of u-» who visit to piesetve the institutier ot fainting I hope I get jumped on fot tin ohset \ations and cut tent beliefs I hope tellable sources can dts piove my contention that the staiving woild will be eating svnthetic meats and vegetables tatliei than naturally giown foodbtufta, that future geneta tions of Americans may be ed. ucate-d to do the same. Most ample supply m this nation, but water is becoming critically short in some areas Water can be conserved, and its conservation goes hand-in-hand with the wise use of the soil. Even if we did not need to conserve the soil for food protection, we believe the protection ot our water supply would justify the small expense involv ed in keeping the soil on the land At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ Synthetic Meats Have you ever eaten meat that But, like the week that was, it is of us who aie used to sinking ' ■ , oui teeth into leal food aie OW AS i XlO not apt to be easily swa\ed to * * * an imitation poik chop, siteak, 01 turke\ but, peihaps oui gi and-childien may Those sinthetir foods aie alieady on the m.nket admittabh at a substantial pncc pei pound winch iii.n be a detenent to |p v the gpiieial populn-. until the rendition is con reled While tliK mallei of s\n ihelic foods ma> be frightening to an asi I'cuK'iiie aheady in an economic bind, I cannot help but teel this is the light ans wei to an evplodmg population in an aheadv uudei nounshed woild The othei alteinatives seem to he nuclear annihila tion or conupnlsoiv birth con- ettort to eliminate wild garlic from their pasture fields This trol \Vl l h neithei of thwu. „. fln weed wIU llot youi quality milk efforts and should b(S tli n I n , controlled During mid to late March ttaeie should be somft b 11 agieemen'i. The solu- growth ot the garlic and a good time to spray the area with 1% tion by wai is obviously ndi- pounds pei acie of the ester form of 2,4-D The garlic will colons, that of birth control is be easier to kill down when young and before the clovers get moie a m'attei ot pei sonal con- much giowth It maj take early spring spraying for several (Continued on Page 8) , ye ‘ lli to get control Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farnung, Lit- itz, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of March 8, 1879. Steps to Faith lesson for March 8,1964 i fortune-teller; it meant one ■who Baclrcronnd Scripture: John 9:1-41. i speaks God’S truth, 3. Eevealcr. A Devotional Rending: I John 1:5 to 2:S. I prophet WSS like a window into TVTOBODY KNOWS how many Jj® S miracles Jesus performed .sf 1 * Lf W Tj«f *+w during the few years between His ° rdllll baptism and His crucifixion. The rmf wfif! writer of the Fourth Gospel says bave that the world could not contain the books that would have to be *® J?® ssa«jff= a’safsfa’sks sfs-asS sssrsEM ss makes no effort to short of the belief wMch the <&<** Tell the whole ? les of Jesus badtowards Mm - He ctorv did not condemn him. at all. So we three Gosnels tell should bs slow about den y ing tb ® name “Christian” or “believer” to huf “en and women of our own time Gosuel tells of who think of Jesus as » Dr Fnremin nni v i« n* teacher, first among teachers on ei«ht John’s wav of telling the even as one of many teachers. Tha stones is different also Thl first JLord took man wbe f e b ? W «S three Gospels just tell what hap- fs^L lielped ‘ 111111 to * stm pened and let the reader make his Kn ' _ -i own comments. John makes every The one Lord 1 miracle a land of text for a sermon Jesus asked the man, finally, if or meditation on the meaning of be Relieved in the “Son of Man." Jesus, or the meaning of life. You and 1 “ieht not understand a M an pa . PSUfi that question, but this man did. oT , „ JBS “ S „ « “Son of Man” was one of the com* tfif e <* f l6 + J l ot + 10,I 0 ,? 0 - o£f + £ n mon expressions meaning “Mes« th ,t Ji t’ f t ’ * fol . l . owmgtbe siah” or “Christ,” both of which evangelists ex s, if we take wds were never in the piuraL one of the of these stones There was to be only one Son of and see in it a of the way Man> in E class alone himself. iaith grows. In itc=i r the story is This was more than Prophet, foff indeed simple. Tne man whom prophets were many. At its height Jesus cured must nave been a faith looks at Jesus not as a mera weL-known beggar, xor the disci- man, no t even as one among otheS mes knew he had oc-en born blind, revealers of God, not even as tha Jesus made clay ou. of spittle First Saint; hut as God’s “onlj* and dust, put it on the man s eyes, begotten Son,” God focussed in at told nun to go to a certain pool and single man, the meeting point of wash, The man washed as directed, the human and the divine. So that and cams seeing. Just luce that. man who had been blind,in morii The story of the miracle is told, ways than one, has his eyes opened But now begins the pai t (one of a t last to what Jesus said he him] many aspects of this story) that se ]£ was: the light of the WoridL l brings us meanings, not simple And so he did what no man hasa facts The particular meaning here right to do to another man: ha now for us is the way this man worshipped Jesus. His heart hto] advanced in faith. What did he found its home at last, in God. 1 think of Jesus’ is the question. <Ba«ed on onilinet copyrighted to t{t The ex-beggars first thought Division e£ ChristianEducation,Natioau slifiiif "j pciic woe “snet |n< <wun Council of the Chsichct of Chiilt ilk ufl vtooui jesus was just tms. ine tr. s. a. Beleaicd to Community 7xil Service.) J When dany heifers aie from C months to one veai of age, it s a good practice to measuie them and tape them to determine it they aie loveloping fast onougli for their a-’e It toi some leason they aie under side, then it will still be time to do some thing about it beloie they leach breeding age (l r > to IS months) Standards for heait guth measaiements and weights at cciLuu ages aie available with which to compaie the heifeis of each bleed. Large giowthy heiters foi their age should make moie desnable herd replacements. To Spraj Foi Wild Garlic < S' . MAX SMITH To IMi Caution with Forage Sprays Alfalfa and red clover glow ers who sprayed their fields last October with either Diel dnn oi Heptachloi should not be concerned about any spring spraying tor alfalfa weevils or spittlebugs these sprays should give good control How ever, growers who did not spiay last fall may get con trol this spnng by using Gut hiou at least 21 days before harvest or Malathion at least 7 davs prior to harvest Do not use Dieldnn or Heptachlor this spring nan called Jesus.” Just a man' with a name. But the point was: the man called Jesus had cured his blindness. That much the man knew. You may not think this was a very lofty faith, indeed yon might argue that it was not faith at all. But it was. He knew Jesus had cured him. I A prophet ' A little later, the ex-beggar told the Pharisees (it really was none of their business, they only wanted to “get” Jesus somehow) that in his opinion Jesus was a prophet. This did not mean a soothsayer, a BY MAX SMITH To Gheck Growth of I)airj Heifers Dairymen are urged to make a special To Use Nitrogen on Oor* Stalk Ground Corn ground that 5s goin* back into corn should he treat ed liberally with nitrogen fer tilizer The amount will de pend upon organic matter con tent, use of manure or cover crops, and fertility level; the rotting corn stalks will tie Up some nitrogen from the plants. Many fields should get from 100 to 150 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre A complete soil test will furnish the ans wer Then plow down the fer tilizer
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