—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 7, 1964
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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
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tion evploMon oi the ncccssiu
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tbc.in to believe it will be the
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tue to the ucfcision and feed
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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\-
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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.
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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,
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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