From Where We Stand *.. March Is National Egg Month March is Egg Month. Some wag was once heard to say that the moth in a cocoon is the only animal he knew that could eat its way out of trouble. Now along comes a group of busi nessmen in Missouri with -the idea that we can eat our way out of some of our over supply of foodstuffs. The Chamber of Commerce in the town of Poplar Bluff, Butler County is sponsoring a campaign for “Better Breakfasts”. A hotel dining room full of hungry school youngsters and their parents were treated to a nutritious model break fast planned by the county heme agent. The children received campaign kits, of information about well balanced break fasts, which they took back to their classrooms. There was even a contest wtfh priz es for the four boys and girls who did the best job of telling their classmates about the advantages of eating good breakfasts. From where we stand, this looks like bne of the better suggestions pro posed for easing the food surplus situa tion. Think of the possibilities. If only one person in each 175 in this country would eat only one more egg for break fast for one week, almost seven million eggs would be taken out of storage. A' parallel could be drawn for almost every other food commodity. Furthermore, nutritionists have again and again told us that a good breakfast is essential to good health. But then what about the other big American problem overweight? We know that a given amount of calories produces a given amount of energy, and if that energy is not burned up it will be stored in the body as fat. Missing breakfast is one of the bet ter ways to trigger the body mechanism into laying on surplus tissue. After an all night fast the body is in need of energy. If no food, or only a small amount, is consumed two things happen. The energy level dips low. The capacity of the body to do work is low ered. The person becomes lethargic and does less work or works at a more lei-i surely pace burning up less of the stor ed enegry. In the second place the body tissues become so depraved that there is a ten dancy to overeat at the next meal and further lethargy results later in the day leading to a vicious cycle When food bins in this country are bulging and conservative estimates show that 20 per cent of the high school students are not getting a properly balanced diet, we feel that it is time for all farmers to get behind movements such as this one in Missouri Better breakfasts are a step toward a better day. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ Kite Flying Weather Kite flying time is here again. It is one of the oldest and best juvenile Plan Hay Prjing It takes time to install a ha> drier. That’s why Joseph McCurdy, extension agricul tural engineer at The Pena sjhania State University, sajs the time to plan for the instal lation is when the hajing sea son is still a few months away. A barn hay drier helps beat Hie weather, cuts dosvn leaf losses, and increases total di- n,utrjepts. lijii fl|l ._, ;J diversions, but it appears there have been quite a few changes in this vener able and respected pastime. Consider this list of “don’ts” for kite-flyers printed recently by a gas and electric company. With the possible ex ception of one of the eight rules, Grand pappy, or even Pop, in. his childhood days would not have needed these rules which are all worthwhile today.- - Here are the rules as listed: 1. Don’t fly a kite with a metal frame or tail; 2. Don’t use tinsel-string, wire or twine that has any metal in it; 3. Don’t fly a kite near electric power lines; 4. Don’t fly a kite over radio or television aerials; 5 Never pull on a string or climb a power pole to loosen a snagged kite; 6. Don’t touch fallen electric wires; 7. Don’t run across streets or highways while flying kites; 8. Don’t fly a kite in the rain. We believe it would be well to teach these safety rules to rural as well as urban children before they try their hand at the ancient skill. We c a n’t help remembering, though, one of our favorite kites from way back in the dim past. As a lot of you old timers will remember, you couldn’t go to the corner store and pur chase a ready-cut kite with string, staves and paper. If you-iyanted a kite, you made one out of whatever materials were at hand. The kite we remember was a giant one made on an umbrella stave frame and covered with wrapping paper. We couldn’t find a string strong enough to stand the pressure, but we did locate some fine wire that would do the trick. It took the combined efforts of three small brothers to launch the mammoth thing, but finally it was airborne and we tied the wire to a fence post. A sudden gust of wind snapped the wire and our precious behemoth was last seen wobbling out over the woods toward the river. In view of the rules laid down by the power company, it was probably a blessing that the monster did get away, but in our back pasture, the near est power lines were almost a mile away The nearest highway was nearly as far, and the only radio aerial within miles was strung between the corner of our house and the chicken coop just slightly more than head high. The only television antennaes were about 15 years in the future The season of thunder storms was still several months away, but if we could have kept our giant on its leash, we would have had it until mid summer. At any rate, the rules for safe kite flying in this day are good ones Kite flying can be fun and still be safe. We hope we don’t have to report any casual ties due to this pleasant pastime. Perhaps this is what the poet had in mind when he said, “Beware the ides of March”. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Lancaster Farming jack Owen, Editor Lancaster County’s Owa Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Established November 4, Lancaster, Penna. , PO. Box 266 - Lima, Pa. 195 **- Pubhshed every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- Oflices: 22 E. Main St, Lititz, Pa. _ . . , , Phone - Lancaster Entered as 2nd class matter 294-304 T or at Lititz, Pa. under Act ol .LijjtZ: 625-21£Hk. ~i it uJVtarfib 'B,?A*t79j', n t > nil, s.s. ...' ' !•' V Advertising Director itz. Pa. - i . 6 ,* How Two Men Died Lesson for March ZZ, 1964 Bteltrnmnd Scripture Luke 23:32-47. ; Deration*! Beading; Lake 23:44-3s. * | DEATH CAME to three men on the same afternoon. We can* not say that “as it must to all men, death came to these,” for the three died by cruel violence. They died, in fact, by being executed. It was a form of death that was meted out only to the most degraded of men traitors, slaves, the worst of criminals. The punishment was crucifixion. We have been so long accustomed to glamorized pic- tures of the cross Dr. Foreman that we forget how horrible it was. Naked men were fastened with nails to their crosses. No fatal blow was struck, the men were just left to die. Gradual loss of blood would bring on a torturing thirst, and death was slow in coming. Victims often took two or three days to die, and most men would go insane before the end came. Death without hops The two men. crucified to the right and left of Jesus were marked as bad men, and would be considered dangerous in any coun try at any time. They were not “thieves" in the 20th century meaning of that word. The Greek word for them means robber, bandit. They were the kind of men who do not hesitate to com mit murders in order to rob their victims. The police and the pub lic breathe more easily when such men are executed. One of these men died as he had lived, his hand against every man’s. Hung up there to die, he kept his bitter heart to. the end. Whoever had condemned Mm to be crucified was not now out there in the crowd. This robber hated people without reason. So he turned against Jesus and picking Now Is The Time . . . MAX SMITH actual pounds of plant food added to the soil including In* tor We’re aware of reports that small amounts oJ liquid fer tilize! per acre will .gnve -comparative results to normal gran ulated applications at a lower price per acie, in these eases we fear that the amounts applied in liquid form are very short in plant food per acre, and at a \ cry hig'h cost- per - unit careful before investing To lame by Test trouble and tie up the- soil el** Many successful farmers monts. Don’t ibe guided by have reached the desired level those who may/ recommend of soil acidity by applying lime larger amounts at a. time-- « over a long period of years, order to reach Che desired mp4* soil tests reveal that little or J ty Quicker, no lime is needed for the av- erage crops on these farms Another fact in applying lime ,The practice of 1 earing' tll9 to the soil learned through re- fleece on the sheep until MW search and experience is that or June is to be discouraged, large amounts should not be A nursing ©-we will milk bet applied at one time; we nor- ter it sheared during laA* mally say that no more than 3 March or early April. The wool Tons of ground limestone per on some sheep will loosen and ***** faratfdVtffffi#**# amounts are expected, to cause ther arxires. - jpototaoddnfwonto io-lhe djy Jeans. JBidlcula can, hart me deeply than harsh words J corses. The bandit's partner o» the other side joined for a v?hi2 in the jeers (Matthew and Ifov both recall that the two a* taunted Jesus) hat changedS mind; this bandit kept Zui bitty, ness and died in at. _ Death under a promts* The other victims were frith dead, when sunset came, as thii angry outcast. But they came to their end in a quite different vnr Consider the other Bandit. He w« just as had a man as his paring on the far admitted gout for Both of them, acknowledge] that what they suffered, they 4 served. Somehow Be mew tint the man on the central cron did not Belong there. "Whether this bandit Bad ever heard of Jesuj, or seen him Before we do not know. But Criminal though hi was, Be Bad a clearer insight into the situation than all the high priests. He has done nothing wrong, be said. And then‘he i»y» a strange thing to Jesus. Bemem. ber me when you come in your kingdom! he said. Jesus answers the faith with a promise; Today you will Be with me in Paradise. Just as simple a making a lunch date. XJader that oromise he died, not in Bitterne« ike his partner in crime, But in rope and faith. Christians from then to now die as other men yet not as other men in spirit, Pot every Christian dies under t promise: “I am tins Life," i The Boar of hope r *’ m \ AH sorts of gloomy thing* art said about death, and we are sup< posed to feel Bitter shoot it. But Christians know Better. Grace Noll Crowell wrote s poem about death, and she called it “This it His night.” Saint Paul, first Chris, tian to put on record Bis thought! about death, calls it a departure, —going to “Be with the Lord.” Death is not merely what so many mMons think It is, the end of 12 things. It is the end of a groat deal, to Be sure; hut it 2s actually a commencement. Heath ends many things But it doss not end yon. If that first Bandit's spirit survived death—and wa Belirre it did—what kind of future would Bo have? If the second man’s spirit survived—and Jesus as sured him it would—what kind of future would Be have? Luke toll* the story; Be leaves v$ to draw our own conclusions. \ \ «bianotaw jMjrisUU I* •» DhUion of ChriitUa Xoaortm* Kraiw BY MAX SMITH To Use Nitrogen Carefully The success of obtaining’ a good stand of alfalfa oi clover in small giain is reduced when we get rank growth o 1 the small grain. The use of 30 to 40 pounds of actual nitro gen pei acie will usually give larger yields of giain but may crowd out the legume seed lings This is especially tine on fertile soils Saud, gray el, or shale soils yvill give greater i espouse to the nitrogen and still not be too rank to result in lodging Use nitrogen spai* inglj on winter giain in fertile helds. To Compare Type* of Fertilizers We often get the question relating to the best yalues in granulated fertilizers or in liquid foims of fertilize! To answer th# question we should carefully compare tli» To Shear Sheep Karly
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