-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... The Poison In Your Home Familiarity breeds contempt, they say We fear those things we don’t un derstand and tend to become complacent about the familiar dangers around us With the widespread use of new farm chemicals and the great contro versy about their safe use, we have heard of very few cases of people actual ly being killed by agricultural sprays We do not mean to belittle the drive for safe handling of chemicals or the need for proper application because we feel that is precisely the reason there have been so few casualties As long as we have a small amount of fear about a product, we will handle it with respect. On the'other hand, household che micals have become so familiar to us, and we have used them so long without mishap we tend to become careless We clean our homes, launder our clothes, open our drains, and paint our walls with poisonous chemicals Some of these do not carry a poison label These things we rarely think of as dangerous Yet every year half a million per sons take poison, either intentionally or by accident Approximately 1,700 die, 1,300 of them from poisonings in the home Four hundred of these are chil dren under school age or too young to understand the meaning of poison Over half of the 1,300 are adults who should know better But how many unlabeled poisons do you have in your home on shelves low enough to be reached by toddlers? There are enough poisons in most homes to kill the entire family Look m your laundry at the soaps and detergents, household ammonia, sil a er or brass polish, disinfectants, room deodorizers, toilet bowl cleaners or dram openers, and sprays to control common household pests Many of these are put up in appealing containers and children have sampled them with disasterous re sults The only way to keep children away from these chemicals is to keep them away from children. But most important, poisonous chemicals should never be stored with or near tood In the hurry to prepare a meal it is too easy to pick up the poison instead of the flavoring com pound Medicines account for half the cas es of child poisoning and a large number cl adult poisonings If the medicine rabmet can not be kept out of reach of ' hiidrsn then it is a poor place to keep medicines Wo would hie to submit the fol lowing list of -nv practices foi jcur consideration 1 Label everything Don t depend on memory when identification can be absolute 2 Keep all cleansing agents, reach of children 3 Keep all medicines, including such common drugs as aspirin, in a lock ed or inaccessible cabinet 4 Never put a poison or toxic sub stances in a container designed to con tain food milk bottles, soft drink Small Aie flood Buy Small eaas sometimes call mi ‘pullet ewers' aie usually a -,ood buy. sajs Herbert C Joitl,in, extension ponltiynian a i The Penns} Irani a State limeisitj Small esa:s are of <v i ptionallj lush finality and at !"> cents a dozen lhe\ aie <'iii.il m i osl to laise egpts -•lliiii, toi Iti rents a dozen 'lime small ot pullet rv-s aie iliom tin same as tuo lat t,r* i - a household chemicals, and polishes out of *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥■¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥-¥¥»¥¥¥¥¥»¥ ¥ ¥¥¥¥ Lancaster Farming jack Owen, Editor Lancaster Connty’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P O Box 1324 Established November 4, Lancaster, Penna. .... _ ~ _ . P O Box 26G - Lmtz, Pa. 190j ‘ Pubhshed eve O' Satur day by Lancaster-Farxning, Lit- O/Iu es 2 K Mam St, LiUt/ Pa Phone - Lancaster ■>.'4l-20 17 or LiUtz G ’ j-23 91 bottles, cereal box, etc 5 Accept children’s curiosity, and the fact that they will eat or .drink anything regardless of its flavor. 6 Teach children that there are some things that are yours, a"nd they must leave them alone. If only one child is spared the pain of illness or death, we will have been paid grandly for all the effort it takes to check this list once a week for the rest of our lives At least that’s how it looks from where we stand WHY DON’T THEY? QUITE OFTEN we get letters from readers who say, Why don’t the farm organizations do this or that? Why don’t they raise prices, cut taxes, restrict im ports? Why don’t they curb land con demnation, stop water pollution, and do a better job of marketing’ Well, why don’t they’ So often we find that the man who demands that the farm organizations do something doesn’t belong to any farm organization himself Yet this may be one of the chief reasons why farm or ganizations are hindered in accomplish ing many of the things they set out to do It is shocking to learn that 59 percent of Wisconsin farmers don’t be long to any general farm organization. So how can their representatives know what Wisconsin farmers want when no one really speaks for them’ So before you ask your farm or ganization to hit the road and get something done, ask yourself, “Do I be long to the organization I am prodding, and am I doing all I can to help them?” Si Ibi, isi Pakistani Cartoons Plug Sandwich Contest A Lahore newspaper cartoon fea tured the All West Pakistan Sandwich Contest during Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting. The person in the car toon was shown eating a sandwich and saying; “I am not breaking my fast, I am merely in training for the sandwich contest ” Two top winners of the contest get 3,000 rupees (about $630) prizes from Wheat Associates, USA; and this year they also will receive shields from Pak istan Flour Mills Assn The contest, in its third year, is intended to increase popularity of sandwiches and hence use of wheat products Australia Harvested Record Wheat Crop Australia has just harvested a re cord 1963-64 wheat crop estimated at 333 8 million bushels That’s about 27 million bushels above last year’s record crop If domestic consumption there con tinues at about 50 million bushels, the Australian Wheat Board will have about 260 million bushels for export Heavy advance sales to Communist China and the USSR have made complete disposal of this large crop virtually certain. itz. Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act ot March 8, 1879. Prairie Farmer Advertising Director Easter Faith Lesson for March 29,1964 B*eki round Scripture: Join 80:1-29.. ItootluMl Kitdin*: CorintoiiM 15:42.87. EASTER IS a Christian festival That seems to insult your in telligence, perhaps? No offense is intended. But Christians as well as non-Christians need a reminder that apart from the Christian faith there would he no Easter. All sorts of peo ple try to latch on to Easter, so xgany in fact that it is observed as a holiday season by millions of people who have not the least idea what it really means. Dr. Foreman What word goes most often with “Easter” in news papers and greeting cards? Over and over you will see or hear the expression, Easter bonnet, or Easter outfit, or Easter parade. A day to show off, to dress up to the nines and in fact try to out-dress everybody else; to make yourself into a fashion model. Sometimes the reason is given that because this is the season when all nature is bright and singing, we should be bright and gay ourselves. But of course this is not it, it isn’t even a parody, it is not the Easter idea at all. It is not a festival to celebrate the returning spring. There is a poem which is quite lovely and yet makes a sad mistake about God. The last lines go: “Green April is thy very soul, | Thou great Lord God!” But green April is not God's soul. Its beauty was no doubt in God’s mind before the world be« gan; but God’s soul is not a season of the year. Faith on the first Easier Easter does not celebrate even immortality or resurrection, though this is getting “warm.” On the first Easter morning in Jem* salem, what disciple of Jesus was Now Is The Time . . . Wit'h lecent tains and wet snows on open giound it appeals that the spnng moistuie condition ot oui topsoil is m good supplv With adequate supplies of plant food to go with th's moisture we have a light to expet' high yields, this is especially tiue with sods and giassland uops Farmeis aie urged u) make eaily spnng applications ot ieitihzei to [lieu haj and pastuie ciops To Seed Oats Lightly If spnng oats are to be used as a nuise 01 op in getting a new stand of hay or pastuie, the late of seeding should not be more toon one bushel pei acie This will piovide ade quate shade without excess competition tor plant food and moisture Highei seeding rates MAX SMITH will give too much competition To Plow Down Nitrogen For Corn Corn growers are reminded that nitrogen will give better results on corn if plowed down rather than applied on top and worked into the topsoil The amount of nitrogen needed per acre will depend upon many factors such as the type of sod, the manuie application, and the organic mattei content of the soil A complete soil test is the best means of deter mining the fertilize! needs. Corn stalk ground going back into com lequnes heavier ni tiogen applications than any happy? Not one, so far as know. The disciples were anxious downcast, in dire confusion, in j few hours it was quite different' hut when that Sunday mornnw dawned, although all Jesus' friends so far as we know believed in immortality or resurrection, they were not made happy hy that belief. We have two examples jjj John’s story; Mary Magdalene ant] Thomas the apostle. Each of then) began the day in confusion and sorrow. Spring had come, but how empty and mocking spring can bo to a grieving heart! Mary on that! very day, and Thomas a week; afterwards, came to the Easter truth, the great fact: He if riseaf That is the right message of the day. Not, we shall live again (ii though that is included), but 9< lives. By His resurrection Jesnj was proclaimed Lord of death and the place of the dead. (See Rev. Ij 17-19.) Now Mary and Thomaj were quite different in their own expressions at their first discovers of the truth. Thomas said “Ms Lord and my God!” while Mars Magdalene said only “Rabboni!” which means “My teacher.” Mary iad a long way to go before she jaine to have the faith of Thomas; but Christ does not rebuke her for not being humble enough. K you start with realizing that in Christ we confront one who has battled with death and won—won a victory for us all—and if you keep on thinking what that means, you will be sharing the meaning and message of Eastertide. Because He lives. •. If that had been all it would have been enough. But there is something more. Christians have long believed: Because He lived, I too shall live! The writings of St. Paul are bright with the thought that we share in the risen life of Christ. The Resurrection, which is the reason for Easter, is also, and more importantly, the reason for the Christian’s life of joy. Easter is not merely a time to re-tell wonder stories from the days of old. It is not a time to celebrate the heroic triumph of Jesus of Nazareth alone, it'is a time to begin to share in the tri umph. Each Christian is set free to say, because this is His Day, it is my Day no less. What does it benefit us that a light brighter than the sun shone in Joseph’s garden long ago, if no light is kindled in your own soul? (Baled on outlinei copyrighted hT it* Division of Christian Education, Nation*! Council of the Churches of Chrilt in the V. S. A. Kcleucd by Community Pres* Service.) , BY MAX SMITH To Provide Plant Food type -of sod ground Put the nitrogen down where it will da the most good. To Mark Wet Spdts Land owners who have a drainage problem might give the area a close inspection a* this time of the year to defin* itely mdentify the spot where the mam amount of water coming to the surface M this spot is marked with a stake, then an open ditch or a tile drain system may be installed latei in the spring Wet land is worth draining on most Lane astei County farms. 4 *•, 1
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