—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... Nothing New Under The Sim “There is nothing new under the sun,” says the ancient proverb. But with the coming of the agri cultural revolution, so many changes 'have been developed in farm methods and products that the farmer has been conditioned to expect almost anything. One thing that does not change is the oldest of all schemes. “Sell the suck er a bill of goods and move on,” is as old as history itself. And those who ply the ancient trade have made capital out of the farm er’s penchant for expecting an easier way. Every few years some organization will come along with a new method or product that seems just too good to be true and usually it is. Before the age of reason, the fast buck artists played on the superstition of the victim. Witch doctors collected hard-earned money to drive away evil spirits, or make it rain, dr make the cattle more prolific, or any number of other things men thought were desir able. In most cases, the victim got no more than he expected. Often he got no thing, but if the witch doctor was a good-enough salesman, the victim was convinced that it was his own fault that the charm did not work. Now the search for security, or an easier way of doing a job, or higher yields", has taken the place of super stition, but the ‘‘something for nothing” boys still find victims. A few years ago when pest control was just catching on, many schemes were foisted on the farmer with no re sult except added weight in the con man’s pocket. These schemes were sold not because the pest control systems failed to work, but because they did work. The farmers knew pests could be controlled but it cost a lot of money. One outfit used an electronic box and aerial pictures. All the farmer had to do was pay for the picture and fork over a specified sum every time he wanted the bugs killed on his farm. The company would put the picture in the box and turn on the juice. Mysteriously all the bugs on the pictured area would die. Fantastic as it sounds, many farm ers in Pennsylvania paid out gbod money on this scheme, and many well educated and influential citizens were taken in by the hoax We know many legitimate techno logical advances are showing up every year, and we certainly do not want to discredit any of them, but there are other “questionable ’ products and ser vices on the market which are of little value and almost always grossly over priced But how can the farmer tell the difference between the genuine article and the junk? This is difficult since some of the worst offenders are products that are not absolutely worthless they are just over priced But almost all these so-called ad vances will have one or more telltale signs in their promotion If you spot HIGH PRODUCERS A seven ceai old Ajusluie tow in the held ol Eli N Mai -lin Stevens named Cocalico Signet’s Viola, completed an of ficial milk pioduchon letoid of 16 260 pounds ol milk with 683 pounds of butleifat in a 305-day testing peuod Mso high pio duceis in the held aie Cocalico Signet’s T-ucy, 13 610 pounds milk, 544 pounds butleifat, and Cocalico Signet’s Molly, 13 200 pounds milk, and 537 pounds luitlei fat any one of the following symptoms, be sure to check carefully before parting with any of your hard-earned cash.. If the salesman claims that the pro duct operates on a whole new approach not yet tested by soil or animal*scien tists, and goes into some quasi-scientific jargon about atoms or ions promising fantastic yields, it is well to beware. If the salesman claims some secret ingredient such as SXL-15, but says he can not • divulge the formula and asks you to “Just take my word for it,” his word may not be worth any more than the secret ingredient. If the salesman runs down scienti fic research and makes excuses for his product by saying the researchers were biased or did not use the product ac cording to directions, or if he claims the scientists are resentful of everything they didn’t invent themselves, you can be pretty sure the product was a failure in a fair test. If the salesman tells you that many farmers have used the product or meth od and are pleased with results,' ask him for names. If he has names, but they are all in other states, go slow. If the names are local, try to find out what kind of farmers are endorsing the pro duct. It is easy to convince some people that any success they have had was en tirely attributed to one product or ser vice whale the real reason might have been something entirely different. Just because one poor farmer gets hooked on a piece of junk is no guarantee that it will do anything for youh' farming operation. The unfortunate part of the whole thing is that so many of the spurious products are being sold locally by sin cere, reputable local men who have themselves swallowed a sales talk. If you are offered a product that “you just spray a little of it on your crops and poof instant bumper crops,” look deeper than the. promotion literature. Don’t be fooled by'so-called facts and figures. Figures don’t lie,, but liars sure can figure. At least that’s how it' looks from where we stand. Farmers and ranchers who are un der stress and strain are more prone to have colds than those not under them, says the American Medical Association. A good year on the farm means fewer colds When you get a cold take some thing anything the psychological effect can reduce a cold’s effect by 30 to 50 percent in some cases. ★ ★ ★ ★ Dairyman’s Nightmare Pipe fitters dream can be a dairy man’s nightmare warns Warren A. Dodge, Vermont University dairy spe cialist, who points out that too many elbows and nipples in milking machine lines can hamper vacuum pressure. ★ ★ ★ ★ Canadian Farm Income Canadian average farm income is only $2,149 per year Of the Dominion’s 481,- 000 farms, nearly 133,000 sell less than $1,200 in produce each year. Lancaster Farming jack Owen, Editor Lancaster Coimtj’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna P O Box 2GG - Lititz, Pa. Offices • 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa. Plione - Lancaster 1-2047 or Lititz G 23-2191 Stress and Strain Mean Colds Advertising Director Established November 4, 1953. Published every Satur daj by Lancaster-Fai mmg, Lit- itz. Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa, under Act of March 8, 1879. WE / ' mmmi SPEAK S , .A v \ K ✓ g z. s's V Family Tensions Lesson for April 19, 1964 Background Scripture: Matthew 10.34-59; Ephesians 5:21 thiouch 6:4. Devotional Readme: X John 4.7-12, A GREAT DEAL of sentimental twaddle is written, preached or sung, about the family. People talk about the family and the home as if it were (if American, of course!) a bit of heaven on earth. But a family can be a bit if hell on earth to. A family is tade up of im ierfect people; id putting two .•'a dozen people inder the same )ot won't make angels of them, ’"wo or six imper icts don’t add up Dr. Foreman anything perfect. Again, a lot of scientific twaddle is spouted off, as wrong in its way as the sentimental twaddle. Scientists,— sociologists, psycholo gists, economists and such, —talk about the family as cold-bloodedly as if it were a purely scientific phenomenon, like an earthquake or the hiving of bees. They look at it as if it were a human institution (which is the truth) and nothing more—which is far from true. When the problems art Now the Bible is not something written in a vacuum or a mon astery. Its writers were mostly married men (some of them hap py, some unhappily); and they were not silent about marriage. As an example of Christian truth about marriage, consider the pas sage in Ephesians, 5 21 through 6.4. Here we have the Christian home spoken of in thirteen sen tences, filled with wisdom on this problem. Saint Paul shows first that he knows where the trouble spots are. Today we call them tensions, a word suggesting that | if two people .are pulling against i each other, “something’s gotta give.” What we’re after Paul not only knew whiW the ★ Now Is The Time . .. With the heavier use of higher analysis fei tilizer on many crops, it is very important to refrain from permitting the seed and the fertilizer to come close together. Fertilizer* containing any nitrogen or potash have the power to burn seeds or plant roots. In many cases it might be best to apply the con* plete fertilizer prior to seeding with the crops seeds With corn it is advised to plow down most of the nitrogen and then apply e complete feitihzer in the row, but be sure it is about two inches to the side and two inches below the corn seeds Complete ferti lizers should not be allowed to touch any 0.,.-rrrmr roots 0r Seed MAX SMITH r 0 Have Fei tilizer Balance For best yield perfounance on any crop it is necessary to have the piopei balance in the various soil elements. Any one of the major three elements (nitrogen, phosphoius, and potash) can limit the yield of a ciop In many go* here in the southeast it is either the nitrogen or the phosphonis that limits greatei yields The lack of either of these will i educe yields in spite of liberal amounts of the others. Com plete soil tests aie urged to find the answeis. To Prune Shrubs and Trees c e .r.r, sSaV^s-a™ £‘t S fruit STrgedTgaTte JfSS stress sis tss* your knife isshaip, but it seems p nus insect wiU liartor <ft« ass “ ssi’ss <5 “«* s and before ft. plant makes any SSSdto ■SKSSa !£- Se re r ». turn because their prumng ulatlon and *mhlem times vary according to variety. Ife Intarnaltanal UniUm Sunday Schoal l«iiant BY MAX SMITH To Place Fertilizer Properlr tensions .are, fie fcneVf tirhat te the ideal of marriage, Now would be impossible for PjjJt either to state t problem or to suggest how to solve one, without I a reference to Christ. That is tha trouble with so much modem analysis of the marriage problem, It never gets within range of r« ligion. But Paul comes to the One who for him and for us foJJ (if we live up to our professions! is the Center, no matter what tha thought or the action is. Tha ideal family life, are her* told, is a life of harmony, Tha relation between Christ and the church is the model for the ra< lation of the various parts of the family to one another. Harmony, not identity, is the aim. No ona person runs the family; that it* dictatorship. There is organize tion; a good home is not a place where every one does as h* pleases without caring what any! one else thinks or does. But good organization, with a head who it' really t head and not Just' t| Sunday looker-on, organization which has as its aim notuniionmjjfj but harmony in love. , The curt for what tilt It ( There are thirteen senfen«i (as we noted) in this short pa»j sage; yet Christ is mentioned not ' less than nine times. Christ in , the home lessens the tensions, ana even all but destroys them, (My ; home is so good that it is forever I free from the danger of tensions.) 1 Out of the many ways in which, 1 this is true, consider one that it highlighted by St. Patti, tin relation which can be pretty tense! between husband and wife. He tells the wife to be sub. ject to her husband, and many « man has taken this to mean that he is the sergeant and the family, is the squad; so when he barks, they should all jump. Not at all|| Paul goes on to say something even stronger to the husband,) You must love your wife as Christ, loved the church, giving Jtum.| ' self in sacrifice. The model for the husband-father- is not taken from the rules of a cavalry regiment) but from Calvary. Indeed Paul) ' says that not only the wife but 1 each member of the family should be “in subjection” to the others,) 'Each for all and all for each—if' each and all are for Christ as He' is s for them, tensions will disaj* pear. { (Based on outlines'- eopyrigblti bf till Division of ChnstianJßducutioii, Nations! Council of the Churches I oF Christ in tha IT. S. A. Kclased hr Coouminity ftMl Sarvico.) 1 To Plow Down Com Stalks
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