—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 6, 1964
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From Where We Stand...
June is Dairy Month
The month should hold particular
significance for Lancaster County.
During the past year, Lancaster
County dairymen sold a total of $25,-
997,000 worth of milk from some 62,600
dairy cows, and this does not Include
any cows sold for replacement animals
or for slaughter. While figures for the
value of replacement animals is not
easily learned, purebred cows bring in a
sizeable return each year. Lancaster
County breeders have no trouble plac
ing any purebred animals they may
have for sale.
No other county in the state comes
close to the Garden Spot in either num
ber of dairy cattle or in the value of
milk. Bradford County ranks second,
but the total number of cows is only
44,400 and the return is $15,822,000.
Only Chester, Franklin and Susque
hanna Counties of all the rest had more
than 30,000 cows during 1963.
Only laying hens, which brought in
a total of $19,541,000 in 1963, came any
where near dairying as a money making
farm enterprise.
The dairy cow has often been call
ed “The Foster Mother of the Human
Race”, and we believe the title is well
deserved.
The cow takes rough, coarse ma
terial which man can not eat and turns
it into the most nutritious, complete,
easily-digested, and palatable food
known, and all she asks in return is a
bit of understanding, gentle care and
regular habits.
We have always thought it a bit
of irony that the cow’s only reward for
nourishing us all her life is to nourish
us further after she is old and worn out
and can no longer produce milk. But
we suppose that in the scheme of things,
this is the fitting end of so noble a crea
ture.
It is also fitting that the month of
June should be set aside to pay tribute
to the animal that has played such an
important role in the life of almost
every one of us.
Whether or not we have any direct
connection with the production of milk,
each one of us owes a debt of gratitude
to the cow for her share in making us,
individually and corporately in this na
tion, one of the most healthy groups of
people that ever lived.
Even though we never see the in
side of a dairy barn, who among us
does not appreciate and enjoy a luscious
dish of ice cream or a bowl of straw
berries topped with whipped cream, or
a slice of good, warm country bread
spread with butter and jam? Or who
among us could say he never enjoyed a
piping hot grilled cheese sandwich, a
cooling salad topped with cottage cheese,
or a glass of cool, refreshing milk?
And isn’t it fortunate that foods
that taste so good should also be so
good for you? There is not one of us
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small aiena of the Pennsyl
vania State Farm Show Build
ing, according to Harold Mc-
Culloch, manager of the ex
position
State Secretary of Agricul
tuie, Leland H Bull, chairman
of the ovei all steeung com
mittee, said the show will be
open to livestock breedeis in
all states and Canada, and that
580,000 will be offered in cash
piemiums Entnes close Oc
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ihg"a'ie ‘free* fcT spectators. ' *
June Is Dairy Month
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preaching with a favorable known as an aphid may »•
yield outlook. We should pre- f ° und in a lar § e number o*
pare the storage bins in order P and trees during t
to prevent insect damage to sum mer an d especially during
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io-- D . ’ sweep, and spray all bins be- not chew the leaf but ™ eie /
1900. Published every Satur- fore new gram 1S stored Use sucks the sap from the tissue.
day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- either 1 quart of 25% Me- A Iar S e variety of shrubs,
itz, Pa. thoxychlor or 1 pint of 57% trees > flower and S arden P? an *
Malathion in 3 gallons of wa- may be affected. Alfalfa plan
Entered as 2nd class matter ter per 1,000 square feet of coa^e(^
at Lititz, Pa. under Act ot bin area. Make the treatment aphid; some aphids are
March & 1879 ~ , at least several ,days prior to *™ wn to blac^
Lancaster Farming jack Owen, Editor
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell,
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Offices:
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Phone - Lancaster
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but could benefit from the nutrition in
dairy products.
Therefore, we say again, each of
us owes a debt to the dairy cow. Let’s
all join in honoring her during June
Dairy Month.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Your Bargain With Life
To the graduates of 1964:
May we add our voice to all the
messages of congratulation you will re
ceive.
That sheepskin you carry so proud
ly does not mean you are “Educated”.
It means that you should now have
enough “appreciation” of education to
want to “become educated”.
Your intellectual horizons should
have now been widened and you should
have an appreciation of where you want
to go and how to get there.
The time has come when, if you
have not already done so, you must
make your bargain with the world. This
is something you will have to do for
yourself. Your parents, your teachers, or
your government can not do it for you.
You have been supplied with the
tools of bargaining during the past four
years, and the kind of bargain you make
may be determined by how well you
have learned to use those tools.
You can be almost anything you
want to be, or do almost anything you
want to do if you are willing to work for
it and sacrifice for it.
Now is the time to begin working
for what you really want out of life.
Remember those who merely chase
happiness in life never quite catch up
with it. The truly happy person is he
who knows what he wants and is con
tent to work toward his goals.
As you prepare to make your bar
gain. with life you have to have goals.
You must look toward the future, but
you must live in the present.
The toiler without a dream a
goal will all his life moil in the mud.
The dreamer with out the will to work
for his dreams is destined to become a
frustrated visionary.
No one will seriously tell you that
your bargain with life will be easy.
Bargains with life never have been easy,
but they can be pleasant.
Each of us, no matter how rich or
how poor, how capable or incapable has
a sacred obligation to do the best we
can to make this country we live in
and the world we live on a better
place because we were here.
If we may be allowed one little bit of
advise it is this: look back to recall only
the pleasant times; look ahead with
hope; look to yourself with confidence
and look up with faith.
Congratulations, Good Luck, and
may God Bless You.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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A Needy World
Lesson for June 7,1964
Background Scripture: Deuteronomy 10;
18-19. Matthew 25:31-40; James 2:14-17;
I John 3*ll-18 , ~
Devotional Reading: I John 8:11* li-lo*
SHARP READERS will have no
ticed something about these
columns since last April. They are
all about “The Christian and ..
even if there was no room for the
whole title. First we thought
about man-in-general in relation
to the universe;
then about the
Christian in his
family relations
and with his
neighbors; next
about the Chris
tian at work and
at leisure. This
was followed by
the Christian in
Dr. Foreman relation to gov
ernment and to nationalism; and
from now through June we con
sider our relation to the whole
world.
The fop and fha boffom
A large order? Yes, indeed,
staggeringly large. But two points
run through all of this. One is
that we are related to all these
things, Christian and non-Chris
tian alike. The difference between
the Christian and the irreligious
man is not that one has respon
sibility for his relationships and
the other does not. The differ
ence is that the Christian recog
nizes, even if too dimly, what his
responsibilities are, and tries to
do something about it. The other
point is that a man’s character,
indeed his very existence as a
human being, is measured in
terms of his relationships. You
don’t put a man into a solitary
cell to find out whether he is a
good man; you turn him loose in
the world of other people.
If you think of the people of
this world as a pyramid, the same
thing is true as is true of the
pyramids in Egypt: there are very
few stones in the top layers,
compared with the enormous
number of stones in the bottom
Now Is
The Time . ..
Many dairymen have found that the mills*
ing herd of cows will continue to consume
good quality hay while on pasture. Since the
dry weather of last month has (slowed dowa
pasture growth in many areas, it is strongly
recommended that the cows be given liberal
amounts of hay daily. An outside portable
hay rack may be used very well for this pur
pose The cows will crave some of the dry
matter which will help extract more feed
value from the grass.
To Prevent Tobacco Mosaic
One of the common diseases of local to*
bacco is known as mosaic or “foxy” tobacco.
This infection causes a mottling of the leaf,
stunting of the plant, and the leaves will not develop properly*
One of the means of spreading this virus disease is by the
workers hands, tools, and equipment. People handling plants
should refrain from using any kind of tobacco without a
thorough washing with hot water and soap. Tobacco boxes
and planters should be washed with a formaldehyde solution.
Prevention is the best approach; we do not know of any cur#
after the infection is present.
MAX SMITH
layers. If you, reading this col
umn, are an American, you are
near the top of the human pyra
mid. You belong to a great “Have”
nation, while below you are the
millions of people who live in
“Have-not” parts of the world.
Never enough
People will say, Oh, why bother
with the troubles of folks we
can’t see and can’t help? People
do seem to get on somehow,
wherever they live. They grow up
and have babies and they live to
be old, don’t they? Well, that’s
not quite true. Take the country
people, millions of them in one
country alone, India for example.
The American who travels there
is shocked by the large numbers
of hungry-looking people he sees.
Men and women do grow up,
though infant mortality snips off
the lives of many before they
even get started. They grow up
hungry; there is never quite
enough food to go around. They
wear clothes, yes, but such clothes
as you wouldn’t put down for a
prize cow or cat to lie on. They
eat food you would throw away.
How can one person help?
The world is so big, and there
are so many needy people in it,
that we often wonder, how can X
possibly do any good? The an
swer is, to be sure you by your
self can’t do much, and you
wouldn’t know what to do any
how. But your government and
your church are both working on
this problem of a needy world.
Every time you pay your taxes,
you are helping to support such
successful enterprises of good
will as the Peace Corps and agri
cultural aid of many kinds in
many nations. Every time you go
to church, you are invited to
share in what is being done by
your denomination for the needy
world. If you have a heart sym
pathetic enough to feel yourself,
neighbor and even brother to the
multitudes at the bottom of the
pyramid, the church has all sorts
of suggestions. It has enterprises!
going right now that need youri
help. If you don’t know, ask your
minister. It may surprise him—-
hut it will give him a chance to |
surprise you. And if you still don’t j
care to help, then read thosaj
Scripture passages again from Old'
Testament and New, and ask your-i
self; Can I honestly call myself 1
a Biblfc-believing Christian? j
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(Based on oitlme* copyrighted by till
Division of Chustian Education, National*
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
V • S. A. Heleased by Community fien,
Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
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