—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13, 1964
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From Where We Stand...
Kicking Does You No Good
There is an old cowboy saying that
goes, “Kicking don’t do you any good
’less you are a mule, and even a mule
don’t have time to kick if he is pulling
his share.”
We still talk to a few people who
are kicking about the share of the
market that oleo has taken from butter.
We know that a lot of milk could
be marketed through butter if oleo were
not on the market, but oleo is on the
market, and it is likely to stay on the
market No amount of lobbying by
dairymen or their representatives is
likely to cause legislators to pass laws
against oleo, and no amount of kicking
is going to cause housewives to go out
wholesale and boycott a product with
such wide acceptance
Dairymen were able, for a long
time, to slow down the sale of colored
margarine, but finally colored oleo got
on the market anyway. We believe the
dairy industry played right into the
hands of the vegetable oil interests, giv
ing them three powerful weapons.
First, the furor kicked up over the
sale of colored butter substitutes gave
oleo more publicity than the industry
would have ever been willing to pay
for in advertising. Butter did not need
to be “introduced” to the public; oleo
did, and the connection of a relatively
unknown spread with a universally
accepted one worked beautifully as an
introduction.
Secondly, the delay in reaching the
market and the fight over coloring,
labeling and so on, forced the oleo
(manufacturers to make a better pro
duct. Many people who would never
have accepted the old “butterine” as a
table spread now use margarine almost
exclusively because the quality is high
and the product is uniform.
But we believe the biggest weapon
was given to margarine when its manu
facturers were denied the right to men
tion the word “butter” m their adver
tising.
The advertising agencies were forc
ed to think of some other way of com- x
paring their product with the accepted
product, and “high-priced spread” got
the message across all too well.
Not only does the term put mar
garine in a favorable position alongside
butter, but it tears down the butter
image without even mentioning it by
name If the oleo manufacturers had
been allowed to say their product was
“almost” as good as butter the dairy
industry would have been able to count
er with “but not quite so good”, and
the price difference would have been
played down instead of up.
We regret that butter does not have
the place of prominence it once had as
table spread in America, but we do not
believe anything will be accomplished
by kicking margarine The only way to
improve the situation is to start boosting
butter.
If the dairy industry will spend as
much money to advertise butter as it
spent fighting margarine, butter may
again become the status symbol it once
was.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
• Soil Conservation **********
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Unit Conservationist with the
Lancaster office of the Soil Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Conservation Service, will leave Weekly
the county sometime after the
first of July to begin work in
the Luzerne County office.
Corson, who came to Lan
caster County in December Offices
1962 and was assigned to the 22 E. Mam St.
top job in the county office in Lititz, Pa.
February of this year, will be Phone - Lancaster
succeeded by Wayne Marsh 394-3047 or
from the Harrisburg headquai- Lititz C 23-2191
-tecs ,of SCS„
It seems that the farmer’s belt is
beginning to run out of notches.
So many disappointing market situ
ations have been forced upon him in re
cent years, and each one has been noted,
commented on, and eventually the con
clusion is reached, “We will have to take
another notch in our belts and become
more efficont in our fanning enter
prises ”
The efficiencies brought on by
equipment and farm machinery are not
as spectacular as they were a few years
ago. With each passing year, the com
plicated equipment becomes more com
plicated and requires more skill to
operate and greater maintenance costs.
New equipment continues to replace
less and less labor than was originally
planned on and the amount of capital
needed for expansion continues to rise
sharply. Farm numbers continue to de
cline because young people are not en
tering farming.
Statistics help little in the face of
the market situation we face today.
Farmers burdened with over supplies
of many commodities, low markets
and dollar losses, are told that the gross
sales of farm products must rise from
the present two billion dollar level -to
three billion dollars, a 50 per cent in
crease, in 1975.
Statisticians do not say who will
be left to sell this-three billion dollars
worth of products with 20 per cent beef
cattle and 15 cent hogs forcing some
2,000 people off the farm and into other
occupations every day.
If this rate continues, who will be
farming m 1975 to produce the food and
fiber which has made us the richest
farming country in the world.
We believe there are many more
adjustments in store for American agri
culture. It may get worse before it gets
better and a lot of men farming now
will get hurt, but there will be plenty
of opportunity for those who can adjust
and not break under the strain.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Way to Success From the Glen
Riddle, Pa., Rockdale Herald: “Henry-
Ford was a restless, ambitious man
unwilling to be satisfied with the ‘status
quo’. As a result, he didn’t do things
we’d consider normal. He didn’t ask
for subsidies or research funds from the
government. Instead he worked hard, for
very long hours, looking for ways to
improve upon the ‘status quo.’ And as
a result of his restless ambition, he dis
covered a way to put one of America’s
most precious luxuries within reach of
every American family (the automo
bile).”
-Cattle Sell Overseas Overseas
sales of U. S. dairy cattle set a peak of
$4.5 million in 1963, largely credited to
the market developed by purebred cat
tle associations.
Lancaster Forming Jack Oven, Editor
P. O. Box 1524
Lancaster, Penna,
P. O. Box 266 - LitUz, Pa.
Belt Tightening''
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
Established November 4,
1955. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit-
itz, Pa.
Entered as 2nd clast matter
at Lititz, Pa. under Act of
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Peacemakers
Lesson lor June 14,1964
background Scripture? Mjeah 4 1-5;
Matthew 26*47-56. Romans 12 U-21; X
Timothy 2 12.
Pe\otional Heading: Isaiah 40:1-9*
WHAT CAN I DO for world
peace? It is a question most
serious minded persons, young and
old, have asked themselves. Too
J often, the answer is, Nothing. I am
only one of two hundred million
American citizens, and very few
of us have the
authority or the
power either to
start a war or to
stop it. And if we
despair of influ
encing our own
nation, what can
we say of our in
dividual influence
on vast nations
Dr. Foreman like Russia and
China? Faced 'with such, simple
arithmetic, most persons simply
give up. To judge from the actions
of the American public, it seems to
be the general opinion that “Que
sera, sera,” What is to be will be,
and if we just stop thlnkingabout
the problem of war, it will go away.
And then some one we know is
killed in Viet Nam or in* military
base accident... and We realiie
that forgetting all about it naver
solved any problem yet.
Far aids high pasitiaaa
War is one problem’which has
existed since long before tbe
Bible began to be written. We
might expect the Bible to say
something about it, and so it does.
For one thing, the Biblical pic
tures of an ideal world'are in
variably pictures of a world from
which war has disappeared. Now
perhaps war is Inevitable, and so
is death. But the inevitability of
death does not keep doctors from
doing all they can to stave death
, off from their patients.
The Bible, moreover, makps
. some suggestions which may seem
nonsense to non-ChnsOars, hut to
Christians they really mane sense.
First of these is a si npli th’ng:
Pray for kings, Paul sa;s (and
Now Is The Time . ..
The State Department of Aguculturt
about to begin a definite progiam to «'
cate cholera from swine herds This are*
disease takes a heavy toll each yeai w
producers should cooperate m the jw
Outbreaks should be reported to the r
veterinarian and sources of infection unco
ed. Cooperation is needed
To Clean Calf Pens
The weekly cleaning of manuie
all calf pens, or other box-stalls is •>“,
urged in order to eliminate breeding P 1
for flies. A good fly control progi ah'
with good sanitation. A spray piogiany
be supported by elimination of manuie v
the weekly cleaning of -all gutters and stalls, and the
have a very clean barn and barnyard. Residual sprays j
used on the walls and ceilings of buildings and poison i
placed at numerous places about the barn. A lower P°r
of flies will be easier to control.
MAX SMITH
To Plan For Faster Tobacco
Curing
Growers of Pennbell tobacco
this summer should be making
some plans for a > quicker cure
of the leaves in the shed. Many Farmers who have
of the problems with this hy- in (. he - government P loj
brid variety of tobacco can be are expected to conti® 1
blamed on a slow, poor cure in weet j s on this land
the shed. In the first place SO nie diverted acies that
early planting (by mid-June) a crop of weeds a "
and early harvesting is neces- f ec t the neighbored, ®
sary; then some means of re- especially true with
moving the moisture from the Thistles. We mge coopet
leaves faster in the shed seems farmers to mow 01 s P‘ s:
advisable j.Thei use of weedS; several i times duh?
in the shed the first week may season.'
•there wasn’t a Christian kin»iJ
the world when Paul wrote ty
—and for all in high posits
“that we may live « quia S yi
peaceable life ..If you u C K,
in a real God, “King r of
and if you believe in pro r
course the thing to do is t, it ‘l
for those whose decisions
war or prevent it. Pray ior co 'j
gressmen (did you ever?), i m (■“]
President, for the Premier of jy
sia, the Dictator of Albania, y
men in authority all around tL
woild. Don’t object to prajirgtJ
non-Christian leaders; icincniw
that no ruler in Paul’s time \\ Js
C'hiistian, yet Paul knew it v J
woith while to pray for tlum.
Overcome evil with good
Governments of eveiy bind J
fleet the character and the tiJ
of their people, in the long jJ
A government has to do mortal
less what the people want jJ
understand, even when a ratioa'l
leaders are a bad lot. Now if J
every day life the citizens ail
country are fond of fights, jf y
man life is cheap, if revenge!
the common attitude, then j]
may expect that country’s action]
to reflect the national charade]
This holds for,America quite]
much as for any other nation jl
Paul’s directive, to overcome t]
with good, makes sense, 1
Peacemaking Institutions I
Blessed are the peacemaker
Jesus said. If this is right, then]
is right to stand by and suppel
peacemakers. There ia spice hi
"only for a hare mention of t J
institutions which in differ]
ways are working for peace, t]
deserve the support of all Chnl
tians. One is political, one nil
gious. The, political peace-mil]
body— which has more success]
' to itseredit rims most Ameri]
■ ere aware of—is the United ]
tions Organization, founded]
peace as its aim. The other ore]
ization is not one but many. It]
the combined missionary efforts]
all Christian churches. Alt]
among all the organizations]
men, the churches exist for I]
purpose of winning all mu]
God’s side, the side of peace,]
the Christian, all wars are]
wars, between those who sh]
he brothers. I
(Bnsed on outlines copvrishltd
Diwston of Christian Pducation, Nmofl
Council of the Churches of Christ in ■
U. S. A, KeJeased by Community
Sen ice.) ■
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BY MAX SMITH
To Wipe Out Hog Choleia
be necessary to get a sal
crop. Attention is nee *
this variety is to suivi' ,e
To Control Weeds On
Diverted Acres
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