—Lancaster farming, Saturday, July 18, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... So Thanks... By Everett Newswanger, Staff Reporter Last week we had the opportunity to meet and talk to some mighty fine young people at the 4-H Demonstration Days. We believe these youth are typical of the kind of teenagers growing up in our farm community. And we couldn’t help but think of the one hundred and ninety local leaders who form the backbone of most of the local club activities. How many hours a year do these unselfish parents spend on this pro ject? Fifty, one hundred, two hundred, or more? We doubt if they have ever stopped to count. But it’s certain they are. providing a learning experience for our boys and girls that can not be measured in dollars and cents. Under this leadership our youth learn to win (which is nice) and lose (more learned) just like happens in adult life. Also with a club project to occupy youth minds, our farm teen agers have less time to be destructive. This not only means better men and women in the future but a safer com munity now. So thanks to our local leaders for taking time to help make Lancaster the Safe Teenager County. ★ ★ ★ ★ Farm Safety A Full Time Job The modern farm is a comparative y safe place to live. But it remains a dangerous place to work. There were 8,700 farm residents killed in accidents in 1962, about the same as the year before. But there were 3 per cent fewer farmers. Death rates increased in all acci dent classes but work, just as they did nationally, according to the National Safety Council. The farm work rate had a small decrease while the nation al rate was unchanged. Farming continues to rank as the third most hazardous occupation. Only mining, including quarrying and pe troleum drilling, and construction have higher accidental death rates. Motor vehicle, home and public ac cidents affect farm residents about as severely as other Americans But work accidents, the smallest classification nationally, on the farm remain second only to motor vehicle accidents. Safety procedures, developed in other industries, are as necessary on the farm as in other work if farm safety is to be brought into line with the rest of the nation. Supervision of employees is much more difficult on the farm than in a factory. The worker often works alone and an unsafe act may go unnoticed and uncorrected. Frequently the farm employee is Loncaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna, P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Main St, Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 623-2191 Robeit G Campbell Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farraing, Lit itz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter The testing was supei vised The testing was suoervised at Lititz, Pa. under Act of by Pennsylvania State Univei- by Pennsylvania State Univer- March. 8, 1879. i sity. Sl ty. temporary help an itinerant worker or a student working during the sum mer. Too often he lacks the proper training and knowledge to work safely. The farm employer should make an extra effort to be sure that his workers understand their duties and the proper, safe way to operate equipment and handle the materials they u§e. It can not be assumed that a high school stu dent can operate a tractor properly because he has a driver’s license no matter how safe a driver he may be. National Farm Safety Week, July 19-25, is a time when we examine the progress we are making. Farm safety is a full-time'job we must work at all year round. ★ ★ ★ ★ More Food From Less Land One thing can be said with cer tainty about the use of chemicals in agriculture and it is an enormously important thing. Without them, as a publication of the Agricultural Exten sion Service of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute has pointed out, . our society would revert to a primitive state and many people would die of hunger.” The pesticides have been the source of most of the controversy. Actually, they represent only about 2 per cent of the total sales of the agricultural chemicals industry fertilizers are the dominant product. But their value is far greater than that small percent age figure indicates. To quote the In stitute again, “It is because, with a few exceptions, pesticides have been used in beneficial ways that we in the Unit ed States enjoy an abundant, whole some, and safe food supply.” Yet, it seems, only a beginning has been accomplished. Some 95 per cent of our forest lands and 97 per cent of our permanent pasture lands have not been treated. The annual losses caused by pests, says the Institute, reach the incredible total of $ll billion. And hard, actual experience has amply dem onstrated the menace Some years ago the tomato crop in the eastern part of this country was not sprayed with fungicides. The result was that a b'light fungu's destroyed more than 50 per cent of the crop in 10 states. The problem will grow more, not less, severe. So far as our food supply is concerned, we are confronted with two opposed and formidable forces. The population increases, at a swift pace. With it, more and more land is taken out of food production and given to in dustrial and residential areas, highways, airports, and all the other demands of modern civilization. To feed more people from a decreasing acreage means that the utmost use must be made of ad vanced agricultural techniques and the proper use of chemicals is one of the most important of them. Rutter Bros. Cow Produces High Record PETERBOROUGH, N H Rutter Bios Stipends Peg a senioi two year-old, Registei ed Guernsey >_ow, owned by Rutter Bros, Yoik, Pennsyl vania, has completed an offi cial DHIR actual production recoid of 10,730 pounds of milk and 503 pounds of buttei fat, in 305 days two times a day milking, according to The Ameucan Guernsey Cattle Club Guernsey milk is world fa mous foi it’s high piotein, delicious flavor and golden yellow colon Valley Acres Cow Produces High Record PETERBOROUGH, ,N H. Goldwood Mars Vanette, a senioi three year-old, Register ed Guernsey cow, owned by Valley Acres, Inc., York, Penna, has completed an offi cial DHIR actual production lecord of 10,700 pounds of milk and 484 pounds of butterfat, in 301 days two times a day milking, accoiding to The American Guei nsey Cattle Club. Guernsey milk is world fa mous foi it’s high protein, deli cious flavor and golden yel low coloi God the Deliverer Lesson for July 19,1964 Background Scripture: Exodui 6:1 through 15:21. Devotional Beading: Exodus 15:11-1S. MOST MEN have their own favorite “image” of them* selves. When a visiting speaker is to be introduced at some meet* ing or other, the one who is going to have to introduce him is era* barrassed, not for lack of some* thing to say but the fact that - guest is dis* inguished invari* : ways. “How mid yoii.prefer be intro* ;ed?” he may the visitor. *w without be* irreverent we Dr. Foreman can say that while God could be introduced in an infinite number of ways, there may be one way he prefers to be known. The Bible gives us a number of God’s introductions of himself. We know God wishes us to think of him. It is interesting and important’ to observe that God never calls himself the Trini ty, or the Great Mystery, or the All, or the Sky-god or many other titles men have thought up for him. One of his favorite titles is Deliverer. God af iha Red Sea One event in their history al ways stood out—and still does— for the people known to us as Jews, known to their Egyptian masters as Hebrews. That was their deliverance from Egypt. As long as the Jews have been here as a people (they have seldom been a nation but always a peo ple) they have loved to remember that God rescued them from Egypt. In times of doubt and despair they* were always en couraged by their prophets to re-> member* one thing, one great thing God had done for them. They never took credit for get ting away from the land of bitter bondage. They did not even call Moses their deliverer. It was God who brought both Moses and his Now Is The Time ... The complete soil test is one of the very best means of determining the needs of the soil; to apply lime and fertilizer without any testing is merely guessing and not a sound practice Summer seedings of alfalfa and fall seedings of pastures and fall grains are in the planning stage and a complete soil test vull reveal what the crops need. Lime for the 1965 legume seedings should be applied to the soil this fall. The application of limestone on top of a new grass field after an- attempt ed seeding, is far from the best means of correcting soil acidity. MAX SMITH Old sod fields that are to be seeded dowi to a new grass stand this September should be treated during late July in order to kill the present growth of weeds and grass. Plowing or discing are common ways of preparing a new seed, bed, it will take at least a month in older to get a complete kill of the old sod and to get the soil firmed down. Late August or the first week in September )are the best times to make this late summer seeding. Grass varieties such as bromej grass, orchard grass, or reed canary grass are high yielding forages that may be used for grazing, silage, or hay. To Harvest Excess Growth Some fields of sudan grass or the sudan-sorghum hybrids To Be Careful with Tr have gotten ahead of the live- Many barns are getting pi’ stock due to the abundant ty well filled with the sea* rainfall. It is possible to cut sons crops; the tractor that part of the field for hay or is duven into the bain neaJ for silage and preserve for any kind of hay or straw futuie use The sudan grass dangeious from a fire hazard should be cut in the eaily boot standpoint, unless spark ar* to heading stage, and the sor- restors or other means of P l0 ‘ ghums m the soft dough stage tection are used. The ba l * The second growth of these floors are large in this P al£ crops may be grazed when 16 of the country and it is