4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday;- August* 1, 1964 - From Where We Stand. “Needle In The Haystack” We came across a cartoon this week that pictured a family on a picnic m a meadow beside a watermelon patch. While mom and pop prepared the table Junior wondered into the melons. It was a worried mom who suddenly rea lized that her son was astray. She ad monished her offspring not to take any of them. “We don’t know what they’ve been sprayed with,” she exclaimed. We agree that Junior should not steal the farmer’s fruit. There is a moral issue even in such a small thing. But it’s mom’s reason for not stealing that leaves us cold. What was intended to protect our citizens from harm has turned into a monstrous whip over the farmer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now has a new chemical residue tester called the Gas Chromatograph that could find a “Needle in a haystack,” if that needle happened to be one of the banned pesticides. And it doesn’t make any difference if the doctors do say our city cousins aren’t having any bad ef fects from the nearly unmeasurable amounts of residue. The FDA must en force the law. Of course, we don’t have much sympathy for the farmer who knowlmg ly disobeys the label on sprays and antibiotics. But we certainly feel for the men who have followed the directions and still have run into trouble. The time has come to stop develop ing methods of .determining what is al most “less than zero” amounts of resi due in our food. And, if it is impossible to keep a minute unharmful amount out of our supply, then a low tolerance level should be set. The time has also come for the public to accept a one part per million residue count for what it is an unharm ful “Needle in the haystack,” greatly contributing to the nice watermelons m the cartoon. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ ★ Turn Heat On Alfalfa Weevil Research work at North Carolina State University indicates that flame treatment of alfalfa during the dor mant season offers “considerable en couragement” for obtaining adequate alfalfa weevil control. One unintended farm test of the treatment occurred this year. A brush fire that got out of control burned part of an alfalfa field. This spring the burned-over part had superior alfalfa growth and about 80 percent less weevil damage than the un burned part of the field. William V. Campbell of N. C. State says a flame treatment has not been perfected, but he is sure that this type of control in Lone aster 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 Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, CONTROL FLIES 1955. Published every Satur- Sanitation is still the most day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- important factor in effective n£ ’ house fly control piograras, Entered as 2nd class matter aocoi ding -to -extension ento at Lititz, Pa. under Act of mologists at The Pennsylvania March 8, 1879. State University. • ■ some form can be effective. The flame treatment is used during the January- February dormant season and is aimed at destroying weevil eggs. This is the most encouraging de velopment in weevil control We have heard. Let’s put all available engineers to work on prefecting a practical piece of farm machinery to do the job. With our technical knowledge it shouldn’t be hard. Then maybe we can quench once and for all the fear of pesticide conta mination of food. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ 'k Public Power Or Public Farming Is Socialism The newspapers of the United States know what centralized govern ment can do to a free press. They have seen it disappear around the world, most recently in Cuba. There can be no criti cism of the powers that control produc tion and employment and tell the people what they cam and cannot do or say under a government monopoly. The Coral Gables, Florida, Guide recently commented on a political power plan for Dade County in Florida. Stripp ing the propoganda of sugar coating, the Guide said: “Claims for socialistic sche mes always exceed delivery after the take over and promises of great reduc tion in costs, taxes and higher wages either never materialize or vanish with planned inflation. “It is a startling fact that one of every 13 employes in the United States works for the Federal Government In Dade County, one of every 10 persons works for municipal, state or Federal agencies. If the current trend is not stopped reversed persons employ ed by free and private enterprise will some day be a minority group. We view this with alarm. “The bureaucracy, inefficiency, featherbedding, waste, graft, payroll padding, and last, but not least, the authoritarian aspect of government con trol, would end freedom as we know it. Criticism of the government that owns you lock, stock and barrel would not long be tolerated.” The Guide emphasized that it was unalterably opposed to the take over of a taxpaying business by government in its area or elsewhere The country sore ly needs more of this attitude. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. The Amazing Cow If one farm worker can supply food and fiber for 27 people, what could one cow do? Among other things, at the national average of 7,370 pounds of milk she could supply: Enough fluid milk and cream for 24 persons; enough butter for 48 people; enough American cheese to supply 120 folks; and enough sweetened condensed for a small army of 8,375. NEED LIGHT uirecr sunngnx promotes the vigorous giowm of geraniums and the plants will bloom con tinually, says Penn State ex tension floriculture specialists Geraniums need several hours of direct sunlight every day. The plants grow well in south windows, but may be placed in east or west windows pro viding the sun will shine on them a few hours each day In shade, geraniums develop long thin stems, small leaves, and few flowers. planting should be ordered soon in order to have a bett« LANC. CO. FFA MARKET chance of getting what you want. Adapted varieties of cei» HOG SHOW Red seed are the best buy, rather than to plant just what '° 11 can get at the last moment. The FFA members from Lane Co will hold their Sec- ond Annual Market Hog Show and Sale at the Green Dragon Early August is one of the “ a, * e * * AuCti ° n ° n AUgUSt best times to make a sum 4, at 8 00 am. mer seeding of alfalfa in Approximately 180 head of southeastern Pennsylvania- ex hogs have been entered Lee souttieastern Pennsylvania, ex Mohney, vocational agncul- perience has shown better re ture instructor from Mercer suits on well-prepaied and a Co, will be the official judge. finn seedbed; lime and ferti- A judging contest for FFA hzer should be worked deeply members will be held at 1100 . ~ , , , am, and the sale will follow into the 8011 before seedm at 1 00 pm. The band seeding method has been most successful and is Last year the nation's bee strongly recommended. Ohem colomes produced a record ica j we ed control either be -299 million pounds of honey. , , , That-'iV-enough to-supply each* ~ nr when toe person in the U S with slight- wee ds are small after seeding, ly more than IVz pounds. is very important. jue ) A :\©a©as^ A SPEAKS t Int«rn<u«rul t , | Sanely SebMl L •tsons | v * IT Covenant Lesson for August 2,1964 Background Scripture: E\odus 19 through I)c\otional Readme: Psalm SI I*lo. The. RELIGION of the Jews is the mother-religion of our own, if we are Christian. Their Bible is a part of ours; and the New Testament cannot be under stood apart from the Old. This as not saying'we all have to be Jews before we can be Christians. It does mean that our two religions are so closely re lated that we can speak of the “Ju daeo - Christian” or Jewish-Chns tian tradition, re ferring to the Dr. Foreman many beliefs and practices which we have in com mon. In the most basic matter of all, the Jewish-Christian line is clear ly difterent from other religions; namely, in what wei can call the pattern of religion. Let’s trans late that into what a “religious” man would be expected to do. It is not true that all religions are much alike. Ours is sharply dif ferent from others. What would an ancient Greek (say five hun dred years or more before Christ) have done if he were a religious man’ What you would have no ticed most about him would have been how often he mentioned some god’s name, asking him to bless what he was about to do. Also you would have noticed how often he made a “sacrifice” of some sort even if no more than a pinch of incense or a cup of wine poured on an altar. In an Indian city this writer has seen a little stone bull on the outsidp of a temple. The bull’s neck was wreathed in orange-colored flow ers the sacred color there which various poor worshippers had left there that morning as a religious duty. Very much the Gieek idea. The gods were there to help you or hurt you, and you kept them on your side by Now Is The Time . . . MAX SMITH To Prepare for Alfalfa Seeding frequent requests end frequent offerings. • Well, it wasn’t only Greeks or Indians, many religions with var. iations of detail follow this same pattern in essentials: You do ught by God and he will do rightly you. In practice this was like t| le ordinary law-abiding citiven’s at. titude to courts and court rooms He stays away from them as f a j as he can. He respects the laws but he stays away from the law’ makers and the law-enforcers. The last thing he wants to sec 13 a policeman at his front door to tell him the Judge wants to see him! I rr m What is special about our religion Of course the Jewish and Chris, tian religions are not the same but they do have several points m their “pattern,” as we are calhng it, which stand out as quite (lift rent from the more usual pattern as the Greeks and Indians—among many others —have practiced it° First and most basic, the other pattern can be summed up thus: If I do enough for God, he is bound to do something for me. In the Hebrew-Chnstian tradition] this is turned around: God has done much for us; therefore let us do all we can for him. In their pattern, religious acts (ie. acts which are called religious) are inducements to the gods to come over to our side. In our pattern, religious acts are acts of grati. tude for what God has done for us. (For the Hebrew the gieat thing God did was to get them out of Egypt; with us, the great thing is God’s coming to us in Christ.) “The ethics of response” Another strand in the Jewish- Christian tradition is this: wjnere as in other religions a religious act may be altogether unrelated unconnected with a man’s daily conduct, in our pattern we show our gratitude to God not only by loving him but by obeying his will in all the affairs of daily life. A man who does not love his brother cannot love God. Man does not earn God’s protec tion and favor, he does not de serve it; but man, the undeserv ing, lives for the God who freely saves him. This is called by Christian thinkers the “ethics of response.” The old Hebrew name for this pattern of religious liv ing is “covenant.” The Ten Com mandments are presented not as arbitrary rules, but as a pa Item of human response to the God of Deliverance; in the Covenant we reach a hand to the God v/no has already reached down to us. BY MAX SMITH To File For Gas Tax Refund Farmeis may get 4c lefund for fedeial gas tax and 7c refund for state gas tax p« gallon of gasoline used for agncultuial poses, the penod of time coveied is fit® July 1, 1963 to June 30, 1964 Fedeial Gas Tax Foim. No. 2240 is available at the lnt el nal Revenue Office or at the County Exten sion Office The form for the stale tax ie fund is available from the Board of Find® 6 and Revenue, 132 Finance Building, Haiti s burg, Pa. Either of these forms must oe filed between July 1 and September 30 u> IS year. To Order Seeds Small gram seed needed for this fall s To Extend Pasture Season Livestock producers ma -' want to make an Augus* 01 September seeding of sm a grain or some cover ciop l ' ia may be grazed late into tn fall and very early Ciops such as winter >' e ' wheat, common ryegrass, °* field bromegrass may be for this purpose. Fly i varieties of winter wheat siij as Dual or Redcoat may " heavily grazed tins fall, bS' 1 ' giazed next spring, and st, } produce a good crop of By having this extra P j£ tI , later this fall and ea’hti no spring;' such ■ silage and hay may be s*"'
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