Farming, Saturday, August 15. 1964
4
From Where We Stand...
Grasshopper Diet Not Wanted
Periodically we read reports that
pesticides and agricultural chemicals
threaten the future of wildlife, trees
and even people.
As a matter of fact, the same could
be said about any one of a thousand
things that are necessary to support life.
Products made from them can destroy
us if used improperly. But we learn to
use them and are thankful for their ex
istence.
Talk about prohibiting the use of
pesticides and agricultural chemicals is
■brought into focus by National Grange
Master Herschel D. Newsom in a recent
statement. He says: “American house
wives standing in food lines to buy
dwindling supplies of food, while hordes
of insects spread human disease, is a
possible development if the trend to
ward restricting pesticides use is not
kept within due bounds.”
To illustrate Mr Newsom’s point,
a news story in the San Francisco
Chronicle is of interest It told of Kern
County ranchers massing an air-spray
strike against a 40-mile front of “De
vastators” a gluttonous breed of
grasshopper The County Agricultural
Commissioner estimated that there were
up to 200 of the Devastators to the
square yard in the area bordering ranch
land that produces $lO to $l5 million
worth of crops annually He said 5 De
vastators to the square yard can eat out
a field in a week.
With only 8 per cent of our popula
tion on farms raising crops to feed 180
million of us, it can be easily seen why
Mr. Newsom says housewives would
be standing in line to get food if restric
tions on the use of chemical pesticides
are not kept within reasonable bounds.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
• 4-H Dairy Show
‘Continued from Page 1)
R Lapp, Kinzei R 1
Untei mediate Richard R
Ankium, Peach Bottom; Elvm
Breneman, Willow Stieet Rl;
Marvin E Landis, 1804 Hemp
stead Road
Senior Calf—J Nelson Lan
dis, 1804 Hempstead Road,
Glen Scott Mull, Quarryville
El, Mailin M Stoltzfus, Ronks
El
Senioi Yeaihng—Peter C
Witmei, Willow Street Rl,
Nancy J Stoltzfus, Ronks Rl,
John Jacob Bollinger, Littz R 4,
Evan R Lapp, Kinzei Rl,
Joyce Luann Stoltzfus, Ronks
PI
Two Yeai—Sue Mumma
Manheim Rl, Nancy J Stoltz
ius, Ronks Rl Richaid R
Ankium, Peach Bottom
Thiee Yeai and Ovei—H
Melvin Bieneman, Stiasburg
El, James Myei, 1150 Village
Road Donald S Ankium,
Peach Bottom
Ayrshii e
R Edwin Hainish’s 8 year
old veteian campaigner, Glen-
J.uist Dixie Pretty, again took
the Ayishne bleed champion
ship Pretty was grand cham
pion at the Pennsylvania Faim
Show in 1960 and 1963 He is
the son of Mi and Mis Ralph
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
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Phone - Lancaster
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itz, Pa.
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' 'iMMJHlil’ll 1.,* ..b ;
A Light 1 To Live By
It is customary to think of the
United States as a young nation, and
genealogically this is true. As a people,
as Americans owing allegiance to none
but ourselves, we are young. We declar
ed our independence 188 years ago. We
won it after seven bitter years of war
181 years ago.
But what we forget is that young
as we are, we are nevertheless the old
est major republic on earth. We-' have
more experience at community govern
ment than any other nation save Switz
erland. It has worked wonderfully well
for us. Even our Civil War resulted in
cementing us more firmly together, 'and
in our 181 years we have grown from a
small, barely independent nation into
tne lustiest, most powerful people of
them all.
What our detractors cannot con
ceive is that we have no desire to rule.
Autocratic governments must rule to
live; they cannot govern because to
govern is to carry out the wishes of the
citizenry and few citizens of any nation
want domination and political slavery.
The distractions which surround us
must not obscure in our minds the
means of preserving what our forefath
ers gained for us nearly 200 years ago.
Those patriots lit a lamp that still burns
brighter than any other and if we tend
it well will continue to shed its warm,
and kindly light long after the cold
flame of despotism has burned itself out.
er diet,
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
James Kettering with his Reserve Grand Cham
pion, Henket Reflection Sara and Avernal Royer with
Blossomelle Zsa-Zsa the Grand Champion. They were
the top winners in the Holstein division of the 4-H
Dairy Show held Wednesday.
Haimsh, Chustiana Rl
Reseive Gland Champion
went to Judy Floiy’s 2 yeai
old Floiydale Piefened Patsy
Judy is the daughter of Mi
and Mis Lloyd Floiy, Lititz
R 2
Junior Calf—Sandia Eshle
man, Elizabethtown Rl, Maiy
Jane Eshleman, Elizabethtown
Rl, Nancy Louise Floiy, Lititz
R 2
Intermediate—James R Es
banshade, Quau yville R 2
Semoi Calf—Linda Eshle
man, Elizabethtown Rl, Bar
baia Ann Kupp, Manheim R 3
Junior Yearling—Paul Biu
baker, Lititz Rl; Carol M Bru
baker, Lititz Rl, Donna Eshle
man, Elizabethtown Rl
Senior Yearling—James R.
Eshleman, Quairyville R 2.
Two Year Old—Judy Ann
Floiy, Lititz R 2
Three Year Old and Over—
R Edwn Harmsh, Christiana
Rl.
Jersey
Top in the Jeisey bleed was
an intermediate calf for Ste
phen P Airowsmith Stephen
is the son of Mr and Mrs
William Anowsmith, Peach
Bottom Rl.
No one wants to go on a grasshopp-
Reseive Jeisey Giand Cham
pion was Jay Maivin Heir,
son of Mr and Mis Paul Hen,
Holtwood HI
Junior Calf—Wayne R Le
fevei, Quau yville R 1
Inteimediate Stephen P.
Anowsmith, Peach Bottom
Rl; June Aaion, Quarryvdle
R 1
Senioi Calf—Nancy Kreider,
Di umoi e
Junior Yeaihng—Maik E
Osborne, Peach Bottom HI
Senior Yearling Shirley
Aaion, Quairyville Rl, Brian
E Airowsmith, Peach Bottom
Rl
Two Year Thomas W
Aaion, Quairyville Rl
Three Yeai Old and Over—
Jay Marvin Heir, Holtwoodßl,
Stephen P Anowsmith, Peach
Bottom Rl
Robeit K Wannei, son of
Mi and Mrs Guy Wanner,
Naivon R 2, received the giand
champion ribbon in the Brown
Swiss bleed type division
Gary Myer, son of Mr and
Mis Leroy Myer, 410 Willow
Road, was icseive breed grand
champion.
Brown Swiss
Faith on Trial
Lesion for Auguit 16,1964
BsckcmmO Scrlplirer Number* 11
through 11. _
Derotionel Keeling: Hebrew* 1:12-11.
THEY WERE not Boy Scouts,
those-famous spies Moses-sent
ahead into Canaan before he un*
dertook to invade the country.
We all know about spies nowa
days and what they do. Moses’
spies, like those of modem times,
had one main ob
ject: to look at the
enemy’s defenses
and estimate their
war-strength.
These spies would
not travel under
cover of darkness,
and they had no
U-2’s to help
them. They had,to
nJK^H
Dr. Foreman look at everything
from the ground level. They
would probably be dressed like
Egyptians and speak Egyptian.
On the streets of cities in Pales
tine Egyptian salesmen were fa
miliar figures, so these twelve
men had no trouble getting in
to Canaan or getting out again.
Tit* grasshopper mind
But what they saw! Great high
thick walls around every city; tall
strong men, prosperity and power
everywhere. The twelve men were
unanimous on one point: Canaan
was a beautiful and fertile land,
and well worth taking if they
could. ... If they could! That
was where the Intelligence De
partment split. Big cities, yes;
rich country, strong people, yes.
But can we win in a war? Ten
men said No, Joshua and Caleb
said Yes. What the majority said
is remarkable. "We were as grass
hoppers in our sight, and so we
were in their sight.” This kind of
thinking is called nowadays an
inferiority complex, but we can
just as well call it the grasshop
per mind. If you think of your
self as a grasshopper, it is pretty
certain that no one else is going
to mark up the cheap price-mark
you have put on yourself. Those
Now Is The Time . . .
The farm supply of pasture and ha\ for
next year needs attention at this time m
order to get the proper amount needed and
of the right quality Mid-August seedmgs of
alfalfa are being made and late August to
early Septembei are fine times to make neff
seedmgs of pastuie ciops Forage vaueties
should be selected to allow some time be
tween the maturity ot the various kinds
This will help get the ciops cut at the peak
of feeding value
To Flush Ewe Flock
Sheep producers should provide e\ti*
gram or additional sqcculant pastuie at least
two weeks before the ewe flock is bred If
the ewes aie in a gaining condition at breeding time, e\peii'
ence has shown a greater percentage of twin lambs Special
care of the ewe flock and this extra feed will pay big diudends
from the sheep flock.
MAX SMITH
To Use Field Bromegrass
Winter cover crops have many
advantages over open soil,
corn groweis have already
seeded many acres of corn to
winter cover after the last
cultivation We’d recommend
the use of field bromegrass
over the domestic ryegrass be
cause it is more winter hardy
and will result in a very heavy
sod. Seedings may be made
during August and September
and if seeded early, the
growth may be used for live
stock pasture.
To Make Quality Corn Silage
The corn crop looks prom
ising and many tons of corn
silage are in the making We
urge groweis to permit the
crop to reach - the full dent
Hebrews had come out of genera
tions of undernourishment and.
hardship, and were no doubt little
undersized people compared with
the big bold Canaanites. So the
Ten said, We’ll never make it;
while only two men had resisted
the grasshopperism of their ten
companions.
They left God ont
This was not the first time, nor
the last, that a majority has been
wrong. You can’t find out what u
right, you cannot have reliable in
formation about present facts or
future policies, by simply count
ing noses. Fifty million French
men can be wrong, smashing!}
wrong. The majority report may
be the signpost on the road to
ruin. Now, when. « majority is
-wrong, there is always « reason
for it somewhere. The reason is
plain in this case. The reader will
notice that the ten No-sayers said
only "we are not able ... they
are stronger than we," The two
Yes-sayers said “The Lord is with
us; do not fear them.’’ Now all
Israel professed to believe in
God. It had not been long since
they made that covenant with
God at Mt. Sinai. But when it
came to a pinch, the ten grass
hopper men forgot all about God.
Unfaiih is expansWa
Both faith and unfaitfa are ex
pensive. The tribesmen to whom
the committee of spies reported
chose the way of unfaith and
they were 33 years paying for it.
Now the way of faith is expen
sive too, but in another way. Un
faith costs success, happiness,
honor, and ends in dismal failure.
Faith costs the effort, sometimes
a heroic effort, to live by it—a
faith you cannot live by and fight
for is no true faith. But it wins
the approval of God in the end.
Faith is like a power-tool. A
good one may be expensive; but
you do not save by taking a
cheap one instead. “Quality re
mains after the price is forgot
ten.’’ Fay for faith or unfaith you
must; but in the long run you
will wish (as the Israelites dying
in the wilderness no doubt wished
many a time) that you had chosen
the way of faith. Yet this too is
costly; cheap faith is not faith at
all. God approves men of courage
like Joshua and Caleb; but he
does not reward such men by
making life easy for them. Odd
as it may seem, it is God’s way
to make faith hard for believers.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
V. S. A. Released by Community frees
Service.)
BY MAX SMITH
To Plan 1965 Forage Crops
stage before cutting foi sil*
age In addition, it is not nee*
essarv to add any presenati' 8
to corn silage We’re a\v ai •
of salesmanship effort foi P 1 ®'
seivatives for corn silage*
from the results throush ie '
search and experience this i' 1 *
vestment is very doubtlul
VALUE OF EXPORTS
Agricultural exports f> olll
the United States in 1963 broK*
all records at $5 6 billi 0 ® -
They represented one-foui‘“
of our total exports of ?° 0(! j
and services and one-fitth 0
our total farm production, tn
U. S Department of Agi |CU ’
ture reports. These ® X P°'
last year were enough to 11
more than a million fi® l§
cars 0r. 4,500 eargo slnP s ;