—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... Know Your Faults We’ve often heard it said that if a person would consistently show his good points, or “put his best foot for ward,” people would not be so likely to notice his faults. This seems to say, “don’t worry about your faults, your good points will hide them.” Is this really the way it works, or might there be another approach to the problem? The parallel between posing dairy cattle in the show ring, and showing ourselves to others to our best ad vantage occurred to us recently when we read an article by the well-known cattle judges Dr. J. L. and John W. Mc- Kitrick in Hoard’s Dairyman. The McKitricks stressed several important points for showing cattle so as to offset their faults. The most important single impres sion to convey is “balance.” A well balanced animal shows to best advan tage. A well-balanced person also shows to best advantage. While we mean one thing when we talk about a balanced animal and something far more exten sive when we talk about a well-balanced person, the feeling, or impression, is similar. Wejtoo are in the “show ring,” only we are constantly being viewed by many “judges,” and not just from one side at a time. The McKitricks summarized their suggestions for showmanship by saying that “you don’t have to worry about the good points of your animal; worry about her faults and try to show her out of them.” Perhaps with the excep tion of temperament, the dairy animal is being judged on her physical traits. We, however, are judged by the people we meet more on the intangible traits of personality. Everyone will probably agree that they have a fault or two. Few of us treasure these faults, or the idea that we have them, and we seldom thank anyone who calls them to our atten tion. But until we get them out into the open where we can thoroughly look them over, how can we see ourselves as others see us? And this is the acid* test for “fault analysis;” how do we look through someone else’s eyes? We think the moral of this story is that it is necessary to know the faults of our animals and of ourselves. In the show ring we need to know our animal’s faults so that we can show her to her best advantage. In life, we need to know our personal faults in order to correct them. What Do YOU Think? ★ ★ ★ ★ According To The Almanac To Graze Hay Fields Recent rainfall will promote growth of most pastures and legumes. Both alfalfa and red clover fields may be grazed until the snow flies with proper management. Animals should have some other dry matter before filling up on frosted legumes; also, it is not safe to permit animals to eat legumes with the frost on the plant; this may cause severe bloating. Even though we do not recommend that alfalfa be cut this time of year without a T „ , , , , killing frost, it is advisable to graze the aiea AUTUMN IS GOOD a few weeks. Applying lime- as a pasture crop. TIME TO LIME stone during the Fall permits To Milk Cows Carefully With our agronomists telling a longer period for it to react MAX SMITH Individual attention and quality milk us our farmlands need 80 mil- within the soil’s structure to production should never be sacrificed foi lion tons of agricultural lime- neutralize the acidity, to re- speed. Each cow is an individual and should be treated accoid stone each year, anytime is a lease its calcium and magnesi- ingly. Some cows milk fast while others milk out slow and it's good time to apply this soil um for necessary crop growth, difficult to change this fact. Treating all cows alike in miUcmg saver But the Fall of the year, to influence the solubility of e * lcate ssu ® s - improper use o when much of the busy Sum- many soil compounds and to milking machme IS a ma3 ° r SOurce of mastltls ‘ mer rush season work has been increase the activity of soil To Do Forage Testing To Improve Calf Raising The winter feeding sen»n Today's heifer calves will » time to satisty your sons nm to e reatiy increase the overall lg approachin g and many herd in the mi i k i ng herd in just a mg requirements fertility of the soil. owners mi ht save feed dol . £ew rs How well we gro w Many fanners tend to put Millions of acres of pasture , ars „ evaluatmg the quality them and develop them will off ordering their aghme past and cropland are not producing hay an | silage . Th e have a lot to with then he Fall season, only to find to their maximum efficiency penn gtate Forage Testing is and their productl on P« that heavy snows during Win- and capacity, chiefly because service ($5OO sample) tential Special care should be ter and excessive rains in the their fertility is low or com- to develop the feeding in elatlon to warm , div Spi mg delay liming. Also, dur- pletely depleted. Correction of . Q based the kind and draft-free pens and rations ing the Spring rush, many this problem by ordering and of roughages being fed. The high in protein and vitamin farmers may not get their lime applying your aglune and fer- roughage is analyzed and a M any calves are under-size at c an p f ehve r d , Pn °" tlbZ - r "T } /% 6Xt gram ration is recommended. 12 months of age and cannot Second Class Postage paid time due to a shortage of haul- years high production Once T quahty roughages save be expected to produce their at UtitfT Pa. and at additional mg and spreading equipment yom soils futility problem is dollars m less tein to . maxia f , Special plans for o «c es . u KMimiiKfHtflitaifid; wSiiiniwiFßhtrpiifPliii- 1 un.immuum. i ui't tit sit We didn’t get much work done the other day because The Old Farm er’s Almanac 1965 Edition came in the mail. Everybody reads the Farmer’s Al manac. How else would they know such things as when the moon would be full a year in advance, what time Loncoster Forming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 B. Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-219’ Don Timmons, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Adver tising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Parming, Lit .t- Pa. the sun will rise each day, the tide table schedule, their horoscope for the rest of the year, and all such vital facts. This little book probably contains more information, pound for pound, than the Encyclopedia Brittanica! For example, did you know: that automation will eventually reduce the work week in factories tb about 20 hours a week? (at that rate we know some farmers that pretty near have a week’s work done by Tuesday morning); that chemotherapy can reconstruct your whole personality?; that it wasn’t DDT contamination that drove the salmon from the rivers of New Brunswick as thought earlier? It now seems it was just all part of a 9.6 year cycle in salmon abundance; that a Harvard professor says our space program is just a wild spree; he says there are no Martians, and that we could learn lots more by studying life on earth than we’ll ever learn from our space explorations; (no Martians indeed! How does the good professor account for all those little green men that appear nightly on television we wonder?); that weathermen, using informa tion collected by the weather satellites orbiting overhead, are trying to predict weather months ahead (perhaps they will finally admit failure on day to day forecasting); that when it rains on Election Day the Democrats usually win? (perhaps those were tears, not raindrops!); that in 1963 some 7,200 claims were filed for damage resulting from jet planes breaking the sound barrier. Of these, 2,268 were paid and the bill amounted to $239,450 (that’s probably more than all the breakage of dishes in kitchens all over the country); that the animal called the Wood chuck got its name originally from New England when the early settlers noticed that when it is in a safe, comfortable place, and in good spirits, it would make a chuckling, laughing noise. They called it a Woodchuckle; that some days are better for fishing than others the Almanac lists the 28 most favorable days for 1965. They do suggest that even under the best conditions those who know how to fish will catch more fish than those who don’t (guess we can’t argue with that kind of logic); that there is enough scientific in formation published in the world every 24 hours to fill seven, complete, 24- volume sets of the Encyclopedia Brit tanica, or, keep one man reading around the-clock every day for 460 years to cover the scientific output of one year (and you think our editorials are leng thy!). Speaking of lengthy editorials, we’ll stop right here. But these small bits of vital information we’ve given you are just a sample of what you can expect from the 1365 Old Farmers Almanac. ★ ★ ★ Hr the / •■\3a©as/. \ SPEAKS Suadir SckMl Uiimi Why Jesus Came Lesson for October 11,1964 Background Scripture I Timothy 1:12 through 2:15. Reading: John 10:1-11. WHEN we ask the -question Why? we can mean either 1 one of two things by it. One “Why?” looks backward, the other for ward. Imagine a straight line with an arrow at each end, one pointing right the other left. Let the straight line represent any event, let us say your grandfath er’s moving to Alaska. Now if I ask, “Why did your grandfather move to Alaska?” I can mean ei ther: What was Dr. Foreman the cause of your grandfather’s move? or, for what purpose did your grandfather move? Now, if we let that line stand for the coming of Jesus Christ to this world, "Why did Jesus come’” can mean What was the cause, What were the causes, or What was the purpose, What were the purposes? In this week’s study we ask the second question. For what purpose did Jesus come? To save sinners The first answer, which includes most others, is that Jesus came “to save sinners.” Let’s not skip over that as if we knew what it meant already. It suggests a great deal, and points up some of the differences between Christian and other religions. Some religions de ny that man, any man, is a sinner. Communism, which is a kind of religion in reverse, gives up the notions .of “right” and "wrong” for the simpler ideas of "correct” and “incorrect.” Even if the words “good” and “bad” are used, they do not refer to God at all, for the communist recognizes no God. One may offend man but not God, they say. There are people who be have unpleasantly, but none who sin. For sin is a religious word, a word with God in the background. Now Is The Time . .. To bo a bridge Another reason for which Jesus came—and comes every day—into this world, is to be a “Mediator.” There is one mediator between God and men, Paul says,—himself man, Christ Jesus. The gulf be. tween man and God seems too deep and too wide to be spanned. Man looked across and could see nothing but darkness and mystery. The Hebrews themselves, who knew much that is true about God, when they built a temple, left one room in it without a win dow and without even a place to set a lamp. This dark room was God's room, its darkness symbol* izing man’s ignorance of God. It was written in the Old Testament that God said, “No man shall set my face and live.’’ The Apostle John in the New Testament speaks of God as one whom “no man has seen at any time"; and in this same letter to Timothy God is one whom "no man has seen nor can see.” (I, Timothy 6 16' How terribly discouraging this is. Unless somehow this gulf of darkness is crossed, we are doomed to be forever separated from God. t'i, To glva himself Jesus, we say, revealed God. He did this m words, in his teach mgsr By the way he talked about God, yes and the way he talked to God, Jesus opens for all who will look, windows into the charac ter and purposes of God. But the unique and amazing thing about Jesus is that he not only gave us information, —the prophets had done that; he gave himself. He was not merely a wise man who told us much about God we did not know. He offered himself as a sacrifice, for our sakes. He is the Bridge; one who is not only a sharer of wisdom and truth, but one who shares our sorrows and even takes on himself the bur dens and shame of our sins. He gave his wisdom, his time, his courage, his faith, his love; and in giving these things he was giv ing himself. Christ, in short, be longs to us. 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