4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, November 21, 1964 From Where We Stand... Who Needs Whom? It has been said that the one fea ture that characterizes a good bargain is that both parties feel that they got the best of the deal. This is not immediately apparent, however, if we consider the farm-city relationship and their mutual exchange of products and money. Too often the city folk think they are being robbed when they do their food shopping; and the farm people think they are practical ly giving their products away. We are beginning a week that is nationally recognized as Farm-City Week. We wonder how much under standing will be gained on both sides this week of the interdependence that exists between these two groups. Per haps some, but the farmer has a tre mendous promotional job to do if he is to put his products on the city markets and come home with a fair return for his investment in labor and materials. We wonder how many children, and adults too, will sit down to their Thanksgiving dinners and give any thought to what went into producing such bounty. It is within the realm of possibility that many city children could grow up secure in the knowledge' that the shopping center supermarket “manufactures” all its own food pro ducts, and they could live to old age without ever seeing a cow, or a hen, or a plowed field. This is rather unlikely with present day transportation and the higher levels of mass education. But it is very likely that few city dwellers realize the full impact of the contribution the farmer makes to their lives. For example, how many of them realize that farmers add nearly $4O billion to the national economy each year through their purchases of produc tion materials and for filling their per sonal needs? When Mrs. City Consumer goes to the supermarket and complains that all her money is going for food we wonder if anyone ever pointed out to her that a smaller percentage of her income is needed for food in the U S. than would be true if she were a citizen of any other country in the world Fifteen years ago the average U S family spent 26 cents of each dollar ot spendable income for food Last year it was less than 19 cents Next year it will be still lower. In other developed countries of the; world a considerably larger percentage of family income goes for food, In Eng land, 29 percent; in Japan, 40 percent; in Russia, about 50 percent In some less-developed countries such as India it may run as high as 75 percent' What makes this great difference? • Frey (Continued from Page 1) ley Mast who showed a Heie ford to the title in 1961 Lancaster County lesults in the jumoi division ANGUS Senior Calf 1, John Fiey, Quarryville R 2 (Reserve Angus Champion), 2, Wesley Mast, Elverson, R 2, 3, C William Fiey, Quanyville R 2, 8, Mi- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 623-21° 1 Don Timmons, Editor Robert G- Campbell, Adver tising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit -IU. Pa. Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa and at additional mailing offices. The American farmer and his relatively competitive economy, that’s what! Since the immediate postwar years farm prices for food have tumbled about 15 percent. As we are all well aware, this has put many farmers out of busi ness. It has forced farmers to double and triple the size of their previous operations and to employ new produc tion techniques in the effort to show a profit over increasing production costs. Some economists tell us that demand is on the verge of catching up with our abundant supply. This could mean a bet ter return to the farmer who has been financially able to hang on in the face of cost-price inequities that have exist ed for fifteen years. However, it will still be only the efficient farmers who will realize the benefits of the new boom We wonder further if anyone has firmly pointed out to the consumer that while farm prices were falling since 1947-'49. most of the increased prices paid by the consumer were due to add ed processing and handling costs? If farm prices for food had advanced to the same extent that retail prices of food have advanced over the past several years, housewives would now be spend ing one-sixth more for food than they are. So who needs whom? At first glance it would appear that the city folks need the farmer far more than he needs them. But before we reach any hasty conclusions perhaps we should look at two obvious facts. One, without all those non-farmers to be fed we’d need even fewer farmers than we have now. Two, in view of the decreasing number of farm ers and the new apportionment ruling, the farmer’s representatives in govern ment are going to need the cooperation of city’s representatives even more than they did before to get legislation favor able to the rural people passed. It would appear that we are enter ing a period when the interdependence of farmer and city dweller will reach new heights It will be largely up to the rural folk and their organizations to educate our city customers on just what the farmer contributes to their everyday lives, and to the national economy We can’t afford to ever let them forget that they nee/1 the farmer every bit as much as he needs them. This will require our efforts not just during farm city week, but all around the calendar. We can probably best do this through our local, state, and national farm or ganizations. It’s going to have to be just one more necessary cost of doing business. chael Hosier, Manheim R 3; 14, Larry E Brubaker, Elizabeth town R 3 Summer Yearling 1, Larry Weaver, New Holland Rl; 6, Bairy Longeneckei, Lititz R 2; 7, Rodney Harmsh, Refton; 11, Fred Linton, Jr, Quarryville R 2 Junior Yeailmg 1, John Fiey (Angus Champion, Grand Champion), 4,6, Wesley Mast, 10, Jay Bixler, Marietta Rl. HEREFORD Senioi Calf 1, Wesley Mast (Reserve Hereford Champion) Summer Yeailmg 1, Wesley Mast, 2, Hany Nissly, Lancas tei, 8, Michael Longenecker, Lititz R 2, 11, Fied Linton, Jr; 12, Michael Hosier, 17, Jay Bixler Junior Yeailmg 5, Carl Guthudge, Marietta Rl, 7, Don ald Snyder, Lititz R 3; 15, James Nolt, Mount Joy, Rl; 16, Robeit Hoffmes, Marietta Rl. SHORTHORN Senior Calf 1, Wesley Mast (Champion Shorthorn, Reserve Grand Champion), Summer What Do YOU Think? • Form Credit (Continued from Page 1) Park, the Bay of Fundy, and Maine The Federal Land Bank of Lancaster declared a 3 per cent dividend to stockholders of record as of August 31, 1964, according to Carl A. Brown, Manager of the Lancaster Faim Credit Association. The dividend was paid to more than 460 stockholders, all of whom are farmers who have had Land Bank loans on their farm pioperties. These checks were piesented to members at the Annual Meetings Long-term, Federal Land Bank loans outstanding in the Lancaster - Dauphin - Lebanon county area were reported to total moie than $7,892,000 as of October 30, 1964. Yearling 5, Donald, Snyder. COUNTY GROUPS 1, Red Rose 4-H Baby Beet Club (Angus); 5, Red Rose Baby 4-H Beef Club (Here ford). The Good Fight j Lesson for November 22,1961 j Bftckcround Scripture: 11 Timothy 3 10-13;4 Devotional Readinet Psalm 34 1-13. ANY ONE who think? the road to eternal life is lined with roses and paved with violets should freshen up his memory of the Apostle Paul. He was a saint, but not a quiet one. He "•netually in trouble with ' the government. Many people, some of them in fluential, in the church were against him. He was called liar, crank, agitator, heretic, tiaitor to his own people. Altogether a con troversial figure, a man who was always (so it was alleged) stir ring up trouble. Now many men lead stormy lives; but not all of them are saints. The thing that sets Paul out, for us, in the ranks of the great servants and cham pions of God, was the fact that he never doubted that he was right and that he was on God’s side. In spite of his rough and partly unsuccessful life, he was and remained a happy man. The good fight By the time Paul wrote this letter to Timothy, he was near the end of his time on earth, and he knew it. He can look back on his life, as an old man can, and sum it all up once and for all, before the final fall of the cur tain. He uses language which is a long way from saying he had had an easy time. I have fought the good fight, he says. Not lust a good fight, but the good fight, the struggle between God and evil. It is a fight that began before the human race appearec on this earth. It burst oi anew wnen mankind arrived on the scene; every man is in volved in it whether ha knows it or not For whatever a man does counts for God or it counts for evil. Some Now Is The Time . .. A good time for dairymen to check the growth rate of their young heifers is in the fall when they are hi ought in for the winter. Heifers that are a year old are about half way to freshening age and should be almost large enough to breed Measuring tapes are available and then the height of the animal at the withers and the size of her heart girth can be compared to the breed standard for a certain age Animals that are undersize should be fed extra amounts of grain and roughage in order to get large growthy ani mals at freshening age. To Fertilize Cover Crops MAX SMITH Cover crops such as winter grain, rye grass, bromegrass, or any grass-type sod may be fertilized late in the fall in order to give maximum amount of growth late this fall and early next spring Little, if any, nitrogen will be lost, since it is taken up by cover crop and held during the winter. A complete soil test taken now in preparing for the crop to be grown next summer should determine the amount and kind of fertilizer needed. To Manage Sheep Flock exemse 15 impol ' We have approximately one To Clean Power Mower thousand flocks of sheep in Lawn mowing is almost Lancaster County, winter care completed on most lawns; and proper management is however, the mower should be very important toward a good cleaned and propeily stored lamb crop. The ewes should f or the winter. We suggest have outside daily exercise that the gas tank be drained and have fiee access to good and then run the engine until quality legume hay. Alfalfa the tank is dry; this may pre or red clover hay is preferred vent a gum deposit in the gas If the animals do not get ime and in the fuel filter. The legume hay, then it is ad- oil should be drained from the visable to add some molasses crankcase and new oil added; or linseed’oilmeal to the gram the air filter should be cleaned ration. Pregnant ewe paraly- and new oil added. Prepare sis early next spring may be the mower now for the first a problem if the ewes are con- mowing job next spring and it fined too closely or not fed a will lengthen the life of the laxative grain and hay ration, machine. good people, appalled by the dreadful power of evil, and shaken by what they see 'going on in the world around them, have sought refuge in I flight. They have gone into her mits* cells or into monasteries —* ' anywhere out of this wicked world. Paul was not of that stripe. He stayed to join the fight. Per ; haps Paul was thinking of, the j Roman "games" in the Coliseum, I between small armies of gladia i tors, fighting to the very death. At any rate Paul was not in this great struggle “just for kicks” i but to the end even if that meant death. The great race 1 At any rate, when Paul says he has fought the good fight he uses a word which can be ex pressed in athletic terras: I have played on the team. A member of an Olympic team (now, and then also) is not a soloist. He has to keep in mind that he is competing as representing a na tion as well as a team. Paul is thinking of life as a struggle in which the contestants encourage and help one another. Along with the business about -the fight, Paul uses another figure of speech to get his mean ing across. I have finished the race, he says. Finished any one can start a marathon, but how many can finish it? There is something about the word "race” that just fits as a description of the Christian’s active life. A run ner must not be distracted by crowds, by applause or booing. He must keep his eye, or his mind’s eye, on the finishing tape. I was rescued Paul learned it the hard way: life is not all a fight or a race. It is not all a glorious struggle with many spectators. It is often a matter not of doing but being done to; not of active living but patient suffering. Paul in jaU for the "crime" of preaching the truth about God; Paul attacked by slander and unwilling to slan der in return; Paul kept on the anxious seat for years waiting for a corrupt judge to pass a verdict; Paul with his "thorn in the flesh” that would not go away ... much of bis life was just standing what he had to stand. But always God was there; always he would find God stand ing there too. A saint must strug gle; a saint must suffer; and he does not always get his crown in this world. (Based on outlines eoDyrlriilea by ilia Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in tha 11. S. A, Released by Community frets Service.) BY MAT mWITB To Check Growth Rate
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