- 4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1964
From Where We Stand...
Plon(t) Now For Form
Vacationer Harvest
Farm vacations across the U. S.
are getting to be big business. The farm
vacation business in Lancaster County
hasn’t reached a fraction of its potential.
Over the winter is the time to be
thinking about how a tourist crop might
profitably be grown on your farm.
A booklet titled “How to Harvest
Vacationers” published by a company
that puts out a national vacation guide
may help give you an idea on whether
you, your family, your farm, and your
area provide a suitable climate in which
to grow this crop. (Copies of this booklet
may be obtained free by writing to
Farm Vacations, 36 East 57th Street,
New York, N. Y. 10022).
For example; what do vacationers
want to do on a farm? Some of them
(believe it or not will pay you to let
them help with the farm chores. Some
like to live at the farm and spend their
time traveling around the countryside.
Others may want to just sit in the
shade and relax.
Who are these farm vacationers?
Families mostly, or children going on
vacations without their parents, or re
tired people. They’re from towns, cities,
suburbs even from foreign lands.
They may want to stay a week
(that’s average), or just overnight, or
for several months. Most prefer to stay
within 200 miles of home, but many will
travel great distances.
For the most part they come with
very large appetites They want home
grown, home-cooked food, and plenty
of it! They expect clean, comfortable
quarters. There should be some pro
vision for rainy-day activities for the
children perhaps a rumpus room fix
ed up in an unused part of the barn 4
How much will farm vacationers
pay? For accomodations and meals
most adults will pay $4O-$75 or so a
week, and will expect to pay about $25-
$3O per week for their children
Whether or not the tourist crop
holds any interest for you, personally,
the “Pennsylvania Dutch” flavor of
Lancaster County is known far and
wide, and has a tremendous drawing
power which will bring farm vacation
ers right to your backyard.
The recreation boom is not a get
rich-quick crop. But if you enjoy meet
ing interesting people and having com
pany, and if you have the right physical
set7up, hosting farm vacationers may be
just the cash crop you’ve been looking
for.
We have been, collecting material
from many sources on this subject, and
in the next several weeks plan to* do a
feature story on the recreation business
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point of view, and in the long
■term to the best interest of
farmeis and ranchers, the
Board should submit a specific
proposal for implementing and
activating a pioposed acquisi-
Loncaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa.
Offices:
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Lititz, Pa.
Phone - Lancaster
394-3047 or
Lititz 623-219 1
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Robeit G. Campbell, Adver-
tising Director
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day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit-
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Money In Monure?
Poultry farming in the county is
big business. By the most recent count
we have about 2.8 million layers in
Lancaster County nearly one-fifth of
all the layers in the state. The main
product, of course, is eggs. Next we
hope to get a little salvage value from
the sale of the fowl. But there’s a by
product to the poultry business that
has been too long overlooked.
It would seem that a lot of money
is being thrown out on the manure pile.
If a farmer grows crops he spreads*the
poultry manure on his fields. Or per
haps he sells it for practically nothing,
or gives it to a neighbor for the haul
ing.
With the increase in size of the
modern laying operations that are be
coming commonplace in the county,
manure is increasingly regarded as a
real headache rather than a source of
income. Why wouldn’t it be practical
to process this hen manure and sell it
to home-owners, just as cow and sheep
manures are sold?
This is certainly not a new idea.
The University of Delaware did some
pioneer work on dehydrating poultry
manure a few years ago. There is at
least one company in California that
has been merchandising a dried product
for several years. A company in central
New Jersey has been marketing it since
1959
With the ideal concentration of
producers and consumers of such a pro
duct that we have here in southeastern
Pennsylvania the idea should be thor
oughly examined.
Most of the products being market
ed presently handle only manure from
birds kept on litter in floor operations
In our area it is the cage operator parti
cularly who has the most critical man
ure disposal problem. Cage manure is
concentrated and is very high m mois
ture content. This makes it heavier to
handle and more costly to dehydrate.
But in the end it should be a higher
quality product than manure from floor
pens because it is concentrated It
would probably have to be diluted with
sand or litter before it could be sold.
The analysis of the hen manure
litter combination is about 3-3-1 This
could be varied to suit by the addition
of chemicals. A dehydrating plant would
be costly and undoubtedly objectionable
to neighbors. But if it could be centrally
located and yet away from any heavily
populated area, and if an economical
process could be developed, and if a
good market could be cultivated this
outlet for a “surplus” by-product could
be profitable for the poultry man.
A lot of “ifs”, but the pathway to
progress has always been strewn with
plenty of those
tion to the voting delegates ”
There was no lepoited time
limit set on when the Board
should render a report on the
proposal The proposition now
lests in their hands There
seemed to be little open op
position to the proposal among
the delegates present, accord
ing to Steele Everyone seemed
to be aware of the complex
questions that this proposal
evokes, and they seemed will
ing that a thorough study
should be made in searching
out the conect answers
Cold weather is at hand and
An earlier report pointed . The F f rm F,uiea * Co ° per .f frozen P x P es on a zero m<>rn
out the vigoious campaign that m » are not vei 'y pleasant. We
has been waged by the Ohio !n d thp 9o «t2f suggest the pipes bUried
leoiesentatives in their effort tllbutlon P oirits in t he state. into ground at least two
to push this issue to a con- Combined meinbeiship in the f ee t d ee p or wrapped with
, P rpL /i 1 local associations is about 54,- glectnc beahn* cable In this
elusion They feel that the pur- nnn . „nn eiecillc -neaung came., in mis
chase of a national food chain ° OO, Wltb about 4,300 these connection we caution ama
chase oi a national loocl cnam b membrns of the Lancas- teU r electricians of the dan
woulcl put faimeis in a more rn teui eiecnician ? 01 xne aan
favoiable bai gaining position n S® 1 ’ cutting the cables or
with processois. and peihaps up _____ permitting the wires to over
pi essui e the latter Into rec- * a P or cross each other. These
ogmzing the vanous faim bar- One good thing about silence conditions could, present a,
gaining agencies is that it ~ tbe i cpsated. fire bazai ’d Be sure to con
sult your local electrician or
What Do YOU Think’
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sylvania Faim Buieau organ
izations
Following the vote by PFB
locals, the coopeiatuve’s re
gional 'board of dnectois will
vote on the pi oposal to merge
PFBCA with Agviay PFBCA
is owned by its local associa
tions, any of which could vote
to continue opcnnting on their
own, or to join the Agway
firm
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' fee*
Now Is The Time . ..
To Study Income Tax Reports
We are informed of a number of changes
in the farm income tax situation and in the
methods of reporting Many of these could be to the advantage
of the farmer We urge folks to become familiar with the new
forms Income Tax Guides are available at our office; in addi
tion, on December 29th m York County there will be a district
meeting for income tax reporting for farmers.
Three Friends
Lesson for December 13,1964
Backmanrf Scripture: Philemon.
DoollonM Ketdlnr. GtUtlans 3 23-29.
WHO KNOWS how to find the
book of Philemon in the
Bible? It is one of the shortest
“books,” less than a page long.
Who can name two Bible books
that are shorter? Without looking
it up, who knows who wrote it,
i and what it’s all
f about? Well, it’s
I about three men
and their strange
friend ship.
Strange because
as most people
would look at it,
they didn’t have
H much in com*
man. One was a
Dr. Foreman slave, one a pris
oner (on false' charges; the
prison was real enough), and one
a free man. What was it these
three men had in common?
The Thief and the Victim
One of these three was a man
of property. He was at least rich
enough to own a slave. The rich
man was named Philemon, the
slave Onesimus. The name was
a kind of joke, perhaps, for the
word Onesimus in Greek means
useful or beneficial. Perhaps
Philemon hoped Onesimus lived
up to his name. Perhaps he
thought like a modern man
who has gone to the wrong used
car dealer that he had been
gypped in the used-slave deal
and been stuck with a slave who
would never in the world be of
any real use. Anyhow, this One
simus had decided to go to
Rome. Naturally he did not con
sult his master about this. Rome
was a long way from Colossae
where he lived, so he borrowed
the money (again without men
tioning it to Philemon). So be
became « wanted man; wanted'
as a runaway slave, wanted as
a runaway thief. Somehow or
other be got into jail at Borne,
probably because be bad com
mitted some-other illegalact.Rut
in jail, besides all the usual jail
birds, he' met a most unusual
man named Paul, who “by
chance" knew Philemon and per-
To Keep Farm Accounts
There is little doubt that an accurate
set of farm records is essential to successful
farm management In this last month of the
year we urge farmers to spend some time
analyzing their accounts in order to deter
mine the enterprises most profitable and also,
try to locate the practices and ventures that
lost money Several hours of “pencil pushing”
between crop seasons will usually pay big
dividends Also, we urge fanners to be gett
ing their 1965 account books ready foi the
new yeai
MAI SMITH
To Keep Water Pipes power company official to bt
From Freezing safe
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about the hosao, Mow tbotMMI
thin Mr* i* that Mol ttUNn
thief Onesimus actually Mtama
friends. No lass than Vml Mad
to brine togathar and r*ea*eill
ttaa thief and hla victim. Whal
was it that mad* Paul think M
could poaaibly parsuad* th* twa
men to live together a* brothers!
Above the low?
Take another look at those
three men. One of them, to judge
from Paul’s attitude to him, lived
well within the law. You would
have been surprised to hear ol
Philemon in jail Onesimus was
another sort of bird. Finding
him in jail was a shod: to no
body. He lived outside the law.
Neither Philemon nor Onesimus,
when you come to think of it,
paid much attention to the law.
Philemon didn’t because ha
didn’t need to. He wad already a
better man than the law r*»
quired. ,
Christ is the answer
At the risk of insulting the
readers’ intelligence, let us suft
■ gest the answer —lt is- a# the
sameone to thequeetiatna that
have been asked, What did these
three men have in- common? A|
first, perhaps little. la the ami
Christ They were all three siaval
(as Paul would putitj ef Christ;
they were Christ’s men. He if
the answer to the question: hoq
can we get over the harriers b*
tween man and mas, class as*
' class? Again, what mad* Paul
think he could reconcile a thief
- and his victim? Th* answer in
Christ had come into the life ol
Onesimus, He intended to livi
up to his name. Christ had made
a new man of him. Or againt
what law is higher than the
highest human court of justice?
It is the law of Christ, which
means the law of love. In this
short letter Paul mentions One
simus about four times, bul
Christ eleven times. Our human
problems would not be wiped
out, but we would be on the way
to solving them, if Christ were
invited into every tense and an
gry situation.
(Based on outlines conrrlehled hr th«
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ in (hi
V S. A. Xeieased hr CoatuuKHr ftm
Service )
Go To
Church Sunday
BY MAI SMITH
- To Sort Tobacco Carefully
There is some controversy
about the merits of doing %
real good job in handling the
tobacco crop as'it is stripped.
Some buying methods do not
encourage very thorough, care
ful sorting and grading. How
ever, we do feel that it is
worthwhile to do a better job
of grading and sorting the
leaves _in many instances,
. Since very few growers know.
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