4— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 23, 1965 From Where We Stand YOUR Form and Home Center Needs YOUR Support! On Monday, January 25, the cam paign for the Lancaster County Farm and Home Center will be officially launched. Do you plan to support it? If you do, fine! If you do not, may we ask that you take another look at the facts and reconsider the proposition? This is the biggest undertaking in •Which Lancaster County farmers have ever been asked to join. The total amount needed for the structure is $375,000. Two-thirds of this $250,000 must come from farmers and farm related businesses. The balance will come from industries, individuals, and metropolitan businesses. Many of Lancaster’s large indus tries look favorably on the proposed Center; the Chamber of Commerce feels that by benefiting farmers, it will be beneficial to the whole community; more than 125 prominent business and farm leaders have endorsed it. There is no question that the county farmers will be the group which will benefit most, and they will do so directly. About two-dozen counties in. New York have comparable centers; many of these'have been in operation for some time- A .committee under the chairman ship of-M. M. Smith, County Agricultur al Agentj took a first-hand look at sever al of these centers about two years ago. They observed how they had been or ganized, how they were used, and how they were financially sustained. The plans for Lancaster County Farm and Home Center were patterned after these successfully-operated centers. For example, one New York county with an annual agricultural volume of $2l million established a Farm and Home Center' to service their county’s agriculture. Lancaster County in 1964 produced a gross crop and livestock value of over $ll7 million! There can be little doubt that the ability to sup port such a project.is inherent in our county agricultural structure. After the Foundation successfully collects the needed $375,000 and gets the building into operation, how much more will it take to sustain the opera tion? Although a formal budget has not yet been made available, it is calculated with a great deal of assuredness that the Center will be self-sustaining through the rental of office, meeting, and banquet space. This has been the experience of those centers studied in the New York area, and there is every reason to believe such' would be the case here. The offices will be occupied by sev eral federal agencies serving county farmers SCS, ASCS, and FHA and by the Agricultural Extension Service. Meeting rooms accommodating up to 500 persons will be used by the various county crop, livestock and civic groups. The 1500 boys and girls in 4-H Club activities and other youth groups will be served by these facilities The Farm and Home Center will indeed be a credit to all of Lancaster County, but particularly to those direct ly connected with agriculture. Without your support there can be no Farm and Home Center. With your support we can keep the East’s leading agricultural Lancaster Forming Weather Forecast 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 625-210 1 Don Timmons, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Adver tising Director Established November 4. 1955. Published every Satur day by Laucaster-Farmmg, Lit- It Pa. Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa and at additional mailing offices. • • • county in the prominent position of leadership in which it belongs. When the Farm and Home solici tor calls at your farm please welcome him wholeheartedly, and pledge as much as you possibly can, payable over the next two years. We think the pro posed Farm and Home Center is the most worthwhile project on the agricul tural horizon for county farmers. What Do YOU Think? it + it Water By The BagfttH? It may be hard for us to realize the true value of water in our lush area where we are accustomed to 40 inches or more of rainfall a year. How ever, because we have recently com pleted our third consecutive drought year, perhaps we can muster some small appreciation of the meaning of water in desert and semi-arid regions and hope that the experiences in. those areas are not forerunners' of what we can someday expect. Recently we received a brochure from one of the nation's tire and. rubber manufacturers which described a process for salvaging the maximum of rainfall- with a rain trap. The prin-' ciple of the rain trap is not new; it is recorded in , biblical times, and areas such as the Virgin Islands have, used'-* this system for -several centuries.-fo.. gather their water. But in the past thea«\ traps have been-rather inefficient, ‘For - example," in desert .areas a shotver<. . might lay down many gallons of water, but before it can be properly “harvest ed” the thirsty sun comes out and drinks most of it up. This company employs a system which uses a butyl rubber sheet laid out over a large area in strips which have been joined by mastic to form a watertight seam. Before these strips are put down the earth must be bulldozed to the desired depth and slope. When case. rain falls onto this sheet its course is directed by the slope through butyl tubing into large butyl bags reinforc ed with nylon. These bags are designed to store up to 50,000 gallons of the precious liquid. As an exampje of the effective ness of this method, the manufacturer cites an arid range land in Utah Where rain fell on only 34 days of the year, amounting to an annual total of 8.08 inches. The company points out that this amount of rain falling on just one acre would total yearly 218,000 gallons. If this rainfall had been properly col lected with several rain traps and stored, it would have been sufficient to water 100 head of cattle for about 218 days, the company claimed. It is that Lancaster Coun ty will ever have to rely on this method for water, but there are surely no guarantees that such will not be the Water is the single most precious resource with which we are blessed, and yet in our everyday lives we waste gallons and gallons of this commodity, and take for granted that there will always be “plenty more where that came from”. Will there? We sure hope so! Good conservation practices on all our parts will go a long way toward insuring that goal. Temperatures for the five day period Saturday through Wednesday are ex pected to average above normal. Normal for the period is a high of S 9 and low is 23 degrees. It will be mild for most of the period. Precipitation will total Vz % inch, falling during the weekend and again on Wed nesday. It may begin as snow on Saturday, but is expected to turn to rain. What Do YOU Think? CORRECTION In our article on January 9, 1965 “Improve Tobacco Re turns Through Better Handl ing’’ we mistakenly quoted Henry B. Engle, Research Agronomist, Southeastern Field Research Laboratory as re commending the now outmod ed practice of grower-sizing of tobacco. Rather, Engle’s re commendation was that for a better leturn the grower should grade his tobacco more accurately on a quality basis Our sincere apologies to Mr Engle for this misinterpieta tion. Christ Has Enemies Imn for luiVT 24, 198$ Jbdunua* Kri»i«rti Ibtthew • »n* BvrMfeM) We sometimes think that if Jesus were only alive on this* earth he could-vrinfrienda and followers for himself where we so often fell even- when we try. We talk ebowt goodness! but he was goodness itself, divine lodnese, In per , How' could ill to he win !? The feet > ie Wee win <#, hut he had lies all the e'eanexpect people not like him, Tbia .jftnow almost ■ and i*. noisily amwlnfcitak* ; ta dritfSefiiJQn and the xhittch ; : *e&teottr \fb\*.v*silnf - cttA* df- ttony. :tod»,e-w»'*»; ■ hut astonished Whw tjiey scoff* ‘ rettftohHhd *nyon* 'whir. twt, - - it sellduslyrasJeiu* did. Butthr 'woritrpfit Is that jewsswtoafr 'hid enoglesf but theywerO front . the-- most .rMpect*hl«: *jd *► ligfou* circles. iVbat did thoy hsve against him? Too deep,-too high One thin* came out fa the incident of'the paralyied man let down through the roof of the . house where Jesus was speaking. If Jesus had just cured the man —it was all he hoped for—there would have been no complaint* unless he had done the cure on the Sabbath. But Jesus offended some people by going too deep and too high at the same time. Jesus probed beneath the sur face of the man’s life, and said “Your sins are forgiven.” How did Jesus know this bedridden man had any sins? What busi ness was it of his? Live and let live, why not? But the offense was still worse. Jesus spoke with absolute assurance. Not, I pray your sin may be forgiven, but, “Your sins are forgiven!” Jesus not only knew what had gone on in the patient’s mind—for a sick person's sins are most likely to be of the mind—but he virtually claimed to to know and to speak for the mind of God. If in deal ing with the patient he had gone too high. At least, so it seemed Now Is The Time . . . dairymen cannot afford to keep low pro- MAX SMITH ducing cows; the overhead on most herds require the keeping of cows that more than pay their expenses. The enrolling in a production testing association or service is the best way to learn what cows m the herd are not paying a good return on the investment. To Provide Minerals hay or with grass hay we sug- For Ewe Flock gest the feeding of a mineral „ , „ „ mixture in addition to free Winter care of the ewes is chmce 0 f sa it. The mineral very important for both a TlllX t ure may be equal parts good wool clip and a good o( ground hmes( : o ne and lamb crop The supply of cal- s t eamed bonemeal, or the pur cium and phosphorus is over- c j iase of dl^a i c ium. phosphate, looked many times when grass of these mixtures con hay is fed to the flock when tajn both calcium and phos we feed good quality alfalfa which are needed for hay, since it is high m mm- £ he ewes eials, the need is satisfied. .However, _ with., poor. .quality _ _ (.Continued _on Page 12) to his critics. They seem not to have considered this point: Wn« if Jcsui' claims arc true? Sup* pose ho really can detect mental sin, suppose ho actually does know the mind of God? No eliquallo There is in all religions a cer* tain kind of thing wo may caU religious etiquette, Tho right way and time to stand or kneel e» pray, the right clothes to wear, the right words to use In prayer* One form of such eOquott# (another nama for U h cwi* snonialism) much prised a Jesus' time was fasHtifc is not wrong; bat whan It It dbM by clock orfarteodaria*ead«f spontaneously, and when It becomes;* *»WltotoJo* real heartfelt contritfon-lor stag . committed, It can.be awrimt and r-type of-hypottUf. , pentanee Is a alow and difficult process; fasting can soon be .don* . and over with. Hepentancd makes a different person out ef you, Fasting can leave you Just as you' wete, nr 'maybe s -hit thinner, Jetut fasted, ftom tim* . to time, we know; but hi# disciples did not, He never re* ' buked them for not doing set ■ and this - egela- '•‘bUeff*- ft# Pharisees. Tormi* ghreligion ' whit an eggshell fi to rn egg. If keeps tha contentoirem gat* • ting iost, peihapft hot flit eg* . -shell should- nevarbe «Utake« - , for -\ ' ■ Kstepwofcte Winded:. : - r 1 . - ym **«•*•* ■' fiefflfle- h* apent tfnu» wtthj Hf Imew and, wed to:jia» dmntr ■ sritK som*’Of tbi mmwSfan&i* •' character* of Uie tftWb'NwrUi# - -enemiti-of Jew* -SHppoted that . tt»eto'Peopl« mould somehow rub eft Ott him. ' It did nqt ocpur to them that maybe hi* goodness w**-of such - n dynamic sort that it KrwW mb off on the sinners. (Baud on outllnei' coarrkMed hr ihe - Ptxitioit of Christian Iducalion, National Council of Ike diarrhea of Christ! in the 11. S. A. Released by Community nets Service) . STATE HATCHINGS INCREASE SEASONALLY Chick hatchings continued a seasonal increase in the. Key stone State during December to 5 4 million chicks 4 per cent higher than November but 2 percent less than Decem ber 1963. The forolier-type chick hatch during December (4 0 million) declined 2 per cent from November and 4 percent from a" year ago. The current total annual production of 46 8 million dropped 2 per cent from 1963. Egg-type hatch ings (1.4 million) increased 26 percent fropi November 1964 and 4 percent from December 1963. The 1964 annual total of 28 5 million was 9 percent be low 1963 total production. RY MAX SMITH To Apply Brush and Stump Sprays Winter is a good time to use chemicals on brush and stumps When used during the dormant season on trees and shrubs that are to be eliminated, we remove most of the danger of damaging growing crops. A mixture of the esthei form of 2,4-D and 2,4,5- T will do a good job of killing most any tree or stump; one pound of this chemical to eight pounds of fuel oil will make a good mixture be be used during cold weath er To Cull Low Producers Production costs are at the point where
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