4—Lancaster Farming,‘Saturday, May 1,1965
From Where We Stand...
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
We had the opportunity to see a
little of- the “inside Washington” this
week. To this country boy the activity
and drive generated by the men inside
this mechanical monster were very im
pressive. The bigger they are, the more
hectic seems their schedules There ap
peared to be little time wasted on the
upper echelons
We met, listened to, and questioned
some of the top officials in the USD A,
including Secretary Freeman Without
exception, these men seemed very able
They appeared to be highly intelligent,
some probably biilliant Their ideals ap
peared unquestionably of the highest
caliber, and they seemed sincere in the
jobs they were trying to do.
In light of such a favorable person
al impression, why was it that one very
disturbing thought kept drifting back
into this editor’s mind? It was not a new
thought certainly, but one that was
reinforced repeatedly during the two
day session
“Can the Farm Problem in this coun
try really be this complicated?”
Admitedly, our tendency is to over
simplify many big problems But as we
heard this program and that program
described we couldn’t help but wonder
whether the Washington world was so
completely entangled in the complicated
and endless web of PROGRAMS that
they were manufacturing PROGRAMS
like an organ grinder cranks out music
Then the not very humorous picture ap
peared of all of us dancing around like
the organ grinder’s monkey, tipping our
hat and begging for handouts Not a
pleasant thought perhaps even a
little unfair but it does seem that
■we’ve no sooner finished dancing to one
tune than another one begins
In the midst of ail of the Adminis
tration’s program men we felt some
what reassured by a few of the thoughts
expressed by Rep Paul Findley. R-11l
He strongly disagreed with the adminis
tration’s often-expressed opinion that re
moval of government subsidies would
reduce farm income by half and ruin the
farm economy Findley said it would
certainly work a hardship on some farm
ers at first, but he felt farm legislation
is getting so complicated that it amounts
to a conspiracy against the taxpayers
The sooner we get back to a mar
ket-place commodity system which re
lates crop loans to market prices the
O Ken Hess
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Peais Roebuck swine gilt bond
\vinnei Ken carnei vo-ag pro
jects in boss dan y tobacco
and com and holds offices in
tne 4 H Bab\ Beef & Lamb
Club the 4-H Holstein Club
and the 4H Gaiden Spot Com
munity Club He has attended
the International Daily Show
tne 4-H Club Confluence the
Pennsylvania Association of
Faimei Co-ops and was 4th
high individual dauy judge at
the 4 H judging days in 1964
Hess roceived his Keystone
Faimei degiee in Januaiy and
has paiticipated on two TV
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better off we will be, Findley said. So
even the opposition has “programs,” but
their’s seem a little more direct’ and
palatable somehow.
But wouldn’t it be refreshing, per
haps even a little reassuring, if some
bright fellow in the USDA could come
up with another word to replace the
dono-to-death word PROGRAM.
What Do YOU Think ?
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invisible Egg-Writing
Remains Invisible
If yoii are a regular reader of our
Food Editor’s column you may recall
Mrs. Spence’s recent suggestion for gett
ing kids to eat more eggs (L. F. April 3,
1965) In good faith, she passed along a
recipe she had received from the U. S.
Department of Agriculture for writing,
or drawing, on egg shells with a solu
tion of vinegar and alum. The idea being
that after the material dried the egg
could be boiled and whatever you had
invisibly sketched on the outside of the
shell would then appear bright and clear
on the hard-cooked egg white itself.
Unfortunately, the idea was not a
complete success. We soon began hear
ing from our readers to the effect that
“it just won’t work”. We contacted Mrs.
Spence who in turn contacted the USDA.
The latter replied that they too had
noticed some early problems with the
technique, but based on successful tests
run last year they felt safe in circulat
ing the recipe.
In their “sometimes it does, some
times it doesn’t” report, they noted that
early failures were presumed to be due
to oiling of commercial eggs. So they
tried non-oiled eggs, and also encounter
ed problems These they attributed to a
natural oil (bloom) deposited by the hen
Next they tried non-oiled older eggs
These seemed to work okay Following
the recent complaints they tried again,
but now found their results to be quite
inconsistent And that is the story up to
this time
To those of you who tried this in
visible writing technique and couldn’t
make it work, we apologize for giving
you a “bum steer”. To those who have
not tried it, we say, “don’t”' If any
further constructive information on this
process comes in we’ll pass it along
If any readers tried this recipe and suc
ceeded, please tell us your secret so we
mav straighten out the USDA on this
p,Lampetei Stiasburg FFA Asso
ciation
Ken is the son of Mi and
Mio Elvm Hess Jr Thev live
on then 92-acie Hess-Vale faun
.located one-foui th mile south
of Stiasbuig
® Meet Judging
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Sh'cbei & Sons, Denver R 1
and to Elmei Sensemg’s at
New Holland Rl, and had two
good woikouits on meat cuts
(Runnei-up in' the contest
was living Schannauei with
178 points He is a sopho
moie at Eiphiata High S'chool
and lives at Remholds R|l
Schannauer and Hoke will
repiesent the county FFA at
the state meat judging con
test to be held at Penn State
University in June
'S'conng was based on three
Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
aveiage above normal. Nor
mal for the period is a high
of 70 and a low of 47 de
grees. It will be mild over
the weekend, then warmer
toward the end of the period.
Precipitation will be in the
form of showers in the latter
half of the peiiod, and
should total less than *4 inch.
classes of meat placing
wholesale beef pork caicass,
and wholesale poik and on
identification of retail cuts of
beef fiesh poik ciued and
sm'oked poik cuts and veal
also on identification of vane
ty meats (tongues, livers,
etc )
The following boys finished
among the fiist ten (Points
lounded to neaiest 'whole
numlbei, extept wheie this
would effect position ) 3—Le
loy Mussei, Gaiden Spot H
S (176 points), 4—Tom Zait
m'an (last yeai’s winnei),
Bphiata H S (173 points, 5
—Dean Resslei, Penn M'anor
H S (166 points), 6—Roy
Bowman, Garden .Spot H S
(163 points 1 ), 7—Glenn Weber,
Garden (Spot H iS (161
points), B—Don Heishey, E’-
Town H S (160 6 points), 9
Paul Brubaker, Warwick H
S (159 points); 10—Charles
Harting, Etpbrat'a H S (158
points) Carl Dalton of Kunz
ler’s was official judge
Cost of harboring a rat has
been estimated Iby 'different
authorities at fiom $lO to $4O
(per rat pei year It’s not 'that
lats eat that much, they point
out but losses from damaged
buildings and contamination
add up fast
SMK /
\ SPEAKS
Suiwhy SchMl Leiieni
Putting God First
Lesson for May 2,1963
llickKrounil Scripture: I Samuel 13
thioueh 13.
Pcvotional Kcaainc: 1 Samuel 15 17-23
Preachers tell ns we should put
God first. People who com
bine patriotism with religion
beep telling us the whole nation
and not merely individuals ought
to be putting God fust. But what
does it actually mean to put God
" first, as individu
and as a na
•n?
It doesn’t
mn just cour
sy, s u cli as
issing oneself
ten the name
God is men-
ined, or speak
ing of God first and others after
him. Yale, has a song ending
“For God, for country and for
Yale”; but this does not make
Yale a religious university. Put
ting God first doesn’t mean
special, respects being shown to
the ministers of God. Some men
who are pretty profane will not
swear in the presence of a clergy
man or preacher. This is a kind
of hypocrisy; it is hardly putting
God first. Again, putting God
first is not the same as paying
your church pledge fust and
your other bills afterwards. This
is getting warm, through. But a
better test of a man’s religion
would be to ask about the
amount of the pledge rather than
how punctually he pays it!
God’s orders first
Many persons walk past the
doors of churches every day in
the working year without ever
going inside. They may be told
that inside those doors some
where here is a wall with the
Ten Commandments on it—on a
scroll or a brass tablet or some
thing. Now the man on the street
who never gets inside the doors
may think that the Ten Com
mandments are like the bylaws
Now Is The Time ...
To Observe Alfalfa Fields
Alfalfa groweis and custom sprayers
should be keeping a close watch on the wee
vil activity in every alfalfa field Since mid-
Apnl theie has been some hatching of the
weevil and limited feeding on the alfalfa
leaves Weather conditions will deteimme
how bad the infestation gets befoie the ciop
is mature enough to haivest Be piepaied to
either cut or spiay, depending upon the stage
ol growth, when weevil begin to senously
damage the leaves Mateuals to use aie still
the same as have been suggested since last
Januaiy
To Plant Corn
It’s difficult to name the exact time each MAI SMITH
year when corn should be planted for maximum yields. How
ever, we suggest that early May be consideied the best time
to plant thioughout Lancaster County, fiom the sth to the
15th of May would be the 10-day period that most local grow
ers should expect to get the best results. This may vary in some
years, but over the average number of years, corn planted dur
ing this time will give the greatest yield of dry matter and
feed value.
To Properly [Place Corn
jFerti|lizer
How and where you place
the fertilizer for the corn
ci op will mate a big differ
ence on the yield Young
plants need some readily
available fertilizer in their
small root zone Which may be
supplied by aplplymg a com
plete fertilizer with the plant
er in a band'2 inches to the
side and 2 inches below the
kernels It is a mistake to
place the seed andi the feitx
lizer together (because of the sprayed over the row at
danger of burning and a poor planting time for the control
stand Heaviei amounts of (Continued on Page 5)
of ft club: if you don’t Join, th«
bylaws are of no interest to you.
The man’s big mistake, of course,
is to think that the Ten Com*
mandmcnts are not for him un*
less he chooses, On the contrary,
God’s laws, and his will as seen
in those laws, arc for every mem*
ber of the human race. If they
began with • the words THIS
MEANS YOU they could not be
more personal than they already
are. Yet such is the subtle power
of sin in man that every day in
some way or other men take
orders, so to speak, from public
opinion, from wives, from soma
admired friend, or from oneself,
rather than first asking, What is
GOD’S will?
God’s character first
S=~P
As soon as anyone says, “The
business of everyone who be
lieves in God is to be God-like”—>
or words to that effect, he will
be met by a storm of objections.
How can you say such a rash
thing? This person will be asked.
How do we know what God is
like? How can a man imitate God
without playing God?—and you
know how’ bad that is. Well,
there’s quite a difference be
tween playing God and imitat
ing God, Doesn’t it make sense
for a Christian to imitate the
Master of the art of life itself?
God's. concern first
God’s . commands, his char
acter: putting these first is to
put God, first. But that’s not all.
Equally vital it is to put God’s
concerns first- The Bible might
welhhe called the Book of God’s
concerns. We know for one thing
that the God of justice hates in
justice. Now there is a monstrous
injustice going on all around us.
Much is being done to help, but
injustice has by no means dis
appeared. Consider the injustices
the white race m America
has inflicted (for instance) on
the Indian and on the Negro. We
are not all called to make dem
onstrations in the street —-
some of us may be; but one who
calls himself Christian, yet is
not concerned with the plight of
the oppressed in his own land, is
ceitamly not putting God first.
For the act of God most often
recalled in the Bible is his free
ing a horde of slaves. Injus
tice against man by man con
cerns the God of all men. .Does
it concern us?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Tducation National
Council ot tht Churches of Christ in the
D. S A. Released by Community 7res<
Semce)
fertilizer that will toe needed
during July and August
should be plowed down so
they will be in the future
root zone of moist soil. Don’t
make the mistake of having
a poor stand of corn through
improper fertilizer placement.
Ter iCqntrol 'Weeds {ln Corn
For a maximum,,, yield of
corn we must control grasses
and wpeds,, modern
than many 3 cultivations. We
suggest the use of Atrazane