—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22, 1965
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from Whore We Stand...
Soil .Stewardship Week
Soil Stewardship Week, May 23-30,
is an annual observance sponsored by
the National Association of Soil and
Water Conservation Districts (NACD).
It is a reminder of our regard for life
for our own, that of our fellowmen,
of future generations, and of all living
things It is a reminder that a con
cern for life must also be a concern for
the physical resources upon which life
depends.
The stewardship concept is one that
visualizes every American as a steward
of the land No matter where he lives,
each has a vested interest in the land
each is dependent upon it and each
is responsible for its care.
In the current issue of Soil Con
sdrvation. administrator D A Wil
liams reminds us that conservation is
a constant task It is concerned with
keeping the land alive and prosperous.
“The margin of life is thin, in
deed, under our feet,” Williams says.
“Our most productive soil is a shallow
layer spread over an inhospitable land
mass When it is gone it can not be re
placed When it has gone, history tells
us, nations and entire civilizations have
declined and vanished ”
Williams quoted some figures'from
a recent report that showed how far
we have yet to go in our constant bat-
tle for conservation. Conservation pro-
blems are still inadequately treated on
62 percent of the cropland, 73 percent
of the non-federal pasture and range,
and 55 percent of non-federal forest
and woodland, the report shows
“The immediate need is to con
serve ” Williams writes “Prevention is
our first responsibility It by far the
least costly of the alternatives ”
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Operation REASON
Secretary Freeman has announced
a special program to simplify operations
of the Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service (ASCS) The pur
pose of this program, he said, is to im
prove services to farmers while reduc
ing administrative and operating costs
This approach is in accord with Pre-
• Spurling
irom page 1)
Seitz, Chief, Animal Disease
Diagnostic Laiboi atones, and
Dean Allam assured Lancas
tei Fanning that the poultry
diagnostic seivice at New
Bolton would be available as
usual This will be accom
plished thiough the use of
piesent peisonnel and by the
addition of Di Dodd a
classical diagnostic pathologist
as of July Ist It was also
suggested that an effort is
being made to bring in anoth
ei well known poultiy path
ologist in the neai futuie
Di Spoiling has many
fi lends among the county’s
ipoultiymen, and we join
them in wishing him well in
lus new joib
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sident Johnson’s long term plan for
increased efficiency and economy in
government.
The program has been named “Pro
ject SIMPLER”, which stands for the
phrase “Simplify and Improve Methods,
Procedures, Layout, Equipment, Re
ports and Records”.
We admire this honest effort to
ward increased efficiency and economy
in government, even though it doesn’t
really sound very “simple”. We feel
sure somehow, someone along the way
will manage to complicate it horribly
before it reaches near completion. But
we appreciate the effort'
In line with this type of economy
thinking we’d like to suggest a sister
project for SIMPLER that might go
considerably beyond this early effort
Let’s call it “Operation REASON”. This
could stand for the phrase “Removal
of Entrenched Agencies and Services
of Obsolete Nature”.
If you’d like to exercise your
imagination, and play this little word
game with us, see what sort of “con
structive” phrases you can concoct. If
we get a collection of them we’ll send
them on to the USDA as Lancaster
County's contribution to economy
thinking
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Order of the Day Clean Sheets!
It was reported by David Brinkley
one night this week on the televised
Huntley-Bnnkley Report that the Ku
Klux Klan is interested in improving
its public “image” It has been discov
ered that some of the members are
showing up at' meetings in of all
things dirty sheets!
Therefore, the order has gone out
from the big wheels that all members
attending meetings are to be garbed in
clean sheets Now we’re certainly in
favor of clean sheets, but we happen
to believe their place is on beds not
used to mask the identity of cowards
who prowl in the dark in packs like
jackels.
The KKK -could stand to improve
its image all right, but it takes more
than a clean sheet to cover an evil
heart'
USDA Considers Termination Of
Federal Milk Order For Delaware
Valley Area Del, Penna., N.J.
The U S Department of being consideied, the officials
Agncultuie announced this said, because there is substan
week it is considering teiminat- tial leason to believe that the
mg the Delawaie Valley Fed- peisent older may no longer
eial milk maiketing cider, cany out the purposes esta
which sets minimum puces bhshed by Congiess in authou
paid to dany faimeis foi milk zing the Fedeial milk oidei
distnbuted in the Philadelphia, piogiam
Pa and Wilmington Del, Notice of the proposed ter
metiopohfan aieas, and inmost munition will appear in the
ol southern New Jeisey Com- Fedeial Registei May 22 la
ments aie invited. teiested peisons may submit
Consumei and Maiketing views and comments up until
Seivice officials said audits by June 11 These should be sent,
the maiket admmistiator of in four copies, to the Heaung
coopeiative association and cieik, Room 112-A, U S De
milk dealei iccords have le- partment of Aguculture, Wash
vealed widespiead practices le- mgton, D C 20250 The Hear
sultmg in undei cutting and mg clerk will make all such
established minimum order submissions available for pub-
P 1 lces lie inspection
The teimination action is
Crop Reporting Service
To Conduct Survey
On-the-spot counts ot people,
farm animals and crops in 350
agricultural areas, selected at
landom, will be made in 65
Pennsylvania counties beginn
ing Monday, May 24
The survey, under the direc
tion of the Pennsylvania Crop
Hepoitmg Seivice, State Agu
cultuie Department, is to be
completed by June 5 It is part
of a nationwide study being
made by the U S Depaitment
of Agncultuie.
Thirty-tin ee enumerator,
selected fiom 31 counties, will
gathei facts dming peisonal
interviews in the designated
areas, according to Dewey O
Boster, agricultural statistician
in charge of the PCRS Only
Philadelphia and Pike counties
are not included in the survey
area, he said.
Information obtained by .the
enumeratoi s will supplement
facts obtained in regular ag
ncultural census studies made
by mail twice a year Statistics
obtained in these surveys are
used to piepare crop and live
stock reports that are required
in modern agriculture
A series of training sessions
foi enumeiators was conducted
by Donald L Keating, agncul
tuial statistician of the PCRS.
r he A
> SPEAKS
s | Uniform
J Sunday Sefcol Ltnani
Nation Under God
Lesson for May 23, 1965
«Zackoround Scripture: II Samuel
, 6 through 8
Devotional Heading: Psalm 122.
TVT EW JERSEY is said to be the
most populous state in the
nation: that is to say, it has more
people per square mile than any
other state. Naturally there are
all kinds of people in these
■'wdr id among them some
■■ atheists. Just be-
S fore these lines
V were wntten a
■ few atheists had
1 tued—and failed
' to get a grand
juiy to
the U S flag and
a banner with the
words “One Na-
Dr. Foreman tion under God”
could not legally be displayed at
the same time. Now there once
was a small nation, the ancestor
of modern Israel, where such a
suit in court would have seemed
ridiculous. The ancient Israel
ites had no notion that their
country could be anything but
God’s country and people. One
nation under God; that was what
they rightly believed God meant
them to be.
Visible religion
More has been learned about
religion by now than those people
knew. But they did know one
thing we have never outgrown;
they believed that religion ought
to be visible. Now it can be
visible in either or both of two
ways. Religion makes itself
visible as morality; that is an im
portant truth but it is another
stoiy. Religion also is made vi
sible in institutions and practices
called cults; and this is part of
what “under God” would have
meant to them.
The arts in religion
In ancient Israel the center of
visible religion was the Ark, a
golden box you could set on a
laige desk, beautifully made of
carved cedar and covered with
gold leaf. That Ark, and the
Temple afterwards built to house
it, suggest another lasting featme
of this ancient faith namely that
Now Is The Time ...
To Control Flea Beetles
A small, round, black insect has been
bothenng young coin and tomato plants,
in the near future they may attack the
young tobacco plants The field may be
spiayed with 3 pounds of 50% WP Sevm, or
with 1 Pint of Paiathion. or with 3 pounds
of 50% WP Methoxychlor; are the
amounts per acre along with at least 25
gallons of water Heavy infestations will
hinder the proper growth of young plants
To Plant Soybeans
Farmers who are planmng to grow soy
beans for hay or silage can figure on the
giound being warm enough about two weeks
after corn planting time The beans do best
in a slightly acid soil (6 5 to 7.0) and one that has been well
prepared as for any other small grain The seed should'be ino
culated with the proper bacterial culture and both phosphoius
and potash fertilizer added; nitrogen fertilizer is not needed
tor soybeans Under average conditions from 60 to 80 pounds
per acre of each phosphorus and potash should be applied
separate from the seeding operation The fertilizer should be
drilled deeply after plowing and before planting The fertilizer
should not come into contact with the soybean seed
To Protect Strawberry Plante M 26 dmrees extant
In case of cooler weather irrigation,
and the danger of frost, we’d To Trim Livestock feet
like to remind strawberry
growers that the crop can ibe During the confine
protected with an irrigation Period many daisy
system, or any sprinkler sys tte other breeding am
tem. The system should Ibe ma k less chance to ex
started when the air tendpera- erase and keep their feet
ture near the ground drops worn down. As a result, then
to 33 degrees and continue t°es become long and then,
spraying constantly until the weight is shifted back,(too
air gets warmer and the ice on i* 66 *
melts that has formed on the corrected, 'there will ‘be s •
plants Plants have been vere strain on the easterns
saved in temperatures as low (Continued on_Ea££_lllL^o
4he< «ti,fire or «aaJtai*wrtnty|
•nd moving element' in rtUgion,
True, there are sects of Christian*
who deliberately make their
churches and their worship aa
bare and plain as possible. But
the main stream of religion is
allied with the great arts. In the
time of David, the reader will
note in these short chapters
something about the dance, about
an orchestra, about architecture.
David the King was both a poet
and a musician, so no wonder he
felt that the Ark which symbo*
lized the presence of God ought
to have the most beautiful temple
over it that a royal treasury could
buy.
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Sacred and secular
Some people think of "sacred”
as meaning something shut oil or
shut in, something quite different
from ordinary occupations and
concerns. These ordinary, Mon*
day-to-Saturday businesses and oc
cupations of worktnhe or leisure,
are often called worldly or secu
lar. Sacred and secular aie
supposed to be opposites. Not so
with these ancient people of God.
To their minds there was no "se
cular” in their vocabulary. When
we speak of a nation under God,
some people are afraid we are
confusing nation and church, and
think we would be much worse
off than we are; if we triecbto run
the country like a church. This
is true. But that is not what God
intends nor demands. In a nation
under God there is room for all
the “secular” aspects of life. The
reader will notice that in ancient
Israel there was (for example)
room and need for a strong inter
national policy (David put his
little country on the map!); for
an efficient organization (speci
alized jobs for specially qualified
people), and for strong leader
ship by those who would put the
good- of their country above all
personal gain. David’s little
group of scribes, secretaries and
so on was a long way from the
complex and enormous armies of
specialists now needed in govern
ment, but it does show one thing:
there’s no conflict between reli
gion and efficiency. Indeed,
doesn’t each need the other?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, National
Council oi the Churches oi Christ in tho
U. S. A. Released hy Community Pres*
Service.)
ATTEND THE
YOUR CHOICE
CHURCH OF
ON SUNDAY
WAX SMITH