—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Juno 5, 1965
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From Where We Stand
Dairy Month Highlights
Dairy Problems
The secretary of agriculture has
proclaimed Jane as Dairy Month, and
suggests that the event “gives us all an
opportunity to salute our milk pro
ducers and marketers whose efficient
teamwork provides our consumers with
a year-around abundance of milk and
dairy products.”
This is fine and we do salute
them, but may we suggest it should
also be a time to give some serious
consideration to the stability and fu
ture of dairying in the nation, and es
pecially in Lancaster County? Dairy
farming is one of the biggest agricul
tural businesses in the county, pro
ducing a total value of $27,600,000
(1964). And yet at this moment county
dairymen are hanging on. the edge of
a cliff as they anticipate a possible $lO
million reduction in their marketing
revenue (according to Inter-State) as a
remit of the proposed cancellation of
the federal order for the Delaware
Valley area.
Two other areas of uncertainty for
dairymen are per capita consumption
of milk products and the decreasing
number of dairy cows needed to meet
that demand. Of 17 major western na
tions, the U.'S. ranks next to the bot
tom in per capita consumption of dairy
foods according to a recent National
Dairy Council publication. Even in
France, where milk is such a “dirty
word” that they nearly ran one Premier
out of the country for recommending
milk instead of wine for school children,
the per capita consumption of milk pro
ducts is greater than ours!
According to American. Dairy As
sociation’s monthly newsletter, the con
sumption figures in the U.S. could get
even worse if the “lean look” should
become >a national status symbol. Our
greatest milk consuming group, the
American teenager, is becoming more
interested in leanness than in fitness
or perhaps they have even confused
the meaning of the two words. At any
rate they seem to think more in terms
of calories than nutrition, and with 3.5
percent milk at 150 calories per glass
they are frequently passing it by in
favor of the 1 calorie “glamor drinks.”
The various dairy promotion agencies
have been hitting this problem hard
in recent years. But their members are
not entirely agreed on the method of
attacking the problem One element
feels that milk should be promoted in
the same image as the soft drinks; the
other feels that promotion of milk as a
food is the correct approach, and they
talk “milk for vitality” to the energy
burning teenager. We agree with the
latter approach.
Tests conducted by the American
Dairy Association since 1953 have
shown that milk enjoys a universally
favorable image; even non-milk drink
ers approve of milk, and the nutritional
points surveyed among consumers were
rated as believable. Points like, “You
get good value for your money when
you buy milk”, were readily accepted,
and few people questioned felt that milk
was overpriced. Other “status points”,
however were rated believable by very
few; “Milk gives girls nice figures”,
or, “Milk makes your eyes bright and
sparkling”, for example. On the other
hand, the statement that “There are
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many foods that can tike the place'
of milk in the diet” was overwhelming
ly rejected.
Milk has an excellent food imago
in the minds of American consumers.
The dairy promotion agencies should
continue to probe into the “milk-atti
tudes" of all age groups and be guided
by their findings in their promotion and
advertising schemes.
But that’s milk consumption; here
in Lancaster County we’re more direct
ly concerned with the problems of milk
production. The number of commercial
dairy herds in the state have decreased
from 46,600 in 1954 to 30,000 in 1964.
This doesn’t consider the partially-off
setting fact that herd size has been in
creasing during that period as has
individual cow production. The net
result has been an increase in total
milk production and the so-called “sur
plus” problem.
In the years immediately ahead
dairymen must exert more direct in
fluence in the marketplace. Right now
would be an excellent time to demand
proper policing of milk marketing acti
vities in the state by an effective state
agency, and to fight for a workable
federal order to provide the price sta
bility that dairymen must have if they
are to make even short-term sound
decisions in their business operations.
What Do YOU Think?
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June Is For Graduates
Another June is here and another
batch of high school graduates is about
to bloom. That occasion seems to affect
parents and editors alike. They tend
'to swell up with advice that can not be
contained; it must spill over upon the
graduate to protect him from all the
evils of the great big, outside World.
Probably any advice that hasn’t
been taken to heart by this time will
be wasted. About now the young grad
uate feels he possesses all the wisdom
and knowledge of the ages, and feels
fairly confident that Ms generation
couldn’t possibly do a worse job on
salvaging the “real world” than ours
did. Each generation is quite certain
that the preceding one made a horrible
mess of the world instead of getting
things straightened out, and each is gen
erally right according to hindsight.
So instead of advice, we’d rather
express the eternal hope that this year’s
graduating class, and their whole gen
eration, will be the one to put the world
back together again. Educationally, they
are better prepared than any of their
forebears They undoubtedly don’t know
as much as they think they know, but
if they are willing to use their present
knowledge as a foundation on which to
build, and if they are willing to learn
and to try to understand the complex
world that they are entering, they will
find it exciting and challeging
For some, graduation will be the
end point in their formal education; for
others it will be just the beginning
Guess we’ll have to break down and
offer just a little advice at that: 1 - Be
honest with yourself, and you then
will deceive no other, 2 - Have the
courage of your convictions, 3 - Be
proud of your heritage, both as an
American and as a human being; 4 -
Meet the challenges of life squarely;
they are worthy of your best efforts’
• Inter-State
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supply for the consumer; 3
It encourages handlers to
find milk supplies close to
the market; 4-—lt has been
in effect for 23 years; and
s—lt prevents cooperative or
dealer price cutters from
Second Class Postage, paid
at Lititz, Pa and at additional
mailing offices
GOOD LUCK!
driving farmer prices
to bankruptcy levels
A petition was circulated
■for signatures, and all dairy
men selling milk in the Dela
waie Valley area were urged
to send letters to congress
men and government agri
culture officials
The USDA’s public hearing
on the issue is set for June
8 in Philadelphia. Inter-State
urged dairymen to attend in
mass pi otest against termin
ating the marketing order.
V. . r.
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Love and Duty
Lesson for June 6,1965
Background Scripture: XX Samuel
15 f through 19 10.
Devotional Beading: Luke 15 11*24.
'T'HE BIBLE story is, as usual,
' much better than any com
ments on it. The story in the
Background Scripture is not only
probably the most inteiesting in
the Old Testament, it is pne o£
the best and most moving stoiies
in any literature
It is not fiction,
the writer deal 1
with facts anc
makes no coin
nents. He lets
the facts speak
for themselves.
The attraction of
this tale of the
Dr. Foreman long-ago (about
twenty centuries by now) is that
it movingly unfolds a problem
which comes close to the heart
of us all all who are capable
of love and also have a sense
of duty. For this is a story of
how love and duty can clash,
and what happens when love
takes duty’s place.
Requirements of government
What a man’s duty is depends
on his situation and circum
stances. In the time when this sto
ry happened (and please read it
before you read this column!)
David was king of Israel. He not
only exercised government, he
was Government. Now as King of
the little new nation of Israel,
lawgiver, lawmaker and law-en
forcer all in one, his duty was
what the duty of government al
ways is; to rule for the benefit
of the governed. This means
first of all, justice, law and order,
prevention of crime, assuring
every man equal treatment be
fore the law'. This was the king’s
duty. Go\ eminent should seive
the people, not destroy them or
weaken them. Government ought
to unite all citizens ought e I'en
to inspire citizens with patriotism
so far as that is possible, ‘ivnat
David did was not so much any
particular wrong act, it was not
doing anything. Doing wiong or
not doing right, what is the
difference? David’s fatal ir <■''
Now Is The Time . ..
To Stop Seeding Lawns And Pastures
New lawns or pastures should not be
seeded during June and July because of the
danger ol hot, dry weather burning out the
new plants It is very difficult to establish
a strong, deep root system in the young
plants during the summer months In most
cases the seeds will germinate, but latei die
due to the hot diy weather We suggest a
tempoiary summer seeding such as common
ryegrass which can be destroyed in August
when preparing foi the September glass
seeding Fall seedmgs will have a much bet
ter chance of suivival
. To Spray Alfalfa For Later Cuttings
After the removal of the first cutting
of alfalfa, it may be necessary to spray the stubble for the
control of alfalfa weevil, the amount of infestation at the time
of the first cutting will help determine this need. If the
weevils were feeding at that time, then it will pay to spiav
within the first week after removal to protect the new growth
In addition, the problem of leaf hoppers will be present on
the second and later cuttings and require spraying when the
new growth is 3 to 6 inches high.
To Be Careful About Bloating „ Tr .. ,<
Livestock producers are To lHiUldle Chemicals Carefully
cautioned albout the danger We repeat the importance
from bloating when livestock of handling and storing all
are grazing on forage high spray materials very careful
m legume content, with the ly. Modern farming and gal
exception of birdsfoot trefoil, demng requires many chemi
fin many cases the animals cals which are toxic to tin
are on pastures high in ladino mans, livestock, and to othei
clover content, or straight plants All containers should
alfalfa, both of these legumes be kept well labelled and
have been blamed for many away from children ancf live
cases of bloat, especially when stock It is best to store the
the forage plants are wet materials in the original con
Ammals should be given oth- tamer in order to maintain
er forage or hay before they identification. When using he
get into the alfaFa or clover sure to read the directions
pastures. and follow,, them clo^el^.
down
was In letting things go. Ho let
a man whoso bad character was
a matter of public knowledge,
scheme and plot against the gov*
eminent without paying any at
tention to him. Ho did not hold
court as a judge a prime duty
of a king in thoso days. He even
let an army be recruited for a
rebellion against him, without
lifting a finger to stop it. In short,
instead of governing the country,
he let it go to rack and ruin,
AH for “love”
SPEAi'I
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What was the matter' with
David? What led to his shocking
neglect of the duties of his high
office? In one word, it was love;
not this time love of a man for
a woman, but of a father lor his
son. It is not wrong for a father
to love his son; but when that
love reaches the point where the
father can see no wrong in any*
thing the son does, when the
father refuses to discipline the
son in any way, when the father’s
affection for this one child over*
weighs and cancels out all sense
of duty, the point where the
father is willing to let his son go
from bad to worse rather than
hurt his feelings by saying HOI
then we had better put quotation
marks around that word “love.”
This is not responsible love, it is
lazy indulgence.
Love gone wrong
The end of the story is a bitter
one. David’s heart was broken.
But who, after all, broke David’s
heart? You may say. It was
Absalom’s fault. But who let Ab
salom grow up to be the kind of
man he was?
This is no tale only of the long
ago. Every day somebody’s heart
is broken because of love gone
wrong. When a student in a class
room admires another student so
much.that he - lies for him and
cheats for him, that Is love gone
wrong. When- a mother blames
her child’s failure in school on
the teacher, not the child, that is
love gone wrong. When a man
in public office uses that position
tq. obtain special favors'for a
friend, when lawyers willahield
a crooked lawyer-and doctors »♦
fuse to bring charges -against an
incompetent surgeon all because
of their love for their profession;
whenever a girl lives with a man
before they are married, to prove
that she loves him; these and
many another sin and crime are
the poison fruits of love gone
wrong.
(Based on outlines copyrighted hr the
Division oi Christian Education* National
Council of (ho Churches of Christ in the
U. S. A. Released by Community Press
Service.)
MAX SMITH