—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 17, 1965 4 From Where We Stand,.. Upside-Down And Left-Handed Did you ever sit down with a stack of mail all arranged nicely, then find as you zip along opening envelopes that every so often one is upside-down? We handle between 50 and 100 pieces of mail each day, and have been find ing for. some time that all the envelopes from the Pa. Dept, of Agriculture were printed upside-down. A minor irrita tion, true, but one which necessitated a daily break in the rhythm and system of opening mail. Finally, curiosity, or maybe it was just the heat, caused us to write to Harrisburg to find out whether they knew about this condition, and if so, what they were trying to prove with this individualistic approach. Apparently our question was the first of its kind, although the condition had existed for many months. They went right to work on it, and found that most people they questioned didn’t know the answer but thought that everyone else did. One man was final ly located who explained the phenomen on simply. The machine did it! It seems the Dept, has a very efficient mailing machine it combines thp envelope sealing and postage-metering operations into one step. According to our corres pondent, this saves a tremendous amount of time each year on mailings. The man who invented this ma chine with the upside-down efficiency seems to have created a left-handed monster for a right-handed world! We don’t quite understand why the post ing process couldn’t be adjusted to stand on its feet rather than its head. Or, why couldn’t the Dept get its en velopes made upside down so that when printed they would come out right-side up and oh, well; now that we know there is a reason for this novel ap proach we will be more amused than annoyed in handling- future mailings. We can afford a little inefficiency if it helps our governmental agencies handle their work more efficiently. We ap preciate the frank and prompt treat ment our inquiry received from the Dept., but we can’t resist suggesting that when this machine is finally ready for pasture, hopefully before we are, that consideration be given to replac ing it with one of a less tempermental nature. ★ ★ ★ The Farm Numbers Gome It has been a well accepted and much stated fact in recent years that the number of farms in America has decreased Whale talking in terms of sheer numbers, this is true But the USDA has come up with an interesting analysis of the situation. If you divide the nation’s farms into two sectors, depending upon which side of a $lO,OOO gross sales figure they fall, the latest tabulations show that the sector above $lO,OOO the commercial Type 41 Tobacco Prospects About Same As 1964 Production of 1965 Pennsyl vania secdleaf tobacco is foie cast at 45 9 million pounds based on development and Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa Offices; 22 E Mam St Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or 0 Lititz 626 2191 £>on Timpiojis,., Editor Robert G Campbell, Adve rtising Dnectoi > ,i, Established November 4, ■ ,1955 Published eveiy Satur ■ day Lit - itz, Pa; farms actually increased by 159 per cent between 1939 and 1959; and an other 18 percent between 1959 and 1963. Between the years 1939 and 1964, the total number of farms declined by 2.4 million. However, 95 percent of this decline can be accounted for in farms which had gross sales of less than $2500. The above-$lO,OOO group reflects some other characteristics in common in ad dition to gross sales. They are predo minately family farms; those increas ing most rapidly tend toward specializa tion; and their operators generally Work full-time on the farm. The study also suggests that the minimum farm size necessary for econo mic survival would be greater than it is if it were not for an increasing reli ance of farm operators on incomes from nonfarm sources. In 1959, nonfarm in come accounted for about 20 percent of total income of farm operators in the above-$lO,OOO sector; but nearly 60 per cent of that of operators in the below slo,ooo sector. Looking ahead, it is expected that the present trend of shrinking numbers and increasing size will continue, but the percentage rate may be less drama tic. ★ ★ * ★ The End Of The Rood A great man came to the end of his earthly road this week in a foreign land, and yet no land was really foreign to him for he was truly an International man America, the United Nations, and particularly the World, lost a good friend when Adlai E Stevenson, Ameri ca’s United Nations Ambassador, fell dead on a London sidewalk. As President Johnson said in his tribute to Stevenson, he will be remem bered for what he was rather than for the high offices he held. That he will!. Millions of Americans disagreed with him politically. Many millions more had no idea what the man was trying to say to them. But he helped to bring us back to the ideals that are the bedrock of “The American Dream”. And this idea list came along at a time when our stock of ideals was sorely in need of replenishment. He was not a “gut-fighting” politi cian, in fact, he probably both envied and despised that breed. He tended to talk above the heads of the crowd, and, even though his warmth and sincerity reached many, the masses refused him the land’s highest office. Probably again st any opponent other than General Eisenhower, Stevenson would have be come President of the United States in 1952 He’s gone now, but we sincerely hope that the ideals of man’s humanity to man the legacy this proud, humble, honest, and brilliant gentlemen from Illinois has left to us will live on in our hearts and in our deeds piogiess of the ciop on July and is 3,200 acres below the 1, accoidmg to the Pennsyl- 5-year average The most le vama Crop Repoiting Seiv- cent low acieage was 25,800 ice This pioduction is the set in 1953 same as last yeai but is 15 percent .below the 1959-63 av erage pioduction of 54 3 mil lion pounds A yield of 1,700 pounds per acie is anticipated which is 6 percent below the 5-year average yield of 1 800 pounds Acreage for tobacco equals last yeai’s low of 27,000 acies Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday, are expected to average in the normal range of 87 to 66 degrees. It will be seasonable over the week end with a warming trend toward the end of the period. Precipitation may total >/, 'inch, -.occurffiftg locally as showers about Sunday, and again on Wednesday. Planting of tobacco seed beds got underway in early April but cool weather de layed giowth until late in the month With wanner weather then promoting rapid growth field placement began the last week of May and was virtu ally completed by July 1 The eaily planted tobacco got off to a good stait and looks very good Moistuie in Lancaster County as of July 1 was be coming very critical and lat er planted fields were begin ning to show the effects of the shortage Heavy lamfall the--first and second* weeks of July helped. to -aeUeye, .this situation ‘ Some cut woim damage is occurisrig but disease and in sects have cieated no prob lems so far. 7HP' /best end, my' worst, between r”i c~\ A Christ in me end the devilish \ J rii) IjEli UJ K / ’ »®5 between the Me that know* \ / very well what ought to be done, \ SPEAKS and the Me that stupidly or.stub- ' bornly won’t do it. It is a fight C >. V L J: ' that tears me right down the I V middle, a fight that no one else perhaps can see but which I dread every day, because it goes on - every day. One “I" make* pro mises the other "1” won’t keep; firnuiftk kv Ctriinnla one " 1 ” makes resolutions the urowin Dy Jiruggie other one tears Up with a laugh Lesson for July 18. 1965 »nd throws into the waste basket. • Which Is th'e real one?. Who’* in Background Scriplun; Homan* 7 ChflrgC hire? D.r.u..ri *«*.,! Romans 8 1-10. f , rugg | ft gefs m , down £AINT PAUL undoubtedly "The Juvenile delinquents that • knew what he was driving at gr ew up be dirty old men" when he wrote the seventh chap- that’s the trademark of a couple ter of Homans. But few chapters of comedians- It sounds funny, - he ever wrote have stirred so bu t it really-isn't. Many a juve much discussion as this one. Two nile delinquent Can’t .be anything questions have given trouble to e lse but a dirty Old man. That Bible scholars: 1 j s the easy thing to be; he can Was Paul writing-gink into that state of life wlth his own expen- out trying at all. That is always ences or is the one way to get out of-a fight: “I” here a dra run away. Many a man gets so matic way of ex- tired of the constant inner grind pressing umver- ing civil war with himself that his sal human exper- better self just quits, stops fight iences? 2. Is Paul ing entirely, lets the worse self descr i b i n g-the have it. (Why doesn’t the worse Christian life, or self give up sometimes? Well, the life of a man who only be- sometimes it. does but more - came a Christian later? Let us of that in a moment.) leave these questions for the Reinforcement for Victory books. Let the reader make up his own mind about it if he can. +h s°?LYtL i nnlT!?. Let us take three mam thoughts titUt/tVi 4L,*- nU«»its»» cmroactc irt AIUGHCSn COiOIIIGS uGIGStGQ til© ? h J I w 'J of the British Empire? the writer of this column. They ... „ are (we hope) true thoughts and J^ 11 ‘ ® £TTn A the colonies would have been may be just what Paul was mean- , indeed were licked all ‘ and help us, we began to get Christian life is struggle somewhere. With France as our Last week we gave some ally, victory became almost a sure thought to the fact that the life- thing. So it is with the Chris of a real Christian is a life of tian’s struggle within himsdll, battle and effort. It is not a against himself. Fighting alone, matter of quiet silent growth of he weakens, surrenders and loses, the spiritual life. A race, a climb, With the right ally and fellow a fight, this describes it better fighter, he takes heart and wins, than quieter words. A big point This is no mere human reinforce in this chapter, and it is a big ment, though it is always good point in experience too, is that to have sympathetic friends. The the struggle is not between me great victory-bringing ally is none and my enemies, but between me other than the Son of God Him and myself. I am my own worst self, the invisible but ever-real enemy. No, one else can do me inner Companion and Champion. the harm I can do an ?, (Buod on •utUn.i copyriahud fcy tka done, perhaps —to myself. No Diriiion of Chriilian Education, Notional Ana anal nnthinf? ic ac miirh Council of tko Churckoo of Chnsl in tfca one ana notnmg else is as mucn TJ< s , A , > y c*muutr hm to blame for my failures as lam Some*.) personally responsible. There is something in me which wants one thing, and another something (or is it someone?) within me which wants just the opposite. It is a constant struggle between my YOUR CHOICE ON SUNDAY Now Is The Time ... To Prepare Alfalfa Ground Summer seedings of alfalfa should be made by mid-August In order to have the ground worked down fine and firm, it should be plowed or disked several weeks in ad vance of seeding. As soon as the small giam is harvested the ground should be started for the new alfalfa seeding. Lime and fertilize according to a complete soil test The plan of pieparing the ground one week and seeding the following weeks does not usually give good stands To Keep Pesticide Records Theie are many icasons for keeping an accurate iccord of the date, the material, and the amounts applied per acre of every chemi cal used on crops and livestock. Record forms are available fiom our Extension office for this purpose We urge all farm ers to adopt this recoid-keeping practice at once. To Conti ol Sheep Parasites To Keep Seeds Dry Good flock management re quires regular attention to the elimination of internal para sites fiom sheep Spring lam'bs should be drenched every 4 to 6 weeks during the sum mer, the entne flock should be rotated between several pastures in order to keep down stomach worm infection The drenching of all animals m the spring, and again in the .fall, is recommended. The use" of a phenothiazme—salt mixture .is a good preventa tive practice between drench ings but not in place of di enchmgs. ATTEND THE CHURCH OF MAX SMITH Many flower and vegetable giowers have extra seed left over from the spring plant ings In most cases this seed will be good next spring pro viding it is stored in a cool, dry place away from any spray materials It should be well identified or kept in the original package or contain er Damp basements or places where-it wnll get wet aneLcon tammated. are not the test storage places if the r seeds are to be used next year. Try—A -Clossificd
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