—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 11,1966
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From Where We Stand,..
And The Poor Get Richer
Remember the line from the old
song “the rich get richer and the
poor get poorer . . .’’? Thanks to the
marvelous mechanics of the modern
federal government, such a song, if
written today, would probably be bann
ed in Washington as “Unamerican".
If we may take the liberty of
parodying another old saying some
are bom wealthy, some acquire wealth,
and some have wealth thrust upon
them. Due to heavy inheritance taxes,
numbers in the first category have
dwindled rapidly in the past generation;
there are still many who have the talent
and ambition to acquire wealth, but
their energies are also being sapped
daily through the tax racket; that leaves
most of our fellow citizens in the
“thrust upon” category, or does it?
Probably it does not because it
seems to take the taxes of many work
ers to enable one drone to live in the
manner in which the President says
he must become accustomed. *
Mr. Johnson seems to feel it is his
destiny in the White House to “equa
lize” there’s a dandy little word to
think about to equalize the “gots and
the ain’t gots”. If the solution were
as simple as the Administration im
plies, there would be no problem. How
ever, there are many problems.
Not the least of these is that even
the President of the United States of
America can not raise the average with
out pulling down the top! That’s what
an average is it is the sum of all the
quantities divided by the number of
cases. And it is largely the effort, the
drive and the ambition of those above
the average that make that average as
high as it is
But the President is not interested
in raising the national average income
by encouraging incentive at the top. He
proposes to do it by legislative equaliza
tion' That’s a fancy term that means
“get in line, pardner, you too can get
on the big poverty bandwagon”.
Retraining workers for adjustment
to new skill requirements, workman’s
compensation, limited unemployment
payments these are all “good” things,
and are hard to argue against But they
are good because they help to stabilize
the economy They tend to smooth out
some of the rough spots And the idea
Land Can Yield 5
Tons Of Alfalfa
Per Acre
The National Limestone In
stitute lepoits that accoiding
to the agronomists of a lead
ing Midwestern univeisity,
any farmland .capable of pro
ducing 100 bushels of coin
pei acre can make five tons
of alfalfa ipei acie In oidei
to pioduce this quantity of
high-quality alfalfa hay the
farmei must follow many good
fanning piactices
Alfalfa is a lime-loving
ci op, the lepoit states, so
the fiist step is to apply
enough lime to bring the soil
up to neutial (pH 7 0), 01
veiy neaily to this point If
the soil has not been tested
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of giving the guy who’s down a helping
hand is good because he is being helped
to help himself. But to arbitrarily say
that everyone below a certain intoler
able level of income must be brought up
to that level is, in a word, incredible.
It seems to us there are already
enough “poverty” programs on the local,
state and federal levels to adequately
meet the needs of anyone who is able
and willing to help himself. We don’t
need another one, especially one that
will cost nearly as much to administer
as it will distribute. Rather than dupli
cate agencies already in existence,
wouldn’t it make more sense (and. cents)
to help the present agencies do a more
effective job?
What Do YOU Think?
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It's Gel+in' On To Foir Time
Don’t look now but SUMMER just
went thataway. The snow won’t fly for
awhile yet, and we’ve got some real
golden days coming along. Fall custo
marily serves up some of the best days
Nature ever created. Temperatures to
suit those who like it a little warm as
well as a little chilly; colorful land
scapes to please the eye; clear, blue
skies to make harvesting an even more
marvelous task; and, Country Fairs.
Solanco will kick-off the season
with its traditional three-day event next
week. It will get some stiff competition
from the All-American Dairy Show
which runs all week at Harrisburg, but
we’re sure it can hold its own as usual.
The following week we will be
knee-deep in fairs with Ephrata and
West Lampeter overlapping between
September 22 and 25.
New Holland will usher out Sept
ember and welcome October as its fair
is scheduled for September 29 through
October 2
Then the season of local fairs will
come to a close at Manheim, October
6 to 8 Our introduction to the Man
heim Fair was on a very chilly evening
last October during the dairy show.
We hope the area has a little more
hospitable temperatures in store for
this year’s event
So there they are. If we’ve over
looked any it was not intentional, but
let us hear about it.
recently and there is a ques
tion of how much lime to ap
ply, this should [be done The
lime should be applied this
summei or fall and worked
into the soil, so that the al
falfa can be seeded ,in the
spring
The farmei should select a
vauety of alfalfa adapted to
his land and the aiea He
must piepaie a good seed bed
and apply all the other plant
food nutnents that aie need
ed foi maximum production
He will have to put “hay” at
the top of his list because
good hay car’t be made when
theie is nothing else to do
Alfalfa should be cut at the
bud stage in older to have
the highest feed value, for
lie 'protein content is at its
maximum at this stage (If
the hay is left to grow, it
will lose much of its feed
value, which may drop as
much as 1% each day Since
70% of the alfalfa plant’s
nutnents and 90% of its min
erals and vitamins aie found
in the leaves, the entire cut
ting and eunng opeiation
must be geaied to saving all
the leaves possible Leaf loss
means piotem loss, feed val
ue Joss and income loss to
the fanmer
Put hay fiist and then fol
low each step for maximum
pioduction and profit Remem
bei the agionomists say that
lime should be applied at
least six months in advance
of seeding.
And we’ll see you at THE FAIR!
Care Urged In
Use Of Dairy
Insecticides
Special caie must be taken
when spiaying dany cows
with insecticides to conti ol
flies wains Leioy L Peteis,
Univeisity of Missonii exten
sion entomologist
Peteis specifically mentions
precautions with use of in
secticides such as methoxy
chloi waitable powdei mala
thion dust, Ciodun, dichloivos
tion of insecticide be made
attei all cows in the milking
pailoi have been milked
If moie than one gioup of
cows aie bi ought thiough the
(DDVP), 01 pyielhnn spiays.
He advises that piecautions
should be taken to avoid con
tamination and pesticide lesi
due in milk To eliminate any
likelihood of that happening,
he lecommends that applica
milking parlor at one milking,
the safest method of insecti
cide application is to milk all
the cows of one group, treat
them, tuin them out, then
bring in the next gioup This
should be the piocedure for
each group
‘DO NOT,” warns Peters,
“milk one cow, put the milker
on the next cow, and beat
the first one, and so on down
the lire Contamination an-d
pesticide lesidue in the milk
could veiy easily lesult.”
B«ck«r*uad Scriptural 1 Corinthians
9 24-27; 10 12-33: 1 P»t«r 4 1-15.
Dratitasl Itriingi-11 Fstcr 1.3-11.
S„„, ... „ In cities you may see can on
OME BOYS like it in the army, greets w jth two sets of con
some doij t. Nobody likes it t ro i s the same on the left aid*
at first. If you Inquire around a as on the rlght on e is for th«
little and ask why it Is these i elrneri one j s f or the instructor.
SfronWfn don t like army lue, Tlie object of the driving lessons
youll find out fast. Js the dis- ig not to show off the teacher's
ciplme. It s being told what they object is to transfer,
can do and what jj y degrees, the control <— the
they cant do, its di sc ipi inc , if you please, from
taking orders, it s t he instructor to the learner. That
not being allowed j s a Jittle parable about people,
to do as y°u A modern philosopher has en
please. In fact, j oye d dividing people into two
that is the mam distinct types: self-directed and
resason why dis- other-directed. The self-directed
cipline is so un- man j s the self-disciplined man.
popular. It blocks jj e has won —or he normally
Dr. Foreman you off from and us u*lly wins the battle
doing as you please. between the I want and I ought.
But that is just the reason when he knows what he ought
for discipline, if everybody to do , he does it. The other man
did only what he pleased, when doesn’t bother with ought and
he pleased; and as he pleased, indeed tries to seal his mind
the place—any place—would be a g a i ns t such unpleasant words!
a mess. The last place you want What he thinks of and all ho
to he is in an undisciplined home, thinks of is, what’s being done
5? undisciplined school, or an un- these days? What’s in and what’s
disciplined. camp. A highway out? He operates by a kind of
bridge without a guard-rail, a ra dar, he tries to guess what
railway without a track, a rocket others would want him to say,
shot off without a planned course an d he says it; what they want
they are all silly and dangerous, him to think, and he thinks it.
but no more silly and dangerous A dog’s life l
than human beings are without ’ i
discipline. Where does God come In?
The fight inside
Some of God’s creatures cannot let us be clear about what God
do wrong. Did you ever hear of will not do. He will not make
a conceited hummingbird, or a your decisions for you; and he
wicked dandelion, or a lazy but- will not be on your side so long
terfly? A tiger is not to blame *s you don’t try to take sides,
for being a tiger, nor a - rose pod hasn’t much-use for other
praised for being beautiful, hose directed people. But if you are
and tiger are as they are and all in earnest about that running
they need do is follow their im- battle between Ought and Want,
pulses. It is only human beings God will help you.
who can be inhuman. A man
can be unmanly, but no cat can
be uncatlike. It is only in man
that those struggles occur which
make discipline so necessary and
(alas) so painful. Deep inside
man’s inmost self there is a con
tinuing struggle in progress.
Each man, besides perhaps out
side enemies such as we thought
about last week, has himself to
Bght. You are your own worst ene-
Now Is The Time ...
To Kill Broadleaf Weeds
The month ol September is a good time
to spray lawns or pastuies foi the conti ol of
btoadleaf weeds such as dandelion, ragweed,
and plantain The use of the amine foim of
2 4 D will kill many of these weeds with one
application When the weeds are killed now
in early fall the glass will have better
weather conditions to fill in the open places
To Enter Livestock
Both the Pennsylvania Exposition and
the Eastern National Livestock Shows re
quire an entry deadline of October 1 These
shows include both breeding and market
classes of beef cattle, sheep, and hogs Entry
blanks and premium lists are available fiom
our Extension Office or from the official show offices located at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Timomum, Maryland
To Apply Lime This Fall
'Small ‘grain fields that aie
to be seeded' down to grass
legume mixtures next spang
or next sitemer should be
heated this fall if lime is
needed. A soil test will rfe
veal the degiee of acidity
and much quicker results wall
be obtained by working the
lime into the soil this fall be
fore the small gram is seeded.
Try A Classified
It Pays!
and It is better to leant that
•eadlng about it (here, for ex
ile) than to wake up to tho
h of it when it’s too late. But
it is it you and yourself at#
iting over? It is the same
:Ie that men have known ever
;e there were men on earth,
struggle between "I viant”
1 "I ought.” An animal cat'
fish or elephant or tiger
iws only “I want.” But naan
mot live solely by what h#
its. Getting the want under
Jrol by ought is the whol#
problem of discipline, Sound*
easy? Just try itl
Who's in charge here?
J Aren’t there any God-directed
'people? Of course there are. But
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Sunday
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To Avoid Late September
Alfalfa Cutting
If the next 'cutting of alfal
fa does not reach the early
blossom stage ‘by September
15, it is suggested that har
vest be delayed until after a
killing frost iThe removal of
the crop later this month and
the getting of a few inches of
growth before a frost has been
blamed for the draining of
the reserve food from the al
falfa roots. The removal of
the 'crop after a killing frost
will usually not permit tune
for milch new growth and the
reduction of root reserves.