—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 16, 1965 4 \ from Where We Stand,.. Rent Your Form To The Government? The Cropland Adjustment Program ('CAP) of the new “ominous” farm bill promises to put the federal govern ment ever deeper into the land busi ness. In fact, farmers seeking to enlarge their operations in the future by buying additional land may run smack into in flated land values at best, and no land available at worst, because of govern ment competition in the land market. The idea of this program is to divert land from surplus production and alter its use to hunting, fishing, etc. If CAP were to concentrate its activity on marginal, low-productivity land, it would probably be a worthwhile and successful program But it is not our understanding that such is the inten tion. The intention seems to be to “rent” cropland by paying up to 40 percent of the market value of the retired crop, and the only restriction seems to be that the crop must be one which is under price supports The CAP goal is to remove about 40 million acres of land from crop pro duction eight million each year for the next five years' This program may not mean too much in Lancaster County where we already have our own pro blems with inflated land values, but it is bound to push land prices up over the country as a whole, thus working a further hardship on the farmer who wants to expand and remain in farm ing, or the youngster who wants to get into farming as an occupation. What Do YOU Think? ★ ★ ★ "A Dufy To Fight" So said Senator Everett Dirksen as he rallied filibuster forces in the U S. Senate against repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law The House passed bill for repeal has hopefully received a permanent squashing by the Dirksen coalition. Repeal of the so-called “Right To Work” section of the Taft-Hartley law was a campaign promise made by Presi dent Johnson to the powerful labor union leaders. In effect it says that join ing a labor union is compulsory for all workers and that no state has the right to pass any law to the contrary al though nineteen states have already en acted laws which leave the choice of joining or not joining a union in the hands of individual workers where it belongs In a slick maneuver last week, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield decided to find out how many senators would vote with him for cloture to choke off a Dirksen filibuster Mans field moved to table a motion that the bill be brought up for debate, and in vited all senators who would vote for repeal to vote against the tabling mo- • SNF (Continued from Page 1) herd owned hy John W Esh elman & Sons, Lancaster, were Hope Leader Jewel, a four year-old registered Holstein, has credits of 20,163 Ihs milk, 879 lbs hutterfat and Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0. Box 266 - Litltz, Pa 17543 Offices: 22 E. Mam St Lititz, Pa. 17543 Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or piga that anrare are fre- iug machines and -coolers, and ves t ment ot on ty * f«w d o i. LiUtz 626-2191 quently stunted and poor man y other P’ »* n « edcd lars modern - suggestJn. re r Don*Timmons, Editor feeders. The disease is season-*' machinery.. During these in to all kinds oT-agricul- Robert G. Campbell, Adver- a,! and usually occurs only termptions a sanall engine tlr j- e .and landscaping may he lr t Ct ? r M U . • TGE Vaccine m the winter months. Al- drive f generator will help to obtain&d ' For additional de- November 4, (Continued trom Fade 11 , th«’ l Sh sows and other older omplete '“ an,y l cntlcal Johs - tails -write, Correwponkeface , J. every Satur- hogs become infected, death See your Jocal . power com- Q OUrse(j -BoX - 5000, ■ I'Univet'- Lit- mg Prevention of TGE in iosses are gen€raJly low . Pany representative for stand- wty Pen na. ite. Pa. the baby pigs depends on the by generator detatta. tion which if passed would kill repeal chances for this session. decided to deny Mansfield the informa tion the latter sought, and ordered his forces to also vote against tabling. The vote was 96 to 0. Mansfield’s next move on Monday was to call for a cloture vote. This would require a two-thirds majority of those senators voting and would limit the debate to one hour per senator. Mansfield wasn’t even able to get a simple majority for cloture the score was 47-45 against. So the filibuster con tinued. On Tuesday, Administration forces surrendered the fight for repeal for this session As Senator Qirksen said, “the whole question of freedom” is at stake here, and there is a duty to fight and to educate the country on what is in volved. Freedom is indeed involved, and Dirksen’s success signals the first ma jor congressional defeat for the “anti freedom- ’ forces of the Great Society. Time is long overdue for Congress to stand firm and say “NO” to the stam peding methods and endless demands of Lyndon Johnson! What Do YOU Think? ★ ★ ★ ★ The Unfinished Job As a stranger looks at Lancaster County, especially from the air, he is likely to get the impression that the county is one beautiful garden with every inch of land practicing proper conservation procedures. But such is not the case even in Lancaster County the conservation job is only about one-third finished Considering our tremendous number of farms, that one-third represents a lot of conservation, but the remaining two thirds of county land “unconserved” represents an even greater amount. According to Soil Conservation Service Administrator Don Williams, the “soil and water conservation job has been adequately accomplished on about a third of the privately owned lands in the country . . . substantial progress has been made on another third”, but the remaining third is the victim of unrestrained erosion, sedimen tation, and water management prob lems. This neglected area includes rural America, sprawling suburbia, and land along public thorofares The unfinished and the unstarted thirds of the conservation job should be of real concern to every American When you are surrounded by examples of good conservation practices it is very easy to feel complacent about conserva tion But it is not a job that will ever really be finished; it is one which we will have to keep after constantly, and even then we’ll be running way behind schedule. 1,784 lbs sollds-not-fat in 340 production of antibodies, days Red Rose Sovereign Pe- winch the sow passes on to onateld, a 10-year-old, has her newborn pigs through her produced 20,379 lbs milk, 'milk during the first 4 or 5 836 lbs butterfat and 1,714 days the period -when lbs. sohds-not-fat in 353 days, death losses are highest. Nei- Honey Doe Korndyke Lnnda, ther the pigs nor the sows a w\-year-old, had 17,138 lbs. are permanently immunized milk, 626 lbs butterfat, and 1.472 lbs. sohds-not-fat an 305 clays Two cows reported In •the Robert H. Kauffman herd, Elizabethtown HI were: Penn Springs Regal Daisy Mae, a seven-year-old register ed Holstein, has -credits of 17,616 lbs. milk, 809 lbs hut terfat and 1,509 lbs. soUds aot-fat in 341 days; Penn Springs Lad Bubbles, a flve jear-old, has produced 16,122 lbs milk, 609 lbs butterfat and 1,372 lbs. solids-not-fat in 320 days. Although the 'cause of TGE has not been fully establish ed, scientists have isolated a number of related viruses and other organisms thought to be associated with the disease. There is no known treat ment. Symptoms at TGfE in 'bafty pigs laolude vomiting, diar- rhea, dehydration, and lack o£ appetite. Inflected sows may stop milk production, and ■ 7 \fco®as/i \ * S PEAKS a* -nr-TinTtne^mw** Sunday Sfh—l l»MM« Craftsman Lesson for October 17, 1965 Background Scripture Exodus 31 1-5, 33 30 ‘hrough 36 7, !7 through 3S Stvolionol lUodingi I Tiraoliiy 4 6-16. T £ you were about to meet a man you did not know, (all you knew about him being that his name was Bezalel) and your in troducer told you, “This man has been called by God,” what sort of man would you expect to see? You’d be sur prised. This man is evidently no Priest nor preacher. He is an artist. From cover to cover, he is about the only artist men- tioned in the Dr. Foreman Bible. He be longs to a class of people you don’t expect to find in church. This particular artist had perhaps had training in Egypt where at that time (as we know from King Tutankhamen’s tomb and other wise) there flourished skilled jewelers, engravers, weavers, em broiderers, carvers of wood and of metal, whose skill has never been surpassed. At any rate this Bezalel (pronounced BEZzalell) was an artist in all these ways. He was the creative artist and craftsman in charge of the con struction of the Tabernacle, a small but exquisitely beautiful shrine, center of the worship of Israel, the Tent of God Himself, as they believed. Beauty and religion It was only later that the He brew people got it into their heads at last that God is every where. But it was important with them to know that God is some where and for a child, or a child-people, that means you can point to him. So if you could have flown back there three thou sand years or so, on a time-ma chine, and if jou had asked al most anyone, Where is your God? they w’ould all have pointed to this beautiful tent-shrine and Now Is The Time ... To Plant Ground Cover Land that is allowed to remain without any vegetative cover over the winter months is open for both wind and water erosion Cover crops such as ryegrass, winter wheat, or rye may still be seeded and give growth before the ground freezes These greea man ure crops may be plowed down next spring and add to soil fertility To Store Fuel Properly Poor practices in the storing and handl ing of gasoline and kerosene are the prime causes of farm fires. The safest place to store gasoline is in an underground tank; if either gasoline or kerosene are to be stored above ground, the leak-free tanks should be at least 40 feet from any building. Small amounts can be stored in safety cans but keep them well labelled. When baniiw these fuels keep away from flame or heat and do all refueling outside. To Prepare for Power loss In ..day of power equipped farming, an inter ruption or loea of electricity is very inconvenient and could lie quite expensive. The lack of power wall stop chick and pig brooders, automatic furnaces, water -systems, milk laid: There is where God lire*! Bight in among us, at the center of where wc live. But since God Is Who He is, lie docs not live in an ordinary tent like tho tents of men. His dwelling must be la* comparably beautiful and costly. Qualifications of artists This Bezalcl was no picked-up Journeyman Jack-of-all trades. When God called him he was already a master craftsman. Look at the list of his qualifications: “ability, intelligence, knowledge, craftsmanship,” versatility too. Ho is not a man of one craft alone. Every one of hia qualifi cations was needed for his vari ous masterpieces. To this day no man can be a true artist without ability first of all. No amount of inspiration and ambition can make up for clumsiness. Intelli gence too; how much modern art expresses intelligence rather than confusion? Knowledge also; it may be true that the great art ist “swallows all formulas” but whether it be music or poetry or architecture or drama, there is a hard apprenticeship for every true artist. Much art today is not true art because it is clear that this “artist” has never really studied the principles of his craft. Inspired to teach Of course this Bezalel did not build and adorn the Tent of God alone. Oholxab and others helped him, un-named men who were the great artists pupils. We read that Bezalel was inspired to teach. The three great things an artist can do, this Bezalel did: Create (dream and design), pro duce, and teach. In the marvel ously beautiful collection of glass flowers at Harvard, the visitor is saddened by being told that the artist who made these lovely things did not pass on his knowl edge and skills to others. No more such miracles in glass were made after his death. Perhaps he did mot teach because teach ing is even more difficult than doing it yourself. Creating beau ty is hard to teach, partly, be cause one man seldom shares another’s inspiration, partly be cause, unlike science, art has few rules. Blessed be the artists who like Bezalel can teach others what it is not only to feel but to create what is beautiful! (Based an eutlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education. Nat'esal Council oi the Churches oi Christ in the C. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE SUNDAY MAX SMITH To Take Correspondence Courses Penn State University con tinues to offer many ooirer spondeuce courses tirpu*?hp«t the year; these practical -lea- sons tv mail have teen help ful to many people tJhwmgh out the country. Por an. 'in-
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