—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 23, 1965
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From Where We Stand...
Renf-A-Crowd Service
You can rent everything else these
days, why not a crowd? The Hertz Co.
with its “catapulting man” commercial
would be a natural to handle this line;
all they’d have to do would be change
a few words of their jingle to suit the
case “Let Hertz put Youuuuu,” in the
protest march (on the picket line; at
the demonstration; etc.).
The so-called “anti-war in Viet
Nam” demonstrations over the weekend
could certainly have used a few crowds.
In spite of the coast-to-coast headlines
they received, they actually inspired
few morally-enraged comrades to turn
out in support of the Viet Cong cause.
President Johnson and many others
expressed concern that these demon
strations might be interpreted by the
enemy as a serious internal conflict, and
could delude Hanoi into prolonging the
war. Since the weekend, however, the
counter-attack by organizations and citi
zens who understand the necessity for
the Viet Nam action have been an in
creasingly audible, clear voice. It is
beginning to appear that these “anti”
demonstrations were just what was
needed to unite the great body of the
American people behind the govern
ment’s efforts in southeast Asia.
The handful of starry-eyed stu
dents, idealistic professors, and profes
sional organizers of questionable loyal
ty are within their rights to express
their sentiments in such demonstra
tions, but we wonder if they really
understand the problem The problem is
not Viet Nam, nor Thailand, nor Malay
sia, nor any other country or group of
countries. The question is simply, are
we to permit communism to over-run
southeast Asia and the rest of the
world or are we going to try to
contain it and let it burn itself out?
The blaze of communism is not generat
ed by spontaneous combustion; rather
it is a form of arson These arsonists
are not children idly playing with
matches in their own basements They
are dedicated and deadly professionals
For the protection of the rest of society
they must be rehabilitated, contained,
or destroyed
For the first time in Asia, the
United States has stopped letting the
communists call the shots. For the
first time we have taken the initiative,
unmistakably, and once having done so
we are committed to pursue this cause
Calcium & Phosphorus
In Hog Feeds Blamed
For Poor Zinc Use
Although zinc defic-ienc> di
rectly causes parakeratosis, a
troublesome disease with hogs,
the deficiency isn’t always a
simple inattei ot not enough
zinc in the diet to meet mum
mum nutritional requirements
Parakeratosis in hogs,
which results tiom rate cases
of mineral imba’ance, causes
hard scabs on the stun And,
what is woise for the farm
er's pockethook it bungs
about much slower gains and
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itz, Pa
until complete victory, or at least a
peace we can live with, is achieved.
Time is against us, and with each
skirmish victory our enemy has grown
stronger and bolder. But let no pacifist
or communist anywhere misjudge either
our conviction or our strength. At this
point we have no choice but to fight
aggressively if freedom, as we know
it, is to persevere
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"Rabbit Fever"
As the small game season ap
proaches many hunters begin to burn
with rabbit fever fortunately not the
serious variety. But once the hunting
season gets under way in earnest, real
rabbit fever tularemia is a con
stant threat.
The Council on Rural Health issues
a warning and a few particulars on
tularemia in its current Farm Health
Magazine. Tularemia is a bacterial in
fection, but doesn’t necessarily require
a break in the skin to gam entrance to
the body. It may enter the digestive
tract through inadequately cooked meat,
for example. It is called rabbit fever
because of its long association with wild
rabbits, but other animals can also
carry it.
Symptoms of tularemia in man be
gin two to seven days following expos
ure to the organism. It comes on rapid
ly with chills, fever, headache, vomit
ing, and body pains characterizing its
symptoms. Commonly, an ulcer will
form at the point of entry of the germ
through the skin.
Treatment of the disease is made
easier with antibiotics, but even so
tularemia is capable of producing pro
longed illness, prostration, and even
death, according to the American Medi
cal Association.
Several
suggested:
1 Avoid taking animals that ap
pear sluggish, or any found dead or
brought in by a dog or cat.
2 Clean wild game with cau
tion keep hands away from eyes; use
rubber or plastic gloves when possible,
clean hands and arms thoroughly after
wards.
3 Discard by burning or burying
any game having white or yellow spots
on the liver or other viscera, or en
larged glands in the neck.
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i educed teed etticiencv
Nutr tionists have known
toi some time that high lev
els ot calcium or phosphorus
tan te up zinc in diets con
taining adequate levels of
tin-! mineral Recent feeding
inn's vv’th lats, conducted at
Be’tsville by biochemist C A
C.ibell, brought into sharper
locus the delicate interrela
tionships of mineral require
ments The ARS trials showed
that high levels of calcium
and phosphorus can independ
entlv interfere with zinc util
ization by the body but
calcium poses the greater
problem The worst combina
tion is a diet that oversirp
plies both calcium and phos-
phorus
Cabell also included potas
sium in this Study because
earliei lesearch with rats had
unp’icated a deficiency of
this element in abnormal hair
growth He thought perhaps
potassium deficiency might be
tied to the relationship be
tween low zinc and high cal
cium and phosphorus The
trial, howeier, show'ed that
potassium deficiency was a
separate problem.
To Kxpect 'Needle Drop on
Evergreens . Don’t worry
it some of your evergreens
hate dropped or are dropping
need es, the older needles are
usually closest to the trunk
and the ones that are dropped
in the tall and early winter
The younger needles are at
the ends of the branches and
should not be dropping. The
shedding ot the old needles
’s nature at work and should
Since the physiology of U. S. wheat production in not be of any concern A
uts is similar to that of hogs, 1965 is expected to reach 1 4 thorough soaking of the root
these findings hate pillion bushels, the highest zone area in young evergreens
cance for manufacturers of -1958, according to the just before freezing weather
hog feed, showing itoie clear- XT S'. Department of Agncul- arrives is a good practice
ly than before that the rather ture. agatnst winter killma
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preventive measures
small quantities of calcium
and phosphorus leqtnied in
hog rations must be meas
ured ouit caretully and aC
curatelc.
• Egg Study
(Continued from Page 1)
will he sought on. production
lecords and plans, manage
ment practices, and marketing
methods.
State Agriculture Secretary
Le’and H Bull pointed out
that results ot the survey will
sene “as guides foi intelli
gent and etticient planning
tor the futuie ’’
The survey is important to
producers, according to Dew
ey O Bolster, statistician-in
chaige of the Crop Report
ing Service, because of the
highly competitne nature of
the industry and the changes
in pioduction and marketing
that aftect it “It is necessary
to know where we are and
where we are going,” he said.
Egg production, he added,
is the second most important
source of income for Pennsyl
unia farmers, ranking next
to dairying in cash returns
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Old Age Problems
Lesion for October 24, 1965
Background Sctiplurst Numbers 13.1
through 14 38; Joshua 14.6-15;
35 13-19.
o*Toti*n«l Jl««dln*i\ Joshua 1:1-9.
geriatrics is a word I don’t re-
VJr member seeing or hearing
when I was young, but now
everybody seems to be talking
about it, from the President on
down. The name may look fancy
like the name of a new unheard
l of disease. But
fi it’s just a new
! name for an old
problem: Old
age. Doctors and
medicines have
given us health
much longer than
Hii, MU joyed. One result
Or. Foreman of this, of course,
is the much larger proportion of
older people in American society.
Year by year the roll-call of per
sons between the ages of 65 and
100 grows longer. Two kinds of
problems arise: the problems of
those who care for the aged; and
the problems of life as the aged
themselves have to struggle with
them.
Retirement
Three of this latter class of
problems meet us in the story
of that Old Testament hero,
Caleb. He was one of the men
who reported favorably on the
question, a year or two after the
Israelites came out of Egypt:
Shall we invade our Promised
Land now, or not? The majority
said No, we would, only fail.
Caleb and Joshua alone said, Yes:
the cities are well fortified and
the inhabitants look like giants,
but God will be on our side if
only we have the courage to
start. Well, the Israelites' pan
icked. They refused to advance.
So God had to let them die one
by one in the wilderness, until
of all the thousands who left
Egypt, only Joshua and Caleb
were left alive to enter the land
of Canaan. By that time Caleb
are
Now Is The Time . . .
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To House Farm Machinery
The investment m farm machinery is
very high on most farms, replacement costs
keep getting higher like many other things /
This means that machinery should be given
some winter caie and protection. The weath
er is one of the greatest enemies of machin
ery with the moisture causing xust and
shortening the life of the equipment Geais
should be greased, broken parts replaced
and all piet-es put under cover to prevent
fust.
To Segregate Shipped Cattle
The importance of separating newly pur
chased cattle from acclimated cattle cannot
be too strongly emphasized. Many feeders are
running too great a risk by mixing these groups of cattle; some.
currently having trouble. Do not permit them to come into
contact with each other, or eat or drinx trom the same place
for at least three weeks after arrival ”
was 55- years old,'and hetUlmed
to be just as strong as ha had
bean forty years before. The
question was: What could 'this
old man do with the rest of hia
time on earth? He might well
have retired. Instead, he kept
right on going. A soldier 40
years, a soldier still. The answer
to the problem: What shall 1
do after I retire is Don’t re*
tire! Some one will say, But I
have to retire. My pay stops at
62 or 65 or 70 or whatever the
age is. This puts the problem
on another footing: How shall
society be organized so that even
the older people can be produc
tively active? Caleb’s generation
did not have to face that prob*
lem; but we do.
Strength for ofd age
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Another problem is strength.
Caleb at 85 felt fit as he had ever
felt in his life. Most of us are
not so fortunate at 70. Old per
sons are generally all too clearly
aware that their strength is lim
ited.
Younger generation
The younger generation make
one of the older generation’s
most exasperating set of prob
lems. So it often is, but so it
need not be. One kind of older
person, man or woman, sits
around complaining that the
young people act like young
people. Another kind simply pays
no attention to young people,
does not know them and doesn’t
want to know them. They live
in a world inhabited entirely by
the aged. Our man Caleb belongs
in neither of these classes of
aged persons. From what w«
know of him, he kept -tip with
the younger generation. He knew,
for example; that what grumpy
type grandparents sometimes
complain about as silly sentimen
tal foolishness is really-serious
business; falling in love with the
right person for the right rea
sons, So he was interested in
seeing his daughter married to
the right young man.- He -made
certain the young man would be
congenial in-*-family of lighting
men, for he got her mamedj to
another soldier. • He made cure
also that the young aon-inftaw
would be a brave and persistent
man (how do we know this?).
Best of all, he gave his daughter
for a wedding present something
much better than land or water;
he left to youth the inspiration
of a brave and generous old age.
our ancestors en-
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Division oi Chnstian Education* National
Council of Iho ChurchM of Christ in tha
u. S. A. Btltuad fey Community fmi
Btrvico.)
Program . Soil fating in
the tail will give ample time
to receive the i econrmenda
tions and order the proper
fertilize! for spring planting.
Many concerns null give spe
cial prices if ordeis are placed
and accepted
spring rush By testing to
learn ot the needs of' the soil
for a certain crop, and b>
placing the fertilizer >order to
get reduced prices, seem like
good practices to make better
use of the iertilizer -dolla-r.
SMITH
To Plan tor 1986 Fertilizer