—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4, 1965
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From Whore We Stand...
Ag. Colleges Note Enrollment
Increoses
It was reported recently at the an
nual convention of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges, that under
graduate enrollment in agricultural
‘colleges increased 13 percent in 1965
over 1964. At the freshman level the
increase was 20 percent. Right now
there are 42,500 undergrads enrolled in
agricultural institutions, an increase of
nearly 5000 over last year.
Why this reversal of a long-time
toward decreased enrollment ?
One very big reason of course is the in
crease in total college enrollments.
There are many more kids going to
college than ever before.
But another reason might be an in
creasing awareness on the part of agri
culturally-oriented youths of the need
for more technical know-how to suc
ceed in the agribusiness field. It is also
possible that the long-time talk about
the deficit of trained personnel in the
fields related to agriculture food
technology, sales, etc. has aroused
the interest of a larger segment of
college-bound youths. Whatever the rea
son, we’re glad to see ag. college enroll
ments on the rise.
Unfortunately the colleges in our
area are not listed among those with
the larger increases. Many of the east
ern agricultural schools are still hurt
ing for students. This effects both the
number and variety of courses they
may offer, for certainly a college can
not afford to teach a class with fewer
than half a 'dozen students except
perhaps on the graduate level. So col
lege students in eastern areas have yet
to become fully aware of the great
need for technically trained people in
the agribusiness field.
You don’t have to be confined to
farming just because you graduate with
a BS. in agriculture In fact, Dr. Morris
Cover, chairman of the department of
animal science and agricultural bio
chemistry at the University of Dela
ware, said recently that “relatively few
of today’s animal science students plan
to become farmers. Even though a good
technical training is more important
than ever for a stockman or dairyman,
the students are more likely to go into
some phase of agribusiness related to
farm production.”
One-third, or more, of ag college
graduates from Delaware are employed
in sales positions, Cover says. And likely
this is true for colleges throughout the
northeast Many of today’s technically
trained animal science graduates con
tinue their education in a graduate
school where a bachelor’s degree in ani
mal and poultry science makes an ex
cellent foundation for advanced work
in veterinary medicine, animal nutri
tion, physiology, genetics, teaching and
management.
People have been saying for
twenty years or more that farming is
becoming big business That is now a
fact; it has indeed become big business,
and the emphasis here should be placed
Loncoster Forming Letters To The Edl>or
Lancaster County’s Own Farm .
Weekly Echto1 ’
P. O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa,
17543
Offices;
22 E. Main St.
Lititz, Pa. 17543
Phone - Lancaster
394-3047 or
Lititz 626-2191
Don Timmons, Editor
Robert G. Campbell, Adver
tising Director
Established November 4,
1955. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster Farming, Lit
itz, Pa.
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Social welfare programs continue
to expand at a galloping pace. It seems
a certainty that regardless of the party
in power federal money or assistance of
one kind or another will be made avail
able to an ever greater number of mem
bers of groups which will be singled out
to be cuddled under the protective wing
of the welfare state. Individual need for
assistance will often be ignored and eli
gibility for benefits will depend on such
factors as age, where you live, your
race, occupation and even the amount
of rent you pay relative to your total
income. In this way, large blocks of
citizens are given a common vested
interest in the extension of the welfare
state. As this process continues, practi
cally every person in the country will
find himself, sooner or later, in a group
being favored by some sort of public
welfare. At this point, we will have to
ask ourselves a very personal question.
Is freedom really worth a monetary
loss, or can we be bought?
In the Odessa, Texas, American,
Oscar Cooley observes that, “In one
breath, people complain of ‘big govern
ment’ and in the next demand their
share of the loot . . . The fact is that
between asking for a dole, and merely
accepting it when proffered, the differ
ence is so slight as to be invisible, at
least to the eye of the average congress
man He judges the popularity of a dole
by the number of takers and this statis
tic usually tells him to vote for it. . . .
Social evils become established because
of their acceptance by individuals, one
by one Likewise, such evils wither on
the vine when individuals, one by one,
condemn them and refuse to participate
in their fruits.”
When a dole gets around to you,
make a decision If you don’t absolutely
need it, refuse it, thereby registering a
vote of “no confidence” in government
domination over your life. Your Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress
may hesitate to collect more taxes from
you, annoy you with regulations, depre
ciate your money and wreck your busi
ness in order to pay you a dole of one
sort or another that you don’t want and
won’t accept.
Lancaster Farming
Deai Sn
In tour last issue of Lan
caster Farming, you said that
anyone who v ants something
in the paper that you don’t
have should ask for it I also
recene Wallace’s Farmer from
Des Moines, lowa. In there
they hate a question and
answer page. The readeis
ask all kinds of questions
about management, finances,
it they should buy land or
not, keep their factory job or
not, etc I find this very in
teresting.
on BUSINESS. Although a boy'doesn’t
necessarily need a college education to
go into farming today, he is faced with
a desperate need to “keep up with the
changes’’. The fact that so many of
Lancaster County’s “young farmers”
will attend classes and meetings indi
cates they are aware of this need, and
that they are doing something about
it.
There are opportunities in this
land for future farmers, and for those
who love agriculture but will serve it
only by serving the needs of farmers.
There is a need for both of these, and
the opportunities await those who will
seek them out.
The State Of Welfare
(Guest Editorial
News Service)
I like your articles by Max
Smith
(Editors note: Mr. Mar
tin’s request for an “Ask the
Experts" page or column in
Lancaster Farming is one
wh'.ch could very likely be
■worked into your farm paper
To (Pro|vide Salt and der to satisfy their wants.
Cattle^feeders are urged to Both sal't and minerals are
provide free choice of both needed to get the .most ef
sal>t and minerals for their ficient gams,
it there is sufficient reader cattle These two itenih Xo Kill -duckweed
interest for it. If you have should be separate and not „ •-
, ... -o The month of December is
any ideas on this, or on oth- mixed together There are „ ’
.a good time to spray new
er material you d like to see many mixtures ot minerals - ~ v . .
, , T _ _ , , , , alfalfa fields for the control
regularly in .Lancaster Farm- that nfay include some salt t, -
, , , . . , , ot duckweed. Either one of
nig. let us hear from you. without any objections, how- the Dl Nltro sprays or CWolo
Reminder all letters must be ever, in addition to this mix- ip<j may be used with good
signed, but names will be ture the animals should have results; the Di Nttro spra s
kept out if you so request) chance at free salt in or- (-Continued on Pago 6)
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Yours tiuly,
C. Walter Martin
New Holland R 2
Statesman
lesson for December S, 1965
party, it is we ourselves, »U of
Background Scripture: Isaiah 1 6 US, Who need tO Open OUT Bible*
7.9, 30 is, 3i i-3, 3c through Ten Commandments and
Derotienal Reading: Isaiah 26 1-9. Bee whit God has to lay.
TP THE prophet Amos was al Prophet’s prospective
Mhe bottom of the heap, Isaiah Your trlle st ,tesman-prophei
was on the glittering top. Amos always brings the light of'God
was a man unknown, from the to bear on the m o£
wrong side of the tracks, so to because he knmt Goi md cau |
speak, a man who felt in his see as it were through Cod'*
own near-starvation job all the eye ’ s> he is of ’ ten hated and
I pressures of an scorned by the very people he is
system, trying to help. Many a states*
Isaiah was a con- j s not recogn i2; ed u auc h
trasting type un yi after his death. One marl*
person, the stuff o£ t he statesman-prophet is that
of which play- be rea iizes that God has an in*
boys are made, terest in mankind, humanity, all
yet no playboy. lnen and every manj an( j no t one
He had wealth, party or nation alone< just
social Portion, because he has this wide vision
, , , , *J e f ll that considers mankind, and not
best people. And yet he too be- one part or f rac ti o n of -it, he is
came one of God's prophets. God called sometimes a traitor and
can use, and has used, as his enemy 0 f jjj s country. "What
spokesmen and champions not was it Lincoln did (or £ oped t< J
po ° r . and , ? bscur< LT n do) which brought down on him
and anst ° the anger of his own party in
crats like Isaiah. 1865? He wanted to treat the
Prophet’s Patriotism states in the Civil
A rare combination was this Jl* * Christian way. What
Isaiah; he was both a preacher Jf aa „ crime of Woodrow
(which, it will be remembered, prison? Dreaming of aJLeague
was the meaning of “prophet”) Nafaons. What was wrong”
and a statesman. We sometimes -f? a ® Hammarskjold? He
find Christians in public life. It Save his great mind and heart
is worthwhile to think about ser Y* nations rather than
Isaiah as an example of a ° ne * Statesmen are often mar*
statesman who was also a man y rs ! out what makes them hated
of God. We can define a states- , often the very quality which
man, to begin with, as a man of generations will praise. God
wisdom who plans wisely for his send . us ., mo , r . e , leaders who see
country and countrymen. inen 111 God.
Prophet’s plea
A true statesman not only
sees that something is wrong m v «l /*| I
with his nation, but what is (lA I A I lIP I It lIIT||
wrong. Isaiah saw the unclean- w " ,v 1,1
hess, the pride, the silly and
stupid use of wealth which could
Jiave been used for help of the
.distressed.. Ha s?w the hypoc
risy of the temple services, where
there was pageantry and liturgy
in plenty, but mighty little heart
religion. He saw the neglect of
the poor, the hardships of the
unemployed. He spoke plainly
about these things. He knew the
remedy too: a return to God,
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Dehorn Heifer Calves
According to modern dairy herd manage
ment, horns on dairy cows aie a liability,
they usually reduce profits by causing in
juries, discontentment, and unrest in a herd
of cows One of the best times to remove the
hoi ns is when the calf is two to three weeks
of age, at this age they may be removed with
the electric dehorner or with the use of
caustic paste or sticks When horns are re
moved at this eaily age there is less shock
and the head develops into a natural poll
shape Some dairymen have secured local
\ eteriananans to remove the horns at an
older age with good success.
To Protect Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
Snowfall can be expected at any time and when the ground
is covered for several days rabbits and field mice can do con
siderable damage by eating the bark If the trees are scattered
in such a location that a fence cannot be put around the group,
then each tree can be wrapped with aluminum foil or with
fine mesh screen or wire. The protection should be fiom the
ground to 20 to 24 inches above the ground.
Now politicians and demagogues
often mention God. They may
even talk like evangelists about
a “return' to God.” But when a
mere politician talks like that,
he does not mean very much
except a kind of emotional binge,
a witch-hunt to find the villain
who is causing all the trouble. A.
politician never admits anything
is wrong with the voters; it’s al
ways the other party that’s to
blame. A true statesman has the
courage to say to his country-!
men: It is you the people who!
have gone wrong. It is not a
Of Your Choice
Sunday
SMITH