4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 11, 1965 From Where We Stand,.. Agriculture On The Move For the most part, 1965 has been a pretty fair year for farmers. But all indications are for a much better year in 1966.’ As the space people say, “All Systems Are GO”. After being at the low end of the economic totem pole for many years, farming is beginning to move. A balance of supply and demand, plus the new emphasis on attacking world hunger problems, have combined to provide the boost needed to put agriculture into a perfect economic orbit around the earth. Farmers have undoubtedly heard such rosy talk before, and are properly skeptical in their outlook But look at the facts. Surpluses of food products have been whittled down to their low est levels in years; the domestic popula tion and economy is expanding rapidly; fewer farmers are stilt in business to meet this increasing demand; and there’s a worldful of hungry people out there screaming for the one commodity we know how to produce better than anyone else FOOD. Predictions are that the world’s present population of three billion will double by the year 2000, and that’s only a shade more than one generation away. Since at least one-third of the world’s people are not now eating regularly or adequately, this means that food output will probably have to triple by the turn of the century to fill those empty stomachs. We said in an editorial, “Food Is A Weapon”, published just over one year ago (see Lancaster Farming, Dec. 5, 1964), regarding Secretary Freeman’s statement made at a Freedom-From- Letters To The Editor Dear Sir Congi atulations to Lancas ter Farming on its 10th birth day. As one who 'helped guide the fortunes of the paper for a time, 1 am pleased to see that you aie still covering the agricultural side of the news in America’s best farm ing community 3VTany miles of furrow have rolled off the moldboard and xnanv lines of type have gone into 'history since I/ancaster county larmeis and Lancas tei Fanning put on double harness Re\ olutionaiy chang- Cb in agi icultui e have brought changes in the newspaper, but it is pleasant to note that the -wholesome basis of each has not changed May yom next bundled yeais be as successful as the past ten Iraie been. Sincei elv. Jack Owen ITniveisitj ot Maiyland '• Watershed (Continued fiom Page 1) Bified cultnation on fauns, and inn eased home building, jt becomes endent that the Disti ict’s ettoits to sell prop Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly 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 Faming, Lit itz, Pa. Hunger-Week dinner, in which he said that America had the ability and the moral obligation to feed the world, that “. . . not discounting the humanitarian aspects involved in this philosophy, nor detracting from the fact that this would be the ‘good’ thing to do, we say in all seriousness, yes, let’s do it, but let’s use food as a tool, as a weapon to swing the balance of power in our favor for a change. We have been out-propagandiz ed by the Communists at every turn, time and again. Now we have the great est .propaganda weapon in the world, food, and if we’re not very careful how we use it we will throw away that ad vantage too.” We were glad to see the complete change in philosophy which recently re moved the Food For Peace program from the control of the Department of Agriculture to the State Department. This meant that instead of being a dumping ground for our surpluses another give-away program food would be used as a political and an economic tool to combat hunger and Communism, and to show the under developed nations, first-hand, one of the many advantages of democracy. A further step taken in this pro gram is even more encouraging. One of the strings attached to giving food will be that the receiving nations must develop their own agricultural re sources, with our help, so that they can eventually satisfy their own food needs. This philosophy is much more sound than the strictly limited idea of doling out our excesses on a never-ending basis Helping others to help themselves is undoubtedly the greatest gift of all. er soil and ■water 'manage ment during the past thirty lears ha\e been fruitful. In discussing future needs cieated by mci easing popu lation pressures, 'Staffer said that the US will require twice its present amount of agncultuial production by 19S0. and by the year 2000, production of wood from for est lesomces will have to be doubled But each year, he told the farmers, this ‘country is taking more than one mil lion acies out of production toi highways, housing and other m ban needs In addi tion to that loss of land, theie aie half a million ac res needlessly lost annually due to eiosion and poor land management He suggested that fighting that 'annual loss was the pnmaiv function ot the Distnct and could be done thioug’h hettei manage ment Countv Conservationist Ma lesch piesented some mtei esting tacts and flgmes to the gioup illustiated by col -01 ed slides “Consei vation makes dol lais and cents tacts,” he said He quoted flgmes fiom A study in York County show ing the costs of cleaning and maintaining road edges and banks In ruial, un'controlled aieas costs lan to $5OO per mile, in the non-mral, con trolled aieas the costs aver aged $39 per mile Millions of dollais are spent each yeai, Maiesch said, in clean ing the soil out ot our har bors Soil lost in these ways represents a loss of future pioduction ‘and a loss of in come to farmers There are between four and twenty tons of soil lost per cultivated acre every yeai in the US , Maiesch said Cher the years, our farms haie lost 25 percent of their original topsoil, he told the farmers “The Soil Conservation Sen ice was set up to help farmers and land otvners com bat these erosion problems,” the (conservationist sard He told the group how SCS went about doing this job h'ased on an inventory of soils and conditions on each individual farm, and a consideration of the use the land owner want ed to put the farm. He told the> farmers there are 82 dif ferent soil types in Lancas ter County alone, and that different soils require dif ferent treatment. In discussing -water man agement on farms, Maresch. said, “if you manage water pioperly from the time it en ters your farm until it leaves, you don’t have to worry about soil The key to man aging soil is managing wa ter ” • Farm Calendar (Continued from Page 1) John Boon, New Holland Machine Co. December 15 I'3o pm, Fiuit tiee pruning demon stration meeting at Rotot. P Baldei ston’s Fairhope Oichaids, Tanguay Cioss roads at intersection ot 'Routes 920 and 352 (five miles southeast of West Chester), Di Carl Bittnei, extension politologist December 16 T pm., Epli ra t'a Adult Farmer Class, Field Trip. 7 £0 p m., Penn Manor Adult Farmer Class at Mar tic Twp Elementary Sch.; speaker, T. Culton, nutri tionist. 8 pm Dairy Clime at Solanco H S., speaker, Don Ace, extension dairymen; subject, Dry and Fresh Cow Management December 17 12 30 pm. Garden Spot YFA Farm Mech Class, Field Trip to observe feeder installations. 8 pm, Dairy Clinic at Manheim Twp Jr. HS repeat of Thursday’s pro gi am at Solanco HS. December IS —■ 9 am. Dis tribution of Red R'ose 4-H Baby Beef Club Angus Isteers at New Holland S'ales Barn. Low and the Man Lesson for December 12,1965 J«cit*r«uid Scripluro through 23 33 D»v»liono'. H««din*: Pso’tn 119 9-16. T ET YOUR imagination run ■ Lj loose * minute. Suppose you were a new American President, a very young one. Suppose that for nearly sixty years before this moment the country had been going from bad to worse. The nation’s leaders were hardly more than clever gang sters, setting ex amples of mur der, immorality of all kind*. Sub-. pose to all in tents and pur poses the country had not been law less, but literally without laws. Teen sjppose in a dirty old neg lected church there was found a copy of the constitution, a book of taws for the entiie nation. You •i3d your choice: either acknowl edge the Constitution and begin i enforce it. or tear it up th°n oi d theie and see that no word cf it got out to the people. Which would you do? That was the •hoice faced by the boy king osiah. You can read the de ads (Background Scripture) for ourself. Here we only make a "W comments which the story > aggests. -aws in man It was said here a few weeks . that you never see “justice” '•r the street, or anywhere, all bj itself. Justice is in people P anywhere. You can almost say tee sn.-re thing about law, only not quite. Law is in a book of some kind, among civilized people tan cl the ancient Hebrews ”, eie people with a well-devel oped culture, bad as some of .pern were). But if the only place to find law is in a book or a stack of papers, it doesn’t count lor much. Law must find living quarters in men’s consenting finds, or it might as well be doodles in a sandpile. Law like ..ustice is best c een in the living acts and attitudes of living men. Now Is The Time ... By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Cheek Ventilation Nearly all animals do best under condi tions of cool temperatuies and low humidity. Under present housing conditions in many barns the animals are crowded and ventila tion becomes a problem. We’d uige that herd owners give some attention to the preven tion of condensation, drafts, and the piesence of hot, moisture-laden air in the bam A sys tem of exhaust fans and intake ducts will correct most of the ventilation problems. These are especially adapted to dairy and swine barns. To Eliminate Rodents I’ve had several repoits fiom farmers who have noticed larger numbers of rats SMITH and mice about the farm buildings m iccent weeks; this can he expected due to the cold weather. Good management dictates that there is no room for rats and mice in or near farm buildings We urge eveiyone to fust, eliminate their breed ing and harboring places, and secondly, put out poison bait stations in order to kill the ones that come and go. Rodents are very destructive and very dangerous both from a fire and a disease-carrying standpoint cide, when the turf is snow To Proven* Snow Mold Bfree and not frozen. In recent ybars many home-* (To Be a- Gaqd Manager owners have h'ad some tiou- Between cropping seasons ble with snow mold killing and as a New Year’s resolu the grass during the winter tion, it might be a good idea and early spring If this tuu- to give some thought to bo gus is present in the turf, it mg a better farm manager is advised to spray the area this coming year. Good farm with a turf fungicide such management is very essential as dyrene in order to pre- to success unde present con vent the injury, also, d*ur- ditions This is the ability to mg mild days in the middle plan ahead, to get things of the winter it is suggested done on time, and to be "on that the area be given anoth- top” of your farming opera er spray of a lawn fungi- tions at all times. Laws for man Every good law is for the food of man. This is brought out in our ov/n constitution in America, with its great Bill of Rights. A study of it will convince any fpir-minded reader that the au thors of our Constitution had tinman welfare at heart. It was so with the book of law which .'osiah’s men discovered in the Temple. The Hebrews had sev eral different codes of law, but the one that played such a large pn t in his life was most probably the code we know as the Book of Deuteronomy. These laws (as the Dihle reader may learn for him ■dO are not always about man, Mt they are always for man. somebody wrote a book entitled “ Jlopia According to Moses,” the theme being that if we abolished most of our modern laws and lived by Deuteronomy for awhile, ue would be better oft than we tre. II Kings 21 Laws above man The ideal of our systems of law always has been “Govern ment of laws and not of men." What this means you can see by asking yourself a question: Would jou rather live m a place ruled by the whim of a dictator, or in a place where even the top mon m government bowed to the au thority of law even when it went against them? King Josiah was me such man He even ordered a public confession of sin in. vhich he joined, the sin of r-eglecting and forgetting these ancient laws. For he recognized iiem for what they essentially < eie. Laws of God As such they \eie above him They possessed m authority which even the King cod not wield. In a tiue sense 11 ey represented the will of God. \ T ow this is not saying that every law you can find on some sta tute book somewhere is neces sarily a good law representing God’s will for us all. What we can say is that so far as a law is tiuly for the welfare of man in his life on earth, so far it does speak for God. Or we can go faither and say without apology that unless a human law em oodies the same spirit and intent „s the laws of the Bible, it lacks the right, to be called the will of God. (Basid on outline* copyrighud by th« division of Christian Education. National Council oi lh« Churchos ot Christ in th» C. S. A. lUUasod by Community Pros* jorvico.) ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE SUNDAY
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