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
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Bified cultnation on fauns,
and inn eased home building,
jt becomes endent that the
Disti ict’s ettoits to sell prop
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Robert G. Campbell, Adver
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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
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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
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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.)
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