—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 5, 1966
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From Where We Stand,..
Watchword Of The Week
CANCELED
January went out like it wounded
tiger, and some predictions suggest we
can expect no more lamb-like treatment
from this budding month. In fact, the
seer of Washington D. C., Jean Dixon,
reportedly sees 80 inches of snow in her
crystal ball for February. We hope that's
a horizontal measurement, not vertical.
Excluding the word “snow”, the
most often heard word this week was
“canceled”, followed closely by “closed”.
Some students in county areas haven’t
been to school for ten days. We under
stand some first graders are beginning
to believe that summer vacation has
started. A few more storms like this
last one and there probably won’t be
any summer vacation this year, kids.
Traveling in the county really had
its limitations this week In fact, until
ab'out Wednesday the only species gett
ing around well were the vertical tra
velers ground hogs'and helicopters.
In fact, we understand the ground
hogs were swamped with shadows on
their big day this week We sincerely
hope that doesn’t mean six more weeks
of survival by helicopter Although,
those whirring blades were certainly
welcome sounds to many snowbound
residents and communities dependent
for their existence on outside sources
Perhaps this week will begin a
long period of “normalcy” Meetings and
activities will again replace boots and
shovels The accumulated drifts will
trickle away, and blue skies will smile
Perhaps
* * * *
If Takes Big Money
To Produce Food
It will take money, management, and
manpower if the United States is to
fulfill its potential in helping to feed
the hungry world That was the con
sensus of an Agribusiness Council meet
ing of farmers and businessmen held
recently The magnitude of the world
population explosion makes it impor
tant that we begin now to solve to
morrow’s farm production problems.
In the money category, farmers
on the panel at that meeting said there
was a need for larger lines of farm
credit Rural bankers, they claimed, are
using outmoded methods of evaluating
production and profit potential. A series
of one-day banker clinics in various
agricultural sections was recommended
as a starting point in developing great
er understanding between bankers and
farmers
Development of “prescription ferti
lizers” was called for by the panelists;
fertilizers tailored specifically for one
crop in a certain small area. It was
also felt that a fertilizer should be
developed that could be stored in the
ground that is, applied during the
slack season without losing nutrients
and availability during the winter
weather
One farmer estimated that his
time is worth between $lOO-$l5O an
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hour' during the critical Spring period.
Any job he could get out of the way
during the Fall or Winter would be
worth extra money.
The management problem may be
the biggest of all, the panel reported.
With investments in modern farms
averaging about $lOO,OOO, new manage
ment techniques must be made avail
able.
The apparent solution to the man-'
agement problem lies in more extensive
computer use. The panel saw this Ulti
mately leading to total farm manage
ment through linear programming.'Re
portedly, the average farmer makes 5000
decisions a year, and panelists heard
that mistakes in any one of these could
reduce profits by as much as 20 per
cent.
Pennsylvania leads the country in
computerized farm management. In fact,
it is the only state in the Union using
linear programming as a state project
on a service basis in solving farm pro
blems, according to a Penn State man
agement specialist who spoke about one
month ago in the county.
Whether or not our farmers’ time is
worth over $lOO an hour in the Spring
time, it is a fact that time is at a
premium then. Any scientific advances
in fertilizer or machinery that could
stretch a farmers’ day in the Spring
has to be worth considering. And farm
ers owe it to themselves to consider any
of these advances, including farming by
computer, if it will enable them to do a
more efficient and profitable job.
★ ★ ★ ★
Poets Push Pencils, Not Shovels
The white, majestic beauty of the
snow flake has been wooed for centuries
by poets, painters and such. While the
poet may be the man behind the man
behind the plow, few poetic phrases
were heard following last weekend’s
snow fall in Lancaster County at
least not beyond Monday morning when
the full impact of the blizzard, and the
widespread disaster accompanying it,
were fully realized.
Lancaster County awoke immobiliz
ed Monday morning, finding itself stak
ed to the ground like some sleeping
Gulliver by millions of tons of the tiny
white flakes.
The giant flailed and thrashed un
der the massive weight of his captor,
laboriously freeing one arm, then a
leg, another arm. Finally he sat up,
snapped his remaining white chains,
and with a Herculean heave, stood up
right. But his jagged outline remained
etched on the snow’s surface.
He staggered, shaking off the white,
clinging nuisance and flexing cramped
muscles which would remain for weeks
as stiff reminders of this ordeal. Oh, so
slowly, life began to circulate again
through his wounded body. First the
major arteries felt this flow, then traffic
through the important veins picked up
the pace, and very gradually, the small
er veins and capillaries responded.
This giant will live to fight another
day; hopefully, not too soon.
• Breeders Institute
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Ravenwood Della Rhythm
Lyman D McKee farms
with his biother 1152 acres
near Madison, Wisconsin
Then dairv herd numbers
150 cows He has been both
president and vice-president
of the American Dairy As
sociation and a former mem
ber ot the Wisconsin Cham
bei ot Commerce Commission
on Agriculture McKee has
traveled abroad for the dairy
industry to Africa, the Mid
dle East and in 1065 to the
Fai East as a representative
of the Foieign Agriculture
Service He ha= titled his
pi esentation. “It Pajs To Be
Positive
As a member of the Cor.
nell University Animal H9s-
bandry staff Dr. Richard G-.
Warner teaches courses in
livestock feeding and a grad
uate course in animal nutri
tion evpenmen'tations. His
research has been largely in
dairy cattle nutrition, investi
gating such problems as the
effect of diet on the develop
ment ot the rumen, and the
relatue merit of a number
of calf feeding programs. He
will be discussing “Rumina
tions on Dairy Cattle Nutri
tion”
Following their individual
presentations, the speakers
will appear for a question
and answer period with Clai
en'ce E Lyons, Lancaster,
semng as moderator.
Last yeai’s institute attend
ance totaled 1240, bringing
the five year total to 5750.
God, Living Spirit
Lesson for February 6,1966
I«ek«r*imd Scripture: John 16 7-15; Actl
2 1-4, Romans B 9-27: John 4 13-21.
Dsrolionol Rtcding: I John 4 13-21.
PEOPLE WILL tell you that
■•• they are confused by the Holy
Spirit. This is strange, for in
the Bible the Spirit is always
thought of in connection with
light, help, leadership, comfort.
How can such a spirit confuse
us? The truth is,
it is not the Holy
' Spirit that causes
the confusion, but
people’s ideas
about the Spirit.
Let us under-
stand to begin
9 with that in vir
’ tually all cases,
the expressions
Spirit, Holy Spirit, Spirit of God
and Spirit of Christ all mean
the same thing. Let us under
stand also that the Spirit of God
is not like a sort gf religious
gas of mysterious properties. Also
it is not a name of some kind
of holy influence, a sort of aura
that God gives off, or the kind
of influence that all good people
have, though they may not realize
it.
God within
What then is the Holy Spirit?
One of the best and simplest
definitions is this: The Holy
Spirit is God at work in the
hearts of men. The Bible seldom
if ever says what the Spirit is,
'but it says a good deal in the
New Testament about what the
Spirit does. We could almost say
that the Holy Spirit is that which
makes men good, loving, and so
on; but the true Spirit is never
a “that which” but a “one who
. . The Spirit is as much God
as our Lord Jesus is and he is
never a “what”, but a “Person”.
The Church says, “I believe in
the Holy Spirit,” but in saying
this (following the Bible) the
church is not proclaiming a sec
ond God, much less a third one.
We believe there is only one God.
We believe that the Creator-God
is the God, and is also (and no
less) the God who rules in his
tory and in the hearts of me’
Wherever God works in '
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Conserve Moisture
Everyone should make a special effort
to conserve our water supplies. Sufficient
moisture is very essential to agriculture and
to maximum and efficient crop yields. The
very best of fertilizers, crop varieties, and
management will do little good if we do not
have sufficient moisture to grow the crop.
Therefore, all land owners are urged to give
special attention to holding the water on the
land where it falls The establishing of con
tour strips along with proper sod cover and
crop rotations will go a long way in holding
the moisture and the plant nutrients The
winter months are a good time to make
plans and to make these important decisions
To Practice Good Farm To Consider Planting a
Management > • • This is Windbreak . . . Now would
much, easier said than done he a very good time to eval«
because there are so many uate the use of a windbreak
items involved; however, around farm buildings in or«
proper farm management is dei to protect the buildings
fundamental under present and reduce the amount of
farming methods. Planning snow drifts The planting oC
ahead, recoid keeping, labor seieral rows of evergreen,
management, and decision tiees tiom 30 to 50 feet to
making are all vital to the the west or northwest of tho
successful operation of a present heavy drifts in a,
farm. We call attention to lane or road might ehmin.
the Farm Management Short ate 'some plowing or shovel-
Course being offered at Penn mg in future years. Theso
State University on March 7 windbreaks are very commot
and 8, this looks like a good through the mid-west and
opportunity of becoming a the northern plain states,
better farm manager. Details Thej aie needed quite ofte»
are available.
iandhearts of man, then Is
evidence that the Spirit hu
at work. If a person who
infused about the Holy Spirit
•lease remember that lie is'
/ means like • ghost, hut is
himself visiting us and in
ig every good thought, wiH
work we have or do, wo
go far wrong. Every 'time
;e confused about this, wo
can get rid of much confusion
by saying, instead of Holy
just God.
Spirit of Christ I
When the church therefore
says, I (we) believe in the Holjr
Spirit, we are meaning much the
same as if we said, I believe that
God can and does communicate
with men, living in their hearts
and active in their lives. The
church from earliest times has
called the Spirit the Spirit of
Christ. That is to say, whatever
we think -bout the Spirit must
be in harmony with what we
know of the mind and intentions
of our Master. God in the heart
and Christ in the heart and the
Holy Spirit in the heart, these
are all the same.
How God works
When we say God’s Spirit
"works” or “acts” or “lives” ia
a human heart, what exactly do
we mean? Can’t we speak more
definitely about this? Yes, we
can if we follow what the Bible
suggests and says. Consider only
a few of the services God-in-the*
heart renders to believers. The
Spirit makes men realize their
sins. When a person reaches the
point of beginning to see himself
as God sees him, that is a work
of the Spirit, an effect of the
God who lives within the man.
What we can be sure of is that
while today not everyone who is
filled with the Spirit can speak
in “tongues,” the Spirit does in
our time do for God's people
what he did then stir them
With courage and faith.
(■m»d on oulliMs eopyriohUd by Iho
Division of Chxisfictn Education, Nchoaal
Council of tho Church** of Christ in Uw :
SemcO HeUas,d *y Community turn '
Attend
Church This
Sunday
out there.
—1
SMITH