From Where We Stand,.. Poultrymen Favor "Freedom" 9 To 1 A recent poll of poultrymen by the Northeastern Poultry Producers Council (NEPPCO) showed they would oppose a nationwide marketing order for table eggs at a ratio of nearly 9 to 1. Eighty-five percent of the north eastern poultrymen responding to the NEPPCO poll indicated they did not fa\or marketing orders and production controls In effect, they said, “Please. Uncle Sam, we'd rather do it ourselves”' A truly radical sentiment in this day of go\ernmental dependency. It was interesting to see that size ot operation had little effect on the negative sentiment Producers with between 25,000 and 50.000 layers were the least opposed to controls with 76 pei cent voting NO All other groups fiom under 3000 hens to over 100,000 reacted the control idea at a rate ranging from 83 to 89 percent One confusing note is disclosed by the poll results From the questionaires dn ected to the state poultry associa tions m each of the 14 states served by NEPPCO Connecticut and New Jersey only indicated they would favor such enabling legislation New Jersey’s re sponse was probably predictable because of its unique situation. According to Richard I Ammon, NEPPCO executive director, its per acre real estate tax of $l2 50 is not only the highest in the nation, but is eight times the national farm real estate average In addition, it ranks 44th among the 49 continental states in rate of egg production per lay er, Ammon said The combination of these two items makes for some pretty unrealistic production costs. Even so, 61 percent of New Jersey poultrymen re sponding to the NEPPCO poll indicated they would not favor such controls But the shocker was the favorable response by the Connecticut State Poul try Assn When one recalls the spirit of “Yankee” independence which histori cally made Connecticut, and New Eng land, famous throughout the world, the two viewpoints are hard to reconcile. However, the Connecticut poultrymen responding individually to the poll vindicate our judgment of Yankeeland independence, they voted 87 percent against such controls This would seem to indicate that their state association is actually representing the best in terests of very few poultrymen in Connecticut Letfers To The Editor Individuals Not Bound By Union Dictates, Reader Says Editoi, Lancaster Fanning You aie to be commended loi your conti adiction of the statement of James Patton uigmg the granting of dictat ing poweis to labor unions He should be informed that individuals may participate or rot, at will, with cooperatives. Unions not only demand regu- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. 17543 Offices: 22 E Main St Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 oi Lititz 626-2191 Don Timmons, Editor Robert G Campbell, Adver tising Dnectoi feubsci iption pnce—?2 per yeai in Lancaster County, i elsewhoie Established November 4, 1955 Published eveiy Satur day by Lancaster Farming, Lit itz, Pa. lii contrast, we were glad ttvsieo that 89 percent of Pennsylvania's poultrymen responding were in agree ment with their state association in rejecting the idea of marketing orders and production controls for table eggs. We agree wholeheartedly with NEPPCO’s stand in opposing legislation which would permit such controls. Like NEPPCO, and the vast majority of poultrymen in the northeast, we sub scribe to the basic principles of free enterprise and the free market system wherein “property is privately owned,' privately managed, and operated for profit and individual satisfaction”. The egg industry, working within ■the framework of supply and demand, will solve its own problems. No national marketing order or production control legislation is warranted to try to raise the inefficient producers in one state to an acceptable national income level. ★ ★ ★ ★ Future Farmers Of America Week Lancaster County can be proud of its Future Farmers, not just during this nationally celebrated week February 19-26 but the year around FFA boys from the county consis tently lead the state with their achieve ments, as illustrated in a news story in your farm paper last week, stating that Lancaster County furnished 13 percent of the state’s Keystone Farmers in 1965 almost three times as many as the next highest county. Also at the state level, their leader ship and outstanding ability is generally reflected in the number of elected offices they traditionally hold Vocational agriculture is taught in nine of our county high schools, and the high caliber of the men who teach these boys certainly deserves recogni tion in its own right. Through the vocational agriculture program the boys are provided with the basic knowledge and training they will need to enter farming, the broad agribusiness field, or to further their education. The Future Farmer’s organization supplements the regular school instruc tion by providing opportunities for lead ership development Its goal is to help train young men for a wide horizon of agricultural occupations And this is a needed and valuable goal. So Future Farmers of America, and especially of Lancaster County, we salute you' lar dues, but rob the member of his liberty by dictating that he subscribe to and abide by rules of the union, even to the ignoring of the laws of our nation. Please continue to publish the truth in these matters. Yours respectfully, Ernest W Eshleman Gordonville Rl • Farm Calendar tContinued frorti Page 1) 7:30 p.m , Community Watershed Pollution Pre vention meeting at IMar tindale Fire Hall. Februaiy 24 7 pm., Ivan- Chester Farmers Union an nual dinner meeting at Redman’s Hall, Oxford 7 p 'in . Garden Spot Young Farmers Awards Banquet at Garden Spot High School Cafeteria 7 p m , Chester Countv Agr & Home Econ Ext Seivice annual dinner meet ing at Uppei Octoiara Piesb Chinch. 7 30 p m Ephrata Adult Paimei Class, “Weed and Insect Conti ol Devel opments ' Februan 2 5 S 30 a m to .3 30 p m Lancaster Coun ty Ci ops & Soils Day at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion L l ' ucoln llighvv.iv East, Laucaslei Eggs Hit The Road In Workshop Trial Run Eggs “hut the road” early in February as repiesenta tives of the industry in In diana and Ohio, m coopera tion with the Poultry and Egg National Board, held egg ■workshops for editors and other tood communicators i'n selected Ohio cities. The workshops formed a trial run for wh'at is hoped to be a senes ot similar workshops in some 20 other states. In each of the cities in the trial run, the food communi cators heard the latest about eggs, egg caie, handling, preparation and (serving. Questions submitted by the guests were 'answered, and information was distributed. Local industry representa tives told the guests about 1 the extensive care taken in pieseiving the high quality ot eggs dining the pi educ tion disti ibution and until the eggs aie picked up by the consumei s You cannot build chaiactei and coinage bi taking a\iav man’s initiative and inde pendence A Lincoln You cannot establish se em it\ on bouowed money A Lincoln Against God Lesson for February 20, 1966 . , ,„ , . _ , ~,, crete. Jesus of course knew this. B “;]'?4 rou So r nfn" ip l u i r 8 * ! though 8 2.iij" 13, He once gave a rapid list of sins. Ma->. 7 14-23, i John 15-10 (Maik 7) and then said a re- Devotional Rtadmg: Psalm 51.1-12. markable thing abo ut them all. A NYBODY WHO read this col-They all come from within, he umn last week must have felt said. The sins Jesus names are there was something wrong about (we would say) partly visible and it. The writer painted a picture outwaid, partly invisible. Envy with rose colored paint. He made and evil thoughts, for instance, it out that in the Bible man is are “inner”, while theft and de located next to God, the one ceit would be called “outer”; but creature on earth Jesus says they are all “from that is like God, within”. A sin is just as real, “in his image”, just as personal, just as bad. All this fine talk whether in human eyes it can when anybody be seen or not. Sin—in other who knows any- words —is not just what we do, thing at all knows it is the way we are. The cure that men are of- for it must be something deeper ten much. more than cutting off a bad habit here like devils than and there. The cure must be a Dr. Foreman Tike God. Has the change in our very selves, our' writer gone clear off his rocker, spirit first of all. or is the Bible dismally, ridicu- g uJ jf no j 9 lously wrong about man and man- . * * * . „ 4 0 This is what "Conversion'* kind? Not at all. Man is by God’s . ■ intention and purpose made in rne , ans ’ isn Conversion means the image of God; this is man as f turning around, a turning of God wants him to be. But no 9* tire sel £ fro “ h f. tin « book is plainer than the Bible es Pi sll }S and- neglecting and in showing that many a man is s l an^ erm S God, to loving and an abysmally long way from what glorifying, and obeying rad wifc God’s dream for him is. The race nessin » to God in every possible of man has been infected with way * F ea^y can t urn a disfiguring and disabling di . us around Only he can convince sease. The name of this disease us we n ® e l to c ? umg * only h S is - SIN. Each person individ-?* 1 * each S ® ™er rooms ually, and the race of man as a from Which «nerge aU OUB whole, is raddled with it, particular acts of thoughts of pride and disobedience, and fa A race of liars work the impossible miracle of But sin is more than a mis- bringing us to the poinfof accept fortune, an accident, or a disease. j n S his love and not demanding Sin is something for which man is it, of saying Thy will, nof responsible. However much we Mine, be done* But suppose may blame others or even blame say a final No to God? Suppose God (as the’first man did, in the our hearts are so icy that not even Genesis story) the fact is, you God's love will thaw them? Then are responsible, I am responsible. ““ well, what is the prospect foi Each of ys and all of us. For sin any man in permanent rehallioi is an active, not a passive thing, against the Lord of all? It is as active as an armed re- 1 (Bas»cl on •ullin** eopyzfoUtd hr Um bellion; it is an armed rebellion : Division of Christian Education, Nahona acrainot find TVTncf cine j Council of thi Church** of Christ Ik till against (jOU. Most sms are s . A . ju liaai( i j, y eonmuoitr Str against people, but every sin is S«vic».) against God. Sin is utterly bad be- L cause at the root of it is a colossal pride, a lie that reaches to the Now Is The Time .. • By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Feed Hogs With Cattle Pork and manure are two of the hidden profits in the beef cattle feeding industry. When cattle aie fed ear corn, shelled corn, or corn silage it is advisable that hogs be run with them to utilize the undigested feed in the droppings Shoats from 50 to 150 pounds each aie the desirable size One pig for every 2 or 3 yearlings, and a pig for every 3 or 4 calves is recommended About Vz -pound per day of hog supplement should be supplied for each pig For more rapid finishing extra grain from a self feeder may be provided for the nogs. To Prevent Damping-Off This is the time of the year when many greenhouse op erators and growers of plants have trouble with a fungus disease known as “damping ott ” As the plant seedlings come up, they suddenly drop ovei and die Damp condi tions encourage this problem. The trouble is most common in untreated soil Steaming of the soil or the use of chemicals can pi event this trouble Ferliam captan, or teiracloi may be used as a soil, diencli * When winter winds, blow. To Avoid Sowing Weeds' w ‘ atcJl thos f open ’ d , oora ' h token windows larga In the next seveial weeks < . racks m the dan