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.
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Offices:
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Phone - Lancaster
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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<y baril ,
many acies ot altalfa and wains Joe T^vlor . extension
ted dote, will be seeded by specialist Drakts chill
the bioadcas method in win- the - uddeis J jugft^roducmg
ter mam All mowers aie d maßt itJ B , "cjAi. result,
umed lo be ceuam the\ aie * , '
j Tajloi, Y
not sowing weed seedb along '
IsToveTMFwlHdm,
ill. Sin is the final
lying to God, "Get di
irone and let me tak<
know how to mam
letter than You do,
iced Your help, I <
'ou.” Sm is so nv.
ilsehood that in thi
levxl is called the i<
From within
.We can speak of sin„.
but we should not forget tl. , no
one ever commits sin-in-general.
Sins are always particular, con-
with the legume; this is of
ten done when using un-test,
ed and non-Certified see<l.
Certified seed is always stal
er from additional weed ih
testation and good germina
tion. If local seed is to he
used, insist on meeting the
law lequnements of a germ
ination test and weed seed
count trom the Bureau of
Seed Ceitiflcation at Hams*
burg
PROTECT COWS
SMITH