—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 19, 1966 4 From Where We Stand... BOOOOOM ZOOOOM! The boom in agriculture is beginn ing to zoom. At least that’s the conr sensus of every "authority” whose pub lications skid across this desk these days. These authorities include a national monthly magazine, the USDA, an inde pendent Washington observer, and just about everyone else. The feeling of studied optimism which dominated "outlooks” at the end of last year have blossomed into full blown predictions of one of the biggest boom ever to hit agriculture. Until recently we’ve grown too much food for our own needs, and weren’t getting very far in exporting it. While our government officials have been busy bragging to the rest of the world that consumers in the U.S. spent a smaller portion of their total income for food than did citizens of any other country in the world, many of our farm ers have been busy going out ofbusiness because they couldn’t make ends meet at those “bargain prices”. This process of attrition has been going on for sometime, but total food output held at a high level because those farmers that remained grew bigger and produced more. So no one paid too much attention, and our officials went on pointing with pride. Now, however, the farmers’ subsi dization of the consumers’ food bill ap pears to be coming to an end Prices for farm products are hitting levels that in many cases are even profitable for a change And with added national em phasis on feeding a good part of the world, there is reason to believe prices paid to the farmer will remain at a profitable level Although we hope that Americans ■will always be the best fed people in the world, we also sincerely hope that never AI\D SPEAKING OF SPRING aii the signs ot Spring aie not out on the fauns To tne Co In', ot Lititz fresh moving water in the Lititz Springs Creek is getting to be a leal sign ot Spung since that i-> about the only season anymore in which such welcome activity occurs L p Photo Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa, 17543 Offices: 22 E Mam St Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 oi Lititz 626 2191 Don Timmons, Echtoi Robei t G Campbell Adver tismg Dnectoi Sub-a 111>i ton pi ice—s 2 per year ni Lancaster Counu, ?3 elsewheic Established November 4, 1955 Published eveiy Satui day by Lancaster Fanning, Lit itz, Pa. again will American consumers spend less than twenty percent of their annual incomes for food products. ★ ★ ★ ★ Hey! It's SPRING! Winter has had its season and gave a pretty fair account of itself at that but now it’s the robin’s round; now it’s green-up time. And we’re ready 1 Bet you are too. Winter is a little like someone beating you over the head with a two by-four, and Spring is sort of how you feel when they stop slightly stunned; unbelieving; even unaware of the change at first. Then, gradually, life flows again through your vascular tri butaries, and it is as though the world around you had also been suddenly re born. The mental fatigue of the seem ingly endless wintertime is shrugged off, and as the good days come more and more frequently, and that cover crop gets a little greener each day, you wait impatiently for THE DAY when the ground is “fit” and you can bite into the cool earth with spade, trowel, or plow. Spring isn’t a day, probably it isn’t even really a season. It’s more than that, and it’s better than either it is a state of mind! It is one of the things that makes living through the long winter worthwhile. So when Spring officially slips in at some mysteriously pre-determined hour on Sunday, bid her welcome When we say “slips” in, we hope we aren’t pro phesying the weather Looking back in Lancaster Farming at March, 1956, we were reminded that year that Spring was born amid one of the worst late winter storms-of “recent years”. But not this year, please. The snowflakes have had their innings; now it’s “people-time”. • Cattle Meeting (Continued liom Page 1) cattlemen how thev would like to make 5250 000 ttollais moie this veai on the 40 50 thousand head oi cattle fed in Lancastei County He pioceeded to outline seveial steps they should take to i educe then pioduction costs il thev weie intei esled in making this extia dividend lie listed the feeding ot \itaimn 'k using stilbesteiol hoimone, heavy silage feeding and maiketing cattle at de siiable weights as lac tens that can add to pi outs On Hie subiect oI silage as a basis oi the feeding lation 'eisib all gunn Biudette said the cattlemen could make moie beet pei acie than with any olhei teed base, and they could do it at less cost Too many cattle feedeis hold tnen animals too long When thev aio leady, maiket them, the livestock specialist advised He pointed out that the hoaviei the animals get, the moie costly becomes each pound ot gam He suggested that 1100 pounds should ah solutelv be the uppei weight limit Inefficiency sets in in a big wav altei that point, he said i\e\l Monday, Maich 21, the second session will be held featuung Di Sam Guss, ex tension velennanan, and Bm dette Thev will discuss cattle health and cattle housing, i cspectively The meeting will again be held at the Biecht School, and will begin at 8 pm. v'jff J and needs to taka avacatlonfrom '"* f —. r-» r —v r-j r —i # his music now and then; but tho \. -S' ll /?% Chrlatlan ought not to, and need uliL J no t ( taka a vacation from hit \ SPEAK S Christianity. A Chrlatlan’ takes holidays, to be sure, the same as everybody else; but never a holi day from being a Christian. Re ligion is like love, it calls lor full time devotion. No holidays. Part time, half-hearted commitment It a contradiction in terms: that Is, it can’t be devotion and also he half-hearted. Commitment Lesson for March 20, 1966 Background Scnphiv* Luk« 9 23 26 57 62 Romans The Christian’s loyally is not 12 1 2 Philipptons 25 11 Colos* on* 220 _ i . * . ♦ through 3 4 £,>,.« u 12- -- something he turns on for certa.n o.v.h.n.i fh.iippiohs’s 7'u times each day. It is something A young iftaft’int.college was life-deep, life-long. It comes out, in love (as his neighbors were or fails to come out, In every sit not!) with his piccolo. By actual nation. The committed Christian check, he spent about nineteen lives Chrlstianiy, that is the hours a day on that thing. Now whole thing in a nutshel. V.eiake you can’t spend nineteen hours a life’s directions from CacUt. K.s day practicing on the piccolo and word is the last word. Bat ne have much time object of Christian commitment left for anything is not a set of ideas. It is loyalty, else, such as devotion to a Person firs; of ail. studying. So the Jesus made declarations about boy got a note himself which were either true or from-lhe Dean, the utterances of a blasphemous ‘and the" -next man gone quite mad. He claimed thing we knew, an authority above tha 1 of any he was out of one in any power structure of 'college still world. He claimed to know the Dr. Foreman playing that pic- mind of God and man, tne right colo. That’s commitment} but not to show us the heart and Ictent.on Christian commitment,- of the Almighty. He clal—ed tie Commitment means loyalty, right to order his folio n~i e\ en devotion, dedication. But there unto death< He did nDt say> -jf are two or three vital differences any would folio/ me, let between Christian devotion He said, "If a— men the devotion of that piccolo artist, would follow me, let hi- take up Piccolo-devotion is devotion to a his own cross and fo _ n , e .. ‘fling and what can be done with Plain iy ; what he meant T : , s FoI . it; Christian devotion or commit- lowing me may lead \c _ to \ our ment is devotion to a person and death> It is He> such ‘ a r-an'with what can be done for Him. The a c i alrr!; who der-ords ’ tne other difference is that piccolo- j as (. measure of c;'. otioa ’ devotion shute out everything from his foUowerg . T - Sre are else, while Christian devotion is < -,j lr j stld unaware fully of woven with everything else. Pic- g rea t ness 0 f the Master, v.no colo-commitment is an occupa- act t , mid and ashdirs± about hon making other or(Jers from so far impossible. Christian commit- a T w , ment is more a style of life than a , y f ! , .. v, . ashamed of total com*-* to an occupation. For example: , Master He 1S m T ord _ Very few men would find it pos- 8 , * u, * ' stole to he at the same time a nearer and greater than v 3 think. lawyer and a hut a man [Based *n eutimes copyrighted b tps Divi* ert can if he chooses, be a good a Chmllan Eduction, National Co -oil of lr. y-,-. • j _ j Churches ef Christ in tne USA Released c/ Christian and a good surgeon at community s.m«) « the same time. No holidays There’s still another important difference between the committed Christian and the committed) artist, technician, or professional man. The piccolo player can Now Is The Time ... By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Conti ol Weeds In Alfalfa Fdimeis who aie planning to make a snaight seeding of alfalfa this spimg \uth out anw muse ciop must consitlci some method ot conti olhng weeds When spung oats am used as a muse ciop weeds die kept undei contiol to some clegiee howevei u ithout them the weeds will get ahead of me small alfalfa plants unless some heibi moe is used We advise the use of eplam just pnoi to seeding (then a glass cannot be seeded) or the use of 2,4-D,B aftei seecl tin