.ancaster Sftturdciy >M&y #7
From Where We Stand *..
Do We Need A State Administered
Pullet Growing Program?
In the past we have had few occa
sions for disagreement with the State
Department of Agriculture. But the
current question as to whether the De
partment should get into the business
of administrating and supervising pri
vate pullet growing operations promises
to be an exception.
We want very much to see the vari
ous state departments of agriculture be
come stronger and more active in their
own areas so that the federal depart
ment will have less and less reason to
usurp authority which rightfully rests
with the states. But activity for acti
vity’s sake alone is nothing more than
“busv work”
For the Department of Agriculture
to offer a “Pennsylvania Approved Re
corded Pullet Grown Program” at this
stage of the game would be meaningless
and economically wasteful.
However, this is what the Depart
ment is proposing A hearing date on the
question has been set for 1 'p.m. Tues.,
May 10, at Harrisburg. This we learned’
only inadvertently. To the best of our
knowledge, no notice of the hearing
came to this office from the Department.
Since Lancaster Farming is the farm
newspaper for the state’s richest poultry"
county, one could draw certain implica
tions from such an oversight But hope
fully it was simply an oversight that
proper notice of this hearing .was not
publicized
That is a minor objection. After
examining the proposals of the pro
gram, our main objection is that it
spells out needs which no longer exist.
For example, “This program will make
available to the buyer, flocks of pullets
with a certified management and grow
ing record which is not available on
today’s market ’’
Unless Lancaster County supervis
ed pullet-growing programs are unique
in the state, that statement is, to say
the least, false Several large hatcheries
who generally have an economic
stake in the flock which the state
would not have are doing an ex
tremely thorough job of supervising pul
let growing in this county. Many of the
hatcheries now market their chicks in
the form of ready-to-lay pullets. They
Cieek The company is re- Water for the plant’s potable
qiured to maintain the flow supply is pumped- to a water
of Clarke Creek at a rate of treatment center by two-small
Potable Water Supply 252 gallons per minute, or at (300 gallon per minute) pumps
Clarke Cieek supplies the whatever rate water may be Theie it is treated and pump-*
potable watei for the plant entering the pond from the ed to a 150,000-gallon storage
This is jdiawn fiom a 3-million- creek at any given time tank In the treatment' process,
gallon capacity, man-made pond naturally, in summer this flow the water is dramatically con
formed by damming Clarke would be reduced. (Continued on Page 6)
• Waste & Water
(Continued fiom Pag e
JAMES H RUNYON OF GRACE MINE points out how chemicals are meter
ed into pond water as part of the process which purifies the potable water supply
for the plant. The other two metering devices behind Runyon are for alum and
carbon. , L. F. Photo
have a great investment in these flocks,
and they supervise them accordingly.
Detailed records are kept by the grow
er, and management details are noted
by the flock supervisor.
Going on down the list, the pro
posal shows item after item which the
good growers have been doing for quite
some time.
There is no justification for the
state to enter into such a program as
the department has proposed, and we
hope that poultrymen will turn out for
the hearing and make this point very
clear to the Department.
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Color It Green
Green, the life-giving color of Spring
time, has to be everyone’s favorite
shade. Certainly it is Nature’s own
color. Even the brilliant hues of the
most beautiful flowers become brighter
in a setting of lush green.
And green is also the favorite color
of government these days no, not
money, although that too we refer
to a brand new program announced this
week by Secretary of Agriculture Free
man. It is called “Color It Green With
Trees”, and Freeman has invited home
owners across the country to join in.
Color It Green is described as a pro
gram to encourage the people to beauti
fy their gardens and communities by
properly planting appropriate trees.
It is not quite clear from the USD A
release on the subject whether this
thing, described only as a “program”, is
available in literature form to interested
persons and communities, or whether
the Department simply sends Mrs. John
son and a shovel along to do the job.
(No offense intended, ma’am.)
We are certainly all for trees, and
more trees. But we tend to wince any
time the government makes a federal
project out of something The costs have
a strange way of becoming buried be
neath the enthusiasm of the moment,
and often some of the voluntary aspects
of the original program become less im
portant than the program’s application.
So if all goes according to plan,
perhaps about twenty or thirty Springs
from now America will have the green
est, most beautiful, and most expensive
landscape of any country in the world.
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Imonfoc May 8,1966
Ncl|r«unrf Scrlfriurr It Chronlclii 17 through 20«
D«v*li*nal Rtarfini: fitlm 1 5*
Every man, woman and child
is important in the sight of God,
hut some persons are more im
portant than others. That is, it
makes no great deal of difference
what old John Doe, sitting on a
fence and talking out of pure ig
■MMM||norance, thinks
country ought
Ito be doing. It
does make a tre-
differ
ence what Richard
thinks, not
because he
the brains
John Doe
Dr. Foreman never had, but be
cause people who listen to Mr.
Roe and take him seriously will
find that their choices are in.
many ways affected by Mr. Roe’s
ideas, be they what they may.
The important people in any gen
eration, then, are those whose
decisions affect the decisions of
others, perhaps millions of others.
EVERY SPHERE IS GOD’S
The most important people of
all (though they may not realize
it themselves) are those whose
own personal decisions are ori
ented to GOD always, and who in
fluence others for God. One thing
should be made clear to begin
mth: A person can serve God
squally well in church or state.
\n officer in the church may be
a man of God, but so may an
official m the state. David was
not even a priest, but he was a
man of God. Who shall deny the
title "God’s man” to the Emperor
Constantine, or fhe scientist Louis
Pasteur, or the poet Browning,
or Doctor Grenfell, missionary on
the Labrador coast, or to Lord
Salisbury who did so much to
make life livable for workingmen
in England, or to William of Or
ange and Gusatavus Adolphus,
military heroes of the Reforma
tion, or - the unknown artists in
stone,' who conceived and pro
duced the great cathedrals of Eu
rope, or great musicians like J.S.
Bach/ or a .many-sided genius
such as Albert Schweitzer? These
were' "secular” men, that is to say
Now Is The Time .. •
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Be Alert For Alfalfa Weevil
Insect control on alfalfa refers mainly
to the weevil at this time of the year Adult
weevils have been noticed for several weeks
and the laivae can be expected to start feed
ing on the tops of the alfalfa plants most
any time depending upon weather conditions.
Growers are mged to check their fields daily
to know-when the weevils begin feeding on
the leaves, the decision can then be made
whether to haivest the ciop and spray the
stubble, 01 to spiay the crop and wait from
7 to 21 days before harvesting
To Make Silage From Winter Rye
Local danymen or cattle feeders that
are planning to make silage fiom winter rye SMITH
aie reminded that heading to eaily flower stage is the best
time for maximum feeding value If one of the ground cereal
giains, or some form of a molasses feed, can be used with the
rye as a piesmvative it will make a better silage feed for all
kinds of livestock Other small grams can be made into silage
in the floweung or in the dough stage
To Stop Using Dieldrin secticides The use of chlor-
Or Heptachlor dane as a soil insecticide is
The control of soil insects suggested for row crops,
should be piacticed without
the use ot either dieldim or To Be Careful With
hopUchlor; some gioweis ot Excess Seeds
coin and tobacco haie con- Excess supplies of seed
tinned to use these mateiials giains that aie left over a£-
to kill cutwoims and wire- ter the planting season
worms Due to the danger of should be stored carefully
a residue in the soil, \\ hich away from children and live
can be picked up bj the fol- stock. Since nearly all of the
lowing crops, vie do not rec- seeds are treated with chem
oannend either of these m- (Continued on Page 9)
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IWER OF APPOINTMENT
The Old Testament (Ives a*
i picture of the good king Je>
ishaphat. He deserves the ad»
-tive good, And showed how
good he was by using wisely the
greatest opportunity for truly in*,
portent people, namely the power
of appointment to important
posts men of character and influ
ence. We give a thought today to
fudges in particular. This king
was specially careful about get*
ting able judges for the country.
What the Bible tells us about
Judges is as wise today as the day
it was written. Let us run down a
list of qualifications or duties a«
we find them in II Chronicles 19.
(1) The good judge will know
ihat beyond all human respon
sibility he is first and always
responsible to GOD. (2) A good
Judge is available. To put that
another way, a too-crowded
docket, or too few judges for the
population, slows down and de
feats the purpose of the courts.
;3) The purpose of the law (thia
should go without saying) is
Justice. Not to make the judge
rich, not to make the courts fear
»d, not to use up the tax-payers'
money, but to see that all parties
get a square deal. Justice has
various forms. Cynics will tell
you that'laws and courts exist to
mtrench the rich and powerful
end keep the "little man” in his
place. On the contrary, justice,
real justice, means protecting the
weak from the strong. One acid
test of courtroom justice is: Can
« poor man get justice here?
SOURAGE IN COURTS
It takes courage to be a judge.
Some times he needs physical
-ourage, and always moral cour
age. He needs courage to stand
by a ruling he knows to be right.
He needs courage to make what
he knows will be an unpopular
decision. He needs courage to
change his mind, too, if he comes
',o be convinced that he wasi
wrong. It takes courage to admifcl
It.
The glory of incorruptible
men this is the great reward ot
those who appointed them.
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of Chrutisn Educsiton, N«tt«n«( Council of tho
Churches mf Christ in the USA* Xpleesed bp
Community Press Service}
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