.ancaster Farming, Saturday, .Tune 4,
From Where We Stand *..
Salute To The Dairy Farmer
June is traditionally designated
Dairy Month the country over. In Lan
caster County we have a special incen
tive to salute' the dairy farmers for they,
collectively, produce more agricultural
income in the county than farmers in
aiiv other enterprise
Livestock, poultry, tobacco and
other crops, are each important to our
economy, but none appioach the volume
of milk and milk products In 1965. the
county's 820 million worth of dairy cat
tle produced S2B million in milk, to lead
the state
Milk production and dairy pro
ducts in Pennsylvania account tor about
40 percent of the state s total farm in
come. and result in our being tradition
ally the fourth ranked state in the coun
try in dairy production.
Although output per cow continues
to set new records, the number of cows
has been declining .since 1955, with the
largest decreases occurring in the past
three years. From 1964 to 1965, the
Pennsylvania cow population declined
by 33,000. In Lancaster County during
the same period our cow loss was about
2100 head. 220 farms dropped from the
ranks of commercial dairy farms during
that year.
A study of the 1965 Pennsylvania
Crop & Livestock Report shows that
while our dairy farms declined by about
9 percent, the total number -of cows
dropped only 3 percent. This supports
the generally accepted fact that farms
are getting fewer but larger. It would
certainly seem to be the case with Lan
caster County dairy farms.
According to the USDA ( “Dairy
Situation” for the first quarter of this
year, milk production was 5.3 percent
below the preceding year, and 3 percent
below the 1960-64 average The report
goes on to say that prices of milk cows
have strengthened, reversing a trend of
several years standing
The report also points out that milk
prices to farmers, although expected to
average seasonally lower during the
second quarter, will still be 10-12 per
cent higher than a year earlier USDA
predicts that 1966 milk prices to farm
ers will average 8-9 percent above
1965, thus providing dairy farmers with
at least some increased income with
which to meet their constantly rising
production costs
The Right To Soy NO
A small news item buried in the in
side pages of the daily paper one day
this week should have been on the front
page It was datelined Downingtown,
Chester County, and said simply that
the Downingtown School Board had re
jected, for the fourth time, offers of
federal funds in the amount of $190,000
to build an experimental “educational
materials resource center” whatever
that is
One Downingtown school board
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa,
17543
Offices:
22 E Main St
Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone - Lancaster
394-3047 or
Lititz 626-2191
Don Timmons, Editor
Robeit G Campbell, Adver
tismg Director
Subscuption price $2 per
ye«i in Lancaster County, $3
eisewliei e
Established November 4,
1955 Published eveiy Satur
day by Lancaster Farming, Lit
itz Pa Second Class Postage
paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543.
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Cows Can Withstand Heat If Some
Sun And Humidity Relief Provided
by Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
Newswanger above 60 per
cent, according to ARS re
searcheis at, Reltsvilie, Md
Dairy physiologist R E Mc-
Dowell and A J Guidry have
found that providing protec
tion from dnect rays of the
sun and reducing the humid-
member described it as "foot-in-the
door federal intervention”, and he may
not have been far off the track.
Let’s face it, friends, it takes a cer
tain amount of guts to turn down that
kind of money. Particularly, when you
are an elected official, pledged to do the
best by your community. Members of
this school board are very much inter
ested m the welfare of their school sys
tem. apparently. But they are willing
and able to look beyond the immediate
“good". They are foresighted enough to
realize, and old enough to remember the
old maxim, you don’t get nothin’ for
nothin'.
And they are not willing to trade
one iota of their school district’s free
dom to make decisions for its own
best interests independent of the
federal government, or anyone else.
Every district should be so fortu
nate to have a school board with this
kind of courage!
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Milk Makes A Comeback
Prior to 1961, the sales of fluid
milk were on the decline. Now a whole
new generation has discovered that
something which is “good” for you can
also taste good. Promotional efforts by
the industry, strongly directed toward
teenagers in recent years, are beginning
to pay off.
In 1964 and 1965, sales of fluid
whole milk held steady at 249 pints per
person, a level that hasn’t varied more
than one pint in the past five years.
Americans are now buying 90 per
cent of the total milk solids that they
bought in the 1947-49 base period. Milk
fat, mainly butter and cream, on the
other hand, has been suffering a reduc
ed intake. In 1965, sales of fluid nonfat
and low-fat milk rose to an all time
high of 16 quarts per person. This more
than doubles the per capita sales of
these dairy foods since 1950.
Other dairy products have also
been gaining in sales as milkfat pro
ducts, like butter, have been decreas
ing Cheese is a noble example.' In
1965, the per capita consumption of
cheese approached the 9 5 pounds-per
person, all-time high set in 1964. This
represents an increase of almost one
third on a per-person consumption basis.
Frozen dairy products also came in
for a larger share of the consumer’s dol
lar in recent years. Ice cream and. such
dairy treats totaled more than 21 quarts
per person in 1965.
In dollars and cents, the dairy in
dustry represents the second largest
food industry in the nation, and ac
counts for about one-fifth of the total
retail value of foods produced and con
sumed in the U.S.
So when you treat yourself and
your family to milk and milk products,
you can do so knowing you are doing
the best by them and getting the most
for your food Hollar at the same time.
Maybe that’s why they call milk
the perfect food.
ity below 60 percent restores
as much as 5,000 pounds to
the cow’s production at 95
degrees F At less severe tem
peratures, these adjustments
also piovide relief
McDowell and Guidry found
that cows adjust well to tem
peratuies that rise gradually
They withstand temperatures
up to 110 degrees F at mid
afteinoon without a drop in
pi eduction if these highs are
offset with shade and cool
nights Production, the scien
tists found, seems moie close
ly related to the number of
houis pei day above 80 de
grees F, than, to maximum
temperatui e '
A cow with
a potential of
19,000 pounds
of milk per
year would
yield less
than 1,000
pounds with
t emperatuie
kept at a con
stant 95 de
giees F and
humidity kept
TO MEASURE MOISTURE
The leseaichers have devel
(Continued on Page 9)
Faith in Crisis
Lesson for June 5,1966
lockgnund Scripture II Chronicles 29 through 32;
Iso.oh 30 15 31 1 3
Devebenel Reading I) Kings 19 14*19.
When something happens that
never happened before, when a
danger looms that is bigger than
anything you have ever met,
when something happens or
threatens to happen which you
did not start but cannot stop and
don’t like even
a little bit,
brother, that’s a
crisis. A lion
bursting from his
cage just .as the
circus parade pas
ses your house is
crisis. An epi-
demic of yellow
Dr. Foreman fever is a crises,
so is the death by accident of the
wage-earner in a family. Rare is
the person who in all his lifetime
never met with a crisis.
King Hezekiah of Judah
(a country older than Israel
(Samaria) hut one which lasted
longer) went through a crisis
which, among other lessons,
taught him how to take a crisis.
The terrible feature of such a
combination of circumstances Is
that it gives sometimes very little
room to maneuver, to do any
thing at all. The crisis comes
and is past and the damage done
before you are well awake.
ATTITUDE IN CRISIS
Now Hezekiah was a good
king. One good feature he show
ed was a sense of responsibility
for the welfare of his country.
But he found his beloved Judah
invaded by the mightiest mon
arch of that pait of the world at
the time, Sennacherib of Nineveh,
What could he do? The situation
was completely out of his con
trol The problem w T as, what to
do 9 And the only answer seemed
to be- Nothing. But Hezekiah
learned (from God’s prophets
and specially from Isaiah) that
in a time of crisis the best thing
to do is all you can do, namely
nothing. What is important, as
the King found out, is one’s at
titude, not actions.
BE STILL, AND KNOW ...
Now
Is The
By Max Smith, Lancaster-County Agent
To Calibrate Sprayers
The importance of checking’ the exact
amount of water and materials applied per
acre cannot be over-emphasized at this time
of the season Both custom spray operators
and farmer spraymen are reminded of the
importance of applying the exact amount per
acre The speed driven, the pressure, and the
size of nozzle have an influence on the
amount per acre The wear on the nozzles
will permit greater amounts per acie than
when new We urge that sprayers be cali
brated often to be safe
To Spray Alfalfa Stubble
Growers who harvested their first cutt-
SMITH ing of alfalfa without any spray application
should apply a weevil-control spray on the stubble, if this is
not done, the feeding larvae will eat the new growth as fast as
it appears and the second crop will be eliminated or reduced
To Control Cutworms f To Fertilize Summer
Weather conditions have fa- Forage Crops
vored the activity of cutworms Due to the high livestock
in corn, tobacco, and vegetable population in this part of the
fields Control may be attained state, A the seeding of terapoiaiy
by spraying the area with f° ra S e crops such as Sudan
Chlordane several days before S rass or the- sudan-sorghum hv
planting, do not work the bnds § ets considerable atten
- Chloi dane'into the soil for cut- Don To get J quick, maximun
worm control; they feed on top growth from _ these crops, v -
of the ground at night Neither suggest a complete fertilizer,
Dieldnn nor Heptachlor should sucb as 10-10-10, at the ia
be used for soil insect control 500 pounds per acre ju
because of the danger of resi- P nor to seeding; the fertilize!
due in the following crops. , (Continued, on Page.- 9)
A word of ft* prophet thil
cam* to the King sounds, the first
Urn* we hear it, like nonsenss, bm
it can be the highest wltdomt" Be
still, and know that I am God,*
What does .this mean? It can b«,
illustrated by a true story,
mother and father had been sit
ting in a great forest, with their!
small son arid a small friend of!
his. From some unaccountable
Impulse, they all moved down the'
stream a few yards. Suddenly lik*
the crack of a rifle a sharp sound
broke the stillness of the forest.
But it was not a gun. It was the
beginning of the breaking-apait
of a tall and heavy tree, for
centuries it had been growing
there, then decaying, and on that
windless afternoon its time had
come. The frightening thing about
it was the fact that with the forest
cover it was impossiole to sea
just where the breaking tree stood.
Worse than that, both small bojs
had vanished. The grown people
shouted but there was no answer
from the children. So there weie
no more shouts. When the mother
was asked afterwards how shefelt
at that dark moment, she alwav»
said that there came to her mind
as if in letters of light, the words:
Be still, and know that I am God.
It was a call (she and he always
believed) from God, a call to tht
attitude of faith. (And there wer*
no deaths either, as there well!
could have been.)
FAITH IN MEN
Added to faith in God, thereto
need also in times of crisis som#
measure of faith in men, the right
kind of men. We know that thia
same king led in a religious ie
formation, but not of theone-maa
kind. He undertook to lead in aa
important and wide-reaching re
formation, but he summoned and
challenged the Levites to helplujn
in God’s name. The attitude ol
faith not neccessanly faith that
the sun will shine and all will b*
well, for the shadows may neveu
lift, but faith in men of good will,
servants of God, and faith in our
selves.
God is not going to let you down;
don’t you let others dov.n! The
time of darkness, of end', is the
hour and the opporumlv cf faith.
So the king found in days of old;
so may yoy. again.
Based on outlines copyrighted ty ‘he Dw sun
of Christian Education, National Council of t r e
Churches of Christ in the U 3 A Re eesed by
Comn tmty Press Service }
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