—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1, 1966 4 From Where We Stand... Farmers Again Becoming ” Perhaps there are some implications in this study worthy.of human considera- Politically Important tlon _ if you’ll forgive the momentary In appealing to the masses of comparison, Americans who consume food but have The diets considered were much no hand in producing it. the Adminis- the same as those eaten by a typical tration not so long ago bemoaned the American family, USDA said. Corn fact of rising food costs, even •as they starch and fat (ugh!) given to rats on denied the existence of an inflationary the restricted diet was adjusted so they tone in our national economy. ‘ consumed only 60 percent as many Farmers were such a small force as calories as the liberally-fed rats. The to be considered politically insignificant, amount of protein, vitamins, and min and tlie Administration was .-willing to erals in the feed of both rat groups was throw the farmers to the wolves,' putting kept the same. the blame on them for high food costs, Observations showed that hungry and suggesting consumers boycott “over- ra ts finished their day’s supply of food priced” foods. , within an hour. The well-fed group Recently, however, the official just nibbled at theirs for up to eight “line” has moderated. Novfr Adrhinistra-. hours. tion men are publically stating that the Rats on the restricted diet gained price rises to farmers were long over- fractionally each day, while the all-day due. and are not really out-of-line. eaters outgained them by 2Vz times. The Administration meanwhile is Nothing very surprising in that; it endeavoring to encourage greater pro-” has been known for thousands of years duction for next year, particularly in that if one eats more, he generally gains feed grains. Only in this way can food more weight. prices be kept “reasonable”. * But the well-fed group was seen to High feed costs have been, and exercise only during the night, the nor will continue to be, important factors ma l period for a rat to be up and in beef, pork, milk, eggs, and poultry around. All day long they shunned the production in the coming year. The big exercise wheel and moved around only problem facing the Johnson forces is to eat. the 1968 presidential election. High food Meanwhile, the hungry rats raced costs will undoubtedly hurt the incum- around in the exercise wheel as much bents, and 1967 feed grain production m the daytime as at night. Again, there holds the key to 1968 meat and live- seems nothing strange about this. Did stock prices y° u ever try to sleep when you’re hun- High feed costs have already decid- § T y? It’s all right for a little while, but ed many dairymen to quit in fhe past sooner or later you get pretty restless, few years. If the production of feed The poor buggers were probably franti grams isn’t raised considerably in 1967, cally looking for food, or else trying to that trend will probably continue. take their minds off the fact that they So the Administration can be ex- were hungry, pected to -do everything within its pow- Although the scientists will pur er to get more grain production, parti- sue tins investigation further and study cularly corn and soybean, out of the 1967 the interactions of the several factors af feed gram programs. Will they make it? fecting body weight besides caloric in- Tune in again next year at about this take and exercise, the preliminary study tune and we’ll find out. suggests that: one, if you don’t over-eat if ir if A Hungry JRof Is A Busy Rat The U.S. Department of Agricul ture recently found from some prelimin ary nutrition experiments that, rats on a restricted diet are considerably more active than those fed a liberal ration. FUTURE HERDS FOR FUTURE F ARMERS Three Future Farmers of America received their calf awards Thursday at the Lampeter Fair, courtesy of the county’s three breed associations. Left to right they are: Howett Seiverlmg . Ayrshire Warwick FFA Chapter; Daryl Bollinger, Lititz R 4, accepted the HoL ° n ; to re 7 nt mois ' small § rains this fall with the stem calf on behalf of fellow Cloister FFA Chapter member Earl Stauffer, Eph- available ta IhTZ u b6C ° me expeetatlon seeding the rata Rl, who is enroute home from the National FFA Dairy Show at Waterloo gra T f ound to a § rass or legume lowa, and James Learnan. Garden Spot Chapter, with the M IhS Seiverling, Stauffer, And Learnan « « *. £?=2r S Awarded FFA Calves At Lampeter S.£St STS £ «S SSSSttPS* Many a ycun-g Lancaster county calf award program ‘ £s ra " k growth lime that is a PP lie d on top of County Farmer has It was that time of theyear w . . and severe the ground this winter or next’ gotten his start in dairying again at the Lampeter Fair- halves were a r Us ® 7™ Now sprin S will not be as effective, with the annual he won m the grounds Thursday; the wS- (Continued on Page 8) *** *** SGeding you won’t get fat; and, two, when you get hungry and can’t find anything to eat, exercise maybe you’ll get too tir ed to eat and forget about it. You may follow this last advice if you wish, but as for us, believe we’ll continue along some sort of middle ground between hunger and over-eating. Attention Please! Lesson For October 2, 1966 B«, Ck i Up ? crur lives or grapple with soma _ shovel and great problem before he comes Rev. ATfhouse struck him a f ace j 0 fa ce w ith us? The answer blow on the head. "Hey ” shouted is that it is only m the midst his neighbor, I thought you said something like this that we are «HeXs ” S answered°th^far mfer often wilh "S to listen “> him ‘ Go * , , ° ' and holiness of God. in Perhaps this is the way it was d bc experienced a deration from with the prophet Isaiah. He aad God-the-fas. makes a point of telling us that ii f wa >, had in * h s ,, marneat was "In the year that King'-od-the-close-at-hand. But them Uzziah died I saw the Lord sit-i to b f. m °r e to ting upon a throne, high and^ Vho wdl go for us? ’ (Isaiah 6:BJr lifted up” (Isaiah 6:1). Perhaps, fie , wa f b f in S bott a visio* it was only in the midst of hisi ID j task- , ~ despair over the death of his kingj Someone has said: that God was able to gethis*«ea? A vlslon wlthout a task i* * tion. , dream; I was a teenager when Presi* - A task without a vision is ■ dent Franklin D. Roosevelt died drudgery; in 1945. For many of my gen-i A vision and a task is fhtt eration this death was hard tOj hope of the world, grasp and accept, for we hadnev-l God is constantly seeking t* er known another president, hav-ltain our attention so that he majt, ing been too young to rememberl ive us both a vision to lift ut Herbert Hoover. Many of ua p and a task to send us forth» found it difficult to understand [Ust4 . utlll)1I £t , yrl|lltlJ ky ' iIOW the nation could, go on in, f Christian Education, Nahanol Caunctl-«( the great war without its leader of .f a r «i m th. u. s. a. kg so many years. In my children’s •mmumiy s»« «• j f generation history has repeated , . For Full Market Reports Read LANCASTER FARMING Now Is The Time ... By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Be Aware Of Acorns Dairymen should be careful not to al low their milking cows to eat fallen acorns at this time of the year The results will be a drop in milk production which cannot be recovered during the current lactation of the cows If large amounts of acorns are con sumed, there may toe some toxic results It is suggested that where numerous oak trees are in the pasture, non-milking animals only be allowed in the area this fall To Go Easy With Nitrogen Small gram growers following tobacco with barley or wheat should be reminded that we can expect some unused fertilizer remaining in the ground this fall due to the Itself in the aucTden, tragic deal ■ of John F. Kennedy. ThU must have been whet Am people of Uzzlah’e kingdom 11 perlenccd when he died. Many-o hi* subject* could not rnnambe any other king for he had rule* for over hal. a century. Under hi leadership the country had be come prosperous and powerful Now, they were wondering: wM would be able to fill his shoe«l| These, then, may have beant' some of the thoughts on Isaiah’.* mind when he went that day to the temple the day when Gplf was able to reach him and g*| » < attention. SMITH