—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1, 1966
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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«<kfr*unJ ScnpKir* Isaiah 1,*6.
, J Who Will Go For Us?
Mr.4O 110. In the temple Isaiah was BM
A farmer was selling a mule minded of something that all of
to his neighbor. He had made a us tend to forget; important as
point of assuring the buyer that are the Uzziah’s, presidents, geiw
the mule was very co-operative erals, kings, and statesmen of thl»
and responded nicely to gentle world, it is the eternal God wh®
commands. reigns over it. The passing of s
When the time came for the great leader is a tragic loss to
' farmer to take'any nation, but that nation is not
the mule out of lost if it still has its God. Some*
the barn to pre- times it taken the depths of per*
sent him to his sonal or national tragedy in or*
new owner, the der for God to get our attention,
mule balked, re- Why had God waited until the
fusing to move year that Uzziah died to speak
an inch- Final- with Isaiah? Why is it that wi
• -u n farmer must experience some tragedy in
P >, 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 *
, , ° <f l answered the farmer , s constant]y calling to us, again
Sf&iton - g dnd agaln to communwate
*Getttng°Cur attention may weU ha * d f <*
be one of God’s greatest prob-i* 1 j l ®" - T . ~
lems. Often it is only when life' ha^ r “ a l ly ,? otten T - aiah l
has struck us some staggering! ad “ tlon- Tbe resulting visionary
blow that we are ready to respond ‘ x P erlence in the temple was th»
to his gentle commands. moment of Isaiah’s life. In
° it he caught a fleeting glimpse dt
When King Died the s lor >' 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 , .
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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