' 4— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19,1
From Where We Stand. •..
Allies In Suburbia
As we celebrate Farm-City Week,
November 17-23, we are reminded once
again of the increasing inter-dependence
between these two main segments of
.the American population the produc
es and the consumers.
As farmers, we need the products
and the markets of the cities and the
suburbs. For consumers, the future de
pends on a constant flow of high quality
foods from producing areas at reason
able prices.
But if this relationship is to con
tinue, it is vital that we convince the
general consuming public of two things:
(1) food is the biggest bargain in their
budget; (2) it can only remain so if the
farmer can continue to produce it as a
free and independent businessman.
■ We can have Mrs. Consumer as an
ally, or as an enemy; the decision lies
jjn how effectively the farmer gets his
' message to her. We can’t really use any
more enemies at this time, but we sure
<fo‘need some good friends.
/As the farmer’s voting influence
•fcoiffinues to shrink through reduced
.numbers and reapportionment, he will
. have to become more and more depen
dent upon sympathetic city and subur
ban votes if he is not to be disenfranch
ised. It is, therefore, important that the
general consuming public come to un
derstand some of the problems the
farmer has in the tremendous job of
feeding a growing nation and a hungry
world.
In our everyday contacts with non
farm friends it is the duty of each of us
io keep plugging that message to the con
suming public until even we get sick of
hearing it.
Food is indeed the greatest bargain
in this country. It is the case in no
other country in the world that the con
sumer can walk info a market where
6000-8000 different items are in stock,
,and buy the week’s food needs- for ah’
average of one day’s pay. In the Soviet
Union, for example, it takes about three
days’ pay to buy the family’s food sup
ply for the week, and it seems reason
ably certain that the average Russian
does not consume, at our bargain prices,
the 171 pounds of red meat, 38 pounds
of poultry, 175 pounds of fruit, 336
pounds of vegetables, and 634 pounds of
dairy products that constitutes the aver
age American diet
If American farmers are to continue
making the high-risk investment of
money and labor to maintain this mira
culous flow of food and fiber to every
corner of the land, the least they can
expect m return is a reasonable price
for their product, and political and
economic independence
' t ! Yes, the consumer certainly needs
the farmer, but this is not a one-way
street;' we need her to buy our farm
products and to support our best politi
cal and economic interests Only a con
tinuing educational campaign at all
levels from elementary schools on
can accomplish this farmer-consumer
'alliance But once accomplished, and
carefully tended, it can become a lasting
guarantee to both parties that the best
interests of each will be protected
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The Thanksgiving Feast Is
Truly American!
; “panics giving Day is .-a purely'
American feast, begun traditionally by
the Pilgrims, and continued through the
centuries as a national day of religious
and gaßtroh'omic 'Significance. ~
Even today when -all the foods, of
the world are available to enrich our
daily diet, the Thanksgiving menu of the
average hous'ehold is still predominantly
American in • origin and production. A
sumptuous Igast can be spread with
only the kinds of food that the pre
,Columbian Indians knew and taught the
white men how to raise and use. An
All-American Thanksgiving menu is
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tempting to a gourmet’s taste and satis
fying to a hungry, growing boy.
Turkey, cranberries, both white
and sweet potatoes, numerous sorts of
beans, squash, pumpkin, tapioca, corn,
including sweet corn and popcorn, pepp
ers, avocado, cocoa and chocolate, oys
ters, pineapple, chestnuts, peanuts, bra
zil nuts, cashew nuts, and while not
strictly a food, the tobacco of the after
dinner cigaret, cigar or pipe. All of
these are of strictly American origin.
Even without excluding non-Ameri
can dishes, the usual Thanksgiving din
ner, with roast turkey, cranberry sauce,
string beans, corn bread, pumpkin pie
on the menu, is American enough. Those
who wish can easily build in their
kitchens a strictly made-in America
Thanksgiving .bill of fare.
The turkey that is the center of the
usual Thanksgiving feast has a dual
claim to the' 100 per cent citizenship. It
is as native to the American continent
as the Indians. Yet the turkey also has
a record of early immigration from
Europe
Cranberry sauce is as American as
the roast turkey that it accompanies to
the relish of the feast. Cranberries are
found only on the American continent.
The cranberry bogs of New Jersey are
famous the world over.
“Fixin’s” are indispensable to the
turkey, and sweet potatoes are indispen
sable to the “fixin’s.” Sweet potatoes,
as well as the white potatoes, misnamed
Irish, are American in origin.
The sweet potatoes, “taters” south
of the Mason and Dixon line, are pro
bably of tropical origin. At any rate,
they thrive best now in the warmer
parts of the country.
The white potato is not Irish but
Peruvian m origin. It got its misnomer
because it was so widely grown there
and Irish immigrants in the early 1700’s
brought large quantities of them to the
United States.
For the salad course, there may be
avocadoes; also called alligator pears,
for these are native to this hemisphere.
The bread should be com bread,
of course.
Corn is the greatest of the agricul
tural gifts' of America to the world.
When the first settlers from England
found this gram being cultivated by the
Indians they called it Indian corn to
distinguish it from the use of the word
com to mean in British usage all kinds
of grain, wheat, barley, rye and all
the rest.
Corn probably originated in the
South American highlands but by the
time the white men came its cultivation
had spread as far north on this con
tinent as the climate permitted.
In the fields of Indian corn found
by the early colonists, there were
orange - yellow pumpkins growing much
as they are grown today.
Pumpkin pie is as Thanksgiving as
turkey, yet just 50 years after Columbus
the American pumpkin had been so
adopted m Europe that it was being
called the Turkish cucumber,
Beans of many varieties deserve a
- place in the American Thanksgiving
table, for' they were extensively culti
i vated by all the native populations of
the New World.
Nuts give Thanksgiving a double
dessert.
' ' America is a land of rich and
, varied food .supplies, capable of sharing
its bounty with other areas of the
world and filling to aid other countries
'tp xfaise larger crops of food, often of
rfijtnisphere origin. We are
‘"-thankful fdr this at this Thanksgiving
"as ij. may hlip bring peace to the' future
oT*a less hungry world. *
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'Best of the IVeek r
Republicans have been overheard
telling defeated Democrats lately
“Cheer U£>. Jf you liked Milton Shapp,
, love Ray Shafer!”
Prophet,Go Home!
I-cs.ion For N'ovembcr 20,1966
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D«v*h«n«t ftariinf Ramuns 12 9 21.
Imagine that you arc n mcm
her of a Christian minority in n
land that has been overrun by
the Communists. Although they
have not succeeded in destroying
the faith, their persecutions o)
the Church have taken a heavy
toll. The faint
hearted have
defected and
the biave minor
ity’ grows e\et
smaller and
weaker. The
word "revolt'
begins to be
heard frequen
tly' among the
Kcv. Althouse faithful.
Then an important letter ar
rives. It is from the exiled leader
of the Church, a man greatly re
spected throughout the nation.
The letter is smuggled through
the Iron Curtain and a secret
meeting of Church leaders is
called to hear its counsel.
Unwanted Advice
What will the letter say? You
hope that it will be a call for an
unrelentless campaign of under
ground harassment, sabotage,
and eventual revolt against the
godless rulers of your land. You
anticipate a ringing denunciation
of the Chinch’s enemies and a
promise of God’s help in throwing
off the yoke of tyranny. Surely
this is what God will say through
this prophetic leader!
But he says none of this. The
letter begins rather with an ad
mission of guilt: jour country is
captive because it deserted God.
It continues with unbelievable
counsel - you and jour fellow
Christians are to settle dow n into
a normal, peaceful pattern of
life there is to be no re\ olntion.
You are to work for the welfare
of your nation as constructive
citizens, even prajing for it and
its godless leaders. It counsels
patience - tins tyranny will not
soon end. It closes w ith a prom
ise: God will bring great good
even out of this tragedy. |
This is not the message you 1
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Spray For Winter Weeds
Modern weed control requires some at
tention to the chemical killing of weeds dur
ing the fall and winter season With good
moisture conditions this fall we ars aware of
considerable growth of shepherds purse,
duckweed, and ground ivy Most of these
weeds will be found in alfalfa seedings or
othei hay crops The use of one of the di
nitro sprays when temperatures are above 50
degrees F will help control all of these
weeds. The use of Chloro IPC for duckweed
when temperatures are below thus level, will
give best results Spray when the weeds are
small and immature.
To Be Cautious With Tobacco truck and livestock trafffe in
Some growers may be think- Y^ ch mak f
ln g tSe TeTf J° TIT i
to pointfiut the lateness of SSS^t^W
ha m 6St 0n many f T S °™ oi woof a.e
S S? "T'nf? Tni 61 ' ui'ged to contact their vefenn*
this fall. Many plants went in- f if 'aic
to the shed full of sap and * * " nt “ conditions
moisture and it will take more -
time to' get them dry. Sug-
gest that care be used in not m
stripping too soon and to be * Morse I ItleS
sure the leaves and ribs are
ready (to be bafed. . .< j f f m
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Even though the state of fi , orse and pony PW 1 "
Pennsylvania is listed as scab- according to associate W ll
ies free on the livestock health.
records,' all local producers are to ’’develop riding c a
urged/to heron* the-.alert for self confidence through* coin
any skin 'condition that may petition, and learn the ‘mean
cause the animals'to rub off ing of responsibility by f? 1 ' 111 ”
"the 1 wool.'There'is considerable " for-an animal. ‘ - -1-'-
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Indignant, dlinppolnted, and
Furious with this man nnd
traitorous advice. What kind n|
Christian is ho? Has he no fall' .
No patriotism?
AH' Part Of Plan
Tills is, of course, an 1.r.. .
nary situation. lVihups.l...wtvi.,
It may help us to understa id I ><
the exiled Jews in Habvion ' ;
when they received .leivmud s
long-awaited letter Wi'.it ii
wanted from this prophet who - ,
often had proven toruct. v
encouragement and a tall • -
resistance against their cap’" i
Jeremiah did not tell t, i i
what they wanted to Ivar. •, <
what he believed (lod had plan. '
upon his heart: (1) It vas (.. d
Himself who permitted tl .m to •
carried into exile; (U. "llu'd
houses and live in then; pi, i
gardens nnd eat their product ;
(3) ". . . seek the vvelfaie ol »i e
citv . . . and pi ay to tr.j Lo’i’,
for in its welfare you will i, 1
your welfare : (4) the captiv,
would last for no le-,> tn,>i
seventy vears"; (5) this v ns > nt
an evil fate, but within tne pi.
and purpose of the Lord. ’J t
letter exploded like a booov-ti.v'!
How eagcily vve war for • t
word of God until we discover
that the Lord, more often than
not, sends us a message we i o
not want to hear. Like mn, .■
who go to professional coi -
selors, vve ask for his help l,w
what vve want is not hi»coui>v’,
but his blessing upon our ov n
point of view. Even if we're i
the wrong track, vve want him to
tell us vve are on the right o>-e.
The French critic, Vmet. O'ui
observed: "Most friends of tn ! n
love it as Frederick the Grtal
loved music. It used to be said of
him that, strictly speaking, re
was not fond of music but of«it
flute, and not indeed ot the flute
but'of his flute.” Is it not li-.it
way in our friendship with trudi.
not Truth, but our truth ’
Prophet, go home! Do not con
fuse me with the truth. My mini
is made up.
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