4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, January 21, 1967
From Where We Stand...
Warwick Vo-Ag Program
In Jeopardy
If the Warwick school board has
its way. the number of county schools
offering vocational agriculture courses
will drop to eight by the end of this
school year.
The beard icached its decision in
the face of what it described as “a de
creasing number of farms in the area
which has resulted in a steadily declin
ing vocational agriculture enrollment”.
This sort of cause-effect reasoning
is not unusual among administrators.
Nor is the problem itself unusual; many
schools and colleges, particularly here
in the East, are facing a decreasing
agriculture enrollment.
However, its solution requires more
than a simple bookkeeping approach
which says “we can’t economically justi
fy this program because of the apparent
ly small student interest.” So, applying
the latest Pentagon-slang, the program
is “phased-out”
Well, that’s certainly one solution,
and it does solve the school administra
tors’ immediate problem But does it
best serve the community, which is the
administrators' long-range concern? In
the case of Waiwick, we feel certain
that it dees not And taking the farm
community oi Lancaster County as a
whole, it doss not'
Like so many administrators before
them, the Warwick officials seem to
feel the words “tarming" and “agricul
ture” are one and the same Perhaps
they once were, but today nothing
could be fui ther from the fact Farm
ing is Ccitamly the bedrock of agricul
ture, but for every farmer producing a
food product, there are five, six, or
probably more persons doing something
to the product as it travels to the con
sumer There are only about two million
commercial farmers m this country, and
yet, approximately 40 percent of our
total national working population is key
ed to agriculture in one way or another
and we don’t mean eating'
As fewer farmers produce more
food for an ever-increasing population
at home and abroad, even more
people will be required to “service”
Two-Year Agribusiness Program at
Penn State Expands To Meet Need
The teims giowth and
“success” descnbs the new two
veai agncultuial business pio
giam at Penn State Univeisity
says Di Clarence E Tiottei
piofessoi ot maiketmg in the
College of -\g!iailtuie
Tiottei indicates the pic
giam has mown by populai le
quest tiom one to thiee Com
monwealth campuses The
Altoona Campus the BeirS
Campus at Reading and the
Payette Campus at Uniontown
Eniollment has mcieased 40
peicent since the Inst
began in 1064 Gi actuates have
all staitecl at salaues langing
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Temperatures through Wed
nesday are expected to aver
age within the normal range
of 39 to 23 degrees. It will
be seasonably cold through
out the five day period with
little day-to-day change.
It looks like dry skies for
our area until about Tues
day or Wednesday. The
weather bureau sees precipi
tation at that time amount
ing to inch, melted.
Rain or snow? The only an
swer the weatherman gave
to that question was, “Yes”.
Take your choice.
It may be a little harder to see this
in Lancaster County because here folks
have been farm-oriented for so long that
they are inclined to think only of the
production aspects of agriculture. But
if these same people will open their
eyes they will see whole industries
right in our county whose total activi
ties are geared to agriculture. They are
too numerous to mention, but anyone
scanning the advertisements in this farm
paper will get an idea of their quantity
and diversity.
Helping to educate school officials
in your community on these opportuni
ties is worthy of the best efforts of each
of us Allied industry has a real stake in
this problem too, and will undoubtedly
help by furnishing facts, figures, and
probably some time. Your various farm
associations could adopt this program
to educate the educators in each school
district, and in the whole county.
If such a program is undertaken
now, it will avoid the need for a crash
effort later as individual vocational
agriculture courses are jeopardized
due to school administration ignor
ance, and it will enable well-trained
Lancaster County boys to fill jobs
right here in Lancaster County .where
they are so urgently needed. It’s part
of doing the whole agricultural job
right here where the product is pro
duced. And as a side-benefit, new
agricultural industry may be encour
aged to come here, and present in
dustry to expand, if they can be
assured of a good supply of agricul
turally-trained personnel.
£1 om S 5 000 to $6 100 and pi os
pective employeis alieady aie
inqumng about June ’67 giadu
ates
Seveial giaduates weie em
ployed as management tiainees
by a laige agncultuial co
opeiative These peisons seive
as assistant manageis in teed,
teitihzei, oi seed depauments
oi assist in opeiating a re
tail =toie Anothei giaduate
opeiates a feitihzer blending
and mixing station A vege
table piocessing plant huea
one giaduate to supervise all
phases ot conti acting, pioduc
ing, and haivesting ot ciops
Inspecting li mis and vege
tables toi a maim lailioad oc
cupies anothei giaduate
Coiuses in business mathe
matics, accounting, and busi
ness law aie the coie oi the
pi ogi am, Ti ottei explains
Coiuses in agncultuial econo
mics analyze efficient pi educ
tion and maiketmg of agucul
tuial pioducts Basic studies
in science and technical agn
cultuie aie included Giaduates
teceive an associate degiee
To entei the two-yeai agu
cultuial business piogiam, a
student must be a high school
giaduate with a background of
3 units of English, 2 units of
mathematics, and 10 additional
units Scores on the Scholas
tic Aptitude Test of the Col
lege Enti ance Examination
the product somewhere along its
route. It is just as great a service to
any community if its schools prepare
a student for a responsible job in
local agricultural industry, as if they
train him to go back on the farm.
As Warwick High School voca
tional agriculture instructor Clair
Zerby observed this week, “until
school administrators and guidance
people are educated to the countless
job opportunities in agriculturally
related industries, the vocational ag
riculture student enrollment problem
will continue.”
Boaid must be submitted
Winter is a good time for
mteiested high school seniois
to apply foi admission, Trottei
points out Intelested peisons y* H
should write to the Dean of H H 1111
Admissions, 109 Willaid Build- * * *■***
mg, Univeisity Paik, Pa,
16802 Couises stait in the
Fall Teim
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at Kauffman’s Faim Equip
ment Co, Mountville
—8 pm, Cattle Feedeis
Meeting at Milton Brecht
School, Lititz Pike, Lane
—8 p m Penn Manoi Adult
Fanner Class, Past I “Be
coming Acquainted With
Soils’ cpcakei, Oival Bass,
U S Soil Conseivation Seiv
ice, at Penn Manoi H S
Januaiy 27 8 pm, Hoise
men’s inloimational meeting
at Landisville, sponsoied by
county extension seivice
—8 pm, ASCS Wheat &
Feed Giam meeting at Lan
castei Faim Credit Bldg
liANCAsma farming cow within 2 to 4 houis of The repeat suggestion of
Lancaster Own Farm mi i kmg may cause tioutole, Pacing the order foi spung
po Box 2GG - Lintz, Pa i754i also, the silage odoi in a bam f ei 'tolizer needs is timely Many
off.cl 22 i. jMmst, wheie the cows are milked §roweis have alread y deter '
Bit.w, pa it-.in wneie tne cows aie mincea mined theit . neec i s and are ex-
Phone
i£"u S b2«-s 3 m J 047 ° r Wlth the normal m,!kin S m a- pectmg the quality and quan-
Don Timmons, itduor chines may cause undesirable tity needed Due to the heavier
R i)Trcctor Cdmpbel1 ’ Adve, ' tisinff odois in the milk The feed- use of chemical feihhzers in
?übs(iipnon puce $2 per vear m ino - 0 f these ma.teiials should S eneia l, some sources may not
County $3 elsewhere 01 t “ toe m f teila “ Shoum meet the demand A complete
Established iso\ember 4, 1955 follow the milking time or +v ,. rno , tVl „a of
Published eveiy Saturday by SOll tGS't IS tilG DGSt lUG'tuOCl Ot
Lancaster Fannins, Lititz, Pa precede milking by at least determining what is needed for
Second Class Postage paid at r _
Lititz. Pa 17543 four hours. any given crop.
Beyond Words
Lesson For January 22, 1967
lackgreund Scripture Lute 7 and 8
Oevehonel Reading Miah6) 8
A gieat violinist begins to play
a concerto by Brahms. Two men
sit side by side in an automobile
and hear the music as it swells
trom their car radio. To one man
the sounds are music ofmdescnb
able beauty a nd emotion. To the
other, it is only
"so much horse
hair scraping
over cat-gut
One medium
of communica
tion two en
tirely different
i espouses. One
man's cars col
lect the ibra
Rev. Althouse tions and he
finds them plcasiuable The other
man, however, hears onh haish,
shrill sounds and wants oniv to
flick the dial to another station.
Both And Neither
Who is correct? Holh and
neither, for the fact is that we do
not all respond to the same at
temps to communicate. What is
meaningful to some is a puzzle
to others. It does no good to
berate another because he re
sponds differently to some of the
things that seem good to me.
I’eople are different and God has
made us that way
If we are trulv conceinedabout
communicating with someone, we
must be careful to choose lan
guage that is meaningful to them.
Jesus seldom used what might be
called ' religious language - ’ m his
preaching and teaching. He used
figures of speech, analogies, and
illustrations that were drawn from
'the experiences’- of dus hearers.
Of prime importance for him was
the truth he wished to communi
cate. The form of the communi
cation, the package in which the
truth was wrapped, was adjusted
according to his audience.
Beyond Sheep
Christians today often forget
this and cannot understand why
they are not more successful in
getting across the message of
Read Lancaster Farming
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Raise Dairy Herd Replacements
With the favorable outlook foi the dauy
mdusliy no doubt the demand for milk cows
will be stiong foi the next seveial yeais
Since Lancastei County includes many of
the best herds ot dauy cattle in the cou'ntiy,
it seems advisable that all produceis ;aise
the maximum number of heifer calves, il the
heifeis cannot be put into the milking held,
theie is little doubt that other dauymen m
othei pails of the state and the country will
want them
To Prevent Undesiiable Milk Flavors
Olf-flavored milk is usually the lesult of
the dairy cow absorbing the odors of various
feeds and impaiting them to her milk How
The feeding of silage to a milk
good news. They speak of "shep
herds” and "sheep” to people who
have spent all their lives in the
concrete cities. We use "churchy”
.vords and Sunday school ex
pressions that no longer hav e the
power to communicate. We ask
not only that the outsider will
listen to us, but also that he
learn our vocabulary too.
Our task, however, is not only
to find new language, but of
going beyond language. .Tesus
not only preached and taught the
gospel, he was the embod ment
jf it. Ours is particularly a day
and age in which men w.'l le
-pond more readily to wha‘ they
see than what they hear.
If they hear us proclaim Tor
Hod so loved the world . . . , ’
out see that we have something
- ss than the w hole w orld in mind,
he message will not get across.
If they hear us exalt a crunfied
I’hrist, but see us shv awa\ trom
costiv involvement for otrers,
hcv will not believe the good
revs. If they hear us sing, .lust
is 1 am,” but demonstrate that
i\e don’t want them just aa they
ire, the song will be in \ am
Back To The Source
In oui city a number of
'hurthes and inteiested indivi
duals have combined their re
quires to provide a coffeehouse
nimsh'’ to rootless older ' outh
md young adults. Although it
ias been in operation just a few
•nonths, young people, already
ynow that it is a place where they
ne wanted and accepted, where
someone is interested in them and
hur problems Named The
Source,' the coffee house is staffed
3V volunteers from various
ihurches who wait on tables,
.vash dishes, and sit down to talk
when dialogue and conversation
are desired.
Sooner or later, many of the
/oung people want to know:
'Uhy do you people do this?
Why are you concerned witn us 1 ' ’
Inevitably, the answers of the
volunteers lead them back to the
source of their concern: the love
of Jesus Christ.
Love in action is still one of
he best ways of communicating
he good news. It takes usbeyond
words. T-
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