4 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 28,1967 From Where We Stand... Forming On Asphalt One of the greatest fears of con servationists is that open land, once irresponsibly “urbanized’’ into the as phalt jungle, will be lost to productive usage practically for all-time. Now there comes a glimmer of hope that when Main Street has become obsolete, parking lots and out-dated highways abandoned, the areas may be salvable for farming. Not really, but it illustrates the interesting extent to which agricultur al research can sometimes go. A research report out of Delaware this week tells about an experiment which produced crops on asphalt. This weird type of cultivation was inspired by the combination of continuing drought and the sandy Delaware soil with its poor moisture and nitrogen holding capacity. Researchers buried a layer of as phalt under 18 inches of soil to try to retain vital moisture in the ground, and then planted it Did it work? An agri cultural engineer, who will report on the project during Delaware Univer sity’s Farm & Home Week (Feb. 7-9), says it did. Now, all the scientists have to do is figure out how to reclaim the nutrients from our mcreasingly polluted atmos phere to fertilize the crops grown on as phalt, and we’ll be all set to meet the crush of expanding humanity head-on, and still grow food! ★ ★ ★ ★ June In January The fella who wrote that old-time Bing Crosby hit song was sure talking about this week in Lancaster County' Records have dropped, while windows and hopes have been raised, and it is June in January almost This brief respite from winter’s wrath has been most welcome But, of course, we all realize it can’t last can it’ Right now Old Man Winter is probably laughing up his sleeve at us as he winds up over the midwest to de liver his next slippery pitch a slider, no doubt That one may be whistling across home plate even as you read this. But take heart, a look at the calen dar tells us that the proverbial ground hog will be making his appearance next week According to tradition, the worst he can tell us is to expect six more weeks of winter We forget what his good prediction is because it seems like we always get six more wintry weeks anyway. As one cryptic clown remarked this week, “It’s a good thing we didn’t get • Crops & Soils r_ UIM I_ w — 7 30 pm, Noitheastein (Continued fiom Page 1) rCI I 111 VCllfjllllclr 4-H Tiactor Club, at Ivan Among the speakeis on the on , on „ m n Nolt ’ s Faim Equipment Co, day-long piogram will be Jauuaiy .o—l3o pm, Celeiy Pdimersulle chairman ot agionomy extern Gioweis meeting at Jay Ho- February _ ls , t to 3ldf Lime . sion James E Eaton, Jr Eakm deckei faim, alon s Rt 72, Ferhllzei confeience at is well-known foi his work in soutn o. East Peteisburg p . Tlmvpieitw lime and feililizermanufactme, —7 30 pm, Southem Lan- „ f_" y Pran and their use in ciop pioduc- castei County 4-H Conserve- Mjnor Young . Adu P lt ’ Farmei tion, Lueck v,id tion Club at home of Vm- Cl<J n .. Becoimng cent Hoover, New Piovi- Acquainted With Soils”. - r t Pm t Ca^on Fee ß de cht SSSr^aJS. 1 Shultz Pike, Lancas- F^ a L y an 3 c ~te 7 r 3 °C P o " t N °C . ’ , t-> i ■ u 6i n Lancaster County Con tei Speakeis, Di John Bay- t i , T „ I ,seivation Club at home of loi and Lester Buidette, . . * . -n c, r, Aaion Z Staufter, Ephiata fiom I’enn Slate University r Januaiy 31—6 30 pm, Lancas tei County Farm & Home Foundation annual banquet meeting at Meadow Hills D'ning Room, New Danville Pike —7 30 pm Ephiata Young Faunei Faim Recoids Course, “Income and Ex pense Recoids”, at Ephiata High School —7 30 pm, Central 4-H Tiactoi Club at L H Bru bakers Faim Equipment Store, Lititz James H. Eakin, Jr. this heat wave in the summertime' or we’d have really been in trouble”. We’ll leave you to puzzle over that one as you hunt up your trusty old snow shovel. ★ ★ ★ ★ Pruning The "Bigot-Tree" In Lancaster County Did you know that Lancaster County generally referred to as The Garden Spot of America is, in fact, a “cesspool of bigotry”? (bigotry, accord ing to the dictionary, is the condition of being attached to a creed, belief, or opinion to the point of being intolerant of all evidence to the contrary) We didn’t realize this repugnant fact either until it was pointed out in the daily press this week by an official of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People (NAACP) He, Philip Savage, reportedly claimed “there are more bigots, racists and unsavory characters in Lancaster than I have ever seen before”. His solution to this supposed problem is to mount a full-scale invasion by pickets, demonstrators, and marchers to con vince Lancastrians of the error of their ways. Late Winter-early Spring is gen erally pruning time in the orchards and vineyards. Savage seems to feel it is also a good time <to shake the bigots from the Lancaster County tree with shouts of “foul” and the sound and sight of marching feet, with dramatic “sit-ins” and flagrant flouting of the laws by which we all live black and white. His proposed, dramatic protests will undoubtedly make big headlines near and far, especially since they will occur in historically peaceful Lancaster County, but all the noise, activity and aroused feelings will also undoubtedly knock many promising buds from the “tree” buds that through proper maturing could have ripened into fruit to nourish ALL mankind. Many of the reactions to Savage's belligerent statements this week suggest a fear that, if his threat of emotional violence is carried out, it will disrupt much of the quiet, non-emotional, con structive effort (dedicated to the same cause he supports) that has been going on behind the scenes in Lancaster Coun ty We begrudge freedom to no man, but demand he accept the responsibility that accompanies it Equality is the birthright of every American, but he who demands the right to be “more equal” than anyone else places the whole concept of equality in jeopardy. Lancaster County’* Own Far'-n Weekly P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 II Jinn St, Phone Lmrastir Bititz 626-2191 Don Timmons, Debtor Rohm O Campbell, Advertising Um-ctor anbsu iplion price f 2 per \ear in La.ru hsuf Countv, 'JS elsewhere Established November 4, 19>5 Published eveiv Saturday by Lancaster Fanning, Lititz, Pa Second doss Postage paid at Litiu, Pa 1734 S LANCASTER FARMING bitit/ P.i 17" n or Crosses:One-Half Off Lesson For January 29, 1967 I«cl§r«un4 Scnptura Lul"’ g nini 10 Davotianal Raarfing john 15 I 11 1 heard this little ditty on the a wonderful moment for th» little radio the other day: band. I don t cate if it rains or strange R espo nse Jteezes, yet what a strange response Long as I have my plas- j esus made to that wonderlulcon tic Jesus fession. "The Son of man rau^t Riding on the dash su ff er many things, and he ie board of my jetted by the elders and chief car! priests and scribes, arc! be Some people, it killed .. . ’’(Luke 9:22 RSV > One seems, look to moment they were rejoicing .n the Jesus for in-knowledge that they were to share surance against the honor of being the disciples any unforseen 0 f the Chosen One of God Xow, hazards (mclud-however, he seemed just as mg crosses!), quickly to snatch that jo% awav What they want u ,th h is dire predictions o sul is security. What f enn g, rejection, and dern. it Rev, Althouse he offers, how- vuls obvious - there would ae no evei, is a cross! bargain-basement disciplesmp for Of course, we all love the cross, those who followed him. We love those little crosses we member of a former oansh wear on the lapels of our coats once told me irntably''l > reacher, or on dainty chains around our j come to church to relax, to find necks. We admne the golden and p eace an d quiet; all you do is silver crosses on our altars or the s j ir me U p an( j make me u acorn remote crosses of church steeples. f or t a bl e . - ’ I could sympathize with We love to sing about 'the oldjjim. it gets to the point that one rugged cross on a hill far away, g e j s ver y ) very tired of all the but the life-sized crosses close thrown out to the hand is a cioss of another color. Qhnstian, all the human needs Irnnu marked "urgent.” It is under- UnCOnSCIOUS Irony standably human that we seek Last spring one day I saw peace of mmd, not crosses a sl Sn in a downtown store what we must realize, how- ANDBUMIES S ON& ever ’ is that We Can fmd ourpeace CROSSES AND BUNmBSONL-of mmd as he found his: not by HALF OFF It struck peace with the forces of the sign earned a certain amount remaming faltM ul to calling. Our peace is found quickly forgotten. What most peo-J? ot so ., mu £ h withdraw n pie want is a marked-down^ 1 the bombardment of life s Christian discipleship. trials and challenges, but in re- Many of us, perhaps, are like mamm S faithful even unto the the two ladies who went to Strat- cro ®f- fordon-Avon t 6 see Shakespeare’s rae P eac f can p°t be marked home and attend one of his plays, down below the price of the cross. How wonderful- it would be to »n miHinM c»nyrrjhl»<J hy th« Oivnun write home to say they had ac-* , L ch r , ‘ ~« " ««.(.«., N.u.noi Cou«.( .(ih. , ~ "i , Cbrthd •( Christ in Ih* U. S. A. HclMsM by tually seen a Shakespeare play c . mnlun , V p r ,„ s , n ,. c , ) in his own town. The play they _ went to see, however, was Titus ATTEND THE CHURCH Andronicus, a thoroughly gory n „ vnTTT? rnnrrir play. When they emerged from uf lUUK LrtUlt-rj the theatre, the two women .were obviously shaken by their ex perience, For a while they said See Our Want Ads For Bargains Now Is The Time . .. By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Provide Minerals Livestock producers will continue to face the pioblem of keeping down pioduction costs In older to do this one step is to piovide all of the requirements needed for fast gains and maximum production Salt ana nnneials are necessaiy at all times for nearly all kinds of livestock Most commer cial feeds will contain some salt and miner als, but in most cases not sufficient to meet the needs of the animals Free choice, loose salt is the lecommended manner to offer salt to livestock For most animals a mixture of equal paits of tiace mineralized salt and ch-calcium phosphate will meet the major mineral needs Don’t reduce maximum per- SMITH formance by lestncting salt animals vaccinated against the and mineial intake disease at an eaily age (6 to T ,r . . o . „ , 10 weeks of age) To Vaccinate Swine Herd One of the speakeis at the To Prune Shade Trees lecent swine management By the time this column gets meeting stressed the impoi- to the reader it may be seveie tance of all hog producers to winter again, however, the re attempt to immunize their am- cent spelt of spring weather mals against the dieaded hog reminds that February and choleu infection This piac- March are the best times to tice is impoi tant to the com- prune most shade trees and mercial feedeu with several many shrubs While the plant hundied head as well; as the is dormant,.there will be less owner of a swine breeding injury ‘arid loss of sap; without herd There are various vac- leaves the skeleton of the tree cines that can be used, but the is more easily shaped and important thing is to get the'planned. nothing until one of them spoke up with a force smile: "Let’s simply have some tea and forget It!” People often have the same reaction to the cross. We can imagine that the dis ciples reacted in much the same way. Jesus had suddenly taken them from Galilee to Caesarea Philippi. They knew something was in the air. Then, he began to question them. Who did the people say that he was? They told him. Then,". . . who do you say that I am?” Without a moment’s hesitation, Peter sprang forthwith a confession which, until now, had never been spoken in Jesus’ presence; "The Christ of God.” It was out in the open at last! What SUNDAY
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