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!
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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