4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 8,1967 From Where We Stand •.. Managerial Revolution The technological revolution in American agriculture in the past fifteen yeais is legend. According to farm policy makers and economists, the next fifteen years will see a "revolution" in the area of tdim management. In a report put out by Penn State Cooperative Extension Service recently, called "Faim Management—l9Bo Style”, the authors conclude t'hat, at present, ‘‘managerial competence is a relatively scarce commodity, and many potentially good farm managers may find greater financial reward outside of agriculture”. By 1980. the report continues, farm ers can expect to pay substantial amounts for an increasingly wider range of mana gerial services These will include DHIA services, veterinarians, nutrition ists, accountants, lawyers, soil techni cians, and others One disturbing point the article makes is that farm youth with the great est managerial potential will be lured away from the farm for higher financial rewards outside of agriculture. We are already faced with the prob lem of increasing average age of Ameri can farmers, and losing our best-qualified youth to non-agncultural employment will add further to that problem It will also support the trend away from family managed farms toward large corporate enterprises NOT ALL BAD But, take heart, it’s not all bad. While the larger farms may hire full time specialists and install computers, the noimal-sized family farm operations will have access to many services, including data processing through their land-grant colleges of agriculture. We feel that, although this will in crease the cost of doing business for the average farmer, the availability of these services at a reasonable price will enable him to make decisions with as much skill ed know-how as the big boys Despite these important aids, how ever. the family farmer himself will have to be the one to eventually apply the management advice he gets, and he •will have to learn to speak many differ ent ‘ management languages” in the pro cess Technology has provided the tools, now the faimer and his family must pre pare for the managerial revolution ★ ★ ★ ★ Make It Aspirin Commenting on these tioubled times, Bany Goldv-ater told a student group this week “If Moses were to come down from Mt Sinai with two tablets in his hands today, you can bet they d be aspirin' Two County Youths To Attend State 4-H Days Peggy Eslileman Pequea Rl, and Dennis Allen Quan wille E 2 will lepiesent Lancastei County 4H club membeis at Stale 4 H Capital Days in Hai iisbiug Apul 10 and 11 Joining with 4H membeis from most othei counties, they v ill have an oppoitumty to iui thei then unclei standing of the loles of citizenship by obseiv ing the state government in ac tion While in Hamsbuig they will meet top governmental admin istiative officials, observe the seveial blanches of government in session, and torn the State Capitol Representatnes Shei man Hill and State Senatoi Eichaid Snyder will be guests of the 4 H members at a special bieakfast on Apiil 11 Accompanying the two Lan castei County 4-H’oi s will be as sociate county u gent Win Mei 1 iam Best Question Of The Week National Farmers Organ! zation (NFO) claims to have slaughtered be tween 12.000 and 15,000 dairy cows in an effort to raise milk prices,” a radio newscaster reported one morning this Embarassment Of Pentecost week You are profoundly disturbed He was immediately followed by Lesson for April 9,1967 voudo"? P a could U wUhhotfyo3 an announcer asking, “Are you sure contubuhon, an idea that has you're marketing your product in the »«k*r»uns Join misi? 2527 145 considerable appeal though littla best nossiblc wav’’’ 21 13 promise of solving the problem, mi . .. j j .. 0.v.h0n.1 »Kd,n, jsf.r *4 25 3i You could call for the resignation The commercial continued, advertis- D "^' ni] didn , t of the pastor or demand an im ing a business management service But X r l mediate investigation by the the coincidence of the report and the ?«}4 Perhaps you could con commercial question, were food for is talking about something ‘act other members who were not thought strange that is alleged to have present on Sunday-presumably uiuu & iii,. thorn c.mHiv Hnnmr a considerable proporhon of the Are we marketing milk in the best happened there Sundae during congregatlon __ anc i ca u f or a possible way? The answer obviously has was a nor . special meeting to determinestrat to be a resounding NO! There has to be a mal Sunday ser- egy. Oi you couid simply move better way than this And there are cer- wee nothing spe- tainly enough intelligent people m the was back to its First Church entirely. That might industry to come up with a better idea usual unmspir- be the; best way to reply to those than a further increase in scarcity of an mg lev el after ihe irritating cracks at work: '’Hear already scarce product ? rSC KCttS No other product we can immediate- not a dav oTspe- embarrassing for an ordinary ly think of is marketed in such a hap- cia l observance.’’ Christian. hazard way. Rev, Althouse t jj e men at erudite theologies, etc. It is time tor a complete oveinaui talk loudly, "incoherently’’ They possessed only the power ol this situation The whole structure g a jd some Others w r ere convinced of the Holy Spirit —or it pos should be reexamined from the con- some of them had been drinking, sessed them and that was cent of USDA market orders down to the "Maybe they’re putting something enough. As someone has said, . nno nrpspntlv tpd- new’ in the communion cups down whereas today the church speaks bargaining co-ops which presently lep theSB da%s - sciid 0 " e man mostly of its problems, the early resent dairymen with a sardonic wink Accounts church spoke mostly of its power. We don’t agree with the NFO ap- vaned, but 'jov seemed to be the What_ might happen in your croach to the problem, but perhaps it descriptive term most frequently chinch if some day the worship F t. , 1 , i . used service were divinely interrupted? will have accomplished something after Xone of ftis makes an> senss all if it foicss other dairymen and farm you This' 103-*’ you have ne\- organizations, and Congress, to reexa- er seen at First Church before mine the present milk marketing “non- Worship services there are self system". ★ ★ Don’t Bar The Public “The couitroom belongs to the peo ple and not to the lawyer,” said Rich ard H Amberg, publisher of the St Louis Globe-Democrat Americans have a share in the proper woi’kmgs of the judi cial system, but their interests are threatened "by the efforts of lawyers and bar associations to remove the courts fiom the public arena and claim them as their own ’ © Procedures Champs (Conunited fiom Page 1) county champions fiom Glass land, and go on to win the slate title at Penn State Um \eisity Solanco did not have a team entered in the county tuals this yeai PUBLIC SPEAKING Nelson Newcomei of Penn Manor High School, was rated best in the county public speak ing contest held concurrently with the pi ocedm es event Mon dav Runnei up in that competition was Mike Smucker oi Gaiden Spot High School, and War wick’s Heniy Heishey finished thud All thiee boys will com pete in the FFA area contest on A.pnl 12 in Yoik County Judges for the pailiamentary pioceduies and public speaking contests weie Yoik County ag iiculture teacheis See Our Want Ads For Bargains ★ ★ 4-H Beef Show Planners To Meet April 12th Lancastei County agucullur al agent M M Smith lecently announced that a planning meeting foi the 1967 Southeast Distuct 4-H Baby Beef Show & Sale will be held Apul 12 Officials fiom all paiticipating counties will meet in the Ex cnange Room at the Lancaster bmon Stock Yards at 8 pm, Wednesday Smith said Extension specialists Lester Burdette and Fiank Bortz fiom Penn State University will be on hand to assist at the plann ing session. Among items to be considered will be a request that the show be at a set time each year, i ather than changed fiom month to month ovei a period ot yeais “This would enable club membeis to teed their steei s more wisely foi a certain maiksting time " Smith noted Divinely Interrupted Now Is The Time . . . By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Plant Evergreens Eailj spnng is one of the very best times to plant most any kind ot an evei green tree 01 shxub Most Chiislmas Tree or Foiest Tiee plantations aie staited duung Maich 01 Apnl Seedlings 01 tiansplants fiom the museiy aie planted baie rooted howevei other "ever gieens oi any pme 01 spiuce tiee with any size should be mo\ed only with a ball of dut mound the loots Bare looted plants should be kept moist (roots only) to piotect the small loot hairs and fibers Keep the evei gieen loot aiea moist for the first vear ' To Test Soil For Corn Club Coin groweis who are planning to enter the state five-acie corn contest must have a ciutth complete soil test on the field ,<• to be entered within the last , f more danger of undesir two years This test, and the able fiavors Dairymen are lesultmg lecommendation, l, rged to lemove the cows from should be used as a guide in the pasture at least four to applying the light kind and f lve hours ! amount of plant food per acre . T before milkmg for the extia high fields desir- aISO Ilollse them in a well-ven ed Don’t delay this test and be Elated barn, held up at coi n planting time. To Manage Milking Heid Carefully Dairymen who plan to utilize early spring pastures for their dairy herd aie'iemmded of the impoitance oi caieful manage ment to pi event off-flavored milk Many types of lush for age will give an added flavor to the milk flow, if the animals aie permitted to graze just prior to milking tune If pastures are infested wdd garlic, there consciously somber, almost grim, You can dismiss completely the suggestion of "drinking,” for peo ple of First Church are wise enough to stay home when they arc "like that.” The pastor’s «er mons are usually entertaining, but it would stretch the imagina tion to call them "inspiring.” The people of First Chuich are never demonstrative except at budget meetings, football games, and ow casional political rallies. (Sasad an outlmas capyrifhlad by Hi a Division of Christian Education, Notional Council af tha Churchas of Christ in tha U. S. A, Kalaasad by Community Prase Sarvtca} LANCASTER FABMIWO Lancaster Connty’a Own PazUi Weekly PO Bot 2GC - Dititz. Pa 1784 J Office 22 K Mam St, Bititz, Pa 17143 Phone- Lancaster 384-3047 or Bititz 620-2191 Don Timmons, Editor Robert (4 Campbell, Advertising Director Subscnpt.on price: $2 per year In Lancaster Count! , $3 elsewhere Established November 4, 1915. Published ever* Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lititz, Pa- Second Class Postage paid at Lititz. Pa 1754*.