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
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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 <je- This "let’s assume’ may seem
What manufacturer can you cite nominational headquarters ob- far-fetJed,
who produces a basic, uniform, product .ISt^SEd
for which he is paid on the basis ot the for exccot "lusf’thewor- to th® little band of Jerusalem
ultimate use of the product? ship ofGod? P J Christians on the day of Pente-
Generally speaking, the only differ- $t e -j , Tif ourund£
ence we Know of between Class I fluid Y(JU can ., beLeve what you standable desire to avoid
milk and milk going into by-product pro- bear . t First church, they are say- emotional excesses of the past
duction is in the price paid t'o the farmer. mg, has suddently become "a and guarantee order and dignity
While it may be true that when the bunch of holy rollers’' and "re- J n worship, we might have gone
,v. , " , ~ , liffious fanatics" \’ot First too far and virtually excluded the
government got into the milk business C h urch , the congreg a tlon that so Holy Spirit from our worship to
back in the 1930 s, farmers were in a dis- appealed to you with its quiet, da Y ? Have we perhaps "thrown
advantaged marketing position and need- unruffled dignity! Yet all over outd } e baby with the bath water”?
ed some authority to regulate the milk town people are talking (and
J some are laughing; about the mos t everything needed for
mar - , , i z-i j-*- ' commotion ’at First Church last success: financial wealth, edu-
Times have changed. Conditions gundaj morning. cated clergy, trained laymen,
have changed. But the dairy farmer is It is said that the congregation ’beautiful buildings, intricate de
still in a marketing muddle. poured out of the church in a nominational lock-step pro-
It is time for a complete overhaul state of excitement They were ,S? ams > 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".
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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
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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}
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