4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 3.1967
From Where We Stand...
Salute To Dairy Industry
For the several yr ar». Lancas
ter Fanning has devoted its fir*t i-->ue in
June to the county's g.ant dairy industry
sou v.ill note lhi-> year i-> no excep
tion
June marks the dairy industry’s
bigge«; annual eflort to tell its story, and
to cncouiage use of its products Since
our aud.ence is primarily Lancaster
County farmers, v. e don’t have to tell
you of the \ irtues of milk products
But. "June is Dairy Month’ is good
promotion for the dairy industry, and
gives us an opportunity to at least thank
our county dairy readers for the fine job
they are doing for the health and econo
my of tne county, the state, and the
nation
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You Can't’ Stop The World
Contrary to the title of a broadway
plav of a few seasons ago "Stop the
World I Want to Get Off'" the prob
lem of June graduates will be - How to
learn to live with the world without gett
ing off
Some sage at some point in history
defined wisdom as deriving from accept
ing the world as it is Wed like to extend
that definition to say accept the world,
not necessarily as it is. but as a reality to
be reckoned w ilh
The youngster graduating into the
•world is. generally for the first time, fly
ing from the parental nest where he has
dwelt in comparative ease and safety for
all of his young life Even if he is going
on to college rather than directly to work,
he will still be beyond the authoritative
protection he has enjoyed (he would say
endured) for the past seventeen or eigh
teen years
In entering the confused and con
fusing adult world, he will encounter
many of the “stop the world types’’.
These are generally young people who
have refused to accept the reality of life
Thev are quite content, apparently, to
let others carry the load and make the de
cisions They have, in the “hip” vernacu
lar. ‘ dropped out”
We are led to believe that, particu
larly among college youths, the use of
drugs has become a widespread means
of both rejecting conventional morality
and finding physical gratification in that
never-never world of hallucination.
The king of the drugs these days is
LSD (we won't even try to spell out the
unpronouncable chemical name i And the
selt-stvled leader of the LSD sect is a
former man know r n as Timothy Leary.
Leary s invitation to all who would join
his world “Turn off, tune in drop out”
There have always been escapists like
Learv and there always have been tools
801581 Penn
Springs Moohaven
can tes the high
hopes of co owners
Robert Kauffman
and J. Robert Hess,
Elizabethtown RI
and Stiasburg Rl,
i espectively, as she
heads for the nation
al Holstein Associa
tion sale June 29th
at St Paul, Minn. \
two-year-old, Bobbi
is due to freshen m
July. She is the
daughter of Oliver
dale Inspiration Ter
ry, an aged cow with
a 2E 92 classifica
tion. Her sire is the
well-known C r i s s ■
cross bull.
• National Holstein
(Continued from Page 1) ed by J Moweiy Fiey, Ji , 401 jointly-owned aged cow Olivei-
Mis Herbeit Royer, 2025 Ore Beavei Valley Pike, Lancastei, dale Inspiration Terry, an Ivan
gon Pike, Lancastei, and a brought a lecoid $25 000 hoe daughtei with a 2E-92
five-yeai old cow owned b;» Call COUNTY CONSIGNMENTS classification Bobbi’s sire is
L Mailin, Ephrata HI. The Hess Kauflman heifei is (Continued on Page 6)
At last yeai s national sale, Bobbi Penn Spungs Moohaven
a young Holsiein bull consign She is the daughter of then
with which to escape But the latter are
getting more and more sophisticated.
Leary himself predicts that one of these
days drugs will be old hat; all you’ll have
to do is plug in a machine and drop out
electrically
For those who would rather fight
than twitch, we say. “Hang in there You
can't be unborn by denying reality; you
can be reborn, in a sense, by meeting
reality head-on and bending it into a bet
ter form than it could ever have achieved
unopposed. '
You will follow many leaders along
the way. choose them well. Know that
their goals and their ideals match your
own For those of you who are destined
to become the leaders, know that your
actions beget consequences, and lead as
you would have others lead you Yours is
a particularly dire responsibility.
Enough advice. Graduates. We con
gratulate you on getting this far success
fully. and may success and good fortune
continue to shine on you forever.
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Alfalfa On The Increase
Perhaps one reason the alfalfa wee
vil is gaming m economic importance m
Lancaster County is the increase in al
falfa acreage during the past four years
A comparison of the state's crop and
livestock reports for 1963-1966 showed
com acreage gaining at the expense of
small grains, and corn for silage gaining
70 percent while com acreage for grain
declined 17 percent.
When it came to comparing forage
crops for the four-year-period, we found
that, although the “acreage grown in the
county held fairly constant at about 90,-
000, the ratio of alfalfa acreage to clover
and timothy changed drastically In 1963,
county farmers raised 43.000 acres of al
falfa and 46.000 acres of mixed hay. By
1966, those figures had changed to 53,-
300 for alfalfa to 37,000 acres for clover
timothy'
We’re not entirely sure of the full
implications of the increasing farmer
preference for alfalfa, but we’re sure of
one thing; the weevils are happy about
the new trend.
Cows And Cars
One Lancaster County dairyman we
heard of lately has an idea that may re
volutionize cow sales, he’s going to list
them the Way the car dealers do.
For example: One Holstein cow,
base price, $lOO. Accessories udder, $75;
two-tone color, $3O; four spirt hooves,
$lO each, extra stomach, $35; dual horns
(optional), $5 each Total price, $290.
It may not catch on, but you’ve got
to admit, it’s different 1
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Gan People Ghanp?
Lesson for June 4, 1967
BockywrxJ Scripture ' ’ ' '
D«voti*n«t twrfmf 1 u >
"Uhat’s the use of trying"
No one will bche\e that I’ve
changed' -
'i’nese were the hoepless word-,
spoken to me by a yoang man
sick at heart after days of an
swering "want ads" for employ
ment. Kvery pro
spective employ
er gave him
an application
form; every ap
-11 ca 1 1 o n form
wanted to know
whether he had
e\er been in
trouble with th 1
law C’onvincec
Rev. Althouse that lying could
no longer be a part of his life
he told the truth each time. Each
time he was turned away with
something roughly equivalent to
"Sorry, we can’t use you
No Radical Change
Why would no one believe that
he had changed 7 He was a good
looking bov; despite his histon
of arrests for various offenses,
he had a "sincere face *’ His ap
pearance was neat, clean, and
he was courteous in his manner
If anything, his appearance
should have encouraged trust
and a willingness to take a risk
on him
i’rospectne employers would
not believe he had changed be
cause there is a basic suspicion
that people cannot change radi
cally. It is believed that *here is
something 'Tixed’ - about a per
son’s character, something that
remains ever the same. While
small changes and minor growth
may lake place, these have few
consequences.
What a strange opinion of
human nature for those who
count themselves as Christians
They tend to divide all people
info the "good guys’ and the
"bad guys,” these divisions re
maming quite rigid and un
changing. In doing so, they for
get that Jesus taught that all men
have potentialities for both good
and evil. No one is wholly good
Now Is The Time . . .
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Be Careful With Weed Control Sprays
Chemical weed control is a very common
practice on most faims today Unfortunately,
many of the herbicides are non-selective and
will kill many kinds and species of plants Us
ers of weed control chemicals aie urged to be
exti emely caieful about the drift from then
sprayer and about the residue left in equip
ment To spray coin fields with 2,4-D and then
use the same machmeiy foi spraying alfalfa
fields is ceitamly very usky Separate equip
ment is the safest method
To Plant Temporary Forage Crops
Late May or eaily June is the lecommend
ed time to plant soybeans, Sudan glass, 01 any
of the foiage sorghum hybuds We hope that SMITH
the soil will become warmer „ . „
in the next few weeks which is ? u I 1 ‘I s 0-20 20 or 0-15-30 It is
necessaiy for the proper giowth D , v? appl \ *“ e fertilizer
of these plants These tern- ' V len 16 smd *l shoots are dry
porary forage crops may be event any bmmng liom
used foi pastuie, hay, 01 sil- f pi hhzei
age and most of them have the
ability to grow well during the one greater than
hot summer months Care success 15 ability to stand it.
should be used to keep tli t liAncastbh thht-mt-mi '
seeds sepaiate from fertilizers r,anca * ter county* own Far*
containing any nitiogen or weekly
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P ° tdSh Office 22 H If mi st,
Tn Fertilivp tlfilli Lilitz Pi It an
*° I?" Altana .. . Phone Lane , lster or
One of the good times to ap- Luitz 62fi-2m
ply fertilizer to an established
alfalfa field is immediately af- Dneaor
ter the removal of the first 3u T bsur, Ption price- *2 per year In
tei tne remuvai ui tne rust La.nt\ster County, $3 elsewhere
cutting The common fertiliz- E '£ al ?V s^ e< ?. November 4, issb.
. Published every Saturday by
er to use is one containing Lancaster Farming, Lititz, P«.
both phosphorus and potash Lttitzf P«!*T754f OSt * KS plld **
or wholly bnd. None of u» i»—
doomed to bo one or thu otlje
What God Can Dc
Saul, once the piumlonutc per
secutor of C'lirlHt’H followers, en
counter! d this attitude after he
had Ilia life chnnglng experience
r>M the Dam.iHuis Komi. Taken to
IJiiniasuiM, I'mi I walled for (iod
lo ni.ike known Ins will for him.
Wiule he walled the news of hi*
experienu* spread tluough the
Christian lominuii'v* due gets
the inipiession that it was re
garded largely with suspicion
and outright rejection. "Nobody
changes that much,’ seemed to be
the general reaction from moat
people. I. ven later when he had
been accepted by the Damascus
church, the suspicion accom
panied him to Jerusalem.
Once again in the Damascus
Road experience of Saul we see
how f>od can foil the opposition
of men 10 his plans Saul’s per
secution might easily have fin
ished the early C hurch, but (iod
used that danger to accomplish
his p - rpose. 1 urthermore, when
he encountered Saul on his way
to Damascus, he accomplished
three thing' in one. (1) raised up
someone to take the place of the
mam red Stephen; (2) enlisted
Saul’s talents for the kingdom in
stead of against it, and (3) ended
the persecution against the
Church In other words, he
gained an apostle, lost an enemy,
and protected his Church.
Yet this might never have
happened if someone in the Chris
tian community had not been
willing to believe that Saul the
persecutor could become Paul the
apostle There was Stephen who
prayed for him as Saul watched
him die There was Annanxas,
the fearful but obedient man who
helped Saul begin a new life in
Damascus Finally, there was
Barnabas who was willing to
risk his own safety to claim a
new recruit for tne V\ ay.
Unless We Believe
How can people change un
less someone is willing to believe
that they can change? How is
conversion possible when we con
tinue to doubt the power of God
to transform a person’s life? Why
should we be willing to believe!
that Saul became Paul if we will;
not believe that the delinquent;
can become a useful citizen?
If you were willing, like
Barnabas, Annamas, and Ste-'
phen, to take a chance on God’s 1
power to transform men, whom
do you know that might become
a new person m Jesus Christ?
(lasad an autlmas copyrighted by (ha Division
•f Christian Education National Council of (ha
Cnbrchos of Christ in tha USA* Xoloosod by
Community frass Sorvica)