—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 5,1967
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From Where We Stand...
All-Important Farmer Information
T. > \'i;v on the farm front has
been o' . -,o at a dizzying pace for the
pas: u i \v.ias. or so How do farmer?
keep .K'".. : oi ,'icse changes? How do
t'w get tie latest technical product ta n
information v. Inch can be so important
in turn.ng a ta’m profit these days?
According to a smney published
this week hv a Penn State University
rural sociologist, farmers prefer farm
magazines and newspapers to group
meetings or personal visits as methods
of getting information about farming.
It was also noted that 90 percent of the
dairy farmers surveyed in the three
county area received weekly news
papers.
On the average, each farm family
subscribed to five farm magazines. The
'average reading time for farmers was
about 15 minutes a day, it was reported.
It was also found that relatively few
farmers subscribe to the higher-priced or
highly specialized publications al
though this number is increasing as our
complicated farm technology increases.
The study confirms the findings of
earlier surveys, including one which ob
served the reading habits of Wisconsin
dairymen.
"Why do farmers have this prefer
ence for the written rather than the
spoken word? The author of the study
does not spell cut the reasons in great
detail, but we can think of several. Time
would be one important factor. Although
the demands on a farmer’s time often
Vary seasonally, he is, generally speak
ing, a busy guy. The farm news and in
formation in magazines or newspapers
can be gleaned at his convenience. And
if he doesn’t have time to finish reading
a certain article of interest, he can leave
it land dome back to it when it suits Once
in the farmer’s hand, the printed word
endures. It doesn’t rely on electricity
it can be fully utilized by Candlelight or
by daylight.
How many times have you heard a
speaker, or broadcaster, say something
that caught your interest in passing?
Then, when you try to recall it later,
m'any of the details are missing. There
can be little room for such misunder
standing w-hen a farmer relies on farm
newspapers and magazines for his inf or-
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ball teams; and was named the
outstanding girl athlete at her
graduation last June
That’s one side of the remark
able Miss Landis At the other
extreme, she played the leading
female role m the school oper
etta last year; was treasurer
and accompanist for the choms,
played cornet in the band, serv
ed as librarian; was the Garden
Spot FFA Chapter Sweetheart,
and she gives piano lessons
She has been active in 4-H
plays, and has four years’ ex
perience. showing steers as a
member of the Red Rose Baby
Beef Club
Miss Landis’ parents operate
a 44-acre farm ih the Strasburg
area The family keeps 6000 lay
ing hens and raise corn and al
falfa
During the summer, Miss
Landis woiks as a waitress at
the Dutch Horn of Plenty Rest
aurant She plans to entei Mes
siah College, Harrisburg, wheie
she will major in eithei spoits
or music Her ultimate goal is
to teach school at the elemen
tary level.
Prior to winning the title,
Miss Landis noted that she
“would be proud to represent
my county in the state contest
if I am selected Lancaster Coun
ty Poultry Queen I would do
everything in my power to pro
mote the poultry industry,” she
added.
Queen Marjr Lou will com
pete for the state title oii Satur-
mation. If a farmer finds a word he
doesn’t understand he can look it up in
the dictionary. If the meaning of a cer
tain piece of information is not clear, ho
can puzzle it oi;t and study it from all
angles, even take it to someone else for
an explanation.
Yes sir! Xo matter how you look at
it. the punted word is the best shape
information has ever been in'
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The Amish And The Tourists
Much has been written lately about
the effects of Lancaster County's con
stantly-increasing tourist business upon
cur Amish citizens. Most reports sug
gest that the thoughtless, camera-happy
tourists are a steady source of irritation
to the Amish and are even a factor
in causing many of the Amish to leave
the area for more isolated communities.
We have no doubt that these repoits
are based in fact, but a new thought
occurred the other day which we found
amusing. Everyone has seen how the
tourists gawk as they drive through the
Amish sections. We had occasion this
week to observe the tourist-Amish rela
tionship as we poked along behind a line
of crowded cars which seemed to rep
resent every state in the nation. It’s a
wonder there weren't a few collisions;
cars were wandering all over the road
and pulling abruptly to the shoulder as
occupants of some cars were busy point
ing out the colorful Amish folk as the
latter went about their shopping business
and other errands.
The Amish were more polite: they
didn’t point. But we noticed many look
ing the tourists over very carefully, al
though somewhat guardedly. And why
not? Here’s a cross-section of America
right on the doorstep! Without ever leav
ing home, the Amish can get an idea of
what people the country-over look like;
in 'the shops and on the streets of their
local communities they can hear America
speak.
So the relationship is not all one
sided. The Amish themselves must get a
lot of quiet laughs as they observe some
of the touring characters. This undoubt
edly doesn’t offset the nuisance and ag
gravation the tourists cause the Amish as
they intrude upon the latter’s privacy.
But perhaps it’s some small consolation.
day, August 26, during “Dutch
Days” at Hershey.
NEPPCO TOUR
In other business, clhectors
conferred with David Heffler of
the Northeastern Poultry Pro
ducers Council (NEPPCO) re
garding the tour of Lancaster
County’s poultiy industry Octo
ber 9th.
The county will host the tour
in conjunction with the NEPP
CO Exposition to be held in
Hainsburg October 10-12 The
tour schedule was discussed in
detail, and Heffler and associa
tion president John H Hess
planned to visit each of the
stops on the following morning.
Hess presented a letter to the
directors noting that a cere
mony will be held at New Bol
ton Center to dedicate the new
diagnostic laboratory at the
Pennsylvania University Veter
maiy College Secretary of
Agncultuie Leland H Bull is
expected to be on hand for the
occasion To be held August 10,
at 4 pm, the event will also
serve to introduce the Center’s
new poultry pathologist Dr.
Chen Hwang
When directors of the poultry
association approached Secre
tary Bull earlier this year re
garding a poultry diagnostic
center to be located in Lancas
ter County, one argument pre
sented by the administration
against such a move was that
facilities already existed at
Summerdale and at New Bol
top. In fact, the facilities at
New Bolton had been without a
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Same, Yet Different
The other popular article of
belief is that: We all believe in the
same God. This is true in the
sense that there is but one God
and all men who try to find him
seek the same Reality. Yet it is
also true that men’s understand
ing of what or who it is they are
seeking varies greatly and sub
stantially.
Joshua and Jesus, for example,
sought to serve the same God.
Yet the nature of God as Jesus
understood him was radically dif
ferent from the concept of God
that Joshua knew. Furthermore,
ft«ckgi'oui«4'Scripiurr Ads 17 - . *besedifferent.concepts also made
s DW«ti»n«i Reading 40.21-31. £or radical diiferences m the lives
Much of what we might tall *b a * d ved. "J? 16 matchless life
"popular religion” today seems esus was a d i re ct result of his
predicated upon two equally er- understanding of what God was
roneous articles of belief. The first rea ",y llk ?t , . . ... ,
of these is: It doesn’t matter what. ben werd \° Athens, he
you believe, so long as you be- * oun d that the people there were
lieve in something. "very religious” in one sense of
You’ve heard word. That is, they were much
that many times, interested in discussing and de
haven’t you? We bating various ideas about the
read it in m'aga- nature of the gods. Throughout
zines, hear it on tlle cit y there were altars to count
television and ra- less deities. There was even an
dio, and are con- al tar to "the Unknown God,” for
fronted with it al- they recognized that there might
most always be other deities of which they were
when people be- ignorant.
Rev. Aithouse No Longer “Unknown”
were true, then we would also Thus, when Paul spoke to a
have to assume: (1) that the way group who had gathered onMars
we act or live is unaffected by Hill, a place for open-air debate
what v.e believe; (2) that all re- and speeches, he spoke of God as
hgions and philosophies are of the Creator, the Sustamer, the
l qu + a L Valid , 1 ' y ? nd va *J ie > and (3) Lord of heaven and earth. But,
-i nbelle ™g’ not he went on, this God whom you
in what we oeueve. represent with idols, whom you
To Livs As We Believe’. seek in so man y ways, was fully
tt T and adequately revealed through
and Slav’n np v nn lp th8 TT J r Sthe resurrected Jesus Chust. He
and Slavic People were Unter- no i on ger needs to remain "Un
nienscnen ( sub-human beings); known”!
therefore, he felt no violation of mi . . i x , j ah
ms morals when he ordered their 11S n 0 es T s Tl |f ue today. All
extermination in his death camps. s ,? me ult imale Reality.
He was entirely consistent with ?^5! Sia ? does ncd sa y’ £
his beliefs. They did affect the? 11 ! r ’? h , t ara Y ro ? g ’
way he lived his life, didn’t they?!??! P° ints Christ as the highest,
John Dillinger believed that a r^y e^ of the one God
man has to take what he wants + oma p mei V It does mat
regardless of who it hurts or what ter wbat ,,)y e believe m even
laws it breaks. The gangster lived P°F e > in Vhom we believe. For it
and died by the violent code in !? t] 16 God revealed m Christ, the
which he believed. Could we sav ? edeem , er as , well as the Creator,
that it was enough for him to that makes all the difference in the
have believed in "something”? world.
The Communists arecon
vinced that material prosperity “
and progress is the primary , rAHCASTEB farming
‘for all national life and the indif’: ®*“oaster'county’* own Farm
vi’dual’s rights must be'subordi-'’’ ' i Weekly
nated to that goal. Wouldn’t?you’f°' Box 266 ' Ijltltz > Pa- 1751*
agree that this belief "matters-” to offlce - ?2 E Mam st,
those who live under Communist Phone: Lancaster 394-3047 or
rule? Litltz 626-2191
What we believe, then, does g° n Timmons, Editor
matter. It affects the way we live Canlpbell > Advertising
~ &nd different religions call forth Subscription price: $2 per year in
Only 23 of the Mayflower different ways of life. Therefore, „ Lancaster County; st 3 elsewhere
families ever had children, yet the value is not merely in be- Swished ev<u-y mb |aturd»y l, bs
over 100,000 .Americans trace neving, but m what we believe. Lancaster, Farming, utitz, Pa.
their ancestry back to them. Eduuf Pa^ml?* I*** 1 *** p * JdL **
competent diagnostician since
last year, the directors informed
Bull at that time.
ADVERTISE EGGS
Allen Graybill, chairman of
the poster committee to adver
tise eggs and poultry at various
points of sale in the county, re
ported on his committee’s pro
gress.
Graybill noted that a slogan
“Egg Him On With The EN
ERGY Breakfast” had been de
veloped to accompany one post
er- Otheis will follow The post
ers are to be furnished free by
the Eli Lilly Co., and will be
printed locally
A report on the recent asso
ciation tour disclosed that ap
proximately 100 countians had
made the trip to Hershey,
Grimes Poultry Processing
Plant, and Whitmoyer Labs.
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6377, Melvin Stoltzfus, 687,-
7304, and Clarence Harmshi,
464-3791. ■*> i | ;
Lapp urges ' all' Giiei-nsey
breeders to attend the affair
and to bring their families
The Breneman farm is locat
ed just off Rt 222, turn east
at Hessdaie, and it is the first
farm on the left.
To Top Tobacco Carefully
Tho number of leaies left on
a tobacco plant will va»y from
farm to farm and fiom field to
field We do not know of a de
finite number of leaves that
will be proper for all growers,
this will depend upon the time
of the year, the feitllity of the
soil and the general growing
conditions. Each farmer will
know his land better than any
one el,se. The important thing is
to leave only enough leaves that
will reach maturity before cutt
ing. Green or immature leaves
when cut do not cure properly
and will lower the value of the
crop.
To Apply Chemicals Accurately
The tobacco crop is growing
rapidly and many growers have
already topped and sucker con
trol will soon need attention. If
The Difference
Lesson for August 6,1967
NOW IS
THE TIME...
Ry Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
chemicals are to be used to con
trol suckers, then growers are
urged to become acquainted
with the correct recommenda
tions and follow them carefully.
Excess amounts applied may
lower the quality and value of
the crop; also, chemicals ap
plied to immature leaves will
not give good results. Follow
the directions carefully for
maximum benefits.
To Seed Fall Forage Crops
Livestock producers needing
late fall pasture might want to
seen winter rye or one of the
winter wheat (Dual or Red
coat) during the month of Aug
ust. With favorable weather
conditions these grains will
make rapid growth and may be
grazed or green-chopped until
cold weather arrives. Frost or
freezing weather will not make
them poisonous to livestock.