—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 30,1967
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From Where We Stand ...
Starting today, September 30, is
National 4-H Club week throughout Lan
caster County and the nation. According
to Jay Irwin, Assistant County Extension
Agent, the 2,076 County young people in
the 82 local clubs are encouraging others
to join them in 4-H learning experiences.
The 4-H Creed is;
“I believe in 4-H work for the op
portunity it gives me to become a useful
citizen.
“I believe in the training of my
Head for the power it will give me to
■think, plan, and reason.
“I believe in the training of my
Heart for the nobleness it will give me to
be kind, sympathetic, and true.
“I believe in the training of my
Hands for the ability they will give me
to be helpful, skillful, and useful.
“I believe in the training of my
Health for the strength it will give me to
enjoy life, resist disease, 'and make for
efficiency.
“I believe in the United States of
America, and in my responsibility for
their development.
“I am therefore willing to devote
my efforts for the fulfillment of these
things which I believe.”
Even President Johnson got into the
act with an open letter to 'all 4-H mem
bers. He said, “Your theme for 1967 is
widely chosen. This is, indeed, “The
World of Opportunity,” And this is a won
derful time to be alive, for it is filled with
opportunities to serve cur fellowmen in
rural America, in our cities, and around
the world.
“Our country’s progress is based on
the knowledge, skills, vigor and courage
of its youth. We depend on young citizens
ior leadership and service. It is thus
heartening to know that you are equipp
ing yourselves for this responsibility
through 4-H work.
“I hope each of you is able to in
fluence other young people to follow your
example as you develop your head, heart,
hands and health through 4-H.”
In The Top Of The
Farm News This Week
Smucker and Weaver Win
At Ephrata Steer Show Page 1
Frey and Book Have
Champs At Lampeter Page 1
Eleven-Year-Old Janies Greider
Wins Steer Title At Lampeter Page 17
Corn Virus No Threat In Pa.,
Says Penn State Pathologist Page 9
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So, from the entire staff at Lancas
ter Farming, to all Lancaster County 4-H
youth 'and your extension and parent
leaders, congratulations on this your Na
tional 4-H Club Week, and best wishes
for continued growth in the coming year.
★ ★ ★ ★
Unselfish Leadership
How many hours a year do the 300
lodal 4-H parent leaders unselfishly
spend helping with club projects? Fifty,
one hundred, two hundred, or more? We
don’t know and we doubt if they have
ever stopped to count either. But it’s cer
tain they are providing a learning ex
perience for our boys and girls that can
not be measured in dollars and cents.
Under this leadership our youth
both to win and lose graciously. Al
so with a club project to occupy minds,
our farm youth have less time to be de
structive. This not only means better
men and women in the future but a bet
ter community now.
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
A Fortunate Nation
“Although we are a fortunate nation,
our food abundance didn’t just happen.
. . . we have to fight 10,000 kinds of in
sects for our food. We have to combat
1,500 plant diseases, and 250 animal
diseases. We have to fight spoilage and
decay. The result of this battle to protect
our food is evident. In our own country,
food quality is high, the abundance great,
and the cost relatively low. Overseas, we
have supplied 98 per cent of food aid re
ceived by the less developed nations. Pro
tecting our food is a giant job, and a vital
one for both America and the world.”
Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agricul
ture.
Across The Fence Row
The fellow who thinks he knows it
all is especially annoying to those of us
who do.
Holstein-Friesian World —June 10, ’65
Then there is this story: A young
farmer’s wife who had agreed to the pur
chase of a new tractor instead of the din
ing room set she had wanted protested
when she found that her husband had or
dered one with power steering at extra
cost.
“But dear,” the husband explained,
“It won’t cost more. All we have to do is
pay a little longer.”
Weather Forecast
The five day forecast for the period
through next Wednesday is expected to
bring temperatures averaging below nor
mal. A high is expected of 60 degrees'and
and over night low of 40 in the North
and in the high 40’s in the South. Normal
high at Harrisburg is 72 and the normal
low is 50 degrees.
Rain may total about one-half inch
occurring at the beginning of the period
and again about Tuesday.
THE TIME IS RIPE
Today we look back to those
biblical "dark ages” and revere
the great names of Amos, Hosea,
Jeremiah, Isaiah, Micah, and oth
ers. Yet, though we honor them
today, then were hardly well re
ceived by the people in their own
time. Why? Because it was a time
ripe for prophecy, an age in need
s«i»r«iw 2 Kinjii m 23 through 17.41 c f God’s spokesmen. And, be-
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m J tf'Littw oppression and injustice. Onj
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mkir* enthusiTsm for 50 was *^ at the S r u,ed theii i
wealth to confanue to amass even
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Rev. Althouse in one of James Civillaw it seemedexisted only
Thurber’s stories there is a house f ° r
full of clocks. On these clocks the PA i*™L h*
time is always "then,” never L/wh b S 4 6pnC l
"now.” That, it seems, is the right was “ gn ’
time for prophecy: "then,” not WHO NEEDED GOD?
now ‘ Furthermore, it was a time of
PEOPLE IN THE DARK social and religious irrele-
In school we all studied about was flo H£
those times which are called "the ■ JiS
Dark Ages.” People who lived in i
the "Dark Ages,” however, didn’t r(^ d rnH*o
Vnow that Slav wara riarlr Af lip-SSTVICC to God And 80l
course, that’s the way it always me^^ActMll
is: the people who live in darkness JJJfjS*
rarely understand how dark the fl,ev did
times renllw dpp Tt tnk« . 1.*.. me Y 01(1 not reaU y need LrOd —OB
generation to look back and make f°
that judgment, to appreciate the
prophets whose warnings, for the SSL Z i“i
most part, had gone unheeded. f&SL °A„ G . od: , * ey had
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live in a "Dark AwVtS nh Look > S£ud - we’re success
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ant disscoures on the brightness (fas«4*n»uiiin««eyri S ht»d*v*i« Division
of our age even though the light
has long become dim or even c.mmumiy s.™.)
gone out
A DARK AGE?
Leuon for October 1,1967
For Full Market Reports
Read LANCASTER FARMING
To Topdress Alfalfa . .
Established stands of alfalfa
may be fertilized this fall af
ter the removal of the last cut
ting The use of a phosphorus
potash fertilizer now will per
mit time for the roots to store
the plant food for greater
yields next summer; in addi
tion, there may be more time
to apply the fertilizer now
iban following the first cutting
next summer.
To Plant Evergreen
Shrubbery . . ,
Property owners who are in
terested m planting evergreens
such as yews, junapeis, and
hollies may do so with success
by making these plantings by
the middle of October. This
will permit the pliant to get
set before freezing weather ar-
No wonder Jeeua Chrlit him.
•elf wa« to poorly received when
he came: men ignore the light and
chooie to walk In darknen. "The
true light that enlighten* every
man was coming into the world
... yet the world knew him not"
(John 1:9-10 RSV).
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
rives and will
ture conditions amnui the
plant as compared to nest
spring’s plantings.
To Permit Corn To Dry . . .
Corn plants continue to be
high in moisture and the ears
are slow to ripen; thus may
continue to toe slow until we
have a killing frost. Corn that
is to be picked or shelled and
stored without the use of me
chanical drying practices,
should be given time to dry on
the stalk Most field oopn is
still above 25% m rate turns and
will not dry sufficiently in the
normal cnbs under present
conditions. This year it is quite
likely that many fields of com
will not be ready to pick be
fore the small game gunning
season.