4 —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 16.1967 From Where We Stand ... Residue” “No Requirements Utterly Unrealistic Not so many years ago, most people I'ad at least a rough working knowledge rf the facts of life down on the farm. This was because the energies of most people were devoted to the business of producing the food and fiber necessary to sustain life. All this has now changed. One farmer now produces enough to feed scores of people as a result of mod ern agricultural techniques. Probably not one person in 50 any longer has the remo test notion of what it takes to draw from the sun, the rain and the soil the things we require to live. Ironically, the great scientific and technological advances in agriculture which have freed the majority of the populous from the drudgery of squeezing out a living on the back 40 have been a two-edged sword Those who have been freed from the land for other pursuits are unaware of the vital role of such things as chemicals in agriculture, and thus often obstruct continued agricultur al progress. Keeping the public informed of modern agricultural processes has be come a major task. Recently, Congressman Jamie L. Whitten in an Address before the Na tional Agricultural Chemicals Associa tion drew attention to the need of public t nderstanding of pesticides and pesticide residues and the necessity of reaching an agreement between nations, particularly between the United States and countries cl western Europe, upon pesticide toler ances. Testing methods of such sensitive ness have been developed as to permit identification of pesticide residues at a level of parts in a trillion so infinite simal as to be beyond human comprehen sion Present testing methods make “np residue” requirements utterly unrealis tic Therefore, in the opinion of Congress man Whitten, nations must agree upon what are safe tolerances and must reach en understanding in order that trade be tween nations shall not be needlessly in cumbered and people threatened with critical shortages of wholesome foods. Everything we eat has faint traces of innumerable chemicals put there by rature Man-made pestipides 'gre just an other chemical applied to help grow our food. In some cases, a trace remains after the growth and harvesting process. A few years ago, the analysis techniques of the time could not detect these harmless traces. But now, the laboratory can iso late the minutest indication of any sub- Don’t be the first to try new things, __ __ ___ _ nor the last to put old things aside Farm News This Week Tobacco Growers Tfl Vote On Marketing Quotas Early In ’6B Page 1 Golden Harvest Sale Average Is $866 Page 13 Cigar,Ta?t By Farmers Page 1 Farm Show Has “Inner Space” Problem Page 19 Soil And,Water, IJistript Directors Plan Opals For 1968 Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING, Lancaster, County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Main St., Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 6(26-2191, Everett R. Newswanger, Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director Subscription price $2 per year in Lancaster County; $3 elsewhere Established November 4,1955 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Fai ming, Lititz, Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn. stance in our food. Thus, laws that say “no residue” are impossible to comply With and can simply result in the total prohibition of scientific pesticide applica tion even though soaring food require ment make pesticide use mandatory. This truth must be brought home to peoples of all nations if mass starvation is to be avoided. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. sv< ■*'£- Christmas 1967 One of the first satellites was launch ed by divine edict, to guide the Wise Men from the East to Jerusalem, to pay hom age to the newborn Jesus. Much has been learned about the celestial galaxies since that time, and men of science continue to challenge their mysteries. Complicated measuring instruments have reached the moon and are sending back research data, paving the way for future space observation and travel. Over these nineteen-hundred odd years, the oft-told story of the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem and their later flight into Egypt epitomizes the philosophy of the family the corner stone of civilization. Man, while attempting to unlock the mysteries of outer space, should take time out to pause and recall that it was the birth of a Savior in a stable at Bethle hem that helped to make this all possible. Today’s wise men who challenge the universe by orbiting new and bigger ve hicles into space should also fall in be hind the original three Wise Men guided by the first satellite, to pay homage to the Christ concept and the design of brotherly love. Love of one’s fellow-man begins with the family. M “There is a close relationship be tween supplies in the market and farm ers’ bargaining power Modern agricul ture cannot operate in today’s industrial system unless it keeps supply and de mand in balance. Production in line with market demands and orderly marketing are the foundation stones of farmers’ bar gaining power.’’ Orville L. Freeman Secretary of Agriculture Across The Fence Row Of two heroes, he is the greater who esteems his rivals most. Beumelle Then this story I am twenty-five cents. I am net on speaking terms with the butcher. I am too small to buy a quart of ice-creaip. I am not large enough to purchase a box of candy. I am too small to buy a ticket to a movie. I am hardly fit for a tip, but believe me, when I go to church on Sunday I am considered some money! Weather Forecast The five-day forecast for the period frqrn Saturday through next Wednesday ' calls for temperatures to average near normal with 'the high in the mid 3(hs. North and West to the mid 40’s in, the Southeast area. Turning colder toward the end of the period. The normal Har risburg high is 39 and low is 25. Precipitation may total one-half inch melted occurring as snow or rain mainly toward the end of the period. IN m MOOD Lesson for December 17,1967 Sflclflrturxl Scripture Matachl I and 2 t OtvalfonatUMdinf* Psalms 34 11*16, One Aldo Donati recently told Evidence seemed to indicate to police in Sicily that he has been Malachi that they might. They married eleven times without ever too lacked a sense of responsi having obtained divorces. *1 sim- bility. They wanted the benefits ply love weddings,” he confessed, of religion, but they did not want "The ceremonies, the music, the to give anything of value in re* nervous bride, the trappings turn. They went through all the hold a “right motions,” but they gave special fascina- only tokens of themselves. They tion for me kept their part of the covenant t -SB 80 when the only when they were "in the mood strikes, 1 mood” or it was of advantage get married!” to them, rv mm The bigamist’s ... explanation of Cheap Sacrifice jJWw'his misdeeds One rniny Sunday afternoon M may seem far- a litfle hoy and girl decided to " * fetched at first act out the story of their morn- Kev. Aitnouse glance. Yet, if we ing Sunday school lesson, Noah think of it, there is much of this and the Ark. They found an old same motivation at work, in our shoe box and set it afloat in the world today. "When the mood bathtub. Turning on the shower, strikes” today, people are liable they "made the rains come” and to do or not do almost anything, later pulled the stopper to make We break contracts and agree- the waters recede. Then the little ments when it suits us. We shed hoy remembered that Noah had responsibilities with no twinge of offered a sacrifice. The. kitchen conscience. Relationships are stove, they decided, would be a broken as if they never existed, fine, place for that. Th,e boy sug- The "gentlemen’s agreement” gested the sacrifice be his sister’s seems to have become obsolete be- doll, but the little girl indignantly cause of a demise of "gentlemen.” refused, suggesting in retaliation ~ her brother’s baseball glove. A Scrap Of Paper "Certainly not!” theboy exploded. The affairs of nations also re- After some moments of careful fleet this cavalier attitude toward thought, theboy exclaimed:"Say, covenants and relationships, do you remember that old torn Many treaties are made- with the teddy-bear in the attic? Let’s give unexpressed assumption that that to God; we won’t want it neither party really expects to any more.” And that was their perform its obligations. We sacrifice, remember, of course, the broken We may smile at these children, treaties and pacts of Hitler and yet have they not learned their Stalin, but our own skirts are sense of responsibility from us? hardly without stain. The United "Let’s give that to God; we won’t ' States government has a long want it any more!” What must history of broken treaties with children think of the "When-the the various Indian tribes that mood-strikes-us” manner in once possessed this land. which you, and I fulfill out Within the last few years, the covenants tq God and men? American people have "looked- * the-other-way” as the courts have (t<W *n «yHrn« c«pyr;,hi«»fcy tf.. d™:**)* allowed the federal government 6t chmimn Educ«ti»n, Not..n.i council .f ihy to break its treaty with the u ‘ Indians who live on the Pennsyl- vania-New York border. The at- titude of .the government seem ed to be that it was ell right to break the treaty because land Lancaster Farming Ads Pay! To Mulch Strawberries.... er trees should be notched an Two to three inches of clean order to get the herbicide into straw will help increase tfye ,t re a quicker. By spraying strawberry yold next June, ft- the bottom 18 inches of the tar the plants aae darmcnt, th 3 trunk of. tree® and brush, they mulch applied over 'he emue vval be eliminated by next area ,wiCi help protect the plants summer, from extreme cold weather and reduce heaving of the roots To Test Forage.... Next, sprung when only part of The forage testing service at the mnl'clt is, removed the bail- Penn State University is St# lance of the straw will help con- available to all Pennsylvania serve moisture and help keep farmers. With the winter sga the hemes clean son at hand and with in any farmeis owning a hay crop not To Kill Brush and Stumps.... 33 hagh m quality as some The winter season is. timely, y£ars, and with liberal supplies for spraying brush undesirable of corn, it might pay good re trees, and stumps with a mux- turns to have the forage tested; tore of 2,4-D, 2,4,5-,T, and oil: many livestock producers have this potent mixture will kill learned through this testing most any pliant or tree and if service that a cheaper feted dome during the winter, there could be used resulting in high will be less danger of drafting er net returns. and killing .useful was needed for a dam and that Indians would be reimbursed for their loss. .That the Indians wanted their treaty and not reimbursement did not seem to matter. i .Same Mistake? 1 It was this same disregard foe responsibility against which th£ prophet Malachi warned in the fifth century B.C. when the Judean exiles retprped from their captivity ip Babylon. Tfyeir fathers had broken their covenant with God and the nation had suffered grievously. Surely these people would not make the same mistake? NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent £**fsV »*'•»
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