—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13,1968
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From Where We Stand ...
Big “Going On”
Well, next week is the big “Going
On” in Hamsburg again It happens
every year about this tune the snow
starts to get deeper, the temperature
chags the thermometer's nose on zero
and all around Lancaster County the
snow items get ready for the Farm Show
This one the 52nd promises to
lie another enormous one Prize money
totals $69,121, a new high And as in past
years some entries had to be turned
sway Most of these were in the dairy de
partment with 100 rejected Beef cattle
snd sheep were all accepted but 20 horses
and 20 swine were turned away. In all,
1 983 animals will take a wild winter ride
to the affair, not to mention all the other
produce and handy-work assembled by
fanners from across Pennsylvania.
In announcing the 1968 Farm Show
theme, “Agriculture Pennsylvania’s
Keystone Industry,” Gov. Shafer said,
“For more than half a century, Penn
sylvania Farm Show has occupied a uni
que position in the world of agriculture.
“It has grown from a small beginn
ing into an inspiration known and res
pected in every nation and in all walks,
of life And as it grew in importance, the
Pennsylvania Farm Show became more
than a symbol of the Commonwealth’s
agricultural prowess, it became a show
place of progress
“Agriculture truly is “Pennsylvan
ia’s Keystone Industry ” It is the source
of food for many people, and it provides
law materials for the great multitude of
manufacturing plants and business places
that are engaged m Agribusiness today.
For this reason, the Pennsylvania Farm
Show has wide appeal and a variety of in
terests for everyone, from producer to
consumer ”
Aynway we feel the magic call of
soother mid-winter extravaganza. So,
let’s go everybody. We’ll see you at the
Farm Show.
Crime Is Crime
Mr J Edgar Hoover, Director of
t“ie Federal Bureau of Investigation not
ed, “'Police officials know from experi
ence that crime prevention and enforce
ment of the law are a bit more compli
cated than the supervision of a church
picnic Sociological dreamers notwith-
Farm News This Week
23 County FFA Boys Earn
Keystone Farmer Degree Page 13
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules In
Favor Of Landowners Page 1
‘ Agriculture Pennsylvania’s
Keystone Industry” Is Farm Show
Theme Coming Next Week Page 1
Funk Reelected Conservation
Dist. Chairman Page 24
Management Meetings Held
Wednesday and Thursday Page 1
County Tobacco Show
Features 193 Entries Page 1
FFA To Honor Parents Of
Four Keystone Farmers Page 13
LANCASTER FARMING
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Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
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standing, crime cannot be explained
away It can be given aliases, but by any
other name it is still crime violations
of the laws of our land And it is still in
creasing.”
* * * *
Don’t Blame The Farmer
Food prices are rising again, but it
should be remembered that the total bill
at the checkout stand of a supermarket
is a poor guage of food prices. The house
organ of a large retail chain store system
pointed out the reasons for this when it
reported that one tenth of housewives’
“. . . total supermarket bill is used for
nonfood items . . shampoo, magazines,
aspirin, kitchenware, and many others
. . . her ‘food’ bill is bigger because she’s
buying more nonfood items at the gro
cery store. .. .”
Moreover, despite rising food prices,
the long-term trend in the percentage
of family income that goes for the pur
chase of food has been declining marked
ly for more than 20 years. According to
an exhaustive study of food costs by U.S.
News & Word Report, feeding the family
took 25 7 per cent of personal income af
ter taxes m 1947. In 1967, it is taking 17 6
per cent Another thing that it is impor
tant for all of us to remember is that
profit margins of the supermarkets have
been squeezed thinner and thinner
from 1 2 cents on each dollar of sales in
1957 down to an estimated 8 of a cent
in 1967.
The cost of food, like the cost, of
everything else, is directly related to the
spending and fiscal policies of govern
ment. The long term decline in the value
of the dollar, which pushes up wages and
all other costs, also pushes up the price of
food. As long as the prevaiing philosophy
of government is spend and spend re
gardless of debt, and voters sanction it,
prices will go up and up, as the hardships
of inflation multiply.
Across The Fence Row
Sign on farm; “Hunters, don’t shoot
anything that isn’t moving. It might be
my hired man.”
Inflation continues to eat away at
value of dollar. The 1967 dollar is worth
less than a half-dollar was in 1939. Based
on a 100 cent dollar in 1939, present dol
lar is worth 41.8 c. —Nation’s Agriculture
Why not go out on a limb 9 Isn’t that
where the fruit is ? Frank Scully
If you must strike a man from be
hind, slap him on the back.
Everything comes to him who
hustles while he waits.
Then there’s this story:
Salesman to farmer: “What does
your son do?”
Farmer: “He’s a bootblack in the
city.”
Salesman; “Oh, I see, you make hay
while the son shines.”
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls
for temperatures to average below nor
mal with the high reading in the 20’s to
low 30’s and the over night lows 10 to
low 20’s. Cold throughout the period.
Normal high-low temperatures for this
period is 39-24.
Precipitation may total one-half inch
water, equivalent, occurring as rain or
snow at the beginning of the period.
Thomas A. Edison
THE GREATER MIRACLE
Lesson for January 14,1968
Kacl(gr«iin<2 Scripture' John 1 43 through 2 12.
Deveiienal Reading Luke 719 23.
"Water into wine? Impossible!” There is no need, therefore, to
When they read the Gospel Ac- get "hung-up” on the "impossibil
cording to John, some peopled” 1S nairacle. Science does
never get any further than Jesus’ n °f require it and John was pri
turning of the water into wine, marily concerned, not with hav-
The miracle is too much for them mg his readers focus upon the
to swallow. In this day of modern miracles themselves, but to look
science and tech- beyond them to something of
nology, they say, even greater importance. Each
there is no room incident in the Gospel of John has
for "sunernatur- a twofold purpose: to tell a simple
alism” for the story that can be easily under
sophisticated per- stood and to indicate somedeeper
son of the twen- meaning or significance behind
tieth century. the story. It was this latter pur-
The problem P ose that was foremost for John.
: however, mav Summing up the wedding feast
u well be what we at Cana, John calls this "the first
Rev. Althouse mean by of his signs.” These "signs” ara
cle.” Is a miracle something which to be found throughout his gos
is contrary to the laws of nature? P* l - They are incidents m which
Some would say, for example, whhthe eyes of faith we may sea
that miracles cannot happen be- s presence and power at
cause the laws of nature cannot wo . r^, ln, * esus ' ® IS storybecomes,
be broken nor by-passed. p ot st ? r 7 °f a f^?£ enter who
taught religion and did amazing
A Higher Plane tricks. In this man’s whole life.
There are others, however, work, and words we see God
who do not define "miracle” as himself communicating to man.
being contrary to nature. Leslie n. pn . r c„iip, ■
D. Weatherhead, a British cleric, U „r r ’ , T ® ~. ,
for example, sees a miracle as a We must look beyond file turn
"law-abiding event by which God to . wine, then,
accomplishes his redemptive pur- ask what this sign is pomt
poses.” This is done, not by in S *?• J °hn looks beyond the
breaking the laws of nature, but miracle and sees it proclaim die
by releasing energies which "be- ®*w> deeper, and fuller Wc that
long to a plane of being higher Christ gives to those vjo will ,
than any with which weare nor-f.f eiv « piedifferencebeiweea
mally familiar.” Miracles deal, without Christ and Me iwith,
not with the impossible, hut the 1111 ” 18 the difference between
unknown. water and wine.
One hundred years ago it was The changing of water to wme
thought "impossible” to travel was certainly miraculous. It lies -
from London to New York in beyond our present understand
anything less than several weeks the realm of
of ocean travel. .We did not know possibility. But the feat of trans
then of the laws of aerodynamics, f° r mmg people s lives surely
but they existed then as they do must be an even greater miracle.
now. The idea of an airplane (»««J «««!«•
flight would have been regarded alTh
as a "miracle.” Yet such a flight, ’
had it taken place, would not
have violated the laws of nature,
only the natural laws of which we
at that time would have been
aware. The laws of aerodynamics
To Invest in Standby
Generators.
While electric power failures
on farms don’t often last very
long, they still cause inconveni
ences and might cause severe
losses A standby generator can
help make sine that the im
portant equipment will keep in
operation. With more and more
automatic feeding and operat
ing machinery the need of pow
er is constant and farmers
should be ready for any emerg
ency. Both engine-drive and
tractor-drive models are avail
able and will eliminate the usk
of power failure.
To File Farm Income
Tax Reports....
Farm income tax reports tion of the ceilings may help
must be carefully prepai ed and along with forced exhaust fan,
filed prior to the due date in ventilation. Animals health and
order to avoid any penalty. The the resulting damage to the
due date for farmers is Febru- building should be reasons
ary 15, 1968. iA farmer, accord- enough to try some improve
ing to Internal Revenue Seiv- ment.
listed in nature, but they wer«
indiscovered.
Wonder How”
When the possibility of air
ight was first proposed, most
eople scoffed and said, "Impos
ible!” There were a few, how
;er, who said, "How can it be
done?” Because some were will
ing to stretch their minds beyond
what they already knew, today
we are building aircraft that will
[whisk us over the Atlantic in a
few hours. When we read this
incident at Cana, therefore, the
person with true scientific open
ness will say, not "Impossible!”,
but “I wonder how it was done?”
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
ice, is a taxpayer who receives
at least -two-thirds of his gross
income from -the business of
farming Those getting less than
two-thirds of their income from
farming are to file by April 15.
Local farmeis are reminded o£
these deadlines
To Ventilate Buildings....
The recent extremely cold
’weather has presented ventila
tion problems in many (build
ings; this is specially true in
barns that are crowded with
livestock. When the body heat
from the animals along with
the excess moisture comes into
contact with colder surfaces,
the result is condensation' and
dripping into the area. Insula-