—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 10,1968 4 From Where We Stand ... Knowledge Gap One hears of many gaps nowadays the missile gap, the credibility gap, the law enforcement gap and all sorts of knowledge gaps. One of the greatest knowledge gaps has to do with life on the farm, and parti cularly, the role that chemicals play in modern agriculture. Many lament the use of such agricultural aids as pesticides and point to some home gardens that manage to tlourish minus the benefit of chemical aids. Some people wonder why a farmer can’t make things grow without chemicals the same as a few' home gardeners do. It is one thing to raise three or four row s of i egetables and quite another to pro duce a crop on thousands of acres involving the investment of a fortune in land, labor, machinery, seed and fertilizer Without the help ot every mechanical and chemical aid ai ailable, including the family of pesti cides, the mass production of food and*fiber necessary to a nation of 200 million souls would be crippled The pressure to increase production is inexorable. Population is grow ing and about a million acres of good land are taken out of farm production every year by expanding cities, airports and highways. There is no alternative but to constantly in crease food and fiber output from our re maining cropland presently some 400 mil lion acres Leaders in government, business, in dustry, science and agriculture are working as never before to enlist the aid of chemis try in the food production battle. Part of that battle is to educate all of us to the wis dom and necessity of intelligent' use of chemical pesticides without which our ag ncultural production would only be half what it is today. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand £$ £0 £0 Every man prays in his own language, wr.. » ITT i nr i and there is no language God does not un- Vision And Hard Work derstand. Duke Ellington. We give top priority to words of wisdom « T , , „ uccess todav from elderly people who have been success- .. , , p ,. p ~ , t * e * , r without making the necessary obligation fulmhfe A case in point is a pioneer figure and acce p tln g responsibility to achiive it ™ th f h reta J ] dls r ‘ but . lol ? T IU fZ W^t eW or without-being loyal to their own organiza months ago celebrated his 92nd birthday. . . , u .. , 6 . ~ He observed, "My eyesight is impaired . . whlch have proven themselves in the but my vision is stronger than ever "He pa :. Too of today's Christians want went on to say hat_ vision-the imaginative Chmt wlthout the Cross. kind that enabled him to build his retailing » Too many of us lack the courage of chain - plus hard work good judgment, the pioneers who bmlt _ our tarm orga S mza . character and a few sacrifices is the rec- ipe for a successful retailer. Farm News This Week Local Farms Helped By FHA Programs Page 15 Sheaffer Farm Combines Management, Birds & Feed Page 1 Funk And Stauffer Are Attending The National S & W Meet. Page 13 Livestock Leaders Urged To Seek Higher Goals Page 13 Extension Agronomists Speak At County Crops And Soils Day Page 1 Cattle Feeder Meetings To Start February 15 Page I Potato Storage Plant Uses Lancaster Spuds Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 ■ Lititz, Pa 17543 Office- 22 E Main St., Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone- Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191 Everett R Newswanger, Editor Robeit G Campbell, Advertising Director Subscription price $2 per year in Lancaster County, S 3 elsewhere Established Novembei 4 1955 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lititz. Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz. Pa. 17543 Membei of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn Vision and hard work have built many successful enterprises and any young per son reaching toward a goal will do well to follow what the old man said. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. 0 Sensible Idea “What is probably the'most sensible idea to come out of Washington in a good many years is the one made by a congress man . that able-bodied men on relief rolls be required to do some work in exchange for their checks One possibility mentioned was picking up debris along public roads Many similar types of work could be considered. This suggestion is probably quite appalling to most ol the present generation of relief ers who ha\ e been brought up in the belief that the government owes every man a liv ing. but those of us who can remember the degression days of the 1930’s are made to wonder how, why and when the idea of per forming some service in return for govern ment support was dropped.” Italy, Texas, News Herald Across The Fence Row News Two Pennsylvania State Uni versity scientists reported that, in a 56-day experiment, they had fed newspaper (2% pounds a day) to dairy cattle and had found it to be a cheap, nutritious food supplement. Comment Ralph Reppert, searching for the ultimate significance of the experi ment asked, “Would dairy cattle, fed a daily ration of ground up Reader’s Digests, produce condensed milk?” Boyd C. Gartley, in address to Lancaster DHIA Dinner Meeting Then there’s this: “I’ve got a cow I want to sell you, Charlie.” “Yes? Would she fit into my Guern sey herd?” “No; I dunno as she would.” “Does she give lots of milk’” “No, I can’t, say as she gives lots of milk, but I can tell you this: She’s a kind, gentle good natured old cow, and if she’s got any milk she’ll give it to you.” _ Each minute of today is worth more than the whole of yesterday. When one dog barks, he soon finds other dogs to bark with him. Weather Forecast The five-day forecast for Saturday through next Wednesday calls for tempera tures to average below normal with day time highs in the 30’s and overnight lows in the teens. It is expected to be generally quite cold through most of the period. Nor mal high for the period is 41; low is 23. Precipitation may total one-fourth to one-half inch water equivalent occurring as snow flurries over the mountains during the week-end. Snow likely in most sections on Tuesday. 0 0 iner Man ,In this age when some men’s comachs are filled almost to th« irstmg- point, others are shriv ;d and painfully drawn in near irvatioru Yet, even if we could, adequately feed everyone in the world and we could there would still be no Utopia onearth. ,"Man does not live by bread alone,” we say, and it is truer there is an even more vital hum iger than that for bread. Material things do not really fill the' "inner man. ” Yet we find it so difficult to ■■dfrtunj John 6. learn, continuing to respond to , o»v«inn*i ftnrfinj; Motih*w77-ii. spiritual appetites with material’ I have "a thing” about fancy S°°ds. i pastry. With few exceptions, it Jesus was well aware of this, simply is .never as good as it Having fed five thousand people looks. In fact, it seldom ever on a Galilean hillside in some comes even close to fulfilling miraculous fashion, he is pursued what it appears to promise. Lus- across to the other side of thelake cious and irresistable as it seems, by many who saw no further it is filled with^ an bread and fish he gave calories and little them - 1111113 be speaks bluntly to else. Usually it them: physical nourishment lasts leaves me with a but f° r a short time; seek instead far-from-satisfied the nourishment of the spirit ' mm feeling in the which God’s Son alone can give. Wm stomach and my on fy this will endure and provide taste-buds have eternal satisfaction UdT s S Ppo “'f=‘!lt'>.io e The writer of the Gospel Ae* cording to John sees, then, a •> -j deeper meaning in fee feeding ot Void Within fee live thousand. It is more thanl Many of fee attractive “good- the amazing multiplication of ies” oflife are in reality much like physical matter. It is a sign that fancy pastry; they are full of cal- proclaims to men feat Christ i* cries (of one kind or another), capable of filling men’s deepest disappointing, and leave us wife needs, of satisfying their most that far-from-satisfied feeling. So compelling hungers.' Thus Jesus attractive in prospect, theyactual-could say; "I am fee'bread of ly fail to meet our ravenous ex- life; he who comes to me shall not pectations. When we have gorged hunger, and he who Believes Ij| ourselves upon them, there Is still me shall never thirst” (John fir a void feat has not be&i filled. 85 RSV).. j Nutrition experts tell us that It is one of the tragic reAlitW Americans are often greatly over- of life, however, that, confront** fed and, at fee'game time,’quite with the gift of eternal life, me* undernourished,- Our rate of con- will still prefer to choose material sumption'is high, but our level of things. God has provided fed" satisfaction is very low. people of Israel wife manna i# Pirandello once wrote a play the wilderness. Therefore, th»’ about five characters in search of crowds ask; "What sign do yo« an author. Many people today do, that we may see and believ* seem involved in this same fran- you?” He had just performed one tic search without knowing pre- great miracle on the hillside, but cisely what it is for which they that wasmot enough:'they wanted are searching. Many, look for it more, 4 in a bottle, others in a narcotics What does It take for us to! syringe.' Even greater numbers learn that bread alone does noli strive to fill the emptiness with fib the void within. How many! bright and shiny " things, ” wife tipaes will we turn in vain to th»' success, with power, with work, world’s attractive but emptjH with sex, with speed. For some ’'goodies” before we choose 'in* the search,leads to fee hippie’s stead "the bread of life”? "pad,” for others to strange, mys- , terious religious cults. Yet there is . *!f•" «pyf's' l '«i by *>• prvtsfyn ■fpinhlo finotralmn oil •! chnslian Educalmn, Nati.n.l Council <d th» teinoie tiustration with all Ot Church., of Christ in th. u. S, A. Mm* hy these because the appetites are Community Pr«s Stmc#.) never satisfied, only appeased for a short time, if anything. EMPTY GOODIES Lesson for February 11,1968 Rev. Althouse Read Lancaster Farming For Full Market Reports To Attend Winter Meetings . .. All farmers and agricultural service men are urged to attend the many educational meetings being held in the next six weeks covering many agricultural sub jects Meetings related to dairy ing, cattle feeding, poultry, hors es, and spray programs will be held At each of these meetings the speakers will be authorities in their respective fields Don't miss the opportunity to learn the latest recommendations. To Test Seeds All garden and farm -crop pro- ly there is more time to do the? ducers are urged to recognize job more thoroughly Sharp the importance of tested and pruners or saws are needed t<y certified seeds In Pennsylvania make clean cuts Major cuts it is unlawful to sell untested should be made parallel to the seeds; local producers of red tree trunk and treated with af clover seed are reminded of this tree paint or sealer. NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent law Users of local legume seeds should protect themselves by not sowing any seed without knowing its content It pays to use good seeds To, Prune Trees .. . During the dormant season, could be declared the best time to prune fruit and most shade trees Owners are urged to re move all dead or diseased limbs and try to shape the tree as de sired When the tree is still in the dormant condition there will be less loss of juices and usual-
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