—Lancaster Farming! Saturday, March % 1968
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Front Where We Stand ...
The Poultry Production “Grass Roots” Promotion
Control Debate
The Lancaster County Po.ultry Associa
tion and the men behind it are to be con
gratulated on sponsorship of the educational
meeting that featured both sides of the con
troversial production controls issue. (The
meeting was held Tuesday night and is re
ported on page one of this issue )
However, we were disappointed that
more positive suggestions for solutions to
the problem were not made, especially on
the side of control without government in
tei terence.
Richard Ammon, on the side of no
government controls but admitting volun
tary controls don’t work, spent his time de
grading the Talmadge Bill just sent to con
gress And rightly so No, poultry producer
could want to be controlled in the manner
this bill proposes. Even Sam Berenson who
took the other side of the story, told the
gioup before Ammon spoke that this kind
ot bill was not what he favored.
Berenson’s thinking was that govern
ment should control only production by is
suing quotas on a graduating scale For ex
ample he proposed a two percent cut-back
on Hocks of 5,000 to 50,000 birds, four per
cent on 50,000 to 75,000 bird flocks and six
peicent on 75,000 to 100,000 bird flocks.
He also would have the county agents
check local situations and limit the sale of
ouotas within the state
We appreciate the fact that at least
someone presented an idea for considera
tion rather than just presenting what farm
ers don’t want However, even this proposal
has a big if in it, because it is dependent on
government controlling only a small part of
the industry. And we doubt the consumer
oriented congress would be satisfied to have
it’s hands on only a small part of control
But, both sides agree voluntary control
w ill not work because it hasn’t. And every
one must agree that some solution must be
lound for producers (those who do the phy
sical labor) if they are to survive the shock
ot twelve months of below cost poultry and
egg prices.
At any rate, whichever side you are
on. the meeting served to create more in
telligent thinking And that we need. But we
also need positive action to control produc
tion Either, voluntary cut-back or govern
ment administrated control whichever pro
ducers want And they better soon want one
or the other or there will not be any pro
duction to cut They’ll be out of business
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand
Farm News This Week
Milk Chairman Huber, Concedes
Unfair Prices Paid To Farmers Page 9
Chicago Exchange Representative
Presents Futures Information Page 1
Poultry Debate Featured At
Educational Meeting Page 1
Tobacco Controls Are Voted
Down 1,646 to 388 Page 1
Hostetter Is Elected County
DHIA President Page 1
Soil And Water Directors
Plan Annual Meeting Page 1
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When did you last serve pork to guests?
Or use any fresh pork cut besides pork
chops? These questions were part of a quiz
which Wes Howe, pork manager for Kroger
Company, threw at Illinois pork producers
.recently during a talk on promotion. Some
of the hogmen looked a little sheepish;
couldn’t answer the questions. Howe’s
point; The individual producer can start
with “grass roots” promotion among his*
friends in town or even at home.
And we heard about the true story of
the Lancaster County farmer who tried to
humiliate his herdsman in front of the
veterinarian by asking, “What do you think
of him? He uses margarine.”
To which the doctor replied, “Oh, not
too bad considering what you are doing.”
At first the farmer didn’t understand
but soon he walked red facedly toward the
calf barn carrying two pails of (you guessed
it) milk replacer
The moral is that if farmers don’t use
their own products they can’t expect others
to either At least that’s the way it looks
from where we stand.
★ ★ ★ ★
Thank You To Whom?
Yesterday, March 1, was declared as
National Day of Prayer which brings to
mind the writing ot Lola Janes, from the
state ol Oregon, who wrote in Farm Jour
nal's Letters From Farm Women: “My hus
band and I were commenting one morning
about a letter in a newspaper advice
column. A man had written, objecting to his
son’s saying thank-you to God for his food
at mealtime. The father felt he himself
should be thanked since he earned the
money to buy the food. We joked about this
point of view, then forgot about the inci
dent But not our five-year-old son.
“At supper that night, Donny said the
blessing. He looked up at his father and
said:- ‘Thank you, Daddy, for my food.’
Then he bowed his head and continued:
‘Thank you, God, for my Daddy. . .’ ”
Across The Fence Rew
You can’t control the length of your life,
But you can control its width and depth;
You can’t control the contour of your
countenance,
But you can control its expression;
You can’t control the other fellow’s
opportunities,
But you can grasp your own;
You can’t control the weather,
But you can control the moral
atmosphere which surrounds you;
You can’t control hard times or rainy days,
But you can bank money now to boost
you through both ;
So, why worry about things you can’t
control?
Get busy controlling things that depend
on you.
Some people tall for everything and
stand tor nothing.
Then there’s this story:
A farmer wrote to a rural paper to ask
“how long cows should be milked.”
“Why the same as short cows, of
course,” advised the editor
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast calls for tempera
tures to average below normal with day
time highs in the mid 30’s and overnight
lows in the 20’s Cold Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday Near seasonable temperatures
Tuesday and Wednesday. Normal high is 46
and low is 27.
Precipitation may total less than one
fourth inch water equivalent. Snow mainly
over the mountains Monday night or Tues
day.
pi glad that I-eha nat
that you may believe. " Bjfl'flH
time the messenger arrives wip
news of Lazarus’s slcknes* Jesut
knows that his friend has tiled la
the meantime. There Is no need to
rush off to Bethany to savs a lift
that already is gone. Therefore
Jesus’ delay was partly dependent
upon the fact that he knew whdl
the others did not know.
So It may be with our payee*
to God. We pray in«ur Jgaot
ranee, but he answers them out of
the context of his divine know
edge and wisdom. What wemaf
ask may not. be really wise ot
good in the long run. He give*
1 bis children .What they need, not
r«urWSerii,K»r«Mir ii. necessarily what they ask foa.
uJbm John M Ml. CannQt *V n q{
Someone has suggested that God I have not received all front
the burning theological oueetton God that I have asked for?”
today is not so much, "It God For example, a boy and glr|
dead?”, but "Why isn’t he more break off their engagement. Late*
prompt?” the girl has a change of heMl
What they mean, of course, la and begins to pray mat God wfft
'Ore surely threat- lead her ex-fiancee back to her.
ened when God Not an unreasonable desire, until
seems to delay in she learnt,that he has since mat*
WHEN 6H BELAYS
Lmsoii for Much 3,1968
answering
may^ doubt His Way And Ours
somuchhisexist- When Jesus arrives at tha
ence as his love, tomb, he does not ask God to do
"If God really anything. Instead he thanks God
cares,” we ask, for what he has already done!
"then where is the Even though Lazarus is still ia
Rev Althous* help I need-?” the tomb, Jesus prays: "Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard
T _ me ” (John 11:41 RSV). J«*
TWO Days Longer SUS has been praying for Laza-
We sense some of this same at- rus all along and now in perfect
titude in the hearts of Martha and confidence he looks to the fulfill-*
Mary. Anxiously they waited for ment of those prayers. He did
Jesus to come while their broth- not delay in helping his friends,
er’s life ebbed ever lower. Often but he was helping them in a way
when human help fails to come, it that they did not expect,
is the result of someone’s negli- So it may be with our prayers,
gence or some other human fail- We ask for help and expect that
ure. But it is not this in Jesus’s God will give us that help ac
cuse. The delay is purposeful: cording to our terms, to follow
“So when he heard that he was our directions. If we want him to
ill, he stayed two days longer in help us, we must let God be God,
the place where he was” (John for him Id help us as he knows
11:6 RSV). best. Justhecause we cannot s«o
If, as John says, Jesus loved the answer to our prayers, does
Martha, .Mary, and Lazarus, not mean they are not being an«
then why did he delay? That’s a swered.
strange way to show love! When Jesus delayed returning to
at last Jesus arrives in Bethany, Bethany because he loved Mary,
there seems to be a thinly-dis- Martha, and Lazarus. Even front,
guised reproach in Martha’s this tragic death God would,
voice: "Lord, if you have been wring a blessing. In fact, if ho
here, my brother would not have delayed, the blessing would bo
died” (John 11:21 RSV). Appar- even greater!
ently others felt the same thing, And so Jesus said, "Lazarus,
for as Jesus is led to the tomb of come out!” and he came out and
Lazarus, a bystander asks: their faith was justified. Thus al
" Could not he who opened the so may our faith be justified if wo
eyes of the blind man have kept continue to trust in him, svea
this man'from dying?” (John 11:' though he seems to delay.
37 RSV). The question seems fair
enough, like some which we our
selves have perhaps asked.
Our ignorance
So why does the Master delay?
Jesus says to his disciples:' Laza
rus is dead, and for your sake I
To Eradicate Johnsongrass . . .
We aie avvaie of a number of
farms with johnsongrass infesta
tion and want to stress the im
portance of complete control,
this grassy weed is known as the
“green 'monster” of any crop
land and is very difficult to con
trol It resembles Sudan grass
with similar heads but its white
fleshy roots separate the two
grasses > This grass will take
over a held in a few years and
almost eliminate the chance Oi
any crop Control requires
spraying with dalapon or ammo-
T when growth is 10 to 12 inches
high and repeat sprays or deep
tillage for the balance of the
se son The field should not be
planted to any crops until com
plete control is attained Special
attention to these areas is rec
ommended
To Creep Feed Lambs
Local sheep producers who are
planning to sell their early lambs
for the Easter market should be
giving them extra gram through
our ried someon»«be!
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•f Christian EJucatian, N«lt«n«i Cauncti *f ik* I
Churches «( Christ in iha U. S. A. lUlaaiarfbf >
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NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent <
the creep feeder, this will re
sult in more weight and a higher
quality lamb to market In most
years the Easter market is one
of the highest priced times to
market lambs Simple gram
mixtures containing corn and
oats in the feeder are recom
mended
To Observe
Winter Grains Closely
The very dry weather condi
tions in the past month may
have done considerable damage
to much of our winter grain
crop, this is especially true with
winter barley With the wheat
fields growers are reminded of
the value of top-dressing with
nitrogen about the middle tvT|
March, or when spring growth,
gets started This will stimulate
the plants and could thicken the
stand and result in greater
yields The amount per acre will
vary from 25 to 50 pounds de
pending upon fertility and lodg
ing problems