—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 30,1968
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From Where We Stand ...
Alternatives To Meat
A continuing challenge for the entire
meat producing industry is to help the con
sumer understand the complex problems of
producing meat on the hoof and getting
it to the dinner table.
We don’t expect the average consumer
to be interested in every detail of the care
and feeding of livestock, but we do believe
the American public can be convinced that
in this business, as in any business, the cost
of production is a tremendous factor . . .
and that, as with their purchase of other
items, this knowledge will help them relate
the price to the value received.
Frankly, we don’t think “She” the
consumer will believe it just because we
tell her. And if we “poormouth” she pro
bably won’t cry with us. But it’s a good
bet that a lot of public relations will go a
long way toward building good will for the
industry . . . and cash sales at the meat
counter . . . profits all along the line . . .
from farm to table.
The even greater challenge, of course,
is efficient production, processing, retailing
of high quality products and turning from
a “production-minded” to -a “marketing
minded” philosophy. Up to now the consum
er has taken what we had to offer. More
and more we’re seeing producers and
manufacturers of consumer foods and goods
offering what she asks for. If we don't do
the same, she may turn the other way!
There are alternatives to meat, you know.
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
★ ★
That We All May Live
On a worldwide basis, population is out
running food production at a frightening
pace. About half the world's people suffer
from chronic hunger. Each day some 10,-
000 individuals die from illness caused by
malnutrition in the underdeveloped coun
tries, and if population trends continue,
there will be twice as many people to feed
in a little o\er 30 years. There is no ques
tion that wor’d food production must be in
creased quickly and dramatically.
In the Uiited States, intensive use of
mechanization, chemical fertilizers and
pesticides ha\ e increased agricultural pro
duction so greatly that each farmer today
supplies 41 people with food and fiber, while
just 20 years ago he supplied only 14. The
methods and the materials, as well as the
food produced oy modern agriculture, must
be free to move between the nations to coun
tries where the need is great. Agricultural
chemical associations in the United States
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and many other countries are cooperating
with international organizations to develop
a model pesticide law which can be adopted
in its entirety or portion by portion by .a
country as the need requires. Among other
things, it will be necessary to establish real
istic tolerances for minute traces of pesti
cide chemicals found in food supplies.
Dr. J. M. Barnes, a leading authority on
problems of safe use of pesticides, writing
in the British Food Journal, has said: “It
is important that the ridiculous situation is
not created in which people living in houses
sprayed by pesticides and saved from death
from malaria are . . . left hungry because
the food they might have been offered was
found to contain DDT above some accepted
level but in quantities far less than the
people had already absorbed from living in
a house sprayed with DDT.”
Modern testing procedures permit the
detection of traces of chemicals so minute
as to have no bearing whatever on human
health. There must be international co
operation to assure that unreasonable fear
of insignificant pesticide residues not be
come the basis tor artificial barriers pre
\enting the movement of food and needed
agricultural chemicals from one country to
another. That efforts to achieve such co
operation have now been initiated is of life
giving significance in mankind's uthmate
war against hunger.
At least that’s the way it look’s from
where we stand.
Across The Fence Row
Great is the man who reserves his
energy until he knows what he wants to do.
‘‘Farmers are a minority m numbers
but they are the biggest consumers More
money is spent by agriculture than any
other industry.'’ I\an Yost, Garden Spot
Young Farmer
Help thy brother’s boat across, and Lo!
thine own has reached the shore.
Hardening of the attitudes starts long
before hardening of the arteries.
Charles Kettering of General Motor’s
fame said, ‘No one would e\ er have crossed
the ocean in a sailing ship if he could have
gotten off it during a storm.’ ”
You could get rich manufacturing
crutches for lame excuses Mary H.
Waldnp in Dawson County, Ga., Advertiser
and News.
Then there's this bit of conversation
Bob: “Did you see the fish I almost
caught? It was three feet long, and it must
have weighed 20 pounds. I never saw such
a fish.”
Tom: “I believe it.”
Then there's this little scene. A small
boy is carrying school books and talking to
his father sitting in an easy chair who is
reading Lancaster Farming. The boy says,
“Dad, you know that question about Joan
of Arc? Well, she wasn't a farmer’s daugh
ter who did her own welding."
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast calls for tempera
tures to average above normal. Daytime
highs to be in the mid 60‘s and overnight
lows in the mid 40‘s Mild throughout the
period. Normal temperature range for the
period is 56-35.
Rain may total one-tenth inch or less
with a chance of showers over the area
about Monday.
Hindu Proverb
William A. Marsteller
FOR US!
LeMon for March 31,106*
- . ~ Those close to us may prey
toSMfeTi iwhy'2.l-1. Out of their specific knowledge of
~ an. „„ our need. Others whom we do not
One summer while on college i cnow may he of help to us a*
vacation, I was working as pra / more gen «ally for,
door-to-door salesman of «the lame,- and «tha
lapeous household items and had jnfim,.- a friend may place oui
e ? name 0,1 a prayer list. It Is ama»
impression upon me. It was a jjjg h ow swiftly a request for
broiling July afternoon: side- prayer can "get around" among
i , a i r people who believe in the power
apdnot&e & £ teKessoTy prayer .
slightest hint of a ■ yet, even if it seems (hat no
breeze. I naan t one j, pcay ing for us, there is, in
sold anything all rea lity, someone who may bo
day and I was BUre does intercede on our behalf:
both not and dis- j esus Christ The seventeenth,
cour aged as I chapter of John records that first
dr a SS e d myself prayer of intercession for us; "I
up die front steps do not pray for fliese only, but
of the nexthouse. a ig o f or th ose w bo are tobdieve
- vit t u j * rai ?§ , I° me through their (the disciples)
doorbell, I noticed an elderly word that they may all be one 4
man on the steps of the house (17;20).
two doors away. He smiled and v ’ *'
nodded. I nodded back but was fln Advocate
probably unsuccessful with the Nor this ae on ly
smile. The door in front of me 0 f jjg intercession for us. He
was opened and I was invited in. brews 7;2 g tells us: *.. . He al
ls, ot only was the woman inter- w ays lives to make intercession
ested in my wares, but she made f or them (who draw near to God
a substantial purchase. through him)”. In I John 2:1 w«
1 Praved For You read:" ... we have an advocate
.... , , , with the Father, Jesus Christ the
Minutes later as 1 left the righteous ...” And the Apostle
house, I noticed the elderly man p a ui assures us in Romans 8:26
once again. "Sold something, ( KS V): "for we do not know how
thdn t you? he said in a voice t 0 pray as we ought, but the Spir
that indicated that he wasn t real- it himself intercedes for us with,
ly asking a question. “ Yes,” I sig hs too deep for words;
replied, "but how did you know?” Though there are times when
His eyes twinkled as he said: "I we fed. that nobody cares, that
prayed for you; you looked so we are utterly alone in our con
discouraged when you went in.” cern, it is not so. We are never
For a moment I was»speech-abandoned by Christ Thus,
less. The words, "I prayed for whenever we feel utterly alone, let
you,” kept sounding again and U s remember feat Christ at least
again in my mind. The best reply is praying for us and,.very likely,
I could manage was: “Well,though we do not know it, there
thanks very much; I appreciate are others praying with him . ~
it.” His smile seemed to rest uponfor us!
me all the way down the street. .
r r> ; *** (»asad an ouHmt* capyrighiodby thaOivl*i#i|
TuOUgu X WOllld not clflini # f cbnshon Education, National Council of Hi®
that the man’s prayer produced church** of chmt m th* u. s. a. Released hy,
my sale that day, neither would C*mmom(y Press Service.)
I discount it. The important
thing, however, is that a perfect
stranger had compassion and
prayed for me. While I had been
in the midst of making that "one
more try,” the old gentleman out*
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To Store Fertilizer Safely ...
Growers who are accepting
delivery of fertilizer in bags are
reminded of the importance of
storing this material in a dry
place and not or dirt or con
crete floors The fertilizer will
draw moisture and “set-up" or
get hard in the bags Also, the
fertilizer should be kept safely
away from children and live
stock.
To Plant Strawberries
Early spring is one of the best
times to set out young strawber
ry plants. This will permit the
full growing season for runner
plants to develop; yields will be
greater from well developed
•ide was holding me In prayect
Unknown Intircossors
The word*, "I tm praying foe
you/ may sound trite to us, but
when we are in deep need ofspir*
itual strength ana power, they
may sound wonderml to our
ears. For some reason, our own
efforts at prayer may be fruitless.
Perhaps we are too emotionally
Involved to be able to pray an
we might. It is then mat tho
prayer of someone else on our
behalf can mean so much to us.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
runner plants than those that
take root late in the summer.
On old beds some of the straw
being used as mulch should be
removed by early April.
To Follow Directions.
All producers of any food or
feed crop should keep in mind
the importance of following the
directions on the label when us
ing agricultural chemicals. Man
ufacturers are 'ompeiled to car
ry the label on the outside of the
container and these directions
are to be followed. Users should
take the time to study these di
rections and follow them care
fully at all times.