■Lancaster Farming. Saturday,"May 11.1968 4 From Where We Stand ... As He Thinketh In His Heart Why is it that individual farmer’s in come ranges from a loss to quite nice gams. jer year? Is it entirely management and credit backing? We know these things have a lot to do vith profit or loss. But one of our friends expressed an observation recently that is vorthy of thought. He says most farmers n the last few years have developed an in eriority complex. They think of their work ’<s not worthwhile a low classed job. worst of all.” he says, “They have pass ’d on their attitudes and thinking to their joys.” Part of the problem, we think, is that parents and boys alike think that Junior must start farming with all big tractors and machinery (and maybe even a colored TV set) that it took dad 20 years to acquire. Not all farmers have this attitude. It 'S the ones who really believe production agriculture is the best and most rewarding iccupation on earth that are finding them selves (because of their thinking) making .he decisions and actions that lead to a successful and profitable farm operation. A proverb says, “As he thmketh in his heart, so is he —”, and this also applies to arming. If you ask a salesman, “How is busi aess?“ heTl tell you it’s great. He is really going places. Maybe if you quiz him deeper, he will admit he hasn’t made a sale in three weeks, but he has many excellent prospects (from the phone book) and he knows he’ll make a big sale soon. And strangely enough, the character eventually becomes a successful salesman because he thinks successful and therefore starts doing the things (like long hours and hard work) needed to be successful. This also is true in farming. We know young farmers and some older ones too, who are thinking in terms of success. And because of their positive thinking they make the management and family decision that lead to success. And the boys growing up on these farms are realizing that people hold ng so called wonderful, high paying jobs, off the land sometimes get laid off over slow iroduction periods. They know some jobs equire crossing a picket line or getting your head bashed in during a college riot. Truly, we beliei e the whole course of our complex farm outlook could be changed .or the good it w e turned from the negative Mways-expressing-our-problems attitude to :he positive emphasis on the great reasons .ve are farmers and why we are proud of it. At least that's the way it looks from where we stand. Farm News This Week County Plowing Contest Set For July 23 Page 9 Man. Central FFA Work Program In Second Year Page 8 Minimum Tillage Planting Of Corn Tried In County Page 1 Local 4-H Youth Wins Conservation Award Page 6 4-H Dairy Team Tops In State Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lilitz, Pa 17543 Office: 22 E Main St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626 2191 Everett R Newswanger Editor Robert G Campbell, Advei Using Director Subscription price S 2 per yeai in Lancaster County; $3 elsewhere Established November 4, 1955 Published eveiy Saturday by Lancaster Farming. Lititz, Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn To Mother With Love As you travel along On the Highway of Life There are many you’ll meet And call “Friend” But there is one that you had Right from the start Who will stay close To you ’til the end. Did you cry in the night She was there by your side Whether baby tears or A bad dream. Did you lose in the Race Come in Second Place You were always First In her esteem. Was your Score below par Did you let go your Star And find yourself bruised By your Fall. She'd pull you through sadly Hang another Star gladly Then urge you again To grow Tall. In this fast moving world Remember that Friend With her patience and love Like no other - She has the loveliest Name that I know Say it softly and gently “My Dear Mother”. Poor Nutrition A recently reported gov’t survey of American households shows 20 percent of households eating “nutritionally poor” com bination of foods. This represents a five percent increase in so-called “poor diet” category since previous survey 10 years earlier. Hard to believe it’s possible for U.S. Wlnle eating more meat than ever, some Americans seem to be consuming few er vegetables, fruits, milk, etc., but drinking more beer, soft drinks and liquor. Interest ing sidelight of the study report: vitamin pill and other diet nostrum manufacturers already have leveled big advertising guns on the poor nutrition angle . . . advising Americans to rely on pills for health. We would not advise that method of improving diets, considering ready availability of all nutrients in U.S. food supply. Across The Fence Row “The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading, and exalt without in flating him.” Charles Hodge. In spite of the speed of modern living, the wise man. saves enough time to plan his next move “You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.” Lincoln. The hippies are certainly efficient gar deners they wear the flowers and smoke the weeds. Weather Forecast The five-day forecast calls for tempera tures to average near normal with daytime highs in the upper 60’s or low 70’s and over night lows in the mid 50’s. It is expected to be cool at the beginning and again at the end of the period. Normal high-low for-the week is 74-50. Rain may total more than one-half inch about Sunday and again Wednesday. Selina Cox 1968 ★ ★ THE AGE OF U OH YEAH!" Lesion for May 12,1968 not make his appeal on the basis of his authority. He does notsay, •Listen to me because I deserve your respect and obedience.” hdfiwne s™v»rfc« iji-Si, so-27| He appeals to them, on the hauls n«.tu^tu.si»: o* re«*on: " ... for I give yee good precepts” (Job 4:2). Wfcy •You- can always tell a high are they good? They are good school senior, but you can’t teli because they produce beneficial him much!” proclaims an old results. They work! saying. Many of these good precepts For most adults the painful- parents have learned through ness of this truth is rendered painful personal experience or Just a little less acute by the re- observation. As we have noted membrance tha‘ before, the teachings of those who it was no less are wise can often be substituted so when we our for painful personal experience, selves were Why not learn from the wise if youth. If there if we can? Why should we have to any difference a learn everything through trial* all between the and-error? generations oi What a miserable world it "then” and would be if every new generation “now,” it is likely refused to accept the accumulated that today’s learnings and wisdom from die youth are mud generations that preceded itt more open and honest in theii How terrible for earn new gen disdain for their elders’ advice eration to have to "start from than were the generations tha; scratch” in all fields of human preceded them. There was a time knowledge. There would never when youth listened with ap-be any human advancement or parent politeness and then, for progress, the most part, did as theypleased anyway. Young people today It S US! are much more likely to say tbeir Nor can there be any wisdom "Oh yeah!” aloud for us if we will not acknowledge ... .... it in others. If we are too proud It S Natural or stubborn to learn from others,, Thus it has been and thus it Is we keep the door shut tight ever likely to be: youth wishing against growth in wisdom and their elders would stop trying to knowledge. If adults expect chil pass on their unwanted and out- dren and youth to be receptive to dated advice, and their elders, learning from them, they must* wishing that youth would listen also be humble enough to, to and learn from their valuable acknowledge that adults can also 1 experience. It is natural for youth learn from those younger than ■ to turn a deaf ear and it is also themselves. How often in the natural for their elders to con- Bible we find mat "a little child! tinue trying. Sometimes there is a shall lead them," that God is aWe,, successfiil attempt at communi- to reveal his tmth, not to those' cation that makes worthwhile all supposedly mature, but to "Utile the frustrating failures that pre- ones”? i cede it Thus it is not just the high’ r As children we are likely to school seniors who are hard -to think that our parents know and "teU anything;” it is human ' can do everything. Later in ado- nature itself, adult and ad*-) lescence, we find that they have lescent, from which the defiant t their limitations. Too often youth "Oh yeah?” is likely to spring. i go to the extreme of discounting, , , - ~. .. ... 1 if vW : rt.iL not-onfc’ (»«W «n ouHmw e*i»yngfrt*d by Hi.Divisi*n i if not ignoring, their parents chnsimn EJuc«ti«n, N*h*n*i c*unc,i *i ih* counsel thereafter. Who does it church*, of chmt in ih. u. s. A. r*lm>«) ky hurt? To be sure, it usually hurts c.mmoraiyPr*«s*rvie*) the parents; but much more, in | the long run, it hurts the youths themselves. For Full Market Reports Read Lancaster Farming To Alternate Fly Sprays Some farmers have not obtain ed good fly control in recent years by using the same residu al spray on their buildings. I'd suggest that cygon be used part of the season only and that such sprays as rabon, diazinon, or fenthion be used to prevent the buildup of resistance in the fly population To Use Herbicides Carefully... The growing season is at hand and many crops will be sprayed with weed control chemicals in the next few months All farm ers and users are reminded of the need to follow directions carefully Be sure that the prop er amount is applied at the right time. All precautions should be used to protect other plants and the property of others in the This la precisely the wisdom (he writer of Proverba is trying to get across: ".. . keep my com* mandmenta and live. 1 ' If youth can follow the guidance of their elders, their lives will often be richer, fuller, happier. Why? Be cause their elders have profited by experience; it has taught diem what is beneficial and what ft harmful. It Works! The writer of Proverbs does NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent neighborhood. Extra care and effort is very essential when tid ing weed killers. To Protect Hogs In Hot Weather When hauling hogs to market every effort should be made to keep tnem comtortaoie during the hot summer months. The truck should be bedded with sand, sawdust, or ashes instead of straw and kept wet; if possi ble they should be hauled during the cooler parts of the day ra ther than afternoons If the tuck is kept moving as rapidly as possible, then ventilation should not be a problem unless the ref hide is over-loaded. The spray[ mg or wetting down of the truck and of the hog pens during hoj; weather will help reduce dlie amount of hot weather losses, f
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