■Lancaster Farming. Saturday,"May 11.1968
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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
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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.
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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