—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 24.1968 4 From Where We Stand ... Pork Not Worth Supporting? Several weeks ago wo reported the Lan caster County Swine Association asked the support of local farmers for the "Nickels for Profit" program by sending over 760 letters (a sizable mailing list for any or ganization) to local swine producers. The “Nickels" program is a voluntary self help program started January 1, 1968, to en able pork producers to unite to improve quality and product promotion on a national scale. Across the nation the results have been excellent as reported by the Meat Board. Quoting from the National Live Stock and Meat Board Reports, "Audited records show pennies representing 1,400,000 hogs deposited in MB account through coopera ting markets, packer firms ... but pennies on well over a million hogs came to MB, as a result of pork producer efforts, from firms not previously committed to MB financing. as many as 100 new marketing sources now processing pork producer im est ments But locally, the response has been dis appointing. Only a few of the letters sent out have brought any response. We wonder why? Maybe pork isn’t worth promoting. Maybe producers want the politicians in Harrisburg and Washington to run a man datory program. Maybe imitation meat really isn’t being manufactured. Maybe —. Well, anyway, we don’t know why the program hasn’t had greater support but it looks like one carrying very little fat of paid employees and fancy organization. Most of the work is done by non-paid workers like the Lancaster County Swine Association directors It really does deserve your sup port At least that's the way it looks from where we stand. An Illustrious Future “Often it is stated that man’s basic re quirements are three; food, clothing and shelter I would like to suggest that while clothing and shelter may require a fair share of man’s efforts in temperate zones, these items man has always been able to improvise wherever he could find food. A fourth essential to survival, health, often has been overlooked. And an advanced cu ilization requires a fifth essential, a poli tical and economic system fostering incen tives so that all may prosper by their ef forts “As man passed from hunter to herds man, then to community life, made possible by farming, the power structures and ta boos of primitive societies provided neither health nor opportunity. Even those primitive societies often thought of as idyllic, such as the Polynesian, were so fraught with taboos the common man was held in fear and ser- Farm News This Week DHIA High Herds And Cows Reported Page 1 Richard Buckwalter Has Top Wins At Annual Swine Show Page 1 Earl Stautfer Is Selected FFA Co. Star Farmer Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 -Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394 3047 oi Lititz 626-2191 Everett R Newswanger, Editor Robeit G Campbell, Advei Using Director Subscuption price $2 pei year in Lancaster County, ?3 elsewheie Established Novembei 4 1955 Published eveiy Satmday by Lancaster Fanning Lititz Pa second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa 17543 Membei ofNewspapei Faun Editors Assn vitudc by them. Cato the Elder, about 200 8.C.. although the son ol a peasant, noted that a farm was better run when the owner' hu'd upon it. saying, "the master’s eye is better than his heel.” But Cato did not fore cast the rapid strides man would make when every man was his own master. When Home changed from agriculture to conquest as a base, the ‘‘glories that were Rome" were not shared by those slaves who were forced to build the arches of Rome. "Throughout the centuries civilization fell to plagues and pestilence as well as to wars. Repeatedly nations were weakened for over-running by systems that subjugat ed the agricultural worker as a serf, with out land ownership, tenure, or the incen tue of gain through effort. ”It is no accident that societies prosper-, ed, after the Crusades, as they provided ten ure systems for the farmer, thus creating initiative. And it is no accident that the great bulk of men’s other advances have occurred in these same socieites. It is no accident that health is best and life the easiest in societies that have encouraged a prosperous and respected agriculture. It is no accident that garden plots in Russia produce out of all proportion to collectives. And finally, it is not surprising that poor health and hunger walk hand-in-hand in lands where land tenure is difficult, farming considered a second-class occupation and where farmer incentives are lacking.” These paragraphs were written by Louis A. McLean in his ten-page discourse entitled “Peregrination By An Optimist”. And we couldn’t help thinking of his words as we sat in the meeting of farmers last week, called by the Lampeter Strasburg School Board to air ideas on the school’s Ag program Time and again history shows that where the farmer lost his position in rela tion with the rest of the economy in his country, that country lost it’s position in the world economy. It is no secret that this is happening in our country. We want to commend this school board for their final unanimous action bucking the national trend and keeping the FFA pro gram at Lampeter Strasburg. As Board President Dr. Donald B. Witmer said, “If we are preparing even one or two percent of our population for life we should do it.” We certainly understand the problems of finding a good Vo-Ag teacher at this late date and the declining enrollment m the course. However, by accepting these prob lems the directors Tiave insured an illus trious place for the Lampeter Strasburg School District in the future through their Vo-Ag Department as has been recorded for them in the past. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. Across The Fence Row Did you hear about the Medicare pa tient who had surgery? He woke up and found a placard on his incision: “This is a Federal project showing your tax dollar at work “ Wifey; “I want to do a lot of shopping tomorrow if it's a nice day. What's the weather forecast 9 ” Hubby. “Rain, hail, sleet, snow, thun der, lightning and high wands!” Local Weather Forecast (From the IT. S. Weather Bureau at the Harrisbuig State Airport) The five-day forecast for the period Sat urday through next Wednesday calls for temperatures to average near or below nor mal with daytime highs in the low 80’s and over-night lows in the 60’s. Hot over the weekend and turning cooler the beginning of next week. Normal high-low for the period is 83-62. Ram may total one-fourth to one-half inch as showers Sunday afternoon or Sun day night. THE DILEMMA - - Lets on for August 25,1968 BtclifMArf ScripHiras Ezra 7 Ihrtuoh Id Davahanat Rairfinfi Ptalmi 1. _ • . . , own religious life be tainted by m ma ? encounter* book tiiese pagan Ideas. This was not Uke Ezra and put It aside with some idle speculation, for Jt hall flit assumption that its day and happened again and again in Its problems have nothing to do Hebrew history with our own. There may even It wazn’t the pagan women be some disdain for a man like themselves that bothered Ezra, Ezra whose major concern seems but the "abominations" (idolatry) to bethat of pre- they practiced:"... ahall we venting the Jews break toy commandments again W-~ < £L om ,:? rmar * and intermarry with the .people M xylng withpag- w bo practice these abomina* (Ezra 9:14 BSV) Ezra the vicinity of may no t have hated the pagan ft kt** ' 'lB Jerusalem. He wives, but he did hate the pagan ftK *pa.y too easily re ugi on they brought with them. PV be wntten-off as i iliw 1 a narrow, pre- Fattening or immoral!* - iidmw, judiced man. He might have taken toe Kev. Annouse position that perhaps toe Jewish uihn ».:n * men would influence their pagan Who Will influence Who? wives to live and worship as Jews. Yet the situation tout so Why didn’t he? We can only sur aroused Ezra is not very dif- m i se> but it is quiie probable that ferent from some concerns that he believed that it is always easier occupy us today. As parents we to pull someone down than to may iind our son or daughter Hf t anmeone up. The pagan associating with youth of practices were appealing to dubious moral -standards* w& do human nature* They sanctioned not want them 1o be harmfully the excesses of bodily appetites influenced, yet when our children that people find hard to over remind us that our attitude may CO ma The downward pull is be judgmental and unchristian, always -stronger, it seems, be we find it difficult to givetoem a cause it finds a natural response satisfactory rebuttal. How do we within us. "Why is it,” we ask answer when our teenager says, on i y half in jest, "that everything "Dad, I won’t let them influence j like is either fattening or im me, I’m going to influence them”? moral?” The same dilemma confronts st ui’ it must be -obvious that us when we find-someone con- we canno t go through lifefranti templating a marriage in which ca Uy wrapped in a cocoon' of the bride and groom are of se lf-p r eservation against cOn divergent religions. Our objection tammation from without. Jesus need not be motivated by pre- sai( i that we are'the salt of toe judice or lack of Christian ea rth and the world needs our charity. We may be concerned- sa jtmess, not safe in the shaker, solely because we know that but m the midst of life. The mixed marriages subject couples Christian, then, must always be to far greater problems and pres- ltl creative tension between toe sures. A parent may likewise be temptation to stay out of the distressed to find his son ox world and the danger of losing daughter marrying someone with his saltiness. Theancientdilemma no interest in the Christian faith, jg s tiH with us. His or her. concern for the off- , , ’ spring’s religious welfare doesnot „ necessarily point to mistrust or <*««*,« •( chm. m u. s, a, by bias. Community Pf«» S«rvK«) Lancaster Farming Ads Pay To Rat-Proof Buildings It would be making progiess in lodent control if farm build ings could actually be rat-proof ed for we realize this task is very difficult However, it is possible thiough a good sanita tion program and the use of moitai and conciete to elimi nate many of their harboring places Now that fall is ap proaching when the weathei" will be chasing rats and mice from the open fields, we urge every property owner to eli minate places fiom them to hide and repieduee Rodents are filthy and destructive Eveiyone should cooperate in tiymg to eradicate them To Manage Silos Carefully We urge all livestock pioduc ers who use silos to become familial with all phases of silo caie and the dangei that might Idli fur Thau dilemma* an not aasQy lived. On the one hand, we may sad Ezra’* condemnation of ilxcd marriage* and conclude iat hi* motive 1* racial and ilrltual arrogance. "After all,” iys the modem, "if these men id women love each other, what uoei It matter if they are not of the same religion'/" On the other hand, however, we may understand, as Ezra does, the danger of losing one’s spiritual distinctiveness. Jewish men who married pagan wives were often encouraged to adopt some of the idolatrous practices of their pagan mates. Ezra is afraid that the Jew will let his NOW IS THE TJME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent exist in and around them at filling time Silos have been proven a great stoiage facility and the honzon is full of them in almost eveiy nual commum ty The danger of poisonous silo gasses is a threat to both man and beast Special Chiculac #BO titled, “Silage and Silos’’ is available from any Extension Office and covers the subject thoroughly. To Control Weeds In Alfalfa New seedmgs of alfalfa will surely need some weed control attention, if herbicides were not applied just prior to plant ing, then growers are urged to spray for weeds when the weed growth is only 1 to 2 inches high most fields will need this treatment in order to eliminate weed problems. Spiaymg must be done when the weeds are small m older to get good con trol.
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