—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 24.1968
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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-
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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.