—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 14.1968
4
From Where We Stand ...
Met It’s Match
The most revolutionary farm mechan
ics idea to come along since the hay crusher
is the tobacco harvesting machine invented
by a local man from Willow Street. As re
ported last week, Koss Walter has spent
nine years perfecting the machine and it is
now readv for mass production.
Just how well accepted it will be on
Lancaster County and Kentucky tobacco
farms is still to be seen. But it's design is
certainly a credit to the inventor who had to
start without any other machine to copy or
take parts from.
The labor situation on farms these days
is given many times as the reason fqr the
decline in tobacco acreage. If the labor
problem really is the reason for not raising
tobacco in the past, that reason has partly
been eliminated.
Regardless, however, if the new idea in
tobacco harvesting increases tobacco out
put or not. the back-breaking job of spear
ing tobacco has finally met it’s match.
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
Cherry Pie FDA Style
Contestants in pie-baking contests at
county and state fairs will be gratified to
learn that a federal agency has gotten
around to defining a cherry pie and how it
must be made.
According to the Food and Drug Admin
istration, “Cherry pie is the food prepared
by incorooratmg in a filling contained in a
pastry shell, mature, whole, pitted, stemm
ed, red, sour (tart) cherries (fresh, frozen
or canned) that have not been treated with
a chemical preservative . . ’’ The FDA
says that a cherry pie shall contain, “not
less than 2 7 cherries per ounce of net
weight ’’ Here is how to comply with the
rules for making an “official’’ cherry pie:
"Remo've the filling and cherries from the
pie and distribute evenly over the surface
of a 12-mch-diameter U S No 8 sie\e
stacked on a U S. No 20 sieve Wash the
cherries and cherry fragments free from
adhering material with a gentle water
spray Dram the cherry contents of the No.
8 sieve for 2 minutes in an inclined position
(5-to 30-degree slope). Do not discard con
tents of No 20 sieve. Transfer the whole
cherries to a tared pan and determine the
weight of all whole cherries. ...”
There is much more, but this is suffi
cient to get the point across When a govern
ment agencv begins to prescribe how many
cherries shall be in a cherry pie, the pre
dictions of the computerized society in
w'hich every citizen lives under 24-hour sur
leillance of “Big Brother government” ap
pears depressingly close.
Farm News This Week
Political Farm Planks
Are Reported Page 1
Agricultural Missionary Reports:
Hondurans Are Starving Page 1
Wheat Programs Offer
Six Options In ’69 Page 1
Solanco Opens The Fair Season
Again Next Week Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancastei 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
Eveiett R Newswangei, Editor
Robeit G Campbell, Adveitising Daector
Subscnption puce S 2 pei yeai m Lancastei
County S 3 elsewhere
Established November 4, 1955
Published eveiy Satuiday bv Lancaster
Fai mmg, Lititz, Pa
second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa.
17543
Member of Newspaper Faim Editors As=n
Do You Remember?
You’re old enough to remember the real
America if you can remember when you
never dreamed our country could ever lose.
When you left the front door open. When
you went to church and found spiritual con
solation. When people knew what the Fourth
of July stood for. When you took it for grant
ed that women and the elderly and the
clergy were to be respected.
When a girl was considered daring if
she smoked in public. When a girl was a
girl. When a boy was a boy. When they liked
each other. When you didn’t feel embarrass
ed to say that this is the best country in the
world. When socialist was a dirty
When liberal wasn’t. When a nickel was*
worth five cents and could buy you a maga
zine, or a good cigar, or a 12-ounce Pepsi,
or a big ice cream cone with chocolate
sprinkles. When two nickels got you into the
movies on Saturday afternoon, and you saw
three pictures. When taxes were only a nui
sance. When the poor were too proud to
take charity. When you weren’t afraid to go
out at night. When Protestants and Catholics
thought enough of their beliefs to argue
about them. When ghettos were neighbor
hoods. When you knew that the law meant
justice, and you felt a little shiver of awe
at the sight of a policeman. . , .
When the flag was a sacred symbol.
When our government stood up for Ameri
cans, anywhere in the world When a man
who went wrong was blamed, not his
mother’s nursing habits or his father’s in
come. When everyone knew the difference
between right and wrong, even Harvard
professors. When things weren’t perfect, but
you never expected them to be. When you
weren't made to feel guilty for enjoying
dialect comedy. When people still had the
capacity for indignation.
When you considered yourself lucky to
have a good job. When you were proud to
have one When sick meant you weren’t
feeling well. When a complaint cou’d accom
plish something When people expected less,
and \ alued what thev had move When
everybody wasn’t entitled to a college edu
cation When college kids swallowed gold
fish, not acid When America was the land
of the free, the home of the -brave —Con
servative Book Club Bulletin.
Across The Fence Row
It’s hard to teach kiddies the A-B-C’s,
when they already know that V always
comes after T.
It takes men to build nations, and 'deas
to build men.
Habits can be either a sinker or a cork,
depending on you and on the habit.
Retirement comes hard for kids, too.
The world’s most miserable people
seem to be, not the broke, the crippled, the
unfortunate, but those who have everything
they want but not the ability to enjoy it.
Personality may open the door, but
character keeps it open.
• A notion without motion seldom cuts
much grass
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period Sat
urday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average above normal with
daily highs m the 70’s to and over-night
lows in the mid 50’s to 60’s Cool at the be
ginning with temperatures moderating
about Sunday and continuing a slow rising
trend through the remainder of the period
Normal high-low for the period is 78-56.
Rain may total less than one-fourth inch
as showers scattered over the region Mon
day
IDE 111 IF SILENCE
Lesion for September 15,1968
I«cl«r»un4 Scripture Cither I through I.
Ocv«ti«n*| Pitlms 44,
For the Christian there arc
few books In the Bible more
troubling than Esther. It is an
Interesting story, but the follower
of Christ can hardly help but
be appalled at the bloody con
clusion In which 75,000 of the
are slain in a sin-
I _JU gle days ven B**
eval Jewish phil
that if all the rest
passed away, the
Hev. Althouie Torah and Es
ther would remain. Today it re
mains one of the favorite books
in the synagogue and is read at
every celebration of the Feast of
Purim. Even an importaht Jew
ish women’s society is named in
honor of Esther (Hadassah).
An epic of survival
To the non-Jew it may not
seem at all a religious book—
the name of God is not even
mentioned in it. Martin Luther
was quite outspoken in his der
ogatory opinion: "I am so hos
tile to this book that I wish it
did not exist. . Why, then,
is it so important to our Jew
ish brothers?
The answer should be ob
vious to the sensitive reader: it
is a stirring story of deliverance
from the evil of anti-Semitism.
Its'story helps to remind the Jew
that, though captive to the Egypt
ians, harassed by the Canaanites
and Phillistmes, carried into ex
ile by the Assyrians and Baby
lonians, persecuted by the Per
sians, the Macedonians, the Ro
mans, the Christians, and system
atically exterminated by the
Nazis, they have nevertheless sur
vived and it is a celebration of
that triumphant survival!
For Full Market Reports
Read Lancaster Farming
To Graze Alfalfa Carefully them in the ground around the
The grazing of alfalfa fields in noddle of September Also, oats
the fall is a very common prac- should be seeded on well diam
tice instead of making the last f soil -Norlme or Dubois are
cutting The alfalfa-plant is not two recommended varieties The
poisonous after frost or freezing seventy of the winter weather
weather, but may be the cause and the extent of winter killin D
of severe bloating when wet or determines the yield per
when coated with fiost Pioduc- acre
ers are uiged to be sure animals
giaze the alfalfa field only when . . „ ,
the plants are dry and only af- The corn crO P 18 maturing and
tei the animals have had some soon the coin pickers and-shell
othei type of forage prior to be- eis will be working. Cubs should
mg put in the alfalfa Dairymen be clea ' n e d and, sprayed for m
should lemove their sectS; the use 0 f either methoxy
cows at least four horns prior to’ chlor or malathidh as a sprav m
the milking time ' the ’ crib * Will the
„ 0 . _ . chance of gram insects Every
To Sow Winter Oats effort should be made to make
Farmers in southeastern Penn- the cnb ro dent-proof in order to
sylvanra inter ested m growing a re duce losses and giain quality,
crop ot winter oats should get •
It la alio appeal for aelfaao*
rlfldng courage and persever*
ante. Esthers uncle, Motdecal,
dot* not assure her that every*
thing will come out all right—
ai often It does not—but Instead
■nys: "And who knows whether
you have not come to the king*
dom for such a time as this?*
Her response is still an Inspira
tion for the Jew today; . .If
I perish, I perish”, (Esther 4s
14-16 RSV)
Roots of prejudice
There is, however, something
die in Esther for the non-Jew.
None of us should be able to read
this book without some stabbing
of conscience and the haunting
realization that the greatest of
evils in this book, anti-Semitism,
is still with us today, an evil for
which we cannot quite escape
some collective if not individual
responsibility. Haman’s route to
prejudice is not unlike our own.
He begins by hating an individual
Jew, Mordecai, and goes on to
despising all Jews. Hie hates the
Jew because his culture refuses to
be swallowed up by his own.
The Jews are different and that
difference becomes both a causa
and a symbol of his hatred.
Instead of Hainan, perhaps we
identify with the king. He has
no particular dislike for the Jews.
He allows Haman to persecute
them simply because he is too
preoccupied with other thingsl
Though he has the power to do
something about it, he manages
to regard it as none of bis af
fair. How many Jews have
grievously suffered, not only be
cause of the Haman’s, but be
cause of men like the king who
are too preoccupied with other
concerns?
Guilty bystanders
There are others in the story,
minor characters who merely car
ry out the orders of the Hainan's.
They are men who build scaf
folds (or ovens) for someone rise’s
victims. They are soldiers obey
ing their superiors and guilty by
standers who go blithely about
their "business as usual.”
That is how monstrous crimes
take place; not only because
of the Hainan's, the very visible
villiaus, but also because of the
others who let it happen by their
silence. Queen Esther could have
been one of these. Her own pos
ition was secure. No wonder
our Jewish brothers admire this
woman who risked everything
rather than commit the sin of
silence!
(Bos*d on copyrighted by th* Division
of Christian Education, National Council of tho
Churchat *1 Christ in tha U, S A Xtl*os*d Is/
Community Pros! Sorvic* J
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
To Prepare Corn Crib