—Lancaster Farmln
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From When We Stand ...
November Is Here
This is the week the shortening days
seem suddenly a lot shorter, since the clocks
were turned back. The long twilights of a
few weeks ago are becoming but a brief
afterglow.
Yesterday, November bowed in and, to
us. the exciting time o! tne \t-.i. i*n
cred in. But. then, each succeeding season
«eems. to us. the moil exciting, u.muo.e
Old William Cullen Bryant described No
vember as "the melancholy days are come
. . . the saddest of the year." But remem
ber. Bryant never lived in the Lancaster
County area in sight of all the picturesque
farm scenes.
The changing leaves have been a sight
to behold but, to us. not equal to some
years inasmuch as the bright reds Uere
conspicuously missing. We blame it on the
comparatively mild weather. Takes a lot of
frosty mornings, no matter what me scien
tists say, to get those leaves truly bright!
This, too, is the time of the year when
much of our interest turns indoors and we
prepare for the holiday season of Tnanks
giving, Christmas and the New Year. Yep,
it can be \ery exciting!
Triumph Of
Common Sense
Some years ago, a tremendous furor
was raised concerning the ufe of pesticide
chemicals in agricultural production, and
the effect which traces of these chemicals
remaining in our food might have on human
health. At the time, misrepresentation of
the hazarads involved were of grate con
cern to knowledgeable authorities, because
these chemicals are an indispensable tool in
the high-volume agricultural production
now required to feed growing populations
the world over. Fortunately, this is one
area of concern to which reason has return
ed.
In a statement concerning “The Impli
cation Of Pesticide Residues As A Health
Hazard," Dr. Roy Goulding of the British
Poisons Reference Service has stated that
there is . . no substantiated evidence that
the consumption of foodstuffs bearing resi
dues of active ingredients from accepted
agricultural practices in the United King
dom has led to injury to man. . . In short,
despite all the hullaballoo, the alarms, the
excursions, the invocations and the warn
ings, it certainly looks as though we are
eating far less of pesticide residues than
ever we feared and far less than is at all
likely to do us any harm.”
Substantially, the same conclusions re-
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Farm News This Week
Holstein Assn. Announces Meet
For November 13 Page 1
Local Farmers Attend Agway
Annual Meeting Page 17
Guernsey Breeders Asked To Report
Herd & Lifetime Averages Page 1
Government Makes Relocation
Payments Where Land Is Taken Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
P. 0 Box 266 - Lititz, 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, Advertising Director
Subscription price. $2 per year in Lancaster
County, $3 elsewhere
Established November 4,1955
Published every Satui day by Lancaster
Farming, Lititz, Pa
Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa.
17543
Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn.
!. Saturday. November 2.1888
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gardlng these points have been reached in
the United States. Continuous testing and
surveillance programs have shown the food
supply in the U. S. to be of the highest quali
ty and purity. The pesticide industry in the
interest of promoting the increased produc-
tion of food and fiber that will, be required
. by the world's growing population is push
ing forward with programs to establish re
alistic and uniform levels of acceptable pes
ticide residues between all nations. If as
much reason and good sense could be
brought to bear on some of the other prob
lems which offer a real threat to the life
and health of man on earth, we would all
indeed have little to fear.
At least that's the way it looks from
where we stand.
Can You Imagine?
Agricultural employees remain one of
the largest groups outside of organized la
bor. and efforts to persuade agricultural
workers to join unions voluntarily have been
largely unsuccessful. Union promotion of a
boycott of fresh California grapes in major
eastern markets including "Detroit, Boston
and New York, is a new tactic to force em
ployers to recognize the union as the sole
bargaining agent, regardless of employees’
wishes one way or the other. As the Biggs,
California, NEWS, observes, “Imagine the
consequence if a handful of powerful union
leaders, or any group, gams control of the
nation’s food supply.”
The concern which top leadership of
major labor union organizations has shown
for the public waif are has been notable by
its absence. Unbridled use of union power
has run head on into the public’s interest
many times in recent years. In the case of
agriculture, it may be going too far. Food
is. after all, the first basic necessity of life.
Can you imagine the impact of a threat to
call a nationwide strike of agricultural
workers at harvest time?
Across The Fence Row
“How do you do, my farmer friends?"
“Howdy."
“Nice looking country you have here.”
“Fer them that likes it.”
“Live here all your life?”
“Not yit.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on
men however they act; but I do believe in a
fate that falls on men unless they act.”
Inflation A family of four must now
have an income of $14,282 to equal the buy
ing power such a family had with $5,000 in
1939.
—lndustrial Conference Board
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Praise makes good men better and bad
men worse. Thomas Fuller.
He who cannot stand criticism also can
not stand much praise.
Silence is still the best substitute for
brains ever invented.
Minds and parachutes work better when
open.
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Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The fiv e-day forecast for the period Sat
urday tnrough next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average above normal with
daytime highs in the mid 50’s to 60’s and
overmgnt lows m the 40’s. Mild at the be
ginning of the period turning cool at the
middle. Normal high-low temperatures is
75-38.
Ram may total less than one-fourth inch
as showers about Sunday.
Predictable consequence
Why? Is it because Christianity
encourages us to inevitably re
gard suffering punishment for
sin? Of course not Christ on the
cross is the classic example of un
deserved suffering. If ever anyone
had the right to protest his
suffering, Jesus did. Who would
have been more justified to ask,
"What did I do to deserve this?
How can God let them do this to
me?”
Despite the fact that Jesus was Don’t be surprised.. .and
obedient to the will of his Father, , . . Do rejoice!
he suffered. In fact, we might even (*•«•* on *uHinM c**yn»ht*H fcy Hi* Div«i*n
say he suffered because of his
ObcdlcnCS. It was the prsdictablc Community Profs Some# )
consequence of his loyalty. And
so it may be for all of us who
seek to follow him. If we are
obedient disciples, we are likely
to find the cross a consequence
of our obedience.
Indeed the writer of I Peter
warns us: "Beloved,' do not be
surprised at the fiery ordeal
which comes upon you to prove
you, as though something strange
were happemng to you.” (I Peter
4:12 RSV) Anyone who under
stands the meaning of disciple
ship ought not to be surprised
when suffering comes upon him.
There is no crown without a
cross.
—Chesterton
To Prepare for Cold Weather
The month of November may
bring freezing weather with
driving snow storms; farmers
are urged to protect their water
pipes with ground cover or with
electric heating cable Livestock
producers should plan to have
warm buildings for new-born
pigs and lambs. Prevention of
these problems is more pleasant
and profitable than trying to
correct them on a zero morning.
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The start of tiie winter feed
ing season is a good time to do
some forage testing When the
true feeding value of both silage
and hay it known, the grain ra
tion may be adjusted according
ly. Many d liry and livestock pro-
. THE KEY
Leison for November 3,1968
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Dtv«ti*n«l Rt«din|s I Ptl«rsiM I*
Nothing so surprises some
Christians than the fact of suf*
fering. "What did I do to deserve
this?” they ask in both bewilder
ment and indignation. "How can
God do this to me? How can he
let this happen?” In vain they
•search their
memories for the
remembrance of
some sin that
might explain or
justify their pre
sent plight.
Suffering
seems to them an
evidence that
something_ is
wrong, either
with them or with God. Either
they have made a mistake or he
has. That there might be some
other explanation seems never tp
occur to them.
For Full Market Reports
Read LANCASTER FARMING
To Do Forage Testing
Mon than physical
Of court*, there art dlfllswot
kind* of suffering. We tend to
think only in term* of Jetut tut
ferlng on the cross, of Paul being
persecuted, of Roman Christiana
dyi>ig in the arenas of Rome, of
reformers dying at the hands of
the Inquisition, and of mission*
nrles undergoing terrible hard*
ships in far-off lands. All of thla
makes the experience seem pretty
remote long ago and faraway.
Yet suffering, according to my
dictionary, means "to be subject*
ed to pain, distress, injury, lost,
or anything unpleasant.” Thus,
it can mean physical pain, but it
doesn’t have to. Suffering can
alto mean emotional distress or
any unpleasantness. Even
Christ’s suffering on thecross'waa
more than merely physical.
Rejoice!
Therefore, although we may
not be called upon to bear physi*
cal pain for the sake of the
Gospel here in America, we may
still be called upon to bear peri*
odic distress, rejection, ridicule,
and unpleasantness. Sometimes
these kinds of suffering are more
frightening and insidious than
mere physical pain. Often it is
easier to die as a Christian
martyr than it is to live as a
Christian witness.
But Peter’s counsel for the suf
ferer is not merely a negative
"Don’t be surprised.” Along with
the "Don’t” there is also a "Dol*
. . rejoice in so far as you
share Christ’s sufferings, that you
may also rejoice and be glad
when his glory is revealed."
(IPeter 4:13 RSV) Suffering ia
a terrible foe and the only way
to prevail over this enemy is to
refuse to let him take away our
faith and joy. If we can sincerdy
thank God for the privelege of
suffering with Christ, the power
of suffering will be broken. It is
like defusing a deadly weapon.
Our joy destroys its power to de»
feat us.
Here, then, Is the two-edged
key that enables us to meet suf*
fermg:
Attend The
Church of
Your Choice
Sunday
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
ducers have made many dollars
by spending a few to have their
forages tested Now is the time
to get some forage kits and
learn the quality of forage in
your barn.
To Provide Minerals
The importance of sufficient
minerals in the rations of all
farm animals cannot get too
much attention at this time of
the year. Various types of hay
and silage feeds have dilferent
mineral content. Animals on
heavy corn silage feeding may
need greater amounts of miner
als than those on legume hay or
silage Free choice minerals are
strongly recommended. Trace
mineral salt and calcium-phos
phorus minerals should be in
cluded in the mixture.