4—Lancaster Fanning. Saturday. April 26.1969
From Where We
What Is A Farmer?
A farmer is a paradox. He is an “oyer
alled" executive with his home his office;
a scientist using fertilizer attachments; a
purchasing agent in an old straw hat; a per
sonnel director with grease under his finger
nails; a dietitian with a passion for alfalfa,
animals and antibiotics; a production ex
pert faced with a surplus; and a manager
battling the cost-price squeeze. He manages
more capital than most of the businessmen
in town.
Farmers are found in fields plowing up,
seeding down, returning from, planting to,
fertilizing with, spraying for, and harvest
ing of. Wives help them, little boys follow
them, the Agriculture Department confuses
them, city relatives visit them, salesmen
detain them, meals wait for them, weather
can delay them, but it takes Heaven to stop
them.
When your car stalls along the road, a
farmer is a considerate, courteous, inex
pensive road service. When a farmer’s wife
suggests he buy a new suit, he can quote
from memory every expense involved in
operating the farm last year, plus the add
ed expense he is certain will crop up this
year. Or else he assumes the role of the
indignant shopper impressing upon every
one within earshot the pounds of pork he
must produce in order to pay for a suit of
clothes at today’s prices.
Moon Trips And
Salmon Streams
The conservation of our dwindling na
tural resources should be handled with the
tools of modern industry and management
techniques that have a proven capacity for
achieving the “impossible” such as sending
men to the moon. The top official of the
company that has had much to do with pro
ducing the hardware for the moon program,
in effect, expressed this view when he ob
served that he could see no reason why”
. . . modern business management techni
ques . . . cannot be applied to this problem
which affects not only us but our children
and grandchildren.”
Mr. Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., chairman
of the board of North American Rockwell
Corporation a company that is concerned
with both space and ocean floor explora
tion suggests a special committee that
could be appointed by the Administration
composed of industrialists concerned about
and familiar with the problems of conserva
tion as well as professional conservation
ists. This committee or council should form
ulate a conservation code with teeth in it.
Trade associations, as well as local business
groups, would be encouraged to subscribe
to the committee’s recommendations anr
the latter, in turn, would be responsible for
local business adherence to sound conserva
tion practices.
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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 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 Saturday by Lancaster
Farming Lititz, Pa
Second Class Postal* naid at Lititz. Pa.
17543
Member of N«w«r, m Editors Assn.
Stand. ..
As Mr. Rockwell obsoncs. ..>f wo
can fly three guys around the moon and
get them back safely, making the filthy
Hudson River a beautiful salmon stream
again, the way it once was, should be no
problem.”
Tools Of Oppression
A recent news item in The New York
Times reports that, “The Castro Govern
ment has ordered two million members of
its vigilance committees to intensify sur
veillance over the remaining six million Cu
bans.” This is like having two million
policemen to maintain order in New York
City. Today Cuba represents police statism
with a vengeance.
Perhaps it is a good thing to have Cuba
a prime example of political oppression
a mere 90 miles from the U.S. doorstep.
It should be a lesson to a nation whose
people have never known oppression, politi
cal persecution, or feared unrestrained
police authority a people who may have
grown a little careless with the liberties that
were virtually handed to them on a sliver
platter by our country’s founders.
Across The Fence Row
“One of the interesting things about our
presidential elections is the amount of dirt
the two parties dig up about each other. We
are indebted ... for this gem: ‘Since the
Democrats took over the Agricultural De
partment eight years ago, we have lost
more than 800,000 farms in America. We
have lost more than four and a half million
farmers. But during that same span of
years, we have added in excess of 20,000
workers to the payroll in the Department
of Agriculture. The number of farms is
down 20 per cent. The number of farmers
is down 29 percent. But the size of the Agri
cultural Department is up 23 per cent.’ ”
Lake Worth, Fla., Herald.
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Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
For your readers who wish to break the
daily drug habit (I’m speaking of health
pills) I offer a well known country remedy
in liquid form that has all the required ele
ments for good health plus a few extras.
I’ve learned it contains the regular A,
B, C, D and E vitamins as well as: ribo
flavin, riacin, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid
and folic acid (all in the vitamin B com
plex). It has them all.
As for minerals, it has every one known
to be needed by the human body. A few are:
phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, cholo
ride, calcium, sodium and iron. I found we
need 19 minerals. This drink has all 19 plus
10 more besides.
Protein has become a big thing these
days. Doctors say we must have 10 differ
ent ones (amino acids) for good health. This
old fashioned country remedy is big in
protein, having all 10 plus another eight.
I’ve discovered that doctors, dentists,
nurses and beauty experts know of this
drink and recommend it.
Now you probably think this must be a
very expensive potion. Actually, its price is
only SSVfec a quart, home delivered. We call
it milk. Tastes great, too!
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average near normal with
daytime highs in the upper 50’s to 60’s and
over-night lows in the upper 30’s to 40’s.
Normal high-low for the period is 68-45.
Rain may total one-half inch or greater
with general rain likely Monday or Tues
day.
A Farmer
(Name withheld^
Kierkegaard, thi Oanlih OieoToJ
otan, hoi put It, . .you mull
remember to bo jpnitontlys lay
ing to younclf, 'lt U • peaking
to me; I nm the one It la talk
ing about.’ ”
The only "proof
The authority of the Bible,
therefore, it Hi ability to remain
"ncwi” generation after genera
tion, Hi power to ipcnk to our
llvci and our needi, Hi capacity
to change the llvci of men. Vvo
cannot "prove” the authority of
the Bible, we can only demon
strate It* authoritativenen for our
own lives. He who has sustained
a tragic personal lon can only
■flclfrwn* Scn»Ki,r D.ul.ronomy 1 14 9 Joihuo . ..» y w [thOUt the COlUfort of
' i'• 14 25 27 ' 2 ~m* 'h y the Bible, he could not have aur
-3 1416 sc., i • , . r .vlved. Another, who hai found
011 K my Idt- vital counsel to this book, can
a number ofbooks ft at a e t wltnest to the direction he
over (rom my ™ 1 ba , received. Still another whole
read their fading J life has been turned from dark
her with what avid taterest and Ueht, can only speak of
preoccupation I read thOT. Some used his scriptures
1 read several times. I held on a use i ess life. How
mmmm L Zm as®* often people have told me of a
thev would be of particular verse or passage
H ■ ISaT worth bringing them the strength or in-
I Car^ully V I pro- spiration they so greatly needed
mm *^ e e l th ren W ded Katherine Mansfield, the
Bg \ covers, mended wr j ter te ji s us that she did not
mm. come to the Bible until her mature
them bindings. I gh had avoided it com .
v° pletely in her youth. In later
„ Althouse llev * * at there years while living in exile in the
Rev. Althouse would come a y ountains .gripped by the tuber
time;when their value would have tha t was slowly claiming
diminished. her life, she discovered the book
Where we live for the first time. "I feel so bit
m j t j-rr it terly,” she wrote, "that I have
Today I see them differently. known these facts before.
Although most of these books ~ ought to be part of my
were written only twenty-five or ver / brea |iing.”
thirty years ago, they are, for ... 3 _. .
the most part, outdated. I had Words upon yOUf heart
once thought of saving them for Is not wbat the writer of
my own children, but today I Deuter onomy was saying? "And
realize that, with a few exceptions, words wh ich I command
these books would be of little you this day shall be upon your
interest to children in these times. £ rt . and y OU s hall teach them
Their day is gone. Time has diligen ti y to your children, and
P as ® ed them by. shall talk of them when you sit
The few exceptions to the ■ our house, and when you
above judgement are those books wal £ b y the way, and when you
that deal with themes and ideas He down and wb en you rise”
that do not become obsolete with /g. 6 The tragedy of ignoring
the passage of time. Their char- ’ B ( ble not that we "hurt
acters face problems and situa- God>s flings ” bu t that we rob
tions much like our own, even our lives of some thing that is
though the historical ctrcum- f ood an d drink for the soul,
stances may have changed con- W e might as well ask for an
siderably. These books remain explanation of the authority of
fresh for us because they still fo^d an d water, as belabor the
speak to us where we live today. autbo rity of the Bible. Its cre-
Someone has defined good de ntials are the blessings itbrings
literature as "news that stays us Thus wrote Peter, "You wiH
news.” Is this not the secret of do ’ wed t o pay attention to this
the Bible’s authority? This an- as to a i nm p shining in a dark
cient book more accurately: place.”
collection of books written by *. „ ... .. n ...
, , * (B«s*d «n •uriinM CMyniKiM by Iht Divisimv
men whose circumstances were ~'c hm„ .n c.u«,i *f a.
so different than our own, still church*, •( chmt ma*u.s. a. by
is "news.” The ancient wisdom community Pr*«s*r»ic*)
retains its freshness. As Soren
CREDENTIALS
Lesion for April 27,1969
To Check Corn PD'
Despite the weather t.
week corn planting tiro 1 ap
proaching, this very imp
gra’n crop deserves .l at
tention from planting to harvest.
Growers should decide on the
plant population per acre and
take time to be certain the
planter will drop this number
of kernels plus about 10% mor
tality. Check the plante on the
lane or driveway so that the
desired number of kernel' will
be planted. Corn for silage
should be planted from 3 to 4
thousand plants per acre thicker
than corn for grain. Take bine
in preparing for the important
job of corn planting.
To Keep Good Records
This is not a new suggestion
but continues to be a verv im
portant one. I refer not only
to farm accounts but to acr ' ’te
records on the use of all - - i
cal~ id spray materials. F el
blan :s are available at o
ter i office for both V
'sow is
THE TIME
By Max Smith
ancaster County Ag<
and crop pesticide records. Fol
low the directions and keep ac
curate records of the date,
amount, and materials applied.
You may regret the neglect of
this practice.
To Beware Of Wood Ticks
Spotted fever may be trans
mitted to human beings after
being bitten by a wood tick;
these insects are more common
in this part of the state and may
be found in parks, woodlots,
woods or other places with a
number of trees and plenty of
dense shade. Families are urged
to be on the alert for the ticks
when spending rime in picnic
areas or wooded places. Symp
toms of spotted fever area rash
on the wrists and ankles, later
spreading to all parts of the
body, high fever along with
headache and general muscular
aches. Folks wi ,v > / ‘ ' bits
should be careful 1 1 for
the above sympto- least
< two weeks.