— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 3.1969
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From Where We
Packages Cost More Than
The Food In Them
Fifty years ago. dad planted the buck
wheat. and when it was ripe, harvested it
and took it to the mill. Mother took the flour
he brought home and mixed it with butter
milk she had churned from the milk she had
taken from the cow. She added, some other
ingredients and set the whole batter in a
warm place until the next day. With some
fresh flour, more buttermilk and other in
gredients, added at breakfast time, mother
would be ready to fry up a batch of buck
wheat cakes.
This morning, the ten-year-old daughter
got up three minutes before dad, went to
the shelf and took down a box of ready mix
ed. self rising, nonlumping, buttermilk
buckwheat cake mix, poured a few spoon
fuls into a jar, added a prescribed amount
of water, and in “ten shakes”, by the mak
ers instructions, poured out golden pan
cakes on the electric griddle, set according
to instructions.
In grandmother’s day, the rich could
afford servants. In this day the housewife
demands and gets her maid service built in
This is what the consumer pays extra for in
the grocery store.
And new convenience foods are being
dreamed up every day. Like the synthetic
potato skin for those who . , . Well, anyway,
many other innovations are available to re
lease Mrs. American from the kitchen.
Most of us can’t afford maids, but we
all pay for built-in maid service at the gro
cery store . . . which is OK as long as the
public consumer knows the package in
many cases is costing more than the farm
product in it. At least that’s the way it
looks from where we stand.
May Is £gg Month
-1 1 cfacks, splatters and ' puffs. It is
white or brown and oval, yellow and round.
(Are you curious?)
A symbol of fertility, supreme in its
simplicity, the acme of versatility.
Of course, it’s an egg.
And May is Egg Month when you can
beat or bake, broil or boil, fry or dye one of
nature’s most incredible creations to
lighten, brighten, thicken and quicken
dishes for many meals
Inside nature's own “armor-plated
package’’ the shell, fresh eggs contain-
Vitamin A for normal vision, growth
and resistance to respiratory diseases.
Vitamin B 1 (or thiamine) for good ap
petite and digestion, growth and steady
nerves.
Vitamin B 2 (or riboflavin) for healthy
skin and eyes and normal body cell func
tions.
Vitamin D for the development and
preservation of good teeth and bones
Vitamin E for fertility and healthy
muscular tissues.
Farm News This Week
John Glick Advises 4-H
Youth On Horsemanship Page 1
FB Calls On Congress To Enact Farmer-
Farm Worker Relations Bill Page 17
LANCASTER FARMING
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Protein to build and repair body tissues.
Calcium and phosphorus to build and
maintain strong bones and teeth.
Iron and calcium to build healthy blood
and protect against nutritional anemia.
And we're egging you on to eat more
eggs every day in May. It is fine if you do
it in June, July, August and September also.
The Justice Makes Sense
The experience of history indicates that
those who condone or support the violence
on American campuses and the disruption
of educational routine on the grounds of pre
serving a necessary atmosphere of freedom’
in institutions of higher learning may be off
on the wrong foot. Anarchy on the campus
has virtually destroyed higher education in
Latin America. The decline began in 1918
when students in Argentina were given a
\oice in running the universities.
The governments of Latin American
countries have been trying to reverse the
trend, but, in the meantime, standards have
sunk so low that a Mexican professor was
compelled to admit, “We produce bad doc
tors, but they displace witch doctors. We
produce bad lawyers, but they are going to
be clerks anyway, with some legal training.
Our brilliant students we send abroad.”
In the U.S., before the meaning of edu r
cation dissolves in chaos, it might be well-to
heed the words of Supreme Court Justice
Hugo L. Black who recently said, “I have
always had the idea that the schools were
to educate children and not children to edu
cate teachers.”
Across The Fence Row
A Clod Of Earth
When picking up a, clod of earth
Consider what you hold;
A treasure of the greatest worth
—Far more than miser’s gold
a tiny seed in its embrace
Sends up a living shoot.
There’s beauty in a pansy’s face;
There’s wealth around its root
This clod may hold a wealth of food
Or clothing for a score
When God created earth he called it
good.
Why should I ask for more?
Today I hold it in my hand,
Tomorrow it holds me
And so at least I understand the word
Eternity,
“I’ve about reached the end of my
tolerance for our society's one-sided sym
pathy for the misfit, the ne’er-do-well, the
drug addict, the chronic criminal, the loser
in general, the underdog. I feel it’s time
for someone to stand up and say: “I’m for
the upperdog!’ ’’ . . . (From and address by
Miller Upton, President of Beloit College).
The smallest good is better than the
grandest intention.
One way to create plenty of parking
space is to use a few atom bombs.
The worst mistake a farm manager
can make is to assume he knows enough.”
James Jacks, Thornton. Miss.
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 60’s and over-night‘-
lows in the 40’s. Mild Saturday and a little '
cooler thereafter. Normal for the
period is 71-47.
Rain may total one-fourth inch or less,
falling as showers about the middle of ndxt
week. • ‘ f ‘
open the king of England'* eye*.*
Jli« ptpycr * wps amwmd. for
one year later, thU tame King
Henry VII I commanded the Bible
to be published In England and
appointed to be rend by all of
the people. The English Bible
came into being at a tearful price,
A risky translation
In our nation today, bringing
the Bible to people is not so dan*
gerous a vocation. It can be
bought in any department storey
found in any motel or hotel,
Surchased at newstands in paper*
ack. Every public library
. ...... carries a variety of translation*
and editions. Brides carry white
.ohn 2124,25.2 p.i.r 3 lib ■ is. c.v.i.i.on Bibles a» they walk down the
HUS nuptial aisle. There is little danger
In the year 1536 William today in producing, selling, or
Tyndnle was chained to the stake, owning this book,
strangled, and then burned at the y e t, perhaps this atmosphere
orders of England’s King Henry 0 f polite acceptance is deceptive.
VIII. Perhaps there is as much resis-
His crime? He was hunted tance as ever to its message,
down in Antwerp, Belgium, and There is at least one translation
discovered in that may experience some resis
the process of tance.
translating the Four clergymen were dis-
Old Testament cussing the merits of various
into the English Bible translations. One preferred
language! the King James Version because
Of course, this 0 { it s matchless Elizabethan
was not a com- English. Another chose the Re
plete surprise to vised Version of 1881 because
Tyndale. He Q f j ts literal and accurate trans
cm knew th ?t his life i a tions of the original languages.
Kev. Altnouse was endangered James Moffatt’s version was
by his work. He had already chosen by a third because of its
translated into the English up-to-date vocabulary. The
'tongue the New Testament, which fourth, however, said: "Hike my
was smuggled into England in mother’s translation best” "Your
-great numbers. Copies were mother?” someone exclaimed, "I
down, confiscated and didn’t know your mother made
,-bumed at the direction of the a translation.” "Oh yes,” was the
-Bishop oLLondon. reply, "she translated it into life,
' Dangerous reading and 3t was the most convincing
“ , , , , translation I ever saw.”
Tyndale was regarded as a T . _ . .. .
subversive by both church and TIIC gospel according to JIOU
-state. In those days, only the it is also the most dangerous
-highly educated could read the translation. Many people will not
Latin Bible, and there were no pick up and read hotel Bibles or
-English versions allowed. Public take advantage of the reasonable
in England warned: "No prices and attractive editions. The
-women, nor artificers, nor ap- only Bible translation they may
prentices, journeymen, serving- ever read is "the Gospel according
-men, yeomen, husbandmen,, or to you,” the Bible translated into
-laborers shall read the Bible in yo ur life. And that can be dan
' English to himself or another, gerous, or at least risky. Just
privately or openly on pain of as the king rejected Jeremiah’s
a month’s Imprisonment.* prophecies, so people will reject
-His-work of translation was the "treasure” in your
- an act of disobedience to the laws vessel.*-And just as Bacuc&tiad
England. Yet. Tyndale T s pur- to record that scripture again,
-pose was not to subvert bis go you may have to continue to
■nation, but to convert it He was make the Bible come alive for
consumed by one single-minded those around you.
- desire; to put the Bible into the (klH| w oiyill ,i
language of the people. If God chnttim E<iuc«h«n, N«h«o«i c*wn«f
spare my life,” said Tyndale, "I churehw u Chr«t m h>. u. s. a. MMnSby
will causeth a boy feat driveth rr«. 5.™.,)
a plow shall know more of the
Scripture than thou (a learned
man) dost.”
His last words were, "Lord,,
YOUR VERSION
Lesson for May 4,1969
Read Lancaster Farming
For Full Market Reports
To Spray New Alfalfa fertilizer in direct contact with
Seedlings either seeds or plant roots. Both
Sprang seedmgs of alfalfa that of. these fertilizer elements will
were made without a nurse corp, ™i ure sprouts and roots and re
and a herbicide such as Eptam hnce stands. Seeds that have
not used just prior to seeding, heen inoculated such as legumes
should be sprayed with 2,4, D-B an< f soybeans should be seeded
when the growth is 1 to 2 inches separately from the fertilizer.
high At this stage the weeds are gg Careful With Treated
easier to kill with the recom- Seeds
mended amount of material. T , ~
Many growers Will not notice In raost cases ther « “ some
many weeds at this stage and de- seeds left after the planting of
lay spraying until the weeds are any crop; most of these seeds
larger and.thicker, and then it have been treated with chemicals
is too latft Jhftweeds con t ro i insects or diseases and
are small to get control aftd to ■ ■- ■
■get a good .stand..
may poison livestock and poul
„ , ■. ” ~ try’Tliey should not be left lying
To Be Careful with' around the barn or garage where
*/ " .placement; ~ ? children' oe livestock toan -vget to
Again' wfe caution against the them. Store them in the-origmal
placing of. nitrogen ox potash hag or container. ’ j
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent