4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 17.1969
From Where We
A Soil Steward
A soil steward has been defined as one
who recognizes land and water as gifts from
God. And we would add that gifts should be
used wisely. Especially gifts from God.
A land owner, if he is a good steward
will with out question improve his land to
the best of his ability .With todays informa
tion, no one can hide behind ignorance as an
excuse for letting his top soil go down the
river. This is just as true of the urban
homeowner with a big back yard as well as
the farmer.
The deciding factor in determining ac
tion on conservation is: Do we have the
desire to conserve our land, our water sup
pi v and our forests. In short, do we look at
our resources as loans, granted for a life
time, to be passed on to the next generation
in not just as good condition but better con
dition. This is really a matter of attitude
and emotion. Do we desire to keep our basic
resources
With soil stewardship week continuing
until tomorrow, we\ isited some ot the man
agement steps that are presently being
taken in Lancaster County to reduce soil
loss and impro\e crop land. In our visits we
saw' the spirits of responsible people at
work on the land representing hundreds of
other local farmers who are concerned
about their gifts
We commend those who take their res
ponsibility seriously, but much more must
be done. More people must become inter
ested enough in land to do more than think
ing. As D. A. Williams has said, “We ha\e,
in our history as Americans, made giant
strides across the land. Now we must re
trace our steps and look at the land with
new eyes the eyes of stewardship, in
which use and responsibility are seen as the
unbreakable ties that binds us to nature.
“We will serve best what we lo\e the
most, for the desire to serve is founded on
love The desire to serve has made many of
Us dedicate ourselves more fully to God, to
fellow men, and to the care of the natural
resources we have inherited. There is a
kindship here, for in service to one, we find
reason for sen ice to the others.”
At least that’s the way it looks from
a here we stand.
More On Meat Inspection
How often ha\e you, jour friends or
jour associates used the expression “there
ought to be a law " It is safe, answer
ha\e to be “too manj times to
count ’ Too manj r legislators take our
semihumorous complaint literallj and w e
are swamped with laws.
Nowhere has the penchant foi passing
-aws been moie in e\idence than in mat
ters dealing with meat inspection A meet-
Farm News This Week
Local Farmers Cooperate
In Soil Conseiw ation Page 1
Local Meat Processors Told
Of Inspection Law Change Page 1
Tobacco Planting
Started Tuesday Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
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Stand. ..
mg Monday night revealed many things,
not the least important that the federal
government has passed meat inspection
laws that are impractical. Even the federal
people are beginning to admit it by relax
ing their interpretation of the law.
Not that we are against clean, whole
some meat and meat products. The fact is.
we are for clean edible products of any
kind. But, based on dealings with local
butchers, we always have been getting a
good product from our local producer-re
tailers in Lancaster County. We believe
most of them, if not all of them, handle
their product as if they were going to eat it
themselves. They are simply part of a dif
ferent “ball-game”, than the huge meat
packing establishments. (If we may use a
word coined Monday night.)
In a way, we can’t blame our federal
law makers. They were fed a bit of “hog
uash” that attempted to portray the meat
industry as completely corrupt. But, stories
of beef being broken on an open dock, by a
dirt road, in 95-degree weather with flies
and maggots present just doesn't represent
conditions in the meat processing industry.
But in an effort to push a federal meat
inspection law through congress, word went
out to get evidence and that was the kind of
evidence that was obtained. Much of the
evidence was later proven “at least mis
leading and perhaps wholly false”. But the
law is on the books for the individual pro
ducer to live with.
Pennsylvania has a good meat inspec
tion law. Let’s do whatever is necessary at
the federal level to let our inspectors follow
it. With the exemption the state law gives to
little producers retailing meat, we can go
back to producing good quality meat and
meat products in a sensible manner as we
always have been in the past. At least,
that s the way it looks from where we
stand.
Across The Fence Row
Someone has said: “If you have faith
enough in any one idea to hang onto it and
w ork at it, you will either land in jail, in the
headlines, in public office, or in the biggest
house on the block.” Everyone shapes his
own career: He either drifts with the tide
or steers straight for a predetermined land
ing place on the farther shore. The world
stands aside for the man who knows where
he is going, but it crowds the idle dreamer
and the careless drifter into the sidelines.
Every man carries with him the world
in which he must live.
“In a world w'here many accepted
standards of behavior are being challenged,
we must practice as well as defend such
time-honored virtues as integrity, diligence
and professional excellence.” Anthony G
DeLorenzo, Vice President in charge of
Public Relations, General Motors Corpora
tion
Patience is the ability to idle your mo
tor when you feel like stripping your geais.
Really great people net er think of them
seh es as being great and as far as that
goes, really small people neter think of
themselves as being small, either.
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisbuig State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average above normal with
little day to day change Daytime highs are
expected to be in the 70’s and o\er-mght
lows in the 50’s Normal high-low for the
penod is 76-52.
Ram may total greater than one-half
inch as showers or thundei showeis Sunday
thiough Monday
THE KEYS
Lesson for May 18,1969
i«cl|r«uiul Scnpfurr John 537 47, 16 12*15. Acts
•26 35 17 10 12, Jam«s I 22 25
Ephtsions 6 1020.
Multitudes have seen one of
the motion picture versions of
"Mutiny on the Bounty,” Others
have read the novel by Nordhoff
and Hall.
Many may not know that this
nor be aware of
the fascinating
sequel. After the
mutineers sank
their ship, they
set ashore on a
lonely island off
the coast of
South America,
Pitcairn Island.
At first, the nine
sailors, six na-
Rev. AKhouse fives, ten women
and one girl of fifteen lived
peaceably together. In time, how
ever, one of the sailors discovered
how to distill alcohol and the
island soon became - a nightmare
of violence and debauchery.
Dust on the Bible
Only one sailor survived this
tragic incident, Alexander Smith.
In one of the chests that had been
taken from the Bounty he found
a copy of the Bible. Appalled by
what had happened in this island
"paradise,” Smith began to teach
his fellow exiles the principles of
the Bible. In time, not only his
own life was transformed, but the
life of the island colony as well.
This is what can happen when
the Bible is used with, any degree
of determination. But'iFmust be
read! Merely possessing the Bible
is of little value. Someone has
rightly said that "The devil is not
afraid of the Bible that has dust
"on it,” Or as David,-F. Nygren
has put it, “If all the neglected
Bibles were dusted simultane
ously, we would have a record
dust storm and the sun would go
into eclipse for a whole week.”
We have a strange double
standard with the Bible. On the
one hand, most of us believe the
Bible is essential for the Christian.
On the other hand, however.
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To Recognize Forage Matmity er lecommendations is essen-
One of the most important tial Record blanks are available
factois in harvesting top quail- from all custom spray operators
ty hay or silage is to cut the as well as from our Extension
ciop in the piopei stage of ma- Office
tuuty Many pioducers peimit
the fOl age to get too npe and
lose valuable feed mituents
Small grams should be cut in
the blossom to earl\ milk stage
and gi asses cut at heading time
Most legumes will be best when
cut in the bud to eailv blossom
stage An Extension Cncular,
“Silos and Silage will gi\e all
details
To Keep Pesticide Records
This is a vei\ impouant faim
piactice that Im aLaid is not
being done on many iauns An
accurate iccoid o£ the use of all
spiavs and chemicals on both
livestock and aops o ,gnt turn
out to be a hte savei, pi oof that
tne pioctucei followed the piop-
many of us Apparently do not
indicate by our use of it that wo
believe it is essential for usl It. K.
Akers did not much exaggerate
when he said that "There arc ten
men who will fight for the Bible
to one who will read It" Yet,
what God desires for the Bible is
not defenders but readers.
Eager Examination
Many people buy the Bible,
thumb through it, and then put
it aside, wondering why they
didn’t get more out of it. These
could profit much by the example
of the people of Beroea. The
writer of Acts fells us that "they
received the word with all eager*
ness, examining the scriptures
daily to see if these things were
so” (17:11).
John Ruskin once remarked
that "The Bible is the one Book
to which any thoughtful man
may go with any honest question
of life and destiny ayd find the
answer of God by honest
searching." The Beroeans found
the answers to their questions be
cause they pursued them with
"honest searching.” There was an
"eagerness” in their approach to
the Bible. Their approach was
not that of thumbing through the
scriptures, but of carefully "ex
amining” them. They came to the
Bible, not occasionally, but
"daily.” Many of us, unfortu
nately, would like "Beroean” re
sults, but without "Beroean*
efforts.
Doers of the word
There is yet another key to
fruitful Bible study. It is not
enough to grasp its truths with
the mind, we must also make
them incarnate in our lives. "Of
all commentaries upon the
Scriptures.” said John Donne,
"good examples are the best and
liveliest.” If the Bible is ever to
mean anything to us and others,
we must make it come alive in the
way that we live,
"But be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving your
selves” (James 1:22). The scrip
tures, says James, are like a
mirror in which we can see our
selves as we really are. But if we
go away from the mirror and do
nothing about what we see, the
mirror is useless. Only if we act
upon what we learn of ourselves
in Bible, can we'truly under
stand and appropriate its
meaning for us.
(Based on outlines copyrighted ky the Division
ef Christian Education, National Council of the
Churches of Christ m the U. 5. A. Released ky
Community Press Service)
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
Livestock Producers
Many livestock producers with
pasture areas should be giving
some thought to clipping the
pasture in the next few weeks.
Most of the common grasses will
be heading soon and many of
the weeds will be coming into
bloom A mowing during the
latter pait of May will encouiage
new growth of the grasses and
pi event the weeds from going to
seed Any excess first growth of
foiage will diy and be consum
ed by the animals as they gia?e.
Good pastme management le
qmres mowing of the area eveiy
4 to- 6 weeks during the growing
season