—I., master Farming. Saturday. June 28.1969
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From Where We Stand ...
T ruth-In-Lending
The new muli-in-lcndine. law goes into
efk'c t iu\t Tuesdaj as loportcd on Page 1
ot thi'' issue Though it doesn't raise or
lowei what jou will be paying for borrowed
mone\ or other credit, it does gn e you as an
individual a break in that it forces the lend
er to tell jou the total amount you have to
pa% loi his monej. It also requires him to
add main of the i elated costs and service
chai aes to the interest cost and express the
total in an annual percentage figure.
For example if a companj charges you
I’j poicent per month for jour unpaid bills,
it w ill now be required to tell jou in writing
that iht jearh rate figured at that rate is
italic 18 percent per j ear. This is not to say
the companj is not justified in charging for
then tumble it jou don't pay jour bills on
time It is simplj to saj thej must tell you
thej ate doing it.
Oi it a bank or loan company lends you
monec. thev must now express their total
cost-.—inteiest. sen ice charges, etc.—m
terms of a jearlj T percentage.
As with any new federal law some
points oi interpretation will probably need
to be soh ed by a court test case. And some
faimers maj become disgusted with all the
fact figures that will be included on their
ci edit reports.
Franklj. we think the new law wall
make better credit managers out of farm
ers One thing is sure. If jou need and are
using credit land who isn’t?), this new law
veil! make it much easier to compare actual
credit costs from all the v anous sources and
use these comparisons to obtain credit at
the lowest possible rate.
At least that's the way it looks from
where we stand.
Be Careful Around
Manure Pits
Two men recently died accidentally in
a dairy manure storage tank in Alberta,
Canada. One man had gone into the almost
empty tank to retrieve the scrape-in safety
grill.
He was overcome, and two rescuers,
who tried to get him out, were overcome
also A fourth man managed to rescue them
by holding his breath while in the pit. Two of
the men were dead by the time their bodies
were retrieved. The third recovered.
With manure pits so common now,
farmers may not realize the danger really
involved in the gases produced in a manure
pit Sometime ago a County farmer started
the mixing process in his swine pen pit and
some of the piglets were overcome by the
fumes. It's serious business working around
a manure pit So serious that a breathing ap-
Farm News This Week
Local Survey Shows Increase
In Farm Loans Page 1
Farmers To Know Credit
Costs By New Lending Law Page 1
Potato Growers Vote No
On Self-Assessment Plan Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
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paratus similar to that used by underwater
scuba di\ ers is recommended whoney er you
must enter a liquid manure pit.
It is the only sate way to work in a tank.
e\en if it is just for a short time. At least
that’s the way it looks from where we
stand.
State Product Push
Boost Supermarket Sales
Some people will tell you Mrs. Consum
er doesn’t care where a food product comes
from just so long as quality is good and the
price right. She doesn’t care whether it
comes from one state or another.
Well, that isn't necessarily so. Eudence
continues to mount that Pennsylvania con
sumers ha\ e a certain pride in their state.
Call jt loyalty, if you want. Whatever it is.
they w ill go out of their w ay to buy Pennsyl
\ania grown fresh or processed food—when
the fact is called to their attention.
Recently. Market Horizons told how
George Semic. operator of the Bouleiard
Market, near Harrisburg, has built his busi
ness on this very concept.
Now we can report how this kind of
promotion is paying off for the Super Thrift
market in Paxtang. In recent weeks, Super
Thrift has increased sales by as much as
350 percent pushing the Pennsylvania con
cept.
The whole thing started when Ken Gard
ner, product manager, attended the Penn
sylvania Farm Show and saw state products
on display—and attracting considerable at
tention. He decided he could get similar at
tention in the store by promoting state pro
ducts. Store Manager Bob Laudermilch
agreed.
First promotion was on fresh Pennsyl
vania potatoes. In a week’s time potato
sales increased 40 percent.
Next came a promotion on honey. In a
special display, attention was called to the
fact that the honey was Pennsylvania pro
duced and was good enough to be sold
around the world. Honey in all its forms
was featured, including the new fruit-honey
spreads recently developed at Penn State.
Sales doubled.
Gardner moved on to apples. Here he
really hit the jackpot. Sales increased 350
percent during the promotion period.
It shows Mrs. Consumer does care where
a product comes from, especially when it
comes from Pennsylvania. The Keystone.
Across The Fence Row
Sen. Mike Mansfield, Montana Demo
crat, opposing any new punitive legislation
against students but urging college admin
istrators to test existing authority to cut off
Federal aid to militant students: “They
must remember they all are transients pass
ing through permanent institutions which
must survive.”
Troubles are a lot like distant hills
they level out as you reach them.
Among the many things that men have
forgotten, the most surprising is that they
have forgotten that they are living on a tiny
hunk of rock floating thru immense space
from an unknown into an unknown.
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 above normal with
daytime highs in the low to mid 80’s and
oi er-mght low s in the low to mid 60’s. Much
w-armer Saturday with temperatures mod
erating slightly the remainder ot the period.
Normal high-low' for the period is 87-58.
Ram may total one-half inch or more as
show ers over the Western sections Saturday
and more generally the beginning of next
week.
A HUIIR OF "BOTH"
Lesson for June 29,1969
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Devotional Reading 1 3 a i 5 3 1 14
There is a conflict withinChris
tianitv, which, I suppose, never
goes ‘away. It is the conflict be
tween those who sav that the
mission of the church is to save
individual souls and those who
sav it is to redeem the collective
soul of society.
In its oversimpli
fied form, it is a
battle between
personal and
corporate salva
tion. One group
ignores a man’s
relationships
with others and
society; the
Rev. Althouse other ignores a
man’s inner condition.
Frequently I am asked by
overzealous devotees of either
of these approaches to indicate
with which of these two alter
natives I identify myself. Am I
committed to saving men’s souls
or to changing society? My re
sponse is always this: I am com
mitted to both, because, as I
read the Bible, this is the scrip
tural perspective.
Which comes first?
Just as we saw that the Bible
is intended for both personal
and corporate use, so its mes
sage has both personal and
corporate implications. The Bible
speaks of changing individuals,
but it also speaks of changing
society too. And there does not
seem to be any priority as to
which comes first. It is erroneous
to say that when we have first
changed the hearts of people,
then we will have changed
society. Sometimes the in
dividual’s heart is changed when
we have first challenged him with
a changed social order. It is not
a matter, then, of which comes
first, for both do.
The Bible deals with in
dividuals, but it sees men as John
Donne saw them: "No man is an
island, entire of itself.” An in
dividual man is always involved
in relationships with other in
dividuals and groups. He does
To Utilize Straw
On many local farms the prac
tice is to combine the winter
grain but leave the straw in the
field This practice is sound if the
owner has no use for the stiaw,
however, many daily and live
stock producers are short of
straw most of the winter and
spring season and it seems logi
cal to me that the straw from
both barley and wheat could be
put thiough the barns and still
letumed to the soil to help main
tain fertility Improve livestock
sanitation mayi be attained
thiough the use of home-grown
stiaw foi bedding
To Prepare For Alfalta Seeding
If an August seeding of alfalfa
is to be made, plans should now
be made for the soil test and foi
getting the giound read’. Sum
mei seedings lequire a firm seed
bced that is fiee of weeds and
not live In a vacuum, but In re
lationship. Tnercforc, you can
hardly speak to his soul without
saung sometuing about his re
lationship to society. When Cain
protested to God, f Am I my
brother’s keeper'.’’, the answer
was painfully ob\ ious; he did
have a responsibility to the life
and well-being of his brother.
Holiness and justice
The Bible speaks, then, ofboth
personal holiness and corporate
righteousness. Nowhere is this
better stated than in Amos 5:2-4,
• Let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever
flowing stream.” Micah also
made the same point: And what
docs the Lord require of you but
to do justice, and to love kind
ness, and to walk humbly with
jour God” (6:3). Isaiah also
spoke of this corporate re
sponsibility; ' Seek justice, correct
oppression, defend the fatherless,
plead for the widow” (1:17).
Nor was Jesus any less aware
of tins tw o-fold perspective. When.
Nicodemus came to him. Jesus
gave him a very personal
message; he must be born again
within his own soul. Yet, in his
own snyagogue at Nazareth,
Jesus prescribed a social re
sponse: "... he has annotated
me to preach good news to the
poor. He has sent me to proclaim
release to the captives and re
covering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty those who are op
pressed” (Luke 4:18).
People and Structures
Theologian Retahold Niebuhr
has written that, "The moral
quality of a community is partly
determined by the integrity and
the moral concern of the individ
uals who comprise it; but it is
also determined by that actual
structures and systems through
which its economic, social, and
political life is ordered.” (Quoted
in Courage To Change by June
Bingham, Charles Scribner’s
Sons, N.Y., 1961).
Jesus condemned both individ
uals and social structures. He
criticized the scribes and
pharisees, both individually and
as a group. He condemned
hypocrisy and religious ex
ploitation in the nation, and he
also drove the money-changer*
out of the temple. It must be
with us as it was with him: both
personal and social.
(Basad an autlmas caayrrshfaJ by Iha Dryitsan
af Christian ESucahan, Nahanal Cavncib-al Ilia
Churchas af Christ in tfia U* & A. Mmml by
Cammumty Prats Sarvica.)
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
on that has had lime and fertiliz
er woiked in according to test.
As soon as the winter grain is
harvested the ground should be
prepared so there would be
several weeks to get nd of the
weeds and to get a solid seedbed;
the first week in August should
be the seeding time.
To Practice Chemical Safety
The use of many types of
chemicals and pesticides is com
mon on most faims and gardens.
Gioweis are urged to follow the
label mstiuctions in oidei to gel
best icsults Also, the safe stoi
age of the materials and com
plete disposal of old container
-3 very essential Childien and
livestock should not have access
to these mateuals Oui local
pi ess often carries news of cate
less handling of these items and
tiagedy often results. Be sure
and be safe with all pesticides.