4— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 12,1969
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From Where We
Will Fish Be Dead By Then
“Taxes, consumer protection. Tocks Is
land. school troubles and on and on . . .
the poor legislators frankly are besieged
from every side and hardly know where to
turn.
The war, the Pueblo crisis, spy planes
... state and federal problems at home .. .
what a mess it all seems to be.
And yet, the seasons come and go over
the Alleghenies precisely as it has come for
millions of years. The dogwood, little flow
ers. bubbling brooks and the fresh, green
grass spreads o\er the hills. Baby lambs
and calves and colts and love in the air . . .
along with pollution, contamination and
man's inhumanity to man.
And when confronted with all of this,
what can one choose to write about? The
subjects just aren’t compatible, so writing
a little about each does not suffice. Yet,
each is individually so important that none
should be ignored.
Still the world marches on. One can still
enjoy the once-m-a-hfetime experience of
taking your son fishing on his fifth birthday,
,and living through his eyes the excitement
of a minnow, a pair of mallards, a tadpole
and a many-legged worm. And trying to
keep him from going right into the water
while trying to reel in his first fish a
small blue gill caught stealing the worm.
And finishing a perfect day by building a
fire and roasting a weiner. This is the kind
of thing men have been doing for centuries.
And then you begin to wonder. Will this
little blue-eyed boy be able to enjoy these
soul-satisfying experiences with his son? Or
will the fish be dead by then and the
streams choked with pollution? Will man
really make his world unfit to live in? Have
you really looked closely lately?
Maybe July is not the time to talk
about important legislation. Maybe it is a
time for us all to refresh our spirits as na
ture refreshes herself with each new season.
Would it help if we all tried to put the
really important things first? Aren’t clean
streams, clear air, clean streets and ever
clean minds a first order towards getting
ourselves off the collision course with
doom? Are you talking with your friends
and your children about this?” adapted
from writing of William F, Matson, Pa.
REA, in Teamwork.
Same Answer Valid
Sometimes our thinking processes defy
rational explanation. Everyone knows, for
example, that automobiles contaminate the
air as do factories and home incinerators
Yet, no one suggests that factories, automo
biles and home incinerators be abolished.
Instead, they are being subjected to increas
ingly stringent smog and antipollution con
trol. Rather than moving to extinguish these
tools of modern living, efforts are being
made to adapt them to the environment But
Farm News This Week
Plowing Contest Set For July 29 Page 1
Wheat Certificate Payments Set Page 1
Farmers Show Enthusiasm
For Cucumber Cash Crop Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
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Phone. Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
Everett R Newswanger, Editor
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Published every Saturday by Lancaster
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Stand. ..
just let a person driving through the coun
tryside see an airplane spraying or dusting a
food crop to preserve it from disease a
pests very often the reaction is not one of
control but of abolishment despite the fact
that proper use of modern chemicals in ag
riculture is essential to the survival and
welfare of twentieth century society.
The answer to the hazards of conta
mination from such things as pesticides is
the same as the answer to contamination
from industries and automobiles. That ans
wer is research and adequate regulation of
pollution-causing elements. And, make no
mistake, pesticides—agricultural chemicals
—are the key to the future adequacy of our
food supply. With the passage of the years,
these chemicals will become evermore es
sential to the preservation of life.
In 1955, the U.S. population stood at 165
million—2.B acres of arable land per person.
By the year 2000, our population is expected
to approach the 400 million mark—l.l6 acres
per person from which to meet our food
requirements. The needs generated by a
population increase of this magnitude can
be met only through maximum utilization of
every aid including chemicals to food
production. With present technologies, this
is a fact that must be understood and heeded
by everyone.
Don’t Producers
Count Anymore?
There is no need for studies or inves
tigations to explain why taxpayers are on
the edge of revolt. A few paragraphs from
an editorial in the Oceanside, California,
Blade-Tribune—an editorial that recently
was reprinted in the Congressional Record
—tell the story. The Tribune’s editorial ire
was aroused by a proposal of the Secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare to give
cash to the needy rather than to provide
necessities on the theory that this would
“preserve the dignity and freedom of
choice” of the poor.
Says the Tribune, “What about the dig
nity and freedom of the hard-working in
dustrious Americans who are working their
fannies off to pay their taxes so the govern
ment can give it away? Don't we count any
more in America? Or do you have to be
from a broken home or a lazy home or a I
don't-care-at-all home to count?” The tax
payers’ revolt is, in reality, a revolt of the
producers against the demands of the non
producers. The smart politician knows
which side his bread is buttered on. He
should also know who provides the butter.
At least that's the way it looks from
where we stand.
Across The Fence Row
TV statistics are staggering when you
consider that “by the time a five-year-old
child enters kindergarten he has spent more
time learning about life from the family TV
set than the average student in a liberal
arts program spends in a classroom in his
four years of college attendance.” Accord
ing to Parade (March 2), based on an aver
age week of TV programming, “an incident
is enacted every 14 minutes and a killing
every 45 minutes.”
Local Weather Forecast
(Prom the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period Sat
urday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average below normal with
daytime highs m the upper 70’s to low 80's
and overnight lows in the upper 50’s to low
60's. Mild at the beginning of the period and
turning cooler Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ram may total one-fourth to one-half
men as showers and thunder shQ\ye;rs-at the
Beginning oi the week.
WHEN COD SHIS "GO!"
Lesion for July 13,1969
I - - even have asked himself, "Why
feKirwnrf Scripiurr r,.nni> 12.1-9, is, Uii-2ii me?" It Is a good question: why
iM3,u 2! M5.22i5-)?. did God choose Abraham?
D>vati*n«i i p«ier2 4 io. Genesis tells us almost nothing
Someone has said, "I don’t of his character and abilities,
believe in ghosts, but I’m scared Why then his man?
of them just the same.” Other men have asked similar
There is a great difference in questions:
believing in something with our *1 feel God wants me for the
minds and trusting in something Christian ministry, but why
with our whole being. We may me? That’s not my Me!”
■ often say we We really would like to try
"believe” in this to tithe, but I don’t think out
or that, but it family can really afford to do
is only those so this year.”
things in which. believe God needs tc&chcrs
we trust or to and workers in his church, but
which we entrust why me?” ,
ourselves that “Sure I believe the housing
!r- v / really matter. situation is unchristian, but
' ' Believing in God why should I stick my neck
may be one out.”
Rev. Althouse thing; trusting what he sees
in him still another. , , , ,
Perhaps Abraham also asked:
Not knowing where "Why me?” It is an unanswerable
Some people believe in God, question, for no one knows die
but they are afraid to entrust mind of God, Many of God-3
their lives into his hands. Not so choices are a complete mystery
Abraham, according to the to men. God sees potentialities in
writer of Hebrews: men who to us appear to be very
By faith Abraham obeyed mediocre. He gives us his orders
when he was called to go out to on the basis of what he sees in
a place he was to receive as an us, not what we see in ourselves,
inheritance; and he went out, not He who goes forth in faith
knowing where he was to go. into a new land or experience
(Hebrews 11:8) does not go empty-handed. He
Believing in the existance of God is armed by the promises which
will not do. We must trust him God usually makes when he has
enough to set forth without even a job for man to do. Often, like
knowing where he is leading us. Abraham, we'must go forth
Abraham may have been the first armed, not with the certainty of
to go forth "not knowing where,” where God will lead us, but with*
but he was certainly not the last, out knowing where we are to go,
God has needed many pioneers'without any assurance other than'
of faith and we might say that he that God will be with us and
needs within aU of us some of guide us along the way.
that same pioneer faith. For allof When God says "Go!” the men
us at some time'or another are are separated from the boys,
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To Make Proper Spray
Applications
The use of many kinds of
sprays and pesticides is widely
used by many fa* mer= and gard
eners The umpoitance of apply
ing the conect amount at the
proper time is very important
and should not be over-looked.
The theory of applying a little
more to do more good is not rec
ommended Tobacco growers
that are planning to use chemi
cal sucker conti ol are urged to
apply the exact amount that is
recommended m order to get re
sults without decreasing the
quality of their crop
To Work At Good Management
Management s a big word in
all types of busmesi these gkiys
and the fiist three letters of the
word, “man’ js the mo,I impor
tant pait Fa-mers must bt good
managers in oiJer to be success-
qf commerce to tell you what It
was going to be like la a far-off
place like Canaan.
“Why Me?”
That may be why Abraham’s
father got no further than Haran,
even though his original goal
had been distant Canaan. Hcnad
set out from the city of Ur for
Canaan, but for some reason, ha
never got beyond Haran. Now
Abraham felt a call to take hi*
elf n on a long Journey to a new
land he didn’t even know.
Perhaps he wrestled with this
decision for some time. He may
MOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
ful. Getting things done on time,
in the most efficient method,
and keeping accurate records of
all transactions are only part of
the job of management Fanners
are urged to give special empha
sis to improved farm manage
ment is order to have a profit
able farm operation.
TO Seed Cover Crops
Late summer and early fall
are goad times to seed cover
ci ops for plowing down next
spring. Winter gram fields that
are not seeded down may be
disced and sowed to a cover crop
such as ryegiass, field brome
grass, or one of the winter grams
These crops will give some grow
th, and grazing, this fall and pro
duce organic matter to be turned
down next spring Covet crops
add to soil feihlity and help pie
vent both wind and soil erosion,
duung the winter months.