Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 13.1969
From Where We
Hint Of The End
Of Summer
The weather has been a bit “fallish**
this week giung us a sense of what time of
year it is again. Early risers on the farm
don’t need the calendar to tell them that
autumn is here. The official date of its arri
val isn't until September 23 but the cool,
crisp mornings and the foliage and trees
that show' tints of color herald the coming
event already.
The corn is starting to dry on the bot
tom lea\ es as the ears start to dent. Every -
where you go. silo fillers are working full
time to get the abundant crop where it be
longs.
And the County tobacco crop is fast
being hung in the sheds after a halt in cut
ting for needed rams last week It is a heavy
crop, farmers say.
Some early fall seeding has been done
won picturesque fields of newly started al
*s.!:a getting the moisture boost needed.
It. the gardens, the tomatoes are start
ing to show tne end of bearing, red beets
are bulging their bottoms above ground and
tne celery is getting ready for the trench.
Which means a hint of the end of the grow
ing season is in the air and that is the signal
for the start of the local fairs. So, we'll see
\ ou at Solanco next week.
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
Time For Farm Freedom
The American Farm Bureau Federa
tion with nearly 1.8 million member farm
families has set its course for gradual eli
mination of federal management of agricul
ture. The goal is to free farmers from the
red tape, regulation and political market
manipulation that have consistently been
part of federal agricultural programs.
’ In a statement before the House Agri
culture Committee, Mr. Charles B. Shuman,
-president of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, has urged Congress to enact “a
broad-based program to help individual
farmers make needed adjustments, in
crease prices, expand markets, cut costs
and thus provide the basis for increased net
farm income. . . . Despite the expenditure
of billions of dollars, farm problems have
not been solved, and farmers have not
achieved a satisfactory level of net farm in
come. . . . New legislation should be enact
ed this year so that farmers can plan ahead.
The hour is already late.”
The proposed legislation supported by
the Farm Bureau over a five-year period,
provides for an acreage retirement pro
gram to adjust the supply of farm products
to the demands of the free, competitive
marketplace. Acreage allotments and the
costly price support system would be with-
Farm News This Week
Fairs Start In County Next Week Page 1
Stauffer Homestead Farm
Rooted In Local History Page 1
ASC Election Ballots Mailed Page 1
Miss Royer Selected State 4-H
Winner In Veterinary Science Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
P. 0. Box 268 - Lititz, Pa 17543
Office: 22 E. Main 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 Postage paid at Lititz, Pa.
17543
Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn.
Stand ...
drawn. Among other practical approaches,
help would be a\ailable for farmers un
able to make a living in agriculture and in
need of training and financial assistance to
get established in something else.
The agricultural resources of the United
States are too Mtal to be left saddled with
the rigidities and uncertainties of federal
farm programs too often governed by poli
tical necessity rather than economics. Agri
culture. considering the failure of past farm
programs, should be given the freedom to
take a new direction in running its own af
fairs.
Up To The People
A new fiscal breeze is blowing through
the land and evidence of its impact is seen
in the report that the federal budget, after
eight years of red ink, ended fiscal 1969 with
a surplus of more than $3 billion. This is a
sharp reversal from fiscal year 1968, when
the federal government recorded a budget
deficit of $25.2 billion.
It remains to be seen whether any long
term control of federal spending levels will
be politically possible. The brakes are on;
they are being felt and not always with
pleasure by those who are affected. Con
trolling inflation means such things as high
interest rates and difficulty in financing
home buying. It means greater resistance
to costly settlements in labor negotiations.
It means the slowing of business expansion
and, finally, even though 1970 is a congres
sional election year, it means restraint in
expansion of federal programs and services
in which millions of people, who are also
voters, have a vested interest.
Only the people of the United States, by
their patience, understanding and support
of control and common sense in federal
spending policies can assure that a few
years from now the dollar will still be worth
somewhat more than the paper it is printed
on.
Across The Fence Row
Today’s youth are more sophisticated.
If Booth Tarkington were to write “Seven
teen” today, he would have to call it
“Twelve.” Union Register, Ore.
Heard at the coffee table: “My wife
may not be a good driver, but when it
comes to parking, she does a bang-up job.”
Holden Progress, Holden, Mo.
Somehow, newspaper editors wind up
on the mailing lists of a wide variety of free
papers ahd publications and things. We re
ceived a note from one of them the other
day: “Because of the increased cost of
printing and mailing, taxes and inflation,
this publication comes to you twice as free
as it used to.” Paris News, Paris, Tex.
First Salesman: What do you sell?
Second Salesman: Salt.
First Salesman- Why, I’m a salt seller,
too.
Second Salesman. Shake!
Real Estate Prospect. “Good Heavens!
That’s a tumbled-down looking shack.
WHAT’S holding it together?’ 'Agent: “The
termites are holding hands.”
Local Weather Forecast
<From the IJ. 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
high’s in the low 80’s. A warm trend is ex
pected Saturday through Monday and then
turning cooler at the end of the period.
Rain may total one-fourth to one-half
inch as scatteied showers Tuesday and
Wednesday.
OUTWARB APPEARANCE
Lesson for September 14,1969
leckereund Scripture: 1 Samuel 16 16 1*16.24;
2 Samuel 1 1 16 2 Ml 5 112 6 15,1215.
Devehenel Reeding: I Samuel 16 6*13.
On the day that President
Abraham Lincoln stood among
the graves on Cemetary Hill and
delivered what we know today as
the Gettysburg Address, a news
- editor from Harrisburg,
the audience and
' put away his
notepad when
the awkward
looking chief ex
ecutive began to
speak. There
would be no
need, he mused,
to record these
words.
Returning to
Rev. Althouse Harrisburg, he
wrote his story, paying lavish
praise to the other speakers. Of
Lincoln, he wrote: "We pass over
the silly remarks of the President;
for the credit of the nation, we are
willing that the veil of oblivion
shall be dropped over them and
that they shall no more be re
peated or thought of.”
Looking the part
Like so many of Lincoln’s con
temporaries, the editor had
judged him on the basis of his
appearance which was hardly at
tractive. His face might be
generously described as "homely”
and his whole stance and bearing
had an air of awkwardness that
seemed more in keeping with the
"backwoods” of the frontier from
which he had come. Lincoln did
not "look the part” of a
let alone a great President.
Yet, often we find that a man
does not have to "look the part.”
Long before David had become
king of Israel, God had warned
Saul concerning him: "Do not
look upon his appearance or the
height of his stature ... for the
Lord sees not as man sees; man
looks on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks on the heart”
(1 Samuel 16:7).
Apparently David was not
nearly so impressive-looking as
Saul. David, it seems, was quite
short in stature, while Saul was
Try A Classified Ad It Pays!
To Do Testing
The value of both soil and for
bi more farmers each year At
this time of the year both soil
sample and samples of hay and
silage may be tested with eco
nomical results. Fall is a good
time to find out the lime and fer
tilizer needs of the soil so that
proper purchases may be made.
Also as the hay and silage crops
are stored, and the winter feed
program is planned, it is to the
advantage of both dairymen and
livestock feeders to know the
leal feeding value of their crops.
Testing does not cost the pro
ducer, it usuallv pays him.
To Sow Cover Crops
Fall is a good time to seed
open ground to a cover ciop un
til next spring Crops such as
domestic ryegrass, field brome
grass, or one of the winter gi^ms
SlkffiyW"SSv’ld did not
look the part of either warrior or
monarch. Yet God chow David
to replace Saul for reasons of his
own wisdom. In time, however,
the people realized that Saul was
not nearly the leader that David
was. What was the reason for
David’s success, they wondered?
The answer: his commitment to
God and the covenant
An ambitious program
At the death of Saul, therefore,
the people began toloOktoDavid.
First the southern tribes sought
him out and established him as
their leader. For seven and one
half years he ruled the tribes of
Judah from Hebron, a hill town
about twenty miles southwest of
Jerusalem. During this period the
northern tribes or Israel watched
him and gradually were won
over to him. Finally, a delegation
of Israelites came to him at
Hebron and asked him to be
their king as well. The man who
had not "looked the part” made
the twelve tribes one nation!
For the first time, then, the
people of the various tribes were
seeing themselves as one people
under God. The reason for their
unity would not lie in their
similarities (for each tribe had
unique characteristics and
heritage), nor in their common
geography (for the north and
south were geographically
unalike), nor in their mutual de
pendence (the northerners did not
really need their cousins in the
south); rather, their unity could
be traced to one factor alone: the
one God desired them to be his
people!
Inconspicuous, but...
When he had made fab cov
enant with the people at Hebron,
David set about to begin a three
point program: (I) to unify the
tribes of north and south into one
nation; (2) to capture (lie city of
Jerusalem and make if the central
capital of the new nation; (3) to
establish amicable relationships
of mutual respect with
neighboring nations. R was an
ambitious program, but this in
conspicuous-looking man with the
help of God accomplished all this
and more.
Let us remember that when
next we look only "on the outward
appearance.”
(B«sW «n outlinec cepyrifchfcd-lty Ihu INvts?«n
•f Christum- Erfocehen, NcScihA Cowicit V !h*
Church** of Christ In the U, S k K Ratoned by
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NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
will make considerable growth
this fall, which may he used for
pastuie, and then the new grow
th of next spring may be plowed
under for additional organic mat
ter. Good management suggests
that all ground go through the
winter with some type of a veg
etative cover.
To Pack Silage
'Producers feeding from one of
the horizontal or french silos
are reminded of the value of
chopping the forage fine and
packing it tightly. Good manage
ment is very important in handl
ing a horizontal silo if spoilage
is to be kept to a minimum A
heavy tractor in the silo during
the filling process will press out
the air and prevent serious settl
ing. The silage should be tightly
covered within 48 hours after
filling.