Lancaster Farming. Saturday*. October 4.1969
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From Where We
Now Credit Cards
In The Food Store
Easier credit, a stimulant to other
blanches oi totalling. is now being intro
cuced in food stores. Would \ou behcnc it 0
In Xew Voik. a 4b store chain is reported to
t.ave began accepting ciedit cards. The\
sa> business is booming but nothing is re
torted on the number ot bad accounts
Credit card companies aie happe. of
.use. since the\ sec a chance to ciack the
u.*i billion ciollai cash-and carrt food
'•ore- Held Other stores aie e\ptiimcnling
‘r. :rc idea dcuss the countrv
Mime that it the piactice become
.c.t'Diead it could possible bate an ct-
on cur'.iiintr attitude:? about food
i.' ces One leason hunitmakeis ate -up
v.i;ec: to comolain mote about food puce-;
■nan othei onces is because tood is one of
*ne tew "cash" item-. they rmu-t pui chase
n the current "charge-it" economy
It ma; help clarify food puces in the
homemakers mind if the month-end state
ment showed how much of the bill was for
tood and how much was for the growing
olume of non-food items she buys at the
grocery store That's true and if it is good
tor farmers helps them get a more fair
return for their labor and imestment. we
guess were for it It's just that credit buy
ing always seems to make people spend
more than they make and any savings that
might be passed on to the buyer or the
larmer always seems to end up in the credit
company’s pocket for bookkeeping and bad
credit risks
tc*
Maybe we’re old fashioned, but it still
seems better to buy perishables on a cash
basis. At least that's the way it looks from
where we stand.
A Step Toward
Independence
1 Everyone kicks about big goiernment.
But, no one seems to be able to do anything
about it Government, like Topsy, just
grows. And, as government grows, freedom
diminishes However, the near maxim that
the trend toward bigger and bigger govern
ment is inevitable and irreversible could
possibly turn out to be a fallacy. The largest
farm organization in the country, the
American Farm Bureau Federation, repre
senting well over a million U.S farm fami
lies, who have endured more than 30 years
of government subsidies and controls, now
supports federal legislation aimed at gradu
ally unshackling agriculture from govern
mental domination.
Businesses, professions and other
I groups hai e been follow mg the path of ag
riculture toward big government domina
■*ion may one day look upon the present ac
tion of the Farm Bureau as both a turning
point and a guide in the endless struggle to
preserve independence The Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1969. which is strongly
supported by the Farm Bureau, is a careful
iy thought-out program tnat will gradually
restore free market principles to agricul
tural operation Under it, as Mr Charles
B. Shuman, president of the Farm Bureau,
points out. “the transition to the market
system would be gradual Substantial pay
ments would be made during the transition
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LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
■P. O. Box 260 - Lititz, Pa 17543
Office: 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543
Phone: Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
jJverett 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.
ussy SJo;tp3 uubj jadedsAiaM jo jaquiaj^
Stand. ..
period to help farmers make iu c dee! adjust
ments. . . At the end of the proposed phase
out of acreage allotments, marketing quo
tas. base acreages, certificates and govern
ment payments . . . each producer would be
free to . . . make the best uses of his re
sources in the light of the market outlook.
Thus, the way would be clear for farmers to
earn and get higher incomes in the market
place."
With this kind ot citizen leadership, it
ma\ proie possible to li\c with relatnelv
"big go\ eminent" and presene our liber
ties at the same time
Across The Fence Row
One da.\ through the primo\al wood
A caif walked home, as good cahes should
But made a trail all bent askew.
A ciooked trail, as all cahes do.
Since then 200 \ears ha\e fled.
And. I infer, the calf is dead
But still he left behind his trail.
And thereby hangs m\ moral tale.
The trail was taken up next day
B\ a lone dog that passed that wa\ ;
And then a wise bellwether sheep
Pursued the trail o'er \ale and steep,
And drew the flock behind him too.
As good belhvethers ahvajs do.
And from that day, o'er hill and glade.
Through those old woods a path was made.
And many men wound in and out,
And dodged and turned and bent about.
And uttered w’ords of righteous wrath.
Because 'twas such a crooked path:
But still they followed —do not laugh—
The first migrations of that calf.
And through this winding wood-way stalked
Because he wabbled when he walked.
This forest path became a lane,
That bent and turned and turned again;
This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse, with his load.
Toiled on beneath the burning sun.
And traveled some three miles in one.
And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
The years passed on m switfness fleet,
The road became a village street,
And this, before men were aware,
A city’s crowded throughfare,
And soon the central street was this
Of a renowned metropolis.
And men tw o centuries and a half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zigzag calf about;
And o’er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead.
They followed still his crooked way,
And lost 100 years a daj .
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.
A moral lesson this might teach.
Were I ordained and called to preach
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf-paths of the mind
And work away from sun to sun
To do wnat othei men have done
They follow in the beaten track.
And out and in. and forth and back,
And still their devious course pursue.
To keep the path that others do
The Calf-Path, by Samuel Foss
Hoard’s Dairyman
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 70’s and over-night
lows in the 50’s. Seasonable at the begin
ning of the period with a slow warming
trend thereafter.
■Rain may total less than one-fourth inch
as widely scattered showers near the end
of the period.
Viet NajtfTiWhtf’wie trago cm«
land under British edlotalnl rul*
has been gcriynaqjlciiMl into tha
hostile nations of India and
Pakistan. On Formosa, Nation,
alist Chinese under Chlang Kai*
shek look across the waters to
the Chinese mainland under the
Communist government of
Peking. These people too are
moved to muse; "If 0n1y,,, ,*]
Changes to be made
There were times in the history
of the Hebrew people when men
looked at the divided kingdoms
of Judah and Israclandbroodcd:
"If only, • . .I’’ The great united
kingdom forged by the genius of
King David barely survived ths
rule of his son, Solomon. At the
, , , . death of Solomon the great
Several years ago I stood in Davidian kingdom was split
a Thuringian evergreen forest apart, never to be united again,
and looked across the Iron Cur- what caused this terrible di
ta:n‘s "no-man's-land’ into East vision.’ Pictiue the scene. The time
Germany. In an inappropriately ; s t h e vear 922 8.C., almost a
Lght-heancd mood, I and several thousand jears before the birth
olner Americans wav ed smilingly 0 f Christ. The place is Sheer, cm
at two East where Solomon's son, Rehobor.m,
German border j s t 0 meet with the leaders of*he
guards staring tribes of Israel and be crowned
at rom a king succeed his father. When
watchtower a he arrives there, however, he finds
hundred yards that the people want some
awa J* a, . < r? ur ‘ changes to be made before they
aged that they w’ill commit themselves tohisrule.
had waved back. Your father made our voke
£ iri j 6d ro s l heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the
Bait Alfhn.icA “order and, hard service of your father and
* 7 , stll * •ifngkn’gi his heavy yoke upon us, and we
started back through the forest. wi ]i serV e you (1 Kings 12:4).
The dividing line In order that Solomon might
ine Divining line accomplish his egotistical
Minutes later, two shots rang building projects, he had heavily
out through the branches above taxed his people and subjected
us. In a moment, the apparent many to slave labor. While the
peace of the forest was broken people suffered under this great
agam by excited West German burden, Solomon and his seven
border guards and U.S. Army hundred wives and three hundred
pateols. In response to our in- concubines lived in luxurious
credulous questions, we were told onlendnri
that, just after we had turned p
from the border, two rifle shots Wrong advice!
? ad keen fhecl in our direction The request which the people
r rC w,tp,? wu • As made on Kehoboam, then, seemed
I looked back toward the mine- to be a reasonable one. Yet, after
°S 016 three days to think it over,
border, fte dividing Imebetween Rehoboam followed the bad
the two Germanys seemed much advice of those who told him to
more ominous than it had a few ignore these demands and
before. It occurred to violently assert his authority. The
me that one ought not to be light- result; the united monarchy is
terrible 6 a barrier. ° f S ° ™ to two irreconcilable
I have seen men and women AnH fhp
Heal king this division as the con- ' only ’ * * ,!
sequence of Nazi leadership, I . , ......
bavp Tiparr) fhpm «irc« Hm Ja„ on aulnn« co,y njMoJfc*
nave nearct ujem_ curse me nay of Omum, Education, National Coined w th«
me seeds of division were sown, churchy •« chnst in u. s. a by
Today, how many Germans think c * m ' T,unit y **«*= Setvieej.
back to those days when the
Fatherland was one nation and
(F ONLY,...
Lesson for October 5,1969
Swi|rMiMlScrvlurc I K'-g s 12 If'c.g’t 16.
Dav'ierml Rrading Prcvc bj 16 12 20.
Attend The Chord. Of
BiShaiS Your Choice Sodoy
■lostile camps. Another line bisects
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To Apply Lime
Winter gram fields that are to
be seeded 1o a legume next
spring or summer should be lim
ed this fall, if they need it. The
practice of working the lime in
to the soil as the ground is being
prepared for the grain seeding is
a good one and will give the lime
time to sweeten the soil. The
practice of spreading the lime
on top of the winter gram this
fall or winter is not a good one
and does not allow the mabamum
use of the lime Allow time for
the lime to function befoie the
legume seeding is made.
To Improve Calf
__ Raising Practices _
The raising of a heifer calf for
a herd replacement is a very im
portant factoi m the future of
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
the herd Tnese young calves
need special quarters that are
warm, dry, free of drafts, and
provide a good chance for max
imum development the first year.
Individual calf pens and special
care is needed to properly devel
op the calves from the many
good cows in this area.
To Utilize Corn Fodder
Many livestock producers are
short of bedding for their ani
mals. Since we' have a very rank
corn crqp, it is possible, for com
that-has been picked to -be the
source of many tons o| good
bedding The stalks can be shred
ed, dried./ and then baled for use
later in the winter. "Shredded
corn fodder is one* of the most
absorbable of the many forms of
bedding.