—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 21.1970
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Lancasln Farming urges the Lancaster
'ounty farm community to
ccognition to FFA Week. February 21-28.
\bout 4,"»0.000 FFA members with 9.000
■hapters in 49 states will join in activities
luring FFA week to emphasize the impor
ance of agriculture.
Most actue farmers in the county, we
re sure, hav e been an FFA member, hav e
ons or relatives in FFA or know some
oung men in FFA.
FFA is designed to help develop leader
hip and good citizenship.
FFA Week is observ ed each year during
he week of George Washington’s birthday.
Uthough Washington is usually recognized
is a Revolutionary War general and our
irst president, his first love actually was
arming.
Washington w as one of the first farmers
n the nation to practice contour farming.
Each year at this time, Lancaster Coun
-y farmers are faced with important deci
sions on how to budget their time and re
sources for another growing season.
Should a farmer plant a little less of
one crop and more of another this year?
What are the prices likely to be for crops in
the fall? Is another piece of machinery justi
fied at this time?
It’s answers to questions like these that
help determine what kind of year a farmer
■will have.
Which Crop?
It’s a time of change across the nation
and this is certainly true of farming.
New technology, seed, and farm prac
tices are-making themselves felt. Often it’s
the farmer who adopts more efficient teach
niques first who gams the competitve ad
vantage.
In this area of change, have you, Mr.
Farmer, thought about the crops you grow ?
Are you growing the right crops for your
particular farm and capabilities?
Could you make more money easier by
growing more of one crop and less of an
other? Do you know why you’re growing
the crops you do or it is just a habit?
Take tobacco, for instance. Who would
have thought 10 years ago that there would
be the national crusade now underway
against smoking?
All questions of the rightness or wrong
ness of the government's position in this
matter aside, what effect will it have on
your farm operation? Will it make tobacco
less profitable, or will it have the opposite
impact?
If the government continues its crusade,
which appears likely, can tobacco growers
continue to make money from tobacco? To
most tobacco farmers, this question pro
bably isn’t urgent yet, but we suggest it
might be in future years. It’s the type of
question the prosperous farmer will be on
top of, so that if tobacco growing begins to
lose its profitability for him, he can switch
into other crops which do make him money.
It’s a fact that over the past several
years some farm crops have been declining
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A Salute To FFA
Time To Plan
crop rotation, fertilization and other t,oii
improvement methods.
During FFA Week, vocational agricul
ture students in Garden Spot High School
will have a display case in the school lobby,
present an assembly to the student body,
provide the school cafeteria with FFA nap
kins, and have FFA members wear their
jackets and tie to school for the week.
Speaking on the need to emphasize the
importance of agriculture and FFA, Nelson
E. Weaver, president of the Grassland FFA
said, “We have such an abundance of food
in America that people seem to take farm
ing and agribusiness for granted.”
But we suggest that students at Garden
Spot High School will have a difficult time
taking farming for granted thanks to the
FFA there.
FFA represents the new generation of
Lancaster County farmers. Let’s think
about it during FFA Week.
in importance in Lancaster County while
others have been increasing. There are gen
erally fundamental reasons behind these
changes and the wise farmer is fully aware
of them.
Cucumbers
One particular new crop that has been
striving for recognition here is cucumbers.
It’s probably too early to say just how suc
cessful the venture will be.
One thing for sure, there’s a large cu
cumber market, as you can readily deter
mine by visiting some local grocery stores.
Note the large number and varieties of
them.
But it takes much more than a big mar
ket to make a product successful locally.
Questions to be answered about cucum
bers here include; Will enough farmers take
up the venture to make it economical for
the packing concerns? Can farmers produce
m enough volume at low enough cost to
make them adequately profitable?
Government Subsidies?
In making decisions this year on what
to grow, local farmers might also profitably
consider what not to grow. Specifically, they
might consider the ASDS feed gram and
wheat allotment programs. These programs
basically reward farmers for not growing or
cutting back on their crops, a concept
normally alien to a farmer’s nature.
But purely from a financial view, the
program might be more attractive than
usual to some farmers this year, because of
the general economic conditions surround
ing feed grains and wheat.
For one thing, there have been bumper
crops internationally in recent years, U.S.
grain exports have dropped. Farm sur
pluses are high. As a result, prices for
wheat and feed grains aren’t particularly
good and the federal government is pushing
to cut back on production. Whether or not he
should do so, and, if so, whether he should
do so though the ASDS program is each
farmer’s decision.
The point to be made here is that
if a farmer who's eligible for the pro
grams is considering cutting back, he might
want to talk to Miss Dorothy Neel of the
ASCS about how to get government pay
ments for the cutback. There’s an explana
tion elsewhere in Lancaster Farming about
the wheat and feed gram programs, but we
suggest anyone really interested should con
tact Miss Neel at the Farm and Home Cen
ter or call 397-6235.
Note, however, that while wheat and
feed gram prices haven’t been attractive,
beef, hog and milk prices have been quite
favorable. Some farmers who aren’t im
pressed with wheat and feed gram markets
may still want to grow the products for their
own livestock, rather than buy on the open
market.
Tht day of Iho Lord
Others believed that Jesus was'
tiio ream reeled prophet Elijah,
lie had been one of Israel’s
greatest prophets, had lived and
worked some nine hundred years
before the birth of Jesus, It was.
believed that he had not died, but
had been taken bodily into Heav
cn, to return again to herald ths
restoration of Israel.
Behold, I will send you El’jah tht 1
prophet before the great and ter
rible day of the Lord comet. Amt
he wilt turn the heart! of the fee- j
ledrswmi s«rii>hmi M«tth«w Uii] it*i«h Alt thcrs to their children and tht
hearts of the children to their fa- |
, , .... then, lest he come and smite tht
If you go back over the first lani with a curJ g» (Malachi it i
fifteen chapters of Matthew, you g).
will find that Jesus’s message has still others, the disciples re
been concerned entirely with the ported, thought that Jesus was
coming of God’s kingdom. Jesus Jeremiah the prophet returned
has made no claims for himself as f rom the dead. Perhaps they de»
God’s Son or Messiah. Ho has ap- tectcd the similarities between tha
HBH preached no one messa g e 0 f Jesus and the oracles
saymg, lam the 0 f the gieat prophet of the sev-
Messiah, believe cn th centmy BC. The phrase,
Min me. “one of the piophots,” indicates
We can well that there may have been still
Li “ ' nderstand, others with whom they identified
B that jjjm,
was a great
diversity of opin- What do you say?
It l^Bk» ion as *° w b° he The second part of Jesus’s queS*
p reall y was - Even tion was by far the most impor
«cv. AJinouse the disciples must tant part: “But who do you say
have wondered about his identity, that I am?” It is natural that
Possibly there was even divided Simon Peter was the one who re
opinion among them. plied. He was impulsive and Often 1
THE ULTIMATE TEST
Lesson for February 22, 1970
Whaf do men say?
There came a day, however,
when a great change would take
place. Jesus had taken them out
of Galilee to Caesarea Philippi
where, far from the pressures of
the crowds, they could talk quiet
ly. They may have thought that
this was to be one of Jesus’s peri
odic “breathing spells,” but they
were to find it to be the very cli
max of his Galileean ministry. It
was a day that was to change their
own lives.
Here, for the first time, Jesus can him Messiah;'he is fhat'tod,
would-raise the question of -hiy "but h# is more. No matter-what
identity. First, he asks, “Who do names or titles we use for
men say that the Son of man is?” is always more than we can say,
Whether Jesus is using “Son of about him. •
man” to mean simply “man” or 1 Actually, the most important
“messenger,” we do not know. is not what we say about
The disciples answer his question* bim, but what we do. Jesus him
listing four different people with self P ut it: “ If an y man would
whom he is identified by others come after me > let him deny him-
Some think he is John the Bap- self and take U P his cross and fol ’
tist returned from the dead Both low me -” That is alwa y s the ulti-
Jesus and John devoted * their niate test.
message to the coming of God’s
kingdom and the tipppcqih, 4v,r- M on ««p»nVihJ ty ft* DiVis?**
me necessity tor re- ,t Chmli.n EJut.h.n, National Council of th*
pentant preparation to enter it. ©f chns» m h»c u, s, a. by
Community Frtss Strvtcfc)
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To Be Sure About Pesticides
The use of spray materials on
all types of plant and animal life
warrants very close supeivision.
Some materials have been with
drawn from use, while others
will carry definite labels regard
ing application Property owners
and all feed and food pioducers
are urged to follow the changes
carefully and be certain the pio
per materials are used
To Expand Cautiously
The trend on many farms
throughout the countiy is to ex
pand the size of tne entei prise.
In some cases this is veiy much
m order and larger net returns
are realized. However, without
good management, mistakes can
cost the farmer serious losses.
To increase the volume of busi-
seemed to speak for the others.
"You are the Christ, the Son of
the living God,” he replied.
The word “Christ” (Christos ini
Greek) means Messiah, or “the
annotated one.” He also calls Je
sus the “son of the living God."
This means that he is saying that
Jesus is actually more than Mes
siah, that in some way, he pos
sesses God’s own divine nature. '
Human titles and
seem to fail us when we approach
Jesus. If we call him Saviour, he
is that but he is also more. If we
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
ness certainly does not insure
greater piofits. The use of lin
ear programming of the farm
business is one scientific way to
approach this decision; it has
helped many farmers and should
be of value to many moie.
To Plan For Alfalfa Seeding
The seeding of alfalfa early; in
the spang without any nurse
ci op is xecommended Many
fanners have obtained success
ful stands The band seeding
method should be used iust as
soon as the giound can be pre
pared The aiea should be spray
ed for weeds in order to keep
down the competition. If an lad
ditional field of alfalfa is need
ed, we suggest the straight
spring seeding.