4—Lancaster Farming. Saturd
The Omelet or
The World’s Omelet King is coming to
Lancaster County Tuesday to show people
how to prepare an egg for enjoyable eating.
Sound a little foolish? We think we hear
some of our friends (the Missouri type,
"show me”) saying something like this:
"Ah. come on. now! You mean to tell me
people don't know how to fry an egg!”
In large part, that's just what the Ome
let King's trip to Lancaster County is all
about, to show people how to cook an egg.
Of course, there's the hoped for publi
city to draw attention to the egg industry.
The idea is that if people get to thinking
more about eggs, they'll probably buy and
consume more eggs.
But underlying the Omelet King’s trip
is also the goal of teaching people how to
orepare the egg.
It’s a \ery basic concept in the new
Consumer Age that consumers w ill buy any
thing once, but they only buy what they
like the second time around.
Housewife Must Like It
For the egg producer, this means that
getting the egg produced and getting it to
the market is only part of the job If the
oroducer hopes to stay m business, it’s also
lecessary that the consumer like the egg
and keep coming back lor more.
And to keep the consumer coming back,
it's necessary that the egg is liked. There’s
plenty of competing products for the con
sumer's attention, so the product must be
not only good, but better than the competi
tion in the eyes of the consumer. The egg
must stay better than all the thousands of
existing products already on the market
and all the thousands of new products w'hich
are going to continually come on the mar
ket.
Farmers know they can and do produce
good eggs But all their effort is lost if
Mrs Housewife doesn’t do a good job with
ihe egg in the kitchen.
The Urban Generation
Sound impossible that house\u\es can't
cook an egg 9 Maybe, if we’re talking about
larm wives. but what about this new gen
eration of uiban housewives 7
Remember that the U S farm popula
tion. according to the latest USDA informa
tion, has just dropped from six to five per
cent of the U S total
Of the lemainmg 95 per cent, a i da
tively small percentage once lived on the
Watch Fertilizer Results
Now is the time of year for farmers to
take a close look at their corn and othei
crops to determine whether the spring fer
tilizer supplied sufficient nutrients for the
crop.
While it s too late to change this y ear s
fertilizer practices, diagnosing the prob
lems this year can give the farmer a chance
to make improvements next year.
As we have said before, the fertilizer
program should be based on a soil test for
best results. Soil tests can be made inex
pensively through the county extension of
fice, Farm and Home Center.
This combination of observation in the
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
P 0. Box 266 - Lititz Pa 17543
Office 22 E Main St. Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626 2191
Robert G Campbell Adveitising Director
Zane Wilson Managing Editor
Subscription ni ice S 2 per year in Lancaster
County. S 3 elsewheie
Established Xovembei 4, 1955
Published every Satuiday by Lancaster
Farming Lititz, Pa
Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa.
17543
Member of Newspaper Faim Editors Assn
Pa. Newspaper Publisheis Association, and
National Newspaper Association
lay. August 22.1970
Which Comes First:
the Consumer?
farm. But for the great majority of Ameri
cans, the farm is something they see from
the highway. Animals except for clogs and
cals, are something they see in the fields or
in pictures.
The growing non-farm population is
less and less familiar with the farm, its
people, its problems, its needs, goals, pro
duct.
Where does an egg come from. Too
simple to think about, thinks the farmer,
but the farmer must be aware that it’s a
question surprisingly large numbers of ur
ban youths can’t answer. Many of them
don’t know where milk comes from, either.
Their Numbers Grow
The proportion of people not knowing
the most basic things about farm life and
farm production is growing and will con
tinue to grow.
The urban ignorance includes a black
out on the huge effort that goes into mak
ing a top-notch product and continually im
proving it. As this awareness declines, the
farmer’s markets also are put in danger.
The consumer who doesn't know about the
egg or its producers is a consumer who can
be easily turned to other products.
If it is further realized that the modern
trend to ease and comfort causes loss of
the cooking art in general and that decreas
ing awareness of the farm and farm pro
ducts causes loss of the egg cooking art
in particular, the reason for the steady de
cline in per capita egg consumption be
comes understandable, not acceptable, but
understandable.
The plain truth is that our urban friends
don’t know what a good egg is. much less
how to prepare one.
To Educate Urbanites
With the cooperation of the Pennsyl
vania Poultry Federation and Lancaster
County Poultry Association, the World Ome
let King has nghtully seen fit to come here
to educate our urban friends on the egg.
And while he’s here, it might be a good
idea for us farmers to pay attention so we
can carry on the work after he leaves The
ignorance of the growing urban populations
about the good life on the farm is growing
in leaps and bounds and out of a sense
of duty and self-interest, we ought to be
come educators.
At least enough to make sure they know
a good egg when they eat it.
Held and soil test will gne the farmer a
reliable picture of his soil’s productive ca
pacity
With fertilizer as with many other as
pects of farming, an important key to suc
cess is learning from the past The farmer
who knows where his program is weak this
year is going to be the farmer who has a
better program next year.
Lawmakers’ Addresses
Names and addresses of fedeial and state
legislator, representing local residents are list
ed hei e tor persons wishing to wi ite to them
FEDERAL
Sen. Hugh D Scott, Room 260 Senate Of
Eice Bui’ding, Washington, D C 20515
Sen Richard S Schweiker, Room 4317, Sen
ate Office Building, Washington, D C 20515
Rep Haivev C Nitiauer, 125 South St
Mjerstown Pa 17067
Rep Edwin D Eshleman, 1009 Lonswoiih
House Office Building, Washington, D C 20515
Sen Richaid A Snvder, Box 21, State Sen
ace Harnsbuig, Pa 17120
Sen Ciaience F Manbeck, Fieaeiicksbuia
HI Pa 17026
Rep HanvH Gnng Remholds Pa 17569
Rep Shei man L Hill 201 Manor Ave , Mill
erwille 17551
Rep Jack B Horner, 23-A S> Market St v
Elizabethtown 17022.
Rep Maivin E Miller, 501 Valley Road,
Lancastei 17601
John C Pittinger, 307 West End Ave,
Lancaster 1|603
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STATE
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
To Maintain Silos
The important thing in keeping
a silo in good condition is pro
tecting the mtci 101 surface fioin
conosion so the walls will le
main smooth and an-tight
Smooth walls aie impoitant in
piopei settling, in expelling air
and in me easing the life of the
silo Piobably one of the best
coatings toi conciete, wood, or
metal silos is to apply law lin
seed oil e\eiy 2 01 3 yeais Coat
ings of cone.tie or epoxy lesms
may be applied but aie difficult
to get to stick on old silo walls
Some attention at this time of
the yeai befoie the silo is filled
is suggested.
To Keep Livestock Cool
Summei heat affects livestock
as well as people b> ieducing
ambition and efficiency Many
dam men peimit their cows to
come into the bam dunng the
hot afternoons 01 into sheltei
In stall bams the “wind tunnel”
THE ONLY SACRIFICE
Lesson for August 23,1970
Background Scripture* Genesis 12 through
23; Romans 4 • Hebrews 11 8 12 17 19,
Devotional Reading Romans 413 25.
Why would Abraham want to
sacrifice his ov,n son?
The answer is that he didn’t
want to It came to him as a con
vicnon that this is what God
wanted him to do. That is prettj
difficult for us to understand,
isn’t it? Why
should any man
believe that God
desired the death
of a son for a
sacrifice?
If we answer
that question
fiom the peispec
tive of a peison
In mg in our con
Rev. Althouse tempoiary world
of the twentieth centuiy, the re
ply would hate to be: No justi
fiable whatsoever' Today
we would regard such an act as
either madness or the depths of
criminality.
When in Conaan ..
Abraham, however, was not a
resident of the twentieth century
and his civilization was very, very
different from our own culture
He lived thousands of years be
fore Christ was bom and the
religions of his day were crude
and barbaric by compaiison
Abraham lived in Canaan, a land
where these cruel religions flem
ished in gieat vaucty. Some of
them taught that the highest act
of devotion to one’s god was the
sacufice of a human being cher
ished by the worshipper. Where
as we would regard this as a
grossly immoral act, they re
garded it as the fulfillment of
their religious obligation. Thus,
the Canaanite who offered his
fiistbom son (who was always
valued most because he was the
father’s immediate heir), did not
do so out of cruelty or biutahtj,
but with a sense of humble self
sacrifice.
Abraham was aware that his
Canaamte neighbors held human
sacrifice to be the highest form
of religious devotion and very
method work. the
exhaust fans aic in one end of
the bain and all of the windows
and doors aie opened m the
other end all other doois and
windows aie closed; this will
draw the air over the cows and
keep them cool Other livestock
bains may use fans or open all
doors and windows to get cross
ventilation.
To Use Other Grains With Corn
Pioduceis who aie running low
on corn might m.\ other grains
such as barley and wheat m the
lation to ;eplace pait of the
corn tsaiiej can leplace fiom a
thud to half of the corn in most
rations, while wheat may be used
to 25 per cent m cattle rations
and twice as high in swine ra-
tions Considering the recent
repoits foi the corn outlook
throughout the country, some of
the othei giams in addition to
corn may be used successfully.
likely he began to question him
self as to whether God asked this
of him also. He too must have
come to look upon the sacrifice
of one’s first-born son as the
supieme act of of submission to
one’s god.
The first-born
We usually regard the laying
down of one’s life for someone
else as the highest of all sacri
fices. For Abraham, however,
this would not have been so
as it may not be true for all of
us today. In Abraham’s day it
was thought that one livedi on
after death only in one’s chil
dien, particularly the son or sons
tluough which the family line
was to be perpetuated. The an
cient man took comfort in know
ing that, c\en if his own life
were taken, his son would carry
on the family name and tradi
tion So the loss of one’s son,
particularly the first-born son,
was often regarded as a greater
tragedy than the loss of one’s
own life. E\en today fathers, if
faced with a need to choose
would lather lay down their lives
than allow their children to
perish.
How fortunate when at last
Abraham came to realize that the
wars of his Crnaanite neighbois
were not Gods ways. “God will
provide” he had answered when
Isaac asked about the animal that
was to be sacrificed Actually, his
answei had been more accurate
than he icalized when he gave it
For it was when he was on the
veige of sacufieing his son, God
bioke through to him and helped
him to undeistand that he did not
desire the death of Isaac, his son
God will provide
God had indeed provided the
needed sacrifice and Abraham
learned that God does not desire
human sacrifice. What a revolu
tionaiy idea this was for Abra
ham’s day and age. At this point
m history, by the grace of God,
mankind took a giant step for
ward# in his understanding of
God.
Later, Abraham’s descendents
would make another great step
foi waul m discovering what God
really desires of us: “For thou
hast no delight in sacrifice; were
I to give a burnt offering, thou
wouldst not be pleased. The
sacrifice acceptable to God is a
broken spirit, a broken and con
fute hcait ...” (Psalms 51:15-
17).
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ in thv
U. S. A. Released by Community frtil
Service)
Release Week of August 17