4 — Lancaster Farming. Saturdo Save Farming, Environment As tlu* population continues to grow and ns living becomes more consumer oriented, the need to stress a clean environ ment becomes increasingly important. Otherwise, filth and ugliness will grow geo metrically. In the past, there was danger that this fact would not be properly recognized. Today, there is danger that it will be recognized too well. There is danger that persons who don’t properly consider alter natives and consequences will attempt to railroad through unwise both technically unsound and financially unrealistic solu tions. Ignored too much and too long, manj of those who proposed environmental reform became crusaders. Unfortunately, in esta blishing reform, crusades sometimes de stroy much that is good and accomplish much that is not desirable. In the emironmental issue today, the challenge for everyone, including farmers, is how to do the job at hand without being destroyed by it. How does the individual meet the need for a cleaner emironment without being swept away and destroyed by unrealistic solutions? In this regard, we believe, farmers can not afford to assume any longer, as some have done in the past, that the environ mental question will go away. We think the environmental issue will be stronger, much stronger, in the years ahead than it has ever been in the past. The treat to the en vironment of more people using more things is simply too real for the issue to die without a struggle. We can hope that new inventions and new techniques will make it much easier to handle the problem. But we cannot just as sume this will happen. Letting George do all the work to solve the problem coulo get Soft Drinks vs. Milk New Holland Division of Sperry Rand recently forwarded a copy of an editorial from Hoard’s Dairyman, one of the better farm publications We agree the content of this editorial needs to be more widely understood and appreciated by e\eiyone The editorial, m part, states "While milk is still the number one be\ erage, soft drink sales ha\ e been climb ing about eight per cent each year during the past decade “In our library, we tried to locate some information on the nutritional \ alue ot so f t drinks Significantly, we found only one ref erence Appai ently soft drinks are so nutri tionally inferior that other authors do not e\en consider them USDA’s Yearbook re veals that coke does contain carbohydrate, over twice as much as milk And it does have food energy, but less than two-thirds as much as milk. But it is completely de void of every other essential ingredient list ed; Protein, fat. calcium, iron, \itamin A, thiamine, nboflaun, niacin, and ascorbic acid. “Now one closing observation; A government nutrition expert reported, in ef- LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office: 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone: Lancastei 394-3047 or Latitz 626-2191 Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director Zane Wilson, Managing Editoi Subscription pi ice $2 pei yeai in Lancaster Counts S 3 elsewhere Established November 4, 1955 Published cvc, * Satuiclav bv Lancaster Faimiiig lititz Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa 17543 Member of Xm Fa'm Editors Assn Pa. Newspapei Publisheis Association, and National Newspaper Association November 21.1970 the farmer in trouble in the future. Now is the time to study the problem, as the farm er studies other problems and eventually finds solutions. On the other hand, farmers must not al low themselves to get into a defensive posi tion on the environmental issue. Farmers must not allow themselves to feel overly guilty about their share of the pollution. While controlling a very large propor tion of the nation's land area, farmers con tribute a very small proportion of the over all national pollution, not more than 15 per cent by one estimate. At the same time, the farm is often the victim, rather than the source, of pollution. Around many cities, farmers are often de stroyed economically because pollution de stroys their crops. This treat to farmland. e\ en in Lancaster County, can be expected to grow. While taking direct economic losses from pollution which is not their own, farm ers are making giant contributions toward pollution abatement. They are installing better land management practices. Their land is absorbing the pollution from urban areas. Their crops, through the processes of nature, are purifying the air. Thus, while moving steadily and surely to do an ever better job of controlling the environment so as to make it a better place in which to live, the farmer must work ac tively to insure that his urban friends keep the problem in perspective. After all, a clean and healthy and en joyable environment benefits everyone farmers most of all. But the farmer must make sure that while the clean environment crusaders ultimately win the day, they do it in a rational and sensible manner which makes everyone a winner. immediately they left their nets! That kind of responsiveness ll a characteristic not to be taV»n too lightly .We can only appreci ate the immediacy of their re sponse if we ponder our owniiei itancy in responding when Christ calls us. When his challenge* come to us, it seems, it is always .“too” something: “to early”, ‘To© late”, ‘too little”, ‘too much”, *Too Background Scripture- Proverbs 2 1-15; easy”, “tOO hard”, etc. But, «C -„ , , „ Mark T 16-22; 6 7-13, 30 34; Ephesians COrdmg to the gospel Writers, feet, earlier this year that every glass of oePrevtlbs2<3 . 7 . there were ho excuses nor alibiea soft drink consumed means a glass less of ~, . , , offered by the disciples when , ~ . , Let’s suppose that Jesus had Jesus called them, milk. Consider that the per capita use of asked you to help him in the Thus, off-setting their seeming milk is at 540 glasses while soft drinks ha\ e selection of a group of twelve lack of ability, background, and climbed to 418 glasses. intimate disciples. In all likeli- talent, was a willingness with hood you would throw up your which Christ could work wonders, hands in dispair at his first choic- Perhaps there is in this simple es. How could he possibly select fact a truth of which we ought " me n like that big, not to lose sight: The primary clumsy Peter or qualification for any Christian those two ambi- service is willingness to be used tious brothers, by Christ. The first thing Jesus James and John, seemed to look for was this re* r What could ever sponsiveness. If newfound this, it come of a move- seemed, he could provide the ment composed of rest. men like these? Many of us haie probably seen None of them ev- this same truth in eiidence some- Rev. Altfcouse namedX Xian S“ e ? ur ,_ _ _ named a man There will be a call for someone most likely to succeed • to pez’foi’m some kind of service- At face value of , t 1 en ’ the most-qualified people . , , Wll l excuse themselves for one Viewed at face value, none of reason or another (often with the these men would seem likely can- excuse that thev are not quali didates for the special group of fi ed ). At last, one of the least twelve who would share Jesus’ likely people will take the task brief public ministry. \et Jesus simply because no one else will obviously saw something in them do it. Frequently these people that gave some promise for the will surprise us. doing a far brt future, if not the present. In fact, ter job than we would ever sus three of the most unlikely candi- pec t Their willingness to say dates became his closest associ- “yes” and to learn overcome ates Peter, James, and John much of their other unfitness, formed a sort of inner circle that How many of us remain splri occupied a special place in Jesus’ tually unemployed because we ministry. There are a number of are hesitant to follow when tie references in the gospel stories calls us? where the writers single out “Pe ter, James, and John”. Apparently D i ,osed ° n ° u,l ' n « copyrighted by «h« they were unofficial leaders in the Councd" o ° f th C e hr chur"he S dU of I "chns t N '?n°Jh2 group Of twelve. * Released by Community Pres* These men had no formal train- emce fng, no education to speak of, no background, no experience ATTEND THE nothing! So what did Jesus see in them that led him to call them CHURCH OF to so important a task? Perhaps vtITTR nirurp citmha v one clue as to what he saw in CHOICE SUNDAY them is found in the way they re sponded to his challenge. He called them and “immediately” they left what they were doing “It should be obvious that we have our work cut out for us in the fields of nutrition education and sales promotion. It would be a tragedy were we to let this great potential market go b> default because of our indif ference.” The fact that soft drinks are the number one competitor of milk has long been widely understood by knowledgeable persons with in the farm commumtx But the extent of the soft drink competi tion and its ad\ erse impact on the dairy industry has not been widely enough under stood Certainly, not much has been done about it If soft drink sales climb at eight per cent a year and if each glass ot soft drink sold means loss of sale for one glass of milk, the seriousness of the soft drink competi tion is self-e\ident. Already, consumption of soft drinks has climbed to an average of about 418 glasses per j ear for each person in the U S. That compares to about 140 glasses of milk. While milk is still the nation's number one be\erage, soft drinks have been gain ing steadily. How much of its markets is the dau> industry willing to gr. e to soft drinks'' How much can it afford to give 9 When will it draw the line 7 These are the types of questions the dairj industry must confront, piobably tne sooner the better. To Evaluate Farm Records duction Both heat and humidity „ . , J need to be removed without Good farm records arc neccs- caus i n g a draft Insulation will «ary for many reasons in addi- prevent condensation and length tion to the filing of an accurate en the life of the building. Pub income tax report, rime spent t'S 8 .^ 005 ,*. re avai^a Me on ven during the fall and winter Mating dairy barn*, month* analyzing the faim rec- ords is well worth the effort, Some people may call it “pencil pushing,’ but it should be time _,, . , well spent The profits or Colder arrived losses on the various farm en- and more is to come; heavier terpnses can be recognized, hair coats will result in greater Future plans for expansion or difficulty to elim.nate body lice being more profitable should be f llvestock All pio( hicers guioed by the cunent farm , , , records are ul ’S ecl t 0 trea: for hce now before coldei weather comes. To Ventilate And Insulate External pa. as.tes feed fi om the vigor of the animals and reduce Many farm buildings are fill- efficiency Young stock either es to capacity with livestock, raised locally or brought in from In the case of animals in stalls southern states should be check*, or in confinement, there may be ed for stomach w orms. Parasites need of exhaust ventilation in of any kind will decrease profits order to have proper animal pro- and should not be tolerated. NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent To Control Parasites On Livestock weather has and began to follow him. Perhaps' it was this responsiveness! (bis readiness to follow the right mart and learn what he might telcb them that Jesus saw in'them.
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