—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. January 23.1971 4 Spearman Gives Egg Men Hope The Poultry and Egg National Board has summarized a University of Georgia study of egg sales by J T. Spearman As a result of this study, PENB has concluded that much of what is accepted practice in relation to egg merchandising is based on misunderstanding of the consumer. Many store owners, for instance, ap parently feel it doesn’t pay to advertise eggs, because consumers are only going to buy a certain amount and thev can’t be in duced to change their egg eating habits. Baloney. The Spearman study shows egg sales nearly doubled at chain stores when fea tured in sales. More importantly, the high sales week volume did not detract from sales at this same store the following week And further, the high sales at one store did not detract from egg sales at a competing store the same week This tends to explode the old myth that only a certain amount of eggs are going to A Moooo-ving The National Safety Council has report ed an animal safety lesson from New Zea land. After crews had laid natural gas pipe line through some pastures, farmers found that their cows were going blind. After investigating, an official announc ed that no one had explained to the natural ly curious bovmes that it's dangerous to watch welders work unless one is wearing dark glasses. As a result, one enterprising firm be gan offering Moo-Master goggles for cows so they can watch without harm to their eyes. Light Vehicles at Night We note that a corn picker operator- in Kennett Square was charged by police with operating without lights after a motorist drove into the rear of his unhghted corn picker on the highway at night. It should be all too obvious that any slow moving vehicle on today’s highways is in somewhat of a hazardous situation in light of today’s fast-moving automobiles. Motorists used to travelling at high speed have difficulty judging the speed of slow moving vehicles and any hesitation in slowing down can result in a rear-end colli sion. This is why a minimum speed limit. The Cost of Part of the ’‘inflation" that we com plain about is due to changing standards of living rathei than to the declining purchas ing power of the dollar. That is the conclusion of one housewife who compared her food budget in 1960 with one of a more recent date. She took a typical current shopping list that rang up a total of $24 on the supermar ket’s cash register. On going over the list, she discovered that much of what she is now' buying at the grocery store is not gro ceries. LANCASTER FAR>IIN(. Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P.0.80x 266 1 ititz Pa i7*do Office- 22 E Mam St., Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone: Lancastei 394-3047 or Lititz 626 2191 Robert G Campbell. Advertising Director Zane Wilson, Managing Editoi Subscription rnce S 2 per year in Lancaster - County S 3 elsewhere Established November 4,1955 Published evr-y Saturday by Lancaster Farming Lititz Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn Pa. Newspapei Publishers Association, and National Newspaper Association be consumed and if one store promotes them, it will only detract from sales else vhere or from sales the following week. If, as the Spearman findings indicate, egg sales can be nearly doubled through promotion at one store without detracting from future sales or from sales of competi tors, the egg industry would be well advised to make sure that eggs are featured in more and more store sales But egg men can’t afford to sit back and wait tor retailers to see the light. The egg industry must educate retailers to realize that eggs can attract customers White eggs over the years have been hard-pressed to maintain eien a constant sales volume from j ear to year, the Spear man study offers real hope that eggs can begin to play a more important role in the American diet. But it will take real leadership by egg industrymen to translate the potential into actual egg sales. Safety Lesson We’re not exactly sure what all this proves Maybe that where there's a need, some enterprising firm will meet it Or maybe that Bossy has to be protected from her own curiosity. Or maybe that farmers should keep in mind that many of the ttvngs which are dangerous for humans are dangerous - for animals. Whatever, we can’t help thinking about the possible reaction of persons, say tour ists, who saw the cows m their dark glasses for the first time. usually 40 miles per hour, is posted on most of the new interstate highways. ■ - While speeds are slower and there is no need for a minimum speed on our older .highways and country roads, operators of slow moving vehicles still must observe cer tain minimum precautions for their own safety as well as the safety of everyone else - who uses the highway.. And one minimum precaution which we think should apply to everyone is the use of lights on the highway at night. An unlighted slow-moving vehicle, including a bicycle, on the highway at night is an accident waiting to happen. Ha 1 TT » ® igh Li Vi ng There were paper towels and paper napkins itemized at 51.66. In the old days, pacple took time to home launder and re use cloth towels and napkins. Then there was 59 cents for dog food. In the old days, Ro\ er used to eat table scraps. There was an item of 5i.79 for bug spray on the current shopping list “. . . to execute what we used to swat and 89 cents for fabric softener where we formerly depend ed on a windy day."’ There was also SI 59 for shampoo and band-aids “in 1960 some of us were shampooing with soap and bandaging with strips of w'orn-out shirts.” Another item, $3.75 for light bulbs and a thermos bottle would formerly have shown up on the “ liar dw are" bill. , This housewife disco\ered that of her 524 grocery bill, groceries cost less than Sl6 Summing up, ’she found thaf’her food bill for I9§o was §971.57. Household iterps ; that >ear came t0'5347.98 This past year, she paid only S 3 more tor food, for house hold items she paid %725.82! ? In spite of the kicking about inflation, consumers so farJiave shown little inclina tion to turn their backs on the conveniences and'kmiries that ha\ e been brought to them by the world’s most efficient, retail, mass distribution system. To Learn By Mail Conesponcence Courses offer ed by the College of Agriculture at The Pennsylvania State Uni \eisity are strongly recommend ed at this time of the year. Inese courses are available in a large lange of subjects and are designed to help the farmer and any pioperty owner with most any phase of farming or gar dening problems The informa tion requires a small legisla tion fee and then the mateuals will come by mail Details may be obtained by writing Corres pondence Courses, P O Box No 5000, Umveisity Park, Penna 16302 To Exercise Young Stock Dauyrren raising their own had replacements are reminded of the need of dailj outside exer cise for growing heifers The plan of keeping them confined in a stanchion or box-stall at ah TWO TOST SONS Lesson for January 24,1971 lacltgrvvnrf Scripture: luke 15 Some have called the Parable of the Prodigal Son the greatest short story in the world. Yet, for all this popularity, it is often misunderstood or per haps, not fully understood. Many onie seem to iiss the fact that lesus is concern id with two sons, lot just one. Both •e central to the ,ory: “Jesus said, 'here was a man ho had two ms.” he younger son vho “come-fo Rev. Althouse himself' > This iS the son with whom we are best acquaint ed We have known many people like him; perhaps we have even seen a bit of him in ourselves. Despite a loving father and a life that must have been materially quite adequate, he is restless and brazenly asks his father for his share of the estate so that he might leave home. How typically he represents spectable behavior had always,lii many young people: he wants to seems, masked a resentment jo be independent, but he asserts ward his father. ! his independence while continu- The son who was really “losfj' ing to live on the resources that Actually, this man is even less come from the one from whom attractive than his profligate bro ke is separating himself, He -.ther. There is no compassion for leaves home because he obviously ''Wsjbrother: he ,calls him “your wants to be free of all its encum*. ; son;” brother.” fie. Was berances. At he wilbdo »s:he -obviously’ a ,sslf-Hght£ous man, pleases, when.,he pleases, and proud of‘his .goodness, certain] it how he pleases. No one will dom- should bring hiifl’certain rewards, inatehim. * - 4|lJia ! Father| hadd,wo sons ajnd Yet, like manyiof us he-come§„ 4 °nbi “came to himself” and re to find that when jve.are "free to~'turned home. But 'one, though jhe do as we please,’’ we are not real- never Meft'bome, remained ly free but often, - : ~. . , L __. Q i . . _ < (iasea on outlines: copyrighted by Jtho WG become SlAVesr 10“ Something Division Christian Education, National else. We exchange one kind of f,°c n A C,! ; the churches of Christ in Hm bondage for another. siKt.) lU,eosed fay Commum,y P f“ NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent •times is to be discouraged. The recommended method is to have them housed in an open shed or pole-barn type of structure where they can come and go with lib eral amounts of quality rough age for then feed supplies Plans lor heifer barns are available at our Extension Office. To Help Eliminate Hog Cholera Livestock authorities have an optimistic outlook that hog cholera can be eradicated from this country in the next few years. Even though this part 6f the state had an outbreak last summer, we are told the number of cholera cases decreased by more than half in the country last year, most of these weij-e contmed to a few states. Hog producers and especially buyers of feeder pigs are urged to be careful when buying; insist on. clean health papers; promptly report any sick hogs that may develop. But at last the younger son “comes to himself”—begins to be come his true self. He begins to realize that in being the rebel lious, prodigal son, he was not really himself. He had tried out a role that he came to realize was not really his. Thus, Jesus is telP ing us that when a man is “away from God,” when he sins, he is not his real self, not the self which he can be and was to be. - ' ' J ,1 The son who stayed at home !; lor the wrong reasons But there was another spa, the eldest son, to be exact. Jewish law indicated that he wasto re receive two-thirds of his fjtfheris estate and his younger brother one-third. We find nothing about him until his younger brother re turns home. Then it becomes oV vious that he, unlike his brothetj remained with his father, assum ing his share of the labors of the family farm. j At first it warms our heart jo think that, though the fatheifs heart was broken by his prodigil son, he at least had the faithfjil love and assistance of another son. But it was obvious that, Al though the eldest son had doqe the right thing, he had done jit for the wrong reasons. Though he had not rebelled openly, neither did he serve his father for any admirable reason. 'j It was very apparent that what had seemed to be years of oqe dience and faithfulness to His father were, in reality, years (of grudging service. The labor he performed was apparently, not out of love, but in anticipation pf what he would receive in retuirn. for it. He was not working for His father, but for himself. His ve getable beh 3 " 5 ' il lit