—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. January 23.1971
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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.
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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, <Jod; it deems, always has
in bondage to ouj-'own immature more difficulty with this kind of
impulses and drives. Free of,our sdn.» ‘ r |-
parents or some 'other ’ahthoriiy, c, '„ l . >- : ~. . , L
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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