10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 26, 1972
A Fortune article deals with the subject
of “What Stress Can Do To You.” Directed
mainly to the killing stresses faced by
businessmen, it carries a message of the
greatest significance on heart disease. It
says that, “Cardiovascular ailments such
as coronary heart disease now take an
appalling annual toll in lives of American
men in vigorous middle age . Yet until
this century heart disease was virtually
unknown anywhere in the world . . .”
What has brought about this great
change 7 The suspicion is growing that
more than food is involved. The magazine
quotes one authority as saying that, "if you
could perfectly control cholesterol, blood
pressure, smoking, glucose level, serum
uric acid, and so on, you would have con
trolled only about one fourth of the
coronary heart disease.”
Occupational stress affect certain types
With some two million member families,
The American Farm Bureau Federation is a
true cross section of the United States.
Since its policies on public matters are
arrived at through an extensive mem
bership participation program, those
policies accurately reflect the convictions
and beliefs of a large segment of American
citizens
A statement of those convictions and
beliefs was presented to both the
Democratic and Republican Party Platform
committees so that the major political
parties and the country at large will know
that American farm families want their
government to “work toward a market
oriented agriculture and the elimination of
compensatory payments as soon as
possible” The statement declared, “A
major objective of Farm Bureau policy is to
create conditions whereby farmers and
ranchers may earn and get high per-family
Today, the U.S. meat industry provides
perhaps the most dramatic illustration of
how the public has benefitted from the
automatic balancing forces of a free
market Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.
Butz reports that farmers and ranchers
have increased their beef production by a
“magnificent” 2 5 times in the last 20
years—from 88 billion pounds in 1951 to
21 9 billion pounds in 1971
This increased productivity has been in
response to growing demands of a growing
population. In fact, demand has far out
stripped population growth. During the
past 20 years, annual beef consumption
per person has doubled. Secretary Butz
explains that the rising affluence of
American consumers, boosts in welfare
payments and increases in the food stamp
program have caused meat consumption to
soar In the words of Secretary Butz; "This
is as it should be. Not only are we
GREENSBURG. KANS., KIOWA COUNTY
SIGNAL "We see where some U.S. banks
are entertaining the thought of loaning
Russia money to buy equipment. The in
terest rate that has been mentioned for
such a loan would be 6 percent. It seems
strange that thousands of Americans will
pay 8 percent and more interest on money
borrowed from banks, while an enemy
country can borrow money for slightly
above prime interest rate. And when you
consider the money that the USSR owes
Coronary Culprits
Farm Bureau
Perspective on Meat
Grassroots Opinions
of persons and make them prone to
coronaries, the article states. It draws
heavily on the views of two eminent car
diologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray H.
Rosenman. In the past 17 years, these two
research specialists have found that
behavior patterns and stress are among
the principal coronary culprits.
The article concludes: "Now that even
cardiologists are beginning to believe heart
disease can be traced to unrelenting
competitiveness and baffled fury, will a
wave of concern over stress sweep over
this hypochondncal country, to match the
widespread interest in jogging and
polyunsaturated oils? Quite likely.”
Medical journals have long pointed out
that the best course for a normal, healthy
person to follow is one that includes a
reasonable amount of excercise, a
balanced diet of basic foods and avoidance
of fads.
real income in a manner which will
preserve freedom and opportunity. We
firmly believe that this objective can best
be accomplished by relying more on the
market price system The prosperity of
the nation's farm families depends on the
successful functioning of the American
capitalistic, private, competitive enterprise
system." The statement condemned in
flation breeding government spending that
has brought steady erosion of the dollar
and poses “ a serious threat to
economic stability in our economy today...
No group of American citizens have had
more intimate experience with government
controls and subsidies that farmers —and
no group is more vehement in calling for a
return to free market principles and less
government intervention in our lives. Here
is a clear warning that all people are not
ready to accept subservience to big
government as a way of life.
dedicated to eliminating hunger; we also
want people to enjoy the great productive
affluence of this nation. Since beef is a
demand-controlled market, it is only
reasonable that the constantly increasing
affluence of the American consumer . . .
would have a marked upward effect on
beef prices. This is precisely what has
happened... In a nutshell, beef prices have
risen because of increased consumer
demand, and this is a market signal to
induce increased beef production.”
Although meat prices have risen, they
still remain at levels far below the general
price trend of the past two decades. The
meat industry has remained a free market
segment of agriculture, and its productivity
has risen with neither the help of subsidies
nor the hindrance of controls. As Mr. Butz
concludes: “ ... there must be ample in
ducement if beef production is going to be
increased. That inducement must come in
the form of beef prices . . .”
the United Nations you could hardly
consider them a good security risk."
WARRENSBURG, MO., STAR-JOURNAL:
‘‘The national debt limit is
now $450 billion or, for all practical pur
poses, the sky."
ADAIR, lOWA, NEWS: “One way to
reduce the incidence of crime is to make it
as dangerous to be a criminal as it is to be a
victim."
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NOW IS
THE TIME . . .
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
To Ensile Corn at
Proper Time
Early corn has matured
rapidly in the past several
weeks; soon the field harvesters
will be in action and the silos will
be getting the 1972 corn crop. The
proper" stage of maturity is
important in order to get the
maximum feed nutrients. If the
corn is cut prior to the early dent
stage, it will not have reached its
top feeding value. If it is cut after
it is fully mature, the feeding
value and palatibility will have
been lost. Feeding values in
crease from the silk, through the
milk stage into the dent stage;
this proper time of cutting is the
same for feeding to any type of
livestock. Growers are urged to
observe the mauturity of their
silage corn and be prepared to
ensile at the above stage of
maturity.
To Beware of Corn Aphids
In the past week we have gotten
a number of calls from corn
growers relating to the black
dirty condition of the tassels and
top leaves on many of their corn
plants. This problem is caused by
the corn aphid which is quite
common this summer. In most
cases inspected, the corn has
already pollinated and therefore,
the aphids will do less damage. If
the infestation comes before the
pollen is shed from the tassel to
the silk, then the result may be
poor pollination. The control is to
have the field sprayed with
malathion to kill the aphids, but it
is doubtful is this application is
worthwhile after the corn has
pollinated. The black color of the
tassel and leaves is caused by the
honey excretions from the aphids
and the resulting blackening of
(he plant surface.
SHINING THROUGH
Lesson for August 27,1972
■acktreund Scripture- Acts 413-21,
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Dcvetianal Readme Acts t 26 40
Ploetzensee is not a standard
tourist attraction in the usual
half-day tour of West Berlin Us
ing the unterbahn (subway) and
a street car, I had to find it for
myself
It would be easily be missed,
a complex of dark
red brick walls
and a tower or
two, looking very
much like an
abandoned fac
tory. In fact, I
would have miss
ed it except for a
tall plain cross
Rev. Althouse outside the brick
wall.
In the midst of darkness
Walking down a narrow alley,
I found the entrance with a small
sign reading Gedenkstaette, a
place of memorial Though hu
man outrage at what was done m
this place might have called for
its obliteration, Ploetzensee stands
as a grim and silent memorial to
the thousands who died there. In
this dark prison were murdered
Hitler’s enemies during the black
ness of the Third Reich
It is a dark, forbidding place.
A frightening meat-hook still
To Be Alert For Northern Corn
Rootworm Adults
The small green beetle flying
around in the corn field might be
an indication of northern corn
rootworm infestation, and that
trouble lies ahead. Chemical
control of these green beetles is
needed only if there are five or
more beetles per ear of corn and
when less than 50 per cent of the
plants have silked. Heavy in
festations could keep the corn
ears from being pollinated. In
addition, the presence of the
green beetles at this time of the
year indicates that the corn
ground should be treated with an
insecticide next spring at plan
ting time to kill the young larvae,
or that the ground should not go
back into com next year. Root
worm infestation has been in
creasing and growers are urged
to take notice of this insect in
order to maintain maximum
production.
To Extend Pasture Season
Some livestock and dairy
producers may be short on
quality hay this winter due to the
poor drying conditions this past
summer. If the fall grazing
season could be extended by
seeding extra acres of a winter
grain such as rye, barley, or
wheat, then less of the winter hay
suppply would be needed until
freezing weather. Also, ad
ditional fertilizer applications on
the permanent pastures could
give additional growth late in the
fall providing moisture con
ditions improve. Hie grazing of
special summer forage crops
such as Sudan grass or the sudan
sorghum hybrids is satisfactory
until a killing frost and then
special handling is needed to
prevent poisoning of the
livestock.
hangs where men were horribly
garroted with piano wire.
The wife of one political pri
soner recalls standing at another
prison gate one day in 1944 and
seeing a man with his hands tied
behind his back. Calmly and
erectly he strode forward while
behind him there followed “a lit
tle Gestapo man who looked to
me like a reptile.” The SS guard
turned and whispered to the wo
man: “That is Count Schwerin
Ploetzensee.” She knew what
“Ploetzensee” meant and through
her mind there flashed the re
alization; “There is a man who
knows how to die.” (from DYING
WE LIVE, edited by Gollwitzer,
Kuhn, and Schneider, Seabury
Press, 1956).
A witness for Christ
Ulrich-Wilhelm, Count Schwerin
von Schwanenfeld was a wealthy
aristocratic landowner who had
been connected with the abortive
plot against Hitler on July, 1944.
More important than that, how
ever, he was a witness for Christ.
He witnessed to a prisoner’s
wife, to his fellow inmates, to his
captors, though not so much by
what he said, but by his bearing.
Even from the grave he witness
ed through his last will and test
ament- he provided that a por
tion of his land in the Sartowitz
forest be used as a burial place
and memorial to the victims of
the 1939 massacres by the Nazis.
He directed that a high oaken
cross be erected with this inscrip
tion: “Here lie from 1400 to 1500
Christians and Jews —May God
have mercy on their souls and on
their murderers.”
John was right: the darkness
does try to overcome the light.
But no matter how dark it may
become, when men allow them
selves to be used as witnesses for
Christ, God can be seen shining
through the darkness.
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