—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 9, 1973
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“It is not enough to have a directive from
Washington. It is not enough for us to make
pronouncements and pass laws and
penalize polluters while we throw beer
cans out the car window, while we drop our
own sewage into the rivers, while we leave
our campgrounds filled with litter, or while
we burn our leaves and our trash in our
own backyards. What we need is a national
individual effort built in the hearts and
minds of millions of Americans--an effort
that will go hand in hand with government
creation and enforcement of necessary
antipollution measures.”-Mr. Rogers C. B.
Morton, Secretary of the Interior.
“Discontent is the first step in the
progress of man or a nation.’’--Oscar Wilde.
“Ice-cube size pellets of compressed and
shredded old newspapers are being
shipped to the Far East," reports an
Associated Oregon Industries publication,
“by the Papakube Corp. of San Diego. A
test shipment is being made to Japan and a
newsprint mill in Taiwan and a boxboard
company in South Korea are making
arrangements to import the cubes. Key to
the export potential of the product is that it
drastically reduces the mass of waste
paper. A 48-page newspaper becomes four
or five cubes-a handful. Thus, 30 to 40
pounds of old newspapers can be com
pressed into a cubic foot, about half the
original bulk, cutting down shipping
charges to $l4 a ton compared with
$44.28 a ton for baled newspapers. Three
patents are pending for the cubing process
which involves the use of heat and water
soluble glue in addition to pressure.”
According to the American Gas
Association, “As America’s consumption of
energy continues to go up-some of those
looking for more energy reserves have had
to dig down deeper And digging recently
set a new depth record when a natural gas
well in Oklahoma reached the 30,050 foot
mark And, drilling that deep cost over 100
drill bits and five million dollars. Although
those exploring for gas did not find the
amount they were looking for-they learned
enough to justify their faith that natural
gas exists six miles underground."
Going, Going, - - -
Grassroots Opinion
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“Revenue sharing has been receiving
much attention from the news media
during recent weeks,” notes a Montana
Chamber of Commerce magazine, “but
here’s one significant item that may have
been overlooked. The city council in
Westwood, Kansas, deciding that its
community was financially stable, voted to
send a $37,000 revenue sharing check
back to Washington.”
The American desire to maintain a high
standard of living will require that all
Americans make their work count for more,
Washington publisher Austin H. Kiplmger
has told leaders of American industry. A
National Association of Manufacturers
editorial says Mr. Kiplmger asserted that
“we would have to improve our produc
tivity in order to warrant the rate we pay
our labor and the prices we put on our
products and services.” Pulitzer prize
winning financial columnist Joseph A.
Livingston, speaking on the same panel,
expressed concern that the American
appetite for goods and materials has vastly
increased our imports while exports have
not increased on the same scale. This
points up the fact that all Americans
should concentrate on making bigger and
better productivity gams m the year 1973.
QUAKERTOWN, PA., FREE PRESS: “The
move to centralize collection of local taxes
by a single agency, which means abolishing
the local tax colleger, perhaps strikes a
nostalgic note to those who cherish our
yesterdays, the yesterdays when local
community affairs were handled by the
local community. They were quiet times, far
less hectic than today and far less
government. It was a time when the trolley
passed fresh-cut fields, a time when the
rivers were crystal clear and a time when
the air was uncommonly clean. And now,
unfortunately, the past is with us no more.
The local tax collector, like the once-clean
air, may vanish, vivid only in our
memories ”
“The rung of a ladder was never meant
to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot
long enough to enable him to put the other
somewhat higher.”—Thomas Henry
Huxley.
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Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
To Increase Alfalfa Yields
Many fields of alfalfa have
been harvested for the first
cutting; the second crop is in the
making providing insect and
fertility conditions are favorable.
After the first crop is removed,
the stubble should be sprayed for
the control of alfalfa weevil, if
they were present at the time of
the first cutting; also, an ap
plication of phosphorus-potash
fertilizer will be helpful, if none
A'as applied this year. Alfalfa
needs additional supplies of both
phosphorus and potash for top
yields and for longer stands. The
control of leaf hoppers is needed
on both the second and third
cuttings when the new growth is
three to six inches tall; last year
hoppers were bad and hurt yields
in many fields. All of these
practices need prompt attention
if maximum yields are to be
expected.
To Mow Weeds
Everyone should make a
special effort to prevent any
weed from going to seed. In
cultivated fields and normal field
crops the weeds are usually
controlled through good farming
practices. However, pasture
fields and vacant lots are too
often allowed to grow weeds and
allowed to develop seeds. Many
townships and boroughs have
weed ordinances requiring weeds
to be sprayed or mowed; we urge
local officials to enforce these
regulations to prevent further
THE WAR
WITHIN
Lesson for June 10,1973
Background Scripture: Exodus 20 3-6;
Matthew 6 24-34; James 4 7-8
Devotional Reading: Psalms 62
H. G. Wells, the British writer,
once described one of his fict
ional characters, “Mr. Polly,” as
“a walking civil war.” That would
be an apt description of many of
us, including a young man whom
we will call Jim.
Jim feels that a
gigantic civil war
is taking place
within him, as if
that which he
knows should be
one in him has
become two and
is engaged in a
struggle to see
Rev. Althouse which portion will
prevail.
“Jim,” says a voice, “you must
make up your mind!” No longer
can he afford to look inside him
self and watch with fascination
the battle there No more can he
review and inspect these two op
posing forces, siding first with
one, and then the other.
No Sunday School picnic
Mr. Mackey’s voice is like a
bugle calling for the last charge,
the last repulse, that will bring
his inner war to its final conclu
sion. The first shots of Jim’s pri
vate civil war had been fired two
weeks ago when Mr! Mackey had
hired him to work weekends in
his service station and parking
lot. (Note: the names used in
this story are purely fictitious).
On the day Jim received his
weed development. Mowing of
vacant fields and areas two or
three times during the summer
will prevent weed seed
development. The first clipping is
over-due and everyone should
prevent further weed pollution.
To Comply With OSKA
Regulations
Occupational safety
regulations now vested in the
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration in the Depart
ment of Labor are reaching into
agriculture. All farmers on Social
Security should have received
information on this matter last
fall. Producers are urged to
review the information and
display the required poster if
they are employing any labor
outside their immediate family.
Fruit growers have an additional
set of regulations concerning the
use of pesticides to go into effect
on June 18. Local farmers are
urged to become acquainted with
the OSHA regulations at their
earliest convenience.
To Ventilate Buildings
Hot weather has arrived and
livestock will suffer as much or
more than the average person;
this is especially true with fat
tening hogs and beef cattle.
During periods of extreme heat
and humidity all windows and
doors should be opened for
maximum cross-ventilation;
with the exception of tight, en
vironmentally controlled
buildings good cross-ventilation
may save some livestock.
Dairymen with stanchion barns
and with exhaust fans may want
to open windows and doors only in
the end of the bam away from the
fans and use the “tunnel” air
movement method to make cows
comfortable
orientation to the new Job, the
gas station owner had said, “One
last thing, Jim, you must realize
that this is a business and the
purpose of a business is to make
money. I pay you a good salary
and I expect you to help me make
money so I can be generous with
you. What I want you to do, then,
may seem a little shady, but this
isn’t a Sunday school picnic; it’s
a business!” He then proceeded to
outline ways in which Jim could
help keep up both the profits
“and the salaries”. The list in
cluded letting the gas run over,
replacing fan belts and other
parts that didn’t need replace
ment, not pushing the oil stick
all the way in, and other “tricks
of the trade.”
“No one can serve two
masters”
For two weeks Jim worked
quietly, but efficiently. He could
not bring himself to use the
“tricks of the trade” and, at last,
the gas station owner was calling
a showdown. I’ve tried to ex
plain, to you that everyone in
business has to do these things,
but if your conscience bothers
you, you’ll have to decide what
you want the most: The job or
your conscience!”
Jim was experiencing what all
of us experience in life: the ter
rible necessity to exercise our
free choice between two alterna
tives, both of which we deeply de
sire. It is a matter of “wanting
our cake and eating it too.” This
disturbing choice is always with
us. “You shall have no other gods
before me,” the Lord said to a
people who were constantly try
ing to hang on to their own gods
while at the same time dallying
with the gods of their neighbors.
Yet, much as we would like to
avoid that choice, we cannot: “No
one,” said Jesus, “can serve two
masters.”
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