—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4, 1973
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Whoever heard of freezers and
microwave ovens as weapons 7 The smart
consumer who wants to win the battle of
the budget, that’s who 1
“Buying bargains in quantity and
freezing them . .innovative use of lef
tovers .and cooking ‘from scratch’ are
among top tips offered by appliance in
dustry home economists.. reports a
news release by the Association of Home
Appliance Manufacturers. The kitchen is a
veritable arsenal of “artillery” to be used
in the fight against high food costs,
especially the freezer. Day-old baked goods
actually improve with freezing because
Home Ownership Problems
Any way you slice it, a lot of people are
being priced out of the home market.
Construction costs continue to skyrocket,
and mortgage experts, according to one
news story, have estimated that each one
percent increase in mortgage interest
rates removes as many as 3 4 million
families from the home-buying market
What the net result of all this may be no
one can yet say, but one thing is certain,
people still need to have a roof over their
heads.
An answer will be found, and it seems
Letters to
the Editor
The nation’s “Cost of Living
Council” must guarantee a pass
through of increased food prices
from the retailer back to the
farmer Lifting of controls on
food prices is meaningless if
producers of food, the farmers,
are unable to share in these
profits
Dairymen in the northeast are
in dire need of immediate price
improvement if there is to be any
semblance of a milk industry in
this section of the Country. Costs
of producing milk have ballooned
to the point where dairy farmers
can no longer make ends meet.
King of Beasts
This
Means War!
Selling-out seems to be the only
alternative left to them
As the autumn months draw
near, shortages of milk and dairy
products are certain to become
ever more apparent in grocery
stores across the land Milk
supplies in the northeast are
currently dropping at the rate of
approximately one percent per
month. The end result from this
rate of decline will be an increase
of 20 to 25 percent in unem
ployment caused by a loss m
number of farmers and farm
related industries.
A five cent per quart of milk
increase at the retail level is
imperative now if consumers
expect fresh, wholesome milk on
their tables in the near future.
This money must be passed on to
thawing adds moisture; homemade TV
dinners, pot pies and freezing of leftovers
for emergencies can be lifesavers. In this
time of awareness of an energy shortage, it
is well to note that small appliances and
the quick-cooking microwave oven save on
power. Blenders are especially valuable for
salvaging leftovers, which can be pureed
and made into soup bases, sundae top
pings or baby food.
So before you surrender to inflation,
think again There are a thousand
strategies available, if you will but look, and
many are as close as your kitchen.
likely that it is going to be in the direction
of such things as mobile homes and ready
built compact houses There is an ad
ditional problem of finding the land on
which to set the homes we build, and land
use planners are making that evermore
difficult and more costly too. The custom
built home on five acres of ground will, to
an increasing degree for the vast majority
of Americans, become a vanishing dream
a casualty of inflation and land use plan
ning.
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the producer so that he can afford
to continue his operation.
For a family purchasing eight
quarts of milk each week, five
cents per quart additional ex
pense would mean an increased
expenditure of only 21 dollars per
year or the price of 52 packs of
cigarettes over the same period
of time.
Isn’t this a tremendously cheap
investment to make to preserve
one of our areas most vital in
dustries’ If the consumer does
not pay a little now, he is going to
pay much more later when it is
too late.
JOHN C. YORK
General Manager
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative Association, Inc.
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To Reduce Feed Waste
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
With feed costs making up
more and more of the total cost of
livestock production all
producers are urged to check
their automatic feeders and their
; feeding troughs to be sure there is
very little waste. Some automatic
feeders permit too much grain to
come down into the feeder holes
or boxes; in the case of pig
feeders Dwight Younkin at Penn
State says that if the feeder holes
are full of feed, then you may be
wasting large amounts of feed.
Troughs used for hand feeding
should be tight and without holes
or cracks. Feed costs are high
and it is poor management to
allow any grain to be wasted. The
investment in a new feeder, or
repair the old one, might be the
best practice to perform at this
time.
To Control Aphids
Dry weather permits a buildup
of plant aphids on many types of
plants and crops. We know of
them on corn, tobacco,
vegetables, and various or-,
namental plants. Weekly
spraying with materials such as
malathion, dimethioate,
parathion, or diazinon should
give results. As long as the
weather remains dry and hot,
aphid? will continue to infest
many plants, they suck the juice
from the new growth and will
stunt growth and production. On
vegetable plants directions
should be carefully followed
relating to length of time between
spraying and the using of the
edible parts.
To Be Careful With Horses
The feeding of sudangrass or
the sudansorghum hybrids
Background Scripture Leviticus 19 18,
Deuteronomy 6 4 5, Mark 12 28-24,
Luke 10 25 27, Romans 13 8-10
Devotional Reading 1 Corinthians 13
A little boy was being ques
tioned by his grandmother con
cerning what he had learned in
Sunday school. “Do you know the
Ten Commandments’” she wanted
to know. “Well,” said the little
boy, “I was going to learn them,
but I heard talk
that they were go
ing to do away
with them.”
Perhaps he had
heard someone
observe that the
“new morality”
seems to be doing
away with the Ten
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He may have got
ten the impression that Jesus
himself had repealed the Ten
Commandments. For this is pre
cisely what his enemies charged.
This brazen Nazarene preacher
with his “new morality” was un
dermining all the old moral abso
lutes.
Fulfill, not destroy
Actually, they misunderstood
him and his intention. “Think not
that I have come to abolish the
law and the prophets; I have
come not to abolish them but to
fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17). Of
course, even that statement made
them angry, for why did the Ten
Commandments need to be ful
filled? The Ten Commandments
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should be done only to cattle and
not to any horses or mules.
Research work in Texas has
revealed a urinary infection
called cystitis from die eating of
these plants. Horses show a
wobbling gait andjiave difficulty
with their urinary functions.
Brood mares may throw still
born foals. Both sudan grass and
the sudan-sorghum hybrids are
very common in this area as
summer forage crops. Local
horsemen are urged to respect
these findings. The infection has
no cure at the moment and is
usually fatal.
To Control Weeds In
New Alfalfa Seedings
August seedings of alfalfa are
being made in the effort to get a
larger crop of this very valuable
forage crop that replaces high
cost protein feeds. We urge
livestock producers to grow a
maximum amount of this forage
to go along with their feed-grain
crops. Alfalfa is still “Queen” of
the forage crops and greater
yields are expected in the future.
As these seedings are made in the
next month, it is very important
to control the weeds; either use a
herbicide such as Eptam before
seeding to control the grass-type
weeds, or be sure to use one such
as 2,4,D,8 several weeks after
seeding when the weeds are one
to two inches high. Many growers
have failed to spray for weeds
when they should have because
they could not see many weeds;
then in a'few weeks the weeds
came and were too large to
control effectively Weed control
is a must when not using any
nurse crop
are quite clear
If, however, they had listened
to him carefully, they would have
understood that Jesus was advo
cating not a lower standard of
morality, but a higher one that
went beyond the letter of the law
to the very spirit and purpose of
the law. His “new morality” ac
tually aimed higher, not lower.
Jesus knew that moral choices
are not always simple and clear
cut There are times when one
cannot make a moral choice that
is wholly good and free from evil.
A man working for a firm that
indulges in unethical business
practices, for example, may find
it difficult to decide whether to
resign and thus witness to his
moral principals, or remain and
do what he can to change the
policies
The law, he knew, was only an
incomplete expression of the will
of God Thus, when they came
asking him what was the most
important of all the laws, he
summed up everything with this:
“You shall love the Lord your
God . . . and your neighbor as
yourself.” In short, the purpose
of God could be best summed up
in that one word, LOVE.
Beyond ifie word
Love was always the key to his
“You have heard ... but I say
to you . . .” God desires not only
truth from us, he taught, but
truth m love. The gift of sex
finds fulfillment in love, not ex
ploitation In speaking of the
child’s responsibility to honor his
parents, he called for love as both
the motive and the power for this
obedience. Again and again, ful
filling the law and the prophets
was dependent upon the power
of love
He was not content, however,
to merely speak this word “Love.”
It means too many different things
to different people. He made that
Word become flesh and in one
agonizing afternoon on a cross he
showed men all that he meant by
that one word . . . LOVE.