—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 29, 1973
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MOVILLE, lOWA, RECORD; “It isn’t the
people who want something for nothing
causing all the trouble ... it’s the ones that
have succeeded in getting it.”
BLAIR, NEBR., PILOT-TRIBUNE: “What
would you guess, if someone asked you to
name the single category of goods or
services that Americans spend the most
on? Food? That would be a popular guess,
right now. Or perhaps housing? Well, get
ready for a shock. In 1971, we spent a total
of $332.6 billion to purchase food, clothing,
housing and automobiles. The same year,
we spent $338.5 billion on local, state and
federal government.”
ACTON, MASS., LITTLETON IN
DEPENDENT: "Salvation for this country’s
economic system and its way of life does
not he in increased federal government
expenditure, more programs, and more
controls. Instead, it lies in individual
initiative and desire to produce. Every
effort must be made to stimulate a desire
for quality and excellence. Rewards should
be for those who perform, rather than for
those who shirk. Money should be invested
in the free enterprise system, rather than
in the sink of government inefficiency and
carelessness where it is all too easily
washed down the dram. If the voters
demanded an end to wasteful government
spending, loud and clear, there might still
be a chance of bringing about a reversal of
the tide of welfarism which threatens to
engulf this country. Will they speak out in
time 7”
A Calendar of Fact and Opinion
"The average taxpayer probably finds it
difficult to comprehend the size of the
1974 federal budget," comments CIPSCO
News, a Central Illinois Public Service
Company publication, "of $268 7 billion
But broken down to what such spending
costs each family m the United
States more than $3,800, the huge
budget is viewed in a more personal
perspective. The average American
Going to Market
Grassroots Opinion
ALTOONA, PA., MIRROR: “Deficit
sharing and guaranteed annual tax in
creases, that’s about what the Democrats
and Republicans are both promising us,
more or less."
ST. MARYS, MO., WEEKLY REVIEW:
“Who is going to sacrifice to ease the
gasoline shortage? Are you going to cut
down on gas usage, drive a "smaller car,
walk, ride a bicycle, forego a trip, adjust
your poor driving habits, etc.--or is it going
to be the guy down the street? But he's
thinking the same thing about you ..."
CROOKSVILLE, OHIO, CROOKSVILLE
ROSEVILLE MESSENGER: “The soaring
rise in prices reminds us that inflation is
like flirting with a girl... By the time you
become alarmed, there doesn’t seem to be
anything you can do about it!... The price
of beef is so high, for example, that cows
are no longer being branded: they’re being
engraved.”
BARNESVILLE, MINN., RECORD
REVIEW; “We have been told that the
government is going to put a lot of money
into a new rocket and ... rumor has it that
it will be named the ‘Civil Servant’... you
can’t fire it... it won’t work ... and it'll
cost the taxpayers a fortune."
WIBAUX, MONT., PIONEER-GAZETTE;
“if some of the ‘dead wood’ were
rousted out of Washington, D.C. and
honest, hard-working people were allowed
to run our government, maybe ...
freeze (s) wouldn’t be necessary."
household’s share of the 1974 budget is
$3,811, which is more than 76 percent
higher than federal spending per
household just 10 years ago Even the cost
of spending all this money keeps going up.
Every household would have'to cough up
$B5 this year just to cover the cost of
operating the government, an increase of
130 percent over the 1964 cost of $37.”
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NOW IS
THE TIME . . .
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
To Apply Lime
Fields going into winter grain
and then to be seeded down next
spring, should be checked for
lime before seeding. If Lime is
needed, it is best to work the lime
into the ground before the
seeding this fall. The practice of
putting the lime on top of the
grain field this winter or next
spring is not getting the best use
of the lime. Most stands of clover,
and alfalfa will do best if the soil
is close to the 6.5 to 7.0 pH range.
Growers are urged to have their
soil tested soon and incorporate
the lime into the soil this fall. It
takes from one to two years for
ground limestone to do full value
to the soil.
To Manage Dairy Herd
Carefully
Good herd management is
always important but milk
producers that are grazing their
cows on final growth of clover or
alfalfa must be careful to avoid
off-flavored milk. The cows
should be allowed to graze the
area only after the milking period
and be taken from it at least four
hours before the next milking. On
some farms the clover and alfalfa
fields are grazed late into the fall
to utilize the maximum amount
of forage; this can be done with
careful management. The cows
should be allowed to graze the
legume plants only when the
plants are dry and never when
covered with frost. Severe cases
of bloating may occur when these
practices are not followed.
EXCHANGING
GLORY
Lesson for September 24,1973
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Davatianal Raadinf Ramans 1 1-12
A man who worked at the ex
change desk of a large depart
ment store once told me, “You
wouldn’t believe some of the peo
ple who come to me!” Although
there are many legitimate ex
changes, he said, many times peo
ple want to ex
change merchan
dise simply be
cause they find it
difficult to be sat
isfied with what
they have.
I do not find
that difficult to
believe for I have
Rev. Althouse observed many
times that one of
our most pervasive human per
sonality traits is our constant dis
satisfaction with what we have.
The old proverb, of course, is
that “The grass is always greener
on the other side of the fence.”
Who has not chuckled at the ri
diculous sight of a cow, her head
through fence staves, chewing
emestly at grass just outside her
pasture and ignoring the equally
appealing grass upon which she
is standing?
The truth for a lie
Of coursey the reason we chuck
le at dumb animals is frequently
in that we know that people often
behave in much the same way.
People often seem to have the
same difficulty in seeing what is
valuable in their own midst As
To Rodent Proof
Grain Bins and Cribs
The corn harvest is at hand and
it appears to be a good crop.
Proper storage is very important
and this means protection from
both the weather and rodents.
Many cribs do not have any
protection from rats and mice
and if the corn is to be stored for
any length of time, they will do
considerable damage. The use of
concrete, hardware cloth, and
metal sheets will prevent the
rodents from climbing into the
stored corn. A rat poison control
program can be used in order to
keep down the rat population. All
broken floors and open stone or
concrete walls should be filled in
order to prevent nesting. Every
farmer should put on a rat control
program in order to protect his
stored grains and other products.
To Beware of Frosted
Forage Crops
The time is here when we could
be getting a killing frost; this
makes little difference to most
grasses and forage crops;
however in the case of sudan
grass, sorghum, or the sudan
sorghum hybrids, it could mean
the development of prussic acid
in the plant and toxicity to
animals. Growers with these
crops should prevent the fresh
eating of the frosted crops until
one week has passed; when dry
the frosted plants may be con
sumed without danger. Also, the
making of the frosted sorghum
into silage and permitting to
ferment for at least 30 days is
another method of utilizing these
crops. Careful management is
needed after a killing frost.
Paul put it to the Christians at
Rome, “ . . . they exchanged the
truth about God for a lie ”
(1-25).
For some strange reason, the
truth is often less attractive to
us than a lie or an error Most
people believe lies because they
have a desire to believe easy lies
rather than hard truths. If the
truth is challenging, if it requires
something of us, we will tend to
embrace a lie that asks nothing
of us Very often, then, people
will exchange the truth about
God for a lie because the lie is
more comfortable in the short
run. We give up eternal truth, ex
changing it for untruths and half
truths because of the lure of tem
porary gain or benefit
A poor exchange
Thus, what may seem a good
deal now may very well turn out
to be a poor exchange, the worst
of deals. Is it in one of Aesop’s
fables that a dog with a bone in
his mouth stares fascinated at his
reflection in the water. Thinking
his reflection to be another dog
with a bigger bone, he opens his
mouth to growl and claim the
prize below. In doing so, of
course, he loses the bone he has
and gets nothing but the shatter
ing of an illusion
So it is with men. Paul says it
simply, but eloquently. “Claim
mg to be wise, they became fools,
and exchanged the glory of the
immortal God for images re
sembling mortal man ”(1-23)
Of course, technically speaking,
we no longer worship idols, god
like figurines But idolatry goes
beyond that and means accepting
something less than God as a sub
stitute for him Thus defined,
idolatry is still with us’ How
often we pass up the Creator for
a creature or a created thing, ex
changing it and letting go the
glory of God
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