- Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 23,1977 10 EDITORIAL COMMENTS Bad eggs in Washington When conducting studies and investigations, one would naturally assume that government would take a neutral stand. But that’s not so. The bureaucrats in Washington have their pet theories and ideas, and they aren’t ashamed to fund them. It happened, for example, when the Federal Trade Commission was looking into advertising as it related to eggs and alleged cholesterol content. Proceedings m that case went on and on. The egg people were given their opportunity to cite studies. The opposition was given the same opportunity. The difference was that-our federal government often picked up the expense tabs for those who proclaimed their antagonism against the good egg. The pro-egg fellows were left high and dry to fend for themselves. These rigged proceedings aren't the only example of governmental unfairness. Allan Grant, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, recently announced that his organization has requested the federal government to “stop funding the participation of private groups in governmental proceedings.” The AFBF concerned itself primarily with the Federal Energy Administration's funding of a private group, the Consumer Union, for the purpose of World weather round-up In this sophisticated age of computers and satellites, it’s not unrealistic to have a program by which global weather conditions would be given more considerationhv agricultural planning and management. With global weather information at our fingertips, it may be easier to decide how much to plant and when to sell. The idea is being kicked around in some places. It’s highly improbable -- if not impossible -- that man will suc cessfully be able to alter the weather significantly, or even control it. But it is possible to keep data on clouds, rams, drought, etc. flowing into computers, and to then use the in formation for agricultural planning. One of the experts in this field is Dr. James McQuigg.a meteorologist from RURAL ROUTE trvmg The Centrof ond Soolheosfem Penmyivomo Areas By Dieter Krieg, Editor financing legal action against certain businesses. The FEA allegedly provided the Consumers Union with $BOOO to hire lawyers and fly in witnesses. The same procedure held true in the egg advertising case. The excuse is, “to promote public participation in regulatory activities." In his letter to James Schlesinger, assistant to President Carter, Grant stated: “We believe that the FEA ought not to place itself in the position of selecting any special interest group over another for the receipt of federal funds. Such action is fraught with favoritism. Further, it is unthinkable that any federal agendy would consider the use of the taxing power of the federal govern ment as a means of generating funding for a ‘public interest' group.” Grant's request unfortunately falls short of including other agencies such as the FTC, which exhibited gross unfairness in dealing with the egg advertising hearings. God only knows how many other examples of governmental unfairness could be cited, but it's highly probable the guilty list goes far beyond what was k reported here. Have you notified your Congressman you’re disgusted with such misrepresentation of your tax money? the University of Missouri. He urges farmers to demand detailed reports on global weather and argues that known weather conditions can produce accurate and predictable ■crop data. He says that with global weather information at hand, farmers can be “one step closer to predicting gram prices." The idea is not all that unique, according to McQuigg, who explains that Russia, Australia, India, Canada, Egypt and Japan all have facilities to monitor global weather. The United States does too, but it is not being used much for agricultural purposes. Making use of global weather data just could be a key to producing more food at less cost, and at the same time add a bit of stability to supplies and prices. m “LOW SUNDAY” Background Scripture: Mark 16:9-20; Luke 24:36-52. In many churches the Sunday after Easter is known as “Low Sunday.” One of my reference books says that “the origin of this title is not known,” but anyone in the Christian ministry can tell you what its probable derivation is: the Sunday after Easter usually sees a striking decline in attendence in most churches. For the pastor who is exhausted from the ministerial marathon of Lent and Holy Week it is often also “Low Sunday” both physiologically and psychologically. Lent is over; Easter has come and gone for another year. You are Witnesses If there Is any truth in this observation, then there must be something radically wrong in the way we un derstand and observe the meaning of Lent and Easter. “Low Sunday” is a seeming denial of the significance of Jesus’ resurrection which is more to be regarded as a beginning than an ending. The Gospels are in structive for us: what happened after the first Easter? Did the disciples go back to their homes with a warm, but temporary feeling of well-being and victory something akin to having one’s team win the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NCAA, or the Stanley Cup? (no matter how excited we may get over these, how stale they seem a few days later.) No, it was not “back to business-as-usual” for the disciples. In fact, it would never again be “back” to anything. The resurrection faith is like any other im portant spiritual truth: it is not just something to “know,” but something “to live out” in our lives. It was not enough for the disciples to know that Jesus was risen, but the fact of his resurrection was something which was to deeply affect the way they lived for the rest of their days. There was no “Low Sunday” following the first Easter. Jesus came to his disciples, not just to celebrate what had hap pened in the garden tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, but to tell them what to do about it. After the celebration there was a commission: “...repentance and forgiveness of sins should be By Tom Armstrong Lesson for April 24,1977 Devotional Reading: John 20; 19-31. TO SHEAR SHEEP Many flocks of sheep in this part of the country are in need of shearing in the very near future. Too many producers allow the fleece to remain on the sheep too far into hot weather. The'sheep will do much better and the (Please see \ page 115 J nursing ewe will give more milk if the fleece is removed during the Winter or early Spring. Also, 'many of the sheep will start rubbing during the hot weather and lose some of their wool. We are aware of breeders who shear their ewes before the lambing time and get along fine. After the fleece is off the sheep, it should be tied with paper twine and kept in a clean and dry place until marketed. TO APPLY CORN INSECTICIDES?. Corn planting time has preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are wit nesses of these things” (24:47). Continually in the temple It is interesting that following the great com mission the disciples “were continually in the temple praising God” (24:53). Quite unlike our experience today, the fact of Easter was not a signal to decrease, but to increase their devotion to God. Not only did life go on after Easter, it accelerated. It is not the attendence in church on “Low Sunday” that I am concerned about, but the implicit meaning of that let-down. It does not bother me that churches are usually overflowing on Easter Sunday, but that so many of those attending do not realize that the celebration of Easter is meaningless without the commission of Easter. “You are witnesses” said Jesus. The witness not only knows something, be* also must testify to what he knows. If Easter is worth celebrating, it is also worth im plementing. To sing that “Chirst is risen” is futile if we go bade to “business-as usual.” Farm Calendar Today, April 23 Chester CountyCooservation District Tree Seedling Sale, begins at 9 a.m. Call 215-696-5126 for details. Pennsylvania Polled Hereford Association Sale, Bedford Monday, April 25 Fruit growers school begins, lasts through Wed nesday, at Sun Area Vo- Tech School, New Berlin, Pa. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 26 Tevoca FFA annual awards banquet, 6:30 p.m. at the Brownstown Vo-Tech School. Ephrata Area Young Far mers bowling party, 7-10 p.m. at Ephrata Rec. Lanes. NOW IS THE TIME.., Max Smith County Agr. Agent Telephone 394-6851 arrived and soon the g 1977 corn crop in this j will go into the grot There are many impor practices to planting a t crop but one that should be over-looked is the plication of an insecticid the row at planting tin control corn rootwo Fields that have been in < for a number of years more likely to carry rootworn infecti Materials such as Fural Dasanit, or Dyfonate ms used in a band over the of corn. The 1977 Agrono Guide will give additu details. The important tl is to make this insectu application at planting to TO CONTROL JOHNSON GRASS. We repeat the need for si special attention to this n growing grassy-type we There are far too many fu carrying a heavy infestal and control methods needed. This weed rea bles a sorghum plant i will grow six to eight I high. In com fields it suggested that Eradicane disced into the soft dm late May and early June the com planting be dels; until after that time. Then little that can be done control Johnson Grass early planted corn. 1 Eradicane treatment mi be delayed until late May order to kill the growing the shoots from thsrhizon in the soil. Johnson Grass small grain fields may allowed to grow, after gc harvest, to the boot stage development, and then spi with Roundup herbicn Again, the Agronomy Gu will give additional deta TO BE CAREFUL WITH FERTILIZER PLACEMENT. Many crops will be getb some chemical fertilizer the coming weeks; most our soils need additioi nitrogen, phosphorus, i potash to grow maxiim yields. However, we stun realize the possible dan{ of burning seeds or rex when they come into dire contact with either nitroj or potash fertilizers. Eitt of these elements will sti or prevent germinate (Continued on Page 15] Thursday, April 28 Adams County 4-H Dan Club meets, 7:30 p.m i St. James Lutheri Church, Gettysburg. Mi 1 is deadline f< designating proj«< animals for showing 1 1977 4-H shows. Friday, April 29 Regional Conference 0 Land Policy Options, a.m. to 4 p.m. at the H» Town Inn, Keller Av» Lancaster. Saturday, April 30 Adams Electn Cooperative. Inc. hoK annual membershi meeting at Sheraton In l five miles south 1 Gettysburg. 5 p» dinner 6:30 p.m.
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