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10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 31,1977 CONSIDER LAND USE depends on everyone’s we will have a land use laws governing land use. f^g^p^^^wi^buriap^r As time goes on, the future support of the solution to that policy in Lancaster County - Now is the time for you to get v . . use of our Lancaster County problem. hopefully that policy will be involved, increase your s hot water until farm lands seems to be more At this time a lot of county the result of and m the m- knowledge m this area, and melts You might also BDI uncertain. As a New Years resolution it would be m order for all the residents of this county to become more aware and knowledgable in this area of land use. Our future as a major con tributor of food to the world NO MORE FOREIGNERS! Lesson for January 1,1978 Background Scripture: Ruth 1 through 4 Devotional Reading: Psalms 113 The Book of Ruth is a COMMENTS FROM READERS Why not grow our energy? Editor, Lancaster Farming: Food is for people - not profit cry the masses. Can a rational people enslave one segment of our great land to the servitude of the majority 9 Agricultural products are raw wealth just as coal, oil and gas are. Agricultural produce alone is a perpetually renewable raw wealth. Perhaps the agricultural strike will brag to light the fact that without agricultural purchasing power grass will grow in the streets of America! No other Farmer Editor, Lancaster Farming; With reports of up to half of U.S. farmers facing bankruptcy, I would think that every fanner in the country would be ready to do something to stop the situation. This fact certainly indicates that a proven way to raise farm income should be tried. This situation equals the sinking of the Lusitania, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and other things that made people realize that tney have to stand up and fight for their nghts or else have them taken away. The farmers need costs of production plus a reasonable profit. Supply and demand will not give the farmers a fair price because the buyers have much more power than any one farmer. Supply and demand would work if the RURAL ROUTE WE MIGHT AS WELL SEE THE NEW YEAR IN ON TV residents are talking about terest of a large number of the problem of future land county residents and not the use, but few people are efforts of and in the interest becoming actively involved of a few. in terming the future Currently some local Committments come hard governments are taking a and sometimes with per- hard look at their present, sonal sacrifice. Eventually but basically ineffective, dangerous book! At least that is the way it was regarded when it first ap peared and for a con siderable time thereafter. To even the casual reader of the Bible today that may sound preposterous, we all know the Book of Ruth to be an entertaining story of ten derness and devotion. How could anyone regard this story as “dangerous”? Foreigner from Moab In order to understand the significance of Ruth, we have to remember that in the day when it was written there was great concern and disapproval over any marriages between a Jew segment of Americans are asked to pay for the privilege of a job; yet the agriculture people have been doing just that and we say it must end! We agricultural women are saying our men are worth 100 per cent as much as any man in America - not just 65 per cent as parity dictates! We are mad! We are fighting for the lives of our men; a future for our children and the survival of a nation. We want our husbands by our side to enjoy in the twilight years needs better price farmers had the same power as the buyers. An individual farmer selling 10 cents over his neighbor is not the an swer. I believe that we as farmers have to organize and secure contracts with the processors to establish a fair price for us. All other segments of the economy are organized but the farmer. Therefore, we are taken advantage of. Fair prices to the farmer would decrease production if a man could make a living with 30 cows. He would not milk 60 and work the extra hours. This would make more farm jobs available. I think it is wrong for a fanner to do the work of two men and then complain about someone else being on welfare. We believe that the United States is the most advanced and a foreigner. Such a marriage, it was thought, weakens the religious solidarity and purity of the people of Israel. It was a day of arrogant nationalism. All foreigners were regarded with fear and contempt by the people of Israel. It was believed that the salvation of Israel lay in keeping free of any polluting contact with pagan neigh bors. Thus, the Book of Ruth descended upon the people of Israel like a bombshell. The heroine of the book is a foreigner--to be more specific, a Moabitess, an alien people who often were the fruits of our labor; not to have them dead too soon from fatigue and heartache. Heartache that our beautiful country has been economically ruined by a greed satiated only by the enslavement of a people; suddenly to find an entire nation consequently en slaved forever. The greatest civilization ever to be snuffed out in a short 200 years by the insatiable greed of the masses. Mrs. Wayne Peterson Halabird, S.D. country in history. We also have the strongest labor unions. The method of striking as labor unions do has gained their members great success. The fact that business sets their price by refusing to sell until they receive their price is the way business is done in most parts of the world. Even Lancaster Farming would refuse to renew my sub scription if I didn’t pay the full price. So the farmers who are striking are doing business the way business is done. Sincerely, Leland Stanford Dillsburg, Pa. Editor, Lancaster Farming; I am writing in reference to an article entitled “Non striking farmers have a good cause too.” (Turn to Page 15) By Tom Armstrong help form a realistic land use policy for Lancaster County. TO THAW PIPES PROPERLY The cold windy days of the past few weeks bring back memories of last winters frozen water pipes. bitter enemies. Not only is Ruth the Moabitess the central character of the book, but she is a model of piety and fidelity held up before all Israeli women. To make matters worse, this foreigner had married two Jewish men, Mahlon, Naomi’s son who died m Moab, and Boaz of Bethlehem, a kinsman of Naomi. Because of his wealth and position, Boaz was regarded as something of a “marriage catch.” How ironic that a foreigner landed him instead of a local girl of Israel. A boy named Obed But the most disturbing thing of all about the Book of Ag products are raw wealth Editor, Lancaster Farming: As farmers, we should be pushing harder to get our government interested in experiments in growing fuel. The advantages are many: 1. No balance of payments deficit; 2. More jobs; 3. Guaranteed adequate fuel, at constant or decreasing prices; 4. Energy in dependence; 5. Reduced automotive pollution, and 6. Stronger dollar and healthier economy. Looking at it a little more selfishly, it would also put agriculture to work at full throttle fur nishing raw materials for processing, and I’m sure we could all bear that burden cheerfully. This idea really is prac tical. I am aware of three different approaches, and there may be more: 1. Using plants similar to the rubber tree, or to the common milkweed, we could Careless hunter scorned Editor, Lancaster Fanning: After reading about the loss of a family horse - possibly by a careless hunter, perhaps this so called sportsman should have his eyes tested. I am sure he could qualify for blind pension. The Sueck family has made it clear that their land would be posted next year. Many more areas are being posted every year becaused by the so called friend of the farmer takes it upon himself to decide if the farmer’s dog, try using a hairdryer to blow heated air on the affected area. If you have to use a homeowners propane torch, be sure to have a bucket of water and a large sponge handy to quench the fire Ruth was the assertion that this Moabite foreign woman was to become the great grandmother of King David! The great David, according to this radical book, did not come from a racially - pure lineage, but one m which a foreigner played a prominent part. Readers of this book were doubtless scandalized at this thought. Ruth was a Moabitess, but she might just as easily have been an Ammonite or Egyptian. The point the writer is making is that in the sight of God there is no such thing as a foreigner or ahen. The key is not a per son’s lineage, but their character. In a sense, Ruth conservatively produce over two billion barrels of oil on 200,000 square miles of U.S. land unsuited for other crops. This amount is equal to our imports of 1975. 2. Sugar cane, sugar beets, com, com stalks, straw, wood, manure-practically any form of orgamc matter can be used to make alcohol. Under proper conditions, it gives mileage equivalent to gasoline with no pollution. Even now, in bulk quantites alcohol costs about the same as gasoline - what would increased efficiencies bring? 3. Usmg just that wood and timber which would result from intensified culling and thinning of our forests and woodlands, we could produce energy in the form of charcoal at least equal to our oil imports. Charcoal has more energy per pound than coal, is much less polluting, and would cost no more - cat, cow, etc, have the right to live. Posting of land is not only time consuming but costly. It is my opinion that the Pa. State Game Commission should post signs only where hunting is allowed. All other land should be treated as off limits. If the hunters con tinue to act like they have m the past, the Commission I am sure will not have to purchase many posters. As it stands now the Game Commission makes from $8 and up on each hunter. Guns and ammunition Farm Calendar Sunday, Jan. 1 Have a Happy New Year! Monday, Jan. 2 Lower Dauphin Young Farmers meet, 7 30 p.m. Lower Dauphin High School, along Route 322, Hummelstown. Tuesday, Jan. 3 Farm Income Tax meeting, County Cupboard Restaurant, Lewisburg. (Turn t 0 Page 15) should the wall or wood start to smolder. PLANT TREES The care and planting of shade trees is a home property chore that can be (Turn to Page 76) was a better Jewess than many of most of her con temporaries. Her life was pleasing in God’s sight Last February I stood on the mountainous heights of Moab (now Jordan) and looked across the Dead Sea to Bethlehem. Thougn thousands of years have passed, I realized that there is still a terrible enmity between the people of Bethlehem and Moab. They are still hostile and regard each other as “foreigners” and “enemies.” How long before all peoples take to heart the story of Ruth and leam that m God’s sight there are no foreigners at all? perhaps less - with volume production. Why does our President and our Congress persist in seeking to perpetuate our dependence on foreign oil, which in effect is leading us down an ever-narrowing alley toward a dead end which everyone knows is there, somewhere? I suspect that all those who are in volved with our present oil industry, are applying pressure. Our only recourse is education and publicity - let the public know that there are workable alternatives, and let them know all of the advantages accruing from them. Hopefully, they will care enough to make sure they are tried. Not only could these alternatives greatly affect agriculture, they could affect the very future of this, our beloved country. Sincerely Eugene Sellers Trout Run, Pa. manufacturers make millions of dollars. Also/ garment manufacturers foot wear, knives plus many other articles which is a part of hunting, make big profits. Take a good look at this land owners and ask yourself what did you get out of this multi-million dollar deal other than a lot of sorrows and headaches. As I do not wish to sign my name I do hope that your paper will print the truth as I am sure that I am speaking for a good many land owners. Ephrata Area Young Far mers meeting, Minnesota Farm Records is topic, 7:45 p.m. at high school. York-Adams County Forage and Small Grams meeting, 10 a.m. at the York County 4-H Center. Topics of interest: sod seeding, weed control, varieties, fertilization