4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, 'flovemaer in, 1955-
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1935
Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS
Quarryvilje, Pa.
Alfred C. Alspach.
Ernest ]. Neill
C. Wallace Abel. .
Robert G. Campbell
Robert J, Wiggins .
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This year’s food bill will be a record-breaking $66
billion ox more, some 1.5 million greater than that ot 1954.
Add to this bountiful supplies, stable or declining prices,
and the outlook for the consumer is rosy.
Meat is plentiful. Despite flood and drought, msjny
sections are recording the greatest harvest since 1948. High
er retail prices in the lines of apparel, household appliances
and 1956 model automobiles are also predicted by experts.
Paul S Willis, president of the Groceiy Manufactur-
America, a rising volume of business, plus
vast improvements in production; processing and packaging
foods has enabled the food industry to offset sharp increases
in wages, taxeaand transportation costs.
.Americans now are spending 25 cents of each after
tax dollar for food, compared to 22 cents in I9By on a total
food bill of but $l6 million.
Food preparation has been simplified, by canning,
freezing, dehydration, pre-packing and concentration, uaxe
mixes have -spurred the sale of that type flour to new rec
ords
The outlook is encouraging, and the role ot the to,od
producer is-more important than ever. He’-s producing more
per acre, feeding more people per acre today than ever
before, with reduced agricultural labor numoeis.
Pennsylvanians by the hundreds this year moved
their cooking outdoors. The result? Some mighty delicious
food some underdone food, some overdone lood, some ex
cellent hospitality, a few burned fingers and spark-burned
slacks
Not only has this phenomenon ot cookery nacl its
effects in Pennsylvania. It’s nationwide. Escoiiiers oi tne
Barebecue have developed by the hundreds, and every man
is master of the grill pit or spit. Modern as Hie idea is, costly
as it sometimes may be, -today’s -barbecue specialist is re
verting back to the old tale of the Chinese, who tnousands
of years ago started outdoor cooking on a more expensive
basis.
There, the story is, pigs shared the homes. One home
with its complement of pigs —'burned. In pulling char
red carcasses from the ruins, one Chinese licked his-tmgers.
He was pleased. Thence cam'e a rash ot home burnings r
and-roast pigs. ‘ ' 1
True or not, the Chinese method was expensive.
Probably as expensive as the $lB millions Americans spent
last year for grills, barbecue equipment, braziers and allied
“essentials”. Then there’s the bill tor charcoal ana newiy
developed anthracite cooking fuels. No mention of barbecue
sauce, oceans of lotions and Unguentine for burped lingers.
Most offside of all the Barbecue Specialists we can
throw names at is the one who 1. lashes choice steans wnn
dashes of barbecue sauce; 2. who cooks the hte out ot a
choice steak, or serves it equally under-done; 3. ne wno
cooks chicken too quickly, ending up with burned exterior,
ultra-rare interior.
Fall’s here, a mighty good season tor barbecuing, am
soon winter will come, barbecue equipment will be silently
folded away, cooking will return to the regime of the haus
frau, tongues will no longer burn with the overzeaious uasn
of pepper and hot sauce. But it’s a safe bet there’ll be a
yearning'for returning to the back yard, the smoke and
flames, the overdone, the underdone; while the nation toies
up a 1955 barbecue bill of $3O millions or moi e. ’
FARM SAFETY
No matter what the season, farm machinery can aeai
a mighty deep injury to the individual. -Careless, you say.'
Accidents do happen, and you need but check the dalily
headlines to see. Not always is carelessness a factor.
“Boy Catches Finger in Saw.”
“Farmer’s Arm Caught in Picker.'
“Farm Hand’s Finger Amputated.”
“Wounded by Pitchfork.”
No need to write yojir own headline. Just reraemper
the National Safety Council’s slogan tor the year,-men
THINK.
“Safety isM) Accident,”
(Lancaster Phone 4-3047)
STAFF
FOOD BILL RECOKU
COOKING OUTDOORS
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Phone 378
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... Editor
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Circulation Director
Nimrods Be
Sure to Use
Safety Rules
Shotguns are booming and
rifles crack mg as an army of
hunters take the field again in
search of game. W- A. Caldwell,
of the National .Grange Mutual
Liability Company, urged Nim
rods to make sure they had
plenty of fun by observing all
the safety rules with guns-
Mr Caldwell citea the tal
lowing figures from the Penn
sylvania Game Commission of
the hunters killed in the hunt-
ihg field by sporting arms in
, Pennsylvania in 1954; nine were
self-caused, two died .because
guns were placed in a danger
ous position; two pm not see
victim in line of fire; one hunt
a ertiropped gun; guns accidental
ly discharged in the hands of
hunters kilted six persons; in
the “hunter slipped and fell
J Iwtfi thei'eafety off” Category,
■ were five de' hs; while five
were shot to ciath m mistake'
for gaffie.
' As far as Pennsylvania rural
residents wea’e concerned, the
insurance’ man stated there
were no deaths from gun acci
dents this year and none in
1954- Three were killed in 1953;
three in '1953, and one in 1951.
This on the basis of accidents
reported to the Division pi
Farm and Home Safety' Educa
tion, State .Department of Pub
lic Instruction- *
Mr- Caldwell urged 'hunters
to heed the following safety
rules this year
1. Always consider'your gun
loaded.
2 Be sure of your target
3 Do not hunt hear roads or
buildings ~
4. Know where the other
members of your party
are belore you shoot-
5. Always unload your, gun
before’putting it in the
car o>- attempting to
clean it. This is the law.
it.
Farm Calendar
NOVEMBER
Nov. 22 County Holstein
Friesian meeting, Gap Fire
Hall.
-Noy. 24 Thanksgiving Day
DECEMBER
f)ec 1 Entry closing date for
turkeys, 4-H and vocational
poultry classes, Pennsylvania
Farm Show.
Dec 5-7 Farm Income Tax
Social Security short course
Pennsylvania U.
Dec. 5-10 Ice Cream for Sup
- ply-Men Short Course, Penn
sylvama U.
Dec.-12 Entry closing date
for -bohler, fryer and roast
er chickens, Pennsylvania
Farm Show.
Dec. 15 —■ (Tentative Lan
caster County Farm Equip
meent Dalers Christmas din
ner meeting, Hostetterls
Banquet Hall, Mount Joy.
Dec 17 Entry closing dale,
4-H beeves, 4-H sheep, Penn
sylvania Farm Show.
Many Angles to
Be Studied
Tenancy is most common in
.productive farm.ng areas This
is because the farm has to pro
vide a living for-both the tenant
and the landlord, -according to
Jerome K Pasto, associate pro“
fessor of farm management, and
Murray W. Fisße, in Pennsyt
vania State University’s “Science
foi the. Farmer”.,
There' are many angles to the
Question of renting a -farm, but
only the financial side of a study
of 300 Lancaster count?/ farm, ac
counts is-considered hare. These
records covered the 30-year
period, 1921-50 years of wide
ferent effects on incomes of ten
swings in business .activity.'
Changes |ri Price Levels
- Conget in price, tovg|s"had Jif
Background Scripture: Luke 7; 8-22-
80.
Devotional Reading; Romans 8-31-39
Powers o! God
Lesson for November 30, 1955
JESUS no doubt did many'ordi
nary things, such as paying his
bills and eating his breakfast. It
■may well be that he “never dis
an ordinary tljing in an ordinary
way.” (How would he pay you
what he owed for lumber for his
carpenter shop’ How would he
rhe as a break!'
But it is also trui
by all the rec.ord;
that he did soitai
e*xtr*ordfnar
things, so extraor
binary in fact'tha
no' one wof(T cot®
quite descnb
them. The Gospel
writers, all o
whom of course
used Greek, used Dr - Foreman
sometimes a word meaning
"Sign,” sometimes one meaning
“wonder, miracle," and some
times one that means "power.”
The same Greek words is trans
lated in different ways. For ex
ample; the Greek word "dyna
mis” (power) is translated in .the
old King James'version “power”
in Luke 5:17, "virtue” in 6:19,
"mighty works” in 10:13, "mira
cles” in Acts 2:22.
No Show-off
You can get into all kinds of
stupid and endless- arguments
over the “miracles” of the New
Testament They are not always
labeled as such, or labeled with
any word. The Gospels will just
tell -what Jesus did, and let the
reader draw h«s own conclusions.
. What they all agree on is that
Jesus performed acts of power
which no one else could match.
He did these things as naturally
as you would pick a blackberry
—as naturally but perhaps not so
easily. As he himself expressed
it, he could perceive "power” go
ing out of him. (Luke 8:46, R.S.‘V.)
. However hard it may he to un
derstand Jesus’ miracles, we can
-confidently say three things about
them. One is that he did not do
them “just to be doing them.”
They were never aimless, or at
random. Further, they never tfad
the aim of showing off To the
end of his days Jesus was beset
by demands from the Pharisees
and others, to show a “sign from
heaven ’’ One of his early temp
tatxons was to cast himself down
from a pinnacle of the Temple
and expect God or his angels, to
see that he did not get hurt in
the fall. "But he did not yield to
that temptation.
Never Too Much
Another striking fact about his
miracles is that he never wasted
power. -He never did \vhat others
could do. When be fed the five
thqusand, he got the people to sit
down In orderly fashion and got
his disciples "to help distribute the
food. One would suppose it would
have been just as easy for him to
arrange -for -every person -present
to find a loaf and a fish suddenly
in his hand; but Jesus did pot
work that way. Or again, after
the tremendous miracle of. restor
ing to life the little daughter of
Jairus, Jesus —instead of produc
ing lunch for her himself by a
miracle—gives orders to the fam
ily to get the little girl something
to eat When he healed the paia.-
lytic, he told him to pick up his
pallet and go home.
ants -and Owner-operators. In the
depression years, 1930-34, the
fafinly labor incomes of ownfers
.was only $35 per year, while ten
ants averaged $726. Owners’ fix
ed costs, such as taxes, insurance
repairs - and - interest continued at
fairly high levels, hut tenants ex
penses dropped. A. tenant is bet
ter able to adjust to falling prices
than is the owner. But as the de
pression „was left behind, owners’
incomes fteppedjjp Wsr-an4 t 0
higher levels .than did the, - in
comeof -tenants'-ia
GOVERNOR OF
PENNSYLVANIA IN
PROCLAMATION
Thanksgiving Day - Noveni
24. 1955
Since (the Pilgrim Fathers ci
brated the first Thanksgn
Day at Plymouth in 1621, a d
sense of gratitude to- Ailmig
God for His endless gifts to
has 'been a basic and abiding
fluence on our lives
Those early settlers at han
time offered their jbhanks
•God’s gifts to them, the si®
gifts of food, shelter, and sal
Today at harvest time we ;
inowledge 'much more. We
the fruition of their' hopes
freedom—to live, to work, to i
ship, in a land of opportunity
all At harvest time let us cr
with humMy -grateful hearts
give thanks.to the Giver,of th
gifts:
In this time of tension i
(strife, it is more than ever ne<
isary -to remember the myr
JMessings given us and ren
fervent thanks to God. It is fj
,Jlim that-we receive the strep
we need' to face the day and
ihapewe must have to meet
future.
In' keeping with the 'he
warming spirit of Thanksgiv
November- -has been chose
Given under my tend and
Great Seal of the State, at
City of Harrisburg, this te
day of November, in the year
our Lord one thousand n
hundred and fifty-five and
the Commonwealth the one Ji
died and eightieth. George
Leader, Governor.
STOEE EGGS
ißiefrr { rate egg't. 'promt
They lose their freshness rap
at room temperature,-or w
saya Elsie Bamesberger, Pj
IState extension consumer edq
ition specialist.
Simon Peter, who was far mi
impressed by Jesus’ fhirsi|
than by what he said, Bumr|
up a great deal when he said ®
Jesus, endowed with divine p|
er, “went about doing goi
(Acts 10:38.) Our Lord’s acts
power were always done for J
help of other persons. This is I
great distinction between Chr j
miracles and those done, oil
legedly done, by magic.
typical magic-worker make®
doll and sticks pins in it,, hog
by this means |p inflict pain*
death on some one. Whetbei|
not magic is anything real, m|
is malicious by intention. Je|
miracles on the contrary J
never malicious, but the exaci
posite—they were acts of m
ness and generous help. 5 J|
neyer called up genies out nil
ties, he never created fire-fer J
ing tfragoris, he -never prbdi
potions of love or death. Alls
miracles simply restored- hei
life, strength, gave food to|
hungry, eye* to the blind . . I
and good news to'the poor. I
In listing for John the Bap®
benefit the acts of power he I
doing, he names as. climax I
the raising of the -dead, 4>ut|
coming of good news to the i
That is a miracle we *tfll tool
dom see! I
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