4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 25, 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4. 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 • Lancaster Phone 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach ... Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel Robert G. Campbell .. Robert J. Wiggins ... Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5c Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3.1879 CHICKENS OF TOMORROW Conclusion of the recent statewide Chicken-of-To morrow Contest proved many things. First, the younger farm generation has received excellent cooperation from hatcheries and feed companies. Secondly, interest in poul try production has been increased Quality of broilers and fryers is being improved. Ninety-four per cent of the entries sold, setting the best record in ten years. Although the fop price of $6 per pound was 50 cents below last year’s record, second and third place winners received more than twice last year’s average. One of the things youngsters need most in develop ing into agricultural lines as a future profession is en couragement Such they receive in the Chicken-of-Tomor row Contest. . During a visit with the Green Tree Thimble Club this week, recollections of a day gone by came to mind. Every winter the family back on the farm was banished from the living room Not exactly banished, but at least crowded out. When the first snows fell,'mother brought down from the attic the well used quilting frame. All furniture in the living room was shoved to the walls. The huge frame was balanced on chairs, tables, at an angle' across the room This made passage as easy as an army training camp obstacle course. There was a deftness in her needle, a certainty in her thimble, a little more artistic choice of color and fabric than the youngsters underfoot were wont to admit. There were wedding rings, double wedding rings, patchwork, stitched satin and sateen. Spring arrived, the beautiful quilt was done. Today it has joined the heirlooms A good many earlier produc tions were worn out through the economy-minded house wife whose time was for practical things primarily. A tribute’s due the Green Tree Thimble Club for carrying on a tradition. COMPANY TOWNS, COMPANY STORES Still the song “16 Tons”, and “I owe my soul to the company store” rings out, and an item in today’s 50-Year- Ago columns of Lancaster Farming refers to a company town. Pennsylvania has had its company towns with mining firms, perhaps the type referred to in the song “16 Tons.” Today’s reference in the 50 Years Ago column is Wilson, Ark., a town constructed, built and operated by R. E. Wilson. Today Wilson, Ark., is one of the most beautiful in northeastern Arkansas. Its streets lined with red roses present an outstanding sight each June. * 1 There are other company towns, towns that were established as company towns down south, like Bell City, Mo., founded by other extensive landholders and cattle ment, the Bell family; there’s Bird Eye, Ark, an outstand ing Angus plantation-farm; Brook View Farms’ Herefords graze in bluegrass pastures on all sides of the tiny town of Pine Grove, Ky. Many of these company towns have disappeared as such, growing into more proper metropolis stature, but their history is most interesting. The role they played in Starting extensive land openings is too often overlooked today. 25 PER CENT FOR FOOD . The average American family spends about 25 per cent of its wage income for food. That was true in 1920; it is true now. But in 1956, The average diet contains more meat, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits. We eat less cereals, less potatoes. STAFF QUILTING BUSINESS Publisher .. Editor , Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago THs Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906)' By JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1906) Wisconsin Farmer’s Children Pulled Plow ‘Complaints had been made against a farmer living five miles southeast of Nennah, Wis, that be had been hitching four of his seven children to a corn plow or cultivator which he compelled them to drag through a 10-acre truck field, while he guided it. Farmers in the vicin ity and persons from Oshkosh riding along the highway in carnages had witnessed the strange sight. Attention of au thorities was ca!led_to the mat ter, and after securing substan tiation of the facts an agent of the Fox Kiver Valley Humane Society, went to the farmer and compelled him' to send five of his children to school. The ma jority of the children were girls, the eldest being 14 years of age Dr. Wilkie stated the plow had harness attached to it, which was put over the shoulders of the children The fanner claim ed the plow was very light, and was used merely to stir up the top soil > h > Pittsburgh Livestock Market, May 25, 1906 Cattle steady, choice, $65 and $5 90; prime, $5 35 and $5 60 Hogs active; prime heavies mediums, Yorkers and pigs, $6.60 and $6 65, roughs, $5.50 and $575 Sheep steady; prime wethers $5.40 and $5 50, culls and common, $2 50 and $3.50, lambs, $4 and $6 60, veal calves, $6 and' $6 50. In a duel between two farmers, near Jacksonville, Miss- Sid Hopkins used a pitchfork and John Mc- Adams a knife. Hopkins was fatally injured and Mc- Adams had one eye put out. Get A Horse! Or Keep A Team Half a century ago farmers were advised to not go longing for an automobile when they had a fine team of horses at their command. It was stated “ The horses are not half as like ly to land you in a ditch and you can usually count -on their not playing out before you’ve reached your destination”. Rained Fish; Preacher Said So At Aberdeen, S D, May 28, 1906, during a violent rainstorm thousands of live fish fell from the clouds and were found wig gling in shallow pools and lying dead on sidewalks Rev. Mar shall Montgomery, rector of St. Mark’s Church, was the first to report the phenomenon, after he picked up a number of the fish. Several of his neighbors captured many of the fish alive and placed them in aquariums. Grain Elevator Slides Into River Fifty years ago this week, at Fort William, Ont, the large grain elevator of the Ogilvie Co started to slide into the -river at night, and it was con sidered impossible to save it. Displacement of the pile foun dation was said to iave "caused the ‘building to ■ Collapse. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the/other -elevator concerns m that section offered assistance to save the grain, estimated at 350,000 bushels. The total loss of the elevator was placed at $250,000. % * » Farm boys and girls were told that if they placed bits of string and strips of cloth , near trees where robins were building their nests the birds would be quick to utilize the bits. H H * 25 Years Ago 25 YEARS AGO (1931) According to the State Indus trial Congress, held at Anzonia, revenue from tourists in 1930 was second to mining. The re port stated: “Revenue from copper min ing totaled $76 million, while the tourist revenue of $5O mil lion was m second place. Agri culture brought $37 million to the state, and livestock revenue was $l5 million Wilson, Ark., was owned by R. E. Wilson, nationally prominent plantation own er, whose cotton holdings were said to be the largest in the south, 25 years ago. The city had no adminis- ~ trative officers and every building except the depot was owned by Wilson. Twenty years ago first space rocket was fired from Berlin’s rocket airport at Background Scripture: Acts 12:25 15 35 Devotional Reading: Isaiah 49 7-12. Sending Spirit Lesson for May 27, 1956 IF THE Descending Spirit is the story of the second chapter of Acts, the thirteenth tells part of the story of the Sending Spirit People may be very much inter ested in the Descending Spirit bulr not enough in the Sending Spirit People today like Simon of Sa maria in olden times, want the Holy Spirit to de- scend mto their hearts but for the wrong rea- sons, sometimes. We want the Spir it to help -iis do what we want to do, to accomplish our plans, to or. Foreman make us persuasive and popular personalities. But the Spirit of God, although everybody’s aid, is nobody’s aide. The aide to a gen eral is just the General’s right arm, his tongue whatever the General wants done, the aide is there to sec it done. The Holy Spirit is no aide! God Gan Break Up Good Plans The church at Antioch was go ing strong when the Holy Spirit broke into their plans. We don’t know how the Spirit spoke to them, nor how they were suie it was the Spirit. But one thing is pretty cer tain; they must have had plans which the Sending Spirit bioke up Barnabas and Saul were what we would call today Associate Pastors of that big city congregation They had been together there only a year, and that is a short pastorate Very likely Saul and Barnabas both, along with the chmch, had plans of one -kind and another afoot good plans, evangelistic, sacrificial- Buf the Spirit said No The Spirit had other plans. The church must set aside Barnabas and Saul, cut them off from their growing, successful woik in the First Church of Antioch, and send them out as missionaries. Thify must go to parts unknown, to places not nearly so important as Antioch, to the backwoods per- Reinckendorfwest. The projec tile was less than seven feet high and attained a height of approximately 12 miles. v *• Division of large Prussian estates into small farms resulted in the creation of 70 new villages in East Prussia in 1930. A further total of 67,000 acres was be ing planned to be divided into farms in 1931- Tenant House Destroyed By Fire Fife was discovered by pass ing motorists m the double ten ant house on the Lancaster farm of Ira H. Herr, one mile south east of West Willow. The blaze was believed to have started from a ' defective flue in the partition between the two dwel lings. The families of Darnel Rineer and_ Harry Miller oc cupied the house and were away at the time. Fire companies from Willow Street and West Willow responded. The mo torists, assisted by neighbors, removed the furniture from the first floor. Damage was confin ed to the room adjoining the panton. THE THIEF? Wife - “The new washer wom an has stolen two of our towels ” Hubby “The thief! Which ones, dear’” Wife “The ones we got from the hotel in Miami.” haps They must go out and en danger their lives, far from the peaceful busy streets of Antioch. The Holy Spirit has often come to men in distuibing ways He often breaks up our best plans. The thing to remember is that God knows better than we do. God’s Spirit never breaks up a good plan unless it is for the sake of his bet ter one. the Spirit Through the Church The way the Spirit operated there in Antioch is instructive. The Spirit called Saul and 'Barnabas; also the Spirit spoke to the church. The command was given: Sepa rate Barnabas and Saul lor the work to which 1 have called them. And the church obediently “laid its hands on” these two leaders and sent them out. The Sending Spirit often works in this way. Most missionaries today are se lected and sent out by mission boards of some-kind The boards /all not, if they know it, send any one to a mission field who has no sense of being called by the Spirit., But on the other hand, even if a young man feels the Spirit has called him, if in the Board’s judg ment he will not make a good mis sionary, they will not accept and send him. This is all in the -wisdom of God. It gives a missionary to day, and it gave Saul and Barna bas back yonder, a strong “lift” to know that the church is backing them up, praying for them, wish ing them well, ready to send rein forcements if they fall by the way side. Sometimes the only way a call of the Spirit comes to a man or woman is through the church- Older Christians ought to realize their responsibilities here. The Church Through Men God does not oall'all men to be missionaries But he does call ev ery Christian man, woman and child to be missionary. That is, missionary in heart and purpose. The church that is not sending and supporting missionaries, di rectly or indirectly, by themselves or through a board of missions, the church that is not out there on the firing line through its rep resentatives, the church that doesn’t even know there is a firing line, the church that spends all Its money and all its interest on itself —such a church is not even a cou sin of the kind of church we read of in the early days, like the Church at Antioch. The selfish congregation is contributing to the death of the church; the sending church is contributing to its life— its own and the life of the Chris tian fellowship around the world. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division ot Christian Education, Na tional Connell of the Churches ot Christ In the V. S. A. Released by CoramnDltr Press Service.)
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