4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 15, 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 Lancaster County’s a buzzing with agricultural air craft, and the arrival of a helicopter in the spraying field has led to considerable comment, and increased interest. There was a day when farm aircraft were unheard of. Today some still fall in the luxury-transportation field. Others have a place on the farm, like the practical use they receive from members of the Flying Farmers Asso ciation. Aircraft spraying and crop dusting has been a ma jor factor in disease and pest control for some years. In troduction of the helicopter gives a new aspect to the busi ness. The day of the dangerous, do-or-die duster is passing to the helicopter, for less speed, closer control, greater effectiveness. Investment costs run high, perhaps from $40,000 up. Dusting rates in Southern Lancaster County last week' were quoted around $5 per acre, but the pea crop was saved from aphids The day of the whirly-bird is here. Interest is high. Its place in the agricultural economy has been proved. It has passed the novelty stage, although it still arouses no end of interest. And, it might be noted, this particular helicopter could be booked almost solid for the balance of the season from the Delaware peninsula to Lancaster County. Here is a report from the American Meat Institute that provides much of interest to the livestock producer: The United States last year produced more meat than the seven, next largest countries combined. Approxi mately 27 billion pounds of beef and veal, pork excluding lard), mutton and lamb moved to market from U. S. farms and ranches in 1955. This was 7 per cent more than the year before and 21 per cent above the 1946-1950 average, the Institute found in an analysis of official government figures. _ France ranked second among meat producing coun tries with 5.4 billion lbs, a gain of 3 per cent over the year before and 50 per cent higher than in the 1946-1950 period. Western Germany 'was close on France’s heels with 5.1 bil lion lbs, an 8 per cent jump for the year and an 88 per cent increase compared with 1946-1950. Argentina followed with a 6 per cent increase for the year and an 8 per cent decline when compared with 1946-1950. The country’s aggregate production was 4.8 billion pounds in 1955. The United Kingdom acounted for 3.5 billion pounds, which was five per cent lower for the year, but 72 per cent better than in 1946-1950. Australia turned out 2 8 billion pounds, up 4 per cent for the year and 30 per cent from the 1946-1950 period. Canada followed with a preliminary total of 2.3 billion pounds, 6 per cent above a year ago and 14 per cent higher than the 1946-1950 average. Italy with 1.8 billion pounds ranked eighth in world meat production last year, off 1 per cent for the year hut up 35 per cent over the 1946-1950 average. To this the comment might be added that the Argentina outlook, which has caused considerable concern among United States cattlemen, may prove brighter for the producer on this side of the equator. Lancaster County’s Agricultural Agent Max M. Smith pointed out to the Red Rose '4-H Baby" Beef and Lamb Club the other night that hot weather is here and that steers should be kept as cool as possible. Weight losses during hot weather are expensive as all get-out. Suffering as much or more are hogs. Shade shelters are as important as anything today. That, with. cooL clear, pure watetmay-save ymkhuadrqds of dollars this summer. ' STAFF PLANE COMES OF AGE REPORT ON MEAT KEEP- THEM COOL Publisher Editor Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD Farm Family Of Five Drowns A farm family of five includ ing C. W. Martin his wife and three children near Bosco, S. D., were drowned in the little Min nesota River, 50 years ago this ,week. The family was returning to itheir farm that night after spending a day at the circus, When Martin drove over the along the river an the dark ness. The entire family and one of the horses perished in the riv er, which was swollen by rams that week. * >1 Fifty years ago a hail storm of unprecedented severity de -1 stroyed' 260i000 acres of crops I and killed hundreds of cattle in open fields in Russia. Some l of the stones were reported ‘ weighing three pounds. lowa Creamery Awarded U. S. Contract An lowa Creamery which held the reputation for making a gilt edged product was awarded a eontrapt for furnishing the U S. government $40,000 worth of butter, 50 years ago this week I The contract called for 4,000 pounds of butter a day to be (put up in three-pound jars, hermetically sealed and guaran teed to keep a year in any cli mate, the product was proces sed under the direction of a gov j eminent chemist and butter in spector. 9 h X Back in 1906 a well known j student of bird life stated that i the nest building habit of 1 birds was not a matter of in stinct. but an art which every bird had to acquire under the direction of an older mate. He also asserted that birds were imitators in their singing. To prove his point he placed , young robins in - a room where they could, hear the songs of sparrows, and it was found the robins developed and imi tated the notes of the sparrow instead of the robin, song. 25 Years Ago > , 25 YEARS AGO (1931) Japanese Beetle Quarantine Starts , A Japanese beetle quarantine, restricting the movement of farm, garden and orchard pro ducts within infected areas to points outside, were put into ef jfect June 16. 1931, in New Jer sey, eastern Pennsylvania as far jeast as Gettysburg and as far north as Scranton, most of Dela ware and sections of New York, Connecticut and Virginia. In spection- stations were set up along* the highways throughout the quarantined areas. A: report from* the bureau of animal- industry, Pennsyl vania Department of Agricul ture, , covering, the first five months of. 1931, stated ‘ that, 436,815, licenses.had been is sued, 9,672 uncontrolled dogs killed, 2,612 dog owners prose cuted and 638 damage claims amounting to 518,401. (paid. Allegheny County- led with 25,-- 8811 licensed! dogs. Other coun ties reporting more than 100>- 006/ licensed dogs included Berks, Cambria, Chester, Fay ette, Lancaster, Luzerne, Montgomery, Schuylkill, York, Washington and' Westmore land, Public Hearing On Egg Prices The June 1931 session of Lan _ • JSL S- George -A, Stuart, director, j^[ rs _ Harry McCommon, of ■bureau of markets, Pennsylvania Mechanlc Grove Devotions were Department .of Agriculture, re- . Q charge of the hostess. Mem ported in June, 1931, Fancy jj ers p res , ei jt included Mrs. Os ! Western eggs, shipped several ' car Cecil Jane t Simes, Mrs* thousand miles under a specifi- Laura Re j n hart, Mrs. Abner ed grade and requiring nine to Musser> Mrs . Clyde Linton. Mrs. ten days in transposition, sell War f e i ( Mrs. Charles Ston-' in principal Pennsylvania mar- er Mrs _ Della Fasnacht, Mrs. kets at a premium of three cents Wlßlam p Mrs. Came a dozen over local fresh eggs. Esh i ema n, Mrs. Elizabeth Hil* This is the. penalty suffered by t0I1( Mrs James Hall, Mrs. Clin- Pennsylvania producers because ton Boydi Mrs. Harvey Risk* of lack of definite egg grades Mrs Ervm Herr, Mrs. Mary and standards”. In order to ste ele, Mrs. Anna Herr,' Mrs. meet Western competition and chrissie Bucher, „Mrs. .Olive to secure the best possible Retzer Mrs. Cyrun Stauffer, 'prices for eggs produced in Mrs william Hopkins and Mrs, .Pennsylvania, the bureau of George Wilson 'markets outlined a tentative set of voluntary grades and had set .Friday afternoon, June 26, 1931, as the date for a public hearing to discuss the merits of the grades. ?j - 1 For Mrs. Hazel Gilbert .Mil ler, Hartford, Conn., her honeymoon was anything but romantic. She testified in her suit for divorce from Hugh Miller, that flies by day and mosquitoes by night made life miserable on their honeymoon in a log cabin in the Adiron- Buck*round Scripture: Acts 21.17*28: 32 Devotional Reading-. 2 Timothy 1:8-14. i God’s Ambassador Lesson for June 17, 1956 VERY few readers of this col umn have any chance of being appointed as the- ambassador of the United States to any impor tant foreign country It isn’t that you are not good enough You are not rich enough Ambassadors are expected to live in (Did, you ever in quire what just one pair of striped pants, made to older, would cost you’) They are not expe-cte-d to- Ihve on the salary i the United States i pays them. They l(iave to live- 'ln mnansions Dr. Foreman l which the mere housekeeping bill us enormous, they have to give .parties and dinners costing more (than you earn in a. month. |God’s ill-houttd ambassador j Strange as it seems, the ambas sadors of God are not usually , looked after in such sumptuous 'style. They always have housing, jof a sort; but it 1& seldom* palatial, (Indeed one of them- wrote, “If we (have food and clothing, with these we shall be content." Nothing said ! about housing. One of the- very greatest of God*s= ambassadors-to this world suffered; feorft some thing quite a hit worse than leaky roofs* or lack of plumbing. If the Apostle Haul were to visit our !town today,’ even''people outside the church would want to have him put- up at- the best hotel in town, 'or ’ entertained at the finest homes Paul sometimes' got this sort of treatment, but a great deal of'the time, indeed for years on end, he would" be actually m jail. Not only that, but- he- would have to wear chains on his arms and. legs, as- if he were a member of a chain-gang Strange to say, too, this did not make Paul unhappy or bitter. After two solid years of that sort of thing, some men might' be willing to quit But not Paul. Standing before ing, his; hands weighted.dow ’t .it waa.hart^t ‘ tQ'TtiotftS P- -' "I-would-1* clacks* She declared their tem per became short. They quar- and returned to “civi- and there separated. « * Farm Women H At McCommon Home * $ | On the southern Lancaster Couhty farm of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Herr near Unicorn, their son I John, received severe bruises when a pair of mules ,ran away while the young man was rolling a field The roller passed over his body. Cut worms in 1931. were caus ing Lower Lancaster County farmers all kinds of trouble. Many fields of corn had to be replanted. God you were Just as I am—ex cept for these chains." He would not wish his chains' on anybody;' but otherwise he knew he waa bet ter oil than a king, for he wva 'till the ambassador of Go£. There is no higher place. Spokesman for God We must not blame God for the poor treatment his ambassador* receive. It is hot his fault. But God’s men understand this. Paul understood it, and went on speak ing for God wherever he was.) Some Chustians might think that if Providence had dumped them in jail they could be expected to take a' vacation from witnessing to their faith. But Paul knew that . there never is a real vacation from, being a Christian. ' There have been some peculiar characters ap pointed as ambassadors now and then by human governments; but no emperor, king or senate ever appointed a dumb man, to repre sent his country There was a great convention of Chus tion business men in Louis ville’, Kentucky, last winter. Thiee’ of these- men were on their way afterwards to the airport in a taxi. What would you have done in their places? The convention was over, business and families weie expect ing you home. No time, no place, for Christian work in a taxi, sure ly? But these men did see it that way. They talked to the driver, found be was. not a Christian. Never mind the plane, they said, just' drive ,us to your own home.. There they talked with him, prayed with him, and he gave his heart to Christ. They missed the plane, but do you think they le .gretted it? Th» chaftis sfill rattlt Actual uon chains do still im* prison some of God’s people. There are parts of the world where at is almost a crime merely to be a Christian. But even wherej that is not true; the then and, women who represent God have to work 'against many kinds of handicap*. Sometimes it is only being thought peculiar, or superstitious. Some* ttmes it is having to work under a government which is 'unfriendly to religion, as 1 is the case, in soma mission fields. Sometimes it i* some local “industry" which 1* vicious and powerful and will strike back., at any person, or group, religious or otherwise, that Hwkwn to-cut down their profits. Sometimes these invisible chains muzzle the 'mouth of a minister whose people will, not, let. hint, speak up for his own Christian ideals. Well chains may hold back God's kingdom; but they will neveirstop it! (Baaodi mi- ontlino* ooprfljhltd by tbo Dtvlsltor of- Christian Education, N». Uon*l.CiinirHl;ot-tfco «h*rcW« : o« £ A., by.’CoamaaUr' rr«»i»«frnr
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