4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 28, 1956 feiiSiM 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 • Publisher Ernest J. Neill Editor C. Wallace Abel Business' Manager Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins .Circulation Director 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 It’s fair time in Lancaster County, enthusiasm is run ning high, as the best of the farm and field, the kitchen and garden, needlework and art, go on display in competi tion There’s a thrill to it all, where commercial displays vie for attention with home produce. What’s the latest in the farm equipment field? you’ll find it at the fair, no matter where the fair may be. Already several Lancaster County community fairs have run their course. Others are in action now. There will be more. Many departments are reporting marked increases in displays. Competition is more keen. Old-timers in the show business are back gaining new laurels, new ribbons and the newcomer often gives the professional a jolt when the judge moves his entry to the head of the line. For youth, fair time is wonderful. It’s not the excitement of the midway that enraptures Garden Spot farm youth today. Instead it’s the dairy show, the beef, swine, poultry or broiler show. They hear the judge give reasons. They learn. They chart their course for the coming year. There has been some conflicting timing in Lancaster County shows, making it difficult to cover all. Judges have to scurry to several events in the matter of a few hours, as show dates overlap. The color’s there, the competition s there. It s fair time in all corners of the County where agriculture is Number One. ✓ Peaches $5OO A Bushel Peaches at $5OO a bushel and melons at $2OO a dozen. That’s the cost of producing pilot crops on three DuPont test farms, near Newark, Del., Brandenton, Fla., and Hal eigh, N. C. . . „ , ~ T These costs are a bit astounding, especially to the Lan caster County producer who probably found several hun dred dollars worth of peaches felled by winds. On these DuPont Farms, teams of biologists and farm aides annually raise more than 75 acres of peaches, mel ons, corn, peanuts, cotton and a half dozen other crops. The value of the harvests does not lie in the pounds, bun ches or bales produced, but in the data accumulated by the company’s “notebook farmers” who help pave the way for better farm crops and for better and cheaper foods for U. S. consumers. . . Costly as they may be, these crops and the experimental program some day may save the average producer such as we find locally many hundreds or thousands of dol lars. Stilbestrol Traces Small One of the greatest questions facing the beef cattle in dustry has been answered by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, in an item saying tests show that no detectable amount of stilbestrol remains in meat of ani mals fed the hormone-like compound. When stilbestrol first came into use as a component of livestock feed, to promote rapid gains in cattle, there were wild fears that humans might be made sterile, Jhat live stock thus fed might develop generations of dwarfs, that sterility might pass on to swine in the same feedlots. Caution is still urged in the problem of swine, especially brood sows, where stilbestrol feeds are used. Meat tissues tested by the Food and Drug Administra tion came from Beltsville, Md. steers fed doses of 10, 30 and 60 milligrams of stilbestrol in their daily ration per iods of three months or longer and ending about 48 hours before slaughter. The larger doses are three and six times greater than the 10 milligrams recommended per steer, to rapid, economical growth. One of the problems has been cleared; packer discounts on stilbestrol fed beef are disappearing, through tests using levels prohibited in commercial feeding. “Further more, USDA beef-cattle nutritionists point out that they (such heavy doses of feeding) are less effective than the recommended allowances of 10-maHigrams per day.” - STAFF It’s Fair Weather! 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEAKS AGO (1906) By JACK BEICHARD The crop of c'otton held sway in the South a half century ago. The export record of the United States for the fiscal year end ing August 1, 1906, showed that the value of cotton in raw and finished in exports from this country exceeded $4OO million, surpassing by far the value of any other product sent of the country. As a purchaser of raw cotton the British led'with $177 million, worth! Germany’s take amounted to $lOl million, and France $45 million. China was the best customer for manu factured cotton products, taking $3O million,' worth out of a total of $53 million. * # * Hurricane Strikes Pensacola, Florida Thursday, September 27, 1906. the worst hurricane on record struck Pensacola, Florida, laying devastation and rum everywhere. The list of dead had heachfed 26, and it was known that many more were uncounted for and others injured, while 3,000 were homeless. The property loss was estimated at $5 million. At Mahonoy City, Pa., a new vein of anthracite coal was discovered by the Phil adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in the Mahonoy Valley. The new vein, reported to extend a mile in length and one-eighth of a mile in width, with an average thickness of twelve feet, was estimated to contain coal valued at from $5O mil lion to $75 million. Mining experts declared it 'would re quire over 50 years to exhaust the^seam. I * 1- At Ephrata, Lancaster County, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shuler, of the Cloister, had a record ele phant ear plant, 50 years ago The stems of the leaves were reported 96 inches long. The leaves were 48 inches in length and 32ii inches wide. i? * * In Chicago, two carloads of cold storage chickens and twelve carloads of meat were condemned by food inspectors and destroyed, 50 years ago this week. * ♦ * Horse And Outfit Stolen A team was stolen in West Donegal Township near Eliza bethtown. The horse belonged to Mrs. Susan Garber. John Smith owned the harness and vehicle, a runabout wagon, with red wheels. « n * 25 Years Ago Albert Barrett, of near Ris ing Sun, Maryland, was rob bed of $l5OO. He was cutting com when some one sneaked up behind him and threw snuff in Ijis face, blinding him, then knocking him down and taking the money. Barrett, who was caretaker of the West Nottingham Friend’s Meeting house, did not have faith in banks and was known to carry his money with him at all times. * * * Fertilizer Plant Burns Twenty-five years ago this week, the large frame building of the Eby Fertilizer Company at Paradise, Lancaster County, was completely destroyed by fire. The loss, which included several hundred tons of fertiliz er, quantities of chemicals and the building, was estimated at $40,000. The fire was discovered by persons living a short dis tance from the plant, but before firemen could reach the scene the greater part of the plant was a mass of flames. Members of the Gordonville, Paradise and Leaman Place Fire Com panies responded. Two freight cars standing .on a siding at one end of the building also were in flames. One of the cars, load ed with fertilizer, was complete ly destroyed. The other, a steel car, was badly damaged. « « « The Board- of Game Com missioners announced the passing of a resolution declar ing an open season on both 'sexes of deer in the entire State of Pennsylvania from Dec. 1 to 15, 1931, inclusive, Sunday’s excepted. The bag limit was set at one deer per man, either a buck or a doe. Six deer of the combined sexes were allowed taken in one samp, Background Scripture: Mark Xoil3- 16, Revelation 3:20, 21:1—22.21. Devotional Reading: Isaiah 65. ‘Come!’ Lesson for September 30, 1956 THE Bible has a way of express ing the most profound and far reaching truths in the simplest pos sible way. “Comet’' is a word of one syllable, and even a child knows what it means. But as we find it in the book of Revelation and elsewhere, a great deal is tied up in it and ex- pressed by it. Journey to God This word, as a command, sug gests first of all that man is not where he ought to be. He ought to be close to God. Some are not even turned toward him and are moving farther away every day. But even those whose faces aft Godward, are never as close to him as is possible to be. God Is everywhere, m one sense. That is, one does not have to travel to some distant shrine, some Holy City, to find God. And yet even among human beings we often feel how far we are from those sitting in the same room with us. And though God is all about us, we are blind to him. Spiritually we are feeding swine in a far country when we ought to be at_ home with God and in God. There are diseases in which the patient shivers with cold even in hot sunshine. So the diseased soul shivers with cold even in the full flood of God'* radiant love. A pa tient with mind diseased "looks un seemgly into the eyes of loved ones. How near—and yet how ter ribly far awayl In our coldness of heart, our estrangement of mind, we hear—or can we hear?—the Voice say “Cornel” Who Says “Conie ,, 7 What voice is this? Two strange words appear: The Spirit and the Bride. Who are these? Spirit ia God: the Bride is the Church. The Spirit is the New Testament word tor God-close-at-hand, God-in-the heart, God moving in heart and mind of dedicated men. The voice of the Spirit-i* the “still small Friendly Farmers Mset The Friendly Fanners’ cim Southern Lancaster County in session at the farm o£ j and Fannie Walton, Sept 1931. “Substitutes and uses wheat” was discussed by j ert K v Wood, who mentio barley and grass seeded , oats. Alberta Brown proses a humorous reading, C. P. p ton spoke on “The Depress« Lym Chase gave his expert with soybeans. Elizabeth Bn gave shortcuts in housecleani Ida W. Coates read a paper “Home Making and Fan Life.” The host’s part on program was taken by Rq sentative Norman Wood, i gave a* comprehensive outline past and future road plans very large attendance was ported, every family being rej sented except one. Pomona Grange to Entertain Oct. 20 Lancaster County Pom Grange No. 71 wall enter! Berks County Pomona Grai at its fall meeting in the Bn erville Fire Hall Saturday, ( 20? at 8 pm. Pomona Master S. Ralph \\ ner, R 2 Narvon, will be charge. The A. F. L. -C. 1.0. has nouncer that its long-del» organizing campaign was fini under way. Its major object are Southern textiles and tol co processing. voice” the prophet heard, ft Is t Spirit of God* and the Spirit Jesus. Would it not be enough 1 the Spirit to say “Come"? No, 1 cause God graciously chooses speak also with human voices 1 Bride is the Church; and I Church too says “Come.” In her services of worship and teaching, In all her the eternal Word, In all her sti ice to mankind, the Church ii “Come.” A church that does! have the atmosphere of welcoms no true church. A church that p back bars that our Lord has tai down, a church that says ‘‘Com to a select few and says nothin! all to the masses of men,—this not true “Bride” of Christ ‘1 doors of this church aie as m open as the gates of heaven,"; some church bulletins. If tbit not true, whose fault is it? Is Your Name Here? Jesus once wept-over a beloi city: How often I would have P ered you . , . but you would s Christ can say, “I would; but j would not.” But such is I graciousness of God that no n dare say, “I would; but God w® not.” The invitation-of GodhM it, so to speak, the name of en man who wants to write Ins n» there. “Whosoever will” me® everybody who wants to be eluded. There is no sense in * mg, “I never have wanted to to God, therefore the invitation not to me.” It is to you-but« if you wUI. Here to Revelah* is an invitation; in some o® parts of the Word it is a com® 1 (e.g. “God commands ail m® * erywhere to repent” (Acts The Choiw Is Your Own , God can do all things. But ne not done all the things be have done. He could, no do have made men to such a w»r of such a nature that not one P* could ever possibly commit > not one person could turn hair’s-breadth from God Bu did not make such men. He have made men such that « . ever strayed away from God would have to say'' was “Come” and they would corn* every one. But he did not men so. God would rather be by men wild do not have t, him than by creatures who , love him automatically and . ,not help It God gave power to accept; but at the time he gave man the powe fuse. “Let him come!’’ jl much for you; but he win J cide for you. God mad® ® A home; he holds the 000 j open; he sends the word, J but he leaves the coming j to each man. . A rr.u S.rTiK.)
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers