" t n 4;—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 28,1958 Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Publisher Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5e Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3,1879 Happy New Year, from Lancaster Farming. Not only is this moment a time for resolutions some that may never be kept but it’s a time for review, a time for hindsight, a time for foresight. * Just past is a year that smiled well on Lancaster County farms. There was an election. There was the com referendum, the many, many activities that make farming a bustling business. It was a good year, 1956, locally, and when it draws to a close at midnight Monday, there will be time for reflection. Rains came at the right time. Some crops were a bit burned by the blazing sun; for awhile it looked like the rains might not fall at the proper moment on the Garden Spot, yet they came. Crops flourished. But what a contrast there is nationally. Requests were made to have part of Pennsylvania those scattered areas in the far west of the Keystone State made a disaster area where excessive rains ruined crops. Sweep ing north from the Rio Grande, .drouth blanketed the Great Plains, causing severe damage in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, in parts of lowa, Nebraska, New Mexico and Arizona, some 1,700,000 square miles in 26 states. Yet there has been no mass exodus as in the days of the Dust Bowl. Good times in 1956 enabled the farmer to meet his obligations. His soil conservation practices have lessened: the loss, and Government aid indirectly the Soil Bank helped cushion the loss. f Meat production boomed in 1956. Each individual consumed an estimated 163.5 lbs of meat, breaking the long standing records of 163.3 lbs set back in 1908 \ What’s ahead? Our business is not forecasting. We can just quote. One authority says prospects for 1957 are for another year of ample meat supplies at reasonable prices, although a re duction in hog numbers is likely to develop some decrease in the supply of pork. It takes the average industrial worker less than 19 minutes to earn a pound of meat, where as recently as 1951 it took 25.9 minutes to earn a pound of meat. A pound of pork costs 15.7 minutes of labor, a pound of beef at a new low 21.6 minutes. Total meat production in 1956 is estimated at 27,- 750,000,000 twenty seven and three-quarters billion pounds, up three-quarters of a billion pounds. Per person, this means about 3.5 lbs of beef, 66.3 lbs of- pork, 9.3 lbs of veal, and 4.4 lbs of lamb and mutton. Strong markets for meat are anticipated in the com ing year, with a prospective smaller total meat supply. Per capita beef consumption may drop to about 2 lbs, veal around 9 lbs, lamb and mutton to 4.2 lbs, pork may hit 61.5 lbs, totaling less than 157 lbs. Daily the population increases 7,000, so there will always be more mouths to be fedr Whatever happens, it is certain there will always be a demand for food, a bigger job for the farmer to produce, a job he has never failed to do. SCIENCE AND THE FOOD FREEZER Owners of home food freezers wil find interesting the results of tests by an eastern ag school which showed that freezers which operate constantly without thermostats can run just as cheaply, last longer and keep food better than do the present thermostatically controlled kind. S They run with no more expense because they use a less powerful motor; they last longer because continuous operation is easier on the mechanism than stopband-start operation; they keep food better because they hold temperatures down to 20 to 40 degrees below zero. So say <he experimenters who are trying out this system. One interest ng observation is that “freezer burn" is elimi nated in constantly operating freezers. “Bum" occurs when frozen foods lose their moisture due to rising temperatures which occur be fore thermostats start the compressor in the present stop-and-go cycle*. This moisture condenes on the coil* as ice, so the icing prob lem would be solved m Barge measure, too. ' The idea of a freezer that never shuts off seems rather revolu tionary. But we may be hearing a lot more about it some day. (Com Belt Farm Dallies) . vH, ; •; i' ,l < w i * STAFF HAPPY NEW YEAR Editor Business Manager By JACK REICHAED 50 YEARS AGO (1906) A writer on agricultural sub jects a half a century ago de clared the worst pests on the na tion’s farm that winter were rats. They were not only extremely numerous but also bold and voracious. Various ways were recommended for the extermina tion. One suggestion was to stir up a flour paste and let the ro dents acquire a liking for the mixture. When they got to eat ing it greedily, a new batch was to be mixed with a tablespoonful of powdered arsenic added. Another plan, suggested by German farmer, was take "& good sized sponge, cut it into small pieces and fry them in_ pork greaser “When thoroughly soaked and .flavored, put the pieces of sponge where the rats can get them. They stick in the digestive tract, and this does the business”, the farmer declared. HORSE MAKES NEWS IN CHESTER COUNTY When Baynard Irwm, near Lenover, Chester County, drove to Atglen that evening he tied his horse in the hotel shed. Later a young Parkesburg man unhitch ed .the team and drove it off. At Good’s Comer the turn was made too short and the driver, cushion and blankets were thrown out. The horse continued along the Valley Road, rah across a resi dents! yard, then proceeded down the low grade tracks of the Pennsylvania R. R., passing a freight tram on the way. The animal made the trip, a distance ot three miles, in eleven minutes No one would guess where the horse would have stopped had it not been for the ash pit along the right-of-way where ashes were cleaned from the engines. Here it fell into the pit, landing on its back with the wagon standing on the track. The Thext freight train scooped the wagon off the tracks before it stopped. The horse, fastened in such a manner that it could not move, escaped without a scratch. The wagon, too, was only slightly damaged. The young man who had taken the team paid $l5 to settle the case. Fifty years ago this week, Lancaster tobacco growers were busily engaged in strip ping operations. Most crops in t the county had been sold and, some deliveries were being made. * * In Germany, back in 1906, women were collecting what was claimed to be the smallest potted plants m the world. They were cacti growing in pots about the size of a thimble. , ♦ ♦ ♦ SUBSTITUTED AMERICAN FROGS In London a peddler was do ing a rushing business isellmg “bright green American tree frogs” at 65 cents each. When the color wore off they were found to be ordinary English frogs. Back in America, in 1906, the (allow candle was still bold ing its own in competition with kerosene, gas and electricity. The production of candles dur ing the fiscal year of 1905, ac cording to a report of the U. S. Agricultural Department, was valued at $3,889,362. 25 Years Ago VETERANS MADE HAPPIER At Washington, D. C., just prior to Christmas Day, in 1931, Presi dent Hoover got out his pen and signed a bill making available $2OO million to replenish the al most exhausted coffers of the Veteran's Bureau, assuring the contmueance of making pay ments on bonus certificates. Another measure signed at the same time provided the Depart- This Week* in Lancaster Farming A _ ’V ment of .Labor immediately with $120,000' to extend its employ ment service. In 1931, when the nation was still in the grip of a major de pression,’ those deserving of need were not forgotten at Christmas time. At Lancaster the Water Street Rescue Mission fed'more than a thousand men, women and children that day before Christ mas - and distributed over 300 baskets of food. At the Salvation Army headquarters a party was given to about 400 boys and girls, when a play, “The First Christ mas Day”, was presented. Santa also appeared at . the Children's Home that year, where 78 fath erless and motherless boys and girls received gifts around a gaily trimmed Christmas tree. Under auspices of the Civic Council, a Christmas party was held at the Grand and Hamilton theaters to gladden the hearts of those from the Home for Friendless Chil dren, Following the program the boys and girls received toys, sweaters, candy and fruit. SANTA AT ELIZABETHTOWN At the Crippled Children’s Hospital, Elizabethtown, Santa was on hand Christmas Day* to make glad the hearts of a hun dred young patients, by going Bukinnl Soriatarei Revelation 3X.‘ DevoUeaal S»lli| I Revelation All Things New Lessen for December SO, 195* ON- THE verse of New Year's Eve, our thoughts go forward to the New Year. But what .will be new about It? We shall mostly have ,to “make do” with-what we have, rather than find much that la brand-new. We shall be the same people. Sleeping'between. Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 is not going to change us a great deal. W~ shall live in thr same house, have the --same neighbors, the ■ am e prob- lems, -tempta- tions, brains, bodies, bank, ac count (if any), tax bills, dis- eases and pros pects. What we can. have that is Dr. Foreman new. is a new attitude to some ot these things. But that is another story. What we have to think about here is another of the great'chap ters of- the Bible,' the one in which come the thrilling words, “Behold, d make ell things new,” What will life he like in that “new heaven and new earth” which Is described, here in shining pictures in the very last chapter of the Bible? Osatk Behind U> In that life, wherein all - things •remade new; not by clumsy man but by the power of God, what will be especially new—-if yon like, shockingly new, so new we shall not perhaps easily become used to It? First we can see a complete contrast with this present life. In that death will.be always" in the past, never in'the future. The one thing that is certain about, life on earth la that we shall alLdie. Death is the one certain prediction that can be made about every one who reada these-lines. (Or, U Christ ■should come in your lifetime, you would undergo a radical Change, just as radical as death. Itself, in any cased But in that world where all is made new, death, is behind every one, not m front; a memory, not a hops or a-fear. The one ex perience which unites all- men in this world-is one - which 'they have ■wardi;;.' - lied,.' speaking leheer and presenting gifts"’ to each one." The, wards - had been decor*ted* : in green and red and lighted with ap propriate lights symbolic of the season. At noon came the din ners, when turkey and every thing that goes with it was served to the children, many receiving second helpings. Fol lowing the afternoon Spent in happy play, a moving picture was shown in the evening. Many parents were present to help make the occasion more delightful. « * CHRISTMAS, 2931 AT MT, ALTO At the Mt. Alto Sanatorium, where more than 200 children away from their home as guests of the State of Pennsylvania, 25 years ago, Dr. Royal H. McCut cheon, medical director, and Miss Esther Williams, chief nurse of the children’s department, suc ceeded in making Christmas Day the happiest day of the year for the youngsters on South Moun tain. In addition to Santa Claus, Gettysburg firemen came rolling through the grounds leaving candy and fruit for all the chil dreh. # Dinner was served at noon with all the turkey each boy and girl could eat, with plenty of good rich milk. , A man out in Idaho is report ed unconscious from a -spider bite. And so we learn, after all these years, that Little Miss Muf fett understood that discretion was the better part of walor Lansing (Mich.) State Journal not yet had. But In that world of tha redeemed, the experience of death is one they all shall have had. We cannot even. Imagine this. Just how It will be. But think how much activity In this world Is de voted to one- object alone —to stave off- death. All that wfll vanish with death'ilicll. Evil N* More Another absolutely and unlmtg-- taably new thing will be Ihe com plete riddance of all forma of-evil, especially auftering and sin. (Ig norance and ugliness too na doubt, will be done away with, but they do not weigh upon us here quite *e painfully aa the other two). Ne ' matter what your idea may > be, about ain and suffering, what they, are and where they came fiom, you. have to admit that human We is woven of-these threads. very moment every. reader’*- life would be radically different if he himself had. never signed, and as lor our neighbors’ sins, and the sins of our ancestors, the world we have inherited Is a world fashioned and controlled by sinners. lt is only by the mercy of God that it is not worse* than it Is. Try to think what life would- be if there were ne form of evil affecting it whatever. You ean’t really think It; but that_ -goo*'to show what an amazingly hew-state of things the-‘‘new - heavens" and earth” must be. *. At Ham* With Bod Most, wonderful, end least imag inable. of all the new feature i c t that We to come, is the pretence of God. It is true, God It.every where. But It Is else true that God |» in some pieces end situations and' occasions more than-Others. What is said in Revelation about God’s coming to dwell with men leads us to think oi God's presence in the truly New World «• hem* ‘tar more direct and 'less veiled than for Us at our present-stage «f existence. Indeed, *» God Is resl to hi la prayer far more_(a* a rule) than wh'en we are feeding tine'hogs-os getting a haircut, so the pretence of God In the all-new World may be as far beyond our.highest aware ness of him here, aithe prayer la more spiritual than the haircut or the hogs. All we know is that- in this world’we-seldom do feel quite at ease in God’s presence, and may even be seldom certain that'he is near. But “over yonder,” we shaH be at home with God aa we nevar been in this life. Foretastes of the New Life we may enjoy here: in freedom from fear of-death, in a Bfe growing, more purified by the Spirit, in the “practice of the Pres ence of God”; but the fullness of glory we cannot imagine, only trust God that these things shaH toe. iimi< «■ ay *a« DlTitiM- «f <Ckrt«tl»n BliicatlM. >««■ Mill CMullUtti CtaMlw d Otoft* la lk» D.aa.KNuni ky Cnuiuiiy rtra* a«rTl»».> "AFTER ALL
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