Eastern Farmer in Added Price Squeeze Brought on by Higher Farm Land Costs COTTON IS NO longer king in the South and farmers in other parts of the nation are becoming more and more aware of this. Here in Lancaster County, the impact of the South on the broiler industry has been felt for several years and is getting strong er all the time Midwest cattlemen and feeders, too, are feeling a slight pinch being put on by the Southern farmer. Recent figures show that the Cornbelt is getting a definite bulge to the south and the trend is increasing Now comes word that large scale vege table operations have been introduced into several areas of the South. While this does not seem, on the face of it, like much news, we are not referring to the age old winter \egetable producing areas of Florida and Texas, but to states like the Carolinas and Georgia where vegetable production was limited to the family garden. Last year, for example, Robenson County. North Carolina, produced 120,000 bags of dry onions and plans even larger acreages for the coming season. - In the Western States things are hap pening too Kansas, long hampered by a one-crop economy, which made for a boom or bust type of income depending on how well the wheat crop did, now has found that added income can be made from such crops as late onions and cantaloupes And around Kearney, Neb , commer cial tomato production is being given a good field test. Early reports indicate that tomatoes may prove to be very successful there. These changes point up a fact that has been hurting the Eastern farmer more and BY JACK HEICHARD 75 Years Ago A writer on the subject of Communism pointed out that the opinions and pui poses of com munists weie iegaidcd bv most Americans as very dangcious m character because if earned out they would lead to the destitu tion ol the existing orclei of so cietv The wntei slated In Amenca it is held that c\en man has the light to hon estly earn and to hold piopeity v ilhout am limit and to be pro tected in his possessions b\ the law Communism m ' its extieme (aim, denies the light to acquiie pi open ly at all and announces its countci pnncipal in the bticf sentence Pi open tv is thell tveiv man who holds possession 101 hi' own use ol am thing hovvcvei he mav have acquitcd it is guiltv ol Mealing what bo longs ’o the whole human lace \ccoiding to the wilier the Communists ot Amenca m 1883 consisted chieftP ot Frenchmen and Gen mans with a spnnkhng of Poles, Spaniaids Italians and Irishmen and vveie not of the violent chi'' Baltimore Claimed Best Buttei Pi educing Cow Back in 1883 Ballimoie elaim (d it h.itl tht best butter pi oduc in” cciin the Lmted Stales which pioduced milk suflient to make 2T pounds of bullei in one SIk was bled ill New Jii sis ,md cost the osvnci S 2 000 V ”1 ouj) of bdic'olcnl men s> ho established a coflee house in Boston ss'th no peeunidis intei ist in mind sscie clearing on dii aveiage of SI 000 pel month The < sl.ibl,shinenl hdd elegant hx lures lullidid tables , a eigai slanel and eseis accessois of d ssill furnished saloon of the mid 1800 s e e< pi into' eating drinks Si s< nl s -(is < seals ago deso lion to public ssas evineed b\ a laeis «.ged eights who maned a man of about the same age She i xplamed Me came to im house so much if I didn t mam him people would talk Therefore we believe that a general decline in land prices is due in the not too distant future. No doubt land values here will always remain well above the national average becuse of the pressure for land for living brought about by the general indus trialization of the area But farmers will not long be able to farm, especially the young man just starting, if most of their money is tied up in land. s Week* ster Fanning Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCXORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarry ville. Pa Phone STerlins 6-2132 or Lancaster Express 4-3047 Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert i-E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director That same week, 111 1883, the Subscription Rates $2 per year, editor of the Waynesboro Re- vears ss ’ Sinsle cop> Price 5 COrd told his readers “that the re- Kntered as Sccand-Clacs matter at port that he was father of eigh- the Post Office, Quarryvilie, Pa , under teen childien wgs not corcct, as Aa of March 3 ’ 18,9 he had only filteen ” 50 Years Ago An cntei laming woman liv ing m the State of Washington raised some 2,000 turkeys on her forlv acre farm in the 1907 sea son She devoted her energies al most exclusively to turkey rais ing, in which she had the assist ance of threesons She received an aveiagc of S 3 43 apiece, clean ing up about So 000 fiom the veal’s opeiations, a lot of monev hi tv years ago The woman claimed that (he mild and drv climate of the Pacific slope was espcualh adop ted lo bringing the young tui kevs thiough the critical first six weeks of their life In hatching hoi laike flock she used incuba toi s and hens lop Pike Foi Hogs Up To 1908 The highest puce ever icccnv ed loi a hog in this oi anv othei conntrv up to 1908 was paid in Januaiv of that year to a hog uusei of Danville lowa, by a Missonilan for the lout-ycai old Poland-China boar Impudence, with a price lag ol 810,000 The ei for 84 000 hog was bought bs (he lowa own I aitneis m genet al wete inter ested in the luial paicels post measuie intioduced in Congress In Senatot Burnham, of Now Hampshiu in 1908 The bill pro vided loi lurai delivering of paieels containing merchandise and olhei articles weighing up to 11 pounds and not moie than .three feel six inches in length Japan Mushroom blowing Unique In sections ol Japan a tegular business a hall centurv ago was the glowing of mushrooms and the method of cultivation was In a icport iclease for that same month the bureau of fire protection Pennsylvania Stale Police, announced that 67 eases unique ol incendiary and suspicious flies Oak trees six inches in diamc- were assigned to them for inves lei weie leled and cut in lengths tigalion of Si\ feel and the baik scarred ' * ' in numerous places with knives Twenty-five years ’ ago this After la.ving on the ground for week was "Fine less Week' at more; As soon as costs of production here become high, fanners in the South or West are quick to jump in and produce that product about as well and at less cost. Transportation costs are becoming less a factor. Therefore, it seems, it requii'es the Eastern farmer to produce a quality prod uct at a low cost. When this cannot be done, the market is soon lost to other producers To do that, farms here are going to have to become more mechanized to keep down labor costs. Cultural practices will have to be adjusted to get the maximum return per acre of land. And, in many cases, it will mean operation of more acres of land. With land prices as high as they are in this area, the farmer operates under the handicap of having such a tremendous part of his capital tied up in only one of the three means of production. The economists tell us that the aver age farm will have the farm inventory divided almost equally in land, machinery and livestock. Here in Lancaster County, and in Southeastern Pennsylvania gener ally, the land cost will be about half the total assets of the farm. Lancaster Farming three years the logs weie stack ed m iows m a shady place In a short time the fungous giowth appeared and at the proper time it was cut and maiketed Follow ing this piles of logs were scat tered and the baik pounded with a heavy mallet This treatment seemed to supeunduce the grow- «t t np| m* th of a second crop when the |)(OW IS 1116 1.11110 . • . logs weie icstacked Total receipts colccled fi om motorists using the Columbia- Wnghtsville budge across the Susquehana Rner m January, 1933, were S 8 367 20 less than was rcciuned for the annual pay of the foul teen icgular tool col lectors employed according to figuies made public bv the Key stone Aulomoblc Club Gainson P Knox manager of the club's Yoik County Division, stated the first month’s collec tion in 1933 amounted to Sl9- 832 80 The annual pa\roll of Ihc toll colcctois was 528,200 This large sum was necessary because of the double set of toll collect- ois employed one to sell and-the 10 PRACTICE LIVESTOCK ISOLATION Exticme caution should othei to coleet the tickets he used when new animals are pm chased into the herd, many herds Knox recommended that the oi biceding beef and dairy cattle have been re-intccted from purchas- Countv Commissioners respon- d animals Impelled animals should be isolated for 30 days and then sible for the operations of the bloocPtested Cases of shipping fevci will also be reduced with this bi idgc adopt the hand register sound management practice system employed on other budg es which would reduce the num ber of toll eoleclois to seven in stead of fourteen Of 265 motor vehicles stolen from Pcnns>\l\ama residents in January 1933 the Bureau of Motoi Vehicles icportcd that 181 wete recovered 25 Years Ago 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. X 4, 1958 DlbU Material: Luke 4 42-43, 5 1-3, Romans 10.14 17, I Corinthian* I*lB-31: Ephesians 3 7-19 Devotional (leadlpcs Mark 1:14-20 Faith By Ear Lesson for February 16, 1958 WHY IS there so much talking in church’ By the preacher, that is There aie denominations that don’t take much stock in preaching—and In consequence are not famous for good sermons But the churches supporting this col umn are all preach ' eh’ -dies. They make a great deal of it When you attend a “worship serv- ice” at II AM on Sunday in one of these chuiches, out of an hour’s time you will be ex pected to listen to a man talking Dr. Foreman at least half that time Couldn’t you get what the preacher is try ing to say, faster, if he just passed out leaflets containing his sermon, all printed out 9 The Christian custom of preach ing atose because this icligion took its start among illiterate people Those who could really lead and write, beyond a few words, weie far moie lare than they now aie in the civilized lands of the woild. Fuitheimoie, since all the first Christiana were Jews, they weie already used to the synagogue service, wheiefiom childhood they had been brought up to expect some one to read aloud and to ex plain the Scnptuies. - Person to Person If the Christian church had de fended, when it began, on written literature, it would hardly have got a stai t AH thi ough the New Testa ment one finds expressions like, ‘‘faith comes by what is heaid ”, Not by what is lead! The vexy woid ‘‘pieachmg” means pio claimmg, and seldom refers to wntten proclamations The ques tion may occui to a modern Chus tian Isn’t this out of date 9 Don’t we live in an age of public schools and hteiacy 9 Aie we expected al ways to have faith by ear, as it weie, and not by eye 9 ’ Theie aie many good reasons By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO FILE INCOME TAX REPORT Farmers who did not file a tax estimate m January have until February 15 to file and pay their income tJx If an estimate was filed, then farmers have until Apnl 15 to tile the linal return These deadlines aie lor larmcis ending their year on December 31 w C TO USE CARE IN HAY BUYING Be careful about the hay that is bought, it may contain un desuable weed seeds that will infest tour farm There aie laws to pi event the sale of noxious weed 3 in crops seeds, but none to prevent the spiead of weed seeds in hay inspect it closely mid do not buy additional weed problems loi the future Max Smith 'lO PLAN SPLIT LEGUME SEEDINGS Farmeis who are planning to broadcast alfalfa or clover seeds in Che winter grain might use the method of bioadcaslmg half of the amount late m Februaiy and the other hlf 10 da\s to two weeks later By this method better coverage is attained and a thicker stand is realized With the broad cast method early spring sccdings arc more successful, than those of U.le Maich and April. llic Public Libraiy in Cambridge, Instead of a honeymoon, Her- Mass, icsulting in (he ictuin by bort Pieice of Springfield, Mo, John Mclntosh of a book, “The went to prison for two years Stoi v ol Scotland ” 38 years over- aftci stealing a shirt for his wed ding due When Coi nclux.s C Matthews A watermelon of the Tom Wat applicd for a license to wed Miss son variety, weighing 65 pounds. Marj B Haves at Manhattan, was produced on the J J Simp- Kan. he handed the ludge 350 son ranch, near Maryville. Cah pennic*. forma, in 1933. Why even the most progressive phurches have no intention ol giv. }ng up preaching, or to put it on pnc side. It is quite true (and has always been tiue) that there are other ways of “hearing” the Gos pel than by ear Nevertheless breaching is still blessed by God. this does not mean that every so called setmon enjoys God’s bless ing Some “pleaching” is no better (han a lot of unlovely noise. But preaching is blessed: that is, by it men ate aroused from indifference lo God. they are converted, grow fig Chustians are helped to grow, find suffeung Christians aie helped lo take then; bmdens in a Chnst like way. Why is this? One of tha leasons is that good preaching i« pel son -lo - pei son It has a this means-you oveitone in it A wnt ten thing can be ignored, thrown' into a wastebasket, but it is harder to ignore a sinceie, man who is talking to you about God and you Congt egations could help them selves, and the pieacher, if they would do something about this. Try to make out what the subject is. What’s Ht Driving Ml The common expiession, “What’s he chiving at’"-really means, What is he trying to say, in a nutshell? What is the theme, the topic, the subject, of his remaiks’ A poor pieacher may not even know, or he may know what he is trying to talk about, but his actual sermon may cast no light whatever on his subject But In a good sermon ev erything the pieacher says comes out ol his central them# or idea. And—a most impoitant point: his central theme or idea ought to be drawn from God’s Word II not, then the so-called preacher Is ac tually only reading an essay or giving a rambling talk on soma ol his own notions What’s Hi Driving For? II a minister really preaches the Word ol God, il he takes the whole Bible lor his base-line, he will not lack lor vital and thrilling sub jects But one ol America’s most famous preachers, whose wile used to ask him regularly every Friday night, "Darling, what’s your sub ject tor next Sunday?” was thrown into a tailspm by a different ques tion from her, one night: “Darling, what’* your object?” Preaching, when It is good. Is persuasive The object Is to lake people Irom where they are at least a little nearer to where they ought to be Minister* are olten taught to “preach tor a. verdict ” U a minister la really preaching the Word, he will be proclaiming the Way ol LUe He will bo making the way to God simple, and the Hie in God reaL Like Paul, he wants by all mean* "to win some”—to Christ (Based on oatllnei copyrighted by th# Division of Christian Education Na tional Council of (he Churches of Christ In the USA. Released by Community’ Brea* fiecvtn* *
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