City Dwellers Can Extend Clean-up Work To Rural Areas by Stopping Trash Dumping DURING THE past week the mayor of the City of Lancaster has been quoted as saying that people in that city contrib ute to the dirt and rubble by being care less and thoughtless. He is starting a clean up campaign in the city. But we have news for you, Mr. Mayor. If you think that the city dwellers can make a mess of the city, come out and take a look at some of the rural roads that lead in and out of the city. Some of them are so littered with junk, trash, refuse and sometimes even garbage, that they resemble a trash heap rather than a public road. One thing we’ll guarantee you, Mr. Mayor, and that is that the junk didn’t come from the farmers whose land lies beside the roads. Not that we are laying all the blame on those people who live in the city of Lancaster. No indeed! Some of the roads leading to and from the various boroughs in the county are just as bad if not worse. Sometimes you see in the news about a farmer going out with a truck along his roads, filling it with the junk he finds there and then dropping the whole load on the city hall steps in some town nearby. We can’t condone his method of pro test, but we sure agree with him in his thinking. his Week 3 Lancaster Farming . T?* _-.j- Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly aster r iullllUK Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert E Best, Editor; Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J. Wiggins, Circulation Director ™ i Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-3132 or Lancaster, Express 4-3047. Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., wder 75 Years Ago During that same week the Acto* m»«*3, 4 ® steamer Austrian arrived at Bos- three years s sj smeie copy Price 5 A thief who stole a horse from ton with 842 passengers from Ire- cents. Amos Williamson of East Not- land, all of whom went to work ■ ~ tingham Twp , Chester County, in the mills in New Hampshire Pa! and disposed of the animal . one of the fastes t growing de in Lancaster County, was arrest- . velonments along the Pacific cd at «» 50 YearS Ag ° 50 jears ago, w.a the sal escape while being taken on t e mon pa ckmg enterprise. No sal tram to West Chester by two ot- At a me eting of the Lancaster mon were packed for export until licers of the law County Tobacco Growers, held jgr,Q wben two small canneries According to a newspaper story dunng that week m j une , 1908, start ’ ed operatlons on the Colum- Ihe thief “complained ot ieeim G the ques tion of acreage planted b River In 1908 there were sick and made a number ot visits was the chief subject brought up tW enty-three establishments, 15 to the water-closet - While m ine for dlscusslon The report show- Qn the oregon and eight on the men's room he raised the window ed lhat m some sections 20 per Washington slde of the river, and tumped from the train wmen cent less tobacco was being plant- lh an annual outpu t of 1,000,- was traveling at a speed . ot M ed than m 190 7, with potatoes QOO cages of £lsh> value d at $9.- miles per hour He escapea, out planted ins tead. ?innno passengers who seen e In other sections there was an man flee re P°^ tad .® d increase in tobacco acreage. Tak erably cut about th - ing the county as a whole, it was * , * c believed the acreage to be about POWDER BLAST REVEALS ig.OOO acres. It was also reported UNDERGROUND KITCHEN that cutworms were doing consid- BY JACK REICH ARD erable damage, requiring replant- That same week m Chester in g in man y areas County, back in June, 1883, a re markable discovery had been made by Edward Brown, a quar ryman at Johnson’s quarries, near Poe op son In Lancaster, a bantam rooster Brown had reached a depth of belonging to Adam Beittel, 201 >0 feet, and after drilling a hole west King St., began acting like in what he supposed to be solid a “duck” and was finally given a rock, charged it with powder, se ttmg of eggs. Twelve chicks lighted the fuse and retired to a were hatched out, and the rooster location of safety After the blast was as pro ud of his flock as any he returned and instead of finding hen could be, and reported to be stone, he discovered what looked “j US t as fussy”. Jike a kitchen which had been „ * ». struck by a cyclone There was a COLL g GE PROFESSOR FOUND stove, lot of tm cans, an iron pot, mason’s trowel, singularly shaped axe and some bones. Authorities who investigated, stated the place had evidently been a cave, the entrance of which had been covered over, and probably the hiding place of a criminal in the early 1800 s, when highwaymen were numerous in Chester County. It was pointed out that Joe Hare, the notorious robber who was hanged at Trenton, N. J., for robbing the United States mails near Lancaster, was born within a quarter mile of the cave. In June, 1883, farmers in Penn sylvania’s Berks County, reported the season’s wheat crop was re- American dairymen received duced one-third by the ravages of from 4 to 5 cents per pound more the Hessian fly. for their butter product in 1907 t - * than in 1906. While this did not Horace Childs, a young man, mean a large increase for the in was killed instantly by a freak dividual farmer, it meant an ad flash of lightning while plowing ditional national income of from in a field near Norristown, Pa., $20,000,000 to more than $25,000,- We can image in our mind’s eye the commotion that would take place if such a thing were to happen. It would cause an awakening to the problem in a hurry. But there are better, more legal and just as effective means at the disposal of the farmer. If every farmer were to keep an eye out for litter-bugs along his roads and try to get the number of the car doing the littering, he could give this number to the township police for prosecution. The local Justices of the Peace, most of whom live in rural areas, and many of whom are farmers, have shown a willing ness to prosecute offenders of the anti litter laws of the Commonwealth. Township police, too, could be a little more on the alert for litter-bugs. No one will be too inclined to dump a bag of trash in front of your lane if he thinks that a township policeman may come along and catch him in the act. And last of all, you can write letters to the civic officials of the town nearest you protesting such treatment at the hands of their citizens. You’d be surprised at what, one good hot letter can do at a meeting of a Boro council. Half a dozen in the same vein can cause a panic! Lancaster County is hailed as the Garden Spot of America. Let’s not let it look like the garbage dump of America. 15 years ago-this week ROOSTER TURNS CLUCK COW IN STUDY HALL When the faculty at Delaware College, Newark, Del., entered the recitation hall that June, 1908, morning they were greeted by the lowing cf a cow. The ani mal had been led from a field near Newark and placed in the hall during the night by a group of students. That the animal might not suf fer from thirst, the public drink ing fountain was removed from Newark’s main street and also in stalled in the hall. It required five men to get the cow out of the building. 'i. * 25 Years Ago In 1933 the State of Pennsyl vania had 3,690 fewer one-room schools than in 1920. A report issued by the Department of Pub lic Instruction showed there were 10,201 schools of this type in 1920, and in 1933 they numbered only 6,511. The department re ported that one-teacher schools were being closed at the approxi mated rate of 300 a year. A barn under construction on the farm of Mrs. Martha Ross and Miss Fannie E. Boyd, two miles east of CochranvUle, Pa., was de stroyed by a fire that broke out in a pump shed shortly before noon. Carpenters were at work on the roof of the new structure when the fire started.-The build ing would have been finished by the workmen in about two more days. It was leveled with damage placed at $B,OOO. H * GOOD NEWS FOR DAIRY FARMERS Twenty-five years ago this week, good news came for dairy farmers supplying the Philadel phia area in the form of price increases amounting to 29 cents per hundred weight for milk ship ped to Philadelphia by truck and 34 cents for milk delivered to area creameries. Pasing her one hundred and are poisonous. Nightshade, water hemlock, and wilting or wilted first birthday, “Grandma” Caro- wild cherry leaves are the most common ones in this area. In the line Arnold, of St. Joe, Ark., gave case of the wild cherry leaves it is a good practice to inspect the credit for her longevity to her pasture land under cherry trees after a wind or storm and remove constant use of coffee, 25 years the limbs that have broken off. Livestock will eat these leaves re sgo this week. gardless of the pasture condition. 4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 6, 1958 men viroun jw *Dvr*tiraal Joihua *3il-0. Into Tomorrow Louon (or Juno », IMS EVERY other preacher or pub- Ua speaker tods it necessary ko remind his audience here In America that this nation was founded In the fear of God. The relifious foundations of this nation are too well known to need com ment (An interests ■ detailed hi f torical survey can bo found in ‘•Foundation of' American Free dom,” by A. Mer- ry n Davies; Abingdon Press.) This can be great- ly exaggerated. There Is an often- ouoted remark: ••The pioneers of Dr ‘ Forcjnan South America came over to tod gold; the North American pio neers came to tod God.” But it is also true that great numbers ol our own ancestors came over, by their own showing, to tod their fortune. Still it is true that few nations have had religion inlaid with their history as our country has "The Hand ef the Lord Is Mighty” i There are some Interesting par allels between the situation when Joshua was about to pass from the scene o£ his triumphs in Canaan, and the times in which we live Three of them can be pointed up In phrases drawn from the Bible stones themselves First is from Joshua 4:12: “The hand of the Lord is mighty." Neither Moses nor Joshua took personal credit for their achievements; they gave the glory to God The rude monu ment of stones described in Josh ua 4 was not a monument to Joshua, to Moses, nor to any of their captains; it was a commemo ration of the mighty acts of God. Many books have been written on the theme of God in history Ac cording to the prophet Amos, God Is in all nations’ histones; yet notj all nations see this And the trou ble with Israel was, and continued to be, that they supposed eause God had once done mightyl Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO TOP DRESS ALFALFA A very common practice among good grassland farmers is to ap ply around 200 pounds per acre of an 0-20-20 or 0-15-30 fertilizer immediately after the removal of the first cutting. This will replace some of the food elements removed by the crop and re sult in larger yields of later cuttings. TO SIDEDRESS CORN WITH NITROGEN Corn yields have been increased by a side-dressing of extra nitrogen at the first or second cultiva tion. An application of 100 pounds of either sul phate of ammonia or ammonium nitrate, or other nitrogen carriers, per acre is especially beneficial where corn followed corn. It is important that Max Smith the application be made before the corn gets a foot high in order to get the fertilizer as close and as deep as pos sible without shearing off the roots. TO PROVIDE SHADE AND WATER All livestock will produce more efficiently if they have plenty of shade and water while on pasture; also, need ample pasture in order to get their fill with a mimmum of walking. When animals have to roam over the field in search of either grass, shade, or water (hey are doing it at the owner’s expense. TO CONTROL SILAGE JUICES Many owners of silos filled with grass silage have a problem of preventing the seepage from the silo from getting into water supplies, or from causing insanitary condi tions around the barn and milk house If these juices are allowed to run on the surface of the ground the fly problem increases and the milk inspectors object. It is suggested that under-ground pipe or tiles systems be placed to carry the juice away from the buildings and barnyard. TO BEWARE OF LIVESTOCK POISONING The pasture season presents a number of chances for livestock to eat poisonous plants; with other good forage to eat seldom will they bother the plants that 'acts on their behalf, ha never Would ceasa to do so. God had started them on their way; there for# they were a religious nation, (therefore he would never let them Icome to disaster. How wrong they jweie! f‘|f You Turn Back.. ■ Joshua’s farewell address, as an aged man, to the nation whose [beloved and successful leader ha (had been, held up some big IF’*. Continued success, eventual great ness, was by no means to be them without question. God is not a puppet-master. He does not de cide the fate of a nation and then ; no matter what the nation does or ’is, carry them right through by al mighty power to the destiny of their heart’s desire. God had chos e« Israel; but the question Joshua puts before the people Is: Will you choose God? One religious chap ter in a nation’s early history does not guarantee that the nation will be religious forever after. On# chapter of obedience and loyalty to God does not make it certain that there will be no chapters of neglect of God, of disobedience, of darkness and defeat. One chapter of success does not make impossi ble any chapters of failure. *‘Choos«, This Day • •«” Maybe every reader has thought •bout this before, but it Is still more than a striking thought, it is appalling: In one generation it would be possible to undo and des troy the Christian church That is the strategy of the various com munist regimes They do not now attack the church very often. What they do is to see that no children, no young people, if the Party can keep them from it, grow up know ing and loving the church No gen eration can choose God for their children, even less for their chil-< dren’s children. Each generation must choose for God afresh.' There is no riding to glory on our grandparents faith So when we ask ourselves: Is Ameri ca a Christian nation’ We can answer. The hand of God was mighty in times gone by We can look aiound and see church spires on every horizon Almost every family in Ameuca, the newly come or the "Old Americans.’’ has a legend or tradition of some ances tor or lelative who was a praying saint, a pillar of the church But that is never the pomt Where ana the praying saints today? When the present living pillars of the church die, are we bringing up our childien to love the same God, serve the same Christ, to live by the same Spirit’ If not. we are helping to de-Chnstiamze America (Bused on outlines copyrighted br tho Division of Christian Education Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ In the U S A Beieased by Community Fress Service.)
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