. •>! i hi 4—Lancaster Farming, Frida Farm Calendar NOVEMBER ’Nov. 5 Farm Women’s Soci , cty County Convention, Lan < caster. Nov 5 Feeder Calf Show , and Sale, Lancaster Stock Yards. Nov. 9-10-11 Pennsylvania State Farm Equipment Deal ers Association Convention, Pittsburgh. Nov 10 Southeast District ( 4-H Baby Beef and Lamb , ißoundUp, Sale, Lari«eitei Stock Yards. Nov. 10 (Evening) Courity 1 4-H Holstein Meet. Paul Bru • baker Farm, Mount oy, R 1. ■ .Nov. 12 Closing date. Live stock classes entering Penn sylvania Farm Show Wv 14 -18 Eastern National i Leivtsock Show, Tiraonium, Md. Nov. 22 County Holstein- Friesian meeting, Gap Fire Hall Nov 24 Thanksgiving Day. DECEMBER Dec. 1 Entry closing date for turkeys. 4-H and vocational poultry classes, Pennsylvania - Farm Show. Dec 5-7 Farm Income Tax- Social Security short course, Pennsylvania U. Dec 5-10 Ice-Cream for Sup ply Men Short Course, Penn ~ sylvania U. Dec. 12 Entry closing date for bonier, fryer and roast- I er chickens, Pennsylvania Farm Show Dec 15 (Tentative Lan caster County .Farm Equip ment Dalers Christmas din ner meeting, Hostetter’s Banquet Hall, Mount Joy. Dec 17 Entry closing date, 4-H beeves, 4-H sheep, Penn sylvania Farm Show. One Purebred Ram Jo 40 Ewes Advised Use one purebred ram for every 40 ewes or less, and you’ll prob ably end up with a profit Art Pope, sheep specialist at University of Wisconsin, says a 3 carling or older ram in good condition can breed up to 40 ewes, but never more. A ram weighing less than 125 pounds can’t handle more than 20 ewes Ewe lambs weighing 100 pounds can be bred, pioviding they re ceive extra feed and attention Hot weather can throw a ram into temporary sterility. If the ewes aie bred in the fall, give the rams a cool place to stay when the temperature gets above 85 degrees Pope says its a good idea to shear four to six weeks refore breeding and again when the rams are turned with the ew r es Breeding ewes between Sep tember and November 1 means more twins and a moie uniform lamb crop and lambing period Flush the ewes three weeks make better gams by breeding before breeding, and they’ll time. Do the }ob with good pas ture, a pound of ground ear corn or three-quarteis pound of shell ed corn. . =- Ewes Demand Grain, Roughage in Winter Good grass or corn silage may lie used to winter pregnant ewes, if there is not enougn pasture, says the College ot Agriculture and Home Economies, University of Kentucky. Eight to 12 lbs daily is the ercomraended allowance per head. “However, it is better to in clude at least a pound ot dry roughage in the ration in place of 2‘& to 3 lbs of silage,” it is stated Do not feed moldy or frozen silage because either tends to cause digestive disturbances in pregnont ewes. Other suggestions: “After fall and early winter grazing is no longer available, adequate roughage plus a halt pound of gram per ewe daily should be fed before lambing and a pound after lambing until spring pasture becomes available. ■iT 'r'jrrrt*< *' lonJI Ratkftound Scriptural Luka 9:1-0:19. DaTOtlanal Itaadlnci Matthew 25;31- 40. Friend of Man Lesson for November 8. 1955 PEOPLE describing themselves have * tendency to paint them* selves handsomer than they real ly are. They do not like candid camera shots of themselves. Even when a man has to admit that he has committed a sin or made a mistake, he will try to tell himself his motive way. Now Jesus’ self-portrait was extremely impres sive; but, nobody ever called him a hypocrite oi a What show-oft, Jesus had said of himself in the Nazareth syna gogue was just the simple truth: Dr> Foreman he was indeed the same kind ol Friend o t Man that God is. He made humanity bis business. Healing; Bodies One fact stands out, and Luke makes a great deal of it Jesus was a healer. He never as sumed that sickness or physical disability “is bound to be.” He thought people’s bodies were im portant enough to be sound and • well. He never thought of him self as so “spiritual” he could be indifferent to people’s phys ical needs and pains. Wherever he went, he brought health -with bun. We do not fully understand how he diet this, but the Chris tian church has taken the cue from Jesus here. The tremend ous development of hospitals m ,Amenca and over the world Is not today all in the hands of Christians or religious people; but it was religious people who started this kind of thing The church of today is beginning to see how much harm another kind of Illness does,' and to work at curing mental diseases. Com pare a Christian country like ours with a non-Christian coun try like Korea where the total Christian population is less than six per cent. There- a cripple has ordinarily been something to Laugh at. No one would give him a job, no one bothered with him. All he could do was beg. as he crawled or sat in the dust. Now, Christian hospitals there have been doing a work the heathen world never thought of, —rehabilitating amputees, mak ing it possible for them to be self-respecting persons again. Christianity is teaching Korea a lesson Where once diseases of all sorts were taken as a matter of course, Christian doctors and hos pitals have shown the way to national health. Healing Souls Some people think that if a man is healthy that is enough. If a man's body is all right, he is all right!' Ohustians know bet ter —because Christ has shown us. Jesus- did not think he had done all he could for a man if he got him on his feet, literally. Long before modern medicine re discovered the fact, Jesus knew that men’s most seiious diseases are in their souls. He was the Friend of Man,—but not friend of their bodies alone. Hospitals today are more and moie making use of chaplains, of counselors— and that is another Christian idea. In every mission hospital the medical missionary is an evan gelist too. Red Rose 4-H Beef Lamb Club Entertains Lancaster County’s Baby Beef Roundup at the Stock Yards Nov. 8 was discussed Tuesday night in a meeting of the Bed Bose 4-H Baby Beef and Lamb Club at the Lampeter-Strasburg High School. Parents were guests. < . I Thanksgiving Proclamation By President President; Eisenhower his of ficially proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 24 as Thansgiving Day. His text follows: ' PROCLAMATION The custom of devoting one day each year to national Thanksgiv ing is a wise and an ancient one, hallowed by observance in the days before we became a nation, and sanctioned throughout the succeeding generations. „ It is therefore in keeping with our ful season of the waning year we oldest traditions that at the fruit turn again-1o Almighty God in grateful acknowledgement 'of his manifold blessings. At this time of thanksgiving, may we express our deep appre ciation of those forebears who, more than three centuries ago, celebrated the fust Thanksgiving Day. Through their industry and courage, our "nation was hewn from the virgin forest, and thiough their steadfastness and faith, the ideals of liberty and justice have become our cherish ed inheritance. May we lift up our hearts in special prayers of gratitude for the aboundance of our endow ments,' both material and spirit ual, for the preservation of our way of life, in its richness and fullness, and for the religious faith which has wielded such a beneficient influence uponour destiny. May we showbur thanks forour own bounty by remem biance of those less fortunate, andmaythe spirit of this thanks giving season move us to share with them to alleviate their eeed: Now, there, I, David D. Eisen hower, president of Jhe United Slates of America, having in mind tion of December 6, 1941, which the joint congressional resolu dpsignated the,fourth Thursday of November in each year as Thanksgiving Day and made that day a legal holiday, do hereby pioclaim Thursday, the Twenty- Fourth Day of November, 1995, as a day of national thanksgiving; and I urge all our citizens to ob serve the day with reverence Let us, on the appointed day, in our homes and our accustomed places own faith, bow before God and „f worship, each accordmgto his give him humble thanks. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused ihe Seal of the •'United States of America to be affixed Done at the city of Washington this Eleventh Dayof October in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the One Hun ched and Eightieth. Dwight D Eisenhower To Jesus, friendship meant something deeper 'than what oft en goes by that name. How many people are "friends” only with the strong, the successful! How many people will be friendly only to those who can give them a lift up the ladder of ambition! This is the friendliness of a mosquito, who will stick close to you, but not with any notion of doing you good. Then again, a common idea of being friendly Is to taka other people without criticism, take them as they are. A, word much in use with psychol ogists, psychiatrists and counsel ors nowadays Is "acceptance:" Now Jesus accepted all-kinds of persons who were by everyone else rejected—lepers, tax collec tors, the ‘Tower classes," for eigners. But while Jesus opened his heart to these people, in the very act of acceptance hechanged them. Some “friends" are like chameleons that take the color of whatever they lie on. Jesus never changed - hia own. colors. He was the friend of sinners, in deed; but by being their friend be led fram out of their sins. Te be -Christllke in friendship is to have a goodness that is contagi ous. (Suit on ontHaon aonltluef hr Oa DlvUlon of CliriittnnrEanoaHon,, Na tional Oonaotl ml tho OWiißh o( Ohfltl In tho D, I, A, kiluuil by Oonomnnlly Ftiu BorrlooJ ’ * , 5" > * « Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday bV OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarry v(lle, Pa. Phone 378 Alfred C. Alspach .. Ernest ] Neill C. Wallace Abel.... Robert G. Campbell Subscription Rates : $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5 00 ; 5c Pec Copy. Application for Second Class Matter mailing permit pending Crops Worth $lO2 Million Here in 1954 Lancaster County continued its title as Pennsylvania’s No. 1 agri cultrural county in 1954 with a PlO2 million gross in crops and lovestock Compiled only recently, the list shows the diversifiedproduction of rich soils and Lancaster Coun ty farmers’ husbandry. Topping the list, at $l9 088,100 is eggs, fol lowed by milk $15,887,400, meat birds $l5 million, beef cattle $13,- 585,000 and tobacco, $10,952,000. Despite a long, early summer drought, 1954’s total prouction here gained four million dollars, horn $98,383,399 in 1953 to $lO2- milhon plus. More astounding is that Hurricane Carol, Edna and Hazel plower into the county with destruction in 1954, yet Lancas ter County produced one-seventh oftheentire Commonwealth’s agri cultural produce on a dollar basis Tobacco Gain Significant Tobacco showed the most signi ficant gam, from nine million to almost $ll million m 1954 Corn dropped below tobacco in rank as second best field crop, totaling 9,625,700 in 1954. More beef cattle were produc ed m Lancaster County when prices improved and the County followed the nationwide trend toward increased numbers. Value of beef cattle nere increased from more than two million dollars to $l3 585,000 in 1954 Egge production also rase from 453,600,000 in 1953 to 520,584,000 last year but the average price dropped from 55 cents a dozen to 44 cents Net result was a drop inthe value, of the commodity of nearly two million dollars to $l9 million, still the leading single item produced in Lancaster Coun ty- A heavy surplus of milk also decreased the total value three million dollars to less than $l6 million, barely aheadof therapid ly growing meat bird industry. Estimate On Meat Birds The $l5 million value for meat birds is an estimate. Accurate figures for a complete year will not be available until 1956. Lancaster County farms produc er 1 less milk last year than in 1953 although surpluses elsewhere dropped price averages from $5 01 to $4.39 cwt Milk produc tion stood at 361,900,000 pounds for the county compared to 376,- 9J.000 pounds the previous year Hay production also declined from 166,500 tons to 152,100 tons but benefited from higher prices created by a shortage fol lowing th drought and gained slightly in total va1uet055,678,300. Barley, oats, rye and buckwheat nil increased In value during the j ear Barley rose from $738,300 to $1,214,500; oats nearly doubled, from $278,620 to $415,000; rye jumped from $5,930 to $12,310; snd buckwheat from $l5O to $2OO. Truck crops were ofl slightly at 2% million as were peaches it $174,250 and pears at $7,100. Cherries encountered a very poor season, falling from $25,900 in 1953 to only $11,620. \ (Lancaster Phone 4-3047) STAFF Swine were down some s2oojooo al $1j247,000 ut potatoes showed a gam of $350,000 to $1,898,700. Apples improved slightly to $354> 200 and grapes almost doubled in value to $11,407. 1 The year was not so sweet for honey, whose value fell from $26,- 825 to $14,800. Sheep at $148,500- and wool at $36,439 were also somewhat below 1953 figures. Lancaster Crops Estimated values for farm crops produced m Lancaster County and the relative im portance ot eacn in 1904 are shown below Eggs . Milk Meat Birds Beef Cattle Tobacco .. 10,952,000 Corn Hay Wheat Trek Crops Potatoes Swine Barley Oats Apples - Peaches Sheep Wool . Honey ' Bye Cherries Grapes . Pears . Bpckwheat Cotton outlook increased, con siderable from the Sept. 1 out look, and final production may be well over last year. Corn in creased four million bushels oyer Sept, 1955, and may be the sixth Ingest crop on record. Soybeans move dp nine per cent from 1054’s yield, while sorghum gam ed 12 per cent Wheat production, however, may show a six per cent decrease from Fast year Cotton . 13,900,000 Bales Corn . . 3,100,000,000 Bu. Soybeans Sorghum Grains 229,000,000 Etu. All Wheat 916,000,000 Bh. Red Cloverseed in 1954 Reduced 24% ; Over Pennsylvania > Greatly reduced production of red cloverseed was reported tor this year in Pennsylvania follow ing Federal-State surveys an nounced by the State Depart ment of Agriculture. The total of 1,122,000 uonds of dean seed is 24 per cent heiow last year and 38 per cent under the 1944-53 average. The past two red clover seed seasons have been dry in most areas of Pennsylvania, thd ue partment said. The second cutting of clover is usually used for seed. Dry weather prevailed for mpst of this period and reached near drought conditions in July and early August, n eastern Pennsyl vania areas during mid-August, hurricanes “Connie” and “Di anne” beat down stands or delay ed harvest. Pennsylvania acreage harvested this year at 22,000 is 19 per cent clow last year ana 41 per cent below average yield per acre was placed at 51 pounds, slightly be low last year but three pounds above average. f Publishdr ... Editdr ~. Business Manager Advertising Director $19,088,100 15,887,400 15,000,000 13,585,000' 9,625,000 5,673,300 4,253,600 2.500.000 ’,898,700 1.247.000 1,214,500 415,108 354,200 174,250 148,500 36,439 14,800 12,310 . 11,620 11,4(57 7,100 200 375,000,000 Eu. %