_Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 11, 1955
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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.
Ernest 1 Neill
C. Wallace Abel
Robert G. Campbell
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Meat production in 1955 will set a record and a,high
volume for 1956 is “almost certain,” the Agriculture De
partment reports. By the end of this year, about 26.7 bil
lion pounds five per cent more than in 1954 will be
produced for the United States consumer and export mar
kets. Bumper crops of feed, good condition of most ranges,
the large number of meat animals on farms, with a likely
record number of cattle to be fed and increased hog produc
tion, this fall, all support the contention.
Further extracts from the report say strong demand
likely will support prices of feeder cattle, and margins be
tween prices of feeders and fed cattle are expected to be
relatively narrow. But with lower feed prices, profits in
feeding this coming season may be close to average.
For hogs, prices that declined sharply from June
highs have continued to work lower, and quotations hit a 13-
year low in Chicago. The 1956 spring pig crop is expected
to. be larger than that of 1955, but, because of the lower
prices this fall, the increase probably will be moderate.
Concluding the report is a statement of interest to
all livestock producers; “.. . because large output will limit
prices of meat animals during the next year, the profit mar
gins in livestock will continue rather narrow.”
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MEAT PRODUCTION
Editor, Lancaster farming: my
son took the Ag course at state
Colege and knows an auout tne
new cnemicais and words witn tne
long names that they talk aoout
these days, t rank you snouio
print more articles so tnat we
older fellows can know wnat tne
younger people are talking aoout.
JRS Landisville.
Editor, Lancaster 1? arming: con
gratulations on your good start.
I pu t samall ad in tne paper
and an my mends were teinng
me aoout now they saw it in me
new taim paper. urO real season
will be going in tne spring anu
you can oet that l win advertise
then. JLJVi.
Editor, Lancaster Farming
Thanks a million for the copy ot
Lancaster Farming delivered per
sonally to the office ot the Clerk
of Quarter Sessions Court oy tne
.publisher, Mr Alfred C. Alspach
within an hour after publication
of same. Congratulations on a
splendid farm newspaper, it has>
been said “the pen is mightier
than the sword.” Certainly the
information and education con
tained therein and entertainment
provided by the reading ot same
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read your paper and would like
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the young people
When unvaccinated hogs go ott
feed, a veterinarian should be
called at once Other symptoms
that demand quick attention are
slowness in moving out ot sleep
ing quarters or sudden deaths.
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Background Scripture* Luke 8 17-49
Devotional Beading: 2 Peter 1 2-8.
The Golden Rule
Lesson for November 13, 1955
LIVING Is an art, not a science.
' Jesus did not come to give
us a. heavenly rule-book. On the
other hand he did not live and
die merely to provide us with
tickets to heaven. For others, as
for himself, he felt the tremend
ous importance, here and now,
of this present life. He left be
hind him not r br
broad principle
for living in th;
world as sons am
daughters of th
Most High Go<
Jesus’ pnriciph
were not the stir.
fy sort of thini
that only philosi
phers can unde:
stand. His disci-
pies, we know, ® r * Foreman
were all men of limited educa
tion, the plainest of plain people.
If Jesus had tried any theological
gobbledygook on them, it would
have gone clear over theip heads.
What he said could have carved
on short tombstones, wruien on
a postcard,—any one sentence of
his teachings. The one the church
has nicknamed the “Golden Rule’’
—short, sharp, and In Jesus’, own
view very _ important—la alone
worth long study.
“It’* Too Hard"
1 Luke’s version of the Golden
( Rule (6:31) is clear enough: “As
you wish that men would do to
you, do so to them.” Words of one
'syllable, but what words! It is
saddening to see how many ef
forts have been made to by-pass
this Golden Rule. One kind of by- 1
passers will tell you this is much
too hard.,Some very religious peo-;
pie have fancied that ,Jesus did
not mean this for here-and-now,j
but only for some “Beautiful Isle
of Somewhere,” sometime after
Judgment Day. Other religious
people have said that Jesus really
meant to say, “You can’t possi
bly do this, don’t you feel
ashamed?” Now we can be sure
of two things. One is, that Jesus
was (to say the least of it) a.man
of common se,nse. an honest man.
And honest men "do not deliber
ately tell their friends to do what
they know is impossible.
“It’s Too Easy”
An opposite way of by-passing
the Golden Rule is to think it is
too easy,—that it is just a nice
sounding bit of advice that is not
only easy to do but which won’t
do much good. For example: a
little girl cues lor candy. The
mother thinks: What would I
want her to do for me? Why, I’d
want her to do as I say. So I’ll
do as she says—give her the
candy. (And makp her sick, of
course.) Or again: a wife’s birth
day is coming along. Husband
thinks: What would I want for
my birthday? New power »aw, of
course. So he gets his wife a
power saw, which she certainly
does not want . . . No, the Golden
Rule is not so easy as all that.
It calls for imagination, for a
wide vision, for a Christian spirit.
It is indeed all too easy—for fools
and knaves, But Jesus assumed
that his friends were neither
knaves nor fools. The Golden Rule
is not something to save anyone
the trouble of thinking. It simply
points out the direction In which
our actions and decisions ought
to go. It often means, not—What
does this person want me to do,
now? but—What will this person
at last wish I had done for him?
In other words, If we are to apply
the Golden Rule we have to look
at it in the light of eternity.
Bacon-Pickle Sandwich filling
% cup finely chopped am
pickles
1-3 cup chopped, cooked Bacon
Vi cup mayonnaise or saiaa
dressing
Combine pickles, bacon ana
mayonnaise, leld: 1 cup, or tilling
for five sandwiches.
48-Acre Farm
$Bl5 Per Acre
Totaling $39,206.60, a 48-acre
Earl Township farm sold this
week to Wilson Martin. Jr, Rl,
Ephrata, figuring $Bl5 per acre.
Seller was Ivan H. Nodlt, and
Frank L. Steller auctioneer.
For the first time, researchers
recently blended corn fiber with
cotton and wool to weave ma
terial for clothing.
Another way of by-passing the
Golden Rule is to say simply that
it won’t work. “It is a lovely
ideal, the world would be much
pleasanter to live in, for all of us,
if we could live by it; but we
can’t, so let’s get on with the
practical business of dog-eat-dog,
every man for himself and the
devil take the hindmost.” Again
let us remember that if Jesus
had not lived by his own rule,
every listener would have known
him for a hypocrite and the Gold
en Rule would have perished in a
blast of cynical lighter. It
worked in Nazareth, it worked
in the carpenter shop. To bring it
down to our own times in Amer
ica, and to take the hardest of ap
plications of the Golden Rule,—
loving your enemies Will it work?
Well, who are today the leaders in
the War of the 1860’s who aie most
widely and gratefully remembered
on both sides of what once was a
battle line? Lincoln and Lee, be
yond much doubt. And these are
the two men who most undeniably
loved their enemies. The Golden
Rule, in a life devoted to God and
map, will work.
(Based on out'ineo copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
In tbe-U. S A. Released by Community
Press Service )
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Farm Calendar
NOVEMBER
Nov. 12 Closing date. Live
stock classes entering Penn
sylvania Farm Show.
Nov. 14 -18 Eastern National
Leivtsock Show, Timonium,
Md.
Nov. 17-18 State Soil Con
servation District Directors
Conference Harrisburg.
Nov. 22 County Holstein-
Friesian meeting, Gap Fire
Hall.
Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Day.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1 Entry closing date fop
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 boriler, fryer and roast
er chickens, Pennsylvania
Farm Show.
Dec. 15 (Tentative Lan
caster County Farm Equip
meent Dalers Christmas din
ner meeting, Hostetler's
Banquet Hall, Mount Joy.
Dec. 17 Entry closing date,
4-H beeves, 4-H sheep, Penn
sylvania Farm Show.
In spite of the dozens ot vita
mins, minerals and otner essen
tial elements needed tor a good
livestock ration, water ana salt
are the two most commonly
neglected items in the diet ot
livestock.