~ n ' 4 Lancaster Funning, Friday, November 25, 1955 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Alfred C. Alspach . Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel • ■ Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5c Per Copy Application for Second Class Mailing Privileges Pending THANKS, FROM LANCASTER FARMING I Now that Thanksgiving Day is passed, we might add ouri word of thanks to those many fine people who have written us to thank us and comment favorably upon the nevl Lancaster Farming. It’s gratifying. It s encouraging. If we do not acknowledge your letter, be assured it has been received and has been appreciated-. Starting a new project is always a tricky proposition. Rule No. 1 is to get off on the right foot. From what, our readers write, we have. So far we’ve not experienced the feelings one rural editor in West Virginia uid when he re ceived this letter from a subscriber: . When you talked me into subscribing to your sheet a year ago, you promised that if I wasn't satisfied at the end of a year, I could have my money back. Well send it back, please. A hastily added postscript^read “Come to think of it, to save trouble, just apply the money to my next year’s subscription- At the beginning, like in farming, there were prob lems. Some were overcome, some new ones arose. But they are being solved as time goes on. It’s encouraging to bfe received so \\ ell, to meet such a friendly response. We made our pledge from the start fo serve you as best we know how. We renew that pledge, and appreciate deeply your kind comments. IRRIGATION ONE ANSWER Irrigation, once considered strictly the domain oi the western states has moved farther and farther east, until today there are few farmers who haven’t considered instaua: tion of such a system. Investment is heavy, but increased crop yields may pay for the system in a season or two. And it one considers his'dairy or beef herd saved by irrigated, pastures, me vaiue is realized much more quickly. In the lower Susquehanna Valley i9sb's unusual weather included'both drought and too much-rain. Problem No. 1 in all areas is insuring an adequate supply of water —• uncontaminated water. It takes a one-acre pond to ir rigate approximately 10 acres of land. Another item to oe considered; does the lack of rainfall occur often enougn to justify an-irrigation, system in a region that can normauy expect 35 to 45 inches of rain each each year / For those who find the investment too large, increas ed conservation practices may be a practical answer. Higher fertilizer rates, longer periods of hay in rotation, contour strip cropping, furrows plowed parallel to slopes are a lew of the suggestions, many already included in normal Lancas ter farming practices. i There is much to be learned about irrigation, ana 1956 will surely see immense increases in us use. Following Benjamin Franklin’s advice, wnicn can oe inverted and applied to the weather outlook, one. might well remember “... in this world nothing can be said to be cer tain, except death and taxes.” FARMERS, EXCHANGE STUDENTS One of the highlights of the year was undoubtedly the exchange visits of American farmers to Russia and Rus sian farmers to America. Both groups made some triends. Both were, to a certain extent, students, and ruiure ex changes might well be considered; Nebraska’s College ot Agriculture Dean W. V. Lambert best smmarized this by saying: “We think we made some friends and drove some wedges in the barriers that have been between the two countries for the past 15 years. We hope we' paved the way for future exchanges such as these.” -* ’ - iii -r. i fd.•.!. ) Lancaster Phone 4-3047) STAFF Publisher .. Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director vf/i * r sl&smlnl Down on the Farm (This Week In 1905) By JACK KEICHARD ... Accordihg to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in his report "to President Roosevelt, the na tion’s 1905 farm crops reached an all-time high in production and value. Wilson stated the un precedented prosperity on the farms in the country was due to the fine cooperation of the farrft ef with the 'Agriculture Depart ment- Corn reached the highest production ever recorded, more than 2,700,000 bushels, estimated value $1,216,000,000. Wheat pro duction ran over 684 million bushels, valued at $525 million- ... In Berks county, where a scarcity of farm labor was re ported, hundreds of fields of corn had not been husked. Farmers in that area made a special appeal for help to gel their corn from the fields into the cribs- ... In Washington the Depart ment of Agriculture announced that its annual distribution of Background Scripture: Luke 81 1-21; 9:1-6; 10.1-24 Devotional Reading: Isaiah So. The Good News Lesson for November 27, 1953 THERE is no such thing as the Christian religion, except in human beings. There is no such thing as the growth of Christi anity, unless it grows in people. So how does Christianity spread? Only by one way; people who are Christians must win people who are not Chris- tians. People who know Jesus Christ must introduce other people to him. The church has a word for this; it is called Evangelism. Any body who thinks ® r - Foreman he doesn’t believe in evangelism is really saying that he doesn’t care whether there are any new Christians or not. He is saying (though perhaps without realizing it) that what he calls his "faith” is not worth talking about, or rec ommending to any one else. Preaching and Bringing— Our rather technical word “Gospel” means simply “Good News.” That is what it is called in the New Testament, Not good advice/or good answers to philos ophers’ riddles; just good news-7- about God, about Jesus, about destiny. Luke- gives us some- in teresting and valuable hints about how this Good News was broad cast in,Jesus’- own time and by his direction. One is in three words (Luke 8:1): Jesus came 1 j ‘preaching and bringing” the 1 good news of the kingdom of God. The Gospel is not something just for talk. A tape-recorder can give out a sermon; but a tape-record er cannot be a preacher of the Gospel. Administer who preaches on Sunday and disappears the rest of the week (if such there be) may be preaching the Gospel but he is not bringing it. Jesus lived by what he preached. The good news can be told by a clever tongue; but it can be brought only by a consecrated life. What would be thought of a grocery store where, if you went in, you would) see .only empty shelves, and a' of clerks who would button-! hole you- and tell you all about! ■the wonderful groceries that! aren’t therel And what can onej think of a church.where all youj can find out about the love of, God is just talk, and nobody brings the Gospel? The Gospel can’t be brought in a little parcel you can tuck under your arm like,* a prayer-book. It has to bej brought/'in a man-sized package, a live sample. After a few months 1 - you can buy a “demonstrator’"-i car or tractor cheap; but a "dem-| onstrator” Christina is beyond, • price. • / 1 vegetables' and flower seeds would start in 1905, aggregating 38 million packages- For a num ber of years Congress had ap propriated $290,000 for the pur pose- The bulk of the 38 million packages was subject to the order of senators and congressmen for distribution among their constitu ents. One-fifth of the seeds wero earmarked for experimental pur poses for the agriculture depart ment. The country was divided into six zones, with special re gard to climate and soils. Seeds were sent only to those localities in which propagation was be lieved to be adapted- Among Pennsylvania inven tors applying lor patents during November, 1905, was B. F - . Lutz, a butcher residing at Lititz. Lutz had invented a device attached to an alarm clock, so that when the alarm went off the draft of a stove would open, thus making a room warm before one arose on a cold morning. All patrons of rural routes were notified by the postmast ers from whose offices the routes started, that designated, numbers assigned to them would have to be legibly inscribed or painted on the box in a conspicuous place- The new post office rul ing was made to keep “Fake schemers from getting the correct names and addresses of persons residing along the routes. .. When Katie Bair, Providence Township, left her soap boiling to go into the house for a short time, she found a good sized pig cooked to deiih in her kettle upon her return- The pig, a fre quent visitor at the Bair place, belonged to Reuben Bowman, a neighbor. , PERSONAL INCOME, Personal income in Septem ber set a record annual rate of $307,500,000,000, the government recently disclosed- The figure was $2 billion higher than the level set in August and almost $2O million above that for Sep tember, 1954. All major types of income registered gains in Sep tember, it was leported- You would think that if we| cduld only get Jesus Christ ini person, as he was in Galilee, into] our church, we could convert ev-1 erybody. Well, he didn’t. No one! ever brought or preached the Gos-J pel better than he; but he didj not meet with 100% success.- He| gave a reason for this that any) farmer or gardener - can under stand. Preaching the Gospel Is like sowing seed, he -said* Some times when you look at two fields! you may find it hard to believe that the same seed was sown in both; but so it was. The differ ence- is hr the soils-, fit Hutchin-( son, Kansas, there is a grain) elevator -with a capacity -of ten 'million bushels of wheat Every bushel in the hundreds of-bins can be traced back to the area where ft grew. On rfie wall in the test-! ing-laboratory of that .elevator 1 there is a map of Kansas, county! by county; and the, kind of wheat! each county is producing, this year, is marked there.-The same; seed wheat in different coualies or in different parts of the same county, may have different pro-, tein conte'nt or vary in nilmbef of bushels to the acre. So some peo ple are better Gospel-soil than others.. , To Preach and to Heal I When Jesus sent out We dls-. ciples to preach, he sent them toi heal too. Health Is the Church’ * business. Whatever affects man’s health of body, mind or soul,, that jis the church’s affair. When she preaches and brings the Gospel, she has no right to say, “What we preach is only for your soul."' The good news about God has transformed whole communities, has changed the world for worn*! en, for children, for slaves, for' downtrodden minorities. A gospel; which is only for souls is not the Gospel Jesus preached and' brought. (Based en aoUlnes eopyrlfkled hr the Division •of Christian Edocatleay Na tional Connell ef the Charshss at Christ tn the D. g. A. Released bf OdnatuMr Brass .SstrUe.) - • • • - >;