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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.” -* ’ -
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Voice Of
Lancaster Farms
NEW HOLLAND I want to
be one of the first sbscrlbers to
your paper- I am enclosing $lOO,
which I think is the special price
for the year. I read ,the paper
with interest- I suggest that in
your market reports the Rohrcrs
town Poultry Auction be includ
ed- Titus Mai tin. i
(Editor’s Note: Rohrerstown
Poultry is being reported in Lan
caster Farming.)
MANHEIM Enclosed you
wil find $l-00 for one year char
ter subscription- I don’t receive
a daily paper, so will try your
weekly. As a farmer I was look
ing for a paper that doesn’t 'Jjave
a lot of funnies, tobacco, liquor
etc but one that gives events of
the county markets, etc- I don’t
care for a lot of world news, as
we get that on our 'radio.
Earl K. Metzler.
L'ANCASTER I read
through the first issue o£ Lan
caster Farming carefully and
want to congratulate-you on it
The contents arc very interesting
and the get-up has an attractive
and professional aspect which is
rare in first issues mf magazines.
You deserve to have great suc
cess in it and I certainly hope
you will. Robert Ruppin, at
torney.
NARVON I have just re
ceived my second copy of your
paper. Congratulations on a fine
paper- Wish you success. It is
the kind of paper we need in
Lancaster County. I am a Lancas
ter County farmer and Granger.
S- Ralph Wanner.
STRASBURG Please put
my name on your list of char
ter subscribers- I looked through
the first issue and it looks very
good. I was pieased to see no
liquor or tobacco ads, as I hate
to have them laying around my
home. I certainly wish you suc
cess. Merle D. LeFevre.
NATIONAL STOCK YARDS
111. This is to acknowledge
with thanks, tne long awaited full
fledged Lancaster Farming, Vol
1, No. 1, all of which I apprecia-
ted very much. First, my con
gratulations on the very fine is
sue of Nov. 4- Especially enjoy
ed copy below your picture,
(LAN - backgroundinagricultal
por.) Miss Gertrude Noll, As
sociate Secretary, The St- Louis
Live Stock Exchange.
(Editor’s Note: Corrected
copy, where typographical errors
mentioned above were removed,
has been forwarded to Miss Noll.
That was one of the midnight or
wee-hour-of-the-morning errors
that crept in and was corrected
before the enure, huge press run
was completed “Good to hear
from one of the nation’s major
markets- EJN)
LANCASTER My heartiest
congratulations to your newest
paper- It is a pleasure to read as
well-written copy as yours.
John E. Lynge.
BAREVILLE Enjoy your
new newspaper. Mrs. John B-
Becker. -
MANHEIM ~ We thank you
for the introductory issues of
Lancaster Farming. I enjoy the
Women’s Page. Mrs. Mervin
Wenger-
LANCASTER .Co- Just re
ceived a copy -of your 'Lancaster
Farming and sure enjoyed it.
Good luck. Isaac T. Rogers-
SALUNGA Thanks so much:
for your sample copies of Lan
caster Farming. It was a very
nice surprise and you have a
nice, all-around paper. I’m sure
glad you have a column - “The
Bible Speaks.”- Mrs. Frank N.
Baer.
MT- JOY— Enclosed is check
for one year's subscription to
Lancaster Farming! Enjoy .read
ing up-to-the-minute news on_
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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.) - • • • -
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