;n j '* .•fiJm'i ..‘mile n, *1 • /i>t, )iu.A i— Lancaster Farming, F.xUy, December 2, 1355 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 There are bright spots in the pork picture, and we’re not prophets of gloom and doom. Prices on terminal markets staged some minor recoveries after lows that reached back several years had been struck , , 11CT tv The American Meat Institute has launched a BUY PORK” campaign to cover 90 per cent of the United States market Stations in 44 principal cities will cover more than 41 million radio homes Nutrition, plentiful supply, economy prices are main themes The Institute thus hopes to move a record production of pork into the nation’s kitchens. In the week ending at mid-Novembei. nearly a halt billion pounds of all meats was produced, slamming out a new record A large pork supply with seasonally liberal mar keting of beef was reported. Hogs marketed under federal inspection in that week totaled 1,7x5,000 head, a rise of 18 per cent above the comparable week in 1954 It was the big gest week -since 1,738,000 head poured in during the week of Dec. 20, 1952. On top of that, there were 401,000 head of cattle dressed under federal inspection, a 7 per cent increase over a year ago, 9 per cent more than the week earlier. Cattle slaughter was up 7 per cent from a year ago, but the supply of beef rose 12 per cent, indicating marketing at much heavier finished weights, v Pork and beef, combined with veal, cfave a total meat outturn for that week of 478 million lbs, 12 per cent above the preceding week, 13 per cent up from a week ago. . , , _ , w By the end of 1955, it is estimated that meat produc tion in the U. S. will exceed last year’s output by 1,370,000,- 000 lbs enough meat to feed each and every person in the states of Missouri and Kansas for 1 5 years at the cur rent rate of 160 lbs per capita The amount of meat the aver age American will eat this year will very likely exceed his or her own weight. . ’ The meat industry is one of the first agencies to “catch it” when prices fall on “live” levels, especially if these declines are not reflected within the next moment at retail levels. Yet, an outstanding promotion job in newspaper (and radio) publicity is being done to tell the story of meat. Lard has lost ground the last few years, and many of the major meat packers have their own synthetics that re place “hog fat.” Again it has been a selling job that has placed the synthetics in the lead. The farmer whose lots are loaded with beeves and pork at this* moment is a bit discouraged, but each of these knows that to stay in business, you stay with your ideals. The “inner-and-outer” comes and goes, -makes his-quick prof it, and pulls out when hqjoses his shirt once. The scales of supply and demand may never balance that’s what makes the feeding game so interesting. FARMING BIG BUSINESS Farming, in the first issue of Lancaster Farming, was described as a “multi-billion dollar business ” It’s a $95 bil lion business, three per cent above last March, five per cent above a year ago. Twenty-two million people own farms, three million less than in 1950. Yet they feed .a population gaining at a rate of 2.5 million per year Per-acre yields, as year’s end nears, on principal-crops is up eight per cent. Two per cent more cotton was produced on 17 per cent fewer acres. All combined, crops addedmp the second best year in history. Poultry production too set a new high. As a farmer, you are among the one-seventh x>{ -our total population that lives on farms. Yet the average worker produces foods and fiber for 18 others. The number of farms is decreasing. The importance of the individual farmer is growing. Yet he does this remark ably, with Jess hired help than ever, with a much larger in vestment in machinery. Your responsibility is Iseavy. Lancaster Phone 4-3047) STAFF PORK PICTURE GLOOMY Publisher Editor Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director Voice Of Lancaster Farms and farm friends ) (Readers arc ihvitea to write comments on Lancaster Farm ing, about current events, or other topics. l etters should be brief, and must -be signeu. Names will be withheld if re quested. muon. WARRENTON, Va Dear Ernie Thank you for sending me -copies of yum newsy publica tion, Lancastii Farming. I use the word “newsy” advisedly, for you are getting into your paper a great deal of material in which your people are bound to be in terested, much if not all of which they would not get else where The turkey picture, up front'— wor3i the cost of the paper I sure wish you the best of luck in yoiu undertaking. My best, sir Charles E Snyder. Editor’s Note Mr Snyder was editor pf The Chicago Daily Droveis Journal and former editorial director of The Corn Belt Farm Dailies His name has been among the foremost in agnculUuul journalism many years Mighty encourag ing to heard f) om the “Dean ” EJN) “MUM’S THE WORD” QUARRYVILLE * We think a word of “thanks” is due Lan caster Farming for the beauti ful bouquet oi chrysanthemums given Meraonal Methodist Church, Quanyville, after they were received by you when the first edition was published They added much to several services from eaily November to Thanks giving A Reader “LF FINE IDEA”, LANCASTER I think “Lan caster Fanning” is a fine idea I am sure this is the beginning of a very successful venture. There is a leal need for such service as you will gender to the farmer through this medium, and I admire you for your undertak ing Congratulations on the first issues William M Musser, Jr, of Appel Ranck, Levy & Appel, Attorneys “OUTS TANDIN G” ST LOUIS, 111 Re ceived my first copy of Lancaster Farming and I must say it was different from anything I had expected belter that is, to say the least I think it differs great ly from the o<ner weeklies I have seen, and I know or have some idea of the amount „of work and time that wem into the whole project It has a personal and more sincere touch. Cover pic ture was impressive. I can see why Lancaster Farming is get ting fine response, and it could very quickly develop into one of the outstanding farm weeklies around the country. Richard C. Hale. (Editor’s Note; Thanks, Dick, for your letter as a former pu pil, perhaps your first opportun ity for a critical response. Dick has visited Lancaster County, and is a market editor on a daily farm-livestock newspaper, so he knows both newspapermg and farming Lancaster Farming.) NEW LIGHT ON AREA €OC H R A NVIL'LE, Pa. Gentlemen: Yon are gmng our part of the country a new light on its operations that the next door neighbor didn’t even-know about I feel that it is a long overdue service to the people of this part of the county Keep up the good woik- It is sure to be a big sucess. EIIt MIGHT T INTERESTING WASHINGTON, DC. Dear Ernie. Thanks tor your note and for the first edition of Lancaster Farming- The -copy looks mighty interesting. Best wishes —Robert D MeMillen, assistant to the Sec retary of Agriculture- WE LIKE LANCASTER Good luck, Al. We like. Heisey Bros. Quar ries. I PTAI Of- MWif I 50 Years Ago This ee (This Week In 1905) By JACK REICHARD N B Cntchfield, Secretary of Agriculture, sent out releases to farmers and feed dealers, ..warning them that rice hulls were being used in Pennsylvania to adulterate feeding stuffs “Rice hulls” said Cntchfield, “are of mfeuor value, containing nearly 40 per cent wood fiber and a large amount of silica or sand. Every feed dealer in this State should value his reputation- He is responsible for selling adulterated goads and for any in junous effects caused by feeding materials which he handles”. '.During this same week, in 1905, H L Barzoff, agent of the Dairy and Food Division'of the Department of Agriculture, pro secuted 15 city and county groc ers before Lancaster Alderman Hartman on charges of violating the pure food law The third annual exhibit of the Lancaster Ccrtinty Poultry and Pigeon dealers was to be held at Rudy’s Hall, Lititz, from Dec 26 to 30, 1905. Farmers in this county' were interested m the report of a midwest farmer, who claimed he was operating a cement block machine, turning out small-size tile at 2 cents each At a meeting of the Lan caster County Tobacco Growers’ JSscltfroimd Scripture: Luke O’7-62. Deroticmal Rtadias: Mark 10:35-45. His Demands 1 Lesson for December 4, 1955 Ip KRISTIAN living is not a mat- ter of vague general good will. A character in a movie remarked: (“I'm not a mean man. If 1 heard that my neighbor’s children had been eaten by wolves, I would feel some regret.” Well, of course that didn’t make him a Christian. (He turned out to be the way.) But there i seems to be a number of church members and oth- ers who think that 'being a Christian , calls for nothing more than being generally at peace with the world. like a turnip. Be- ing a Christian is ® r * Foreman a far more demanding thing. And the demands are Christ’s de demands. He is not a trademark, 1 a portrait of a Founder beaming on us benevolently from the wall. He is the living Christ, Son of Man and Son of God. He makes demands on his disciples, and he has a right to make them. Discipleship Those who were closest to Jesus In Galilee, those with whom he took the greatest pains, were called Disciples. Now the least 1 that "disciple” can mean is “learner." The first demand that Christ makes on us who would call ourselves Christians, the demand preliminary to all others, is that we learn of him. We never should assume that we know all about Jesus—his character, his teach ing, his purpose. It is a sobering question; How much of our be-, havior, our attitudes, our think ing in various fields, our relation ships with other people how much of this did we learn from* Jesus, and how much did wc copy from other persons, and how much is our own invention? Decision Another demand Christ makes of us is decision This in three ways: decision for him, decision about him. d with Tiim. It L .ancaster on Asso. in Lancaster, it was decided to send representatives to Wash ington to protest the' proposal to reduce tariff on Philippine tobacco It was also announced that the Lancaster County tobac co crop of 1905 was-estimated to bring growers more than $2,500,- 000 Although buyers were not 1 ' eager to accept deliveries of' tobacco before January, many farmers had started hauling 1905 crop to Lancaster ware houses during the first week in December because they needed the money ; , Martin Moore, living near Mt Joy, had 1-ouble of his own when his large stone grist mitt' and carriage house were destroy- . ed by fire while he was away on his honeymoon When Moore and his bride, Barbara Herr, of Lititz, returned, they found all contents in both buildings, in-; eluding a large quantity of gram, consumed by the blaze. The'fire was believed to have been started by a defective wire in a new elec- • trie light plant installed in the mill about two weeks before the fire occured Over in Schuylkill County Katie Eberle, a farmer’s daugh ter, found a diamond valued at $75 in the craw of a turkey while dressing the ba'd The gobbler was said ito have wandered over nearby ground- where annual Sunday School picnics were. held during the summer months- (is specially these last two that are highlighted in this week’s pas- 1 sages fiom Luke The decision for! Christ is the point at which one! begins to be a disciple But be sides learning, the Christian dis |dple has to decide and act ac cordingly, about some questions Ithat affect him vitally. One is the (decision about Christ which Jesus (pushed,on his disciples. “Who do 'you say that 1 am’’’ Jesus put Ithis question only after they had ibeen disciples for some time.i ,(Why’) But it can be answered'at| lany time, and it must be answered 'some time, if we have any title to the name “Christian.” How seriously do we take Jesus Christ? That depends on what answer we give to his question; What do we think of him’ Who and what iS| he? The moic fully ve know his( importance, the more seriously! we shall take him Is he a dream-] er, a poet, an impractical ideal-j ist? Is he s ch’ld of his age, im-j 'portant then, but now such a man >as we can safely neglect? Is he a .noble thinker, a snning leader ol men? Or is he, as Pe.er dared to believe, the Son of tne Irw/ig God? Does he come to us with the authority of one man’s opinion, or does he speak as an ancient sage, or does he speak with th« wisdom of the Almighty? He de mands a decision. Denial of Seif Now if we have answered the first two demands, for dxscipleship ' and for decision, we may be ready for the third demand. (This is the , decision with him, spoken of just now.) We shall pay very little at tention to this if we have not rightly met the other two. If wa| are not true learners we shall not) even hear this, or we shall rms-i understand it. If we think less ol Christ than we ought to think,’ then this demand will seem ego tistic, unreasonable, suicidal. It is only the Son of God who has the right to make such a demand. 11 is for nothing less than denial of self. There is a cheap substitute for this which is sometimes mis taken for it. It is nailed “self-de* mal” - and may mean no more 'than going without ice cream foe a while, doing without some lux ury or other. Denial of Self is .something different entirely. Jesus. .puts it m terms of a crucifixion; ■To take up a cross was to be al ready on the last mile. To deny the self means to cease ■one’s own center-of-the-umverso. 'lt means “love thyself last." It means dying to oneself, as Pavfl pot it, and living to God. It means “Not I, but Christ, Uveth in me." ,(Baled on outlines copyrighted by Hit 'Otrlllon of "Christian 'Education, NaJ (ionnl Cornell of the Churches of Chris* in tba V. B. A. Rtlianl Vy Csnnaaalty Fria Berrlee.) • T *; arms i
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