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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.)
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