State Aviation Director
John W. (Red) McFarlane, director of the Pennsylvania
Aeronautics Commission, is shown here explaining to Key
stone State Flying Farmers current problems in agricul
tural aviation. Mr. McFarlane was one of several speakers
addressing the group as it met Farm Show Week at Harris
burg airport. Further details on the Flying Farmer meeting
will be found in this issue. " (Lancaster Farming Photo).
Dairymen Oppose
Closing Hospital
Farms in State
HARRISBURG The Pennsyl
vania Dairymen’s Association,
following their annual meeting
at the State Farm Show, announc
ed adoption of a resolution
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against the “announced intention”
of the Secretary of Welfare to
dissolve operation of the farms
at mental hospitals in the State
In a lasolution the association
declared the farms have been
operated for many years and
represent investments of millions
of dollars in dairy herds, other
livestock, and equipment They
said “we firmly believe that the
operation of these farms has pro
vided not only food at a saving
of taxpayers’ money, but also
therapeutic benefits to the in
mates ”
The association pointed to the
fact that the practice of operat
ing such farms at similar insti
tutions in the great majority of
states “would indicate the sound
ness of such operations.”
The resolution said “we urge
Governor George ,M. Xeader to
halt such action until thorough
and complete studies can be
made by competent parties.”
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From Years Ago: Telephone Coverage
In Lancaster County Is Reviewed
Southern and Southestern Lan
caster County’s telephone pic
ture, as projected currently by
the Commonwealth Telephone
Company, is the start of th-e con
struction at Quarryville of a new,
modem building to house offices,
field and installation equipment,
and service supplies and facili
ties. To this, add conversion to
the dial system - a system al
ready enjoyed by farmers and
others in this section.
Fifty years ago, the farmers’
interests were also a prompting
factor when additional poles and
wires were being hooked up to
bring more residents of the river
hills and nearby into telephonic
communication with the resit of
County History
Mom and pop always like
to talk about the “good old
days.” Some of these may
be specifically, numerically,
25 or 50 years ago. In addi
tion to “50 Years Ago This
Week on Lancaster Farms,”
Lancaster Farming today of
fers the first in a series of
stories that are undated, but
highlight some of the days
that were.
Writer of this column is
Charles Slentz of Quarry
ville, who has checked files
from years back to select
interesting items to recall
here. History is interesting,
most interesting when local.
the world The then Southern
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany (now. as Pennsylvania Com
munity Telephone Company, a
subsidiary of Commonwealth),
had at that time “extended its
line from Fishing Creek to Fite’s
Eddy, Hess’ Milt to Hensel, via
Chestnut Level.” Quoting further
from ItHe press of January, 1906,
“The poles have been planted
an,d two wires strung the entire
length except at one point near
Hess’ Mill where the wires will
be attached to the poles of the
long distance line to top of hill
east of Chestnut Level, to Hensel
exchange ”
Early m the year 1912, The
Southern Telephone and Teleg
raph Company initiated progress
that brought to rural dwellers in
the Gap community much coveted
phone service improvements
We’re reminded, for example,
that the Company “is developing
new business in and around Gap ”
The news paragraph anticipated
that “the new exchange will be
completed by the midle of this
month” (January)
Post Office At Buck
Folks living in a rather far
reaching area served by the
United States government
through the post office at Buck,
came an innovation two weeks
after New Year’s, fifty one years
ago In our gleaning from old
files, we are apprised that “Sat
urday. January 14, 1905, Buck
Post Office, in East Drumore
township, will cease to exist.”
Reading further, “The office has
not had/.the attention it should
have had in past mojiths on ac
count of the postmaster being
unable Ito be there. The pat
rons of Buck office are making
arrangements to be
with their mail through rural
carriers ”
Again progress was initiated
for some farmers and good neigh
bors in our county through a
daily means of communication
(the mail) being brought right
to their own back yards. Of
course after that, not having to
stop by the mail, people m their
travels sometimes did “pass the
Buck,” 'thereby doing the very
Ithing that the present Musser
enterprises in this the Biggest
Little Town in the U. S A., insist
should not be done.
Shredders From Strasburg
Late in the year 1911, from
Strasburg township came this:
“Jacob Weaver, our machinist
has built 17 shredders this fall,
some of them going quite a dis
tance.” We-team that Mr, Weaver
Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 20, 1956—3
was, the father of Rev. Clyde W.
Weaver, who resides on Miller
Street, Strasburg. We also learn
the shredders in quastian were
fodder, and it is believed that
some of them are still giving
giving service - still shredding,
for instance, on several local
Amish farms. Mr. Weaver who
operated a blacksmith and ma
chine shop in the early part of
the century purchased the patents
on this equipment from the or
iginal builder who coudn’t make
the grade ficancially.
Still more improvements for
farmers (this time in the terri
tory around Quarryville), accor
ding to this word of news at the
turn of the year 1903-04: “A new
cob breaker and grain elevator
have been placed in J.'F. Weav
er’s Mill here .. making one
of the best and most up-toda'te
chopping plants in this section.”
And while on mills, modern
izing to give greater service to
farmers was possibly responsible
for a project that brought “up to
snuff” a grist and flour mill
down near the Maryland line
The story, as of mid-January,
1912, was: “Mrs Annie E. Wood
is about to have a saw and cider
mill installed on her mill prop
erty at Pleasant Grove The me
chinery came last week. The
gnslt and flour mill was recently
overhauled A concrete penstock
was one of the improvements. It
will be a thoroughly up to date
plant when completed.”
Mills Grind Fine
And ever, the grind is on’ Pro
cessing foods for man, milling
grain for chickens and all fowls,
grinding and mixing making for
stockmen’s needs; the mills grind
exceedingly fine- Thinking about
chicken feed calls to nund spe
cific egg production worth pas
sing on to you. It’s a laying re
cord made in January, 1912, up
around the north central part of
practices.
the county and involved less than
a dozen hens. Read it for your
seself: “The eleven Rhode Island
Red pullets, owned and raised by
William S Shiffer, of Manheim,
made a marvelous record in pro
ducing eggs last week They laid
a total of fifty eggs for the week,
an average of a little better than
seven eggs a day The pullets’
production for the previous 9
weeks was away above the aver
age (Four of the hens were
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carefully tended, but no special
effort was made to force the
laying.”
Because memories of Christ
mas and New Year turkeys still
pleasantly linger, we may well
mention one heavy holiday turkey
sale which took place long enough
before the days of super markets,
frozen foods, and fowl raised in
wire-floor pens (Ynletide season,
1911, to be exact). Turning to
today as Hessdale), the following
is brought to our attention:
“Messrs. C. B. Herr & Son hand
led 500 turkeys over the holi
days and had calls for many
more.’
The knife was probably not the
ultimate fate of this turkey
which made the front page dey
after New Year’s, 1912, for here
we have doings of a pet - a pet
belonging to one “Frank Eby,
the fourteen year old son of
Phares Eby, of Paridise.” Con
tinuing, Frank “has a turkey
gobbler that is the pride of the
village His name is Tom; he is
eighteen months old and weighs
twenty-one pounds. Frank has
harness for him and drives him
around hitched to a wagon ”
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