4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 20, 1956
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Today the 1956 Pennsylvania Farm Show the
49th is history. But in these pages of history, the high
position of Lancaster County agriculturally remains on the
record unchallenged.
Youngsters young men, young women tomor
row’s showmen, tomorrow’s farmers, from Lancaster Coun
ty continued their enviable record. Who’s to be credited
with this record? It would be impossible to hame everyone.
First come the parents; Lancaster County’s Agricultural
Agent Max M. Smith, his assistants in farming and home
making, his staff; vocational agriculture teachers who train
ed some outstanding teams, who produced and guided a
good handful of Keystone Star Farmers, all played major
roles
This agricultural echelon goes deeper, to the Four-
H club leaders, to the Future Farmers of America presi
dents, to the Future Homemakers, the Farm Women.
Needless to say, this year’s show was the greatest
ever. It proved the part agriculture plays in the Keystone
State. It proves present facilities are too limited for the
vast expanse of space needed to properly show off and
properly pit competitor against competitor.
Requests of State Secretary of Agriculture William
L. Henning, Chairman of the. Farm Show Commission, to
expand exhibition facilities in -a multi-nullion-dollar project
should not go unheeded. Farmers whose show this is
should back the plan 100 per cent, individually, collectively.
It was typical “Farm Show Week Weather,” about
all the weatherman could throw from his book, but it didn’t
diminish enthusiasm.
Here are extracts from the formal opening speech
given by Governor George M. Leader:"
“As Governor, and as a York County chicken
farmer, I believe this year’s farm show is the greatest
ever. I’ve already seen many of the exhibits and would
like to pay tribute to the men and women and the
boys and girls of Pennsylvania who saved their most
treasured products for this farm show.
“Nature blessed Pennsylvania with good soil
and good farmers. The quality of farm goods under
this roof is both testimony and tribute to Pennsylvania
agricultural workers.
“However, in these days of surpluses and de
clining fann prices, we find ourselves in difficulty.
When a man spends a year raising a crop or an animal,
he expects to be paid for this effort. Will you agree
with me isn’t it the right of every working man
to receive honest pay for honest work?
“Unless something is done soon about this situa
tion, many a farm family will be singing Tennessee
Ernie’s “Sixteen Tons, I owe my soul to the company
store.
“In Washington we hear words. Words such as
parity, farm price support, surpluses and other* big
words that mean nothing to a farmer struggling to
make ends meet.
“Here in your Capital City we are taking vigorous
steps to assist farmers in selling their crops and animals
at a good price.
“Pennsylvania isn’t the biggest farm State in the
Country. But it is the best farm State. We have the best
milk, the best chickens, the richest eggs, and the tastiest
beef in the Country. In fact, almost any Pennsylvania farm
product you care to mention can be decsribed this way:
“If grown or raised in Pennsylvania, it’s quality.” ,
“You know, the entire dairy surplus in the United
States could be eliminated practically overnight if every
American drank one extra glass of milk every other day?
can be done for milk can be done for other farm
products. Adve'Using, promotions, expositions, and farm
shows such as Pennsylvania’s 40th Farm Show are a step in
the right direction.”
Farm Show 40 is history. Farm Show 41 is coming
up, Jan. 14-18, 1957, and Lancaster County will be groom
ing its most choice agricultural products for that show, to
hold high its reputation as one of the nation’s best agricul
tural counties, and No. 1 in Pennsylvania.
STAFF
FARM SHOW HISTORY
Publisher
. Editor
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
(This Week In 1905)
By JACK REICHARD
It was Summer in January
on the farms m Lancaster County
January 20, 1906. The weather
Bureau reported that'Jan. 21 was
the warmest on record. The warm
wave extended all the way from
the Mississippi! River to the At
lantic coast. The crest of the wave
was in Ohio where the highest
official temperature was reported
as 74 degrees ait Cleveland. Other
unofficial reports in the Boston
area placed the temperature at
80 degrees.
A large attendance, was re
ported at a meeting of the Ootor
iaro Farmers’ Club at the resi
dence of Charles Thomas, East
Sadsbury, Chester County, during
the forenoon of Jan. 20, 1906.
The majority of members had
driven there by teams from dis
tances of 8 to 15 miles to attend
(the meeting “over muddy roa’ds
that were almost impassable”.
. B. F- Good, prominent Lan
caster tobacco dealer in 1906,
suffered severe cuts and bruises
when his horse suddenly took a
fit and plunged over an embark
ment near Georgetown. The buggy
was completely wrecked, and Mr.
Good was thrown out. The horse,
after freeing itself -from the
wreckage, ran away and disap
peared-
A daring daylight robbery
occured at the farmhouse" of
Harry Dombach, south of Colum
bia, while the family was strip
ping tobacco in a nearby shed.
The thieves entered the house
and carried off a suit of new
clothes, watch -and chain, and a
number of other articles.
.. A committee of the Bus
iness Mens’ Assn, and represent
atives of local granges in the
West Chester area, called upon
Gov. Pennypacker at Harrisburg,
and urged the enactment of leg
islation permitting trolley cars to
carry freight.
.. Down in Smyrna, Sadsbury
Township, 50 chickens were re
ported stolen at the farm of
Wesley W. Althouse.
Elsewhere a successful hog
raiser reported planting sweet
corn in rows five feet apart, a
row of pumpkins in between.
When pumpkins began to ripen,
he turned his hogs into the field
and let them harvest the crop,
which he claimed they did in fine
style to his and the hog’s profit.
The bushel box was rapidly
displacing the old fashioned wood
barrel as a container for mar
keting apples in 1906. It was
pointed out that the box better
met requirements of the average
family-
Tractor Driving
Contest Winners
At Show Listed
HARRISBURG, Placings in
the annual 4-H Club and Future
Farmers of America state champ
ionship tractor driving contests
at the Farm Show are:
4-H Clubs:
1. "Willis Kredbel, Landsdale
RD
2, Montgomery County
2. Daniel Reitz. New Bethlehem
RD 3, Clarion County
3. Dean Harper, Pennsylvania
Furnace, Centre County
4. Jack Hemminger, Somerset,
RD 6, Somerset County
5 Lloyd Kildoo, New Castle,
RD 4, Lawrence County
Future Farmers of America Con
test
1. Harvey Beverlin, Mifflin
town, Juniata County
2 Donald Brunner, Homer City,
Indiana County
' 3 Morns D. Otten, Wyalusing
Valley Jr- High School, Brad
ford County
4. Robert Derrick, Hughesville,
Lycoming County
5. Wrlhaim Layman, Ruffsdale,
Westmoreland County
25 Years Ago
Secretary of Labor Doak
recommended to Congress that
his department be given more
authority to deport undesirable
aliens and “(to sunder the red
tape that now enmeshes so much
of the “process”- Under the Doak
plan, any unnaturalized citizen
who committed a crime involving
a sentence above certain stipu
lated minimum would be shoved
off the dock into a steamer with
out further ceremony. It was
pointed out that of the more
than 400,000 unnaturalized foreig
ners in this country, in 1931, one
fourth of them deserved instant
dispatch to their homeland. Se-‘
veral.- Congressmen questioned
Beak's opinion, pointing out that
“we have aliens in our midst who
contribute greatly (to the arts
and business and social life in
this country”.
... Lancaster livestock range
of prices reported January 17,
1931;
Steers —Good, $9.25 to $10.25;
medium, $8 to $9.25.
Vealers—Good and choice, $l2
to $l3 50; medium, $10.50 to $l2-
Feeder and Stocker Cattle—
Good and choice. $7.75 to $9;
medium; $5.50 to $7-75-
Hogs—&ood and choice, 160-
180 lbs., $8.75 to $9.25.
... Farmer George Cramer,
near Mt. Nebo, in Martic Twp.,
BHktionl Serlptnre: Luke 14.
Devotional Bending: Matthew 10:24-
42.
Christian Marks'
Lesson for January 22, 1956
HOW can we tell whether a per
son is a Christian or not? Is
there anything that marks all
Christians? There is faith, of
course; but only God can see faith
itself. Jesus said: “By their fruits
ye shall know them.” What kind
of “fruits” should we look for, in
others and in our
selves, to see
whether we are
Christians? Only
God it the final
Judge, We should
not be too quick
to say brashly, “I
know . . Better
•ay, "I have good
reason to believe
. . ” So. what Dr - Foreman
are the good reasons for believ
ing that a person is a Christian?
Sticking to our one chapter in
Luke for this week, we can take
note of three marks of a Chris
tian, that is, of Jesus’ followers,
those who take hit word as in
order. They sound quite simple
and ordinary; what is extraordin
ary, what is specially Christian
about them, is the thoroughgoing
quality Jesus expectt.
Htlpfulnm
Three marks which we can read
ily see suggested,- in this chapter
of sayings of our Lord, are; Help
fulness, humility, and honesty.
Everyday qualities, aren’t they?
In fact, you can’t get along with
out them In the civilized world.
Nobody likes a. man who brags all
the time. Nobody likes a man who
never lends a hand to anybody
In trouble. Nobody likes a man who
can’t be trusted. Helpfulness, hu
mility and honesty are not m
themselves specially Christian at
titudes. Jesus certainly did not in
vent these qualities. They are
found among people of many re
ligions and of no religion. What
Jesus did was to demand an ex
traordinary high degree of these
everyday virtues. First, as to
helpfulness: Not only in the words
quoted in ’ Luke 14 but in many
other ways and places, Jesus em-,
(butchered a porker which dressed
696 lbs., this week 25 years ago.
Jan. 31, 1931, was the date
set for what was believed to "be
the first observance of Milk Day
in America. The event, sponsored
by the New York Dairymens’
League Cooperative Assn., ex
pected more than 45,000 dairy
farmers and their fomilies to
attend and partake of the 100,000
half pints of , creamy oyster stew
provided.
At a record at
tendance was reported at the
Pennsylvania State Farm Pro
ducts Show, held during this
week in January, in 1931. The
event, sponsored by the Pennsyl
vania Farmers’ Protective Assn,
included the holding of 14 organ
izational meetings during the
week. Lewis C- Creamer, Lan
caster R. D. 1, was re-elected
president of the association.
Graybill 08. Long, aged 71,
residing near Neffsville, was
killed by his own gun on his own
farm while shooting pigeons. He
had tripped over a pile of rails
and dropped the gun, which ex
ploded, sending the loaded charge
into his chest near the heart.
Long, one of the founders of
Long & Davidson, shoe dealers,
and a prominent worker in the
Republican Party for many years,
was also a director of the Lan
caster Trust Co- and the Hamilton
Club at the time of his death.
A large barar 60x45 feet,
was destroyed by fire of mys
terious origin, on the farm of Dr.
Theodore W- Gable, near Lam
peter Firemen from West Willow'
and Millersville saved the farm
house and other buildings
phaslzes how tar his mends are
expected to go. Most people are
willing to help others, 11 It Isn’t
bothersome or expensive. Jesus’
Idea of helpfulness was of some
thing quite costly, something that
calls for effort, self-sacrifice. Help
fulness as he sees it is not just
doing something for somebody
who will do as much for you It
means doing for people who never
can pay you back. You can’t be
sura you are helpful as Christ wa«
unless you are willing, as he was,
to put out more for others than
you are going to get back. 1
Humility
We all expect humility from
other peopTe, and we even practice
it ourselves, in the form of cour
tesy. For courtesy is a form of
humility,—“After you!” “Please*”
“Thank you,” “Pardon me,” and
the like, aie -humble expressions,
when you con\e to think of it. But
Jesus expects His disciples to be
humble and not just to talk hum
ble. Are you a Christian at this
point’ A few questions aie m
order, to ask yourself. Am I al
ways thinking that other people
don’t appieciate me? Am I a lit-'
tie sore because I don’t get the
promotions I deserve? When -1
say, “What’s he got that I haven’t
got’” Do I feel a little peevish,
as if the answer I expect is “Noth
ing”’ Have I often been able to
forget my own interests on be- 1
half of others? One of the most
striking stories about Jesus is told
by John, who records that Jesus, ,
“knowing he came from God and
was going to God,” took a ton cl
and did the “menial” service thati
every one of his disciples was too
proud to do. The highest is the
humblest. ‘
Honisty
Everybody knows that honesty
is a good policy. Bill one mark of
a Christian is that he will be
honest at two points where
(strangely enough) most people
are least h° nes tt that Is, w ith
himself and with God. The par
ables about counting the cost are
really about the importance ol
facing_ the facts, admitting to
yourself where you come shoit. 1
Human capacity for sell-deception
is astounding. Why a man takes
himself for a sucker, in othe»‘
words, is something hard to un
derstand. But It-is even more*
amazing that men will think they,
can “get by” with God. Those ex-,
cuses made by the unwilling
guests, in Jesus’ parable,—did
they feel their host? Excuses of-j
fered to God are worse than waste
of time. I
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