—Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 27, 1956 4 . Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper ' Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by " OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryviile, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone 4-3047) STAFF Alfred C. Alspach Publisher Ernest J. Neill " • • Editor C. Wallace Abel • Business Manager Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year „ Three Years $5.00; 5c Per Copy Application for Second Class Mailing Privileges Pending MID-WINTER DROUGHT Mid-winter drought is discouraging. Recent snows in the Garden Spot have made the outlook somewhat brighter, but the prospects of facing another dry season are not considered impossible. Such things are discouraging to report, especially when the local-situation and that of other neighborhoods is considered. Let’s take a look around the country. Reports are that in the normally arid regions of the Great Southwest, there has been more than ample rainfall. In fact the deserts are blooming as the rose, to quote an anthem. Where it should be dry, it’s wet. Where it should be wet, it’s dry. From St. Louis comes word that snow two inches fell after 47 days of drought had charged the city and people with static electricity. Napped carpets set up such charges that tingling shocks were common when a person touched metal. Weather Bureau records indicate no other period on record (since the 1870 s) had been so dry. Con crete could be poured in temperatures that would normally prevent it. Dry winds carried away the vulnerable, dry topsoil. A headline in the Adams County (Iowa) Free Press reports: “Sale of Water for Livestock Is Discontinued.” For some time a number of farmers had been purchasing water from the city for their livestock, but now they must turn to some .private source other than the city. Car wash ing has been halted by some service stations. Another nearby town too discontinued sale of water to farmers, since the level of the reservoir lake is so low that sale must be stopped to conserve the water for city use. Water users who had been selling to people outside the town were ordered to stop such sales at once. Back in the dry, dusty, desolate thirties, we well re call the' water trains that passed along the Burlington Route from Omaha to Creston, lowa a railroad town of 8000, whose huge lakes had gone dry, whose water supply was naught. Only by pumping water from the muddy Mis souri Rived’, hauling it 80 or 90 miles by train tank cars could the city survive. Rain makers are being discontinued, irrigation is coming into its own as shown by conferences and con clusions at the recent Pennsylvania State Farm Show but the ever-present or ever-possible problem looms con stantly to challenge man’s resources', man’s disposition, man’s plans. Once in awhile, it’s good to look over your shoulder and see what has gone before. Here at Lancaster Farming, we do that often. We’ve tried to offer sincerity, and per haps one of our most distant readers has given us one of the best boosts we’ve had in many a moon: “Mr. Editor: Thank you for the issues of Lancaster Farming you so graciously sent to us. I particularly enjoy the Bible comments, the ladies’ household suggestions. The children and there are five were delighted with the coloring section at Christmas. All in all we think it’s well done and that you’re doing a good job. God bless ypu.” Our thanks to Tim and Mrs. Cronin, their Timmy, Mickey, Nora, Dennis and Terry. TELEPHONE EXPANSION Today the nation is in the midst of one of the great est expansions in the telephone industry history has ever known. More and more rural families are enjoying for the first time the advantage of a farm telephone. In Pennsylvania, 70 per cent of the farm homes have telephones. In Lancaster County, 5,627 farms of the, county’s total 7,952 —' reported telephones in 1954, against 4,551 in 1950. By the end of 1956, more and more farm homes in the County will have this convenience. Throughout the Southern end of the County, this expansion has been more marked. Modernization of the en tire system is underway, and eventually dial will be avail able everywhere But there are many parts of the country still chug ging along on their one-cylinder crank phone, sharing the line with a score or more neighbors. Lancaster County is sharing the lead, however, with construction of new ex changes, conversion to dial, modernization. In this respect, we might consider ourselves mighty fortunate. RETROSPECT 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms (This Week In 1905) By JACK REICHARD .. The largest ffold of corn on record in the United' States, if not in the world, was harvested on the farm of Jacob Adams, in Sac County, near Odebolt, lowa, according to a report in the St. Paul Dispatch, 50 years ago this week. The amount of acreage planted was not given, but 105 men working 200 horses -and 37 corn cutters had shucked corn in the estimated amount of 300,- 000 bushels. (Editor’s Note: The “Adams Ranch”- was one of the largest ‘‘spreads” in the State where Corn' is, king. Its thousands of acres were most unusual for lowa, and its fame has been long liv ed- EJN). What was believed to be the record price, paid for a hen in this country up to 1906, was a buff, Plymouth Rook hen-pur chased by Drevenstedt & Hut chins, New York fanciers, atrthe Boston Poultry Show, for $750, fifty years ago, this week. In the we'stern section of the nation ia German, said to have been an illiterate, purchas ed a tract of 70 acres of cut-off timber land in the Hood River sector in the state of Washing ton, in 1896. at $lO per acre. This he planted with Spitzenberg and Newtown Pippin apples. Ten years later, during this same week' of January, 1906, he was offered $70,000 for the tract. - The Farm Bureau Com modity Division of the Lancaster County Farm Bureau, announced the appointment of Christian G- Landis, of Nottingham, as repre sentative for the southern sec tion of the county for 1931. The Friendly Farmers’ .Club held their annual meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Eben Growl. Officers elected for 1931 included Eben Crowl, presi dent; Lester Gallagher, vice presi dent, and Ida W. Coates, secre tary-treasurer. Voice Of Lancaster Farms l x and farm friends (Readers are invited to write comments on Lancaster Farm ing, about current events, or other topics. Letters should be brief, and must be signed. Names will be withheld if re quested. Editor;. TO ARIZONA HONEY BROOK Am en closing $l.OO and ask you to send Lancaster Farming to my daugh ter who is an arthritic and has been living in Arizona several years. She enjoys reading about Lancaster County and I know she will enjoy the recipes, etc., on the women’s page. We enjoy your paper very much, find lots of interesting things in it and have tried, some of the recipes- My daughter is Miss Dorothy B- Kern, Tucson, Arizona. 1 know she will be pleased to receive Lancaster Farming Mrs. John A. Kern. GOOD WISHES LITITZ With good wishes. Hopeland Earns. WISHING SUCCESS LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Enclosed find $l.OO for one year’s charter subscription. Wishing you great success. Mrs. Mar shall B- Golt. FOR NEW SUBSCRIBER LINCOLN _ UNIVERSITY We enjoy ypur Lancaster Farm ing paper very much, so I’m enclosing $lOO for a new sub scriber, whom I am sure will also enjoy it. Arthur H. Bid well. ... A colony of Swiss fanners who had moved into Missouri an nounced that 'starting early in 1906 they would start the manu facture of 'genuine Swiss cheese, the first of that product to be made in this country. ... A large barn on the farm owned by F- H- Manahan, Glen Roy, Chester County, and oc cupied by Michael Reinhart, be tween Bartville and ;Kirkwood, in the southern section of the county, was completely destroyed by fire. Reinhart-was away that day with hi* team. Some straw. Way, and farm implements were burned But all livestock was sav ed. The'origin of the blaze could not be determined. 25, Years Ago Twenty-five years ago this week a fire destroyed. ( the farm house of Nelson Barr and family in the Mt. Hope Methodist Church area, near Quarryville. The fire, said to* have been started by sparks from an outside kitchen stove pipe, occured while the men were in_the cellar sorting potatoes. The Quarryville Fire Co. was called but before the fire men could arrive at the scene the entire house was enveloped an the roaring blaze. Most of tjhe contents including clothing were burned. The barn and other out-build ings were saved with great dif ficulty. since a strong wind was blowing that day. 7 . Over m Chester County Background Scripture: Luke 13:1-33. Devotional Bitdlni: John 3:1-11. Lure of Life Lesson for January 29, 1958 A coin, a sheep, a man—what do these three have in com mon? Jesus, told a triple story using these three so different ob jects to bring out the same point. What the coin,* the sheep, the man had in common was that each was lost. They were out of place, useless, more barm than good. But the young man who went to a far country was differ- ent in an impor- He tant way knew what he was doing, or thought heknew. He want ed life, and he got it, only It was the Foreman wrong sort If you had asked him at first why he was going away, he would have said, “I want to live!" But he ended' In a pig-pen. Tho Lost Aro All Around Men' and women get lost today for the same reason. They- look for life to the wrong place. Vic tims of narcotics, or of alcohol, wanted something more out of life than they had, and they thought drink or drugs would help them. Every patient in an alcoholic ward Is missing somewhere, — missing -from payrolls, from hemes they had or might have had, missing from the porta they might have reached if they bad not made shipwreck of themselves. And for every patient to some alcoholic ward there are a 'great many others ’ who, though they may not have gone so far, are just as lost. What ought a Chris tian's attitude to be, toward such people? Surely if Jesus taught anything plainly, it Is that God does not despise or hat* lost per sons; he loves them and does not want them to stay lost. So the Christian who shares the mind ofl Christ will neither hate nor de-< spise the lost people all around. u» today. ■* nearly 1,000 chickens were burn ed on the’lftha of Max Brook. West Brandywine - Twp. Coates ville fire companies brought the fire under control. .. A bill authorizing the dis tribution for relief purposes in this country of 20 million bU. of wheat held by the Federal Farm Board, was passed ’by Congress and-sent to President Hoover for signing . '.J- J, Stoltefus, near Mount Vernon* Hotel,„ was sentenced at Lancaster to the Eastern Peni tentiary for a term of 1 year and 5, months to 2 years and 10 months,- and a fine of $5OO, for chicken stealing. - . Officials of the Westbrook Dairy and Produce Co. in the low er end of the county were re elected at the annulal stockhold er’s meeting held at the residence ■of Edgar Kirk. The officers in cluded Edgar Kark, president and treasurer; D. Lester Gallagher, secretary; W. Scott Drenner, vice president; H. E. Spence, Da vid, M, Gallagher, Walter M. Grubb and Edwin M. Booth, di rectors. . Twenty-five years ago this week S. Edward ■Gable, president of ithe Lancaster Automobile Club, urged extreme caution be exercised when walking and driv ing on the highways at this time of year. He stated: “Walking on highways in rural sections in the dusk of evening and after dark, so prevalent at this season when days are short, makes extreme caution imperative on the part of the pedestrian and the auto mobile driver as well”. No sound er advice could be given in this day! Prevention leletter ( One of the commonest ways oil lotting lost is through drink. ‘eiywung -is done m advertising, and' -in other ways to make Itj appear that,_ you haven't really! lived till you use “our old famous brand” of expensive alcohol, i ,'Young people need to have thoj "other side of It shown to them, I not m Don'ts but in JDo’s. Educa-i tor H. H. Hill (as adapted im “Listen”) has. put_ it something' like this. What do you want fromi life? Topnotch health? You can’t, have it if you drink. A serene, satisfying, law-abiding life? Not with liquor for your compamon! Life on the highest moral level? Not for drinkers Do you want to wake up every morn ing with a clear head? Do you want uninterrupted success In a profession? IJo'you want to savo money? To be a good driver? To form the habit of your problems squarely without a fuz zy mind’ Do you want to be able to enjoy a good time without the danger of flirting with a hahit formmg drug’-Do you want guar anteed immunity to one of Amer ica’s four most damaging dis eases 7 Do you want to be an ex ample of good and not evil, for the young people in your commu nity 7 All right,—that’s living, and you can’t have that kind of living and the alcohol habit too. Testimonials Maybe the main reason why the prodigal son went wrong was that he- listened to the wrong people. Men can always, be found who can be paid to pose in liquor ads. How about listening to some fiee testimonials on the other side? Ezra-Benson, Secretary of Agri culture. says; "Knowing the in finite joy and peace of mind which result from never having used narcotics, smoked cigarette, or taken a drink of liquor ... or knowingly profaning the name of Deity, I can sincerely recommend such a course to all." Dr. Kata Newcomb, written up in the Read er’s Digest in June, 1954, says: "Naturally I do not use intoxi cants. Why start a habit to many people must break?” ' Lewis Hoad of tennis fame for many another - “It Is haid enough to get anywhere In life, without liquor *or tobacco hinder ing one’s chances'tor the future." Gil Dodds, the track star, says: “God has given me a body which I should not defile.” Do you wan* to live? Such people know how. (Blue* •» aatllnea ooprrlthtei bjr the DWiMan at Chrtatlan Education, N»- tlanal Caaocil at tka Chnrobaa at Chris* la the V. S. A. Italcaaed by Camataalty Brest Saririaa.)
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