—Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 27, 1956
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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
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... 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.)