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4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 9, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by
OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS
Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378
Lancaster Phone 4-3047)
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
Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office,
Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
WEAKNESSES IN SOIL BANK
A couple years ago, an Illinois farmer came into my
office, sat down and explained his “Soil-Bank Plan.” It was
a nice visit, and the merits of the proposed program were
duly reported.
But today, Melvin P. Gehlbach, Lincoln, 111., farmer
and farm management specialist, termed by Secretary Ben
son as the “Genesis of the soil-bank plan,” asserts a dif
ferent approach is being used in the. Administration’s pro
gram. Mr. Gehlbach had testified before the full House
committee on agriculture in the Capitol April 15, 1954.
His plan would pay farmers an incentive to shift
acres to soil-building crops in excess of a minimum base.
The administration’s Acreage Reserve Program is limited
to under planting of acreage allotments for the basic crops.
It is reported that in the Corn Belt 60 per cent of
the farmers are not in compliance with corn allotments.
Here the program would fail, Mr. Gehlbach believes. In
another personal instance, dry weather three years reduced
production considerably. To meet requirements of even a
sub-normal livestock program, it is necessary to plant more
acres than the Government decrees
Plans are made to be changed Such has happened
to Mr Gehlbach and his Soil Bank Association’s program.
To work up a farm program that will equally apply to the
small farmer and the rancher, the beef producer and the
dairy producer, the corn grower and the tobacco grower,
is an impossibility. And the bone of contention will be
chewed long and loud.
Arkansas’s Senator Fulbright has suggested farmers
could harvest a crop of fish from land diverted to the soil
bank The same applies to pheasants, ducks and other
wildlife.
Several Arkansas farmers are doing this, diverting
or resting nee lands into fish ponds. Fertilizers the fish
provide aids the land tremendously, and water levels are
being restored more easily
Alabama farmers have averaged $5O to $lOO per acre
from commercial fish production, plus another $lOO to
8200 an acre from the sale of fishing rights.
This brought our comment of the possibility one
could have both crop rotation and crappie rotation.
America the past few years has become more water
conscious than ever. But few realize how ihuch water each
individual uses each day. Here are some figures from the
American Water Works Association:
25 gallons for a shower ’
36 gallons for a bath
Half gallon daily for drinking
5 to 8 gallons for each toilet flush
20 gallons to shave, with running tap
30 gallons to wash one meal’s dishes, with tap
running
45 gallons for nine pounds of laundry in a
machine
All told, you’ll use 8 to 110 gallons daily. Your share
lor all purposes (municipal, industrial, agricultural)
amounts to a staggering 1,100 gallons a day
No wonder there’s a water problem Figures for
each head of livestock would be equally staggering.
It’s been asked before, “How are you going to keep
them down on the farm?” The city is enticing away many
of today’s farm youth but a phone call today helps show
one way jou can develop an interest in your son’s future.
One dad called for copies of a paper mentioning the son.
This.dad is interested in his son’s accomplishments, it’s a
family pride. He is developing his son’s interest in agri
culture ' ‘
To us. that’s one of the best ways to keep ’em down
on the farm
STAFF
SOIL BANK FISH
BIG, LONG DRINK
FARM YOUTH
Publisher
Editor
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
(This Week In 1905)
By JACK REICHARD
Russia Appeals For
U. S. Scientific Advice
Fifty years ago the Russian
government appealed to Ameri
can scientists for aid in solving
its European soil problem. This
week in 1906 the California Uni--
versity College of Agriculture re
ported it had received specimens
of the famous “black earth” from
European Russia for analysis
The Russians wanted advice oU
methods to revive the soil for
agriculture purposes
Cotton Seed Oil
Returned As Olive Oil
A 1906 report from the cotton
growing sections of the South
declared the United States had
shipped “one and one-half mil
lion dollars worth of cottonseed
oil to Italy, which came back to
this country as pure olive oil in
bottles, impressively labeled, wir
ed and sealed”.
What Was It?
Harry Starr Wonders
That’s what Harry Starr, a
Lancaster farmer residing near
Rohrerstown, wanted to know,
who had in his possession a cat
nabbit freak. Mr. Starr declared
the animal had the head and
body- of a cat, but the tail of a
rabbit, which moved by a suc
cession of jumps and it sat on
its haunches like a rabbit
Corn Shredding
Most Dangerous
In a commentary on farm ac
cidents the corn shredder was
singled out for injuring the
gi eatest number of persons on
Pennsylvania farms in 1905. The
other two agricultural operations
listed among the three top haz
ards on farms were dynamite and
the herd bull
Silo Cost
Reported by I.E.S.
Prof. W J Frazer of the Illi
nois Experimental Station, re
ported in a 1906 bulletin that
construction of a round silo
plastered with cement, 20 feet
in diameter, 24 5 feet deep, hold
ing 228 tons, could be built at a
cost of $383, or $l6B per ton
capacity.
Farmer Smothered
Under Straw Stack
Oliver Weidler, wealthy Penn
sylvania (farmer in the Nippenose
Valley, near Williamsport, was
smothered to death beneath a
straw stack on bis farm. It was
believed Weidler had been stand
ing beside the stack that day
when it toppled over A son,
passing by later, saw a hand pro
truding and found the body of
his father.
Hastings Heads
Kirkwood Four-H
James Hastings, Kirkwood, was
named president of the Kirkwood
4-H Club Tuesday night with
more than 40 members attending
Other officeis named were
Richaid Hastings, Kirkwood,
vice president, John Heir, R 2,
Quanyville secretary; Donald
R 2, Quarryville, treasurer, Janet
Hastings and James .Rupert, both
of Kirkwood, game leaders, 'Bar
bara Miller, R 1 Oxford, and
Sandra Graeff, Knkwood, song
leaders; and Ross Ferguson,
Knkwood, news reporter
SISTERS ROBBED.
Los Angeles Someone en
tered the home of two sisters,
Mis Loretta Whitmore, a de
partment store bu>cr. and Mrs
Berdena Loiimg, a telephone
company supervisor, and fled
with $1,400 in cash, numerous
"locks and bonds, and —their
Thanksgiving turkey.
25 Years Ago
Farm Board Head Resigned
25 Years Ago This Week
Twenty-five years ago this
week President Herbert Hoover
accepted the resignation of Alex
ander Legge, of Chicago, as
chairman of the Federal Farm
Roard. James C. Stone, of Ken
tucky, was immediately appoint
ed to succeed Mr. Legge. In an
nouncing the new appointment,.
President Hoover pointed out
that the new chairman had been
a member of the board from its
organization, .with many years
experience in co-operative mark
eting, the fundamental principal
On which the agency reported.
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Unofficial Use
Of State Autos-
Government officials'and oth
er personnel with State cars as
signed to their use were instruct
ed an plain words just when the
autos were to be used. In a spe
cial comnaunique issued" by Gov
ernor Pinchot, 25 years ago this
week, the use of State cars on
Sundays and for unofficial pur
poses on all other days of the
week bad to be ended. At the
same time it was announced
that all motor vehicles of the
State, except those of State Po
lice, were to be painted buckskin
brown with the State coat-of
arms on front doors.
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1 Devotional Eeadln*: Romans 8-28-39
Jesus on History
Lesson for March H, -1956
ITT ALF way thiough a movie
{•TI you may see people getting
jup and walking out That does not
necessarily mean they are dis
gusted with the picture. It’s just
that they came in right there m
the first show. “This is where we;
came in,” they say, and they don't
’care to see the second half of the
film twice (Query, by thr
Is a movie, or a vP**’
book, that isn’t
'worth seeing or
reading twice,
[worth Seeing at
.ah’) In ancient
I times, the learned
jCreeks thought
(that history was
[like a motion pic
j ture shown over
'and over again Dr. Foreman
'lf a man lived long enough he
could see history repeat itself,
.they thought. The diagram which
Ho the Greek mind best represent
>ed history would be a circle Fly,
moth or man, going around in cir
cles will never get anywhere His
tory, the Greeks thought, is like
that. It moves, but it never gets
any whei e.
History Goes Somewhere
The Bible’s view of history is a
different one History is moie like!
i a straight line than a cncle
“Straight” line is too simple If
you will load the book of Judges!
m the Old Testament you will find
a line of history that goes uphill'
and down in dizzy succession Bull
ciooked or straight, it is a line
going soraewheie On a circle, you)
pass a given point Now, after you
have passed that point, are you]
getting farther away from it as
you move, or are you getting near-]
er? The answer is both, of course.*
i Now if history is a kmd of cir
cle, then if you ask the question ‘
Aie we getting farther away from
barbarism, is the world getting
better at all 9 The answer will
have to be; It doesn’t make any)
difference. We aie farther from
that period of barbarism through
'which we last passed; but we arei
getting to the next period
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Lancaster Dogs
Quarantined
More than 100 dogs in the
southeastern section of Lancaster
County were under quarantine by
State order Dr Joseph Johnson,
Lancaster, appointed' in charge
of the quarantine, said several
dogs afflicted with rabies were
on the loose in the area, and had
bitten a number of other dogs
and cattle
Public Sale Prices
25 Years Ago
Prices paid at Lancaster Coun
ty public sales during the first
week of March, 1931, were re
ported as follows Cows, from $76
ito $115; bulls, $75 to $127;
horses, $l4O to $225.
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Lancaster Livestock
Price Range
The Lancaster livestock review
reported March 7, 1931. by U*
S. Department of Agriculture, co
operating with Pennsylvania
Bureau of Markets, showed the
following range of prices: Steers;
good, $8 to $9 25; medium, $7
fo $8 Vealers; good and choice,
$9 to $10; medium, $8 to $9.
Feeder 'and Stocker cattle: good
and choice, $7.50 to $8.75;
medium, $5 to $7.50 Hogs: good
and choice, 160 to 180 lbs $8.50
to $9
Received 15 Vs and 3 '
For Tobacco Crop
Raymond Siplm, near Bain
bndge, reported selling his seven
acre crop of tobacco to a packer
in that area, receiving 15% and
3
ITheie is something moie nn
hinking about Jesus and his sat
ifice, when we take Communion
n this sacrament we find Him
lit is quite true, different churches
(have different official explanations
about how we find Chust here.
But fiom “High Church” to
“Low,” in “Liberal” and “Con
servative,” in Catholic and Pro
testant congregations alike, if youi
could ask the people as they come
out of doors again, “What did that
service mean to you’” It might
be that some would hardly know
what to say, for it is always pos-'
sible to go thiough the motions i
without really thinking what one,
is doing But those who had.en-,
tered whole-heartedly into the I
service, who had come “in love’
and charity” and m faith, would j
all tell you about the same thing: '
“Christ came very near to me.”!
If Christ seems just as far awayj
after the Lord’s Supper as before,)
then there has been something
wrong about us. That is why the!
Roman Catholic church will not l
admit any one to communion if. haj
lias not been to Confession first,
[rhat is why in many Protestant*
(churches the people are warned;
Ho abstain from Communion if
'they harbor malice or ugly feel
jmg toward their neighbors.
|We Share Him
1 If it Is true that in the Lord’s!
(Supper we find the Lord himself,
(it should be true —and happily lit
[is so—that afterwards life shouldj
(go on at a higher level than be
fore. The Loid’s Supper is les3|
like a doorway leading from one;
room to another just like it, than l
it is like a gateway across a bound-]
ary from one country to another.!
(Christ comes to us in the Sac
rament, but not as a fleeting guest, i
lit we are serious as we take the
( bread and wine and think about]
all this in the quiet of prayer,;
|We will so enter onto the spirit 1
[of Christ himself that we shall
le-dedicate ourselves in his serv
ice. It is a kind of parody on'
(Christian ideas to think of Christ’s
(sacrifice as alone and by itself. His
(cross must be followed by other'
(crosses. His outpouied life must
jbe shared by others who are Will
ing to pour their lives out in turn.]
'And it is this, again, which unites
iall the Christians who m their
(many vaned fashions have taken
Ithis Lord’s Supper with devoted,
hearts. For theie is a family re
semblance among all real Chris
tians, whatever their church-label
may be And the resemblance goes
pack to the same Christ, who has
(shared himself with every Chris
tian everywheie and always who
( has taken this Bread and Cup.
/(Based on outlines copyrighted by tbe,
(Division of Christian Education. Na
'tlonal Connell of the Churches of Christ
In iho U. S A. Released by Community
* Press Service.) I