4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 16, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
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AND THE RECORDS TUMBLE
Pennsylvania is figuring up some mighty good look
ing records for the past year, and it can’t be forgotten
Lancaster County gave its share to these astounding agri
cultural statistics.
Increased chicken and egg production is forecast,
with January chick production at an all-time record, up 46
per cent from the corresponding month in 1955.
Hog numbers, despite depressed markets, bounced
upward too, from 584,000 in January 1955 to' 642,000 the
past January. Values dropped from $2B 40 per head in
January 1955 to $20.80 in January 1956; total value drop
ped in the 12 months from $16,586,000 last year to $13,354,-
000 this year, against the ten-year (1945-1954) average value
of $2O million.
Barley production: Highest ever known in the Com
monwealth. Oats, biggest crop-in 30 years, but with a four
million dollar loss in value.
It’s a record of which Pennsylvania can be proud,
but when one dealer showed us a receipt for an $ll.OO cwt
hog it looked too much like a faded bloom. But the farmer
has little or no choice on ways to make ends meet, and if
hogs fit into his program, he has no other alternative.
Sometime back we bemoaned the fact that for each
mile of superhighway some 35 acres of land were lost from
farming. Yet Rex R Bailey, president of Doane Agricultural
Service, Inc, farm management counselors, said that de
spite large acreages taken from cultivation for such pur
poses, farm output in the United States continues to in
crease faster than population.
“In 1900 there were some 839 million acres in farms,
while in 1955 there were estimated to be 1 1 billion acres,”
he said, adding, “Since 1945 barren lands have been made
available by clearing, drainage or irrigation at the rate of
one million acres per year. This more than offsets the an
nual disappearance of some 650,000 acres into non-agricul
tural use.”
Does the same apply to Lancaster County? In 1950
there were 7952 farms, in 1954 there were 7951; in 1950
there were 495,000 acres in farms, in 1954 the total was
higher, 498,206.
Fears that new superhighways may be routed
through farm areas in the lower brackets may be sincere,
yet it is surprising to see that new lands are being opened,
even here.
RAMP TIME COMING UP
Ramp time’s coming up and not being a North
Carolinian or Tennesseean, we can’t testify as to its role
in the coming of Spring. Resembling an onion, it’s ten times
stronger. To stay in a home of one who eats ramp, one too
must eat ramp Ramp eating, at one time, was the sole
grounds for divorce, if ramp eating was on a chronic basis.
We’ll stick to mild, sliced, salted Bermudas, then
go into an antisocial status several hours until the effects
wear off.
Spring, that bridge between winter and summer, is
the most delightful, the time of spring Colds, the time of
no complaints, neither too hot, nor too cool, and while
there’s work to be done, there’s time to enjoy it Nothing
awakens man to the seasons more than the first bldom or
bud of spring. It’s that time again.
BEWARE OF THE BULL
There’s a dwindling number of horses, mules and
bulls on Pennsylvania farms, but every year some deaths
from livestock accidents are still recorded in the office of
the division of Farm and Home Safety in the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction.
Be on the alert with livestock. Dairymen 'are re
minded not to forget that milk hows are involved in more
•accidents than any other kind of livestock.
Practice patience. Be careftrf.
STAFF
FARM ACREAGE UP
AH, IT’S SPRING
Publisher
.. Editor
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50 Year § Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
(This Week In 1905)
By JACK REICHARD
Snow and Sleet
Blanket Pennsylvania
Fifty years ago this week Old
Man Winter sent a blast of snow
and sleet across Pennsylvania,
tying up railroad, trolley, and
turnpike traffic The weather
bureau reported eight to ten
inches of snow at Wilkes-Barre,
nine inches at Bellefonte, and
seven inches of mixed snow and
sleet at Harrisburg.
20 Perish, Hundreds
Isolated in Colorado
Snowshdes plunged- the min
ing districts of Colorado into a
deep freeze, dunng this same,
week in 1906. Arctic conditions
gripped that section from the
Ouray sector to' the Imogene
basin. At least 20 miners perish
ed and hundreds of others were
isolated in the Ouray area,
where the provision house was
completely buried in snoiy.
Sixty feet of snow was reported
at the high tower of the tram
way at Camp Bird, snow-bound
in the coldest spell in many
yeats. In the Imogene basin the
snow was said to measure from
150 to 300 feet deep from the
snowshdes.
Bottom Dropped
Out of Egg Market
During this week in 1906, the
Lancaster fresh egg market took
a nosedive. Dealers throughout
the county were paying 10 cents
per dozen Mild weather during
February that year started hens
laying, resulting in a $1,750,000
corner of cold storage eggs
dumped on the market
Wireless Telegraphy
Comes to Lancaster
/
Lancaster Countians in gen
eral were interested in the an
nouncement by the American
DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Co that it planned to erect an
areography communication sta
tion at Lancaster. An official of
the company stated that Lan
caster would be the only city in
Pennsylvania, except Philadel
phia, having the service in 1906
Two-Way Stove Griddles
Warp Back Ajaia
A western farmer who purchas
ed a cheap cook stove from an
eastern mail order house, com
plained because the griddles
warped after only a few weeks
of use. A letter received in re
ply to the complaint suggested
that there undoubtedly had been
too hot a fire, and that if the
griddles were turned over they
would warp baclT again.
25 Years Ago
State Mobile Laboratory
Set up at Lancaster
Twenty-five years ago this
week Dr. Theodore B Appel,
State Secretary of Health, an
nounced the setting up of a mo
bile laboratory unit at Lancaster
under the direction of L. K
Scheffer. Sheffer said the unit
would remain in this section for
a number of weeks, available for
the analysis of private water sup
plies of farmers and others who
desired the service, free of
charge.
Auto Club Head:
Gas Tax Collection
J. Borton Weeks, president of
the Keystone Automobile Club,
in his sth annual report, declared
that Governor Pinchot’s 20.000-
mile rural road program could
be carried out by using one pen
ney of the existing gasoline tax.
Weeks also recommended to the
Legislature that the. practice of
returning a portion of the gas
tax to counties be discontinued,
and collection of tax be made
fropi wholesalers, instead of
hrough more than 25.000 retail
lealers in the State.
Farm Show
Commission Nominations
the State Farm Products Show
committee nominated six men
from whom Governor, Pmchot,
under the adnfinstrative code,
was required to name three
farm show commissioners.
Among those chosen were Miles
Horst, Schaeffertown; John H.
Light, Cleona; H. H. Allenbach,
Trappe; R. L. Munace, Washing
ton; John M McKee, Camp Hill,
and W- S Wise, Meadville. The
farm show committee represent
ed more' than 30 farm and allied
organization in the State- Officers
of the committee were J£hn A.
McSparran, chairman; J. M. Fry,
secretary, and Miles Horst, as
sistant secretary.
Red Cross Raises
$lO Million for Drought -
The American Red Cross cam
paign for drought relief had
reached its goal of $lO million,
requiring three months and five
days to raise the money. In ad
dition to contributing money the
American people also contributed
621 carloads of foodstuff- It was
estimated 2 million persons in
850 counties in 20 States were
in need of food, clothing and
other relief resulting from the
drought.
Babylonian' clay tablet yields
new Biblical lore-
Background Scriptures: Luke 22 1-71
Devotional Reading: I Corinthians
11 23-32
Lord’s Supper
Lesson (or March 18, 1956
CHRISTIANS are divided about
many things; but they are all
one in the Lord’s Supper. “What?”
some one will ask. “Don’t some
churches refuse to let members
of any churches but their own
partake of the
Communion with
them’ Don’t dif
ferent churches
have different ex-
planations of what
this sacrament
means? Don’t var
ious denomina
tions observe it m
various ways’ How
can you say all Dr. Foreman
Christians are united in the Lord’s
Supper?”
We Think of Him
It is true, there are seemingly
endless variations m the way the
Lord’s Supper is observed. Even
the name is not always the same,'
some preferring to call- it the
Eucharist, others Holy Com
munion. There are also theologi
ans’ debates about it. But plain
Christians do unite here even when,|
they may not be quite aware of
it. For there aie three facts that
are always true -of this sacred ob
servance, however or wherever
f it is held. First of all, in the Lord’s 1
Supper we think of Christ It is
possible to go even to a
church and not hear very much;
.about Jesus Christ on that par-,
ticular day. (Jesus’ own teaching)
was not always about himself.)!
But it is not possible to go into a[
church where the Lord’s Supper!
is being taken by the people, with-|
out being reminded directly ofj
Christ. Every Christian has heard!
the words many times—“my 1
body," "my blood,” “in remem
brance of me.” Here are bread;
and wine, but every worshipper
knows that these are not simplej
ordinary refreshment. They are.
symbols and signs of Christ, hisj
actual suffering and death on the’
cross. Whatever the church may
be, its members always think of
Christ when they take Communion.!
W* Find Him
Heaviest Snowfall
In 1930-31 Winter
'Monday morning, Match 16,
1931, a snowfall averaging seven
inches covered Lancaster city
and rural areas, marking the
heaviest snow that winter. All
available State Highway Depart
ment workmen were ordered out
|to clear the highways, many re
maining on the job all through
the night At Quarryville, mem
bers of the Slumbering Ground
hog Lodge were jubilant because
the six-week period over which
groundhog prophesies held sway,
had ended on that snowy Mon
day.
Farmers Urged to Support
Tax Change Proposal
Approximately 325 York Coun
ty (farmers -attended a tax pro
test meeting at the Yorktowne
Hotel, as special guests of Mah
lon N. Haines, prominent hoe
manufacturer, and head of the
York County Taxpayers’ League.
H. Landis Shank, L. Ruppin and
John F. Weaver, of the Lancaster
County Taxpayers’ League, were
guest speakers at the gathering.
.Resolutions requesting the Penn
sylvania Legislature to change
methods of unfair assessment and
to “agitate, organize and work
for the proposed change” were
unanimously adopted. ' .
Large Still
Raided On Farm
Federal prohibition agents
raided a large liquor still in, a
farm near Kirks Mills, -destroying
a large quantity of mash and con
fiscating over a ton of sugar, 25
years ago this week.
1 Theie is something mote u
.thinking about Jesus and his s.
.iifice, when we take Commun 10
!ln this sacrament we find Hu,
It is quite true, different churcht
have different official explanation
about how we find Christ hei e
(But from “High Church” to
“Low,” .in and “Con
servative,” in Catholic and Pro
testant congregations alike, if you
'could ask the people as they come
put of doors again, “What did that
jservice mean to you’” It might
be that some would hardly know
jwhat to say, foi it is always pos-,
pible to go through the motions
without really thinking what one
is doing But those who had en-‘
tered whole-heaitedly into the
tservice, who had come “in love
land clianty” and in faith, would
all tell you about the same thing:,
l“Chrlst came very near to me.”,
'lf Christ seems just as far away!
jafter the Lord’s Supper as before, |
(then there has been something!
wrong about us That is why the,
Roman Catholic church will not
ladmit any one to communion if ha,
fias not been to Confession first.;
That_ is why in many Protestant 1
churches the people are warned*
to abstain from Communion ifj
,they harbor malice or ugly feel- 1
ling toward their neighbors.
;We Share Him
If it is true that in the Lord’s,
Supper we find the Lord himself,
it should be true—and happily it
Is so—that afterwaids life should
[go on at a higher level than be
fore. The Loid’s Supper is less
[like a doorway leading from onq
broom to another just like it, than
it is like a gateway across a bound
ary fiom one couptry to another.
Christ comes to us in the Sac
rament, but not as a fleeting guest.]
(if we are serious aS we take the'
Bread and wme and think aboutl
all this in the quiet of prayer, j
we will so enter into the spmtj
of Christ himself that we shall l
te-dedicate ourselves in his serv-j
ice. It is a kind of parody on
Christian ideas to thnlk of Christ’ s<
sacrifice as alone and by itself. His 1
cross must be followed by other!
crosses. His outpoured life must)
be shared by others who are will-|
ing to pour their lives out m turn.!
And it is this, again, which unites!
jail the Christians who in their!
many varied fashions have taken]
this Lord’s Supper with devoted
hearts. For there is a family re-|
semblance among all real Chris
tians, whatever their church-labef
may be. And the resemblance goes'
back to the same Christ, who has!
shared himself with every Chris-1
tian everywhere and always who!
[has taken this Bread and Cup. I
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! Division of Christian Education. Nu
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