4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 23, 1056 Lancaster County l 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, Quarryviile, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 AVERAGE AUTO BUYER One-third of all U. S. families buying new cars own two or more automobiles, according to a survey of car buy ing habits, “Automobile Facts” reports. In 92 per cent of the purchases, the venerable family bus was traded in as part of the bargain. Its average age at the time, the same survey reveals, was slightly over three years Of all cars traded in for new ones, only 8 per cent were more than five years old. Vital statistics of the typical new Car buying family show: Average number of family members is 3.4. 55 per cent children under 18. 47 per cent have college trained members. 74 per cent own their homes and the same per centage have garages. Almost 36 per cent of the total have two-car-garages. When asked how they would use their shiny new automobiles, a large majority 71 per cent of the surveyed new car buyers replied “drive to work.” “Business travel” was mentioned by 42 per cent; and “drive children to school” by 16 per cent. Might look over the statements and see how you qualify. According to The Agricultural Situation, published in Chicago by the Corn Belt Farm Dailies, the farmer, a big user of power machines, is likewise a big user of fuel to keep the wheels of those busy machines turning. In 1953, the latest year for which figures have been announced, 8.8 billion gallons of liquid petroleum fuel were used on farms. Of this about 90 per cent was gasoline, 4 per cent diesel fuel, 3 per cent LP gas, and 3 per cent other motor fuels. In total, the farmer is reported to burn about 11.5 per cent of the total quantity of motor fuel used in the U. S. i A look back over the 12 months of 1955, with the benefit of the complete figures, confirms previous predictions that it was among the greatest years ever in slaughter of livestock and produc tion of meat. It ended with a flourish, the final month being the second biggest December on record in the slaughter of both cattle and hogs m inspected plants This brought the year’s total cattle kill to 19,055,498 to set a new all-time record. The previous high of 18,476,358 was set in 1954. Calf slaughter at 7,499,145 was just slightly under 1954 and only 270,000 under the record high 0f’1944. The hog total rounded out at 61,370,474 head, which was well below the all-time peak of 69,016,982 in 1944, the big war year. It was even a million head below the 1952 total. Since the price level of 1952 was a good bit.better than this past year, even with a million more hogs, there is some reason to think that the serious overestimation of the pig crop by the government may have been a more powerful bearish factor in the markets than was generally recognized. Of course, the fact that there was heavier competition from a record beef supply last year must also be taken into con sideration. Sheep and lamb slaughter total in inspected plants was 14,- 383,450 head, which was the largest in seven years That increase could be reflected in smaller numbers to be offered this year, to the benefit of producers. - All in all, from the production angle, it was quite a year. The only blot on an achievement in production such as this was that the men who produced these animals out on the farms failed to share adequacy in the wealth so created. The supply was so large that they w -re forced to operate in a buyers’ market almost throughout- Demand for the finished product was tremendous, but it wasn’t enough to prevent a price retreat. No great quantity of the product was stored, so it does not remain as a price depressing surplus. The steady producers’ hope for better profits lies in the fact that low prices will trim production back to a more profitable level, which, coupled with the built-up demand for meat, Could mean the realization of better profits on the producing end. (Corn Belt Farm Dailies). STAFF FARMERS FUEL BILL QUITE A YEAR! Publisher Editsr Business. Manager . Advertising Director . Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week oh Lancaster Farms (This Week In 1905) By JACK EEICHAKD Hens Expected to Lay Uniform Weight Eggs In lowa hens were expected to lay their eggs in uniform weight of two ounces each, for the 1906 Legislature had passed a new weights and measure law, which included eggs. The law provided that the standard weight of one dozen eggs to be 24 ounces, 'and no means of com- promise was suggested in case 12 eggs jover-weighed the, fixed standard. The new law set stand ard weights for seventy artielfsr including beets, alfalfa, peanuts and canary seed. Profitable Flock of Chickens Near Smyrna Mrs. Milton Bush. Lancaster County farmwife at Smyrna, had a profitable flock of chickens in -1906. There" were 100 hens in the flock. During a 12-month period the received $213 from eggs along, not counting eggs that were set and used in the house hold, estimated at 50 dozen. She also sold $7O worth of chickens from the flock. Too Much Rope Hits New Jersey Cow A New Jersey farmer -tied his cow too long. The animal got tangled up in the rope and broke its neck. A case of too much rope! Farmers Urged To Kill Sparrows Back in 1906 farmers through out Pennsylvania were urged to join the campaign against spar rows Opponents of the birds suggested “Make it as warm as possible for all sparrows which seek a home on your premises, and you will have lots of other birds”. At Wilkes-Barre a res olution was adopted by Council that year for 12 expert marksmen to take up positions in the public square every Friday afternoon and shoot all the sparrows they could. The birds gathered in the trees there by the thousands. Ice Imported From St. 'Newfoundland Fifty years ago this week the British S. S.'Begulus arrived at the port of Philadelphia from St. Newfoundland with the first cargo of ice ever imported to this country from a foreign port. The shipment, 200 tons, was con signed to the American Ice Co. Importing of the perishable cargo, on which there was no duty,, was an experiment be cause of an expected shortage of domestic ice in this country that year > Seven Baptized In Icy •Waters of Conestoga At Lancaster’s West End Park, along the Conestoga, seven per sons were baptized in the icy waters of that stream by Elder John Myers, of the Baptist Breth ern Church. 25 Years Ago Ordered Quarter Million Chick Feeders Twenty-five years ago this week the Jackson-Evans Co-, St Louis, Mo., announced the re ceipt of a single order for a quarter million baby chick feed ers from Purina Mills. Officials of the feeder company declared the order would keep their plant in full production one year. When asked the large contract, A. S- Johnson, head of the Poultry Department at Purina Mills said: “We ordered the feeders for our dealers as part of a program to give every,baby chick all it needs to eat. It will assure a square meal—a square meal for every chick hatched”. 5 Firemen Killed, 11 Injured Speeding To Farm Grass Fire Five members of the Malvern Fire Co, Chester County, were instantly killed and 11 others injured when their fire truck ''overturned while speeding to a grass- fire" on 1 the Halderman farm; between Malvern and Pa oli. The accident occured when the truck ' turned- off th,c maca dam "highway to a dirt road, striking a rut, and upset, pinning several firemen beneath. Fire Truck Disabled On Way To Farm «tr» The fite truck of the Quarry ville Fire Co. on its way to a fire at the' Herman Cameron farm, Eidora, broke down on its way to the -blaze, and'only chem icals could.be taken to the scene' of the Jin. A large bam and several Mother’ buildings burned to the--ground. Two heifers, 7S> bu of wheat, over 200 bu of corn, ami five-acre crop of tobacco were burned. Eiremen plated tiie loss at about $15,000. Farm Bureau Officers Elected At a meeting of the Lancaster Farm Bureau, held at Lancaster, the following were elected for 1931: David M. Landis, Lancas ter R- D. 7, president; J. Clar ence Heist, Mount Joy, vice president; -Dr. F. A. Achey, Lan caster, secretary; William P. Bucher, Quarryville, treasurer. State Agriculture Head Speakes at Y. M. C. A. \ Twenty-five years ago this week John A. McSparran, State Secretary of Agriculture, addres- iZIBZJB SPEAK—Plunkett 2-1 , Buknmt SnipUn: Luke 33:1-86. i Dtnucnal Kndliif: Itsdab S 3. { Christ Suffered I Lesson for March 25, 1958' WHENEVER we ask. Why? about anything that happens, wa can mean the question in eith er one of two ways. Sometimes we mean both. Perhaps we mean to ‘ask, "What were the events that lied up to this one’ What were Ithe causes or forces back of tins event, pushing it, so to speak,- out 'of the Not-Yet in- to the Now-and- Here?’* Or per- haps we mean to ask, "For what purpose did this event take place? If it was a means Dr. Foreman to an end, what was the end? Did any man, or did God, havtf-a pur pose in bringing this event to, pass?” If we ask, Why did Christ suf fer? We can mean it in the first way mentioned just nojv. -In that case, the answer is very easy to see, or the answers rather, for there was no one reason why he Was crucified. Jesus suffered be cause Pilate was a coward; if the governor had stood up for what he knew was right, Jesus might haver been saved from an unjust sentence. Jesus suffered because the Pharisees were jealous and had found no other way of getting rid of their most troublesome crit ic. He suffered because he was courageous; if Christ himself.had been timid, he could have avoided Calvaby simply by keeping quiet and leaving the country. H* Died for Our Sins Ail such reasons it is the busi ness of history to ferret out, and it is of some importance to know them. But the other question Is not so easy. No historian, a* * historian, can see it Only the eye of faith, (which may Indeed be long to historians too) can-see the great pattern, into which this dread ful event fits, this dreadful event of the death by torture of the best person who ever walked this earth. We could not have guessed it. W* Steed God’s Woid to tell u« what ted nearly 600 person* te the Martin auditorium- at 'the Lan caster Y.'M. C. A. Speaking on "The Blessings of Living in a Christian Nation”, McSparran Stated: “This is the greatest country on earth”. Lamb Cheap Meat in’ 1931 C A. Burge, livestock exten sion specialist of Pennsylvania State College, reported 1500 per sons attended -20 meat cutting demonstrations conducted dur ing the winter of 1930-31. Dem onstrations were at high schools, women’s club meeting, ’sheep breeding farms, and on farms. Burge reccommended more ex tensive use of lamb, very cheap then, but classed as a luxury only a few years before. ■ Four-H Club Strawberry Project - Up at Waterford, Erie County, Arthur Marsh had made a profit of $102.91 from his quarter acre of strawberries grown in a 4-H Club project, according to C- P. Lang, assistant state club leader of the Pennsylvania State Col lege Young Marsh picked 1,112 quarts from his Premier plants. His total receipts were $lB6 43 and his expenses for labor, sup plies, and rent amounted to $83.52. Orchard Pruning Demonstration An orchard pruning demon stration was held on the Graybxll Wenger farm, Drumore Center, Jpwer Lancaster County, by John U. Ruef of State College, showing the proper pruning of apples, and grapes. it means What purpose did God have in mind? What was Jesus’; own intention 1 ’ We know ‘what Jesus said the night before, to his disciples as he gave them the cup. This, he said, was-the cup, of the New Covenant, “m myi blood," poured out "for you ” We know what he had said months before (Mark 10:45), that he came ,to “give his life a ransom for •iany.” Now the Bible tells of a .Christ who was totally, from his soul’s coie, -at one with God the ‘Father. What Christ intended, God intended. Christ’s death was for a purpose which God had had (as the Bible expresses it) from be fore the foundation of the wo'rld. It was not for his own sake, it was for the sake of his friends. .Even more, it ( was for many who, were not his friends. "While we; were yet sinners, Christ died fori us,” Paul says (Rom. 5:8). "He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sms of the whole world,” John say* ’.(I John 2:1). ,How Gan This Be? Many people fight shy of this; great truth. Sometimes they are' slow to behe\e it just because it 1 seems too much to believe. Here II am, a single human being on a small planet Would the Creator of- the Universe actually go—not to trouble only, but to agony and defeat, for my sake? Well, if a person thinks that way, we must 1 admit to him that it is indeed a 1 miracle, the greatest’ conceivable.! But there is another reason why people ai e shy about believing that Christ could have died lor our *m*. for anybody’s sin. How can one man’s suffering atone for another man’s sins’ There are two answers to that, which are part of one an swer. One is that Christ was not just a man, he was the Godman,i ‘IGod-m a de-man.” The other itj that he identified himself with sin ners, with the worst and weakest,} the race of man. His Death Was In Character Jesus’ death at Calvary was not out of line with his life. If thexe he “took the rap *tor sinners” as 'Dr. Hordern puts it, this was not a new and sudden shift in his life purpose. From the beginning of his service m this world he had been so closely identified with sinning men tha£ he was called in scorn "friend of sinners” and indeed at last executed as a criminal. Na ■wonder Paul cart say. "H* whe ,knew no sm was made to be sm ,for us ” Yet this remains all over our heads unless we too Identify pur own selves with him. To aayi “He is the Savior of the world” | is not enough. The final step is tal discover, “He is my Savior. For He took my place.” (Vat** •allina •••rrlrhua kT the> DItUUb