4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 30, 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 • • 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 . Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3,1879 HONORS DUE FARM YOUTH , Contacts the past few weeks with f?rm youth or ganizations impress one more of the need for starting younger men and women on the right path into agriculture. Years ago when pop was a pup and when his son was a gangling, growing youngster Four-H just started, the Future Farmers of America had not reached as wide as today; There was little to interest a young man in farming, outside of dad’s encouragement. And if dad were having a tough time at that moment with drought or sunken cattle prices, he did little to encourage' his son to follow through. True, there was a legacy ahead but its worth was dubious when one grew up in hard times. Not many schools offered courses in agriculture. If they did, it was an elective against a more liberal arts course of study. In one case you could take'Latin or agriculture, and, since Latin was prerequisite to college, Latin it was. The one year course was offered every other year, to Freshmen and Sophomores alone. Encouragement could have been given through a farm project under dad’s supervision, perhaps. In one case, 20 lambs were purchased for $2O. The gain was to go to the son, no charge for feed. Paying a dollar per head, there was no chance to lose. No chance? One was kicked and killed by a horse. The balance sold, after some feed ing, for $l9 again a dollar per head, and the project ended Schools today are doing a terrific job in filling the breach between farm-learning and book-learning about the farm. Add to this Vo-Ag, 4-H and the FFA, encouragement and supervision from county extension offices, and you have an unbeatable combination that will help more than anything else to keep them down on the farm. Within the next five years, nearly one billion dollars will be spent in REA electric construction, the USDA 'ad vises. Between 1957 and 1961 ten or twelve million dollars will be spent in Pennsylvania alone, at the rate of between $2,135,000 and $2,421,000 a year. Like pulling the farm out -of the mud, electricity has done more than anything else to make farm living, management and efficiency more encouraging. Farm de pendence on electricity is tremendous as proved when the power goes off. However, the complex,. modern network of power lines throughout the nation has almost eliminated this fault 100 per cent. If one could go but a day without electricity, he would realize how vital it is. Pumps wouldn’t pump feed grinders wouldn’t grind, the kitchen would stop function ing, the romantic atmosphere of a candle-lighted dinner would soon fade. The deep freeze would go off, and havoc would reign. Those that holler for the “good old days” ought to take a second look. Just when we get to the place where we can pro nounce stilbestrol and can write dfethylstilbestrol, along comes something new, another growth-promoting hormone called hexestrol. Farmer turning scientist may be tjhe cus tom, some of these days, when he .recites his inventory of chemicals, weed killers, preservatives, vaccines, hormones, sprays, etc., etc., etc. FILE AND REMEMBER Five new antibiotics under test by pjant pathologists at the USD’s Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md., will give protection to snap beans and lima beans from four fungus diseases, but none are yet ready for field ap plication. ; There names which you can file and hope you can pronounce are Anisomycin, .Mycostation,' Oligomy-; cin, Griseifulvin and Filipin. ' ■ Sounds like the cast of drama. v - STAFF REA TO EXPAND WHAT NE^T 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms (This Week In 1905) By JACK REICHARD Bills to Reduce Tax On Wide Tired Wagons Farmers and teamsters in Pennsylvania were watching the moves of a number of States, where legislative bills were in troduced to reduce the road tax of ail owners who used wide tired wagons. Sponsors of the balls claimed the use of wide tired wagon wheels was an aid in maintaining good dirt roads. 50. years ago. Builders of Qon estoga wagons were particularly interested- Tuberculin Vaccination Hailed A Success Dairy farmers everywhere were interested 'in the experiment conducted on the stork farm of Dr. J. P. Welsh. Bloomburg, Pa., where six calves wei;e vaccinated in a test to immunize them against tuberculosis, an opera tion new in the country up, to 1906. Dr. Person, of the Univer /sity of Pennsylvania, 1 an charge of the tests, announced the ex periment at Bloomburg was a success. Herd Bull Broken to Drive An eastern farmer claimed he had succeeded in keeping his Jersey bull out of mischief by usjbg the animal regularly in a treadmill to operate his cream separator. He declared th.e bull also was broken to drive, the children going to mill and the store with the animal hitched to a two-wheel cart. Purchases Farm for Rabbit Propagation George H- Hardner, a con tractor, announced he had pur chased an 80-acre farm in the Angle Hill acre of Lowhill Tiwp., Lehigh County, for'the exclusive purpose of raising rabbits. Hard nef stated the property was es pecially adapted for the purpose, with considerable woodland, flanked by thickets, in which the rabbits could hide. 25 Years Ago All Lancaster County Dogs Quarantined Charles Evans, of the Penn sylvania Department of Agricul ture, Bureau of Animal Industry, was sent to Lancaster County to enforce a quarantine pn all dogs, due to the spead of rabies in this section, m 1931. Evans an nounced he was instructed to kill all dogs running at large, and would remain in the county for a number of months. He appealed to owners to keep their dogs tied and penned until the infection subsided. Depression Sent People Back to Farms A steady decline in industrial employment, in 1931, was send ing people back to farms, ac cording to a report issued by the bureau of agriculture economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The report stated that the move ment from cities to farms in 1930 was the largest since 1924. Crop Mortgage Bill Passed Among the new laws passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature, in 1931, and sent to the Govern or’s desk for signing, permitted Commonwealth farmers to mort gage their crops as security for loans from the Federal Drought Fund. Only a doctor can diagnose can -1 cer. But knowledge of cancer’s ; seven danger 1 signals can take . you to the doctor in tune for the iest chance for eyre, says the -American jßancer Society- . Wind Storm Caused Damage Twenty-five years ago this week March winds passing over the south eastern section of Pennsyl vania, caused considerable dam age over a wide area. In southern Lancaster and Chester counties silos-and bams were blown, from -their foundations, roads blocked by fallen trees, ,and telephone and electric services crippled. State Surplus Totals $33,600,000 Budget makers at Harrisburg had been fully convinced there is a Santa Claus, 'when -it was learned that the June, 1930, sur plus of $2B mitlion which Govern or Fisher had. predicted in his farewell address, had grown to $33,600,000 by -March 1, 1931. « Farmer Aided by Neighbors Neighbors and friends of Her mop .Camerop, near Wakefield,, Lower Lancaster County, may| still recall this week, 25 years ago. .when they gathered at the Cameron farm ?md aided ip clearing away, debris left by a fire, which destroyed the barn. NO BEGjGAR Plausible Tramp (in suburbs)' “Lady, I ain’t beggm’ but can X hang around till yer dawg’s done with that there bone?” Background Scripture: Luke 24:1-53. Devotional Beading: X Corinthians 15.12-28. Lesson for April 1, 1958 Christ Lives ‘‘/CHRIST is risen!”” The words will be said and sung manj! thousand times this Easter. What ' do they mean? Let us leave out oi sight all those to whom the wordd mean nothing but a vestige of superstition at the worst, a pictur-l esque symbol of something alto< gether different, at best. What dd these words mean to those who do believe them? It ,is possible to be lieve this tence literally and firmly, and yet be as dead to their joyous meanmg as if they were a weather report of ■*o years ago. They Dr. Foreman portend a miracle; but yester day’s miracles may not be espe cially interesting, Do you feel a kind of rapture on reading about the frogs in Pharaoh’s palace, the miracle-frogs? Does it help your malaria to read about the cures St Paul did at Ephesus? Yesterday’s miracles may even be discouraging, just because they are yesterday’s. The Resurrection , of Christ is not in a class with any other miracle. For the early Chris tians it was THE event of history. Til* 4p«n*d Eya ' It is no accident that the church says and sings, “Christ is risen” more often ,than “Christ rose." , The Resurrection is a land of con temporary miracle. It has many meanings, but consider three of them, in .the lives