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
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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.
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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 <?* the plain peo
ple who first experienced the truth
of it. Remember, ,the Resurrection
was nothing they had been look
: mg for, nothing they had the wit
to lt came as a shock, it
upset all their ideas, it remade
"their world. 'First of all and in
cluding everything else, the Res
urrection means' the presence,
here and today not less than there
In the dawn of Christian time, the
presence of the living Christ, the
present companion ,9! all who lova
him. First of all, hia presence.
taara ia-Emmam and iadegd.jW^,
Solanco Group to
Seek State Park "
Eight men, headed by Henry
Martin, Quarryville fire chief,
and Robert K. Mowrer, Rl, Wil
low Street, Solonco Farmers and
Sportsmen’s Association, have
suggested a state park be estab
lished in southern Lancaster
.County.
Directors of the Lancaster
County Soil Conservation Dis
trict have named a committee
to seek a possible site, saying
their organization would back
such a program.
Tobacco Seed J-0 cents
Per Half Ounce
Original Red Rose tobacco
seed, recleaned, was 'advertised
foh sale at 10c per one-half ounce
package.
North-South Hard
Road Discussed '
At a public meeting of th«
■Willow Street-Pemx- Hill Road
Asso, held at Boehm’s -Methodist
Church, near Willow Steect,
final plans .were discussed for
the construction of a hard road
running , north - and south from
the Maryland State line to Wil
low Street. Included among ,th®
speakers that evening were J. C.
McCarrell, division engineer,of
Ore State Highway Department;
T-, .Warren. Metaer, Mayor of
Lancaster, and representatives of
the State Legislature' and Lan
caster Automobile Club.
Operations, recently warned
Congress that the Soviet Union
was pressing the United States
in a sea-power race.
the road across the hills, meant
the opened eye. With him for
guide, the man Cleopas and hi*
friend saw things in the Scriptures
they had never seen before. ,Th« (
Scriptures, like a closed gate,,
opened to their inward eye. Thenj
in the supper-room as the bread.
I was broken, again their eyes were;
‘opened, and they knew him. So,
the risen Christ today and always!
'opens the eyes' of men; inspired v
by him, we understand God’s
Book and God’s Son as we can|
never do alone.
The Burning Heart
The second thing the disciples]
felt was a burning heart. John,
Calvin invented a coat of arms
for himself, showing an out
stretched hand and a burning
heart, offered to God. It might
serve as the coat of arms for all,
who have felt the presence of the'
living risen Christ. Two young
men were arguing about the Ees-;
urrection, and they were greatly]
puzzled about it. They asked *i
much older man what ware his,
reasons for believing it to be true.]
“Why,” the old man said, “I just
talked with Hun this morning!”]
Life gains a warmth, a flame,
from contact with Christ as from!
no other contact possible. Jesus,
as a historical character excites*
our curiosity, our imagination. |
Christ as a problem in theology]
'excites us to think. But Christ
as a living presence sets life on)
fire. Who are the people who wit-|
,n.ess most enthusiastically about'
Jesus? They are the ones who will 1
sing, “He walks with me and he
talks with me . . That Jesus
lived is interesting and important.;
.That he lives, lives now, in me—
that i? life-changing.
The Hastening Feet
All around the world this Easter
churches will be ringing with song
and bright with flowers. In the
most unlikely places, there are'
Christians. You will find that tbps*
churches in far places were start"]
ed there by men and women who;
behaved in and knew the risen
’Christ If there is a church which
calls itself •‘Christian” but doer
no: believe in the Resurrection, itsl
Cbust is as dead as any other byJ
gone hero. Such a church will noil
•end many missionaries. A dead!
Christ hurries no man's footsteps,}
gases no man’s burden, light* noj
man’s hour of sorrow. Only jthsl
living Christ kindles -the burning!
heart, opens the blind eyes, sets!
men’s feet upon a rock, and sends]
them out, like the first Christians,!
to challenge a world in his name,}
The feet of the two men hastening)
from Emmaus were but the first)
of billions, eager with God’s good;
news.
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