4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 6, 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
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A BONE OF CONTENTION
Imports of canned pork largely ham from
Communist Poland continue to climb Sharply, having jump
ed 34 per cent during the first two months of this year
over the quantity imported during comparable months of
last year, the American Meat Institute discloses in report
ing figures from official government sburces.
“In February alone,” said the meat packers’ or
ganization, “the 2,640,000 pound imported from Poland
was 94 per cent greater than the quantity imported during
February, 1955. Imports during January this year totaled
4,042,000 pounds, or an increase of 11 per cent over Jan
uary, 1955.
“During all of last year, 13 per cent more hams
came into the United States from Poland than during 1954
22,359,000 pounds against 19,717,000 pounds. In terms
of hams imported during 1955, this represented about 1,-
175,000 hogs.
“Of added interest is the fact that large advertise
ments now have started to appear in Corn Belt newspapers
in promotion of Polish hams. The advertisements also fea
ture Polish pork Joins and Chopped pork.
v The clincher, perhaps, is the concluding statement
from the AMI that “Poland imports from the United
States very minor quantities of American agricultural
products.” »
At the moment, when hogs'are at a low ebb price
wise, farm basis, the Government should take a second
look at competition it is permitting through imports. Re
minds us of our consternation a, few years back in purchas
ing some canned beef, under the familiar label of one of
the major U S packers, at low prices only to discover
the statement on the can, “Produced and canned in Argen
tina ” Appetites ebbed at that point.
March the tempestuous month weatherwise
has bowed out, and such an assortment of weather as it
tossed on Lancaster County! There were showers There
were warm days Then wintertime came back in force with
some of the season’s, yea the year’s worst weather. In fact,
weather statistic computers had to figure back a few
years to find one as bad, with snows as heavy.
March, 1956 produced the most snow for the third
month in 12 years here Winter went out, in late March,
amid a snowy splendor that blocked highways and disrupt
ed everything in general
But welcome was the moisture that came with the
snow. Just when a balmy day assured one that Spring had
formally, finally arrived, up comes another snowstorm.
Weather prophets became non-committal The lion turned
into a lamb, the lamb turned into a raging lion
April usually means Spring for sure
bet 9
LANCASTER COUNTY AND THE EPHA
Lancaster County, in playing host to the Eastern
Polled Hereford Association Show and Sale, chalked up a
new accomplishment for the Garden Spot, and gained a
world of friends
There’s a great interest in Lancaster County to the
outsider, and event such as these bring in more and more
people living elsewhere. One Ohioan, who travels for a
midwestern publication, looked over the countryside, and
like the Mormons arriving in Utah, said “This is the place.”
He’s seeking a home here now, to be in a more central
location to his business.
For the southern plantation man, Lancaster Coun
ty was a new experience. There’s a tobacco grower-cattle
man in Kentucky curious as all get-out to take a look at
agricultural operations here. Each of these individuals
farm places of 1500 acres up
If more shows as these are held, if shows as this
bring to the Garden Spot cattle of quality as high as the
bulk in the EPHA show and sale, Lancaster County can
add one more laurel to its agricultural wreath'.
STAFF
MARCH BOWS OUT
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
Lancaster .farm folks were in
terested in a Jersey City news
dispatch, telling of a child saved
from drowing there by the re
markable feat of a horse Anna
Patnno, four, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs P. L Patnno, had
taken her doll for an airing
along Moms Canal in the rear
of the' Patnno home, followed
by Charlie, Patnno’s junk wagon
horse While leaning over the
bank the child fell into the wa
ter, clutching her' doll When
she came to the surface she
screamed. The. horse
into the canal, seized the skirts
of the girl in its teeth, lifted
her from the water and climbed
the bank to safety. Mrs. Patnno
and neighbors ran from their
homes to the canal where the
horse stood holding fast to Anna
and her doll until relieved of
his precious burden.
Good Hired Girls
Hard To Keep
Fifty years ago, a good hired
girl was easier to get than to
keep. Just about the time she
became a valuable asset to the
family hiring her, she got mar
ried, it was said. In the case of
hired men, many were said to be
high priced at $8 per month
and board, while others were
cheap at $2B to 30 per month
and keep.
Mrs. Ralnh, C. Bradley,
Gap, was the nroud owner
of a Bantam hen, half a
century ago. When the hen
wanted to lay an _ egff it
would fly on the sill of a
kitchen window. When 1 the
door was opened the hen
«< rutted across the mom and
flew to a box on the cun
board. where she had made
her nest.
fis Head of Surplus
Horses and Mules Sold
A large number of Lancaster,
Chester and York County farm
ers attended the public auction
sale of surplus livestock and
waeons at Safe Harbor by H S.
Kerbaugh Co, construction con
tractors of the PRK Low Grade
Freight Line in that area'
were 65 head of horses and
mules, and a large number of
heavy wagons Horses brought
from SlOO to 'RISC per head and
mules from $3OO to $5OO a pair
Philin Schneider near
Hammond, Ind.. end his two
horses were killed, when
the pl<«v struck several
sticks of biiri"'! dynamite in
a field on his farm and
exploded. IT«w the explos
ives got there was not
known.
Farmer’s First
Visit to City at 70
Edward Raubenstme, 70, a
farmer in West Manheim Twp,
York County, made his first
visit to York, 50 years ago this
week Raubenstme* was at York
on business that day, and stated
he had rode on a railroad tram
only once before, but was never
on a trolley far nor used a
telephone.
Denuty Game Warden Nat
Kessler announced he had dis
tributed four do?en quail re
ceived from Harrisburg, on Lan
caster farms.
A mid-west farmer’s wife
complained that crows were her
worst enemy. She declared
these bmds were destroying all
escs laid by her hens on the
outskirts of the farm and killed
more little chickens than hawks
Is it a safe
A writer in a farm and
garden ionrnal, in 1906, de
clared that for every ton of
dry hay produced on an acre
of ground, “the growing
press pumns im from the
con beneath it in the neigh
borhood of; 500 tons of
water”.
Cows Not Paying
Board Sold to Butcher
Tn a test and .scales study con
ducted by State College dairv
extension service, in 1931. it
was found that 264 cows were
navmg their board, and they
were promptly sold to the but
cher.
(This Week In 1905)
By JACK REICHARD
Fifty years ago this week,
a petition in involuntary bank
ruptcy was filed against Fred
E Rosebrock Co, 325-327 Green
wich Street, New York City, one
of the largest butter and egg
commission houses in the coun
try The liabilities were placed
at $411,000 and assets at $315,-
000.
25 Years Ago
Quarter of a century ago, a
woman attorney from the heart
of America’s Garden Spot was
in the country’s legal spotlight
On April 8, 1931, Miss M. Edna
Horst was appointed by Judge
M. Groff to defend William Craig
in his trial for the murder of
Jack McNeil, at Safe Harbor,
marking the, first time in the
history of Pennsylvania that a
woman was named to defend a
man accused of murder.
Gerald Dugan, a farmer near
Ely, Nev, tied one end of a
string to his dog’s tail, the other
end to « tooth that bothered him,
yelled “sic him” to the dog and
watched the animal run away
with his -tooth.
When Robert De Leon, a farm
er of LePanto Ark., was asked
if -he was a descendant of the
famed Ponce De Leon he re
plied “Ponce De Leon was in
search of the Fountain of Youth
I’m looking for the staff of life”.
Advertising is the servant of
those who know how to use it.
Background Scripture Acts 1-2 ,
Devotional Beading Acts 2 1-8
Our IHlassiQßi
Lesson for April 8, 1956
WHEN a great bomber sets off
on a mihtaiy mission, or,
when a plane loaded with leaflets,
takes off for a piopaganda mission,
no matter how good the plane is,
othei‘wise, the mission will be a,
failure without three essentials for,
success. One is gas enough to
leach the target. The second is,
an engine that will not ‘‘conk out”
going or return
ing, an engine
that can be relied
on to function un
der all weather
conditions. The
third essential is
a crew that will
follow instructions,
competent to fly
the plane and to
deliver its load at Dr. Foreman
the right time, at the tight place.
The Mission of the Church
One of the last words Jesus ut
tered before his Ascension was
“Go.” But what is a going chuj-ch?
Sometimes all that is meant by
that expression is simply a church
that has pneetmgs once in a while.;
But that is not the idea Christ had (
In mind. The original Christian
church had meetings, and good;
ones they were; but it began to'
go after the meetings were over l
and the disciples scattered every- 1
where, bringing the Word, the good
news of God’s love, the good news;
about Jesus. The church was going’
when it was growing; going when
it took the message to new places
and to people who had never/
heard it befoie. A going church, 1
in short, is a missionaiy church 1
Some people don’t like the woid'
“missions ” It seems to carry or
suggest the idea* of supenonty
Not at all* We do have a superior'
article, the Christian faith and,
life. But we do not have to be l
conceited about it Does a sales-'
man have to be conceited if he
is selling the best Ime on the mar
ket? Does a doctor have to be con
ceited about prescribing the best
diugs yet invented’ We did not
invent our religion, God gave it
to us He gave it to us to keep and
Pennsylvania
Clean Up Week
The week beginning April 12,
1931. was designated by the
State Department of Health,
Welfare. Forests and Waters
and State Police, as Clean Up
Week All inflammable debris,
including brush, branches and
briars, in the neighborhood of
houses, gardens and fields and
along trails and roads were to be
removed It also was suggested
that cesspools be cleaned and
limed. Out-houses be made fly
praef and stable yards, hog pens
and chicken coops cleaned.
Water holes were to be filled,
spouting mended and garbage
cans thoroughly cleansed and
scaured.
Carlton Reitclarf, Ford
Wavne, Ind., unearthed a
rusty tin can containing
5489 in gold while turning
the sod in his front yard.'
Farmers Ooposed
Raising School Age
The Lancaster County Unit of
Farmers’ Protective Association
opposed the raising of the eom
yulsory school age for children
and also the lengthening of the
school term At a meeting held
at Lancaster the following de
legates were appointed to rep
resent the association at the
election of 1931 trustees for
Pennsylvania State College: Sam
uel Sheaffer, Ouarrvville; W. D.
Marburger, Millersville, and Ez
ra Stoltzfus, Gap. 1
Twenty-five years ago this
week, State College specialists
recommended sash greenhouses
for Pennsylvania vegetable gro
wers located m intensive pro
duction areas The tvpe of sash
house which met with general
approval was' 10 x 18 feet in size
and heated by coal, gas and
small hot water systems.
to share; and if we do not share
it we shall hardly keep it. j
Power of the Spirit j
Going back to that airplane si
moment: Enough gas, plus an effi
cient engine, spells POWER. Nc
matter how important the mission
is, no matter h-jw ggpd the inten
tions are, without the power every-)-
thing collapses. So it is with the)
church. Our mission has been set
by God himself. But when the 1
chuich takes off with its tanks)
empty, and some home-made do
it-youiself tinkeied-up sewing
machine in place of a good engine,,
it will never accomplish its -mis-|
sion no matter how good it is.l
Wanting to reach the taiget is not
enough.-Don’t we all pray, “Thy,
Kingdom come on earth . . .
That is a missionary prayer. Don’t)
most chuichcs offer piayer for.
missions, and even take up offer-)
mgs for missions’ Yet any one, 1
who knows the church will tellj
you that the church’s missionary*
responsibility is shirked and
slacked- We play at missions,)
we leave millions on millions with
out a lay of Gospel. The record'
of many a congregation, if you,
looked at it, would never suggest*
that that chuich knew much or
cared much about what Jesus!
said on his church In his solemn,
last woid’s: “Go—into all the,
worldI’’ 1 ’’ The trouble is that the 1
Church does not have the power.
It could have the same power th«<
fiist Christians had, the power of,
the Holy Spirit. Only a Spirit-filled
church is going to be much of a 1
missionary church. I
Power of Testimony
The other necessity of the plane
.on a “mission” is personnel.)
Power alone is not enough. There
must be men who are prepared
to use that power. Now Christians
individually, or the church at large
cannot “use” the Holy Spirit, for
no one can use God. But God’s,
power is not poured out on just
anybody (as many stones in the
Bible show). His power comes to
'those who devote themselves to
him and his cause. The early,
church waited for the Spirit, waited
;for power; but once they had
received it they proceeded to
carry out Jesus’ directive: Go
into all the world! A Christian,;
or a - church, that wants God’s pow
er for selfish reasons, will not bej
given it. A Christian, or a church, 1
that prays for God’s power so as,
to be able to witness for him, —so
as to win others for him, —will,
find that piayer answered. The,
power will come. If the church;
today is making too feeble a marlq
on one world, is it because' the
church does not seek true spirit
ual power for true spiritual service?
J (Based on outline copyrighted by tho
iDiylelon of Christian Education, Na
> Mortal Connell of the Chnrchea of Christ
lln the V. S. A. Kcleaaed by Oemmonlty
;Pre»3 Service.)
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