4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 4, 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper 'Established November 4, 1955 • Published every Friday by OCTORARQ 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, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3. 1879 THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE Let’s take a look at how we have been faring during the past 20 years in the fields of meat production and con sumption in relation to the increasing population of this nation, the National Livestock and Meat Board suggests. In 1955 our population reached 165 million, a 29 per cent increase over the average for the pre-world War II years of 1935-39.. During the same period, per capita consumption of meat also increased 29 per cent, going up from the 1935-39 average of 125 lbs to 161 lbs, according to the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Meat production reached a new all-time high of 27 billion lbs in 1955, a 67 per centiincrease over the average output for 1935-39 The problem has been-one of keeping consumption of meat in line with production of meat. We have been suc ceeding in this job since the figures relating to cold stor age holdings of meat indicate definitely that current abund ant supplies of meat are being, eaten. They are not piling up in storage. This is due in large part to the intensive meat promotion and advertising campaigns conducted coopera tively by all branches of the livestock and meat industry in one of the greatest self-help programs this nation has ever witnessed. But in the future, the problem will actually be one of producing ENOUGH meat for the increasing population. Let’s look at some of the estimates for the future. Government statisticians have indicated that the population of this country by 1975 may go as high as 228 million people, a 38 per cent increase over our 1955 popu lation. Per capita consumption in 1975 has been forecast at 168 lbs four per cent more than in 1955. On the basis of these two sets of government figures, the Meat Board predicts that it will take 38.3 billion lbs of meat to feed the people of America in 1975.? This means that an increase in per capita consump tion of meat of only FOUR PER CENT by 1975 will re quire an increase in meat production of 42 PER CENT over 1955, because of the tremendous increase in popula tion. This, indeed, is a challenge to the productive ef ficiency of America’s livestock and meat industry. WHEN DID SPRING SPRING? Parking another box of tissue by the typewriter, we wonder with nose out of commission “When’s spring springing?” The weather forecasters are noncommittal. The Groundhogs claim anything happening six weeks aft er Ground Hog Day is not in their dominion. They call this Bullfrog weather. The Bullfrogs assert it’s Ground Hog weather. Chamber of Commerce? They’ve borrowed a line from the Floridians and Californians, and say it’s just a bit unusual weatherwise. Farm work has been delayed by the clammy chill that sends one to hypochondria, to flood the laundry with handkerchiefs, to buy pills and potions and lotions by the dozens. Buds outside are hanging on fiercely, awaiting the proper weather to make their colorful entrance. But nothing stops the lawn. Irrespective of the almanac, the chill, the aches and pains, the grass is grow ing, growing fast. Pastures too are coming along fast. Then the temperatures bounced up into the 80s over the weekend. Summer rushed in, and there’s a chance this may be a year without a spring! - , Addition of Fairchild Scan-A-Graver equipment to Octoraro Newspapers marks another forward step hy the family of which Lancaster Farming is a member. Now, within a matter of minutes after a photograph is taken, it may be electronically converted into a photo engraving for use in the pages of this paper. This is the latest model produced by Fairchild, and will help immea surably in news and advertising coverage. Since the first of the year, Octoraro Newspapers expanded into new office quarters just south of the original plant in Quarryville, and since the advent of Lancaster Farming the latest in photographic equipment has been added. It has been a busy year, but ont that makes the words of Confuscious much more contemporary , “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Editor .. Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director A THOUSAND WORDS 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) Br JACK REICHARD Tuesday afternoon, May 1. 1906, House Representatives at Washington pounded their desks, cheered, stamped, clapped their hands and roared with great satisfaction, over the passing of a free seed bill. Publisher The uproar began when the agriculture bill wis taken up< and continued un til the paragraph was leach ed where an amendment re storing the free seed ap propriation would be in order. Colonel Lamb, of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the com mittee, succeeded in offering an amendment appropriating $242,- 920 for seeds, providing that five-sixths of the entire amount should be distributed by Con gressmen instead of two-thirds as previously alloted. A point of order was made by Representa tive Wadsworth, but was with drawn later, and the' free-seed ers rushed through the Lamb amendment with wild enthu siasm Richest Farmer In World, Don Terrazas Don Terrazas, or Chilhuahua, Mexico, was not only claimed to be the richest man m Mexico but also the wealthiest farmer in the world. His Ifarm compris ed eight million acres and it required one-half day for trains to cross the estate. He owned 100,000 horses, 700,000 sheep and branded 300,000 calves an nually. He conducted great slaughter and packing plants and owned his own refrigerator lines He employed 40,000 labors and lived in a palace with an estimated value of two million dollars Arrested Boys Compelled To Read Bible 'Lancaster’s Mayor McCaskey, who was rounding out his 15th year as principal of the Boy’s High School, did not confine his interest in boys to the classroom. He had adopted a plan of com pelling boys arrested for dis orderly conduct to read a chap ter of the Bible in Police Court, and listen to a lecture, instead of imposing fines, 50 years ago. Wednesday May 2, 1906, about 10:00 p. m., hail fell at New Holland, Ephrata and Hinkletown. The hail, reported the size of peas, did little damage. 23 Years Ago 25 YEARS. AGO (1931) Twenty-five years ago this week Lancaster County’s. Octo raro Farmers’ Club met at the residence of 'George Ferguson, with George Haver-stick, the group’s president, presiding. Subjects brought up for discussion included: What height tye should be to he used for-pasture, what to do with geraniums that bad grown so tall during the winter. and how to start a rock garden. 4-H Baby Beef Clubs Organized According to J. F. Heim, as sistant. state , club leader at Pennsylvania State College, 4-H t * V >* v * * * •{* * * C baby beef clubs were organized in Cumberland, (Dauphin, Lan caster and Montgomery Counties with a total of 97 calves on feed. Lebanon County was ex pected to join the group with at least 45 more animals. The baby' beeves were Jed for show ing and sale at the 1932 Penn sylvania Farm Show at Harris burg. ,* ■ V Thicves invaded the Lan caster farm of Harry Houses, Big Springs, near Lampeter, and stole 100 Rhode Island pulWts from a brooder house in the orch ard near the farm. A S Pigs Used To Rout Caterpillars In France pigs had various callings beside the humble one of becoming bacon. They were used in some sections in that country to rout out caterpillars, 25 years ago. A plague of cater pillars descended on the valley of La Bruche, having come there from the forests of Helligenberg, where they stripped 6,000 acres olf woodland trees of their leaves- Pigs in droves were turn ed out into the forest, reinforced by poultry. These farmyard fowl and animals, in an endeavor to scratch a living, turned up the soil and destroyed the caterpil- Background Scripture: Acts 9*l-31. Devotional Beading: Acts 9:26-31. Conversion Lesson for May 6, 1956 CONVERSION is a religious word, but it wasn’t originally, and isn’t exclusively so now. We have all heard of people converted to communism, or from it. A young man drives a convertible,—that is, a car which can be changed from open to closed, or back again. A business man converts a factory from war produc tion to peace pro duction. Conver- sion, in short, means change But as Christians use the word, they do not mean just any kind of change. Every Dr. Foreman Christian’s life. If it is a growing life, Is a changing life. People who never become Christians at all may change their lives in vari ous ways. The specially Christian meaning of “conversion” refers to the basic change from being non- Christian, sub-Christian or un- Christian to being a Christian. Was Paul Peculiar? Probably the most famous con version in the history of Chris tianity was that of the man who later became the Apostle Paul. He was called Saul at the time, while as for being an apostle, he was on the contrary something rather worse than a “bad egg.” He was an apostle ot hate, prose cuting and persecuting people for no other sin nr crime than merely .being Christians. His conversion was sudden, spectacular and dra matic in the extreme. It was so impressive that to this day there are some who think that it you ere not converted in the way in which Paul was converted, you can hardly have been converted at aIL On the contrary, the one God who works In Nature in so many varied ways, works in men in var ied ways too. Just as there are no f two people exactly alike, so it would be surprising if any two conversion-experiences were ex actly alike. Paul was a special .case, and Goi dealt with him In • lars and the million of pupa® where, they laid. * * Twenty-live years ago a kitchen specialist recom mended the use of popcorn the year ’round. A corn soup using the usual canned corn with milk and served gar nished with a handful of fluffy popcorn, was declared to make a most attractive soup. Fruit salads also were claimed to he improved by the addition of a cupful of freshly popped corn, added just before serving. Farm Boy Dies From Injuries Leon' Kauffman. 9, son of Mr and Mrs. Samuel Kauffman, near Atglen, died at the Coatesvillc Hospital from a fractured skull, collarbone and -arm, received when dragged across a field by a pair of horses on his father’s farm. .The loose reins had tang led around the boy’s legs. A get-together meeting of pro duce and distributors was held by the Inter-State Milk Produc ers Asso. and the Dairy Council at the K.G.E. Hall, Drumore Center, in southern Lancaster County. H. D. Allebach, Phil adelphia, president of the Inter- State Milk Producers, and C. E. Cohee, secretary of the Philadel phia Dairy Council, were guest speakers. Ira McPherson, Chest nut Level, presided. Demaret takes Coast golf with 72-hol'e score of 269. special way. One might almost say] God had to hit Saul on the head) and knock him down, to bring himl ,to his senses. There were many; features of that conversion that seldom if ever occur in other cases. From . • ■ to i ■ < , First and all-inclusve, In the universal features of Saul's con version, is the fact that this ex perience meant a turning around. Jiis life pointed in a different di-j rection ever after. Conversion means turning, and turning means a new course, a new destination, a new road. He turned from & negative to a positive life,—from! bpmg against, to being for. His entire energy had been spent in hating Christ and Christians. Aft-, erwards his entire energy was de voted to the service of Christ and Christians. Before his conversion Saul was chiefly noted for hi? eagerness to tear down. After wards one of his favorite words, and favorite occupations, was “building up.” He was turned from pride to humility, from trying to get what he wanted, to trying to do what Christ wanted Before, he was a masterless man; after wards, he himself often said of him self that he was a “slave” of Christ. But it was precisely in be ing body-and-soul devoted to Christ for life, here and forever, that he found the freedom from evil in his own life for which, as a master less man, he had sought in vain. In these and in other ways, the con version of Saul was not peculiar. All true conversion is n turning, from a negative, empty, destruc tive and fruitless life, to the “We in Christ,” a positive, loving, con structive, brotherly We with much, fruit of service. Tho Thing, Not the Word The word “conversion" occurs only once in the whole Bible (King James translation) —Acts 15:3. All the words together, like "convert,", connected with this, make only fourteen out of the thousands of words in the Bible. But the thine is there, and that is the Important point. One way of putting it is sug gested by the story in Act* 9, which of course does not use the word “conversion.”' What happened there? Saul came into contact with Jesus; and instead of hating him any more, he worshipped him. He called him “Lord." That’s conver sion, But not all of it. Paul In later years told this story twice (that we know of—there must have been other times): Acts 22 and 2«. He said about it: “I was not disobedi ent to the heavenly vision." Con version is response to the touch of God. Conversion begins when we first take .rders from Him. (Basse aa aatuaa ••wiffcue br tta, DlTlalMi mt CbriitlM Eeuatlon, Na- Umul Cassell *1 tba Cbarshaa af Ckrlsl hi the V/#. A. BalauaS Ay CsmsibbUr Brass Sarvlaa.)
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