4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 18, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
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RAIN HELPS SO MUCH
Although some of the rain came to Lancaster Coun
ty accompanied by damaging storms, the moisture was
welcome. This is much unlike the situation in parts of the
midwest, where, we quote -from a letter, a .70-inch rain
the first appreciable moisture —Tell for the first time in
seven months.
“We are still praying for more rain * Our house
water situation is getting worse; we have tapped an old
coal mine and have lots of, water now for the livestock. Will
tide us over the dry spell probably.”
“We still have no garden in, it is so dry we hated
to plant the seed. Our spring is so slow, three weeks be
hind; our trees are just now leafing out. We still have our
oil furnace burning all day and. night,”
A look around at Lancaster County’s beautiful
spring makes one more conscious of how drab a Spring
could be or did Summer arrive without Spring?
SOME SCHOOLS IN TIGHT SPOT
New school facilities are being constructed all over
the country, and Lancaster County ranks among the best
in this program. Yet some plants are inadequate before
they are opened.
One near Philadelphia was constructed and opened
just two years ago It was built to accommodate some 850
students. Today it is serving more than 1,700. Intended as
a junior and senior high school, it must accomodate several
grades until construction can be started and completed on
new elementary schools.
It’s a rambling structure, on 60 acres of land. The
old trees flanking the lane of what was once a beautiful
farmstead, still stand. Corridors without end confuse the
visitor.
After an expenditure of two, three or four million
dollars, it has already been deemed inadequate, yet the de
signers knew this might arise. Separate buildings, linked
with halls, provide grassed patios and room for expansion
without altering the original intent of the architect.
Schools face a problem. With districts being merged
and integrated under jointures, innumerable arguments
have arisen on where the new buildings are to be situated.
Workmen, finishing one building for September use this
year, are ready to move equipment to a new site where
ground is being broken.
The day of the one-room school is disappearing fast,
and students of a decade, two or three ago, can but look
on amazed.
DRAMATIZING THE MANURE STORY
Some timely reminders about the value of the barnyard ma
nure ciops are offered by a farm machinery manufacturing con
cern, which tells the manure story in these dramatic terms: De
pending on how well it is managed and applied, manure on the
average is worth from $5 to $lO a ton . . Each time you trip the
power manure fork into vour spreader, just imagine you are hand
ling two cusp dollar bills on that fork . . . The value of the
state of lowa’s manuie crop is estimated to equal the combined
worth of the oat and hay crop. . . .
Manure is just about as perishable as fruit, so handle it ac
cordingly . . Don t underestimate the value of the liquid part,
it contains about 40 per cent of the nitrogen and 60 per cent of
the potash found in manure ... If purchased as commercial fer
tilizer, the urine fiom a single cow in one year would'cost over
Sio" ' .If the manure from a litter of pigs was all returned to
the soil, one might say that at least two pigs from the litter were
raised free on the extra feed resulting from plant foods returned
bv the lattei as manure, proving that animals pay part of their
own way . Of the 1,000 or so pounds of nitrogen contamed in
1,000 bushels of corn, some 750 pounds are returned to the soil
in the foim of manure.
Yet, it is estimated that farmers lose about half of the na
tion’s manure crop eveiy year through careless handling . . .
Over a billion tons at from $5 to $lO a ton, divided by two. . , .
Well you figure the loss. (Corn Belt Farm Dailies)
STAFF
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS AGO (1906)
By JACK RICHARD
Shad Crop Complete
(Failure 50 Years Ago
The shad crop was a complete
failure half a century ago, not
only along the Susquehanna
River, but wherever the most
toothsome of all fresh water fish
were known. It was claimed
that not a single fisherman
could be found in Delaware
County who made a profit dur
ing the 1906 season In former
years it was an average day’s
catch to land from 10,000 to
15,000 Shad at the Chester and
Marcus Hook wharves, but
1906 the entire season's catch
fell below those figures At a
conference at New Castle, Del
May 19, 1906, between U. S Fish
Commissioner Titcomb and fish
omen of Delaware, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, steps were
taken bring the attention of the'
shad failure to the Legislatures
of those states and to Congress
The fishermen attributed the
loss of the shad to disturbance
of the waters by dredging opera
tions, and the injection of sew
age and poisonous chemicals
from industry.
Publisher
.. Editor
2,000 Persons Attend
Ephrata Love Feast
The semi-annual love feast of
the German Baptist Brethren
Church was held at Ephrata. The
all-day session, including dinner
and supper, was held at the Moh
ler'Meeting House, with approxi
mately 2,000 persons attending.
Many who came from distant
points slept in the loft of the
meeting house following the
close of the evening service. A
number of ministers of the de
nomination from Berks and Lan
caster Counties were present.
Following the washing of feet,
supper was served and conduct
ed as nearly as possible to the
description of the Lord’s Last
Supper. The meal consisted of
lamb soup, a yearling lamb hav
ing previously been killed and
prepared in the basement of the,
building When all had partaken,
the leader broke bread and pas
sed it around the table aft
er which a cup of wine was
passed
Chicago merchants, through
the Chicago Commercial Assn.,
announced a corn exposition
would be held in that city for
Sept. 29 to Oct. 13, in 1906.
The association had voted to
spend $50,000 on the show.
In Lancaster County, R D.
Herr, of Refton, was showing’ a
lemon he had plucked from a
tree at his residence, which
measured 14 and 16 inches in
circumference and weighed one
and three quarter pounds.
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Made Pies, Cherries Picked
52 Years Before
Mrs. Samuel Kauffman, Johns
town, Pa., made pies with cher
ries she had picked and dried
in 1854. According to the Johns
town Tribune, the pies baked
by Mrs. Kauffman, m 1906,
were as delicious as though the
fruit were but a seasons growth”.
The Tribune explained that it
was customary to dry and pre
serve fruit before it was canned
by housewives in the mid 1800’s.
25 Years Ago
25 YEARS AGO (1931)
Over 225,000 Seedlings
Planted in County
According to District Forester
E. L. Brouse, orristown, Pa-,
more than 225,000 seedlings and
transplants were secured from
the State Department of Forests
and Waters for reforestation in
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Lancaster County during the
1931 Spring planting season It
was reported that 57 persons,
firms and organizations in all
sections of the county planted
trees on waste areas and poorly
stocked woodlands that,. year.
Most of the trees averaged 'six
to eight inches in height and
were largely white pine, red
pine, pitch pine, Scotch pine,
Norway spruce, laich
which ash and black locust. The
largest number of trees shipped
into Lancaster County was re
ceived by the Pennsylvania wat
er & Power Co, Holtwood. Nagle
and Heftzog, Ephrata, who own
ed a farm in West Cocalico
I Township, set out 22,000 tree's,
bringing their total during a
lour year-period to more than
100,000 trees. Christian Herr,
Elizabethtown, planted 15,000
and Marvin Bushong, Quarfy
ville, planted 8,000 on his prop
erty in Eden Township.
According to Dr. F. P.
Weaver/ head of the Pennsyl
vania State College Dept, of
Agriculture Economics, taxes
paid by Pennsylvania fanners
in 1930 amounted to 38 per
cent of their net income. Dr.
Weaver stated: “Much of the
excessive taxation borne by
farmers is the result of real
estate carying too large a
share of the total tax burden”,
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Kaclcrronnd Scripture Acts 11:19-*
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Problem Church
Lesson for May 20, 1956
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THERE are two different kinds
o 1 problems with children, as
every father and mother know,
One is the kind of problem you
have with a sickly child, who has
allergies, won’t play or sleep
the way a healthy child should;
perhaps a retarded child. The
other is the kind
of problem you
have with a child
who seems some
times to be alto-
gether too heal-
thy ; growing too
fast to keep up
with, noisy and
hungry: perhaps
ahead of hxs grade
in school. The Dr. Foreman
problems of growth may be even
more difficult than the problems
of illness: but all the same, the
problems of development are more
to be desired than the problems
of decay.
Will the World Swallow the Church!
The Christian church at Antioch,
one of the great cities of the world
at that time, had its problems;
but they were all the kind of prob
lem that goes with growth Dr. C
R. Eidman in his book on Acts
points out that in this church we
meet with four new things: a new
name for the believers (Chris
tians), a new kind of church (of
which more presently), a new
leadership, and a new center of
missionary activity. Another new
thing, which mdeed was the mother
of the others, was the new kind of
city in which the church there
found itself. Up to the time the
church began in Antioch, the larg
est city where there-were sizable
groups of Chustians was Jerusa
lem That was a city which, so to
speak, made religion a specialty.
The long-time religion of Jerusalem
led right up to Christianity. But
what about Antioch. That was a
pagan city, religions of many
kinds flourished there, and none oi
them led up to Christianity at all.
If the environment at Jerusalem
was partly favorable to Christian-
Devotional Readier: Galatians 6:1-10.
Forest Rangers Kill
Off Wild Horses
In New Mexico forest rangers
were enlisting the Jennez In
dians to kill off wild horses Jn
the Cerro del Pino and Bear
Springs regions But to gain
their cooperation, the rangers
also had to educate the Indian
as to the advantages of horse
meat: Some of the “educated”
Indians did not take kindly t«
the idea Up to 1931 the hunt
had not been successful, De
cause the horses had to be hunt
ed on foot and were wilder than
deer. However, the governor
and council of the Indians
agreed to cooperate.
Farmers Suffered Record
Fire Loss In 1930
According to the National
Fire Waste Council, during 1930
farmers suffered the greatest
fire losses in agriculture history
up to that time. The total loss
was reported about $125 million,
as compared with an average of
$lOO million in normal years.
The unusually heavy fire loss
that year was attributed largely
•to thq, drought, which increased
the common farm hazards such
as highly combustible buildings,
isolation from the protection of
adequately equipped, fire com
panies, and general lack of fire
quenching facilities.
The A. F- L.-C I. 0. Executive
Council has called for a new
round of “substantial” wage in
creases this year to expand pur
chasing power.
Ity, the atmosphere of AhtloclC
seemed more than likely t«
■mother It. Religion In that city)
was what it is for some cities to*j
day—not by any means the mosty
Important interest. Antioch was a'
big business town, « central city!
for trade and transportation. Pea*;
■pie were-much-more interested A
. getting rich, than they were la
religion. I
Uncongenial People
One of the problems, new at An
tioch, was whether it would ba
possible to include in the tarns
church groups of persons so dif
ferent as the Greeks and the Jews.
That had not bothered the Pales
tine church, because there the var
ious races and nationalities kept to
themselves. The Jerusalem church
was all Jewish, i the Samaritan
church all Samaritan, and so on.
But m big cities people mix and
mingle pretty freely, and so it was
in Antioch. Would different'races,
backgiounds, and so on, mix in
one church'’ Somewhat to Barna
bas’ surprise, maybe, they did.
When Christians are really what
they aim and claim to be, the
church becomes the “fellowship of
the uncongenial.’’ People who or
dinarily have nothing in common,
discover that if they have Christ
m common, they are bound by a
tie stronger than any other m the
world.
Leadership
When Barnabas went up there
to Antioch, commissioned by the
church in Jerusalem to look around
and use his judgment about what
to do, we read that he “saw the
grace of God and was glad.” But
the grace of God, in man or church,
does not iron out all the problems.
We have to think. And Barnabas
must have thought long and hard
about one problem which concerns
every church large or small: lead
ership. Barnabas could easily have
taken on a smaller church; but
that one at Antioch was just too
big for *one man, any one man.
He could have picked up some
assistants there, no doubt, and
stayed as top man; or he could
have invited in one of the Jeru
salem leaders. But he needed
more than raw “chaplain's assist
ants ” And the Jerusalem leader*
would have felt pretty strange In
an inter-racial church. So Barna J
bas took a rather difficult trip, all
the way to Tarsus in Cilicia, just
to get a man he had never forgot
ten; the then unknown (or, 11
known, suspected) SauL The fu<
ture of a Church depends on it*
leadership. Blessed is the church
with a pulpit committee as wise
and far-seeing as Barnabasl
(Bu(l on outline* npytifUii by th*
Division of Chrlitlan Education, Na
tional Connell of th* Chnreh** ot Cbrlnf
la th* U. S. A. miunl hr OmnnnMr!
Frau honrlc*.) J
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