4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 1, 1956 —i— 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 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 Lancaster County-farmers are coming out of the slump that adverse weather has tossed in their laps the past few weeks. But it’s a slow, hard, expensive process. Some losses caused by the unusual weather cannot be remedied. Tomatoes are being replanted, promising some delay in harvest, but fruit trees in some sections may not recover sufficiently to produce a worthwhile crop. Very serious threats to crop production have been posed in many sections of the country. Local showers have been strictly local. Parts of lowa are suffering tremendous ly. Northwestern Missouri faces a very serious threat in crops due to a shortage of moisture. One midwestern county found farmers refusing to accept designation as drouth disaster areas since it would reduce their markets and especially reduce land values. Freezing weather this time of year is unusual. De vices of all kinds were put into use to combat the chill. Smudge pots gave a. California-orange-grove aspect to many Lancaster County fields. Old tires were burned to sear away the chill. As always, the weather has just delayed the Lan caster County farmer somewhat. He’s back in there, doing the best he can to meet conditions that are the most un predictable in history. ACCIDENTS $1 MILLION HERE Pennsylvania farm families foot a million-dollar ac cident bill every year, according to a Pennsylvania State University study. “This is out-of-pocket cash and does not include time losses, replacement expense and possible loss of fu ture earning capacity.” one report continues. “The million-dollar loss was estimated on the basis of data gathered from 2,288 Keystone State farms in 48 counties by 1,500 high school boys, members of vocational agriculture classes. They reported a total of 354 accidents from Oct. 1954 through Sept. 1955. Total cash loss from the 354 accidents was $17,500. Most dangerous are October, November, December, and January, most dangerous are Wednesday and Satur day. What’s the solution? The state department of farm and home safety education suggests “Farmers should take a ‘coffee break’ or something similar, especially in the aft ernoon to ease nervous tension and retard exhaustion. The study showed nearly twice as many accidents between the hours of 2 to 6 in the afternoon, as there were between 8 and 12 in the morning.” One slogan that still holds good is, “Farm safety is no accident.” Within the past week or so, scores and scores of high school seniors in Lancaster County said farewell to books and school days. They face a challenge. Some have definite plans, and, one teacher fortunately reports, a good percentage will go on to college. During the summer many will make this choice. For the young men who have finished, there is always the prospect of required military service, the difficult- choice of whether to go into uniform immediately or wait. The world they face is the same as their predeces sors. Conditions are different. Prospects are considerably improved over past years for the graduate. Those who can afford to go to college should be encouraged. The next few months will be the critical point for decision. Our best wishes go with them, may their decisions be the right ones. STAFF BACKWARD WEATHER GRADUATION TIME Publisher .. Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD Band Frighten Horse; So Milkman Sues Ehas Creamer, a dairyman near Norristown, Pa., entered suit in the court of common pleas against the Germania Cor net Band of Norristown to re cover damages. It all started when Creamer was delivering milk m the city on a day the band was playing in front of the Hotel Realtf. Creamer claimed that' when his team neared the bind the drum player beat his drum harder, and the man with the cymbals made such a fear ful noise, causing his horse to become frightened and run away, wrecking the wagon, in juring the horse and spilling all the milk in the street. The band members claimed . they could prove that Creamer drove close to where the band was playing to get his horse used to the music. Jc *|S * Frank Musser, o£ Lancaster, entered suit against the Penn sylvania Railroad Co. for damages- He alleged that he shipped sheep from, Buffalo to Lancaster and the railroad company overloaded the car. resulting in the death of sev eral animals due to over crowding- Musser sued for the value of the sheep lost. * * • Ephrata Youth Smothers In Wheat Bin Walter Leisey, nine, son of Abraham K Leisey, of Ephrata, jumped into a wheat bin and was soon buiied m the shifting wheat, smothering to death, 50 years ago this week. Workmen at the Ephrata Coal and. Lumber Co warehouse, where the acci dent occurred, rushed to the boy’s assistance, but were too late. * * Experiments made at the Cornell University experi mental station in orcharding half a century ago proved that it took more fertility from the soil to produce 20 average crops of apples than to produce 20 average crops of wheat- It was pointed out hat no secondary crops should be grown in the orchard, and that trees should be heavily fertilized where possible- * * 13 Plow Teams In One Field On the Lancaster farm of A- L Herr, of Collins, who desired to get his plowing for corn plant ing over with in a hurry, em ployed the neighborhood farm ers to do the work, 50 years ago this week. The spectacle of 13 plows at work in the 25-acre field was an unusual sight in that section of the county. Fifty years ago this week a large bank barn was destroyed by fire on the Lancaster farm of Martin Oberlin, near Cocali co. The blaze was discovered by members of the family, who managed to save all live stock. All poultry and farm implements were burned. The fire was believed the work of an incendiary. •Jt Farmers Urged To Reduce Household Labor In behalf of the farmwife, farmers who had all the latest machinery and conveniences for doing their outdoor work, 50 years ago, were urged to pro vide the good housewife with labor saving conveniences in doing work within the house hold. A handy supply of water, abundance of dry wood and kindling, ample cupboard room. a first class cook stove, were some of ’ the aids suggested for lightening the burden of house hold duties. 25 Years Ago 25 YEARS AGO (1931) Manheim Rebels On Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time made trouble in Manheim, 25 years ago. In some parts of the town and some public places, a sort of semi-daylight saving was be ing observed, with clocks turn ed on a half instead of a whole hour, while in many homes three kinds of time functioned: in the bedrooms, standard time; on stairways, semi-daylight, and in the kitchen, daylight saving. Bank notes matured an hour earlier in Manheim than they did in Maytown. In another vil lage one school observed one time, the other school the other time and children of the same family passed each other in go ing to and coming back from lunch. In Honey Brook things were still worse, where one con gregation tried out daylight sav ing and later rescinded the ac tion, while another remained on daylight saving. People arrived Background Ssrlptnrs: Acts 15:38 15:22. DsTotlonsl Riadlngi Acts 17:22-31. To the West Lesson for June 3, 1958 IN PAUL’S vision at Troas, his night visitor did not say, “Come over into Europe and help us.” He only said “Macedonia.” In fact, the word Europe does not occur in the story at all. Paul and his con temporaries were not conscious of moving from one continent to an other when they set sail for Macs- donia. Neverthe less it was a no- table move. The Christian church was moving west, and it has never stopped perma- nently-at any frontier. The little party that took Dr. Foreman ship for Safflothracia was only one of countless groups of Christians westward bound. This was the first step in a great march. The Gospel was carried into every country in Europe, then into the Americas. Here in North America, as the settler* moved inland, westward and ever westward, as the frontier moved across the land the church moved with It. Sometimes the church itself did the pioneering, as the Roman church did in Califor nia or the Protestants in Oregon. Moving and Changing Pea vines and people often change when transplanted to a dif ferent soil and climate. So it is with the church The churgh at Antioch was different from the church in Jerusalem, and tha church at Corinth was still differ ent and by the time the church reached Rome and settled there, more changes could be seen. Churches m Northern Britain were not }ust like those of southern Italy. When the church came to Amer ica. there were further changes. To this day, a Presbyterian church in this country will be in many ways unlike the' church of the same name in Scotland. English Methodists and American Metho dists can easily be told apart. A distinguished English Baptist who is now serving in the largest at funerals too-late for the ser vices and folks arrived at weddings an hour in advance of the groom. One Dutchman in sisted if it be economical to save one hour- why not save three and have the entire afternoon for going fishing or shooting craps or “sumthin.” All efforts to have chickens go to roost an hour earlier proved futile, while many -Manheim Township farm ers were charged with eating five meals a day due to the mix-up in time. * ♦ * British Critical Of Russians Twenty-five years ago, when Russia was underselling Man chester, Bntains were shocked to learn the Russians were em ploying slave or convict labor. Russia replied: “Well, you pay your workers just enough to keep alive and keep on work ing- What is the difference?” Russia had sold at Liverpool, 163,000 small bales of cotton, from Turkestan, at $3 a bale below America’s low price, in 1931. A distinguished British economist suggested that .Bri tain and America lend Russia money, thus making it unneces sary for her to dump goods at any price to continue her indus trial plan. The Jun£ 1931 meeting of the Lancaster- County Tobacco Growers’ Association was held at th(T Sporting Hill School house, -near Manheim’, with L. C. Creamer, president of the group, presiding. American Baptist " denomination has said in public how hard It w»i at first for him to feel at horn# here. Even in the Roman Catholle church priests who haye been in America all their lives find soma features of European Catholio churches'rather strange, and vice versa. In America, too, as the church moved west it changed its ways. j Always the Sami I “The more it changes, the more it stays the same,” is a French proverb, which might well de scribe the church of God; It ia quite true, the -church has gone through many changes as it has moved westward with the years, but at heart, when it has had a heart, it has always been the same. (We say “When it has had a heart,” because some churchea have lost heart, or lost their heart, giown cold and died.) It would be quite Vshock for a member of any Amencan church east or west to walk into a meeting of the church at Corinth in St. Paul’s time It would be just as puzzling for a Corinthian to enter any American church—a great cathedral m New York or a country church forty miles from anywhere}' neither oh* would be like his Corinthian meet' mg But the heart of the chuicfc is the same In Corinth, Kansas City or the Kentucky hills, wher ever people are gathered together who love the Lord Jesus, who adore Him as Son of God amt know Him as their Saviour, wher ever those who love Christ are united to serve mankind InHis name, there is the Christian church at worship and at woik. Languages and forms differ, but the spirit of Christ is always the same. Frontitrs of thiFutun When the church reached the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean, had it come to the last frontier? Is theie anywhere else to go’ Ol course there is. Beyond the Pacifi* are two vast continents. The Chn*» tian church has been so busy stretching westward that it has all but forgotten the'“East" —whicli now i* literally our Par West,-. Asia, Africa and the islands ol th* seas are our Christian the frontiers of the future, and th« church is (if yet only dimly)' aware of them. The churchea along these frontiers will be difc ferent from the churches “bacH home’ as ours are different from Corinth and Jerusalem. But th« Spirit will be there; for whereve# there are true churches, them Christ lives and works again. (Bated- an •utllnea oopjrlehted by tka Division of Christian Education, N> tlanal Cosncll of tho Chnrchoa of Christ' (a tho V. S. A. Released bjr Ctmmsnltfj Press Servlet.)
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