4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 23. 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryvilie, 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 CASUALTIES IN FARMING Those in Lancaster farming find it hard to believe farming is one of the most dangerous industries. Headlines tell a different story. Farm Safety Weeks pass, with some influence, hut the greatest impression unfortunately comes when a neighbor, friend or-relative is injured in a farm mishap. The National Safety Council has listed what it calls its Ten Commandments for Farm Safety. Here they are: 1. Keep machines in good repair. Make sure your equipment is in safe working condition. Keep all guards and safety devices in place. 2. Operate tractors safely. Start tractors smoothly and turn corners slowly. Avoid ditches, banks and soft ground. 3. Know and obey all traffic laws. Be a safe, care ful driver and drive a safe car. 4. Be firesighted, don’t smoke around the barn 'Don’t start fires with kerosense. Be careful with matches. 5. Speak to animals when approaching them. Ani mals may holt if startled, so calmly assure them when approaching. 6. Be a good housekeeper. Keep things systematic in your home and on your farm. Have a place for every thing and keep everything in its place. 7. Watch your step to prevent falls. Keep ladders in good repair. Make sure barn floors have no treacher ous holes. 8. Follow safety instructions. Reading and heeding printed instructions can save your life. 9. Know and obey water safety rules. Don’t swim alone. Know the depth of water before diving. Sit still in boats 10. Apply first aid promptly. Keep first aid kits handy and know how to use them. To this you might add a statement from the director of the Council’s farm division, Maynard Coe: “Mental alert ness, know-how and a commonsense attitude toward farm safety are more essential to safety in agriculture than a long list of rules or regulations. ' Everybody likes to refer to the good old days, ■whether they be a couple of years back, a few decades,’ a half century or more. There’s an item in an 1889 paper that catches our eye, in the manner of reporting and in the subject too: A blight has fallen upon the young men of Fort Madison, lowa, because of an unusual accident that occured on Tuesday to Miss Theresa Krunkemy er, the leading society beauty, the best waltzer and the loveliest girl of the village. This is the height of the stilt season here. Everybody possesses a pair. Miss Krunkenmeyer’s brother, George, aged 17, left his stilts in the yard, and his sister essayed to walk upon them She climbed the fence, and, after buckling her feet carefully into the foot rests, started down the gravel path. She did very well for some time, but the pace soon became too fast for her and, losing control of the stilt handles, she plunged through a flower-bed and was finally thrown through a barbed-wire fence, striking her left leg upon a post and fracturing it. She was picked up by tender hands, and carried into the house, and the doctor found a compound fracture four inches above the knee. The limb was set with great difficulty. Recalls our early experiences with stilts, the chal lenge to soar to greater heights, the tumbles and bruises that resulted therefrom. That’s probably why we look with askance on the daredeviltry of youth today. STAFF .; Publisher Editor Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director GOOD OLD DAYS 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD A Pulaski County, Ind., syndi cate, in 1906,, devoted a 2,000 acre farm to the cuture of mint. It was stated the product de manded a black and mucky soil, such as a drained swamp. The company was capitalized, at $BO,- 000, with a relatively large amount of the money earmarked for the construction of a labora tory and refinery needed in the preparation of the mint. The re turns were estimated at $2OO an acre when in full tilth. A Lancaster farmwlfe, Mrs. George Helm, of Landisville, suffered three broken ribs when her wagon upset in a runaway and a stove fell up on her. Jacob Gehman. 20. son of John M. Gehman, near Bowmanville, Becknock Twp, Pa., met death in the barn stable that morning while placing the harness on a mule. The father had left home at midnight to attend the early morning Reading market. He was’ notified of his son’s death and returned at once, to the farm. Tobacco dust was claimed to be the best preventive of damage by the striped b'ee / ties which attack cucumber, squash and melon vines, a half century ago. A mid-west company with a capital stock of $lOO,OOO was organized for the pur pose of manufacturing paper from corn husks and stalks. Based on experiments, it was declared the process was feasible. * * U. S. Forest Service Reports On R. R. Ties A pamphlet issued by the U. S. forest service of the Agri culture Department gave an in teresting report on the number of cross ties used by the rail road companies ip this country in 1905. Of the 80,051,000 ties used, 36 per cent were used in' the construction of new tracks. About 75 per cent of the ties were of oak and white pine, with cedar, chestnut, fir, cypress' and hemlock supplying the re maining 25 per cent A Pennsylvania farmwife of 50 years ago offered the follow ing recipte for preserving sweet corn; “JBoil corn on the ear till milk sets, cut from cob and mix thoroughly with salt at the rate of one pint of salt to four of corn; pack in jar and cover .with cloth and plate. Salt should be soaked out before cooking. Corn preserved in this way keeps its flavor remarkably well and is also tender” si * 1 25 Years Ago * V i 25 YEARS AGO (1931) Twenty-five years ago.several farm families emigrating from ouisiana to Pennsylvania were stranded in Lancaster County- District Attorney Hosterman learned that John K- Hartman, Lancaster, had persuaded resi dents in the Leesville and Lano areas through a letter-writing campaign to join him in a co operative community which was to raise fruit on a large farm he claimed he owned at Pequea and to use the products in mak ing pies at a bakery he owned in ”Lan6aster. Investigation de veloped that Hartman owned neither farm nor bakery. Arthur Brisbane Predicts Doom of Small Schools Arthur Brisbane, prominent columnist back in 1931, in a commentary on schools, pre dicted the doom of the small rural schools. He stated: “Con solidation will make one large school of many small schools. That is necessary, in these days of. efficiency, economy and mo tor buses for school children. But it is. a pity. There is value in the 161,531 tiny schools-scat tered over America, each with its wood-box outside the door, its patient teacher and small group of children. The bigger boys that sat outside on the fence until the last minute, and swallowed their lunch whole, to have more time?-for baseball at “recess”, often amounted to something later on. At least they could spell, add, subtract, and divide. They lived in the country, saw the sky every day, went barefooted and caught tur tles in Summer, read Dickens and put'firecrackers under milk cans, all useful parts of educa tion ” Soviet diplomats have indi cated that Pan American Air ways may be permitted to fly schedules to Moscow Scripture: Acts 27*28. Dsvstlonal Reading.; Psalm 67. Widening Circles Lesson for June 24, 1956 THE doctor who wrote what we call the book of Acts must have known that his story was not the whole story. He throws pis spot light first on one leader, then on another; occasionally on a whole church. During more than half his book he follows 01 Luke could not have supposed— for his friend Paul would not have let him make such a mistake— that the story of Paul was the whole story of the church. But he knew that it is men who make or. Foreman history. Paul was both outstand ing, and typical. He was outstand ing in that there is no record in the New Testament of any leader as great as he. He was typical in that for him as for others, Chris tianity is not a quiet stand-still religion; it must move.' Pioneers In the book of Acts the reader sees Christianity moving always in one direction: west. It has been going west ever since. But there were already pioneers m other di rections. To the north vent mis sionaries into the countries now known as France, Holland, Scan dinavia, Great Britain To the south went the pioneer Christians who* founded the churches along the southern side of the Mediter ranean and even penetrated up the Nile. To the east went pioneers who brought the Gospel to what is now Iraq. It was not long before there were Christians as far away as India. The Book of Acts closes with Paul in the world-capital of Rome But the story of the Acts of the Holy Spirit through the Christian church is still being told It is an unfinished story. It will always be an unfinished story so long as there are persons yet to be won. Life Magazine carried a »tory about the martyrdom of some young missionaries -to the 'Aucav d' trib ' ' m dark-' Twenty-five years ago this week John A. MeSparran, State of Agricul ture, officially opened the annual Lancaster fat stock show. The trend of the mar ket in 1931 was toward the baby beef type and MeSpar ran urged feeders to buy and prepare for the market the highest type of that stock. Gene Tunney, returning to America after extensive travel ing in Russia, had the following to say 25 years ago this weke “There are in Russia 30 million young' people under twenty seven years of age that know nothing but Communism. They have been brought up breath ing the atmosphere of Commu nism as their' ideal, their reli gion. They would die for it, a» any Mohammedan would die for his faith They do. not know what you talk about, if you dis cuss anything opposed to the modern theories of Russia.” Witkin bill regulating the sale of firearms in Pennsylvania was signed by Governor Pinchot. Under its provisions dealers in firearms were required to pay a ten-dollar license fee v annually. They also were forbidden to le liver weapons to persons under 18 years of age, ha’bitual drunk ards or persons mentally defi cient. Purchasers were required to pay a fee of 50 cents for a. license, which was to be issued by the local chief of police or the county sheriff, and estab lish good reasons for the re quest. esVEcuador. It is safe to say thafc most of the readers of Life ha