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
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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.
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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”
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25 Years Ago
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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<tj
not heard of the Aucas before. In-;
deed most American church mem-j
bers had never heard of them. But'
the point is, some Christians had,]
and to hear was to want to go and]
tell them the story of Jesus. Now.
there are five dead missionaries,
and five widows . . . but it is safe)
to predict that some of these willj
go back, and others will follow,]
and one day it w*l be as safe toi
live among the Aucas as it is on
your own street. You cannot stoy
the pioneers. j
A world religion l
Why has the Bible been trans-j
lated into so mariy hundreds oC
languages? Not for fun,- They don’t
first translate the Bible into (say)i
Mayan) and then start looking forf
some Mayans to try it on. It is thaj
other way around First some mis
sionaries go to the Mayans, and
they win some to Christ. And then
both the missionaries and the new
Christians want a Bible m the lan
guage of the land, so some one
starts to translate it into Mayan,
and after some years of hard work
there appears a Mayan New Tes
tament. Some day the Old will ap
pear too. Every'translation of the
Bible is evidence that mission
aries have been at work. 'lf the
Christian religion had stayed
where it started (it would have
died, but let’s suppose it lived)
there would be no English Bibles,
no Latin, no French, only some
obscure dialect of Hebrew. The
existence of Bibles in English
points to the work of missionaries
centuries ago who brought not only
culture but religion to our wild
ancestors.
Miles are made of yards ,
We talk about the spread of
Christianity,-and indeed it has
spread around the world. But it
never spreads any farther at one!
time than from one person to one
person. Drop a stone'ujto a pond
and presently the ripples reach
every shore. But the first ripple is
hardly bigger than the stone. Ev
ery road, no matter how long, is
.made up of very short stretches.
Every mile is made of yards,
yards are made of inches. You
can’t cover ten thousand miles
without covering every inch of all
that distance. A plain church
member calling on a neighbor
and saying a good word for Jesus
Christ may not feel like a ■“world
Christian”; but that is what he is.
If the world is ever Won fob Christ
it must be man by man. No less
a person than Billy Graham has
said that the most effeetivfc kind of
evangelism in the world is visita
tion evangelism: one plus one plus
one.
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