4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 29, 1956 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 CLOUD SEEDERS SIGNED There are numerous drought disaster areas designated in the United States at this moment. In Missouri, and lowa a contract has just been signed and generators put into action to see if rain can be squeezed or wrung from the clouds Eight counties are cooperating and expense is estimated to be $52,000, under a 12-month contract. Vaporized sil ver iodide crystals are propelled from a generator to the clouds where a chain reaction would be setoff. Cost per farm is estimated at two cents per acre, far below first estimates of six cents per acre. Officials of the lowa Missouri Weather Modification Organization (IAMO) say the Water Resources Develop ment Corp. of Denver calls the operation “Cloud seeding, with the possibility of increasing rainfall 40 per cent.” Lancaster County has been fortunate, compared to those who have had to live and suffer with drouth the past few years. Fortunately there is not need yet for such a move in this section of the country, for which we can be rightfully thankful. It wonders one—who is a recent newcomer to the Gar den Spot—what a wonderful spot the Garden Spot is yet. Arriving late in July, the heat and drought (it was called) prevailing then seemed comparatively wonderful io the hnmidity and heat and dryness left behind Summer finally blossomed and faded into harvest; the snappy nights of fall painted the trees amazingly color ful hues. The nip of winter was not so bad, but it was strange to see snow_so effectively curtail traffic. Out west, roads have been elevated on grades many places to permit snow to blow away Drifting is more prevalent there, with clear spots between. But here there was snow in a solid blanket everywhere Spring came and went quickly, but there were blooms enough for more than one county. Summer’s here, the roses are in bloom, pastures are green and abundant. Some minor mishaps have occured cropwise, but pros pects are good. Couldn’t one but look outside and say all’s peace with the world? MACHINERY AND HIGHWAYS •This is the season when it’s necessary to move farm equipment along highways. It’s dangerous business, de manding' constant care. It’s so easy for a fast moving automobile to overtake a slower running tractor or team, and occasionally, unfortunately, tragic accidents ■ occur. Farm Safety Week is coming up July 22-28. But there’s no reason in the world why farm safety shouldn’t be prac ticed day and night. Especially must be heeded this warning from the Farm Safety Chief in the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction: “Obey highway rules and signs and use proper headlights at night. Whenever possible, keep off the highways at night with farm machinery.” MEASURING MOISTURE There’s a heap of moisture in crops, and scientific measurement today is piling up some interesting sta tistics. Pennsylvania State University reports 53 tons of chopped alfalfa and clover of 40 per cent moisture content were dried by a tiered duct mow drying system. In order to reduce the moisture to a safe storage level of 20 per cent, 13 tons of water had to be removed front the mow. Seventy two tons of chopped forage with a moisture content of 38 per cent yielded nearly 19 tons of water. A gallon of water weighs approximately eight pourlds, hence the hay above yielded about 3,250 gallons oi water, the silage a thousand gallons more. For more amazing figures, you might check on the number of gallons that fall on an acre of land during a one-inch rain! STAFF AMAZING, IT IS Publisher .. Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) ' By JACK REICHARD Pennsylvania agriculture or ganizations were interested in the report of an Ohio agricul ture society, which gave prizes to persons raising the most and best stuff on a quarter acre in 1905 The contestant awarded first place came up with this score Ninety hills of sweet corn Between the hills of the sweet corn were grown 12 hills of squash, 87 poles of butter beans, 45 hills cucumbers, 27 tomato vines and 33 hills lima beans The next low contained beets,'radishes, salsify and car rots, while the next were green parsley, lettuce, parsnips, cel ery, peas and string beans. Sunflowers Introduced In lowa 'During the season of 1906 sunflowers were grown in the state of lowa for the first time in a five-acre tract. The seed was planted with a corn planter and cultivated the same as corn The grower had contracted the entire crop to a seed house lor from $175 to $2 per hundred The seed was used as stock food and was fed to parrots Abraham H. Ebersole, em ployed on the Cassel farm, near Marietta, Lancaster County, was killed in the har vest field. Two mules hitched to the wagon on which Eb ersole was standing became unmanageable and ran away, throwing the young man off. A doctor was summoned and pronounced Ebersole had died from a crushed chest. Pony Devours Young Turkeys A pony belonging to Lancas ter farmer Parke Lutz, near Denver, devoured eight young turkeys before being caught in the act The pony was left in an orchard to pasture and was beginning on the ninth turkey when Lutz came along and called a halt. 1. A news dispatch one-half cen tury ago icported the forming of an offensive and defensive agricultural organization known as the Poultry Vigilance Asso ciation. “Strange enough”, stated the- report, “the news for this did not arise in Texas, Missouri or Kentucky, where chicken stealing is by some classes considered an art, but in prosperous north lowa.” The purpose of the organization was to detect and punish chicken thieves, with a standing reward of $5O for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any guilty party • * Famwife’s Method Of Preserving Eggs A western farmwife who had given the method a test declared that fresh eggs may be effec tively sealed so as to keep them from late summer to the fol lowing spring by simply placing them in a wire basket and sub merging in a kettle of boiling water for ten or fifteen seconds and then quickly removing. She explained the process cooked a very thin layer of albumen, which hermetically sealed the egg and insured its keeping properties. * * * David Bricker, of Lititz, who had been in Cuba for several years managing a large tobacco plantation, had arrived in Lancaster County, 50 years ago this week, and' announced that he Would mot return to the island. ■Back in- June; -1006. 4 motor survey showed -there were 23 automobiles an Elizabethtown, the largest number in Lancas ter County outside the city and Columbia. fit to * 25 Years Ago < ** * ' 25 YEARS AGO (1931) Faimer R Leaman, a Lan caster Farmer of Columbia R 2, caused the arrest of Jack R Wilders, of Lancaster, _on - a charge of breaking into a ga rage ih, the city and stealing the automobile of S. E CargaS, a tailor. Wilders asked if he could store his car in the barn Leaman, becoming suspicious, asked to see Wilder’s driver’s license and he replied that he had none After Wilders left the farm Leaman went in pur suit and reported the case to police. s • » Willow Street Butcher Shop Burns The butcher shop owned by- William Hilderbfand, along the Willow Street pike, 'was, de stroyed by fire together with sev eral smaller buildings, includ ing a garage, woodshed and chicken house Two automo biles in the garage also were Background Scripture Luke 9 28-36; Hebrews 13 9, 18-25 I Peter 1 1-2, 2 19-j C 5, 2 Peter 1 1-2, 15-18, Jude, verses 3, 17-25 Devotional Reading* Psalm 20 Nine Letters Lesson Mr July 1, 1956 Thousands of Sunday schools for the next three months are going to be studying nine shoit but immortal letters These letters aie the forgotten parts of the New Testament, toi many people. Out of the 27 “books” of the New Tes tament, all but five aie letters These nine —from Hebrews to Reve lation inclusive— make up about 50 pages or one sixth of the whole Testament It would be worth the reader’s while to make a special study ol these let ters this summer. Dr - Foreman Peihaps all the teachers in a Sun day school could chip in and buy a commentary or two. Lettors from... No two people write quite alike All letters bear the maik of their writers even when they are un signed, So it is with these nine Some of them aie signed, some are not. But the writers can be told apart without any trouble. If Hebrews and James were printed together without a break, a high school student should be able to notice the difference between them The writer of the first letter is plainly a highly educated man, a man who Is keenly interested in ritual and in the histoiy of the Hebrew people. The writer of the second is less highly educated, but j more practical man all around. Not that his advice is arty better, but he loses no time getting down to particular problems The first man is greatly interested in theol ogy, the Second is so little Inter ested in it that his letter has wor ried some people like Luther, for example, who wondered whether it really belonged in the New Tes tament Or again, comparing He brews with the letters of Paul, the reader can sea why scholars are for the most part quite certain, that Paul -never wrote this one._ls burned. The lLampeter, Willow Street and West Willow fire companies responded and Pre vented the blaze from spread ing to the dwelling house. An overheated stove was believed to have caused the fire. Dr. - Stephen Moulton Bab cock, prominent scientist, aged 87,- was found dead at Madison, Wis.. 25 years ago this- week. Babcock invented the standard buttermilk test ing method which became the foundation of the dairy industry throughout the world. • • * Morris Levy, prominent Lan caster tobacco dealer, died at his home at the age of 80. For 45 years he was engaged in the leaf tobacco business. The firm was known as Morris Levy & Sons. * * • Lititz R 3 Woman Struck by Lightning Mrs. Jonas H. Wikerd, Lititz K 3, was struck by lightning while hoeing near her home. Her clothing was ripped, her shoes torn from her feet and one side of her face and body severely burned. She was re ported in a critical condition. A son, Paul, who was nearby, was not hurt. NITROGEN PRICES CUT Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.’s nitrogen division has reduced the pricy on nitrogen solutions used in fertilizer manufacturing $4 a ton. is obviously written by a different kind of man—one who used a dif-' ferent vocabulary, went at prob-j lems differently, constiucted a let ter differently, quoted the Old Tes tament in a different way; indeed while all of Paul’s letters aie care fully signed, Hebrews is not signed, at all. . . So one may |o through, the rest of these letters seeing the; writers thiough what they wrote.j Letters t 0... , i Letters vary according to the; peilons to whom they aie written., A woman writing to her mother,j her husband, ther tax collector and her boy at school will write four, different kinds of letters. So these nine letteis were wntten to dif-j ferent kinds of people To be sure.' some of them were sent to a pretty) wide circle of readeis (Peter for instance!, but ( even so, that wide circle had something in common: in this case, suffering and perse cution. Is it too much to suggest, that the Christians John has in his' mind’s eye as he writes hiS letters; are much more mature than the' Christians to whom James writes; his plain advice 9 - Now the intern estmg thing is that the various kinds of Christians to whom these; letters were addressed are matched by Christian types today. That is why one Chustian will sometime* get more out of one part of the New Testament, while another Christian finds more meat in an- 1 other part And yet for all the differences there are some ixnpor- 1 tant likenesses, and the noticing reader will find them. Letters about... Few if any of these letters, orj any others in the New Testament,! are about “things in general.”! They usually speak to some par-' ticular problem, situation or trou-) ble. The New Testarrient does not consist of a series of theological essays neatly arranged by topicsj Rather, it consists of fairly shdrti letters speaking to certain specific problems thathad been'distressing; the readers. Some of these prob-j lems emerged in more places thari one at the same time, just as hap-i pens today. In the short passages! selected for special study m most quarterlies, two problems are high lighted, as the reader will find:' false teachings, and persecution.! In these t ,T nes in which we live,! with half the world in a feiihent against Christianity, and even m. the “Chustian” part of the world a bewildering jangle and wrangle! of sects and “ism§" soap-boxingj all over the place—the Christian) church threatened by enemies) without and “crackpots” often-) times within, who can call the New Testament’s theme* out of date? (Base* OB outline* copyrirhtef by tho Division o( Christian Education, tlonst ConnSll 61 the ChhfCh»s of CBflst In tko C. B. A. Relossed by Community ProM-Scrmo.)
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