4—Lancaster Farming,
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
MEAT SUPPLIES AT RECORD AGAIN
Meat production in 1956 appears to be headed for
a new high record of something over 27.75 billion lbs.
That will be three per cent above last year’s production
and 25” per cent above the production for the years 1947
to 1949.
Such is the word given- by Wesley Hardembergh,
president of the American Meat Institute at the 33rd an
nual meeting of the National Live Stock and Meat Board.
Meat consumption is- expected to average out 162
to 163 lbs per person this year, up about one pound from
a year ago.
“The output of federally-inspected beef through
the month of June has been 10 per cent larger than in
the same period last year, with the increase mainly in
grain-finished cattle. . . . Marketings of cows through
April have been about nine per cent smaller than last
year, which, of course, leads to the interprepatation that
breeding herds are being maintained or possibly even
increased a little,” Mr. Hardembergh continued.
As for hogs, “ . . .it seems fairly certain that the
large increases in marketing that were recorded during
the first half of the year up 18 per cent over last year
will slip gradually into minus figures as we come into
the late summer and fall. You probably know that the
estimated pig crop shows an 8 per cent cut in the 1956
spring crop.
Pork production and hog slaughter for calendar
1953 will exceed that of last year
His conclusion is one of which all livestock pro
ducers might well take note: “The trend of the last few
years has been downward as so far as the percentage of
people’s disposable- income spent for meat is concerned.
Whether this will be or can be checked and whether it
will turn the other way, I don’t know I doubt that anyone
does. Under" these circumstances, I think it is clear that
all of us would be wise to pay attention to increased ef
ficient operation producer, feeder, packer and retailer
alike The good job we are already doing must be stepped
up to a superior job.”
Cows and poultry are receiving the psychologists’
couch treatment, and some unusual findings are coming
to light.
It has been known for some time that a newcomer
in a herd of cows often, two kinds of treatment, either
complete shunning, or butted about by the old-timers.
As 'time goes on, and she proves her position, things
work out better, her milk production returns to normal,
and all’s well in bovine social circles --
Behavior studies of chickens and turkeys have
been underway at Pennsylvania State University since
1949, and it has been found certain fertility
plaguing turkey growers are due to differences in be
havior among groups of males and groups of females.
Next in line, .as the animal behavior section ex
pands, work may be done with sheep, hogs, goats and
horses as well as various wild life species. Aspects
such as cannibalism and feeding behavior will be tested
as they apply to the production of meat, milk and eggs.
There’s more to it than a bit of humor. The case
of the melancholy cow, the high-strung horse, the ”cock
of-the-walk” in the hen yard, may have more significance
than was once realized. So let’s pull up the couch!
Friday, July 20, 1956
STAFF
COWS ON THE COUCH
THISTLES ABLOOM
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quickly spread. Only compli-
the thistle is that it’s color
some we’ve seen.'
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50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS AGO (1906)
By JACK REICHARD
Farihcrs In 1906
Urged to Plant Timber
Half a century ago, farmers m
general, were urged to start
timber lots. It was pointed out
that with the very poorest of soft
wood boars bringing $25 to $3O
per thousand, in 1906, and an ex
pected increase of prices in the
years ahead, the future demand
for lumber in America would
bring woodland owners attrac
tive prices. Attention was called
to a central lowa farmer, who
had planted an acre of cotton
wood trees in 1881, its lumber
value was estimated at $l,OOO
to $1,200 in 1906 It was believed
that by 1931, .a similar tract
would be worth between $1,500
to $2,000 Higher prices of all
kinds of lumber was predicted
for the future, and the planting
of generous areas for the use
of future generations was recom
mended
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Octoraro Farmers
In Session
The 1906 July meeting of the
Octoraro Farmers’ Club was
held at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Newcomer, near
Lincoln, Chester County. A large
number of members and guests
attended the morning and after
noon sessions During the fore
noon, the proper procedure for
turning an old peach orchard in
to a permanent pasture, and the
best time to manure wheat stub
ble and to plow the stubble for
seeding to clover, were discussed
Following a dinner-spread under
the trees on the spacious grounds,
the questions, “Can women make
themselves as useful as men on
school boards,” and “Has a good'
director any duties during the
months school is closed?” were
given an airing.
A >
Fifty years ago this week,
Lancaster farmers from a
number of sections in the
county complained of a strange
young woman appearing at
their farms.' It was declared '
the woman called at the house
just before dark, too late to
turn anyone away. She ex
plained' she was trying to lo
cate her wealthy uncle and
offered SlO for a week’s stay
with the family. A few days
later she announced she was
going to the store or post of
fice, when she departed for
scenes of new operations,
usually taking some wearing
apparel belonging to the farm
wife with her. In the Strashurg
area, she escaped being arrest
ed by promising to leave the
neighborhood.
Lititz Has -
Another Newspaper
Fifty years ago this week,
another weekly newspaper, The
Lititz Times, made its bow to
the public,- making three news
papers'in the borough. The new
publication was a fourrpage,
seven-column sheet, full of news
and well printed. Edgar H. Enck
was the editor and John A. Sny
der associate editor.
In a dispatch from an Eng
lish correspondent to the Na
tional Stockman, it was re
ported that a large Yorkshire
sow had farrowed 85 pigs in
five litters and reared 66.
Three times the sow reared 15
giving milk in only nine teats.
Her largest litter was 21. No
pigs were destroyed.
During that same week in
1906, a stalk ot field corn from
the Lancaster farm of I. Galen
Lefever, near Quarryville, mea
suring thirteen feet, nine inches,
with.two large ears of corn, was
placed on exhnt at the office of
the Quarryville Sun.
President Eisenhower recent
ly signed the $33,480,000,000
highway construction will, and
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
promptly announced the alloca
tion of $1,125,000,000 to states.
25 YEARS AGO (1931)
Muskrat Farm
Gets State Approval
Twenty five years ago thij?
week, A. E Rupp, chief bureau
manager of the State Department
of Forests and Waters, announc
ed the granting of a lease for a
muskrat farm, the first in the
history of the department. The
farm was planned by Henry L.
Quick, of Germania, Potter
County, who entered into an
agreement with the state for the
purpose of raising muskrats in a
swamp at the head waters of
Kettle Creek, according to Dis
trict Forester H E. Elliot, of the
Susquehanna State Forest in
northern Pennsylvania The lease
was granted on the same basis as
camp site leases in the State
Forests ‘‘The muskrats were not
consulted”., said Department
Chief Rupp. Muskrat farming
was a prosperous enterprise in
1931, m the '(lake
states and in Maryland, where
the extensive marshes of the
eastern shore were a center for
muskrat fur' production The
animals were said to breed three
to five times a year, with an
average litter of from six to eight
jfmng Muskrats require no feed
ing if raised in their natural
haunts.
Background Scripture: Acts 2:44-471
Hebrews XO 19-25, 11 I—l 3 8. ;
Devotional Reading: Ephesians 4:1-13)
Great Company
Lesson for July 23, 191)6
MAN is not made for loneliness.
He not only feels incomplete
when circumstances force him for
a time to live alone; he is actually
incomplete. It is only through ex-*
istence with others that we arrive
at our trup selves. People who
have never thought this through
know it by a kind
of instinct. That
Is why there are
so many organi-
zations and socie-
ties'and fraterni-
ties and groups of
innumerable sorts
in the world.
Even when an or-
gamzation has no
very Important Dr. Foreman
reason for its existence, its mem*
bars just like to get together.
Th* Great Company
Of all groups of. human beings,
the greatest is the “great com
pany” we call the Church. Belong--
ing to it Is more than joining an
other organization. It is more than,
any denomination, more than any
existing list of members, even'll)
you put all the members of all the
churches into one master-list. The,
writer to the Hebrews, thinking of
the heroes of faith, does not think
of them as past-and-gone saints.
They live now; they are the great
“cloud of witnesses”—the cheering
grandstand, we may dare to say
—in whose presence our own race
is being run. They are living mem
bers of the Fraternity of Faith.,’
All those who have dreamed God’s
dreams after him, all who have
looked beyond their times to the'
heavenly city yet to be, all who;
have toiled to make this world a
bit more like the world of God’s 1
intention, who have by faith seen,
what God promised and greeted it]
from afar; these make up the com
| pany to which every man and
woman is invited; these are the;
light-bearers, the builders, to]
whose fellowship every Christian,
belongs. Men of faith often have
to live lonely lives; they can be
misunderstood, Imprisoned* tor
tured and killed; but they take
heart, knowing that they do -not
Quarryvillc
Cannery Booming
Twenty five years ago M
week, more than 100 -Pciso t 3
were employed at the Quart) »|
vilie Cannery canning boa t ''M
was announced by WC. Cai ‘ls
business manager. Up to July j,
1931, over 4,000 cases of 24 ca ( '%
to the case, had been packe
The crop of beans in the area w, %
expected to keep the plant i
full operation up to August ; 'j,
of that ycar. when the machin tt |
was to be changed over for tl
canning of tomatoes
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Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, v, i{ ( S
of the governor of Pennsyl, J
vania, was chief speaker at the j
annual gathering of Lancastet
County Farm Women at Chest. '"’■i
nut Level. Other speakers m, I
eluded the Reverend W. J. G J
Carruthers, a former pastor
the community, and the Rev. J
erend Rufus P. Bucher, o( 3
Mechanics Grove Church ol 'j
the Brethren. Farm Women A
Society No. 11 presented a ,1
play. ]
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First Hit-And-Run
Was Ox Team Driver
In a 1931 news dispatch ou
of Medford, Wisconsin* it wj
stated that Medford’s fipt “hit %
and-run” driver, who escapet -,'i
apprehension, was the dnvei
a yoke of oxen in 1886, accoid. <
mg to newspaper file recouk 'jM
The record revealed - “A yoke o,
oxen knocked down a little git
on the crossing in front of Bro. fj*
dowsky’s store recently and thf'3|
brute who was driving them die W
not stop to see if the little ont
was hurt *ll
stand aionc.
Marching With the Heroes
For some persons,- precise accu. %
racy of belief is what makes i 1.
good Christian Surely accuracy ol Ji
behef is a good thing. To say thi
least of it, there is no point it >
believing what isn’t so, or not bi "i
hevlng what is so. But from th« %
standpoint of this letter to the He. J
brews, indeed from the standpomi r |(
of Jesus himself, accuracy of bi. 4
lief and completeness of under
standing are not the last word u I
what makes a Christian Faith, u' -i
the way the word meets us in thi ~
famous 11th" chapter of Hebiews,
is not voting “aye” to a set ol |
propositions Faith is doing some ij
thmg for man and God It can bt.|
expressed in the slogan, “Expect ’i
great things from God; attempt -1
great things for God ” Faith ol :
this rousing, robust kind is mon i
than thinking, it is doing. It Is -
thinking too; faith certainly is no
substitute tor thought Reading the
stones of the men and women the ;
writer to the Hebrews lists in his
roll-call of faith, one finds them'.
planning ahead, working, fighting, (t
never blindly but with the detei- ;
mination that comes from a think ■
ing faith Heroes think, plan, be ?
lieve; but also heioes DO It Is
the doing that makes them heioic ,
So the Gieat Company is a mai cit
ing, fighting company, maichi"!-
at God’s orders, fighting God’s
war.
Supermen?
Thinking about such things, and ,
such men, has put iron into tin'
blood o f many weaker men and
women, struggling through theit
own battles on this earth But H
has a discouraging side, too Thesi
men—Abraham, Moses, all th*
rest, and all the others that Chris
tian history can name—these he
roes ol faith were supermen, wi
feel Quite out of our class In su’li,
a company, many a humble Chris
tian feels like a boy who can’t do
simple arithmetic being elected W
accident to a Mathematical Soci
ety, or a boy twelve years old sud
denly finding himself in the mid-,
die of a football game between
Notre Dame and Texas. It’s em
barrassing But no—that is a mis
take. The men named to that Roll-
Call of Faith were not reallj
supermen. Indeed some of them
felt so small that they tried to re
sign before God elected them.
themselves they would have been
no more remarkable than our
selves. For after all, it was not
their faith, or their character, or
their power, that made them; d,'
was the God in whom they had|
that faith, who made them. AndS
God still makes men! !
(Based on outlines copyrighted hy th»j
Division of Christian Education, Ml
tlonul Connell of th« Churches of Chrisij
In the U. S. A. Belessed by CommunUll
Pros* Servlet.) I
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