4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 27, 1956'
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SOIL BANK DEADLINE EXTENSION
Now extended is sign-uptime for the Soil Bank
regulations governing the 1956 Acreage Reserve Program.
The final date for producers to sign a 1956 Acreage Re
serve agreement is being extended from July 20 through
July 27. The “latest” deadline for disposing of crops on
designated Reserve acreage is being extended from July
31 through Aug. 3. The “earliest” deadline date for dispos
ing of crops to qualify acreage under the 1956 Acreage
Reserve program is being extended from July 15 to July
27. This is a second extension of this “earliest deadline,”
the earliest deadline provided under the original regula
tions was June 30, and this was previously changed to
July 15.
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Committees establish local deadlines for. disposing of
crops on Acreage Reserve acreage, but these deadlines
must conform with the national program regulations
in other words, the “latest” local deadline may not be
later and the “earliest” local deadline may not be earlier
than the deadlines provided under the program regula
tions.
The USDA advises revisions are being made in the
Soil Bank Regulations because some County ASC Com
mittees as yet have been unable to sign up all the farmers
who want to participate in the 1956 Acreage Reserve. It
is also believed that the change in the final “sign-up” date
may obviate possible confusion, since the prior final date
was on the same day as the wheat marketing quota refer
endum being held throughout commercial wheat areas on
July 20
“The above changes affect only compliance with
the 1956 Acreage Reserve Program, and in no way extend
disposition dates for compliance with allotments under
price-support and marketing quota programs.”
Could it be read between the lines although not
openly said that there has been resistance on the part
of farmers to sign up? In the Corn Belt, reluctance has
been offered by corn producers who are uncertain what
the weather may do to their 1956 corn crop. So far pros
pect are not bad, but the crop wasn’t be made for sure
for several weeks yet. In Lancaster County there has been
expected reluctance to sign, with only a handful participat
ing, in a program that applies not to farms of smaller acre
age, farms carefully husbanded with no provisions lor
fallow or idle acres.
Until the day “farm programs” are ended, it is
hoped others will be more seasonally applicable than the
one dropped in the farmer’s lap after planting this year
was complete.
Acording to estimates by the director of the Florida
Agriculture Extension Service, Dr. Marshall 0. Watkins,
it will cost $50,000 to $lOO,OOO to establish yourself in
farming to earn between $3,000 and $4,000 a year.
These estimates may be conservative, when you add up
costs of land and equipment, then plan on several months'
or a year’s operations before you realize any re
turn
Such a paradox has caused many a returning veteran to
choose other lines. Outside of inheritance, most face a
start on a shoestring and a lifetime of indebtedness, un
less you marry the girl whose father owns the farm.
Notice an ad which calls attention to a play show
ing in the Lancaster County neighborhood, “Where’s
Charley?” . . . mased on the musical of the same name.
Someone forgot the musical on which the present play
is based was based on a play “Charley’s Aunt” that did
the rounds lo many, many years ago.
STAFF
FORTUNE TO FARM
COMIC CYCLE
Publisher
.. Editor
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS AGO (1906)
By JACK REICHARD
Theodore Roosevelt
Launches Dollar Drive
' This same week during July,
1906, President Theodore Roose
velt contributed “one buck” to
the Republican congressional
committee campaign fund. The
contribution was made in re
sponse to a general appeal for $1
contributions. Chairman Sher
man, of the committee, made
public the following letter.
“Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 25,
1906
“Dear Mr Sherman I have
your letter of the 24th instant
and/enclosures. I send my dol
lar I think it an admirable plan
and I congratulate you upon the
success that bids fair to attend
the movement. Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt”
Grasshoppers
Mowing Oats
’ In a news dispatch from Al
lentown, Pa , dated July 30, 1906,
it was stated that grasshoppers
appeared in such large numbers
m the northern section of Le
high County that, (farmers,! lin!
order to save the oats crop, were
compelled to harvest it before
fully ripe Many entire fields'
were destroyed by the grasshop
pers before the crop could be
cut, it was stated
Luther Lorton, a farmer near
Springfield, Ohio, was struck
by lightning while threshing
oats and was instantly killed.
Clyde Xanders, a hired man
standing nearby, was knocked
to the ground by the same bolt,
but was not seriously injured.
A writer in a 1906 farm jour
nal declared a dog poisoner and
the anonymous letter writer be
long to the same species of hu
manity. “Cowardly, malignant
and contemptible specimens of
the genus homo In the first case,
one seeks to shirk responsibility
for the things he does, m the sec
ond for fhe things he says.”
Duck Guards
Tobacco Patch
On the Lancaster farm of
Daniel Eckman, near Unicorn, a
drake duck of a selfish nature
stood guard over Eckman’s to
bacco patch The head of duck
dom spent most of his time in
the patch keeping the chickens
and other fowl on the run, for
fear they would get some of the
worms and flies he desired.
H % *
i An editorial in a 1906 weekly
paper had this to say; “It Is
usually the man who suffers
most from a failure to help him
self who takes most stock in the
power of heredity. He is wont
to put great store on the Scrip
ture phrase, ‘The sins 'of th©
father are visited upon the chil
dren unto the third and fourth
generation’; when he should
rather emphasize the profane
maxim ‘God helps those who
help themselves’, and straight
way begin to scratch gravel’.”
si *
Revenue Department
Cracks Down on Creameries
Back in 1906, creamerymep
throughout the dairy sections of
the countiy ran a good chance
of getting in hot water if their
hotter product Contained more
than 10 per cent of water. That
year an lowa firm got into a hot
spot with the federal govern
ment for placing 90 tubs of but
ter on the Chicago market that
showed C 2 per cent water upon
inspection by a revenue depart
ment agent. The firm was fined
$9OO and loss of its license.
WHAT? NO WAMPUM?
PIERRE, S. D. Burglars in
South Dakota are “hitting the
warpath.” Thieves recently
broke into the,Buffalo Gap bar
here and stole three tomahawks
with beaded b—'dles.
25 YEARS AGO (1931)
Twenty five years ago this
week, federal prohibition agents
swooped down on |the Rfteker
Brewery, at Lancaster, and seiz
ed 375 barrels of beer. Two men
were taken before U. S. Com
missioner, K. L. Shirk, and
charged with illegal
ture and possession of intoxicat
ing liquor. They were released
for a hearing in $1,500 bail each.
Lancaster Auto Club
Awards Picnic Prizes
The Lancaster Automobile
Club announced the cash award
winners attending the 1931 an
nual picnic held at Carsoma
Park, Reading Those lucky
were: $5 Gold Pieces - Mrs. Amos
Hebble, Nottingham; J- Wade
Gayley and Peter Ruth, both of
Strasburg; $2 50 GoM Pieces
Ralph W Urban, West Willow
Rl. Walter E Brown, Peach Bot
tomr Alfred C Erb, Quarryville,
$1 Notes H Ralph Kline, Stras
burg; Norman Wood, Peach Bot
tom, C Winfield Pickel, Quar
lyville, James M Howard and
Amos S. Hess, of Gap
Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture, John A. McSpar
ran, was guest speaker at the
July, 1931, monthly meeting
of the Fulton Grange, with 67
members attending.'
Background Scriptural Acts 12:1-5; )
Peter Is 4:12—5 14 _ „ ,
DeTOtlonal Reading; 2 Timothy 2:l-13i
. Of Suffering
Lesson for July 29, 1956
WHAT they did In ancient!
tunes without the muneo'
graph machine it is hard-to imag
ine. II a modern church executive
said to his secretary, “Miss Jones,
take a letter; get it out to all the
Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cap
padocia, Asia and ~ *' sa
Jones would hard
ly know what to
do without a type
writer and carbon
paper at the least.
She might
der, too, what
Christians In
places as out-ol
the-way as Bithy;
nia might have in
common with
Christians In Asia, However, when
Simon Peter wrote his letter, ha
knew what all those Christians
had in common. “Now tor a little
while (he meant, to the end ol!
their lives) yon may have to ant
ler various trials . . Trouble,
trials, affliction, suffering how
many words there are toi it, hoW
many different kinds ot itl St. Pe
ter’s letter, written, so long ago in
Oreek, now In English ha| b fresh
contemporary look about it. For
trials and troubles are vary an-
cient, but they are as
morning paper, they are os uni
versal as ihe human race.
Suffering and Prayer
Christians In particular are both
ered, when they think about suf
fering especially their own or
that of other Christian*—in twd
ways. What is the use of suffering?
and. Why should Christians suffer?
These are the problems which Pe
ter rolls into one problem: What
use Is it to Christians, to suffer?'
He brushes off one kind of suffer
ing—when ona gets into trouble on
account of one’s own wrongdoing.
That is no puzzle. The puzzle
comes when the good man, tb«
Christian suffers perhaps because,
he Is a Christian and for no other,!
reason. One use of suffering Peter;
remembered from his own expe
rience. When he was in fail 4a
Jerusalem, the church held a
Sun Rays Can
Cause A Blaze
That was a warning issued to
property owners in general, dur
ing July, 1931. It was pointed out
that the cause of many fires re
mains a mystery and oftimes
people having a fire are unjustly
suspicioned A case was told
where a number of small car
tons in a warehouse basement
containing disinfectant recepta
cles had caught on fire. Investi
gation revealed the cartons
were close to the glass window
upon which the sun had been
beating for hours with the mer
cury hovering around 95 de
grees
Farmers were urged to be
extremely careful with greasy
rags, which cause spontaneous
combustion quickly under
certain conditions. They also
were asked to keep a lookout
for paper and other flammale
materials in close contact with
window glass, which might
catch on lire from the hot rays
of the sun.
E-Town Kiwanis
Hears of Farm Safety
Joseph A. McCurdy, Penhsyl
vania State University Extension
service Monday night spoke be
fore the Elizabethtown Kiwanis
Club on Farm Safety, as the
Club observed Farm .Safety
Week-
Lancaster County Agricultural
Agent Max M Smith introduced
the speaker Farms today have
become of one of the most hazar
dous occupations due to the fact
there are no safety experts on
the farm, Mr. McCurdy told Last
year 20 Pennsylvamas were kill
ed in tractor'accidents, he added.
about sixteen, both bad been
drinking—beer, she said. The ques
tion is, Why do they do at? What
starts them off?
(Letiing Yourself Go
One answer given by young peo
ple themselves is that they are
after thrills, “a kick." Just being
young is no_L thrill enough, they
have to-jazz it up with alcohol or
narcotics. Let -yourself -go! they
say to themselves. Go on, faster, 1
faster; when all the thrill nature
provides are stale, then go after
the artificial jolts, you pan get
from a bottle or a hypodermic syr
inge.—This is not all the fault of
young people. Older people often
jead them astray. Even teachers
may If* f° r there-is a philoso
phy of education that says, in ef
fect, that a child must never be
made to ,do what he doesn't want
do. “What I want” is supposed
to be the key to happiness. Now
this is precisely the opposite of the
Christian way of living Self-con
trol, not letting yourself go, is al
ways a mark of the Christian life
in every New Testament descrip
tion of it. Life without inner con
trol Is not only a weak hfe, it is
headed for a crash.
Who’s to llame?
Sometimes the blame for young
people's downfall is not to be laid
at- the- door of the traffickers in
drugs. Parents themselves.
|iave never said “No” may be to
ilame. Some years ago a school
(or girls received.this letter from
ft wealthy woman; “My daughter
lias always been spoiledand given
ai much money as she could
spend. She is sixteen years old and
I’m afraid has the wrong view -of
life ... I don’t think her compan
ions are just-the right sort either
... I shall try very, hard to hava
Jier wardrobe proper although Iti
will be extremely difficult because
she has always had very expen
sive and extremely fancy clothes.!
. . . Please advise as to what ȟb-j
i -Jeets she ■ had better take up. II
either Latin or domestic science,
can be taken I prefer D S. because
she knows very little about cook
ing. I am very glad the girls are
requested to keep their rooms in
| order ... It is my wish that my
i daughter becomes what a real
American girl should be. a perfect
wife and mother, and under your
care I hope she -will come home to
| us a different girl." Do you thinkj
I she did? Do you think she couldj
have? If you had been in charge;
of that school, would you have ac
cepted this girl? If she finally
turned out to be an alcoholic or a
i narcotic drug addict, whose fault
would it have been? The Christian
I Way is the harder road—till you
| 'get to the endl ;
: (Bastd -an aatilnes oopyrlchted by
1 Division o( Christian Education, Na-i
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