4 —Lancaster Farming, Friday, Aug. 17, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by
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Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378
Lancaster Phone 4-3047 ,
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Quarryville,-Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
Lancaster County Ranks High
More records agriculturally are being stacked up by
Lancaster County to truly label it the Garden Spot of the
United States. Amazing it is that the fields are sovaned.
Other competing counties may shine in one division alone,
but Lancaster County’s position is more widespread. Some
have been itemized in Lancaster Farming. Other reports
come m day by day, so a review is not out_of place at the
moment;
Among the top 100 counties of the United States in each
division, Lancaster County stands nationally
1, second in number of chickens four months old and
older;
2, third in poultry and poultry products sold,
3, sixth in chicken eggs sold;
4, 13th in chickens sold;
5, 87th in turkey hens kept for breeding,
6, 40th in turkeys raised;
7, ninth in total number of cattle and calves sold;
8, 11th in value of 1954 cattle-calf sales;
9, 18th in cattle and calves on farms,
19, 7th in dairy products sold, $16,657,000 in 1954;
11, 11th in milk cows on farms, with 58,267;
12, 11th in whole milk sold, 394,545,000 lbs, valued at
$16,608,707, or 7th in value for the nation;
13, seventh in horses and mules on farms, 7,853 for
Oct.-Nov. 1954, against 16th place in 1950 with 10,122.
On and on the record could read. More agricultural
facts may be revealed by the US. Department of Com
merce, more records may be established for Lancaster
County.
Following the seasons through their 12-month pattern,
the newcomer to Lancaster County still finds the County
amazingly beautiful in all parts of the year.
Green fields, contoured rows, the various phases ol
harvest, the miles and miles of timbers, neat farmlands,
excellent appearing buildings, a case of thriving agricul
ture. There have been deviations in the weather pattern,
first a lack of necessary rain, then an abundancy r a mild
winter sparked with some heavy snow and drifting, iced
highways and a demand for careful driving.
- What season’s the best? Even after a year, that is im
possible to determine. There’s something wonderful about
each, but to watch development of the crops from plowing
to harvesting, onfe finds something most heartening, some
thing that makes Lancaster County truly outstanding.
This is not to be read by the younger generation, the
school-going crowd, which soon gives up the pleasures
of vacationing to return to what they consider the dull
classroom There is a faction among this group, we don’t
hesitate to say, which is happy to see school open again,
as the pleasures of summertime develop into harvest
work
There’s much shopping to be done, new clothes, new
togs tor the classroom, A new lunch-pail was among the
items purchased in our day, but this is being replaced by
school cafeterias Books too are furnished by the school
system as a rule'today
College enrollments are at new records, and classroom
facilities in many cases are inadequate, despite one of the
most extensive expansion programs in many a year
There’s a greater opportunity for the high school gradu
ate of today to attend college, if he can gain admittance
in budgeted eni oilments
Pop was never sure his daughters got their dollars’
north out of college, although they worked several years
m teaching after getting their degrees Some, he con
tended, went to college ust to get a tuisband Types
change, daughters don’t.
Today the supply of well'educated prospective wives
is at an mgh.
STAFF
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Directed
One Year
Back to School
50 Years Ago
This Week
50 YEARS A(*o (1906)
By JACK REICHARD
POTATO GROWER SOLVES
WEED PROBLEM
A Western potato grower
claimed he had solved the prob
lem of weeds which usually
went to seed in his patch atter
the potatoes were ripe by sow
ing buckwheat just as the vines
began to die. He declared he
planted his potatoes a good- depth
so that little hilling was neces
sary, cut the buckwheat when
ripe and later dug his potatoes.
He explained this gave him two
crops from the same piece of
land, and at the same time he
had the satisfaction of having
his field kept free of weeds
Publisher
.. Editor
On the Lancaster farm of
Alfred Fisher, New Provi
dence, was grown a potato
curio, consisting of five white
potatoes grown together. The
center one and three of the
ones attached were large and
about the size of a walnut.
The unusual growth was on
display at the office of the
Quarryville Sun, 50 years ago
this week.
Across the sea, in Switzer
land, over 5,000 peasants fled
from the Val Vedasco section
on the Swiss Italian frontier,
during a severe storm on Lake
Maggiore. The superstitious vil
lagers declared that they had
seen an angel in the sky point
ing a finger at the. valley. They
believed ' that the valley was
doomed and m great terror, fled
from their flourishing orchards,
gardens and fields, which were
deserted, acording to a
patch from Geneva.
SECRETARY INSPECTS
PACKING PLANTS
In Nebraska, Secretary Wilson
of the Department of Agricul
ture, inspected the meat pack
ing plants in South Omaha with
out the owners knowing about
it. Wilson, unattended and with
out registering or disclosing his
identity, arrived at a local hotel
and drove alone to the packing
plants He said later - “I have
inspected all the packing plants
and found them in good condi
tion. I will go from Omaha to
Minneapolis ”
25 Years ,Ago
25 YEARS AGO (1931)
The sixteen 4-H Girls’ Clubs
of Lancaster County held con
tests at Williamson Park and
were attended by more than
100 persons. The Clay group
scored the highest number of
points in the contests on the
all day program, and were
awarded a silver loving cup
by Mrs. J. R. Cassel, presi
dent of the Pennsylvania So
ciety of Farm Women.
A novel feature of the af
ternoon session, with Miss
Mary Brubaker presiding, was
a “Press Revue’’ in which the
girls dressed in clothes of their
own making and paraded be
fore the ludges and assembly
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DUCK’S BLACK EGGS
UPSET SCIENTISTS
For /ears white duCks had
been laying white eggs And
scientists didn’t get excited
But in 1931, New Jersey poul
tiy fanciers did a lot of fancy
talking about a black duck that
was laying black eggs
The duck was owned by Mar
vin Snowhite, fifteen, of Bridge
town, and had laid four black
eggs m a row. Marvin was so
excited, he broke the first egg.
A hen was -sitting on another.
A third was being exhibited and
on Lancaster Farms
the fourth was opened and
cooked It was just like other
eggs.
How would you like to plow,
harrow, plant, weed and seed
your ground water, and feed
your mules, mend your har
ness. pick your cotton,, haul
it to market, and get $290
in full payment for your year’s
work? Well, that’s what the
average cotton farmer hi the
United States got in 1931.
Twenty five years ago this
week, (he Chevrolet Motor Com
pany announced “20 beautiful
models at prices ranging from
$475 to $675 F. 0.8. Flint, Mich
BUZZARD GANG.
MAKES NEWS
Joe Buzzard, aged 70, member
of the famed Welsh Mountain
horse stealing trio, Joe. Abe,
and Ike Buzzard, was again be
hind cell bars following his ar
rest on suspicion in Southern
New Jersey while driving a
horse and buggy which was
stolen from John Kauffman, of
hear Bird-m-Hand, Lancaster
County. According to a record
Joe, himself, had carefully kept,
he had spent exactly 21 years
of his life behind cell bars, up
to August, 1931.
, J.
' Background Scripture t Matthew 0:25*
14: I John 2 28*5*21.
Devotional Reading! Psalm 40
<tT DON’T know, I hope so," is
* the answer you will often get
when you ask some one if he is a
Christian. It’s common answer but
it doesn’t make sense. Are you go
ing to be sick tomorrow? you
descended from WiUiam the Con
queror? Will you ever be famous?
You may well say
“I don’t know,”
for various rea-
i i
sons, to such
questions. But be
ing a Christian is
something differ-
ent Are you one?
You qught to
know. You’re not
a perfect one, you _ „
may not yet even Dr ' Forerna - n
be a very good one It Is ‘ quite
right to say you don’t know just
how much of a Christian you are,
for only God knows that But if you
have ever decided for Christ, if
yon ever accepted Christ as Savior
and Lord, then you are a Chns
tlan-by-intention If you never set
tled that before, you can settle it
before you read another line
“That You May Know”
There is one of the New Testa
ment letters which has as its
theme, “We Know ” It was writ
ten by the same person who wrote
the Fourth Gospel In both the
gospel and the letter, the author
says plainly why he has written
what he did To the readers of the
Gospel, John says, “These (things)
are written that you believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you may have
life in his name " (John 20 31 )
Now there must have been n num
bei of people back yonder, as there
are now, were unceitam whether
they really “belonged as Chris
tians, oi not If you asked them,
“Do you believe'’” they would say
“Yes ” It you asked them, “Aie
you sure you have eternal life’”
they would sav, like their modem
descendants; “I don’t know, I hop**
so " John writes to ]ust such p»n
pie, so that they won’t have t®
give such a timid uncertain an
swer any more. “J write this t/>
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“We Know”
Lesson for August 19, 1956
State Conservation
Society Will TWee
In Millersville
Prof. Clarence Bryriei,
omist at Penn State, hai
attention to the annual (
of • the Keystone Ch<ipi (|
Conservation Society o(
ca scheduled August 17,
at the Millersville State tJ
College. At this x meetmj
Bryner, now vice-pi csidi
unopposed for the chapte
idency.
A special award to j
standing' Pennsylvania
will be announced at the
meeting, in recognition t
servation practices now J
A ballot-by-mail now bej
ducted by Ralph W s
Harrisburg, society s«j
will select officers and di
for the coming year ■
D Joseph Sacco, s>
chapter president, is aidu
program committee in p|r
the event. Committeenie.
V. C. Miles, Coudersport,
M. Wise, Cansle; and I
Graham Netting, of Pittsb
Carnegie Museum.
SAVED FROM CRAS
Union, S.C - John
was throvra through the
shield when his brand m
crashed jmto a railroad
Brady suffered only
bruises, although he was si
of most of his clothing i
was a total wreck.
you who believe,” he says,'
you may know that you hav
nal life." (I John 5:13.)
“By This Ws Know”
You know you have_ a it
looking in the mirror. Yot
you have a farm because tl
is on record at the court
You know you have sixty
in the bank because thi
statement tells you so. But
you know you have eternal
is infinitely more impoitai
any of these things. Knowi
have it is likewise the mo
knowledge you can have Tl
letter of John is not coots
“iVe know”; the apostle got
say why we have every ugl
sure One outstanding reaso
pressed in the sentence, “VI
we have passed fiom death
because we love the bit
(3:14) You’ll not be mud
athlete if you don’t like s
You’ll never make a far
faimers don’t appeal to y
you have nothing to do will
If you are a Christian, fntlu
you will surely love Clmst
you do love them, its i
enough sign for the apostl
Listening to the Word
The reader- will find
other signs by which, Joh
we can know whether "
eternal life This life car
looked at, it cannot be
graphed, weighed or >r 6
Like any other kind of hi'
be known by its effects V’o
a plant is living by the fad
puts out shoots and leav’i
can’t *ut the plant open i
the life, but you can see Ii
way it behaves that it is k'
with eternal life (And bv tl
the reader will note tin
speaks of “having,” not “1
have” eternal life) O n!
point may be noted here J
different ways of expicsd
assurance: We know
passed from death to We
Know he abides in us . • "
we are of the tiuth . . "
that we abide in him ''
that we are of God
knows God ’’ he says G
tens to us ” In other woiJ
who know God listen to o
speaks the Word of God
of a lover is it who wi M c
his sweetheart's love leu ''
kind of soldier is it "I'J
reads nor opens an orde.
superior officer? Who'
sports lover is it who
at the spoils page 7 So ‘ 1
ask. How much of a C l '-' 1
>ne who never leads "
ather in heaven has to
i his Word? God's P
od’s words
ised on ontlinra oopyrjs’I'* 1 '*
vision of Christian
tal Council of the Cburcl <*
the U S. A. Released by
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