4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept 7, 1956 lancaster 1 > Farniing 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 Poultry and Lancaster County Figures from the U. S. Department of Commerce show well how Lancaster County stands in the upper ranks of counties in poultry production. Here are a few highlights from various phases: . Chickens on farms: Lancaster County, second m the nation with 2,825,045, against a national Oct c Nov. 1954 total of 375,800,447, or, in the leading 100 counties, 80,087,326. „ . Poultry and Poultry Products Sold: Lancaster County, third with $20,381,000, against a national total of $1,918,- 936,000, and among the 100 leading counties, $674,003,000. Chickens Sold: Lancaster County, 13th, with 8,481,868 sold, value $7,080,258, still 13th in rank dollar-wise, with the U.S. figure 968,687,652 sold and a 100-leading county total of 506,278,441; national value $698,014,240, for the 100 leading counties, $349,115,718. Chicken Eggs Sold: Lancaster County, 30,200,192 doz ens, sixth in U. S. counties, with a value of $11,951,975, against a U.S. total of 2,654,202,330 dozen, the 100 lead ing counties’ 826,428,774; national value of $916,737,387, and 100 leading county value of $292,860,909. Turkey raised: Lancaster County 40th in U.S., 236,466, with U.S. total of 62,755,842, and 100 leading counties 30,616,270. Turkey Hens Kept for Breeding: Lancaster County, Oct.-Nov. 1954, ranks 87th' in U.S., with 5,112, against U.S. total of 2,277,825 and 100 leading counties, 1,248,230. The importance of the poultry industry to Lancaster County is apparent, more reason why continued, increased support should be given the new Lancaster County Poul try Exchange. Of every 100 industrial and office workers, there are 29 women. Women have always made up at least 50 per cent of the working force of the country, but their work was household and farm work without pay—except, as in the case of Lancaster Countians, where the chicken business was often mom’s. Why are women so prevalent in today’s working force? William R. Gordon, extension rural sociologist at Penn State University, points out five reasons: 1, They have been released for other work because of the diminishing need for them on farms; 2, because changes and technical improvements make homemak ing possible today with less time and effort put into it; 3, because 95 per cent of the energy used by us to day is mechanical; 4, because women have demon strated their competence for the many new tasks to be performed; 5, because they are at work due to necessity. “As to the future,- we may expect to see more women working. There will be more tasks women can perform. In good times, better wages and better job selection attract women. In poor times, women are impelled to try to earn money to supplement an inadequate income in the home. Some women, who might marry otherwise, stay on the job. “Economic affairs in the U.S.A, will be more influenced by what women do and say,” the sociologist advises. Whether that’s new news or not, .we can’t say. The hand that rocks the cradle today may also be a counterpart to wartime’s Rosie the Riveter. New Jersey is reported leading the country in cash receipts per acre of farmland with $195 per acre in 1955. Delaware was fourth with $122, Maryland eighth at $5B, and Pennsylvania tenth with $55. On the basis of receipts per farm, Delaware, region, was first with $13,969, standing third to Arizona and California. New Jersey is fourth per farm with $13,- 542, Maryland 22nd with $6,568, Pennsylvania 32nd with $5,296. The national average is $26 in receipts per acre and $5,505 cash receipts per farm. Lancaster County’s comparison on this basis would be interesting. STAFF To The Women DOLLARS PER ACRE .. Publisher Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago ( This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEAKS AGO (1906) By JACK KEICHARD Back in 1906 .the Lahcaster County tobacco crop was esti mated to bring growers at least three million dollars, a record high up to that year. An esti mate placed the crop at 80,000 cases, grown oh approximately 18,000 acres of land. Agricultur al experts stated the 1906 Lan caster County tobacco crop was about one-fifth of the value ot the entire wheat crop in the State of Pennsylvania, and twice the value of the wheat crop in the county. Prices paid Lancaster Coun ty growers that were from 12 to 15 cents, which aver aged about $166 per acre. Credit for the good prices was given to Congressman Cassel from this district, who was a to bacco grower himself for a quar ter of a century He led tjje fight against the proposal to ■lower the duty on tobacco im ported from the Philippines and was instrumental In its defeat. The president of the Ameri can Tobacco Xeaf Association, holding its annual meeting in Ohio, sent a telegram to Con gressman Cassel, thanking him on his successful efforts in kill ling the proposed Igislation. > V On September 7, 1906, one of the most unusual sales of tobacco on record occurred on the Lancaster farm of Abram Kurtz, at Oreville, where the green leaves were stripped oft the stalk, weighed green and paid for at the rate of 10 cent per pound. The patch was small, less than a quarter __ acre, but leaves were report ~ed extremely large. •jt * * 23,000 Acre Farm In Northern Missouri David Rankin of Taykio, Mo, was listed among the largest farmers in the world, a half cen tury ago, possessing 23,000 acres which were under a high state of cultivation, 16,000 acres in corn, the remainder in hay and gram. He fattened' and market-- ed 9,000 cattle annually and the same number of hogs. ♦ ♦ t Fifty years ago this week the heirs of John H. Brack bill, deceased, sold their Lan caster farm of 94 acres, west of the borough of Strasburg at the price of $124 per acre. * t Cattle Tick Eradication A half century ago Congress approved an appropriation of $85,500 for carrying on the work of exterminating the cattle tick in the southern and some of the western States. Secretary Wil son, of the Agriculture Depart ment, stated in addition to the money an extension of state au thority also was given to the de partment officials. ♦ * ♦ Elsewhere in Lancaster County, on the farm of Wil liam Erb, in the Mount Nebo area, the owner was hauling in tobacco measuring 49 inches in length and 26 & - inches wide, 50 years ago this week. the whole truth We have just learned of an edi tor who started from nothing 20 years ago and recently retired with a comfortable fortune of $50,000. He said it was acquired through the death of an uncle who left him $49,990. 25 Years Ago 25 Years Ago (1931) On the farm of Irwin Mum mer t, Paradise Township, York County, a young bull kicked a lighted lantern from the hand of its owner, resulting in a lire causing $B,OOO damage. A large barn, corn crib and chicken house were' burned. Also con sumed in the blaze were 550 bushels bf wheat, 80 bushels of rye and all the hay and straw of the season. As Mummert was passing a large straw jtack in front of the barn that morning, he yelled, at a young bull block ing his path Instead of moving, the bull kicked, knocking both the lantern and milk bucket from its_ owner’s hand against the stack. The straw quickly burst into flames and immedi ately spread to the barn. > i >* Humans Could Live Forever Twenty-five years ago the learned Doctor Stoklasa, scien tist and radium expert, told the congress of radiologists in Pans that rays may prolong human life indefinitely. Tl\e serious scientist stated; “Alpha rays arrest this deoxidiz ing process, beta and gamma rays reoxidize the tissues, giv ing them new life ” Background Scripture: Luke 22.31* 34, 54-62: James 3-4 Devotional Readings: Psalm 34 13-22. Why Men Fight Lesson for September 9, 1956 IF SOME angel who had never' heard of this earth, or some man from outer space living on, some planet never invaded by sin,, should get acquainted with the hu man race for the first time, prob ably the thing that would astonish them most would be the human hankering for a fight. Here we are, clinging to the surface of a tiny planet, with every reason to hang together; and yet to us who are born here and live here, fights are so common. they seem quite natural. People quarrel at home, they get into arguments on the street, congressmen have to be re strained from fist-fights, business men are always at ona another’s/ throats, labor and management are on opposite sides, and there is even talh about the “battle of the sexes.” A* lor a man the' other day refused flatly to pay a cent of income tax, on the ground that he did not believe in war and he knew that most of his tax would be spent for war, past or prospec tive. Nobody wants the next war, _ but who really thinks it will not, come? The Tonga* Is a Fin Why dq men fight? Let us admit that there may be times when it is good to give battle. There have' been evils, and there still are evils,, which are not going to fold up and go away without a fight. But all the same, everybody with sense admits that a vast amount of the fighting we do, whether in our homes or in politics or business or in the mighty struggles between nations, simply gets nobody any where. Most fights are a sheer waste of energy no matter who wins; and many fights (like our present and future wars) are such that nobody wins. What starts all this mesji? One reason is, people talk too much. Janies, the salty saint who wrote the letter in th Was It Hot? 25, Years Ago? Yes, it was hot, on Lanc d s(, farms that Thursday, Septenih. 10, 1931. The mercury reach 97 degrees, the highest recorj ed during the month of her for 45 years. tw / r A fire believed to have start ed from a spark from an ov ( , heated stove, destroyed a house on the Lancaster farm 4 Peter Gish, Elizabethtown, R d 25 years ago this week. r r On the Lancaster farm q{ J. L. Schmidt, near Green Tree, was grown a cantaloups weighing 12 pounds and me»s ured 32 inches around it lengthwise and 25 inches around it the other- way. Schmidt was an extensive grower of watermelons and C 45, taloupes, 25 years ago. Buttonholes Point Out Suit Quality Neatly pressed, smoothly shap. ed, evenly stitched the fall suit that -fills this bill is a good buy. Bernice J Tharp, extension clothing specialist of the Penn sylvania State University, savs buttonholes point to another mark of quality. They should b ( cut with the gram of the fabric, Bindings of bound buttonholes should be narrow, squared offal the ends, and finely stitched Worked buttonholes are satisfac. tory if made well. New Testament which beais hu name,, put his finger right on it The tongue, he says, is a little thing, but it’s wild. Nobody has ever quite tamed it. The tongue u a fire, it can set the world on fiie It is a flame from heU. Of comse James does not mean that that all talk is wrong. He recognizes hap. pily the good the tongue can do But the tongue does start fignts How many family quarrels would have died a-bormng it only he and she had done one single sunplt thmg: shut up! How many quat rels had started, and how man; made worse, just by people who can’t keep their mouths shut 1 When Hitler was a\iout to set th world on fire, he started by talk ins. long before his armies took the field. Wanting Too Mnoh Plain-spoken Admiral Sims one* told a feminine audience in Boston that they were the chief cause o! war. You have'no limits to your wants, he said. Your husbands have to keep working harder to satisfy you, manufacturers have to keep looking farther and farther for the raw materials to things you want, and presently w get into quarrels with other na tions that either want the same things or don’t want us to have them; and then you have the mak ings of a war. Admiral Sims might have Deen reading the letter oj James. Wanting what we don* have,* wanting what we actually don’t need, he says is a major rea son for quarrels and fights anionf men. Even among Christians, he cause he is writing to Chiistia* 15 ' Was,the Admiral right? The reader who feels like arguing with h*® will have to argue with the write James no less. Cun for Quarnlt James no doubt knew as "’ell >* the Apostle Paul did that it is n 0 - always possible to live at P**' 'with all men. But it is possible cut down the quarrels. The seer is to see things as God sees the Let no one say this is impossih We not only can, but if we are eJ survive we must have what Jar« { calls “wisdom from above.” ™ . he means is nothing weird, out this-world, impractical. ."The ' dom from above is first P ure ’, tO . peaceable, forbearing, concJlI ffl{ ry, full of mercy and who , tfor . fruit, unambiguous, stiaigh ward.” (Moffatt’s translation) Christians would begin by set) the example, both in our h° and in our nations, of cuunp down on our quarrelsome tons and typewriters, and uv f^, aC ! God’s wisdom, the reign ot P would be at least much nearer (Bated on outlines copj fi» Dlrlirton of Christ)mi tlonml Connell of tbs Chnrohes “ In the tl. S. A. 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