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4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 14, 1956
|ancaster 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 bf March 3. 1879
September sings a somber song- of leaves ready to
fall but this shaded mood is overpowered by the produce
of field and farm that rolls into the granaries and cellars
in an array of never-equalled hue. ’
Here are a few leaves already giving up their lease;
blight has given premature autumn coloring to others.
But the pumpkins are as round and as orange and as big
as you could ask. Tomatoes are plump and ripe and red.
Whites of sweet corn ears contrast sharply with the green
of stalk. „ J , . . .
Tobacco drying in Lancaster County barns puts into
action colors man can’t faithfully reproduce, a transition
from green to brown that is imperceptible. Nature is care
less in her combination of colors at this season, but there s
no clash No lady would adorn herself in some of the
strongly contrasting shades that Nature employs but
Nature gets by with it beautifully. '
Not all’s rosy in this multi-toned pattern. Toma
toes, in row upon row of red-filled baskets, have moved to
market. Some are still moving to market, finding many
canneries taxed to capacity. Other outlets must-be found
instantly. Sweet corn prices have tumbled, as greater
amounts of the 1956 crop move into trade channels.
There’s a fading in the crisp greens. Night air s a
bit more chilling. An undershading of purples has been
brushed across the mountainsides. Some sumac is already
attired for Fall, with brilliant crimson and livid yellow,
cushioned against the green of pine. ... t
It has been a good year, the harvest is bountiful.
Props have been knocked from some prices, but there’s
always a bright tone in the autumn canvas, like a white
steeple protruding above green and golden leaves, a blue
stream reflecting the coming colors of Autumn . . . a
pleasant peace over the Lancaster County countryside
that hides only the feverish activity of Lancaster farming
at harvest-time.
We were rather amused by a recent report from
the Lancaster County Society of Farm Women No. 11,
where members responded to roll call “What I would do
with a 25th hour in the day.”
; The majority said “Sleep.”
Here we tahe issue with Society of Farm Women
11 Give a farm wife a 25-hour day and we’ll bet that ex
tra hour won’t be spent in sleep. Man, who works only
■ from sun to sun, knows womans work is never done. In
'Hour No. 25, she’ll be dusting, sweeping, cooking or
perhhps sleeping. „ x
• To proye our point, we refer to two days of the
year that are unusual the 23-hour day when Daylight
Savings Time begins, and the 25-hour d&y when Daylight
Savings Time ends. After all’s said and done, the same
routines, the same amount of sleep is attained or lost
whether the day is 23, 24 or 25 hours’ long.
■ There’s a 25-hour day coming up sometime in Octo
ber That’s notification to those who farm from 5 a. m. to
J midnight, that, when Daylight Savings Time is ended, you
can stop the next day and see how much more you ac
'complished in that 25th hour.
Chances are, most housewives will be too busy
{except for that moment it takes to turn the clock back one
i hour.
i one of the primary problems facing the producer of
' dairy and beef cattle—purebred and commercial—is
dwarfism, a subject kept under covers for awhile, but now
• in the open, the subject of one of the most intense cam
paigns ever.
i Purebred beef cattle producers may soon be able to
detect culprits in their breeding herds responsible for
' dwarf calves with a comparatively simple and inexpensive
test, the University of Missouri college of agriculture re
ports.
Insulin injections are used, and, although the tests have
been most encouraging at Missouri, further, extensive
field work in other herds is necessary.
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STAFF
Publisher
SEPTEMBER
25-HOUR DAY
Cure for Dwarfism?
Editor
. Business Manager
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS AGO (1906) -
By JACK REICHARD
Mrs.’ Kate Pavitt, wife of Ed
ward H. Pavitt, was found
murdered in the kitchen of her
home in Marple Township,‘near
Media, Pa. Mr. Pavitt, a farmer,
was away from home from early
morning until noon that day, and
upon his return from Chester,
where he had gone with a load
of market produce, reported to
the coroner the finding of his
wife’s mutilated body.
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A Great Duck Farm.
Ships 20,000 Annually
Fifty years ago the Lancaster'
farm of George Woods, between
Kmzer *and Intercourse, was
noted for its ducks. Although
the property was located along
the Pequea Creek, water from
a strong spring was run through
a spillway into wooden compart
ments for use of the various
sized ducks which were of the
snow-white breed Woods stated,
he shipped 20,000 ducks annual
ly to New York markets, and
the demand was greater than
the supply.
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A census report in 1906
showed there were 3,404,016
mules in the United States
that year, valued at 5334,680,-
520.
Freight Rates Reduced
On Lima Beans
The Lima bean crop was
greater in supply than demand
in 1906. In California, where
rainfall was scanty, thousands of
acres had been planted with
lima beans. The production was
so abundant that special freight
rates were granted to ship the
product from - California to the
Atlantic coast.
A farm wife in Ohio told
how she kept her cabbage
patch practically free from
worms with the assistance of
four young turkeys. When they
were but a few weeks old she
had taken them with her and
held them up so they could
pick the green worms from
the cabbage leaves. She con
tinued this until the turkeys
formed the habit. At her call,
they followed her to the patch,
stood at her side as she open-"
ed the loose heads, and nabb
ed every worm in sight.
Another farmwife had a way
of freshening nuts by soaking
them in lukewarm water. She
declared: “This , applies to all
sorts of nuts, and it is surpris
ing to see how they are improv
ed!”
Voice of
Lancaster Farms
department of agricul-
ture
Office of The Secretary
WASHINGTON
Sept. 11, 1956
Mr. Ernest J. Neill
Editor, Lancaster Farming,
Quarryville, Pa.
Dear Ernie;
The Secretary and his wife
thoroughly enjoyed my copy of
Lancaster Farming the one.
containing the terrific coverage
of the Hershey appearance. Do,
you suppose you could let me
have a dozen copies? They’d like
to send some to members of their
family.
Thanks again for all you’ve
done.
Sincerfely yours,
Robert D. McMillen
Assistant to the Secretary
JriiJ rMoH slJrfW 'islasil!)
25 Years Ago
Five cows died mysteriously
on the farm of Frank Redding,
west of Gettysburg. Value -of
the animals was estimated at
$5OO. The cows had been "in
pasture all during the summer
and .were in the barn for
the first time in months. All
appeared in the best of
condition whan they were driven
into the barn, but when Red
ding Went to the'barn the fol
lowing morning he found all
nine of- his cows lying on the
stable floor sick. Despite an ef
fort to save them five died. It
was believed that they ate some
poisonous weed and, when con
fined indoors, were unable to
throw off the effects of the
poison.
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Octoraro Farmers Meet:
Study Home-Baked Bread
The Octoraro Farmers Club
met on Saturday, September 12,
1931, at the home of George W.
Jackson, near Nine Points, with
a good attendance. Mrs. Emma
Haverstick asked, “If women
should bake their own bread
would it cause the baker’s price
to drop 9” Roy Ferguson asked,
Background Scripture* Matthew 18s
20, John 21 1-14, Revelation I—3.
Devotional Reading: Revelation 3:7-
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Revelation
Lesson for September 16, 1956
THE book of Revelation was sev
eral hundred years old before
the whole Christian church ac
cepted It into the Bible. Even after
it became an official part of the
New Testament, there were Chris
tian scholars who questioned it.
Saint James place H '-newhere
between the "ca
nonical” and “ap-
ocryphal” books
—that is, between
Bible and not-Bi-
ble Luther’s first
preface to his
German transla
tion of the New
Testament said of
it
did not seem to
be Either apostolic or prophetic. He
came to think better of it, but he
never did print Revelation except
as an appendix to the New Testa
ment. Zwingh, the Swiss reformer,
considered Revelation “not Bibli
cal’’; and John Calvin, who wrote
commentaries on almost every
other bdok of the Bible, never un
dertook to write on'Revelation.
A Strang* Book
One of the reasons why so many
distinguished Christians have had
difficulty with the book of Revela
tion i« the. simpfe one: it if ex
tremely hard to understand. Its
pages swarm with weird monsters;
fire and blood flow through its
scenes; it is loud with the agonies
of a crashing universe. Literally
hundreds of persons, fascinated by
the puzzles here, have written out
their answers in books and com
mentaries; but the very fact that
these commentators do not agree
among themselves is eloquent tes
timony to the fact that no one yet
has found the key that gives an
answer the whole churchy accepts.
What makes the book so strange is
that it is written in the language of
symbols. As one eminent conserva
tive scholar. Dr. Warfield, said
(with some exaggeration), every
thing m the book means something
else. The author as it were puts us
on notice when he tells us himself
“Is it too late to plant alfalfa
tt was thought to'' be too i a t 6i
Asa Walton asked the propfj
time to plant winter barley Tup
weeks earlier than wheat pi ant ,
ing was thought'to be the p ro p,
er time.
Following the discussions, Wil.
liam Walton told of his trip t Q
the Purina Mills at St.
and their experimental fai njj
where their feeds were being
tested.
Hen Kills Eaglets
Placed In Her Care
Two of the three eaglets
hatched in the biological lahorj.
tory at the Western Reserve Uni.
versify, Cleveland, died, while
the third- was thriving. The two
died of injuries inflicted by
their foster-mother, a setting
hen, who stepped on them jt
was stated the three birds were
the first eagles ever hatched «
captivity up to 1931.
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Frances Sutten, sixteen, Ed<
monton, Canada, told a story
of how her dog three times
pulled her from creek beds
as she struggled, exhausted in
treacherous swamps near
Grassland, Alberta, 25 years
ago._ She had missed a trail
and was hopelessly lost when
night came. Thrice she fell
exhausted into , the stream.
Each time the dog dragged
her out. In the morning the
dog guided her to a farm
house.
that his “stars” mean angels, and
“lampstands” mean churches, and
“incense” means prayers. Even
the numbers in this book are sym
bolic—that is, not to count with but
to express ideas. Headers who wish
to pursue the study oi Revelation
more fully should write to their
denominational headquarters and
inquire whether their church hai
authorized some particular inter
pretation of this book. So wide are
the disagreements that this writer
could not recommend any one book
without raising objections from
some part of the chuich or other.
Some Things Are Clear
Sunday school lessop planners
seldom select from Revelation; but
those who planned our current se
nes, used in more than 80 denomi
nations, wisely selected three stud
ies based on parts of Revelation
about which there can be little dis
pute. For some things in this ob
scure book are clear as day: and
it is probably in gratitude for these
things, rather than in hope of un
raveling all the knots, that the
church, in spite of its uncertain
ties, has kept this book at the end
of the Bible all these centuries.
One of the clearer and best-loved
sections is in the first three chap
ters, where we have seven letters
to seven churches of Asia Minor.
There is obscurity here too: but
also much light. Those seven
churches have gone the way of
flesh, long since. But in those
sharply etched pen-pictures tnt
modern reader can see portraits,
amazingly modern, which com*
close to describing churches we * u
have seen.
Christ in His Churches
The warnings and the promise*
to those far-off and long-go”*
churches are good today f° r ” ’ 1
One thing stands out in eveiy on
of these short piercing messas"
to the “seven churches”: Eve ”
true church —then, now
is a true one only when and so ion*
as It keeps faithful to Chris.
long as he can be satisfied wit”
What are the points of a cimr
Christ approves? The reader bst
Revelation can make his own
and should not skip the first n
in the very first letter: '‘bard '
and patient endurance" (to f° .
Moftatt’s translation). It shouW
noted too that even in the c 1
most praised (Ephesus) the
that comes in for blame is
let-dovgi of love. For of all
that make a church weak ana '
Christian, loss of love is the .
serious. Even Christ’s sever
judgments are judgments oi
To the weakest and worst c
at the seven, the word «.
many as I love, I rebuke. (W
, Based on outlines ooprrlffc l *” ' N*J
Dlrlsion of Christian
ions! Connell of the
n the V. 8. A. AeUssoO by
Press Scnrlos.) *