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VM.'OII). I i 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. y<nlf M lqoB 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. * * * 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. *5 ’J 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. 4 h h 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- ■■■ i ~ 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. 4- * 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.) *