4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 21, 4956 j j lancaster Tarring Lancaster County’s Ovvn Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 376 •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 v under Act of March 3,1879 Forecasting’s fun but dangerous It’s a field of hedging, or a field of caution. Throughout the nation, crop prospects are termed excellent, yet those in the know are tempering their predictions No crop can be counted until Jt’s harvested, weigh ed and stored or sold. Forecasts of a superb tobacco crop that might surpass previous records fall on the ears of pro crop is marketed. ducers who will wait and weigh then say when the True D. Morse, acting secretary of agriculture at the time the most recent crop report was issued, made the following statement relative to the report; “The report made today (indicated crop condi tions for 1956) is, iiKgeneral, a favorable one for farm ers of the Nation. The indications are that farmers will have a large volume of produce to market which helps assure further the increased net farm income which the Department had predicted for the latter part of this year. The favorable effect of these crops should carry over well into 1957, We strongly urge farmers to do their utmost to protect their prices by orderly marketing to avoid price depressing market gluts and to make full use of the price support programs on their commodities Furthermore, farmers should push ahead vigorously now to assure them selves of adequate storage for housing their 1956 crops, and this prevent losses that can come from forced mar keting. “The principal dark spot centers in the central and southern Great Plains area, where severe drought damage conditions persist. Lack of rain in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and in parts of- Arizona, Nevada, Utah and South Dakota, has brought about' serious pasture and crop damage and loss of production.” The Garden Spot is not overly inclined to go along with all the artificial supports offered by the Government, since it is self-sufficient and in general maintains a year ’round, not seasonal farm income. Government supports are needed on all crops Nevertheless, conditions in other sections of the country remote .and unrelated as they may be have a most direct bearing on Lancaster County. The 'market basket is a big one, and goods flow into it from all corners of the country. ONE SOLANCO TOWNSHIP REMAINS Only one township in Southern Lancaster County remains not certified as Bang’s Free Eden Township, extending from Quarryville east. Why? Of Lancaster County’s 41 Townships, 27 have been signed and tested, certified brucellosis free. Fourteen townships, primarily in the northern half, have not signed. Of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, 67 are already certi fied as brucellosis free. The southeastern section is the slow end. Dairying is primary in the section locally known as Solanco, more reason why this section.should be signed soon as possible. Roscoe C. Carter, R 3 Quarryville is chair man for the section concerned. He’s willing and anxious to push this project through. Only the action of the individual dairyman will bring this about. Two words could be heeded to raise the rank of this important region, Sign now. LETTER WRITING WEEK Oct. 7 to 13 has been designated National Letter Writing Week “One of the basic American freedoms is the un censored transmission of first class mail. We all know the human importance of letter writing, the way in which it holds scattered families, together, of giving comfort and love and news,” one man said. ' ‘ There should be no need for a Letter Writing Week, unless you’re one like we who doesn’t write as often as he should. STAFF FORECASTING S FUN Publisher .. Editor , Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHAItD David Bly, near Millerton, Pa, was gored* to death by a bull, one of the herd owned by a nephew. Mrs. Bly attempted to drive off the bull and narrowly escaped a similar fate. Her screams brought help. Bly was dead when picked up. Cotton growers in the New Orleans section faced seripus loss of their 1960 crops due to labor shortage. Cotton dealers reported Negroes were leaving the plantations in large num bers. The reason was attri buted to inducement offered the laborers in railroad con struction. 250 Bushels Of Onions From Acre On the ancaster faxm of S R Slaymaker, Salisbury Township, an acre in onions, planted as an experiment, yielded a crop of 250 bushels, ranging in size from a hen’s egg to tea cup, in 1906 Slaymaker stated he drill ed the seeds in rows thirteen inches apart, instead of sticking the sets He cultivated them with an implement made for the purpose. Due to extremely wet weather at cultivating time, the plants became badly choked with weeds, and had it not been for this, Slaymaker declared that his crop would have produced between 500 and 600 bushels In Lancaster, John ,S. Gray bill, Sr., of the' Lancaster trust Company, had some thing of a curiosity in the form of a pumpkin growing in the yard at his residence, 441 West Chestnut Street. The vine climbed a tree, and there, on a stem curled around a limb, had grown a large pumpkin. Fearing its weight would break the vine, Graybill had built a platform support under the pumpkin. On the Lancaster farm of Christian Dietrich, near High ville, a barn and tobacco shed were destroyed by an incendiary fire, 50 years ago this week. A straw stack near the barn was fired, spreading flames quickly to the buildings. Four acres of tobacco went up in smoke. The loss was estimated at $4,000 Angus Association To Name Research Group from Colleges A forward looking step was taken by the board of directors of the American Aberdeen-An gus Breeders’ Association at its regular meeting June 28 in St-. Joseph, Missouri. The board vot ed to select a committee of col lege animal husbandrymen to handle its research program. On the agenda for future studies are dwarfism, herd health, and production testingi It is contemplated that the new committee, which will be announced as soon as it is selec ted, will first study Angus pedi grees in an approach to the problem of dwarfism in the beef cattle industry. A solicitation of the entire membership of the Association will be made. Breed ers of registered cattle who de sire may voluntarily list known dwarf producing cattle in theif herds. Such information will be sent directly to the commitee and will be kept confidential by this group of research men. The Association will also turn over to the committee its present file on dwarfism pedigree studies. 25 Years, Ago Coal miners at the Pennsyl vania Colliery- Mount Caripel, Pa., were in mourning over the passing of Old Barney, veteran mine mule credited with know ing every “nook and corner” of the mine where he spent most of his life He was credited- on one occasion with saving the lives of six workers by warning them, through cries, of the pres ence of poisonous gas. It was his over familiarity with the mine that cost him his life, workers said. He was placed, m a temporaiy stable, not his re gular one, and fell down a chute in trying to .return to his own stall. 4 -I * $30,000 Fire On Lancaster Farm Twenty-five years ago this week, the large double-deck barn on the Lancaster farm of D. K Butt, Strasburg, was stcuck by lightning and burned to the ground Rutt discovered the fire and immediately ran to the barn to save three horses, all other livestock being out of the build ing at the time Fire companies from Strasburg, Refton and Lam peter were summoned. Firemen were handicapped- by lack of water, and they confined -their Background Scripture: Matthew 13. Revelation 7.9-17. ll*ls-19a Devotional Reading! Psalm 91:1—9 Vision of Victory Lesson for September 23, 1956 AFTER the battle, as Homer’S • poem tells it, the Greeks and Trojans who had been killed went right on fighting. Whoever won the flesh-and-blood war, the ghost-war went on and would go on forever. That was primitive Greek religion. But the same kind of notion is to be found in other religions. In the Zend-Avesta, sa- cred book of the ancient Persian religion, there is the picture of the good God Ahuri- Mazda and the evil God Ahn- man, in perpetual never-endmg war Dr * Foreman with each other. Strangely enough, this same idea floats aiound in people's heads who have been Christian long enough to know bet ter, They pray, “Thy Kingdom come”: but nothing would surprise them more than if the Kingdom of God really camel Desperate Battle The ancient Persians were not entirely wrong. Life is a battle, a desperate age-long war, between good and evil God, and the friends of God, do not run over all oppo sition. The cause of God has had defeats. As a modern writer puts it, “Victory has many wounds” There are those who cannot see this. All things are good, some wish us to believe. But it is truer to the facts to see that not all things are good, but there are per sons and forces going all-out to destroy what is good. No matter how good a man is, no matter how good a cause is, if it prevails in this world there has to be a fight first The book of Revelation in our Bible is a book of battles. Its pages are red with flame and blood The white-robed saints in hght have come through “great tribulation " The young Christian who finds the going rough, the veteran Christian who becomes discouraged over the defeat of some cause that surely ought to have won,—all need to read the Bible again. Victory ft)' efforts to saving the other build, mgs and residence. The ton, tents in the barn, including about 6Q tons of hay, 18 tons of straw, 10 acres of tobacco and 730 bushels of wheat were do, stroyed. Firemen estimated the loss at about $30,000, which was only partly covered bj m, surance. n i 1 No School Lunch To Pack, Mother Frets Mfs D. W Howsh, near iii a . watha, Kan., for 36 years had prepared lunches for her ele\en children to take to school The number of lunches was estimat ed at 12,00, but in 1931, “school bells” meant nothing to her, all eleven children had finished school. During the 36 years, Mis Housh declared she had used 3,200 loaves of bread, 150 bushels of apples, and 12,800 pieces of cake. ,‘T made at least 38,400 sandwiches and they weie good, too,” she said “I’ll miss the school bells, though.” An apple tree at the home of Rev. and Mrs. William H. Davies at Oakryn, southern Lancaster County, was so im pressed with the warm Sep tember weather, that is burst into full bloom, 25 years ago this week. The Lancaster farm of the late Adam Keen, Hawks\ille, Eden Township, was sold at private sale to William B Keen, of Quarryville, for $10,500 The farm contained nearly 8s acres. God" and the right there will be; but not easily and probably not day. Personal Victory , In all the wars of this woild, some on the winning side havt never struck a blow or got into the fight at all. The armed foices do the fighting, the stay-at-homes celebrate the victory when it cpmes. It Is different in the woild wide, age-long struggle between God and all that is anti-God. If the Bible teaches anything plainly it, is that no one will share the vic tory of God who has not taken part, in the struggle on God’s side Many* Christian hymns expiessj this idea, such as “Am I a soldier of the cross?” and “The Son of| God goes forth to war.” First th* ( war, then the victory. Now theie 1 are many religions that teach something like this. Valhalla, Par adise, Nirvana, heaven, whatever it is called —most religions look forward to a time and place wheie everyone is, so to speak, a veteian of a successful war. But what do they do with their victory? Heie the Christian religion stands out alone. “His servants shall seive Him,” the Bible says. So John Sutherland Bonneli says m his lit tle book, ‘“Heaven and Hell," (Ab ingdon ‘ Press. $1.00) i“The rest which is promised us in heaven i» •not the rest of passivity or indo lence. There will be constant op portunities for spiritual develop ment and service.” Christ Will Reign But the church is sure that tne Christian can look forward to final viptory only because he is fighting in the cause and army of Christ It Is his victory after all, not ours H he lost, we would lose. There is a great, future tense our faith in Christ. There is a past tense fiish He has conquered death and evi, by the cross and resurrection h« struck the forces of evil the fatal blow. But not the final one For there is the present tense: In the lives of Christians, in his chuicn, he wins victories today. But the future tense is equally impoitan Christian people have never been agreed on the details, but a Christians eveiywhere are one i affirming: CHRIST WILL REIGN Not only in heaven but on eartn A Christianity that does not forward to Christ’s final triumph complete and world-wide, is n only untrue to the Bible but is l ' that old Persian belief, courageous to be sure, but dismal,—that on • look on an eternal future just aa uncertain and mixed wnth evil a is this present age. No,—the o° and When are God’s secret, but is no secret that Christ will Lord of «U. t)ll (Based on outlines copyrlEhted By Division of Christian Educotion. j tional Council of tbs Churches of on ( In tho C. S. A. Released by Commuu Press Service.)
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