4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 36, 1956 ■T'wrKWgj Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Publisher Frnfwst T Neill Editor BtC. Wallace Abel Business Manager Robert'G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director 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 Success of last week’s Lancaster County Cattle Feed ers’ Tour points up the fact that such travels can be benefi cial as well as interesting and informative. Throughout, the reaction of the feeders on tour was excellent. Some were quoting figures on the return trip. Some counted acres in the King Ranch Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms. Others tallidd the Fords that rolled off the production line in Chester. Another man remarked that it was really a tour of assembly and disassembly procedures; seeing automobiles being assembled, livestock disassembled in the packing plant; beef being assembled on the Medford Farms and Buck and Doe. In reality, it's all a pattern of production, assembly. In the packing plant one item was (disassembled, it is true, but reassembled into a variety of meats and meat products. " _ The fact so many turned out—over 320 —for the bus tour was most encouraging to County Agent-Max M. Smith and members of his committee who planned the tour, who earlier made a “dry run” of tile route. Finer weather one could not ask. Finer examples might be hard to find. But. the willingness of the Garden Spot farmers whose production records are tops—to step across the line, across the county line to see how others do it wjas hearten ing. Seeing how others do the job, they may pick up an idea or two, just as visitors do on a tour of Lancaster Coun ty. This was a case of looking beyond the forest. For many, it was new territory, new experiences, from which can come a wealth of ideas One good turn deserves another, and County Agent Smith reflected the enthusiasm when he said this was but the start. There will be more trips. Lancaster County, well known for its own offerings agriculturally, took a look beyond its borders. For a starter, t this was tops. From one of our landlocked midwestern plains' friends come a note, “Sumac is beautiful, trees are turning muchly. Surely would love to see Pennsylvania now. Would enjoy an editorial on it, but would so long to see Lancaster County.” - , , „ Well, my friend, autumn is here. There’s a splash of reds and greens and golds, yellows and browns, tawny tans and a sky of purest blue in Pennsylvania now. That magic brush dipped' in a paint pot of endless hues has swept down the hillsides, into the valleys. Once in awhile the colors were just splashed or splattered in the most sub tle movement. Day by day you notice the difference in Pennsyl vania. There’s a development, richer and richer day by day. Leaves are whisked up like mammoth pieces of confetti, then lazily swirl back to the road and roadside. Even the sun is doing more than its share, filtering rays through turning tree top to give a most brilliant ceiling to tunnels roads make through timber. It’s glistening, goldeh. No artist would dare use such clashing color so recklessly. Man with dye and fabric could never catch the shades and tones. No need to dream of sunlit, warm beaches where it’s green the year ’round. Let the Rockies have their spring time; let the Caribbean have its warm winter blues of water and rich greens of palm. A year without autumn such as Lancaster County is enjoying now would be lifeless. Looks like the day of the raccoon coat is returning from the roaring twenties. Mens’ fashions are picking up ideas of some decades back, and decree that fur will have ” a place, real or synthetic. It may give a boost to the wool market for the fab ric field is tremendous. Established November 4, 1955 STAFF ONE GOOD TURN AH, IT'S AUTUMN FUR COATS’ RETURN 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK EEICHARD Experiments carried on at the lowa Experiment Station in 1906 showed that a ton of cobs as thrown from the chute of a large canning factory have the capacity of producing 11 gallons of alcool. It was also found that a ton of the green cornstalks* produced six gallons of alcohdl. The cost of produc ing the alcohol was placed at three cents per gallon. * ♦ Turkeys Kill Grasshoppers Out m Kansas, they had a new reason for rasing turkeys. One farmer had discovered that a turkey was the best kind of grasshopper machine, claiming that he had saved his alfalfa crop from destruction from the in sects by use of the fowl. In his particular case, the number of turkeys employed was one to the acre. * « Elsewhere in the country, complaints were heard about some of the so-called butter milk retailed in cities, 50 years ago this week, if was pointed out that the product was never even associated with a lump of butter, but it was made of skim milk left to sour, then placed in a churn and agitated until the curd was broken up. * W * Farmers Halt B&O Railroad In Ohio, near Lodi, armed citizens were patrolling the B. & O. Railroad in protest of a cut off line across a country road at a grade several feet higher than the highway. Nearly a hundred farmers with their teams had pulled, three', and several cars oft the track into the ditch and declared the objection able crossing by the company on the present grade. Fifty years ago this week, blizzard weather was reported at Frostbcrg, Maryland, where snow fell in large quantities. Other high points in the Alle ghenies reported similar con ditions. * * *■ Dog Star’s Companion Fifty years ago, Sinus, the dog-star, had a companion. It was first discovered in 1862, and m 1890 it disappeared. The rea son for its disappearance was ex plained that it had moved so close to Sinus that it would be lost to view because of the over powering light of the dog star. It was estimated that the miss ing satellite would reappear within 16 years after it had dis appeared. {The expectation was fulfilled in October, 1906; the satellite was reported seen at the Flagstaff Observatory in Ari zona. IN * • 25 Years Ago The first annual State Egg- Laying Contest got underway in the new poultry buildings on |be State Hospital grounds near the State Farm Show Building at Harrisburg. Sev enty-five pens of 13 hens each were entered for "production records. * * * A. A. of F. Formed On Lons Island The American Federation of Farmers was organized at a meeting held at Setaukef, Long Island, N. Y., in the heart of Long Island’s farming district. The object of the organization was to enlist a nation wide mem bership among farmers, regard less of the extent or character of their prduetion, that they might be properly represented within the State and Federal govern ments without political senti ment. The organizers made no misleading statements to per ant 6f their undertakings, plans for the elmmation of the middle man by establishment of direct points of distribution, adjust ment of surpluses and “conse quently prices of garden truck, suade farmers to join, but they listed, among the most import wheat and cotton”. The Federa tion had immediate plans where by it was believed that the farm er and his banker would be brought closer together. *' * * Farm Women No. 11 At Mechanic’s Grove Twenty five years ago this week, Farm Women Society No. ll met with Mrs. Rudolph Eshle man, Mechanics Grove. The meeting was in charge of the president, Mrs. William 'Bucher, and was opened with singing followed by devtionss in charge of Mrs. Harry McCommon. On the southern Lancaster County farm of Christian Eck man, a fox was holed after an exciting chase lasting two and a half hours. Those taking part in the hunt were, J. Clyde Lin ton, Norman Neff, Charles Mc- Crabb and Maurice and Her bert Neff. That same week, Mrs.' Wiley Ham, of Unicorn, while cutting com with an axe for her chic kens cut off the ends of two fing ers just back of the nails. ' Background Scripture: Psalm 23. Devotional Beading: Ezekiel 34:11-1#. The Paths of God Lesson for October 88, 1958 WITH a poem, the best thing to do is not to listen to a professor analyzing it. This may be of some help if the poem is an obscure one. But where the words are simple, you don’t need a professor. What you need to do is to listen to some one read it who knows how to read and who XoVes poetry, or to read it aloud to your self, for poetry is not intended for the eye but for the ear. Let the poem itself speak to you. If it is not too long, let it literally become a part of you. That Is to say, commit it to mem ory, file it in your little grey cells so that you will always be able to .find it. Millions of people have done just this with what is perhaps the most widely loved poem in the world, the 23rd Psalm. God flw Shophard No commentary can improve on It, and this column does not pre tend to do anything but set down a foot-note or two to an inspired masterpiece. The first footnote is on this picture of God as a Shep herd. One thing this brings out is the vast difference between God and ourselves. The shepherd can get along by himself; the sheep can ,not The sheep knows only what is just a few feet in front of him. He has a poor memory and very poor judgment. The Shepherd has to think ahead all the time. There are notions of religion that speak of God as tiie “man upstairs" and similar familiar expressions. There are notions about God that put him down on a sort of buddy-budd basis with ourselves. How sill: Some people even think that if th just pray hard enough, that Is. they want something enough r keep nagging God long enough. is bound to tee it their way and them have what they ask. Qod Carts for Mo It has been found that one p Voice of Lancaster Farms. AMERICAN FARMER Adams County, lowa Pear Ernie. We are busy, com pick* ing has started, 250 acres to pick. We have had rain, wonder ful ram, quite a relief, two and one-half inches Saturday night and a quarter inch ‘Monday morning. Now we don’t have to worry about fire in the com fields, so much that is. Dean Curtis your nephew received his degree as American Farmer at the FFA convention in Kansas City, and was going to try to look up James A. Hess from Strasburg Your sister, Dot. SOMETHING In the good old' days a govern ment could spend a million dol larsL.and have something to show for it. Grit, Record Price For Bulls A record price for bulls of any breed sold at auction in the coun try in 1931 was establshed when the prize Guernsey bull from the herd owned by the late 'William H. Williams, president of the Wa bash Railroad, was sold at Springfield, Masschusetts, for $3900. The seventy five head of pure bred Guernseys on sale brought $54,215. The world-fam ous Shuttlewick Levity,-several times grand champion cow of the Eastern States Exposition and the National Dairy Show, was bought by Arthur G. Galu sha and Sons of Green Meadow way to read this Psalm is to read] it aloud, emphasizing the personal) pronouns. The Lord is my Shep-; herd; I shall not want ... I! shall fear no evil, for Thou are j with me . . . Surely goodness and | mercy shall follow me . . . Reli gion has to be in the first person singular or it isn’t real. You can go all your life knowing this Shep-j herd Psalm by heart, and thinking, what a lovely picture this is, of I God th 6 Shepherd of his people. | But then one day ypu make the 1 psalm your own, not in mind only] but in heart —the Lord is MY Shep- ’ herd!—and then it simply comes j alive. It helps, too, to remember | the difference between a shepherd) in David’s time (and still, in that I country) and a sheep-herder today, j A farmer, in Kentucky for in-j stance, who raises sheep just has! them in a big pasture well fenced in. He has to keep his eye on them, j all right, but then he can go to town or do other things. In a big, green pasture a sheep can’t do it-( self too much damage. But in Pal- ( estme, with no big green pasture, l only little narrow strips of green] along creek beds in rocky ravines,, with jackals and other animals al-( ways on the prowl on the wild un-; fenced hillsides, the shepherd sim ply has to be there protecting and > guiding each sheep personally or they will be ruined. So God the Shepherd cares for me, individu-, ally, he protects me, fights for me, he does not intend that I should be lost. Tha Paths of God Some kinds of religion, even some kinds of-the Christian r«U-' jgion, think of God as living in some' sublime heaven, watching man asj he toils along his low and winding] trail. The picture in this beloved i Psalm is quite different. The Shep-i herd travels with his sheep, from; one pasture to another. When one istream or water hole dries up, the Shepherd knows where another is, and leads the flock there. So the Bible reveals to us a God who, hard as this may be to believe,, ac tually shares our afflictions, la, ""close beside us at every step. So; the paths the flock of God, follow are his paths, not because he laid them out but because they are the paths where he goes. They are not 'easy. The peace of God is not free dom from danger. The paths of God go by cliffs where falling rocks threaten; they lead to springs and streams that will die in sum mer’s heat, they descend mttidag the shadows of death, they sue within sight of God’s enemies and ours. But since they are God’s paths, we walk secure, knowing His choice is always best (Base* os outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, Na tional Connell of tho Cbarehef or Christ In the V. M. A. Xaliarit hr CoaaesaritT Press Sorrloo.)
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