4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 2, 1956 _ O' |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 EXpress 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Publisher Ernest J.-Neill Editor C. 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 BLESSED ARE THE GRATEFUL “I’d want to ’commodate ’em. The whole endurin’ flock When the frost is on the pumpkin And the fodder’s in the shock.” James Whitcomb Riley. COLD WEATHER AHEAD Ten chilling years, with a rapid return to the snows that grandpa recalls have been predicted by Prof. C. L. Hosier of the Deartment of Meteorology, College of Min eral Industries, the Pennsylvania State University. Baer’s Almanac predicts weather for 1957 will open with heavy snows for much of the nation, and end with a cold wave. This winter in general will be a rough one, with cold waves the end of January, the middle of February and the start of March, the old-timer tells. Mixing science and a little guesswork, Prof. Hosier takes issue with contentions that trends over the past half century indicate that the Northeastern United States is getting warmer. This was 'based on the observation that it was, in fact, warmer during the last 50 years years than during the'preceding 50 years “There are indications now, however,” he continues, “that the trend has ceased and that we may return to colder weather. Historically these warm and cool periods have been roughly of 100 years duration and the tem perature changes have been of about the same magnitude. “By joining the ranks of the ‘extrapolators’ and by also considering some apparent statistical relationships of solar activity to weather that have not been established physically, 1 will predict,” he solemnly said, “with tongue in cheek, that the next decade will be a cold one, with a rapid return to the snows that grandpa recalls ” Such is heartening news at least to the audience the Professor addressed, a technical and scientific forum x on hard coal in University Park. Autumn leaves, mighty pretty on the tree, are mighty dangerous underfoot, or under the wheels of your car. Wet leaves, points out Edward P. Curran, Keystone Automobile Club’s safety director, can make highways ex tremely treacherous. Drivers should not attempt quick stops or turns on roads covered with soggy foliage because of skidding dangers. . “Another factor to be considered while driving at this time of year,” he adds, “is the earlier coming of night fall, which is even more of a factor with Daylight Savings Time ended. The combination of dusk, darkness and fa tigue can add up" to dangerous potentialities.” Autumn leaves, pretty underfoot, but dangerous. Take care. GET OUT AND VOTE Election Day’s coming up the climax to all the talk that has been fueled by hay and other farm crops. What the results will foe, no one actually knows. Your right to vote is Constitution granted. No matter what your party or your pick, get out and vote. Lard is cheap. That is well known, especially among the farmers producing hogs. But there are efforts under way, within a stone’s throw of Lancaster Contuy, within the County itself, to help bolster the sagging market. , A whiter, purer lard is being produced as research goes on. Higher cooking temperatures are possible now with lard, and credit is due those packers who have stepped up research despite a sagging market, when coolers are crammed with surplus. Lard’s still one of the best cooking oils there is. Some criticism has been thrown to production of meat type or bacon type-hogs that show a minimum of fat. There must be marbelling to make good meat, even pork. Perhaps the move to fat-free swine.has .advanced ton far. STAFF AUTUMN LEAVES RESEARCH ON LARD 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD The Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeders’ Association announced that one of the features at its annual meeting at Harrisburg during January, 1907, would be a Corn Show, open to all grow ers in Pennsylvania whether they were members of the asso ciation or not. Liberal cash prizes were offered, with exhibits con fined to 10 ears of corn The Na tional Stockman and Farmer, Pittsburgh, had contributed $lOO .to encourage the exhibit, and the 'Department of Agriculture an nounced --it would contribute .enough money “to make the prizes worth competing for in Pennsylvania’s first great corn show.” * Jj COWS BECAME DRUNK; FATAL TO TWO After partaking of a quantity of jojtnace, the residue of cider, which had been care- _ lessly dumped in a pasture, a herd of cows belonging to Mrs. Lavina Schaack, near Phoenix ville, became .gloriously drunk and djd considerable damage. Several barrels of cider were made at the Schauck farm and the fermenting' pomace was thrown in the field. It was good to the animals’ taste and they ate freely of it during the forenoon. By late after noon, the cows became crazily drunk. They broke down fences and did considerable other damage. Several of the cows became sick as they were getting over their “joy” and a /veterinarian was summoned. Two of the herd died of in digestion FARMER KILLS CHICKEN THIEyES William Killian, a progressive Lancaster farmer residing near Union, Colerain Township, re ceived words of commendation instead ol censure for using his shotgun with deadly effect, half a century ago The farmer Kil- Jigan had been missing his chic kens for several weeks, finding feathers and pieces of the fowls scattered about the premises That frosty November night, he heard his chickens making a racket and investigated. With the light ef a lantern, he was able to see a polecat with ? guilty conscience making a hasty j retreat. Killian followed the skunk to his haunt which turned out to be a culvert along the road. Placing the lantern at one end of the culvert, he went to the opposite opening. Taking' careful aim, he discharged the load of shot through the culvert, with the result of one broken lantern globe, and also, two dead polecats. Under the cul vert, the hones of many chic kens were found. * Fifty years ago, England was importing 10,0500 bushels of apples per week; they came from the United States and Canada. Those from Oregon brought the highest price. The use of incubators in the hatching of eggs was nothing new to the ancient Egyptians, who often hatched eggs of vari ous fowls in clay ovens heated to the proper temperature. * * THE HORSE IN FIGURES An expert on horses, 50 years ago, declared that the average horse could travel 400 yards in and one half jnimrtes at a walk, 4&0 yards in two "minutes' at a trot, 400 yards in one min ute at a gallop. A horse would carry 250 pounds 25 miles per day in eight hours. An average draft horse would draw 1,600 pounds 23 miles per day on level road, including the weight of the wagon. . t Fifty years agoj some of the abandoned „coal mines in Penn sylvania were being turned in to experimetal underground gardens. In these gardens, celery, lettuce and mushrooms were grown for market. Ace teylene gas was used as a substitute for sunlight and kept burning day and night, . The experiments were claimed 'successful. • * 25 Years Ago # •* 35 YEARS AGO (1931) Arthur Brisbane, noted news columnist of 25 years ago, re ported Sweden was planning an .interesting experiment Ships with modern refrigerator plants were to bring Swedish nutter to America and take back/-fruit from this country. Each package of butter was to contain the printed statement “Sweden can not import fruits if its ships can not take Swedish goods to the i Background Scripture Isaiah 52.13 a 3-12. Matthew 1-18-21. ; Devotional Beading: I Peter 3:14-22 Suffering for 11$ Lesson for Novenalfcr I, 1956 IN THE days when a running man could overtake a carnage "that was in no hurry, a Christian man named Philip was led to run up close to a very handsome -carriage —they called it a chariot—in which sat a man reading aloud to him self, Something about the way he was reading made Philip, now jogging along be- side the carriage. ask the rider a question. For the man was reading aloud from a book which is no doubt owned by every reader of this col umn, a book whiqh to this very day outsells all others, every month of every year: the Bible. Philip didn’t ask the man -where he got the book, or what he thought of it, much less_ \Vhat the book was. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” The distinguished stran ger admitted he did not. But he was so eager to find out that he invited this unknown pedestrian to ride with hinj. He was reading a chapter fi om Isaiah, the very same one that is our lesson scrip ture this week. It is all .about "my servant,” that is, God’s servant. But who is this servant? The prophet himself, or somebody else? Could Philip please explain? A Prophet Sms Christ The book Is 25 centuries old, the story of Philip about 19 centuries ago; but -that chapter is still a fa vorite with Christians. The Church today gives essentially the same answer Philip gave: this is a prophecy about Jesus. Even those Christians who doubt whether the prophet originally aet out to de scribe the historic Jesus pf Naza reth agree that the picture fits Jesus remarkably well. Most of the Christian church says not only that, but .Jesus is the only person the description does -fit remark well. jB.-is,-* fair cgiestien: ?Would Ihedtrst Christians, 'siich as* United States and sell it there”. Brisbane pointed out that such appeal for fair tariff play would not reach our “best minds’ that control the tariff, for those minds never unwrapped packages' of butter. That -was done in the kitchen. WATER' “SMELLER” IN THE NEWS Signor Giovanni Gotsch, divm fer for water-seeking citizens in Bolzano, Italy, claimed that und erground streams possessed radiations which -we're benefi cial jdr many maladies. Gotsch, long noted ■for his ability to find underground streams by the use of a divining rod, made experi ments in die underground radia tions He claimed a sick person, placed over the -path of -one of the hidden streams, reported "an improvement m health - During that same week in November, 1931. two Pennsyl- vania towns put a curfew on radio sets. In Shamokin, coun cilmanic ordinance set 11 p. m. as the curfew; at that hour, all sets were to be turned down so they dopld not be heard outside the house and all win dows had to be closed when the radio was turned on. In Wilkes-Barre, police announc ed that they would respond to any complaints against exces sively loud radios and would promptly direct set owners to cut the volume immediately. Philip, have thought this to be »■ prophecy of Christ If Jesus had never -thought so himself? Are we to say that Jesus was less bright than his followers?- The beaiity and power of this great chapter from Isaiah do not come from ac ciuacy in details; jt is pretty diffi cult to make all the details match exactly the facts of Jesus’ life. Nevertheless this chapter is more than beautiful in language and thought; it is powerful in giving us, in a few sentences, the central spirit and underlying intention ,of Jesus’ life. Jt is this: What he en dured and suffered, m life and in death, he suffered and endured not for -himself alone but for oth ers, for us. Levels of Suffering Suffering can be undergone on different levels, as it were. At lowest level .there is jnere pain, the kind khown by animals. The beast does qot think about it, ani mals around himdo not; he simply suffers. At the next level there is pain suffered and resented, by hu man beings. Above this is pain which is suffered bravely, even de fiantly, by a stoic-(“I am the cap tain ol my soul”). Above this again pain which is home with resig nation not because it is necessary, but because God wills it. On ,a still higher level is suffering which is offered to God as a .sacrifice —all the sufferer may have to Jive. A* high as -this, it not higher, is suf fering which is undergone for the sake of others, as a mother for hep child. The suffering of Christ, the church believes, Is on a plane even higher than all these, though it is like some that have been men tioned. For ins sufferings were fop men and women everywhere, al ways. "Ha Pound Out His Soul” The tragedy of Jesus, taken mi a human tragedy alone, is sadden* lug. "To what -purpose was all this waste?”—-we.ask Judas’ old ques tion as the alabaster box pour* forth its treasure. If waremember that this was not only a man but God, undergoing this tragic dark* ness shot with “lightning of bia pain,” we can understand a littla better (but dimly, for tha opaque* ness of our aelfish minds) what tha suffering of Je&us meant jgnd 1 . means. It was for us; he bora pur griefs and carried our sorrowa;haj made himself an offering for Pin. You remember the girl who amid to her older sister: "Oh, some times I wish I could take all tha miseries of the world and put'Siena on my shoulders!" And the older sister said, “Didn’t you know Jesus did that, Ipng ago?” Sit m gMrieeJ
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