4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov, 9, 1956 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 ~ Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel 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 One year ago today, Lancaster Farming came into being, It has been an interesting year, a satisfying year. It has been a wonderful experience learning to know the people of Lancaster County who have macte this into one of the nation’s finest in the farm line. Through Lancaster Fanning the County famed alheady has become better known, and after reading the County’s only farm weekly many have come to the G irden Spot from other states to see for themselves. Their wonderful response to the farms and foods is heartening. Lancaster Farming has followed a year in its course. Rain, heat, fair and cloudy weather; the first buds of spring, the last golden leaves of autumn; the heavy snows of wintertime, all combining to bring barn-bursting crops. Recalling the long hours of the first edition, the ef forts since those first long, long days and long nights, we see now what can be done. Your response has been most encouraging.. We thank you sincerely, renewing our pledge as the second year starts Volume 11,/ No. 1, to continue serving as best we can. MORE CORN THAN EVER According to the USDA, world corn production this year will be 6,540,000,000 bushels, somewhat above last year’s 6,280,000,000 and the 1945-1949 average of 5,295,- 000,000 bushels. That’s a heap of corn, assurance of an adequate feed supply for the coming year. Yields have been unusually good despite weather that was nCt the best Out in the Corn Belt, those who started to pick corn found their schedules much longer Ityan planned as the crop continued to roll above expectations. At the same time, the College Feed Survey Com mittee, sponsored by the American Feed Manufacturers’ Association, predicts'heavy livestock feeding operations are expected for 1956-1957 with anticipated increases in use of high-protein feeds, especially soybean meal. •Ample supplies of butter and eggs are expected; broiler and turkey production will probably rise to new records, but there will be small decreases in hog numbers and about an unchanged number of beef cattle. In the 12 months to Sept, 30, 1957 a total of 152 million tons of feedstuffs will be available. There’s a high moisture content in local com, and especial care in feeding is necessary. Prospects for the year, however, are bright. GRANDPA AND THE BEES Grandpa Houck was stone deaf from the day he was 12. Never did he learn lip-reading, always he carried a school-boy’s slate with slate pencil under his arm/ f Somehow, Grandpa acquired a liking for bees, and to the "'grandchildren, it seems the bees liked Grandpa. Every one else had a furious time with the stingers* but not the elderly man whose beard of grey was often covered with honey bees. There was a lot of humor in the old man, especially when he took one of his sons or grandsons into the woods to chop down a bee tree. Even their utmost precautions, to nets over hats, were of no avail. There was no immunity, just for grandad. When grandpa died, the small-scale honey bee busi ness he had established on each of his sons’ and daughters’ farms faded away. His descendants lacked the touch. Beekeeping is still important, but production is de clining from year to year. There’s honey on the table much less often today than before. Pennsylvania bees this year were hit by cool-wehther and excessive rainfall. Too much of the touch of the master’s hand may be missing today. STAFF Publisher Business Manager ONE YEAR By JACK REICHARD 50 TEARS AGO (1906) Josiah Dale, prominent farm er near Bellefonte, Pa., was murdered while returning from his farm on Nittany Mountain to his suburban residence. Mr. Dale, who had been at his farm most of the day, started for his home that evening after dark. When he did not reach home, Tfiends started out to search for hup. The searching party had only gone a short distance when i Dale’s horss and buggy was found standing along the road, with the farmer’s body hanging over the dashboard of the veh icle An investigation revealed that Dale had been shot at close quarters, that the murderer used a shotgun loaded with No. 6 shot was the only clue leading to his identity that was known. Editor * # if CATTLE DEALER MISSING David Williams, wealthy cat tle dealer of Lancaster, was re ported missing at Pcyntella, near Scranton, where he had arrived to buy cattle. When farmers of the area had driven their stock that Mr. .Williams had bought to the railroad for loading in three cars that day, as he had instruct ed, the buyer could not be lo cated. An inquiry was made at the hotel where the man was staying and the room door was found locked The door was forced open, but Mr. Williams was not inside, although his bag gage was there. Authorities who investigated believed the man had been murdered and robbed, because it was known that the dealer usually carried a large amount of money on his per son. The investigation continu ed. * * * OLDEST PHYSICIAN IN STATE Fifty years ago, Dr. Joseph L. Ziegler of Mount Joy claimed to' be the oldest nracticing physi cian in the state of Pennsylvania, celebrated his 84th birthday in November. He was a member of the Lancaster County Medical Society,, of which he had serv ed as president for a number of years; a member of the State Medical Society, of which he was president in 1881; a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, the American Medi cal Association, Lancaster Coun ty Historical Society and the oldest living graduate of Jeffer son Medical College-of-Philadel phia. He had been a member of the Donegal Presbyterian Church for 66 years, its oldest living member in 1906. Dr. Ziegler was a recognized authority on the history of Lancaster County. Country Prsaohir Long ago a country preacher had these questions thrown up at'him. His name was Micah. He was not a preacher in the regular sense, for be had no church, and in fact he had no connection with the regular official religion of his country. But he did speak and preach,—so far as we know, only to his fellow villagers; but what he said was remembered. We have extracts from his sermons in what we call the Book of Micah, ainong the minor (that is, shorter) prophets of the Old Testament. Maybe he never preached a full-length formal sermon. Maybe he just stood or sat around in the market-place, and talked to any who would listen. At ’any rate it is plain that he was asked much the same questions as those three just now mentioned. The country of Judth, In which Micah's small town of Moreshah was located, was either in a very prosperous condition or was run ning. down,—depending on where At Duquesne, Pa., 1» steer* jV Ol * the «puai city of and ran wildly through the Andin vUltgef lt w , streets, thronged with children different story, Sven in the cities on their way home* from school. ■ there were some who suspected Pedestrians rushed the young- tfw beom task- -therts . hSj. V, J -r-r V2* “ i - i**. Fifty years ago this week, a heavy snow atom raged throughout the Wyoming Vat ley. At Wilkes-Barre, five inches of snow was reported, with T to 10 inches in the mountains. At Harvey's Lake, Bernice and White Haven, there was good sleighing. • * « In Lancaster County this week, in 1906. there was still much corn in the fields to be husked. Help was reported scarce, and farmers were complaining' of. cold fingers in their effort to finish up the crop. • * ♦ STEERS CREATE PANIC sters into stores and private dwellings to places of safety. One man was tossed over a fence and seriously injured. The ani mals ran up and down Duquesne Avenue, causing street cars to halt and a temporary suspension of business. A squad of police, assisted by a number of butch ers, rounded up the steers aft er considerable difficulty. No property damage was reported. 23 Years Ago Twenty five years ago this week, Pennsylvanians, in gen eral, were chiefly interested in the outcome of a special session of the State Legislature, called into session by Governor Pin chot, to bring relief for the Com monwealth’s unemployed. Fol lowing are portions of the Gov ernors message before the Legis lature, Tuesday, November 7, 1931: Number of workers unemploy ed in Pennsylvania - 900,000; Number of school children re quiring food and other relief outside their homes: 125,000. Number of persons requiring This Is It lesson lor November 11,195# 1 THREE questions are asked over and over again by people who take life seriously but are still groping for the answers.'First, What is Good? Is it altogether a matter of taste?-Is there anything that is never good and anything that is always good, no matter what? Second, What does God want of us? What does it take to please him? Is there any simple ordinary way of knowing what 'God wants ? Third, Why Dr. Foreman doesn’t God speak to us as he used to do to the prophets of old? Why doesn't God, who knows all the answers, share his knowledge with us? « * Week r Fanning * * ♦ t i ♦ * * « * Baekgroiml Sorlptvr*: Micah 4; 9 DtTotionil Budlnft Isaiah 1:11-17. relief in the state during the winter of 1931-32: 2,500,000. Presentation of proposals en tailing an expenditure of $136 millions over a two-year period for direct relief. *• * That same week in November, 1931, Mayor Metzger, of Lancas ter, issued the following pro clamation, given here in part “ Lancaster city and county face the third winter, the hardest winter, and there is reason, for hope, the last wint er of a devastating depression. Our , charities and philanthro-' pies have worked with feverish intensity to cope with the ris-‘ ing tide of distress and now they, come before us ask ing $397,795 to’ meet the criti cal test. No less than $132,000 is needed alone for immediate emergency relief among the unemployed, the destitute, the . aged and, the infirm, to keep i homes from being shattered and fathers, mothers and chil dren from going underclad and famished.” POMONA GRANGE IN SESSION Lancaster County Pomona Grange, No. 71, held its quarter ly session, in Kirkwood Hall, in the lower end of the county,- as guests of the Colerain Grange on Saturday, Nov. 14, 1931, with a large attendance of local and county hnembers.'- It was decided that the January meeting should be held at Lancaster as usual, but that the “annual banquet be dispensed with owing to the present depression.” was a kind of'r e vival~6f 'interesfi In religion going on, but it wa», confused. People had an idea they 1 ought to be better, but what was'; "good"? They felt sure’they ought, to obey God more carefully; but; iwhat did God want, really? Why! jdidn’t God come right out and tell! people what they would have to do { to "get right" with hixn? This Is It ' If the answers to such questions 1 'as these were written 6n gold l plates in a strange language and; kept on top of a seven-mile moun-,' tain guarded by seven wise arch-j angels, the roads to that mountain* would be jammed, and people 1 would pay the archangels big! money to translate the mystic,' words of wisdom. But a country; preacher talking in the simple, words anybody ten years old can; understand—7 Yes; the people of, that village already had the an swers only they didn’t realize it.| Why doesn’t God speak? He ha» ( aready spoken. Why don’t wej. nave prophets? We do have proph- | ets, right there in your Bible. Yes, j but they are hard to understand!, Well, Micah says, it’s not so to understand. What does the Lord require of you but to do justice,: and to love kindness, and to walk) humbly with your God? Oh, some body in the crowd might say,—> old stuff! Yes, exactly. Amos thej prophet spoke of Justice, and 1 Hosea apoke of L&ve and Kind ness, and Isaiah spoke of humility before God Most High. This is it, you don't need to write away to find out, this Is it right here. What Is Good, what God wants of us, God has already spoken. He does not change his mind. Simple and final Looked at in one way, these: three great requirements of God, are not simple. Justice—how easy, to say, how hard to make sure what is really the just and fair thing In every action! Kindness— 1 yes, but who knows what Is the kind thing to do every time? Isn’t what is just in one case perhaps unjust In another? Yea, to be sure: No commandment of God it going to sava us from having to think. This is not so'simple as to be auto matic. Nevertheless this is simple in the main. We can see the lines along which the good life must be built. We always know: If it is not just, If It la not kind, then it it out of Ime with God’s will. And all this la final, too; again not in the tense of saving u* any further thought. But final in the sense that this is God’s word- We can’t now or ever get bey, pnd or above, —we can’t graduate from,—justice and kind ness and humble reverence before God. _ (Base# n aatllnta aakrrlghtad kr (ka bltMii it CfcrlatUu Hmtln. Utul Oaunall af flu Ckmktt al Chitat
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