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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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#
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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?
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Week
r Fanning
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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.
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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. _
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