'J ..)/ u }*' i J ‘•untnr.'l r—fN <! i 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov, 23, 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 Publisher Ernest J. Neill • • Edltor 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 "GOVERNMENT BUYING Government buying, or it might be called one week’s work. Just happened to collect together a few re leases from the United States Department of Agriculture which, when lumped together, show what big business in buying can be: Nov. 7 USD A reports dairy price-support pur chases in October, 1956 amounted to 126,336 lbs of-butter 16,208,839 lbs of cheddaf cheese and 33,181,173 lbs of nonfat dry milk. Nov 7 The USDA this week purchased 3,384,999 lbs of lard to help hog producers by encouraging addition al consumption of this product in other than normal outlets. Purchases since buying began on Oct. 11 amount to 19,- 068,000 lbs. Nov. 7 The USDA reported purchases this week of 98,291 cases of medium-size shell eggs under a special program to help stabilize producer prices during the fall seasonal increase in marketings. Purchases since buying began in late September^now total 387,435 cases. Nov. 8 The USDA this week purchased 7,143,000 lbs of frozen hamburger under a program to assist cattle producers, particularly during the period of heavy grass cattle marketings. Including purchases of hamburger am nounced today, the total of 53,921,000 lbs purchased since buying began in late September exceeds the 50-nyllion pound target set when the program was announced on Sept. 7. Nov. 9 The USDA today reported that first pur chases of canned pork products under the program an nounced October 30 to help stabilize producer prices through encouraging increased domestic consumption of pork total. 442,800 lbs. . . . Purchases for this week in cluded 118,000 lbs of pork luncheon meat... and 324,000 pounds of canned ham. ... To group them together more closely, here’s a peak at a week’s buying: 3,384,000 lbs of lard; 98,291 cases of eggs; -7,143,000 lbs of frozen hamburger; 118,800 lbs of pork luncheon meat; 324,000 lbs of canned ham. ' It was election week, but there’s little chance the Government will soon relinquish its merchantman position. 20 PER CENT OF CORN FIELD SHELLED Research men have estimated that over 20 per cent of the 1956- corn crop of our nation will he (have been) shelled in the field. This trend to field shelling is due to three types of equipment available: the picker-sheller, the corn attachment for the grain combine*and the field husker sheller. „ , Field shelling, they say, is not new, for as early as 1929 an attachment for the grain combine was developed by an equipment manufacturer; in 1940 another major company developed one, but the current trend started in 1950 probably with the introduction of the single unit picker-sheller. This all points to further acceptance of field shell ing and a higher percentage of the 1957 corn crop har vested by this method. • . Lancaster County ranked right up 'at the top in the Eastern National Livestock Exposition. From all indica tions, looking over the long list of “name” breeders, it was a tough show. , „ .. , . . Timonium this year drew some of the nation s top herds, some of the nation’s finest judges. There Was a close link with Lancaster County too as you stood on the side lines and saw many a Garden Spot youth competing in a line the length of'the arena. There’s something wonderful about a show; seeing how far you can advance in rugged competition; there’s a fine feeling in seeing old friends once again; it’s an annual meeting place,-and one of the best advertising mediums a breeder can find. ,' - Lancaster County youth walked into the big league fields. many struck out - STAFF THANKS. TIMONIUM By JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1906) Prof. Holden, of the lowa Agriculture College at Ames, an apostle of the “seed corn gos pel”, was credited with an in crease of 25,000,000 bushels in the lowa corn crop in 1906, as a result of the seed corn special railway car he and his helpers had exhibited throughout the state during 1905 and 1906. Under the initiative of Prof. Holden, the second Wednesday in October, starting in 1907, was designated as seed corn harvest day, on which date farmers of the state were to take the day off and devote it to the selec tion of soundest and most per fect ears in their field. It was pointed out that seed corn gath ered during the second week in October had time to dry out thoroughly before the heavy freezes. * * STATE CONSTABULARY BURNED Fifty years ago this week, a mysterious fire started in the Seitzinger mansion, at Reading, occupied as a barracks by Troop C iof Pennsylvania State Con stabulary. The 55 men of the troop were almost suffocated with smoke when the blaze was dis covered by a stable guard. When the Reading Fire De partment arrived, the fire had progressed rapidly in the base ment and first floor, and threatened the dormitory oc cupied by the men. A number of the troopers were carried out by the firemen* The fire was believed of in cendiary origin Damage was estimated at $4,000. > s' SHEEP BUYER MURDERED THREE Out in Texas, after a desperate fight with officers, during which he was shot several times and a number of the pursuers wounded, A. B. Sibley, a sheep buyer, charged with murdering three ranchers on three successive days in Valverde County, was cap tured m the mountains near Sanderson, and was placed m jail, mortally wounded. The of ficers reported that Sibley pur chased large herds from his al leged victims. In each case, the rancher delivered the stock at Del Rio, received a check, which he promptly cashed, and later was found murdered and robbed. The disappearance of Sibley di rected suspicion toward him, and he was pursued and a desperate fight followed. * • * FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE, OWNER DIES On the Lancaster farm of Daniel Burns, near Liberty Square, Drumore Township, a fire starting in one of the upper rooms destroyed the house and all its contents, and caused the death of the owner, who was af iflicaited with heart ailment. About 5 a. in.,- Miss Belle Bum*, who kept house for her father after the death of her mother a few years before, notic ed a blaze in her room. She immediately called her brother, Harry, who was hitching up-a team to haul potatoes for a neighbor, An alarm was given t>ut the neighbors arrived -too late. to save any household good*. The father, aged 72, pumped water to extinguish the flames, and while sitting down to cast tor « few minutes fell over . dead. ■ fltjovr) m'vtafoH ft'rpaoD Week :er Farming * ♦ * 25 Years Ago Following the closing of the 65th annual convention of the National Grange 'at Madison, Was, Nov. 11-20, 1931, a sum mary of some of the measures favored and recommended for action by the 8,000 Granges throughout the country during the winter of 1931-32 were as follows: Adoption by every state of a state income tax. Developing cooperative mar keting agencies-' as a means of supplanting produce exchanges. Drafting money and corpora tions, as well as men, in time of war. Federal aid in financing small cooperative groups The early construction- of a Great Lakes to the Atlantic ca nal. Intensive campaign to elimi nate objectional billboards. Duty on cotton to prevent for eign -importations Investigation of a national system of old age insurance. , Encouraging the planting of shade trees along highways and fuller protection for those now growing there. Hmdittani Strlpturt: liufce 15‘11-52 Devotional RoaSins: Psalms 103.1-13 i Two Sons Lesson for November 25, 1956 WHAT does the woid “prodi gal” mean’ -Ask some Sun day school class that, and you may be surprised at how many bad guesses you hear. Actually the name simply means “wasteful.” Je sus never named his parables; and sometimes the names the church has given them fit, and some times not. The parable of the “prodigal son" might be better named “The Two Prodigal Sons” or “The Forgiv- ing Father." -Two Ways of Wasting - There are two ways of being prodigal or wasteful. One i? to use up and destroy What might have been saved. If you let good farm machinery sit around in the rain till it rusts, you are wasting equip ment. If you use expensive butter for a job a little bacon grease will ,do just as Well, you are wasting the butter. If you are a general and order a useless assault in which thousands of men needlessly .lose thlr lives, you are wasting hu man life. All theae wasteful -acts, great and small, are done in the aamo way, essentially by throwing away or spoiling what might have been saved and use. Another way !of wasting IS just not to use what is there to u*e, something which if 1 you. do not use new you will never. have the chance to use again. An ' axamople at this is water power The river Hows on its way, devel-' oping /to .many horsepower w'th' every mile; if these are not used today, tomorrow the horsepower—, today’s horsepower-will be gone | You waste water power not by de sttoying it but by falling to Use it .The Younger Son Now m Jesus’ famous parable the two sons were both wasters but-in opposite ways. Take th youngar-one: GiVa me... he said .and offhe went. A young fortun .waa-in iris hands; but be threw i >away. he was through: with It. b Was throt-’ “Teriod/' in'Drftim <_' - - ICE CREAM CONE INVENTOR DIES Charles E. Menches, 72/ who invented the ice cream cone and thereby created an American in stitution, died at Akron, Ohio, 25 years ago this week. He was a circus trapeze performer, thea ter operator and creater ol novelties. Menches was watching the crowds at the St. Louis World’s Fair from a chair on the midway that day. Suddenly, he leaped from the chair shout ing loudly. The ice cream cone had been conceived in his mind. The inspiration for the idea qame when he saw two teen age girls at an ice cream count er wrapping waffles around the frozen cream “to keep their fingers from getting wet’', as Menches explained it in later years. He founded the ' first ice cream cone factory in 1905. Eighteen hunters were v. dead and several others lay seriously wounded in hospitals as the re sult of the first three days of gunning in Pennsylvania deer season in 1931. Later reports stated the death toll of gunners reached 31 during the first six hunting days of the season. On the Lancaster farm of Elim Stoltzfus, of Bareville, the backfire from a truck set the bam on fire, resulting in a loss estimated at $lO,OOO. Two trucks and two passenger cars were among the contents destroyed. There was something else he wasted; his father’s love and con fidence. He virtually treated his la ther as if he were already dead This younger son is, of course, the type of-the reckless sinner who wastes his health, strength, Char acter, perhaps ,money too, the sort of manjvho is called a “wastrel” or.waster. ~The time, life, strength that such a man wastes cannot be brought back again. You could go, down to Skid Kow or to the nearest hospital for drug addicts and con -vert them every one; but you could never give them back the “year* the locusts have eaten." God for gives such men, as the lather in Jesus’ story forgave the younger prodigal: but just as the father in that story could not recall from the' four winds the wasted fortune and the wasted years, so not even God ever turns the clock or the calen dar hack. The Older Son But that older boy—he too was t waster. Only he wasted m the other way, not by destroying but by not using There seems to be some thing deeply sad in the father's simple saying; “Son, you are al ways with tne, and all that is mine is yours.” This was true —and yet the son had made it untrue. “You are always with me"—so near, and yet so far away. None of the fa ther’s spirit had penetrated the boy’s mind. He was physically at home yet spiritually a stranger. He too, In a different way, had lived like an orphan. Every day there was open to him a father’s heart, a father’s sympathy, a father's wealth; but he never took it. If for the younger boy there was waste by-destruction, for the older there was waste-by-neglect. Did the fa ther forgive this son too? The story does not say. The impression most people- get is perhaps what Jesui intended to auggeat: The father was ready to forgive each son; but the younger son was forgiven, be .cadse he had “come to himself,” he had confessed his wrong. The older son was not (so far as tbe story takes us) forgiven, because he did not seem to. be conscious oi (having done anything wrong. Oi course ha was the type of the .Pharisees; but tbe Pharisee* are 'not dead. In the church -and out there art correct, respectable citi zens who know nothing of God'« love for their lost brothers, and so have never known the God they jofflciaHy call “Father.” God will forgive such « man too; but per* .haps bo seldom does, for such • man seldom thinks he needs it. 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