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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ■
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Week
:er Farming
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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
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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.
(Base* oaUlaaa ••pyrlfhtrd by «W
Dlrtlim at Christian Edacatlsn. N»J
tlaftal Oanoll of th* Charahaa ol Chris'
la tka V. I. A. Bataaaa* fey CammanM
rraaa Itnritt.)
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