4—Lancaster Farming, Friday Jan. 4, 1957 |ancaster partning Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published eve'y' Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Publisher „ Robert E Best 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 r' Bumper crops, excellent year, slim in some lines, an abundance of corn, a shortage of corn. Many and varied are the crop report? comhig-irto Lancaster Farming from farm?’ -0 mi over the nation. In lowa, part of the state was f m\t by drouth, and the corn crop in some areas was cur tailed, necessitating extra buying. la Mississippi, one area reports a good year Yet Missouri farmers are seeking funds to buy hay to feed drouth-stricken herds- In parts of Pennsylvania, excessive -rains especially in the western part ' — caused some farmers to sell their dairy cows during September rather than attempt to carry the animals over the winter months. Here are some other Pennsylvania reports: A fall roundup of Pennsylvania crop production for 1956 shows bigger volume for all field crops except oats and late potatoes, with wheat only slightly on the down side. From the most bountiful potato yields, per acre (165 cwt per acre, 20 bags more than last yearii the smallest acreage in history, has produced 1 , almost theJsarae number of tubers as last year. _ ' „ Ip spite of a reduc^^yo d rPennsylvania coimirercial apple 4,370,000 bu. for consumers "Killing frosts at blossom time in May caused a reduction from 6,500,000 in 1955. Peaches fell about 19 per cent below 1955; grapes, at 26,200 tons, were 2,200 more than last year. Good, bad; increases, decreases it’s all part of the gamble entitled farming. " Civil Defense—on the Farm .--"Much has been said about Civil Defense, and the. lack of it, and sometimes. one<is inclined to think efforts in that directi£S3uare + he futile or impractial side. Yet.Atie"cml defense role of the farmer is much more --important than he may realize. " • - A five-point farm program has been outlined by the Federal Civil Defense Administration: 1, take care of your family and yourself; 2, keep your farm in produc tion; 3, be ready to market your production; 4, be ready to take in evacuees' and 5, plan to help others. Lancaster County’s astounding agricultural production record during World War II is history. The County ap plied itself, despite, rationing and restriction. Much more there is that must be known. Many of the rules of civilian defense are principles the farm family has long applied.-. Reminders, such as these, however, poinKcut the important role of-the farm in civil defense. Pray GotNwe’ll never be forced to make use of them. Most stockmen animals with light-colored hair—“blonds,” so to speak,'or animals with white areas, can suffer extreme discomfort from sunburn during the summer season. They provide shade for such animals and allow them to graze -and feed during the hours of dark- —ness. t But what may be a surprise' to some is that the sun alone doesn’t causelsunburning. It results from a combi nation of intense sunlight, long periods of Exposure, and chlorophyll and other substances found in some plants, which, all together cause “photosensitization,” a term denoting the actions which makes animals sensitive to the rays of the sun. *• Dr. F. A. HalV Purdue veterinarian, says feeding dry {jay to animals therefore may be helpful in preventing this combination from developing, since photosensitize tioir will not occur if chlorophyll and other substances from green plants are not present in great amount/ in: the animal. Provision of shade and permitting an*hal§r to graze at night also helps prevent it, of course. Jf STAFF Business Manager CROP REPORTS it Makes Animals Sunburn? By JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) • Back m January, 1907 Lancas ter County tobacco growers and buyers made front page news., involving “docking” practices set up by the buyers when deliveries were made at the warehouses The dealers purchased the 1906 ciop while the tobacco was still in thd field; the growers signing a contract to deliver the product in a certain condition. Previous to the delivery sea son the dealers sent out circulars to the farmers warning them to be careful as to the'manner in which the crop was bimdled, as they would receive and pay for only marketable tobacco. When deliveries began shortly after the first of the year the dealers objected to the manner in which the tobacco was deliv ered,'contending that the farm eis did not properly - sort the “seconds” from the “wrappers” and started to “dock” the grow -ers, offering them the alternative of acepting the lower price or taking their" tobacco home and resort at. As most deliveries en tailed considerable expense and travel over bad roads, the lower price was acepted under .protest. The farmers declared they had packed-the tobacco the same as in previous years, and the “dock ing” scheme was a move by the buyers to get the tobacco at a lower price than the contract called for. - 1 Editor Some growers agitated the payment of a cash deposit by the packers, to be forfeited if they failed to take the crops at the .price agreed upon, and advocat ed a growers organization to pro tect them from unfair treatment at the hands of tobacco dealers. 25 Years Ago Twenty-five yeacs ago, on the Lancaster farm of Park Cope land, Cochranvilie, the began with 11 cows dead and two others sick from an outbreak of shipping fever. Dr. Hicknjan and Dr. Jas Hogg, veterinarians, per formed an autopsy on one of the animals, declaring- it was the worst land of a. case -they had ever encountered. Four coWs in the Copeland herd were hot sick, which were believed to had been inoculated before coming into his possession. Twenty-five years ago, there were few states in which fraud and gasoline tax: bVasi&tf .was not practiced, bearing full tes timonial to tfie futility of tax ing a necessary commodity so high that the public rebels. ' On the Atlantic Seaboard, gaso line bootlegging Was reported “big business”. Governor Pinchot estimated that tax evasion hi Pennsylvania amounted to $lB,- 000,000 a year. Frauds also had been exposed in Illinois and In diana, authorities in the latter declaring a minimum loss in rev enue of $2,000,008 annually. Lou isiana reported immense quan tities of gasoline Brought into that state tax-free from Texas. An Idaho farmer bought 20 gallons of gas, added two ciphers on his ticket, claiming exemption from the state for 2,000 gallons, collecting the claim Of $lOO. The most interesting thidg in hfs case was that lie ivas convicted of fraud and fined $5, leaving him a clear profit of $B5. The Janflary, session of the Lancaster County ToSadto Growers' Association wan-held in the Farm Bureau IfcjOin,, Wool-. variations addto our know' jfcorth Btfildm*. Lancaster; with, » M toe, early BIG FIREFLIES IN JAMAICA In Germany, 50 years ago, .newspapers were commenting on the sagieity of a swallow which was being pursued by a hawkr and flew through the open win dow of a law court. Flying about ,the room, it at last rested on -the head of a Justice, and re-' mained there' until the hawk Went away. 1907 % CIGAR PRDUCTION The 9th Internal Revenue District, of which Lancaster was the center, held top place _ among the cigar manufactur ing districts in the United States. During 1906, this dis trict produced 763,702,018 cig ars in 2,377 factories, consum ing 14,766,543 pouhds of to bacco. The 3rd district, of New York, ranked second place, where 698,153,671 cigars were manufactured that year. Four Gospels Lesson for January 6, 1957 'T'HE story of the Wise Men Who came to-see the 1)367 Jesus is •Sft, familiar that this column will deal this week with a question in the background of all Study otthe Gospels. Matthew is-to be the book studied in the churches during the next three months. The existence of lour gospels raises a very an cient question: “ one? The early Christians church was somewhat embarrassed b y that questidtf. More attempts tha’n one \Verd made to discard all but dnS, or e I se to combine them all into ohe hi rmo n iz ed' Dr. Foreman story. If the four gospels are' alike, why repeat? And if they are dif ferent, which ‘isM3ghtT Most of the problems involved cannbt even be raised here. But there is room to set down a feW holes on that oh'e question: What is the point of hav ing four gospels? GAspiis and Gospal The conclusion to which the early church came, and for which we may well "be' grateful, is that tliere is only one Gospel, but four gos pels: Adopted at rvery early date were the headings we still react: The Gospel: according to Matthew, according to Mark—and so- on, The gosp'els tell different Stones, but the story is still the tame They alfbear witness to the same Christ. Just as-in a courtroom "trial it is important if possible to have more than ope eye-witness report of an accident, it fs valuable to have mbre than one repoft of die life, character and teaching of Jesus But just as, in _ court, it would raise- suspicion If ail the eyi-wit- * £ nesses agreed on all details, so it would raise suspicion and be of no help if all our gospels agreed on 'details. The"essentials of the tour 'gospels'are all the garne; : Week :cf Farming Travelers returning from Ja maica, 50 years ago, reported fireflies in that land which emitted so brilliant a light that a dozen of them, enclosed with in an inverted glass tumbler, enabled a person, to read and write at. night .without the least difficulty. The flies, com pared in size to American hon ey bees, were said to be per fectly harmless. V ' V Background Scripture: Matthew I—2 Devotional Reading: Macah 4*l*s. THEY USED THE BATH TUB Douglas Watson, San Francis co builder of cottages, 50 yeafs ago, believed that the ment of people had something * to do with their cleanliness, or uncleaMiness, as the case might be. He stated that people failed to , take a b'ath because there was _ no tub in' the house. If NoW I am* building small cottages for p"66r people and each one will have a bathtub. We will call on 'thdse people Some day to prove that I am fight”. ' When Watson made an inspec- tion at one of his cottages later, he found the bathtub had been carefully filled with darth,” and' a t lovely garden was abloom with A fuchsias and geraniums, A- half century ago, toothpick* imported into this country were made from quill and came irdfa France. The largest factory in the world was near Fans, whef* an annual output of 20,000,060 quills' Were, produced. The fac tory originally manufactured quill pens, but when these went*4| out of general use xt was con- - verted into a toothpick null. OWNER GETS FINED Baltimore, Md. The owner • of an Arlington avenue apart ment house, Nathan Harris, was fined $lOO and costs on a charge of “causing a gas installation to a be made in such a way as to ” create a hazard to life.” Two tenants in the apartment house "died from leaking gas. ~ tney v.o - ni\e kept it. should be lemembeied that our tour gospels v;cie not the only ones in existence The eaily church did a good job of sifting, as any one can see who will take the trouble to read some of the fantastic osj ™ dull productions the church re- 1 jected (See The Apocryphal New Testament, in any large library.) Portraits . Not one of the gospels is what Ini modem times Would be called & | "definitive biography” of Jesus —a story so complete that'no on* m would ever bother to investigate! d| further. They are not biographic*! J at all. They are not they are raoie hke commercial photograph is a 'neu tral sort of thing. A anj interpretation, Mark interpret*! Jesus as the mighty Son of God' with power. Very little teaching i* 1 reported by Mark —it is. all action,] and rapid action too. Luke’s por-j trait is of the broad humanity o£ Jesus, his sympathy with all men,] with women and children too. H* gives us Jesus, the ideal human be- ing.' John’s portrait interpret* Jesus as the divine Son of God', ini constant touch and harmony with 1 the Father on high, doing th* works of God and teaching the] truth of God. In other gospel*! Je'sus’ teaching is, so to speak, in; his own name In John the reader) is never allowed to forgdt that It) is all the teaching of God Matthew] combmes the wonder-worker and the teacher in one portrait;. Jesu* appears as the One with Authority, From th% very beginning, where Jesus is presented as the scion ofi kings, to the end where he is given, “all authority in heaven and earth," he moves with majesty and .power. Vltwpoinft . Not only are the portraits dif ferent, but the viewpoints of the four gospels are varied. Two fea- - ' tines of Matthew’s point of view; will be evident all the way along., *|» One IS that he tries tor interest. Jewish readers. He quote* the Old; ■ Testament more often anyj other gospel; he traces Jesus' fam-, ily tree back to Abraham through the Hebrew kings (quite a centrist to the family tree given by Luke).’ To this day it remains one of th* best gospels for interesting -Tew* in the life of Jesus. The othffr fea turfe Is that while Matthew fcteg&s,' aa it were, on the small stage 'of fa the Jewish people, he does not re main there; The Christ who cdJiie* - v first only at heir to the thfdne of .David, is at last seen to have th* very authority of God himsell 'Al 'ady fa thr ;lfts of the wis* " \e* % ft
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