4 —Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 11, 1957 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa., Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alsjaach Publisher Robert E. Best p, Wallace Abel Robert G. 'Campbell Robert J. Wiggins Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5e Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, •Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3.1879 Farm Show Starts Monday Pennsylvania, and especially Lancaster County, agri culture has its eyes on .Harrisburg next week.. Monday marks the opening of the Ist Annual Penn sylvania Farm Show. From scattered exhibits of fruit and grains at annual meetings of a few farm organizations in Harrisburg, it has grown to be.the largest indoor agricul tural exposition in the United States .under one roof. The Farm Show is operated-by and for the farmers of Pennsylvania, Representatives from each of 52 dif ferent state-wide farm and related organizations, comprise the!Pennsylvania Farm Show Committee, which operates the'show. - - It is expected that approximately 10,000 individual entries of farm and farm home exhibits will be shown this year. All except certain classes of poultry are limited to Pennsylvania producers. - In the past it has been customary for Lancaster County farmers to come home witli than their just share of the blue and purple ribbons. This year should prove no exception. Last year the County copped 92 of 94 tobacco prizes and-the crop is even better this year. j So even if you are not exhibiting, come to Farm Shqfw Monday through Friday. See how Lancaster County justifies its claim as the Garden Spot. R.E.B: Farm Safety Is The first essential for preventing accidents on your farm is for you, your family and workers to become more safety-conscious. There are many things you can do, pre cautions that will make your farm a safer place to live and work on, and winter is a good time to get them done. Weeds growing around buildings should be cut down as a fire preventive measure. And gasoline should be stored underground and well away from any buildings, and all buildings should be grounded for lightning. Fire pails, wa ter barrels, mechanical extinguishers and buckets of sand should be placed in convenient locations for use in case of fire. Keep a good ladder and hose in some handy spot. Re move all fire hazards such as wood shavings, paint rags or oily rags, piled-up paper and rubbish from your house and farm buildings. Replace worn electrical cords and plugs, and be sure that no circuit is overloaded because there are 'too many appliances plugged into a single outlet. When you follow these suggestions, you prevent fires from start ing, and small fires from blazing into big ones with heavy property damage, injuries and possible fatalities. 1 To prevent injury or loss of a finger, arm or leg, turn off ( the power before adjusting, oiling or unclogging ma chinery The working members of your family and all your help should understand the operation of every piece of machinery you have. Give all workers thorough training with new machines Warn them to take no chances with livdbtock and to be especially careful with new or strange /animals. Animals respect firmness and respond to kindness. iKnow.your animals and speak gently when approaching them. Keep young children away from machinery and froflii pens and barns Bar or fence off water tanks, cisterns, wells and pools Put all dangerous tools out of reach of children and away fiom play areas, and keep yards free Irofci garden tools, waste and rubbish. Be sure that ladders and steps are in good repair, and ladder openings are hand-railed Protect all haychute openings and avoid storing loose materials overhead. Dan ger spots such as low beams or hazardous steps should be clearly marked with white or yellow painted stripes. Or better yet, with reflective easy-to-apply plastic yellow or white “Dotties” that shine out brilliantly under poor light ing conditions or in the dark. If there are boulders or posts near driveways, they should be painted or whitewashed to rwAironf onllicionc? _ &TAFF Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director p To You By JACK REICHAKD 25 Years Ago Twenty-five years ago, dairy 1 cooperatives staged a test of I their strength in the milk wars' being waged in various states,] particularly in New York, the home of the Dairymen’s League. Cooperative Association. - ' The issue, for the mast part,] lay between unorganized farmers who sold their product at what-, ever they wene offered and or : ] gahized members who held' out, for a fair price. The cooperatives had, of course, been forced to take a drop in prices, but if they, had not existed, dairy- farmers in New York would have been in a far worse position than they were. Editor Cooperative officials pointed out that a milk war made it pos sible for the consumer to 'pur chase “cheap milk”, hut it asso meant unemployment, decreased purchasing power and unpaid hills among dairy workers. Farmers in general were urged to support the cooperatives in their efforts .to stabilize the milk industry and put an end to the milk wars. «■ * *= FISH BITES WOMAN The chief concern of the pro prietor of a fresh fish stand in a Baltimore market, back in 1932, was whether his liability insur ance policy covered fish bites. On that January morning a 30-pound carp flopped from the stand and bit Mrs. Tillie levy on the ankle. man planned suicide After making elaborate plans to- end it all, Jesse Jolliffe of Morgantown, Pa, didn’t commit suicide after ai!i. He had paid up all his debts, arranged his affairs m geneial, and then went to bar gain with an undertaker for his funeral job. la an argument over the price Jolliffe beat up the mortician and was sentenced to six months in jail. Life for James Lowne and Janet Ferguson, St. Louis, held martimonial promises, 25 years ago. After being sweethearts for sixty years they got married. That same week Judge Han son, of McCook, Neb., got his matrimonial vows mixed up. During the marriage of Ethefi Hayes. Hanson asked her if she would promise to support her husband and before he could correct his error the bnde had consented * * * Across the ocean in Kingston, England, the Rev. A. W. Orr an nounced he would referee no more football games because his decisions made the players swear. •I Elsewhere in England that week, Richard Tugwood fired out of a window, at what he thought was a cat, hit a policeman’s hel met, and was fined $lO in court * * MATCH FLAME REVEALS GOLD Dick Raycraft on Tonopah, Neb. be'.ieved in smoking, not only as a source of comfort, but also as a harbinger of good luck. In 1926 he lit his pipe and threw the burning match into a hole on his property. The flame re vealed a shiny interior which in vestigation showed to be parti cles of gold. From that hole Raycraft had taken about $50.- 000 woith of sold ore up to 1932. In Alda, Neb, the Rev. F. A ShavVly had suggested a volun tary decrease in his salary from $1,200 tto $9OO a year because of the financial strain on his con- SO YEARS AGO (1907) I Fifty years ago, many Mexican •' ranchmen who had been land 1 I poor nil (their life suddenly be- 1 came gloriously nch, with the (discovery that the native guay ule shrub contained valuable rub ber properties The utilization of the shrub 1 was no longer an experiment.,' More than $3 million had been' invested in the erection -of guay-, ule rubber factories, with the in- 5 vestment of additional millions, planned for expanding the indus-' try. ’ ' . ‘ I 1 The guayule shrub covered 1 many -million -acres of (land upon! the plateau of northern 'Mexico, extending into southwest Texas, for a distance of 150 miles. Before the discovery of its rub-t ber qualities the shrub had been considered a nuisance to the, landowner, as it interfered with cattle grazing The land had very little value before the discovery, most of it having been purchased i at thirty cents an acre. In 1907, these acres were producing an, ■ average of two tons of guayule’ per acre, selling at'sso-a ton, American money. One of the food products im ported into this country from Holland, half a century ago, was honey vinegar, which was manu- EVERYBODY Is a sinner yet not everybody is tempted to the. same sins. But being tempted is not a sign of •sin The church -be lieves that the same JesuS who “in every respect has been, tempted a? we are” (Hebrews 5:15) neverthe less was tempted without sinning. It would be a misti ' tr 'that in order to be tempted as we are, Jesus would have to have 'been tempted to all the sms there are. What this means ts simply that the way he was tempted is the way we are tempted. At Highest Moments One thing we can learn from Christ’s temptations is that it is not possible in this life to be guar anteed freedom for temptation In the first place, it can be said that only serious-minded hi g h-prmci pled people know what real temp tation is. Weak, flabby, frivolous persons fell no pull or push; they drop into sm ‘like a stone into, water You can’t feel temptation without resisting. Low-minded peo ple do what they feel like doing without thinking. They aren't even aware they have sinned. They are like dirty little boys who can't see the sense in washing they feel clean enough' It is "the cleanly per son who is conscious of dnt on his hands or clothes So only the per son with real convictions and ideals can feel the tug of tempta tion It is only people with con sciences who can be tempted to go against their conscience. Now high-minded people, people who really want to please God, often wish they could reach a stage in life where they wouldn't have to struggle to be good and to do right. But the story of Jesus shows that this is a false hope. Jesus had just been baptized when bis gieat temptations came. If ever there was a consecrated, holy per*on,„ _ wwgnmiu nf > God’s setiroval. ItV * - * Week :er Farming Tempted We Are Lesson for January IS* 195 T , factored on a commercial basis. The particular characteristic off the product was its agreeable aroma. NEBRASKA’S PRAIRIE CHICKENS A rough estimate of the num ber of prairie chickens killed in Nebraska in 1906 was placed at 5 million, of which all but one million were shipped* out of the State. BLACKSMITHING DOOMED Back in 1907 it was said that country folacksnuthing was no longer a paying enterprise ill Lancaster County. This was evi dent 'in the Lititz area, where five .of the six smithies closed up shop and went to farming. POCKETBOOK FOUND. 2 MEN RELEASED The finding of a coatdining $545,’ released one man from jail and exonerated another from the charge of. steal* jag it,' SO years ago this week.' John Womert - and Jefferso* Bard were arrested' on the charge of robbing Abram L. HoucTc, of Intercourse, of $545. The alleged crime had been committed New Holland. Womert was flock ed up, but Bard secured bail. Then came Sunday. While Jo seph Beiler, a neighbor of Houck, was on his way to church, he found a pocketbook along -the road about a mile from New-Hol land. Investigation proved it be longed to Houck. 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