4—Lancaster Farming Friday, Jan. 25, 1957
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Breeders Ideas Have Merit
Two excellent proposals came from meetings of
breeders associations last week at Farm Show.
The first of these is that a program for the eradica
tion of swine brucellosis be established.
It was noted by the association that during past tests
of swine in the state, incidence of the disease is small.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture also seems
inclined to assist in providing compensation for animals
that will have to be disposed of.
Therefore it seems that the backers of the program
should try to get the plan into action as soon as possible
while interest is high.
With a working swine and cattle brucellosis pro
gram, Pennsylvania will gain stature and preference in the
eyes of out of state buyers for Keystone State stock.
The other proposal is for a “warm up” dairy show
for breeders in the Middle Atlantic states in preparation
for the National Dairy Show.
With the facilities available at Harrisburg and the
transportation and communication facilities available, it
seems a “natural” for Pennsylvania to play host to such
a show-' . . ,
At the same time, it will give Pennsylvania breeders
an opportunity to match their best against cattle of the
surrounding states with a minimum of effort and expense.
A Lesson From the Feedbunk
Probably none of us realizes it, but from a nutrition
standpoint those steers, hogs or chickens on the farm act
ually eat better than we do. As a rule, they get more of the
right kinds of foods than do humans, at least.
This was pointed out by a feed manufacturer the
other day to emphasize the advances made in animal nutri
tion in recent years. He went on to point out that the re
duced mortality and healthy development of young babies
in large measure accounted for the increased life-span of
humans, and this in turn was largely a matter of better
nutrition formula feeding of infants. We formula-feed
the baby, all right, he continued, but as soon as he can yell
and make known his desires, most parents start giving him
what he wants and not what he needs. With animals, on the
other hand, we formula feed them from the cradle to the
grave, so to speak, and consequently, they are much better
fed.
Certainly he has a point. Noting the strain on that
last notch in the belt, we’re not all sure that last helping of
pie and ice cream would have been included in our pre
scribed formula, even though it seemed a good idea at the
time. The idea, of course, would be that utopian state
wherein all those things we should eat and want to eat
Would coincide. Maybe human nutritionists would have
more luck taking that tack than in trying to tell us what we
should and should not eat. At any rate, there is a lesson
for us humans out there in the feedbunk
— The Corn Belt Farm Dailies
USING THE OLD NOGGIN
Saw a man the other day trying to park a station
wagon between two cars with only inches to spare on eith
er side. He finally made it, but there wasn’t room enough
for him to open his side door. It appeared he would have
to back out and find a new parking place or remain trapped
inside his station wagon. He solved his problem though
He crawled ov°r the seat, opened the door at the rear, and
slid out into the street. Every new year seems to present
many “impossible” situations, but if we use our heads like
the driver of the station wagon, we’ll squeeze by all right
Shell Chemical Agricultural News.
A New York bank will now serve tea on Mondays from
four to six. As yet adjoining restaurants have made no
plans to make loans to their customers. Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
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BY JACK REICHARB
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
Readers in general were inter
ested in the story of “The Wild
Man of Borneo”, a poor old
drunken sailor, whom P. T. Bar
nura, the great circus showman,
was trying to reform. Bamum
was an active supporter ,of the
temperance movement in this
country a half century ago.
The old sailor, whom Bamum
had known for many years, was
an expert with the pocket knife,
and during long voyages across
the Pacific he would whittle out
skulls, skeletons and other things.
Finally he found himself at New
Bridgeport, Conn., and destitute.
He had nothing but a few wooden
skulls and skeletons fastened to
gether with wires which rattled
when shaken He went to Barnum
to try and sell these. He was
ragged, hairy and hungry.
“Why, where have you been?”
“Been to Borneo.”
“Well, you look it! Come in and
sit down. We are just going to
have supper!” said the showman.
Th tramp sailor begged Bar
num to put him in a cage, like a
wild beast, to keep ' him from
drink and where he could sit and
whittle and sober up. That is
how “The Wild Man of Borneo”
was conceived, a great sideshow
spectacle for circus goers of 50
years ago.
The aged man refused to play
wild man after Bamum died. It
was said the showman had left his
friend a considerable amount of
money.
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SOCIETY MATRONS
CONCERNED OVER
HIRED GIRLS
Newly-landed servant girls in
to this country half a century ago,
brought with them a source of
trial and annoyance for families
vho employed them, especially
matrons of the more fashionable
households. The more unsophisti
cated the newcomers were, the
more ignorant they were of femi
nine ways in America, according
to an article published in the
New York Herald.
The story told of Christine, a
young Swedish girl, who came td
a family residing in Moms
Heights, N. Y. She had just
landed, was engaged through an;
employment agency and entered
upon her duties abounding in
alacrity but also ignorance.
The young mistress of the
household noted with concern
that'Christine was innocent about
corsets. In fact the hired girl
had never seen one. She did not
even know what they were
The matron, feeling that Chris
tine’s apparel was not quite suit
able for appearing in the dining
room as a waitress, made a trip
down town that afternoon and
purchased a cheap but durable
pair of corsets, which she pre
sented to the new domestic that
evening with a smile of self-con
same time that the girl should
wear them in the future, begin
ning the next day.
When serving breakfast the fol
lowing morning, there was no;
question about the new girl wear
ing the corsets Even a near-sight
ed person could tell that because
she had them on the outside of
everything else.
The matron was aghast, the
young husband shamefully a
mused and Christine gloriously
happy and proud as a peacock.
In Sweden, 50 years ago, the
government was concerned in the
promotion of the' use of tele
phones, with the result that in
some sections of that country the
instrument was in more general
use than anywhere else in the
world.
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READS BY LIGHT OF
SAUSAGE
Prof. Hans Molisch, of Prague,
according to a London Mail dis
patch, 50 years ago, had been
able to read a newspaper by the
microbic glow emanating from a
Week* ■ ■ r
r Farming
sausage.
Prof. Molisch explained that all
meat contains the microbe, which
projects a greenish-white light.
"With sausages it is not so fre
quent. but is, when present, much
stronger,” he declared.
He noted that the presence of
these microbes in meat was not
sign of decay, for in no case had
they been found in meat unfit fox'
human consumption.
In Norway, back in 1907, a new
fertilizer, containing - nitrogen
taken from the atmosphere, was
in production. The fertilizer was
claimed to be nearly as good for
plants as Chile saltpeter, and its
cost much lower.
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25 Years Ago
Among the. many schemes
which have been projected by
politicians and others in real or
pretended efforts to aid the farm
ers of the country, few have
been of any practical benefit.,Jn
fact, some have been productive
of more harm than good.
But there is one project of gov
ernment aid, started 25 years ago,
which has in general been help
ful. It is the agricultural service,
whereby farm and home, demon
stration agents, trained for this
important work, have gone among
■••kciciHi Sorlpt»rei Mktthtw t!l
Devotional Reading: James 5:13-20.
Health and Sin
Lotion for January *7, 1957
IT TAKES a long time for lome
Ideas to sink in Sometimes it
happens that a father or mother
will give a child a serious talk
about something Important, but all
the child remembers is that there,
was a talk about it. Years later,
as a grown man, the former child
will suddenly exclaim: So that’s
what Father was
trying to tell me!
Much of Jesus’
teaching was
like that. He was
always giving
hints, or saying
things straight
out, which a few
faithful minds re-
membered, but
did not under- Dr. Foreman - -
stand. For year* the saying of
Jesus would be read in the Bible,
and scholars would puzzle over it
. . , and then hundreds of years
after Christ, people would discover
what Jesus meant. He was long
ahead of his time.
Why Nople Art in Hospitals
One of these ahead-of-time hints
was about the relation between
health and sin In the famous
story of the man who was paia-
Ijzed, brought in by "four of his
fi lends for Jesus to heal, it long
seemed a puzzling thing that the
flist thing Jesus said to him did
not appear to have anything to
do with his case' “Your sms aic
forgiven,” Jesus said. Perhaps the
four friends found It odd They did
not bung the man there to have
his soul looked into, they came to
get him back on his feet again It
was his muscles, not his morals,
that seemed to need help But
Jesus saw with ceitain eye that
the root of the man’s trouble was
not in his body, it was in his soul.
He saw there was no use sending
the man back into activity, with
an active body but a crippled soul
Jesus that day was probably the
only livmg peison who could see
tnat Today the truth has dawned
on a great many persons. Dr. Rus
sell Dicks of Duke University says
farmer*, their wives, daughter*
ancTibns,
help themselves.
The various field and home
projects and demonstrations car
ried on by these faithful work-
PRICE OF WIFE IN
AFRICA S7S
Miss Ruth Thomas, a St. Louis
missionary, returning from East
Africa, 25 years ago, reported
that when an Inhambani wanted
to get married he usually went to
work in the Johannesburg gold
mines to earn the price of a wife.
The price of a native wife, in
1932, was $75, which was paid to
the girl’s father.
‘According to Miss Thomas, the
prospective bridegroom marched
into the home of the father and
inquired in a bold voice, “Do the
cattle eat here?” (Inhambanian
for are there any marriageable
girls here?)
If the father replied affirma
tively the young man produced
the bride price and asked for the
daughter’s hand, but he also had
to obtain the consent of the girl.
If the daughter was obstinate
it often required a great deal of
arguing on the part of the parent
to change her views. “However”,
said Miss Thomas, “seldom does
a prospective father-in-law allow
$75 to slip away from him”.
Miss Thomas pointed out that
when an agreement was reached
the young couple kneeled before
the father for his blessing. He
then filled his mouth with water
and sprayed the faces of the bride
and bridegroom. That completed
the wedding
Jack Reichard
it Ea* bean Teamed that the major?
ity of patient* In hospital* would
not b* there If they were rid of
what i* eating into their mind*. ■
Sint Against flit Body
Psychiatrists, who are M D
first, and who work hand in hand
with surgeons, internal-medicine,
specialists and ao on, are tramedi
to probe for these non-physicalj
causes of disease. The causes may
be mental or spiritual, —if indeed'
they can be distinguished. A major
cause they look for is the “guilt
complex.” One who hides withm
himself, perhaps at a deeper level
than conscious memory, a seme of
'guilt, is a person who fall* easy
victim to disease, even to acci
dents. Case records are numeioua
lij which it appears that the pa
tient began to get well as soon aa
he began to “get right” in his atti
tude to God or man, or both.i
(Don’t jump to extremes heie! If
you catch cold it’s not necessauly
became you’ve been stealing ) One
of the most common sins, howJ
ever, that many commit without}
being aware of it, is the whole
class of sms against one's body,
one’s oneself Eat
ing and dunking unwisely, under
sleeping, overstrain or undernour
ishment, —in ways too many to be
counted, men and women sm
against themselves. If it is a sin
to commit suicide, it is equally a
sm to do anything or to form any
habit which shortens life. /
Can Ittus Htlpl
Jesus brought the paralyzed man
back to health of soul and body.
Can Jesus help today? Yes, in sev
eral stiong ways. (1) As a living
Spirit, he can bung assurance, of
God’s forgiveness. With that as
surance, the inner life can begin
again, healed and strong (2) As
the unseen but constant Compa
nion, Chi ist can be so real that in
his presence temptation' loses it*
power, and the desire to hve as in
his presence becomes a high mo
tive of life (3) Christ has so in
spued many a man and womani
that they have been his personal'
representatives; he has lived in
them and worked through them.
Today there are persons, in Alco
holic Anonymous, for example, i
who have been so touched by the]
Master that they no longer live
for theh own appetites, but liter-!
ally are on call day and night
wheiever they may help otliex*
who aie smuggling with the same
habit which once had dragged
them down. Whatever a Christian
does tor another in the name of
Chi ist is not only done for Him—
He does it So Christ today,
through those bear his name, help*
by cure, but better, by prevention.,
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