4-—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 23, 1951 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by QPTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspaeh Robert E, Best Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins . Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years' $5.00; 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 If You Don’t Toot Your Own Horn... The problem of promotion in the poultry industry is one of the most controversial issues in the field of agri cultural today. Everyone agrees that promotion is needed, but no one seems to be willing to “bell the cat.” And the result? Duplication of effort, waste, hit and miss promotion campaigns and a real dollars and cents loss to producers, feedmen, and processors. But in the industry, the egg producers balk at pro moting broilers, the turkey producers hold up their hands in (horror at contributing to the promotion of either eggs or broilers and no one seems to be interested in promot ing the use of heavy fowl. The American Dairy Assn., the American Meat In stitute and the citrus and fruit growers cooperatives have shown how much influence producer- promotion- can- have on the consuming public. Tests run by the ADA have shown that milk and' milk products consumption in a given city can be increased by five to 10 per cent with a strong, well organized advertising and promotion campaign a cam paign financed by both producers and manufacturers. The result? Everybody wins. The consumer eats more of a good product, the manufacturer makes a profit and the producer makes a profit. There is no reason that a national organization can not be set up to promote the poultry industry and poultry products. Part of the machinery is available. During March, the Poultry and Egg National Board is going To put on an all out campaign during National Egg Month four color ads in the national magazines, point of sale posters in stores, out-door advertising, the works. However, another promotion campaign, ‘Operation Bootstrap,’ has been designed for March to handle a 20 per cent culling program in breeding flocks. The USDA and chain stores are handling the promotion of this campaign. It is time that something was done in the poultry industry to prevent wasteful duplication such as this,< It will take work, firm and steady thinking, and enough desire on the part of producers to lend financial support to the organization to make such a project effec tive. Farm Land Prices Too High? The farm real estate market apparently still refuses to conform to the general pattern of agriculture. And the degree of non-conformity amazes even some of the experts. The national average price per acre this year is said to be $BB, a record high. This compares with $B5 per acre last year and $75 in 1951 during the Korean war boom. Why this seeming paradox? One analyst cautions us not to credit (or blame) the “ex-urbanite” the city dweller who craves to own a farm. Rather, we must attrib ute it to agriculture’s technological revolution, he says. Farmers themselves bought nearly 65 per cent of all farms sold last year. In the main, they bought neighboring farms to expand their operations. City dwellers were in the mar ket, all right, but in the vast majority of cases, he quotes the Department of -Agriculture.as saying, they bought part-time farms and small plots “which could not be op erated full-time.” . . Is the farm land worth the price? The answer would have to be “yes” for those who can afford it and have definite plans for taking advantage of new techno logical know-how on a long-term basis. The Com Belt Farm Dailies j All things considered about the only hope we can muster for the younger generation of this day and age arises from the realiza tion that the roust-abouts and ne’r-do-wells of our youth turned out to be pretty solid citizens. (Chicago Dally Drovers JoumaJ) STAFF Advertising Director Circulation Director DIDN’T WE? by jack reichard SO YEARS AGO (1907) The McCormick estate, owning 22 farms in Cumberland, Dauphin and Lancaster counties, with headquarters at Harrisburg, held monthly meetings of its tennants, when notes were compared and reports made. The February, 1907, session was held at one of the Cumberland farms, when a report for the year 1906 was given. ' On the 22 farms that year 12,- 785-bushels of wheat, 34,200 bush els of corn, 6,900 bushels of pota toes and 6,500 bushels of oats were raised. Enos Farence topped the tenant farmers with 2,900 bushels of wheat and averaged 100 bushels of corn to the acre. Levi Farance raised 45 bushels of oats per acre on his farm, and George Nauss gathered 206 bush els of potatoes to the acre. Publisher Editor SALVATION ARMY MADE NEWS . Fifty years ago this week, Miss Booth, head of the Salvation Army, in this country, announced the inauguration of anti-suicide bureaus in all large cities in the United States. The bureaus were designed to assist and advise persons contem plating suicide. The New York bureau was in charge of Colonel Thomas Hol land, who handled the cases of men, with Mrs. Brigadier Bovill in charge of women applicants. Each was assisted by a staff of experts. The official announce ment stated; “The Salvation Army extends an invitation to all distressed per sons who are tempted to commit suicide to call at headquarters, or if unable to do so, write to either of the officers named.” The plan was adopted following the success of similar bureaus op erated in London under the di rection of General William Booth. r* 4 MENNONITES SELECT MINISTER Southern Lancaster County Mennomtes, at their Mechanic Grove Meeting House, chose John Moyer,-of Andrews Bridge, for their minister, 50 years ago this week. The vacancy was caused by the death of Rev. Tobias Bru baker, of Rawlmsville. The elec tion was made by the means of drawing slips on which the names of candidates were written. * t ROUGH WINTER IN NORTHWEST A letter to The Quarryville Sun from a subscriber in Chewelah, Wash., dated Feb. 20, 1907, told of a three foot snow with ther mometer readings of 35 degrees below zero in that section of the country. The letter stated in part; “Traffic is almost at a stand still in many places, and the price of living and fuel famine are something fierce. Hay is $2O per ton; all other feed likewise. But ter, 40 cents per pound; eggs 5 cents apiece; potatoes from $33 to $35 per ton. The stockmen are in a bad way and are losing, lots of their stock, and it still snows. Wood'is $7.50 per cord in Spo kane.” - * V H PITTSBURGH LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS Friday, Feb. 22, 1907 Cat tle steady; choice, $5.70-6; prime, $5.50-5.65. Sheep steady; prime wethers, $5.60-5.75; culls and com mon, $2-3; lambs, $5-7.75; veal calves, $B-8.50. Hogs steady; prime heavies, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $7.40; light Yorkers, $7.25, pigs, $7; roughs, $6-6.75. 25 Years Ago ‘ The program of stabilization un der the 1931 Agriculture Market ing Act had been a'burden on the This Week Lancaster Farming •****),. ' ► « ft Treasury and had not lifted prices as it was hoped, Louis J. Fisher, National Grange Master, told the U.S. Senate Committee on Agri culture and Forestry in testifying at Washington in support of a de benture or equalization fee pre gram for farm products. Taber, expressing favor for the debenture, described it as neither a bounty nor a subsidy but as a method for equalizing production costs. Also testifying in support Of the debenture welre E. A. O’- Neal, vice president of-the Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation, R. W. Blackburn, of the California Farm Bureau Federation, i and Earl C. Smith, of the Illinois Agri culture Association. ** ' * L.C.A.E.A. ELECTS OFFICERS The Lancaster County Agricul ture Extension Assn _ held its 1932 annual gathering at Lancas ter. Officers elected were; Abner Risser, Bainbridge, president; Harry Metzler, Paradise, vice president; Dr. F. A. Achey, Lan caster, treasurer; D. M. Landis, Lancaster R 7, secretary. V t * County Farm Agent, Floyd S. Bucher, was the mam speaker at the session. - * On the Lancaster farm of Ray- Background Scripture: Matthew 14:1 —16:12.' Devotional Reading: Romans 2:6*16 Reading Signs Lesion for February 24, 1937 ALL human beings, civilized or •*"* not, are used to reading signs. Indeed all human communi cation and life goes by sign-lan guage. Words, prmted or spoken, are signs. No word on a, page looks like the thing it represents It is no more than a set of marks but the way the marks are ar ranged makes meaning for all who ban read Expression of people’s faces, gestures, road signs, we learn to interpret be- fore we c-’n read! The farm er looks for weather signs, Dr- Foreman the fisherman and the hunter have their own signs to look for. There are few people so stupid that they see only what they see. Wanted! A Sign! When Jesus was teaching and healing in Galilee, he was doing so without any official authoriza tion from what we-would call the church. And yet he claimed to speak and work with the authori ty of God. The church officials did not take this easily, They kept pestering him: “Show us a Sign!” they said. How do we know you are right? How do we know what you say is from God? To this"day there are people who are not sat isfied with what God has shown us. They want to know: How tip we know the Bible is true? How do we know Jesus was the Son of God? If the preacher would let himself be bitten by rattle snakes, without getting hurt; If the stars arranged themselves in the sky so as to spell a personal message from heaven; if some modern Joshua would make the tun stand still, such people think they would find It easier to be lieve. Tba Signs Art Up Jesus steadily refused to pro duce any such “sign from heaven" a* he was challenged to call dswa mond Hershey, one mile east of Strasburg, along Route 41, thirty five out of his flock of thirty seven chickens were stolen. The gasoline from his automobile also was drained and the license plates removed. ■—si' * Lancaster County Farm Women Society No. 11 met with Mrs. Frank Warfel. Mrs. E. Harry Shenk, the president was in charge of the session. Mrs. Wil liam Bucher gave a report of the 1932 agriculture extension meet ing held at Lancaster. The group decided to send magazines to the Veterans Hospital at Coatesville. YOUNG TURKEY LOSSES REDUCED Speaking at the 1932 Cornell University Farm and Home Week, Prof. H. C. Knandel, head of the poultry husbandry department at the Pennsylvania State College, told how experiments at the col lege set new standards for raising turkeys. Within three years methods were perfected so that from 85 to 90 per cent of a hatch could he raised compared with 30 to 70 per cent before the studies were made he said. Deputy Attorney General John A. Moss, -in an opinion for Secre tary of Highways Samuel S. Lewis, 25 years ago, ruled that the State Highways Department was not obligated to maintain solely at its expense borough streets contracted as parts of atate-aid highways with the aid of county funds but without as sistance from the borough. True, he worked “miracles, but it is evident that the kind of mira cles he did were not the kind of "sign” the Pharisees wanted. Hit paighty works were always-simp iy and quietly done, out of sym-j pathy with human suffering. They' were never done in dramatic, showy fashion. Never in the child ish way: - See Me do this—don't' you think I’m Wonderful? Jesus< told the Pharisees that the signs l of the times were there to be read. By "times” he did not mean years or dates. He meant what 1 in the Old Testament, usage, withi which both Jesus and the Phari- 1 sees were familiar, the “times of God’s visitation,” the special era l of God’s visiting the earth and t man for special purposes, in all of Jesus’ work and words was the claim, made outright or implied, ttfat God was in and back of it all. The Pharisees wanted some sign that this was true, some sign out side Jesus. But Jesus , was thei only sign there was. If they could not see God in him they could not see God any other way. So it isj today. Jesus is still the Sign of God. Wanted; Eyes! The Kingdom of God is at its core a kingdom of souls, of the' spirit; and the signs of its coming l are spiritual. An atheist was once 1 asked what it would take to make him believe in God, and his an swer was, "Trot him out and let me see him do something!” Well, God cannot be led around on a leash. But he is doing things all the time, for those who have eyes to see. The beauty and the order and grandeur of the universe speak of his power and glory. The goodness and the grace that we see in the lives of men and .women speak of the creative Goodness that made such per sons. Furthermore, God is at work every day, transforming lives. The great miracle is not turning stonea into bread but sin ners into samts. The great mira cle Is men and women who live’ above the rules and standard of ordinary mankind, men and wom en who already in this noisy world have found the melodies of heaven. When you read in the Bible, especially in Jesus’ teach ing. an invitation and challenge to high, pure, brave living, and you think, “This is asking too much, this is beyond human na ture,” remember there are people who actually do live “beyond hu man nature” as you say, because they have been touched by the Divine. Such men and women are the living signs of God. (lull o« outllnaa capyri|hU< by tha OlrUtan if Christian Ednaatlan, Nt* tlsnal CumU •! tb( Charebei *f CbrlU la (ha U. S. A. Rilunl by CtmiaaaMy NMalanlMt) ■is. 1 *
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers