4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 8, 1957
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
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Five Points to Beat Brucellosis
The College of Agriculture at The Pennsylvania State
University offers five suggestions for keeping brucellosis
out of your herd after it is tested and found brucellosis
free.
ONE: Raise your own replacements. If you must buy
cows, insist on negative health charts. Keep herd additions
separate from the herd until they have been fresh 30 days:
then retest them to be sure. Remember, vaccinated nega
tive herd additions are worth much more to you than nega
tive animals which are not vaccinated.
TWO; Do not let visitors bring brucellosis in. Insist that
visitors disinfect their shoes, or keep them away from your
cows. Keep them out of feed alleys and away from feed.
THREE: Practice good herd sanitation. Det your cows
freshen in clean stalls. Keep them away from the herd un
til they have cleaned up well. If you suspect an abortion
has occurred, isolate the animal and consult your veteri
narian.
FOUR: Vaccinate your heifers. This is most important.
Heifers vaccinated between six and eight months of age
are resistant to brucellosis; they are not “sitting ducks” if
exposed to the disease. Properly vaccinated herds are more
likely to stay out of Bang’s trouble.
FIVE: Support your county brucellosis program. Keep
brucellosis as far away from your herd as possible by help
ing to get your neighbors'interested in cleaning up their
own herds. If your area is milk-ring testing, protect your
self by taking the right kind of samples. Do not send milk
from recently fresh cows or from cows with mastitis. Be
sure your herd is tested regularly.
Dr. Samuel B. Guss and Joe S. Taylor, who prepared the
five point program, point out that brucellosis control begins
with your own herd, not with a state program.
Cancer Chemical Found in Cigarettes
A Vietnamese scientist, working in Paris, has dis
covered the substance .in cigarette smoke which causes
cancer in mice when injected into them. The chemical is
identified as 3-4-9-10 Dibenzypyrene. This chemical de
velops only when tobacco is burned and is one of the
chemicals which compose the “tar” in burning tobacco.
Tobacco tar has long been suspected of causing
lung cancer. The French-educated Vietnamese scientist,
who recently made this discovery, is Dr. Nguyen Phoc Buu
Hoi, 41 years old. His discovery was recently announced in
a medical paper published by the French Academy of
Science.
The paper revealed that the new substance was
isolated after extensive tests by Dr. Hoi in the laboratory
of the Redium Institute of the University of Paris. Part of
the money for this research work was supplied by the
U. S. Public Health Service.
Although U. S. researchers had announced in 1954
that the substance Benzpyrene, which was present in cigar
ette paper smoke, had caused cancer in mice, Dr. Hoi did
not think this was the complete answer to the problem. He
used approximately 4,000 mice in his experiments and
found that Dibenzpyrene, injected into mice causes cancer
in as little as 42 days in some cases and ultimately caused
cancer in every mouse into which it was injected. The
injection dose was one half milligram.
With Benzpyrene, the 1954 discovery, a dose five
times as much was required to produce cancer, although,
even then, cancer was not always certain.
The latest discovery is further indication if fur
ther indication is needed that cigarette smoking should
be performed in moderation. Dr. Hoi believes it is possible
for a filter to screen out Dibenzpyrene, and it is to be
hoped that research will be forthcoming shortly, giving
smokers an accurate and honest report on present-day
filters and their efficiency.
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Publisher
Editor
Advertising Director
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by jack reiciiard
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
Eastern Pennsylvania and New
Jersey were covered under a
blanket of snow, 50 years ago this
week. In Lancaster County snow
fell continuously for 15 hours to
a depth of seven inches. At Potts
ville a fall of eight inches was
officially reported, and at Lock
Haven there was a fall of 10
inches. The storm was accompain
ed‘ by strong winds, which caused
drifting, and many of the public
roads were closed.
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ROW OVER SNOW
RESULTS IN FATAL BLOW
Arthur Potter, a farmer near
Blodgetts Mills, N. Y.', was ar
rested, charged with intent to kill
Leon Stafford, his nearest neigh
bor. Stafford, who was struck on
the head with the square end of
an axe blade, was not expected to
live. The snow storm piled up
drifts on the road skirting the ad
joining farms, making it impas
sable in places. Stafford turned
off the road and was driving his
team across Potter’s land, when
the latter closed a gate and warn
ed his neighbor not to open-it.
Stafford, it was alleged, tried to
force the gate and was struck
down.
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480-POUND
WOMAN DIES
_ Women in general were dis
cussing the case of Mrs. Mary
Wyner, a Pole, of Plymouth, Pa.,
who died of dropsy at the age of
49. She weighed 480 pounds.
When only 17 years of age she
weighed 300 pounds.
The body was taken to the
cemetery in a farm wagon be
cause no hearse large enough'to
hold the coffin could be procur
ed.
A portion of the house was re
moved in order to get the coffin
in and out.
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WAGON PRICES
ARE RAISED
At a meeting of the National
Wagon Makers Assn, held at Chi
cago, 50 years ago this week, a
proposal to advance the retail
prices of buggies, wagons and
other products of the wagon mak
ers’ craft nearly 50 per cent was
ratified unanimously by the 47
members attending. A steady in
crease in raw material and trans
portation costs were the reasons
given for the advance in retail
prices.
In the New Holland section of
Lancaster County, A. B. Stoltzfus,
of Mascot, was the proud owner
of a shoat with as many legs as
a fly exactly six. The two “ex
tra legs” branched off from the
others at the knees. The shoat
weighed about 50 pounds and had
full control of all six legs. Stoltz
fus had purchased the shoat at a
sale.
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25 Years Ago
Generous donations from Lan
caster farmers went a long way
toward supplying food to a vast
army of hungry people through
out the county who, through no
fault of their own were in the
ranks of the needy, many cases
due to unemployment, back in
1932.
During the month of January,
that year, 1,395 families were sup
plied with food from the ware
house of the Community Service
Assn., the greatest appeal from
needy families in the history of
the organization.
The association reported the
following supplies were contribut
ed by county farmers and their
wives: 1,145 lbs. of flour, 2 bushel
red beets, 82 bushel apples, 149
bushel turnips, one-half bushel
onions, 701 pounds cocoa, 24 rolls,
892 bushel potatoes, 50 pounds
cabbage, 10 pounds sweet pota-
Week
:er Farming
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toes, 19 pies, 120 cakes, 435
pouhds cofffee, 250 packages Jello,
75 pounds beans, 2,726 cans of
canned goods, eight bushel car
rots, 350 pounds corn meal, 90
pounds ground wheat, 136 pounds
sugar, 100 pounds sour kraut, 70
pounds beef, 50 riounds bolonga,
10 pounds pudding, 20 pounds ap
ple butter, and quantities of cere
als, milk, soap and other items.
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HORSE ELECTRICUTED
Twenty-five years ago, March
7. 1932, a horse driven by Eph
raim Risser, of Blizabethton RD,
was electricuted while crossing
the highway.
Risser was on his way home
from Elizabethtown that day,
traveling in a sleigh over roads
covered with snow and some fal
len high voltage electric power
wires. The horse tramped on one
of the wires and'was instantly
killed. Risser escaped injury. „
That same week in March, 1932,
John Philip Sousa, America’s fa
mous bandmaster, died in Read
ing after attending a banquet in
his honor, at the age of 78.
Besides composing over 300
musical works, he also was the
author of several books. His
favorite march was “The Stars
and Stripes Forever”.
Background Scriptures Matthew 18~20j
Devotional Beading: Isaiah 55:8-9. *
Seventy X Seven
Lesson for March 10, 1957
ITS IT * mark of high breeding
never to forget an injury? One
jof the most famous Americans
(was known also as a duelist. When
he left home as a boy, his mother
jwrote him a letter which con
tained some Christian advice; but
she mixed with it an idea she
could not have found ’ he New
Testament; he
must never over
look an insult or
'• slight. It is
.father strange
”jh o w many
'Christian t
'(Christians
that
?is,) have had the
same notion.
[Long after duel- Dr * Foreman
ing was outlawed in most states,
it was still going on in the “Bible
Belt.” It has gone out there too
by now; which may be an indi
cation that people understand the
Gospel better than they once did.
The Need for Forgiveness
In a southern town there lives
a man who was in a penitentiary
in another state, for 19 years, for
'a crime he did not commit. He,
(was a stranger and he had a gun;
so when the local hoodlums ail
came up with alibis, this man was
ja convenient mark, and to the
(penitentiary he went. And''there
he stayed even after the real
(criminal confessed. Authorities
■kept him there, because if the
pets became known, and the man
(released, some important reputa
tions and careers Would be ruined.
’Finally, through the efforts of a
sister and a friend, he was re
leased, 19 years not guilty, but
punished all the same, even years
(after his innocence was estab
lished. Would you be in a forgiv
ing mood after that? Not many
people have tremendous, long-last
pg injustices done to them of
that sort; yet the story illustrates
one point about forgiveness: it is
not always a matter of forgiving
persons directly. One may suffer
severely, unjustly, without its
being possible, to Jdentify the per-
AGRICULTURE
DEPT. REPORTS
Secretary of Agriculture John
A. McSparran, in his annual re
port of his department’s activities
during 1931, listed the rounding
up of unscrupulous milk dealers
in the state. The report stated:
“Rounding up unscrupulous
dealers who were practicing a
short-changing scheme on mio
producers has brought definite re
sults during the past year. Fif
teen of these dealers were caught
under-reading the Babcock but
terfat test and were not only
heavily fined but were required
to pay in rebates more than $5,-
odb to the farmers who had been
cheated. While this type of busi
ness has proven very costly to
farmers, it is only fair to env
phasize the fact that the gredP
majority pf milk dealers are not
in this class”.
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GUERNSEY BREEDERS
ELECT OFFICERS
Twenty-five years ago this week
Benjamin G. Bushong, Columbia
R 2, was elected head of the Lan
caster County Guernsey Breeders’
Assn, at a meeting held at th<||
West Lampetec High School.
Other officers elected that eve
ning included first vice president,
S. M. Root, Landisville; second
vice president, D. L. Gallagher,
Peach Bottom; secretary-treasur
er, Willis S. Nolt, R 8 Lancaster.
The executive committee con
sisted of H. H. Snavely, Willow
Street; H. L. Mumma, Landis
ville; Roy H. _ Ferguson am£
James Hastings, J.
Howard Brinton, Gap; Christian
S Wolf, Quarryville.
sons who are responsible fir
jthingi we suffer (such as unfair!
jtaws, or customs which harm
us in some way); but although]
we cannot forgive the responsible!
persons—who may be many—faceL
to face, It is just as un-Cbris-9
tian to harbor bitterness in thej
|ieart against “late” in general
as It is to feel bitterly about some'
pne we know.
God Has Mora fo Put Up With
When Peter asked his question'
about forgiveness, he was think*;
ing, it seems, of a kind of rule.)
Forgive a man once, twice . . .
to seven times; but the eighth,
time is one too much? Jesus’
ply,—that if a brother repents
times seven times, we are to for*,
give him just as many times,—is
not a matter of strict arithmetic.]
Jt is not intended as a rule. It is'
Jesus way of saying: Forgiveness;
must be without limit. The re J
son Jesus suggests, in his parable,,
goes to the heart of things. Godp
has far more to forgive than we
have. Even an apostle, Jesus,
suggests, has sinned against God
more than any man has ever|(o
.sinned against him. What we have,
{to put up with from others, every}
iday, are trifles compared with,
what God has to put up with from]
His. If the reader thinks this is{
.an exaggeration, let him consider*
tone pomt: the way we Christians!
•misrepresent God. His reputation]
,in this world is maintained or*
blackened by those who profess]
)to be his people. We claim to be.
his children, and yet we often
act as if we had been sired by the*
devil. Few if any human beingsj
'have been so persistently slan-|
'dered as God is by his professed]
{Forgiving From tho Heart
Forgiveness has been called aJ
ifiction, and in a. way it Is. It itj
not the same as ignoring or con-|
jdonlng, but it treats the offend-!
er exactly as if no offense ha®
ibeen committed. That may be«
(fiction; but there is no true for-;
giveness without forgetting. God’a
forgiveness is complete: he castf,
forgiven sins "behind his back”—■
he "remembers them no more.”i
Human forgiveness like all thing*
jhuman is never complete, for in
spite of our best efforts the thing!
will keep coming back to mind*
Nevertheless, true Christian for
giveness makes every effort to
forget Forgiving without forgetjm
ting leaves things much as
were. Only in complete forgive*
ness can there be a complete new,
start Erasing the whole thine
from mind, living as if it never'
had happened; this may be « flo*
Ition but it is a fiction of love;
i (Baled on outline! copyrlthted by tad
DlTlslon of Christian Edncatlon*Nal
tlonal Connell of the Churches of ChrUi
In the «. 8. Released by Community
press Serrloii)
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