4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 22, J 957
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Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
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The Weather Bureau said that Spring arrived at 4:20 p.
m. Wednesday. But driving "around the Garden Sppt the
last couple of weeks, we are inclined to think that the
Bureau is a little late. , . ,
The week of warm weather we’ve had has allowed a lot
of farmers to start their spring plowing. The winter wheat
and barley is losing- that winter yellow and early flowers
have made their arrival in the flower beds.
As we look back, it has been a busy, but not bad, winter,
But no matter how mild the winter, Spring and the be
ginning of a new growing season is always a new and
exciting event.
Our Expanding Com Belt
The Corn Belt is being let out a couple of notches,
fet year, by designation ol the Department of Agricul
tttpe 53 morecounties will be included in the area so called,
bringing the -total to 893 counties in 24'states. And most pf
these additions are outside,the old, established commpr
cialcorn area which has long enjoyed the distinction pf
being the'principal feed grain production area., ( v
Primarily, the‘new additions are counties in the
South, where grain and livestock are making rapid strides
in replacing the old one-crop economy. For the first time,
Georgia has a stake in the Corn Belt, with 14 counties to be
included. Kentucky and Maryland are in with three coun
ties each. Tennessee adds nine, North Carolina five, Ala
bama four, and Mississippi one. Other additions to the Corn
Belt are two more counties in Indiana, three in Minnesota,
one in Missouri, three in New Jersey, three in Ohio, two in
Pennsylvania and one in Wisconsin
' The inclusion of more counties m the South is the
most significant addition, of course. For a number of years
the South has been working toward a more diversified
agriculture. In fact, it was more than 25 years ago that
folks in an Alabama city put up a monument to the cotton
boll weevil in recognition of the role it had played in
showing the South the folly of the one-crop philosophy of
farming. But it is only in recent years that this change-over
has been so marked as to attract nation-wide attention.
As a trade paper pointed out recently, “the South
has good reason today to consider itself the second Com
Belt.” Then it adds: “The first, 10,states, in corn are still,
to be sure, those midwestern commonwealths whose tradi
tion in the gold grpin is almost century-old. Illinois, lowa,
Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Nebraska
South Dakota and Michigan rank one to 10 in that order, as
of the Nov. 1 estimates. , ~.
“But following closely upon the heartland bloc ot
corn states is another contiguous area in the southeast.
Kentucky is number 11 in corn, North Carolina is number
12. Pennsylvania, ranking’ 13, cuts into the South’s solidity,
but the next five states in order are Georgia. Tennessee,
Alabama, Virginia and Mississippi. Note that all of them
are ahead of Kansas (in 19th), a state whose eastern half has
long been eminent in corn. . . .
“The South cannot yet match the big Corn Belt m
average yield per acre- It has greatly boosted its yields,
however, through the extensive planting of hybrid seed and
better farm-management practices as taught by the South-’s
wide-awake agricultural experiment stations. . . .
“Those of us who wonder, now and then, whether
our mushrooming population will get ahead of our ability
to produce grain and meat, may well look to the South for
reassurance. Progress in corn, poultry and livestock below
the Mason-Dixon line, is projected in the same ascending
scale into the future, supports the belief that the good
American diet will still be enjoyed by the 250 million or
more who will constitute the United States population in
the year 2,000.”
STAFF
Spring’s Here
The Com Belt Farm Bailies
. Publisher
Editor
Advertising Director
. Circulation Director
BY JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
Half a entury ago the old
Mennomte denomination adopted
evangelism, with the movement
in full swing in Lancaster Coun
ty. Prior to 1907 this denomina
tion mot only declined to sanction
evangelistic campaigns, but op
posed it.
The Rev. Noah Mack, whose
work in the Welsh mountain mis
sion gained popularity, was one
of the first to take the lead in
the new move, and his meetings
held at 'Elizabethtown made
church history, where crowds
gathered an hour and a half be
fore the services began. Many
came from the surrounding rural
districts, who drove over long
distances. The scenes presented
that of an old-fashioned love
feast, many of the worshipers
bringing their lunch.
Elsewhere in Elizabethtown
Mrs. E. E. Coble, wife of the
local jeweler, had 'trouble with
a hen which had hatched a
brood of chicks and took a dis
like to three of them. But Mrs.
Coble also was the owner of a
pet pigeon which noted the for
lorn and motherless conditions
of the three chicks, and took the
outcasts under her spreading
wings just like the 'mother hen
should have done.
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WILD GEESE PLAGUE
FARMERS
Fifty years ago this week, farm
ers in Lehigh County were having
trouble with wild geese which
were feeding upon their sprout
ing wheat fields. The farmers re
ported tremendous, flights of
geese, far exceeding anything
known in that section before.
Charles J. Andrews, in Lower Mil
ford, declared his entire field of
wheat was laid in ruins by a flocjc
numbering several hundred.
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LITITZ FARMERS PROTEST
PIPE LINE
Another oil pipe line parallel
with two already planted was con*
templated by the Standard Oil Co.
The line passed just south of
Lititz. Farmers in the area were
anything but pleased, especially
those who had not been remun
erated for pipes laid two years be
fore.
- When the land owners released
for the laying of the first pipes
they were under the impression
that they released for only one
line but they learned the releases
gave the oil company the privi
lege of laying as many lines as
they needed.
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In Manheira that week, Harvey
B. Graybill had good luck while
opening oysters at his home,
when he found a foreign object
embedded in one of the bivalves
which he carefuly dug out with
a knife. The object was incased
in a thin isinglass-like shell, which
he peeled off and a pearl the size
of a current rolled out.
Graybill carried the pearl in
his pocket until bis son took it to
Weber, the Lancaster jeweler,
who paid him $l5.
25 Years Ago
Many Lancaster countians
joined with Moravians in the
moss-covered “God’s Acre”, at
LHitz, to greet the Easter Morn
in a sunrise service, despite an
overcast sky' which prevented the
sun from casting its rays over
the worshippers as they shouted
the glad tidings of the Resurrec
tion.
It was the 172nd annual sunrise
service in the little Moravian cem
etery, the event being just as
impressive as it was when held
two centuries before by Morav
ian brethern-in Hermhut, Sax-
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ony, across the sea.
The Rev. Edward S. Crosland,
the paster, was in charge of the
services, assisted by the Rev.
Henry J. Heydt, pastor of the
Lancaster Moravian Church.
At Bowmansville, that Easter
Sunday, fire broke out and dam
aged St. Paul Lutheran and Re
formed Church to considerable
extent. No estimate of the loss
was given. i
40 JERSEYS PERISH IN FIRE
The entire herd of 40 registered
'Jersey cattle perished when the
large barn on the farm of Deakin
& Coleman, breeders of prize Jer
seys, about four miles south of
Rising Sun, Md., burned to the
ground.
The blaze of undetermined ori
gin, was discovered about 12:30
a.m., but had made such headway
that nothing could be done to save
the herd or much of the
machinery.
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10,000 HOMELESS IN SOUTH
Death claimed a total of 343
persons as a result pi tornadoes
that swept through five Southern
States, 25 years ago this week.
Three thousand were injured,
of which 1,300 were in hospitals
and emergency relief stations.
Baekffronnd Scripture: Matthew 23.
Devotional Beading: Isaiah
Hypocrites
Lesson for March 84, 1957
THE word “hypocrite” can be
thrown around recklessly.
Some one asked Dr. W. L. Lmgle
once why there are so many hypo
crites in the church. His reply was
tjiat there are really not so many
as some people think. The church,
he says, is full of half-way Kris
tians, stupid Cl 'stians. '<•”
| n d w e a
Christians
even 2Vi% Chris-
tians. But a gei
uine hypocrite
« person who
bad and knows
and pretends
be good in o:
der to conce
bis badness.
Such persons, Dr - Foieman
•ays Dr. Lingle, are few. How
ever, we should not sit back and
suppose that _ all the hypocrites
were Billie characters. Still less
should any one imagine that to
day all the hypocrites are in the
church. People who are at least
temporary hypocrites can be found
all around us. Perhaps in usl
Family Hypocrlta*
We don’t have to gq to church
to be hypocrites. We can practice
right at home, and some of us
do all too well at it. The word
Originally meant simply “actor.”
We are all hypocrites when we-act
better than we know we are; or
When our preachments fly at a
higher level than our practice.
When Father gives the children
a lecture •on honesty, the very
day when he sells a piece of real
estate for more than he knows
it is worth; when he spanks the
children for losing their tempers—
but doesn’t spank them till he
has lost his own; when Mother
tells the childrlb at table to be
patient, though she wouldn’t wait
in line at the post office but
squeezed in out of turn; or
when she greets the visiting Mr».
Jones like a long-lost sister, only
tp say before the visitor gets in
tp her car, that she hopes that
bore never comes again;—Father
and Mother are being play-actors
The number of homeless was
estimated at 10,000. They were be
ing'cared for in Army tents and
other temporary quarters.
The number of dead in Ala
bama reached 281; Georgia’s toll
was placed at 38; 19 in Tennessee;
three in South Carolina, and two
in Kentucky.
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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, *
1932 J
Sociologists in general were
puzzeled as to the best way to
handle juvenile delinquency back
in 1932. But a New Jersey judge
did not burn any mid-night oil
while trying to determine what he
should do. He sentenced two boys
to ten licks apiece with a strap,
arose from his seat of justice, and
carried out the sentence himself.
The legal profession was of
opinion that the dignity of the
court may have suffered, but that
the community should restore it
by a vote of thanks.
queen of hoarders
In a nation wide drive to bring
money out of hiding, 25 years ago,
a woman in Chicago v/as unoffi
cially named “The Queen of the
Hoarders”. >
She went into a store in that
city, tok a fat roll of money from
the deepest corner of her hand
bag, counted off 99 one-doHar
bills and ordered a washing ma
chine delivered to her home. All
of the 99 bills were the old-time
large ones.
‘Out in Los Angeles, Joseph
Kiordan had Frank Curran >
rested for assault, then sent him
a Bible to read in jail.
Even the children may be play
acting when they take their par
ents’ lectures or discipline as if
they heard every word and meant
to do better next time, when all'
the while they are thinking about
something else; and they may I
terrible little hypocrites about
school—how riiean the teacher is,
and how all the children pick on
me, and so on.
Business Hypocrites
'Dwight L. Moody admitted the
church harbors a good many hypo- 1
crites, but—he said—there are a
lot more outside the church. Thera
are indeed. Take business for in-,
stance. Listening to the high
priests of big business in Amerp
ca, reading - the advertisements;
the man from Mars 'might taka
it seriously and believe that tha
main object of business is serv
ice. The jolly fellowship at lunch
edn clubs might be taken in tha
same- way; how can these people
be deadly rivals? The. answer is,
they aren’t. jThe club rules allow'
admittance of only one* person,
fjom each "classification.” But
in each classification the man
may be a ruthless rival of otlLf
men in the same line mot in this
club. And as for service, it is
.quite true this is an aim of busi
ness, but the aim is making mon
ey. "Even men in “professions”
which have a long and honorable
record of service, may be
there for the simple reason that
there is more money in it than in
anything else they w6uld find con
genial. When a town finds itself
year after without a resident d
tor or minister simpjy because It
is a town of poor people, the-citi
zens are a little dubious about
the "Service" profession*.
HypoorDis in Church •
Which brings up the kind of hypo
crites who drew Jesus' fire—tha
hypocrites in church. Aren’t wo
all hypocrites when we tip our
heads back and sing, “Jesus,
I my cross have taken, all to
leave and follow thee”—when
decline even the small oppat
tunities for service the church
offers us? Isn’t a minister a hypo
crite w,hen he exhorts his peopla
to virtues which in his position
are very easy but which he would
find pretty hard if he were in
their place? (Temperance, for in
stance.) Isn’t the church member
a hypocrite who hastens to dust
off the Bible when she sees the
minister coming up the frc\t
walk? Isn’t the churchman ' A
hypocrite who is extra careful of
his language around the preacher?
And aren’t we all hypocrites when
we pray, "Thy Kingdom come,”
—and back the prayer up with one
thin quarter?
(Based on outline* copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Edncatlof, Na
tional Council of the Churches of > Chris!
In the U. S. A. Released by Com|punlcf
Fre.T Sirflc*:) ~ ~ **
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