4—Lancaster Fiutmng, Friday, March 29, 1957
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
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Supply and Demand
■i Politicians and other big voices in agriculture do a
lot of talingk about the “law of supply and demand.” Most
‘{of us agree that supply and demand is the basis 'of eco
nomics, but many of us are inclined to get hazy on'just
iwhat the magic formula is.
So lets take a look atsupply and demand and some
of the rules and requirements for its proper functioning.
1 Rule One People will buy more of an item when
the price is low and less when it is high.
As used here (and in Rule Two), the terms “high”
and (“low” are relative. For example, -value of money
changes 10 cents ar pound would have been a high price
for hogs in 1940, but it is a low.price todays because the
dollar is only worth about one-half as much now as then.
In the case of some items for-example, beefsteak
it takes a smaller reduction in price to get people-to buy
more than in the case of some other items, such as potatoes.
Rule Two Producers will supply more of an item
when the price is high and less when it is low.
Producers are in business to make money. So they
want to produce those things which seem to offer them the
bestjchance to make a profit. When the price of-an item is
relatively high, people who are already producing it look
for ways of increasing their production and other people
move into the same business. When the prices are rela
tively low, the reverse takes place. This happens in agri
culture, too, but these shifts take time.
■» Rule Three The market price tends to settle at
the point where the supply offered by producers will be in
balance with the quantity demanded by buyers.
This happens because neither the producers nor the
buyers are operating without the other.
In. agriculture the operation of this rule is some
times hidden by such things as irregular marketings and
uncontrollable variations in production. But, when we look
"at average prices and allow for all of "the factors that affect
a market, we will find that the rule does work.
Rule Four The demand for an item can change.
Demand can be changed by such things as a rise or
fall in consumer incomes, improvement in the quality of
the product, a new development in the foreign trade situa
tion, discovery of a new use, the of a substi
tute, or promotional activities which cause consumers to
shift from one product to another. -
Rule Five The quantity of a product producers
will supply at a certain price can also change.
Other things being equal, producers will supply
more at a certain price when ways of cutting cost of pro
duction are found, when new resources such as reclaimed
land; are brought into production, or when it becomes less
profitable to produce something else.
Polio Vaccination Makes Sense
Suppose someone took you aside and said: “You have an
enemy who’may waylay you and cripple you for life. But
I know how you can stop this enemy. You'll have to act
fast. It won't cost much money, and it will take only 180
seconds of your time.”
If you knew the facts were true, you’d take him up on it,
wouldn’t you? .
Well, the facts are true. The enemy, is .paralytic polio. If
you’fe under 40 years old, you’re a possible victim. If polio
strikes, you may face a life shattered by disease and disa
bility.
There is no cure for paralytic polio, but there is a way
to prevent it. The preventive is the Salk vaccine: It is safe
and it works. Three properly spaced shots—at 60 seconds
a shot—gives you protection.
Over 45 million Americans have been smart enough to
get this protection. But 60 million in the susceptible age
group have been foolhardy enough to neglect it.
STAFF
. Advertising Director
.. Circulation Director
BY JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
Fifty years ago this week, the
entire fruit crop of Southern
Maryland had been reported kill
ed by' a sneak cold snap, with
thermometers registering 22 de
grees. Peach trees were in full
bloom, while apples, pears and
other fruit trees were in such
advance state that the total de
struction was declared certain.
Further south, in Norfolk
County, Virginia, dn official read
ing of 30 degrees was reported,
damaging the growing crop of
early potatoes, peas, beans and
strawberries.
Si Si "
INCENDIARY FIRE
DESTROYS MILL
Publisher
Editor
In Norfolk, Va., that week,
fire of mcenliary origin destroy
ed the huge Dairy Rolling Mills,
entailed a loss of $lOO,OOO. A
woman-who conducted an eating
place across the street from the
mills informed the police she
had seen two men pouring the
contents of a bottle against the
sides of (the mill building just be
fore the fire started. One of them
ran after her when he saw she
had witnessed their action, she
told police. No trace of the men
could be found.
In Lancaster County that
same week a fire, believed to
have started fronr an electric
wire, broke out in the gymnasin
ait Lititz’s Linden Hall Semin
ary. Part of the roof was burned
off and the interior damaged by
fire and water before firemen
brought ,the blaze under control.
The building originally was a
barn, which was fitted up as a
gymnasium for the young ladies
of the seminary.
• • •
mule drags boy
TO DEATH
Shull Skelly, nine, was dragged
to death hy a runaway mule at
New Franklin, Pa. The youth was
riding the mule home from a
blacksmith shop when the animal
frightened at something and ran
away. The boy’s feet were caught
in a strap, and he was dragged
over the rough dirt road. The
first knowledge the parents had
of the accident was when the
mule returned home without
their son.
On the farm of Mr. and Mrs.
'C. A. Kitzmiller, near lsew Cum
berland, a three-year-old daugh
ter of Clarence Kitzmiller, Har
risburg, received burns from a
brush lire which caused her
death.
The child wias on a week’s
visit with her grandparents and
was playing about a brush fire,
when she tripped and plunged
head first upon the flaming pyre.
She sprang up afid ran scream
ing away, with her clothing a
blaze. A farm hand tore the'cloth
ing from her, but not before fatal
bums were inflicted.
Pete, a canary owned by Mrs.
Effie Sishop of Qujmry, Mass.,
survived, by -burying his bill in
his feathers when a fire filled the
house with smoke.
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At Lancaster that "week, Harry
Hammond had the' misfortune of
having his horse killed when
struck by a trolley «ar. The
■animal was knocked down, break
ing both front legs and otherwise
injured, dying about one hour
later. The wagon.’was damaged
considerablely , and the driver
was thrown out and suffered
body bruises.
25 Years Ago
Men are far more careless than’
women. That was the conclusion
expressed by a prominent official
of an insurance , company, ' 25
years ago. ' He admitted that
women do foolish things about
the home, like carrying around
knives as if they were pieces of
wood,-and cook over open flames
wearing loose, hanging"clothing,
andithenare surprised whenthey
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Week
r Farming
catch on fire. But after a lifetime
of observation, the insurance ex
pert declared women’s stupidi
ties were pale beside the long
list he could bring against men.
In Chicago, in the gallery of a
Baptist Church, a dog began to
yelp when the choir started to
sing and the music was halted
until the animal was ejected.
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SHEEP AND WOOL
GROWERS IN SESSION
Twenty-five* years ago this
week, many of the 28 cooperative
sheep and wool growers associa
tions were holding their annual
meetings.
In' 1931- these organizations
marketed 600,000 lbs. of wool for
3,500 farmers, reported W. B.
Connell, sheep and wool exten
sion specialist of the Pennsyl
vania State College.
In 1932 it was decided to con
tinue the wool pools and sponsor
five sales at which about 200
purebred rams were to be sold
Definite action also was taken by
the associations to get all mem
bers to use paper twine for tying
Wools. Several associations stress
ed a cooperative lamb marketing
program where local markets
were unsatisfactory.
Joe Kirk, the bee king of Low
er Lancaster County and pro
ducer of blue ribbon honey at
his Fulton Township property,
25 years ago, declared that the
polecat’s taste ran to honey bees.
According to Mr. Kirk, the pole
cat approached the hive, scratch
ed on the board, and when the
bees epierged, gulped them down
without batting an eye. It was
pointed out that the polecat’s
competitor is the toad. He takes
a position in front of the en
trance to the hive and when the
bee appears, the toad reaches out
with his long tongue and lands
Back in 1932, Senator Borah [the prey.
Beckrrrand Scripture: Matthew 24-25.
, Devotional JReadinj; Matthew 24:32-44.
Last judgment
Lesson for March 31,1957
ALL' human judgments are im-
A perfect, and some of them
highly unjust; because no man
knows all the circumstances of
any act, not even his awn, We are
notoriously poor judges of our
own actions: but we are no juster
to others. Judgments of ourselves
are spoiled by prr
about others are
spoiled by prej-
udice. We never
do really see any
action in all its
dimensions. ,We
can never judge
the conse*
quences of an act
because- we
know only a
small fraction Dr - Foreman
of them. We cannot well judge the
motives _of an act, because we
mislead ior read through rose
colored glasses) our own motives,
and the motives of others we car
do no' more than guess at
Final Jndgnunt
Nevertheless, most of us are
called onto pass judgment on others
in- various ways. And when
we are honest we do try to come
as near to God’s viewpoint as we
can. That is, wa try to take every
thing into consideration. But try
as, we„m»y, we must admit first
and last that only God can be
the final Judge, for only he has
all the facts. There are many pic-1
turea of the “Last Judgment” in I
the ‘Bible- and "they do not agree
In detail*, since- they are pic
tures -of 'What cannot really be.
Imagined. But hack j af all the-pie--
tures, atom, compelling, chilling
-as some of=threffl are, we discern
some plain- truth*. One is that
not only is -God -the final Judge
of every man, but his judgment
is -final because he -and only -he
has all the facts, and he
does not-render his Judgment till
all the facts are in. True, God's
judgment is go s -on all the time,
and we can rr em in history.
“I can read h eoua sentence
by the dim % lamps” aa
didn’t get to fir»t_b«se with hit
proposal to reduce salaries of the
cabinet and members of Con*
gress. Neither did his plan to re
duce the 20 cents a mile allowed
Congressmen for traveling ex
penses receive any support, al
though he pointed out that he,
was allowed 1,068 for a round
trip between his Idaho home and
Washington which really only
cost him about $350.
Different persons react dif
ferently to good or ill fortune.
Twenty-five years ago, when Alex
McGarvock of Glenarm, Ireland,
was informed that a brother had
left him 17,200, he dropped over
dead.
But Mrs. Blanche Karsch of
Memphis, Tenn., continued to
drive hard bargains with vege
table dealers after being told
thalt her foster mother had will
ed her $3,500,000.
POLECATS EAT
HONEY BEES
the poet says. This Is true of men,
and nations, that the divine jud(«
ment Is interwoven with theip
lives. God settles many of the af»
fairs of this planet, on tills planet.*
But in the ultimate future, and
only then, will all the facts be in.
No judgment before then, not?
even God’s, is final. j
Ths Great Separation j
All sorts of efforts have been
made to dull the force of Jesus’’
terrific picture of prophecy of the'
Last Judgment in the parable ot
the sheep and the goats. It has*
been said that this is a judgment
of nations, not individual persons;*
but anyone who can read ©reek
can* see that is not me case. The
word "them” in Matt. 25:32 plainJ
ly does not refer to Aations but
to persons. (Furthermore, how do
“nations” fit into the end of th*
story’) It has been said too that! -
this is not a separation of the'
"saved” from the “unsaved/’ But
the issues of the Trial, as Jesus
pictures it, are eternal life and*
eternal death. The fact is, this
is Jesus’ picture of the Last
Judgment of mankind, and there
is no getting out of it. At least
two. points stand out, etched asi
it were by fire. One is that th*
final judgment against a man it'
not necessarily for what he has
done but for what he didn’t do;
did not even .think about doing.
The other point Is that th«
basis of judgment is a man’*
human relations. True, deeper
than that is a-man’s relationship
to Christ; but in this .parable.)
Christ identifies himself complete*
ly with the troubled sufferers Ot
the world What we do, or do not
do, about human misery, we d*
or fail to do for the Lord.
Th* Jndgmsnt Siat of Chris!
Another strange thing appear*
in this overwhelming portrayal
of Judgment, vast and final. The
Judge, the King, is the Son ot
Man, Jesus Christ himself. This
"fits in with other passages in the
New Testament where sometimes
Christ, and sometimes God, ap*
pears as the Judge of all. Thi»
Is a tremendous claim cm Jesus'
part, to have the right to git o®
the throne of the -universe. No»
where is the deity of Christ more
strikingly affirmed than right here,
Qn die other hand, he is still the
San, of, Man. He is our Elder
Brother, bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh, “made like
his brethren In every respect” as
Heb. 2:17 says. God in bis final
judgment, acts with and through
bis Son who was and ever shall
ba one with God and one with
man. We cannot deceive him. He
is one of us.
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