4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 26, 1957 r" Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Robert E. Best... Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter .at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Cooperative Economics There are a number of important economic prob lems that the cooperative will be able to help solve: Cooperatives can integrate farms with markets and with sources of supply, and thus make agriculture a stronger segment of our society. Many farmers already belong to cooperatives which give them efficiency in pro curement and in marketing. If such organizations are ex tended and combined, they can make farms the control center of a business system designed to meet their needs. 1 Farming under these circumstances ceases to be iso lated and becomes the heart of an integrated farm-enter prise system with the advantage of integration, including a better adjustment of supplies to markets. This process has already gone further than many realize, and has great promise in building a stabilized agricultural community. Cooperatives can also help to keep the economy in balance. Because of the large numbers of people invest ing in them, cooperatives are conservative organizations. Farmers marketing and purchasing cooperatives alone represent the investment interests of 3 million farmers. This is a stabilizing factor in our economy, and as coopera tives grow in membership and strength, it may prove of in reasing importance in times of stress. Cooperatives may also serve as a check against higher costs of distribution. Because cooperatives provide se vices at cost, farmers and other individuals tend to join th m to make ends meet when the costs of distribution go uj. Even if cooperatives are not able to achieve significant sa ings for their members, they may be able to strengthen co npetition and reduce the margins taken by others. Cooperatives can help to maintain competition, w ich may well be a problem' in future years, because in m my fields the number of effective competitive farms is de dining. Through their principle of returning margins to ,p* rons cooperatives can keep cither forms of enterprise or their toes by demonstrating price advantages to those se ved. Many cooperative leaders hold that this function is of the greatest importance in assuring a good standard service for all. If service or price is unsatisfactory, the cooperative route will be taken. —Joseph G. Knapp, Harvard Business Review Mistalces Caii Mean Progress Mistakes are often the road to progress. Take dried milk for instance. It developed originally in an instance where someone overheated the milk, and discovered that it was possible to separate the solids from the liquid in that manner. 'Or take that popular juvenile delicacy the eskimo pie. Its development came about this way; the fountain man drppped a blob of ice cream into the chocolate synip. He sppared it with a stick and offered it to an urchin at the counter as a good-will gesture and to thus dispose of the fumble. Out of that came an industry known as the Eskimo Pie — 1 now nationwide. .Interestingly enough Eskimo Pie is owned by Reynolds Aluminum. The packaging of this product, in an alumnin nm foil, is such an important outlet for aluminum products that Reynolds simply bought out the Eskimo Pie Company. Mighty oaks from little errors grow. (We keep telling ourselves.) * . No Matter alost girls don’t care whether men have blue eyes or brown eyes as long as they have greenbacks St. Albans Naval Hospital News, U. S. N. H., St. Albans, L. 1., N. Y. STAFF —The lowa Falls (Iowa) Citizen Publisher .. .Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) A case which attracted wide spread interest in tobacco circles ended in Common Pleas Court at Lancaster 50 years ago this week. The case centered around numer ous disputes between growers and packers over the delivery of the new crop, involving high prices paid for the goods and packers insistence on too close division of wroppers and fillers The test case was started by M. K. Strebig, a grower, against Charles W. Bitner, a Lancaster packer. The former had sold the latter eight acres of tobacco. Bit ner at first refused,to receive it, claiming the delivery was not made according to contract. Stre big left the tobacco m Bitner’s warehouse and the latter sold it. He offered Strebig what it brought, $129.15, which was re fused. Strebig then sued for the full value of the tobacco, $B9B 84, and received that award from the jury SUSQUEHANNA SHAD SEASON OPENS Farmers from Lancaster, York and bordering counties were mak ing trips on horseback and in horse-drawn vehicles to points, along the lower Susquehanna Riv er, where a good run of shad were being caught at the various batteries Buck shad sold from ?25 to $5O per 100. Top roe shad was bringing up to $6O per hund red. »• LITITZJN THE NEWS The Wellington Starch , Com pany, with plants at Lititz, Lan caster County and Decatur, 111., sold both properties to the United States Starch and Glucose Co. The latter announced that both plants would be enlarged and produc tion increased A somewhat simple departure from the common way of raising tobacco plants had been made by a grower intheLititzarea during the spring of 1907. Instead of fol lowing the usual custom of rais ing the muslin a foot or so above the bristle that covered the plants the grower laid it flat on the bristles. The experiment was be ing watched with great interest by other growers in general. Elsewhere in Lititz that week, George Rettew, District President of the 3rd district of Lancaster County, took the charter and re moved all the paraphernalia of Lititz’sCamp, No 65L P.O.S. of A. The reason for the action was due to apparent lack of interest in the local organization, the group fail ing to hold regular meetings nor did they pay the per capita tax as was required. * ♦ * TORNADO STRIKES TEXAS Fifty years ago this week, eight persons were reported killed, an entire village destroyed and farm crops ruined 'over a wide area in Texas by a tornado. * ♦ HOGS FED ON HAY The feeding of hay to hogs was something new to farmers a half century ago. The idea was suc cessfully carried out by former Governor W. D. Hoard of Wiscon sin. For his brood sows during the winter Governor Hoard fed the pregnant sows absolutely no grain whatever until two weeks before farrowing time. He fed but two things, alfalfa hay and separator milk. The hay was fed dry with out cutting or chopping. HaK a century ago- agriculture Week ; er Farming experts in this country were test ing a fiber plant which had been discovered in South America. It closely resembled American hemp, grew to maturity in five months and produced three grades of fiber suitable for the manufacturer of different grades, of textile fabrics. The remainder of the plant was found ideal for producing the finest grades of writing paper. 25 Years Ago Re'al increases on the Lancaster farm of Grant Lefevre started at 5 30 in the morning and ended at 8 30 in the evening on April 24, 1932 There were 4 chicken eggs set under a pigeon, with all four hatching. One black sow had 11 white pigs. Upon going to the barn it Was found the old brindle cow had twins. In an incubator 99 chicks were hatched out of 150 eggs. Two geese set with ten eggs each got 14 little one, and the old beagle dog had seven pups. Le fevre commented. “But the last was the best of all, my sister, Elizabeth, just re ceived a young son at 7.35 p. m. 1 guess I better go out and look at our pet mule and maybe he is Baclcrround Serlptare: Genetl* I—l. D«Totlon»l B«*d(nr: Psalm 101:1-13. God Made Us Last Lesson (or April 28, 1957 THE readers of this column will not all read Genesis in the same day. Some will take it pretty literally, others will read the early chapters in It as picture-stories, parables- in ball poetic lorm. All readers, It is hoped, can agree on one point: that whether we take these stories literally or as para ble*. the meaning is tire samer in any case. We do not have to go grubbing. In ob- scure comers for themes nings and messages of Gen- esis. The book was not written for people with _ compacted Dr. Foremen mind*. The meanings it conveys are on the surface, or so near it that the simplest readers can see them. Tht Earth It Man't Horn* From the second story of crea tion which we find in Geneiis, to chapter 2, the story which concent trates on mam himself, we can select some outstanding impres sions whiclr the story makes, and no doubt was intended to make?. First of all, this earth is the home of man. That is its principal use. Han cam* tote 1 to the- planet; God made us last. We did not make our appearance here till all was ready for us. Some thinkers have thought of man as a sort of homeless crea ture, dropped into this earth 1 al most by accident, fitting in no where. Quite the contrary; man might be lonely and restless on some far galaxy, but not on this green earth. Man, furthermore, being at the top of the ladder of creation, is master of this planet This doe* not mean he Is master of the universe It may be dis covered some day, as the science fiction boy* have already sug gested, that men may some day find themselves on another planet, but a* Intruders, only to be thrown out or destroyed. But on this earth fresh, too. Don’t tell me thing* are getting worse”. Elsewhere in Lancaster County that week, bee keepers met at ther apianes of Norman Shreiner, White Oak, and D. L. Burkholder. Mechanicsburg. The sessions were in charge of Prof. E. J. Anderson, of Stater College, and included discussions and demonstrations on spring re queemng, transferring into stand ard hives, feeding and strengthen ing of weak colonies, and the de tection of disease. MOTORISTS COMPLAIN OF HIGH GAS TAX In 1920 the average price of gasolme was 30 cents per gallon, and the state tax averaged .09 of a cent. At the beginning of 193 a the price averaged only 13 cents, with the tax rate at 4 cents, mak-’ ing the total cost to motorists IT cents a gallon, of which over 30 per cent went, to the state. It was pointed out that the high price of gas was no fault of oil radusty, which had made consist ent progess in improving its pro ducts and in lowering the cost, but was due to exorbitant taxes. teenager lover’s quarrel which was started in 1888 had been patched up in 1932 with a happy ending, resulting in mar riage for Tom Escue and Sarah Sullins, both sixty, of Springfield, Md. They had a spat a few days before they were to be married in 1888, at the age of seventeen, and after 44 years finally agreed on terms of peace or maybe it was only an armistice man has a right to live, and'to achieve- mastery. In Genesis I (where the horizon is wider than in Gen. 2) man is told: Replenish the earth and subdue it. Man, in short, is to work together with, God in bringing order and com- 1 pleteness to the planet which i» his rightful home. Top of Creation Let us pursue that thought about the top of creation a little further. This story ui Genesis presents man as made from dust, and all other 1 living things, both plants and beasts and birds, are likewise sprung from the dust by the power of God. Man has a kind of kinship with all of life, and therefore, as 'Albert Schweitzer* has said, must have a reverence for life. Man cannot give life to-himself nor to any other creature; and should be very slow about talcing life of any sort. Nevertheless it is much nearer the truth to say that the creation Is made for man, than that man is made for the rest of creation. Not that God intends everything in the world to be used. It is an interesting point that the trees of Eden, are not all good for food; some of them are simply beautiful to see. The beauty of the world, sometimes its useless beauty (like a sunset) is for man alone, just as Its usefulness—some times its unbeautiful usefulness— is appreciated best by man alone. Only man can heat the arctic and cool the tropics; only man i can bring his foods from the ands of the earth. “On* Mot Is No Man" The Greeks had a slog. n: One man is no man, meaning *hat wa eadj need the help and companion ship of others to live at all, as human beings. The story of the first man as told in Genesis illus trates this in a moving way. God sees that this man is incomplete, though he is set hr the midst of great beauty and has work to oc cupy mind and bands. So God pro duces all the other animals;, but man can only talk about them, not with them. Sa at last another hu man being is made. Before, there •was only- a man alone; now there is a human race. This- ’a not sci ence, not intended to be; but it is a profound truth. Man is made for community. Without it, sinks to the brutes’ level. In community a man becomes human. And yet if the i -ly companionship man finds is human, he has still missed his destiny. For man was made fos fellowship, above all, with God. Only as friend of God can man 1 become what God intended him to be. (lull n •■Hints MWillWfl It Dlrlritn ll CBritUtn Ed«o«tl *■,!»»- tloul CosntH tf tht Chnrohtttr Christ is tht U. S. A.. Bt It util hr Ctstuttltr mss atirimth
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