4—Lancaster Farming Friday, June 14, 1957 farming 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 Publisher ... Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director Poultry Center Open House The new Lancaster County Poultry Center, 340 West Roseville Rd., Lancaster, is to be open tomorrow with guided tours available all afternoon. We think that it would be well for all Lancaster County poultry producers who have not done so to go to Lancaster and visit this new building. It is a beautiful building in both design and setting,«. but it is much more than that. It is a concrete example to the world that Lancaster County pouttrymen have enough initiative to make themselves a market place where none existed before. We have been with many groups that have visited the Center, groups from Pennsylvania and other states, and all of them say that they have nothing like it They Alfred C. Alspach 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 were, frankly, envious. As we see it, the greatest thing about the new Cen ter is that it is not the result of the efforts of any one group. It is there through the efforts, time and money of the entire poultry industry in Lancaster County, Through the dinners, and through direct contributions, producers, processors, feed companies and dealers, pharmaceutical dealers, equipment firms, buyers and even newspapers have contributed to make this center a reality. So go to the barbeque at Lititz Springs Park tomor row by way of Lancaster and see this new building You’ll be glad you did. Theories Take Setback In the past couple of weeks we have been suddenly bombarded with literature saying that cholesterol does not necessarily cause heart disease and you shouldn’t stop drinking milk or eating pork or other meat or stop eating eggs because of fear of heart disease A possible cause for this sudden deluge is that Dr. Frederick J. Stare, director of Harvard University Depart ment of Nutrition has been quoted in a national magazine as saying that no one food is responsible for good or poor health He said that the statistics used to form theories that certain foods are responsible for cholesterol forma tion in the blood stream causing hardening of the arteries are subject to numerous inaccuracies. Dr. Stare said that the figures used to back up the cholesterol theory were taken in counties where fat con sumption dropped during the last war. They show that deaths due to hardening of the arteries dropped also However, Dr. Irvine H. Page, noted heart specialist, head of the Cleveland Clinic, and past president of the American Heart Assn, points out “vital statistics, particu larly in foreign countries with their poor methods of re porting, understaffed health departments, and dubious au topsy proceedings are apt to be misleading.” Thinking Ahead Most of the tobacco is planted now and seems to be doing well. The weather has been favorable and barring hail and unusual conditions, it should produce another bumper seld But what is going to happen then? Are the buyers going out for a week or two and pay well enough to cause general excitement and comment and then stop? Stop, that is, long enough to get enough growers worried enough to sell their crop at a figure that will give them practically no income for the time and labor invested in the crop The County Tobacco Producers Cooperative still re mains. Now is the time for the directors of that organiza tion to start plans for marketing this years crop. And most important, now is the time for tobacco growers to plan to change their marketing methods to try to insure a proper return for their work. STAFF BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) Fifty years ago this week the Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee pointed a critic al finger at the glass blpwjng industry which employed young boys in night work at their es tablishments The report stated “Contrast life on the farm with the life Of the little glass-house boys, who every other week en ters the factory at five o’clock in the evening, sits at the feet of a glass blower to open and shut moulds, stands at the side to break off the soft, waxdike glass from the end of the blow pipe, or carries the hot ware from the finisher to the annealing oVen. To compel young boys at the time of Me when body andmmd are undergoing tjieir most rapid transformation to be employed at labor exhausting in itself, is to fasten upon childhood an ex traction not only inhuman in it self, but menacing to our future social well-being.” * \ STAGECOACH RUNS OVER CHILD Five-year-old Anna Frail eh, daughter of Charles Frahch, Con estoga Center, was seriously in jured when a heavy stagecoach, driven by William C. Betts, pro prietor of the Lancaster-Cones toga Stage Line, passed over the child’s body No one saw the ac cident, but it was believed the girl was hanging on to the rack in the rear of the stage and was in some manner caught by the rear wheel which ran over her chest Her condition was report ed critical *• \ BELIEVE IT OR NOT! The following items were pub lished m a June, 1907, issue of the Mt Joy Bulletin At Lime Port, Pa, wasps were being trained to operate a paper factory. At Cherry Point, Pa, huge lightning bugs, brought from Brazil, were placed in large globes in an experiment for light ing the streets. At Shnnersville several thousand acres of land were to be used in the propaga tion of red ants for use m the manufacture of formic acid. At Neff’s, Pa , woodpeckers and bees were being taught to do boring at a large lumber mill, and at Low Hill robins were being trained to pick cherries and lay them m crates. At Mt Joy, a man residing in the east end of the community, had discovered a sure cure for gaps His formula called for the use of a quill through which strong cigar smoke was blown down the chick’s throat. The largest mdividu/al bull frog farm in America, a half century ago, was owned by Miss Edith Stege, of California. The farm covered nearly ten acres, and in 1906 its owner marketed more than 3,500 dozen frog legs, returning her a profit of nearly $2,000. LITITZ PLANS JULY 4th EVENTS Fourth of July celebration at Lititz, back in 1907, promised a day bristling with interesting events. The mam feature was to be an industrial and mummers parade. Fifty some floats were assured, and every industry and business enterprise in the bor ough were to be represented Beck’s Cornet Band and the Ephra + ( a Rifle Band were en gaged to furnish concert music throughout the day at QLititz 'Springs Park. Two games of baseball, between Lititz and Eph rata, were scheduled during the forenooji and afternoon. A giant fireworks display and candle il lumination was planned to cli max -the day’s celebration in the evening. - This Week Lancaster Fanning 25 Years Ago Even back in 1932 4-H clubs were big business, with nearly 900,000 farm boys and girls en rolled, according to estimates made by State extension work ers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The requirements for the com pletion of a year’s work by 4-H Club members centered around four principal points, each car ried out under the direction of the county extension agent. These included growing a crop or carrying on some other farm enterprise or home-making ac tivity by the best methods known, keeping a record of the operation, showing an exhibit at the community fair, and writing, a summary of the year’s project. Of the 890,374 club members en rolled in 1931, 70 per cent met the requirements in full. This was the highest percentage of completions in the history-of the 4-H Clubs, according to the offi cials. 1932 OAT PRICES IRREGULAR Oats on the farms in -lowa, in 1932, were selling from seven to eight -cents per bushel. Many ac res were not to be harvested be qause the price would not pay Background Scripture: Genesis 37. 1 Devotional Reading: Psalm 68:1-6. Family Tensions Lesson for June IS, 1957 «'T' HE family is a divine insti tution. That is to say, God invented it. He thought of it be fore men did. He intended it. So it §hould be a success. Yet the family is also a human in stitution that is to say, all homes are ma'de ■ if hi in beings. Every home therefore suffers from the ailments that nag at all things hu man. A success fulhome succeeds in spite of all the human handi caps. A home that does not suc ceed, fails be- Dr. Foreman cause these handicaps strain it too much. Tensions A favorite modern word for these stresses and strains within a home is "tensions.” The word (is new but the thing is old. Ten sion is what makes the teen-ager scream, and her mother feels like f screaming, ‘T can’t stand this : another minute l ” Tensions are what make meal-times regular bat tle-grounds, what give mothers nervous prostration and fathers peptic ulceis before their time, what may make children remem ber their childhood with a kmd of shudder. Tensions are what keep juvenile delinquents from going home, tensions may even be the beginning of lost minds. Now the thing is old, as was just said. In the home of Jacob, who was a God-fearing man, there was plenty of it. There was tension between him and his wives, between the wives themselves, between soma wives and some sons, between the sons, between him and his sons. The family, so to speak, was pulled every which way, and ac tually' at last broke up. What Can’t Be Helped Some tensions cannot be helped. They are in the nature of things, n a home there are persons of Ufferent ages, sexes and temper a lents. This cannot be avoided. Tet the “battle of the sexes” for the labor, For use on a horse breeding farm in New Jersey, the owner was paying forty cents a 'bushel an carload lots, rob Farming, dale. /pry On the Mojave Desert in Cali fornia, tap quality alfalfa hay was selling for $lO a ton, or two pounds for n cent. It was de clared that under u’*' took 500 pounds of water to grow one pound of alfalfa, which meant that 1,000 pounds of wat er had to be pumped, two pounds of hay cut, all for a penny LANCASTER TOBACCO GROW ERS IN SESSION A meeting of the Lancaster To bacco Growers Assn, was held at the Mt. Joy Fire Hall, 25 year.* ago this week. F W. Fletcher, director of re search, State College, Pa., dis cussed the future co-operation between County, State and Fed eral activities. That -same week, in the south ern end of Lancaster County on the farm of William Bucher, near Mechanic Grove, a poultry meeting was held C. 0. Dossin, extension poul try specialist from State College, discussed improvements of qual ity eggs, possibility of egg auc tions, flock management, culling and showed how to capomze. Elsewhere in Lancaster Coun ty, on 4he farm of Mrs. Norman Greenawalt, along .the Valle. > Road, near Quarryville, thieves raided the chicken house and qarried off 150 chickens. rages from, generation to genera* tion; younger people find older, people sometimes very hard 1 to get along with, and vice versa. In Jacob’s home he was much older' than his wives, very much older, than his sons.- Men and women ,ln those days and times probabli I 1 'differed even more sharply than, how, kept separate as they were' (for much of the lives. And in. Jacob’s home temperamental dif*. Iferences surely could hardly have been more striking. The thing to' remember is that since these strains cannot be helped, some* thing good can be made of them. The man’s point of view is dif ferent from the woman’s, of course; but it takes both of them tf | 'make a healthy human point of view. Youth needs the caution and the wisdom of older people; older people need the optimism and en thusiasm of younger people to ,keep them from withering on the (Vine. Different temperaments can, balance one another. A home can 'capitalize on its very handicaps What Can Ba Helped Nevertheless, some strains and stresses are just the result of hu ' man meanness, human sin. They •can be helped, they call for repent ance and change Consider the .home of Jacob. His wives did not ,get along together, but while it was in those times legal enough, it !was foolish for a man of his tem perament to have married all those four women, especially as he loved only one of them. Some of the trouble arose from young Joseph’s 17-year-old conceit. Per haps he couldn’t help his dreams of grandeur; but he did not need Ito tell those dreams at the break fast table. And some of the trou ble lay in Jacob’s playing up his son Joseph. How to Help It A foundation-stone for harmony in the home or anywhere else, is harmony with God One who lives' close to God will lemember that 'God’s will is always for peac<= never for strife. The soul con scious of being forgiven by God .will be more ready to forgive oth .ers. The spirit blessed by the grace (of God—and God’s grace comes 'only to the humble—will not be, forever standing on its rights and Icomplaming about its wrongs. It I would be a good thing for many a; 'family all nervous with many ten-, isions, to read together the thir teenth chapter of I Corinthian-, 'the great chapter on love-in prac tice, and then spend a while In silence, each one thinking: Does this describe me? And if not, do I not need God's forgiveness, and i fresh start? (Based on outlines copyrighted by the I (vision of Christian Education, Na ,nai Council of the Churohes of Christ the V. S. A. Released by Community, css Service.) * , *
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