f A —Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 21, 1957 |ancaster 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; 5t Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Harvest Time’s Here The growing and planting season in the Garden Spot is just about past. The harvest season is hard upon us. Tomato growers in the southern part bf the county have picked a few of the earlier varieties and with the hot weather, the tomato crop should come in with a rush. Barley combining has started, the wheat and oats afe turning, and it will not be too long before the second cut ting of alfalfa and red red clover is ready for harvest. State agriculture department statistics say the average farmer works about 10 hour a day. Now is the season when that figure sure gets a big stretch. Do you know that if you have a stocked pond on your farm that you are not fishing it enough? At least that is true if you are an average farmer. Surveys by Penn State have shown that the average farm pond stocked with a blue gill-bass fish population is not fished hard enough to keep fish numbers in proper balance. Wildlife specialists say that for each 25 bass you take from the pond, at least 300 blue gill should be removed. Now there are many ways of doing this seining is probably the easiest. But there is another way that will give a lot more pleasure and will come closer to allowing the pond to function as you probably planned when you built it. It’s summer now and schools are out. There are quite a few children who have little to do now that would like to do some fishing if they had the opportunity. And to them, a blue gill, be he only four inches long, is a fish that they caught themselves and is just as good as a big bass. So instead of posting your pond against fishermen, especially of the younger set, why not invite them in? The kids will love it. And you will benefit in having more food in the pond available to grow bigger bass and to provide enough living room for a more balanced fish population. We like to think of ourselves here at Lancaster Farming as providing a service to the families of Lancaster and neighboring counties. As a trade paper for farmers, we are in a position to offer some unique services to our readers. Two of these services are free to each subscriber of the paper. We have listed them before, but it is always well to give a person a reminder once in a while. They are the Mail Box Market and the listing of meet ings and events in the coming events or sales dates columns (the latter as appropriate). Once a month you have the privilege of running a classi fied ad free in the mail box market. And, as you probably know, the classified advertising page of a newspaper is probably the most well read page of the paper. Public sales are listed free with these qualifications: the name, date, location and type sale is all that can be in cluded. Other events are listed as to time, date, organiza tion, location and program. If you want to have the meeting dates of your organi zation Ksted, send a post card with the information to us that it will reach our office before Wednesday of the week you want it to run. Please do not send us a card saying “the fourth Tuesday of the odd months.” There is too much of a chance that Just to Remind You we’ll miss a meeting and cause unnecessary hard feelings. Please feel free to make use of these services. We like to get mail. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford, to let alone. - H, D. Thoreau. - . • STAFF Let the Kids Fish Publisher ... Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) Thunder storms and lightning made news over a wide area of countryside. Two large barns on the farms of Joseph Waltemyer, near Stewartstown, and Lewis Miller, near Porter’s Siding, in York County, were struck by light ning and burned to the ground. Nine cattle were burned to death in the Miller blaze and Waltemy er lost several head. Near Goram, lower York Coun ty, on the farm of Nelson Gem mtll, a stable conljaing eight mules' was struck by lightning. Four of the mules were killed, but the bolt set nothing on fire. Curing the same storm, in Lancaster County, seven cows were killed on the Elias Rambo farm, and one on the Owen Johnson farm, both in the Gap area. Six cows belonging to Council Rambo, of Coatesvilje, were struck dead on his farm near Cochranville. Seven others were knocked down and stunned. 5j 1 STREET LIGHT PLAYS QUEER PRANK An arc street lamp at Duryea, Pa., fell from its mooring oust as William Patton and his four year-old son were crossing the street. The lamp struck the fath er, who had hold of the boy’s hand, and the electric charge passed through the father, kill ing his son instantly. The parent was knocked unconscious, but es caped injury • • • A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE? Near Denton, Maryland, there was all binds of excitement at a funeral that Sunday, when Sam uel Johnson, ventriloquist, “threw” his voice-into the grave as the coffin was being lowered and said: “Let me down easy.” The pall-bearers and mourners scattered in all directions. Later the mystery was explained and Johnson was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace. V Jj. HE RODE A BULL Albert Eaby, on hxs Lancaster farm near Intercourse, had a two year-old bull which he had taught to do farm work like a horse, and sometimes rode it on trips to the store, 50 years ago. »- « > At a session of Lancaster Coun ty’s Octoraro Farmers’ Club held. Saturday, June 22, 1907, William Walton exhibited a handful of bugs found in his field, which had destroyed eight acres of corn. Walton explained he had sent some of the bugs to Mr. Sur face, head of agriculture depart ment at'Harrisburg, and read a letter from the department head advising that the bugs were “dif ficult to get nd of because they worked under the ground.” SKUNK FARM BROUGHT SNEERS In 1902 a resident of Minneso -ta conceived the idea of starting a skunk farm and was scoffed at by friends and neightbors. But in 1907 he was making good money in the enterprise and oth ers were setting up,in the busi ness. The department of graicul ture at Washington reported re ceiving numerous inquiries about the new industry and treated the matter as a joke at first, but later appointed two experts to conduct a study to determine the economic aspects of skunk rais ing. * * * ' “High finance is not confined entirely to Wall Street,” declar ed John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret service a half century ago. IHe told of a clerk in-the U.S. Treasury who wanted to attend ■a ball-game and had 0n1y.25 Week' :er Farming cents, the price of admission, but nothing for car fare. The clerk announced he would raffle his 25 cents at 2 cents a share. Eighteen clerks took ‘chances. One won the quarter for 2 cents, but the promoter has 25 cents for his admission ticket, 10 cents for car fare and a cent for'Hhe afternoon paper. 25 Years Ago 25 YEARS AGO (1932) Lancaster County held the rec ord for entertaining children from the crowded tenement flats of New York city, according to officials of the Fresh Air Fund, headed by Charles G. Goodman, of Lancaster. Twenty-five years ago this week Goodman stated: “The pleas are stronger than ever this year from families who wish to give their youngsters many of them under-nourished — the fresh air and two weeks of wholesome food found in a rural community. These children have read in school of the fertile farm land of America, but they have never seen them.” Among the amusing and path etic incidents of Fresh Air chil dren recalled by Lancaster far mers during 'previous years, was Berlftartt OenesU St—' D«Totion«l Ittallnri Pialm 105:1-8, 116-22. God Remembers Lesson for June 23,1957 DID God become God of love re cently, or was he always that? This point has bothered some read ers of the Bible, for in the New Testament it Is made plain that God Is love, but in the Old Testa ment very little is said about this. —Or so it used to be thought. Now that we have the Revised Stand ard Version, we can see that the Old Testament likewise speaks often of God’s “steadfast love,” an expression translating a He brew word which used to be trans lated “mercy” or‘‘grace.” God’* Dr. Foreman steadfast love is the root and reason of his mercy and his grace. Happy Ending*? “If God were all-powerful he could keep evil from happening, and if he were all-loving he would not let it happen. But evil happens, so there cannot be a god.” So runs an old objection to religion. But it never bothered the writer* of the Bible. Their faith was of a stouter sort. Some people can-, not believe in God unless he writes, so to speak, a happy end ing for every one’s story. Now the Hebrew people loved stories with happy endings, and perhaps Joseph’s!* such a story. In on* way It has a happy ending,—Joseph the slave-boy becomes the Grand Viz ier of Egypt. Joseph, the boy, his brothers were going to murder, be comes their unknown benefactor. [And yet—in its setting it is not quit* happy. Hi* same book of Gene sis which begins with “In the be ginning, God—” ends with the stark expression, "In a coffin in Egypt." Not very hopeful! Fur ther, when you think of all the other stories tied in with that of Joseph, you will admit that not all the throads of this story are neatly tied off in bow-knots of {'happy ending*. What became of IPotlphar’s wife? th<- '"’dianite the boy who tried to pour eggs from one basket to another, and a girl who couldn’t drink milk when she Saw it came from a cow mstaed of a can. TRUCK WRECKS MILK WAGON Harry Long, twenty-two, Lan caster milk wagon driver, was in the St. Joseph Hospital suffering from fractured ribs and other injuries resulting when a truck crashed into the rear of the wagon. The horse was knocked down in the street and injured so severely it had to (be killed. William Grove, 65, a York County farmer residing near Red Lion, was killed when he fell from a load of hay on his farm. He was helping to unload the hay in the barn. When the hay fork stuck he jerked a rope to release it. slipping and tumbling to the barn floor on his head. LANCASTER AUCTION TOTAL NEARLY $200,000 The Hereford steer which was awarded the grand champion ship honor at the Fat Cattle Show held at Lancaster, 25 years ago this week, was owned by Reuben N. Harnish, Lancaster R 6. The champion steer sold for 55 cents a pound for a total of $486.75 About 1400 head of cat tle were sold at the auction, to taling nearly $200,000. Park Shaubach, Ronks R 2, winner of the prize for the grand champion carload lot of steers, received $12.60 per hundred weight. glave-traders ? the baker who made' ,a dinner for the bird*? the free; (Egyptian people who slave* of the king 9 Not all true-' life stories end just as we might wish. Sin and Freadont , It can be said that the storie* ot good people come out well and the .stories of bad people come out jbadly. There is some truth in that.] (There is this much truth at any! rate: God has never yet abolished] ism, and he permits sin’s effect* to] continue to be terrible. The only' way to abolish tin outright would' be to destroy freedom; for »ln i»' simply man’s misuse of the free ;dom God has given him. God. icould, no doubt, have made the Ihuman race so that they could b*. ■wound up like clocks to run right l no matter what. But he made men, not machines. And the tragic fact of sin i* a fact. ‘Thus every man’* 'story is spoiled more or less. ln-| Ideed there are no perfect storie*. r God is God of love; but he is not' the kind of God who would force’ all men to do right, regardless ,iior is he the kind of God who will! 'see to it that no matter what a' man does, he is bound to be hap py ever after. It is not only that’ men are affected by the results, of their own sins. Worse than, this, are the Injustices, the tragedies, caused for the innocent by the sin* of others. tut Qod Rtmembera Nevertheless, God does not for- 1 1 get. He is not careless nor power-] less. Among the many truths which] ! • the story of Joseph suggests is thej doctrine called Providence. Put] into simple words, this means' that God thinks of things before-] hand. In ways we do not under-i stand, for it is his doing and not’ ours, God works, both in spite of and because of the worst that sin ful men can do, works to bring ‘good out of evil. Joseph’s broth ‘ ers and Potiphar’s wife were am bers; yet God used their sins, in' 4 his providence, to bring good into ’ {the lives of countless people. Tw® questions not cleared up in the (Old Testament have more light; 'cast on them by the New. Will evil] .and good go on side by aide for-; ever? The story of Joseph does] {not look so far ahead. The New! shows clearly. No; Godj will one day make a final separa tion of good from evil And then! [what about those good person* . ]whose lives end in tragedy? The! 4 New Testament reminds us that jwe never see the real end of any! [one's story in this world; coffins in Egypt or elsewhere end chapters, but no coffin ends a; Last Chapterl (Suit ea nillui Mfrrliklii hr ike 'Diet* tea et Christian **ae*Uea. flleesl GmmU cf the Oharehee el Christ tia-ifc* V.«. A. Melees***? Ceasaaallr ‘J*ren Sst’Tlss.)
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