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.
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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.)