4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 12, 1957
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
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The Changing Tobacco Market
“How will the increasing popularity of processed
binder-type cigars affect the price the grower gets for bind
er-type tobaccos?” askes C. I. Hendrickson of the Market
ing Research Division of the Agricultural Marketing Ser
vice in the July issue of the Agricultural Situation.
He answers his own question by saying that the to
tal amount of money received by growers from the binder
types would be somewhat reduced if the processed binders
continue to grow in popularity as rapidly as they have un
til now. But there are offsetting factors.
The reduction in price for binder types would not
apply to all the crop of those types. That part of the binder
type tobaccos that is sold directly for scrap chewing tobac
co would continue to be sold for that purpose.
The growers market would be widened if the popu
larity of cigars with processed binders continues to in
crease. In that event, the total of tobacco used in cigars
would be increased
• Grower’s production costs would be reduced be
cause it would no longer be necessary to take such extreme
and expensive care in harvesting, curing, and preparing
the high-grade binder types for market.
And the new developments will affect the relative
advantage of areas and growers in producing tobacco today.
Growers who best adapt their production and marketing
practices to lowering their costs will be in the best position
to profit from the new situation, regardless of the area.
In April 1957, 20 per cent of all cigars had process
ed binders. It’s expected that 30 per cent will have the
binders the latter part of this year.
Customers who prefer imported, all-Havana or hand
made cigars with natural binders are very much in the
minority. It appears reasonable to expect that essentially
80 per cent or more of all cigars will have processed bind
ers.
I Pointing out that the use of processed binders re
duces the weight of binder leaf required by 38 to 44 per
cent, Hendrickson says that a year’s supply of binder for
the six million cigars produced domestically per year
would amount to about 18.1 to 18.9 million pounds if half
the cigars used processed binder.
When half the cigars are made with processed bind
ers, the half made with natural binders would use binder
types only. Lower-priced cigars now having binders from
nonbinder types would have processed binders in this kind
of future. All of the stemming tobacco used for scrap chew
ing would have to come from binder types. This would take
the place of the cuttings and throw-outs that would not be
available if processed binders were used.
It seems logical, then, that growers of the type of
tobacco used mostly for scrap chewing could look forward
to higher prices because chewing tobacco manufacturers
would have to buy more of the whole leaf.
The significant change you might expect would be
reduced returns from tobacco to be sorted, from $18.7
million to $11.7 million. But tobacco sold that is not sorted
would be expected to increase in value from, say, $3 mil
lion, to $6.9 million or $7.1 million.
The way that growers compete to supply the chang
ed market for their product will determine the level of
prices and the differentials for each use.
Adjustment of the supply to this new development
will depend not only on the factors already considered,
but on the ability of the growers to reduce production
costs under the new conditions. This should be possible.
Increased mechanization and other changes in production
methods new varieties, for example will affect these
costs.
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BY JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
For the first time in the history
of America apples had been im
ported from Australia during May
and June in 1907. Although do
mestic crops were apparently
large enough in the fall of 1906
to supply all demands, the late
spring of 1907 found the supplies
so depleted that prevailing prices
justified the importation of ap
ples from Australia, some 10,000
miles away.
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NEW HOLLAND SHOEMAKER
IN TROUBLE
Jacob Diffenderfer, once a New
Holland, Lancaster County, shoe
maker, was in trouble in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., back in 1907. He
had been married to six wives;
four being divorced, one deceas
ed, and now remarrying No. 6 in
order to cancel pending charges.
The brother-in-law of wife No. 5
started court proceedings to have
the shoemaker punished for his
unfaithfulness While drunk Dif
fenderfer informed his wife that
ho had a wife in Pennsylvania,
then disappeared to evade the
relatives of wife No. 5, who were
about to bring charges against
him, when she died
ICE CREAM FROZEN
WITH HAILSTONES
On the Chester County farm
of James McConnell, near Russell
ville, it was declared the family
was enjoying ice cream every
weekend, frozen with hailstones
W'hich fell in that area May 19,
1907 The hail was gathered with
wheelbarrow and shovel the fol
lowing morning and buried in
sawdust in the orchard. During
the middle of July McConnell
stated there were enough hail
stones left to freeze another can,
or two of ice cream
In Florence, Italy, a half cen
tury ago, a snail’s rate of travel
was determined by experiments
officially conducted A half-dozen
snails were peimitted to craw be-
tween two points ten feet apart.
Exact time was kept from start to
finish. The figures were arranged
into table of feet, yards and fur
longs, and it was found that it
took exactly 14 days for a snail to
travel one mile.
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Back in 1907, Lancaster Coun
ty’s Landisville Camp Meeting
activities were set to open July
25 and continue through August
7. Governor Stuart of Pennsyl
vania was scheduled to make an
address on the camp grounds
July 30.
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P. A. D. MADE WAR
AGAINST SAN JOSE SCALE
War against the deadly San
Jose scale was being waged by
inspectors for Pennsylvania Agri
culture Department. Orchards
throughout the state were being
examined, and applications made
to kill the parasite wherever
traces of it were found. State
authorities was making every ef
fort to stamp it out before a foot
hold was secured.
The inspectors not only de
stroyed the scale in the field
where it was found, but instruct
ed farmers in the best methods
of preventing its appearance
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In order to carry out a notion
which proved to be better in
theory than in practice, an lowa
farmer fed the carcesses of hogs
that had died of cholera to a pen
of hogs which had the disease,
but had recovered, in order tv
prove that having had the disease
rendered them mmune. A report
on the outcome of the farmer’s
theory stated: “Every hog in the
pen but one died as a result of
the experiment".
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Garden parties were fashion
able and popular in the East half
a century ago, but not so in the
West, where jack rabbits were
the chief concern of garden grow-
Week*
ter Farming
ers. Near Beloit, Kansas, as many
as 100 rabbits were oberved gath
ered in a garden one night. Two.
men shot 40 in one night in a gar
den. Their antics were calledi
“Jack Rabbit Fandango”.
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25 Years Ago
During the summer of 1932
there was one little gleam of sun
shine in the nation’s economical
picture, and it came from the
farm.
Prices of livestock took an up
ward turn. Hogs had advanced in.
prices from May 28 to July 15 an
average of $2.20 per hundred
weight, 'and cattle in general
showed improvement.
Two dollaars a hundred more
for hogs back in 1932 meant to
many farmers the difference be
tween reasonable prosperity,,
'■with payment of mortage, and
losing the farm.
Fancy heavy steers were selling
at S 9 per hundred But more im
portant, farmers feeding corn
to hogs at the current prices got
40 to 50 cents per bushel for corn
selling as grain from 18 to 24
road workers and increased freigh
cents.
Following the upturn of live
stock prices to farmers, in 1932,
preliminary budgets of American
railroads indicated an expendi
ture of $1,000,000,000 for supplies
B*ckfround Scriptural Exodus 2:15b
-22 4:18-20, 18 1-27
D«Totlon*l Kesdinrt Psalm 119:33-40.
To Give
Advice
Lesson for July 14, 1957
TO GIVE advice is easy; to
give advice that people will
take is not so easy. To give advice
that people will be glad they took,
is hardest of all. Besides, some
people are harder customers for
advice than other people."old peo
ple sometimes are more stubborn
than young ones;
successful people
may hot listen so
readily to criti-
clsm as will
those who have
failed; and mem-
bers of one’s own
family may pay
less attention
than anybody
Dr; Foreman
else,
Old Man Jethro
There is a story in the Old Test
ament of a very old man who gave
advice to another man who was
younger than he, but still an old
man too. The younger man had
been tremendously successful, ■
much more so than his father-in
law had ever been. Yet it was the
father-in-law who gave the advice.
His name was Jethro and he lived
about as far oil all the beaten
tracks as a man could go. When
the young Moses had fled from a
murder charge, naturally he had
gone as far from civilization as he
could; and there he came across
Jethro, priest and stock-raiser.
Moses had married one of his
daughters, a somewhat stupid girl,
no match for the brilliant Moses.
Now, forty-odd years later, with
all the glory of the great escape
from Egypt fresh upon him, Moses
had brought his grumbling people
(most ungrateful for their free
dom!) out to this same remote
region to get organized for their
march to-Canaan. All day long old
Jethro watched his son-in-law, sit
ting in the midst of a swarming
crowd, all talking -at once,- no
doubt, asking- questions, -demand- .
ing attention, complaining.of
grievances, accusing- their
bors, wanting Moses to s^*
setting the pace for recovery of
business in general in the nation.
The acceptance of a 10 per cent
reduction in wages by the rail
road workers and increase freight
rates, placed the leading rail
roads on a sound financial basis
and permitted purchases of sup
plies which had been needed but
deferred due to the depression.
At Reading, Pa., officials of the
Reading Iron Company an
nounced that the finishing mill
and charcoal plants at their
Oley Street Mill would resume
operations July 18, with more
than 200 workmen called back
to work
$25,000 FIRE ON EXPERIMENT
AL FARM
Twenty-five years ago this week
a disastrous fire destroyed the
crop-filled barn on the Chester
County, Pa, Experimental Farm
of Prof. John R. D. Dickey, of the
Pennsylvania State College, with
a loss estimated at $25,000.
A Holstein bull, which had been
rescued from the model barn,
charged the crowd of spectators
and drove them to shelter behind
trees and buildings before it was
‘driven off by fanners armed with
pitchforks.
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According to a report issued
by the state bureau of lire pro
tection, Pennsylvania State Po
lice, during the period of one
year a total of 4,630 farm fires re
sulted in a loss of $7,902,529, ap
proximately 28 per cent of the ag
gregated loss for the entire state
exclusive of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh The majority of the
fires were caused by seasonable
conditions in the form of light
ning during the summer months
and spontaneous combustion and
thrasing activities during the har
vest season
their quarrels. It was too much
for any man, even a Moses. Old'
Jethro gave him a simple piece of.
advice: Set up a graded system
of judges Don’t try all the cases
yourself, only the hard ones. So
Moses took the advice . . . and it
woiked so well that, forty years or
so later, Moses seems to have be
lieved that he himself had thought
of the bright idea first.
- Character
Why did Moses take the advice'
of Jethro so quickly? Of course
the mam reason, no doubt, was
that having lived with Jethro for'
nearly forty years, Moses had
listened to the old man before and'
knew he did mot talk nonsense. But
what was it that made Jethro
worth listening to? To put it Into
terms of our own problems: What
do I need, to get my own advice
taken by other people’ How cam
I learn to give advice that people,
will follow and line? The first thing
needed, in ordef to give advice
wisely, is character. Jethro was a
man of God. Possibly his idea of
God was not up to the Christian
standard, perhaps not even up to
that of Moses. But the God he
knew, he revered and served. Then
he was not only religious, he was
practical He knew what would
work and what would not. A man
of deep faith and conviction, who
is also solidly practical, is the best
kind of counselor, and people
know it.
Acquaintance
Another thing: Jethro and Moses
had lived side by side for forty
years. Jethro knew Moses like »
book, he knew his ability and his
limitations. Advice is not best
given by total strangers. Some
times people in trouble will appeal
to complete strangers for advice,
but that is only because they don't
like to tell some local man (or
woman) the whole truth. In giving
advice, the counselor needs to
know as much as possible about
the whole background of the per
son be is advising.
Concern
More than acquaintance is need
ed, to be a welcomed adviser. The
•fed Jethro could see that Moses
was wearing down, under the im
possible burdens he was trying to
carry. If Jethro had not cared, he
would hardly have offered advice."
But he did care; and Moses knew
it. Advice is not best when served
cold. A good counselor advises
from the heart not less than from
the head. With the head, one can
analyze a situation; but only with
the heart can the adviser put him.
self in the place of the one h*
helps.
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