4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, August 23, 1957 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 < 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; 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 The Drouth and Federal Aid TRAVELLING over ISO miles through Lancaster, Berks and Chester Counties with Governor Leader Monday,’ we had a good opportunity to see the effects of the drouth first hand The worst-hit areas were in northern Lancaster and southern Berks Counties. It seems that on both sides of the ridge that divides the two counties there has been little rainfall all season This, combined with the type soil found there, has hurt crops to the no-yield stage ■ In the parts of Chester County visited, it was not nearly so bad One farmer there was plowing—granted, with difficulty—and" the corn crop is expected to yield 50 per cent as compared with the 30 per cent normal expected jield in the other two areas. One point not often considered was brought home. The size of the farm operation seemingly is in direct pro portion to the farmers opinion of the drouth. One farmer who operates 350 acres in Chester County and has about 90 head of cattle said that he will have hay to sell On the whole he expressed no great fear of the outcome of the dry weather. On the other hand his neighbor who operates only a hundred acres with the same number of cattle is hard pressed to find feed for his cattle. Both are family sized farms Both men have been mak ing a good living at farming. But now one is in favor of federal aid and the other luke-warm. Farming is a business, and like most businesses, it is possible to overstock This seems to be the case with many of the farms this year. I However we see no need for the federal government have to come to the aid of a gamble that has lost. It surely does not when the merchant lays in too much stock that does not move and gets into trouble. The federal aid programs for natural disaster relief are fine and we have seen many farm families remain on the faim through them But we urge the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to use the greatest discretion in recommend ing such a program for the state President Eisenhower has implied by his action thus far this year that he is not making these programs a gen eral pork barrel, but rather a source of relief to farmers in dire need Farmers in this state, we believe, are a too proud and independent people to go crying to Uncle Sam for a hand-out when it really isn’t needed. If the need truly exists the poffered aid should be accepted Governor Leader is the man on the spot If he asks tor federal assistance and is refused, he will have lost political face both nationally and in the state At the same time theie seems to be a tremendous pressure from cer tain groups to ask for aid It’s his decision Let us hope that he considers all the tacts available to act in the best interest of the farmers ot the Commonwealth. What’s Happened to Broilers? SOMETHING peculiar is happening in broiler prices at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange this year According to sales records from the Exchange, March has always been the high ranking month, price-wise. But this veai July has taken the honors In 1955 and 1956 the March price average as 32 3 and 23 7 cents respectively But this year it was only 20.86 cents July, on the other hand, has jumped from that av ei age up to 23 57 cents Maybe it’s all the barbeques Maybe it’s that a I,po 000 tewei chickens were sold It’s really hard to tell But it sure isn’t hard for the broiler producer to i&i tnjoy' Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS STAFF Publisher Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD " 50 YEARS AGO (1907) Back in 1907 the outlook for Lancaster County’s tobacco' crop was not bright Growers in gen eral found their crops in a very immature coridition, with pros pects of developing them into the ripened product doubtful Cool weath in the spring coupled with little ram' during the growing season was blamed for the re tarded growth. A leading tobacco expert, after inspecting a number of fields had this to say “The Condition of,the growing ci op affords ample cause for gen eral comment, on the side of the growers, as well as On the side of the dealers. The latter are not half so worried over the situation as are. the former The dealers paid a big price for the 1906 crop, much of which they yet have on hand, holding for better prices, and a shortage in this season’s crop would help them out of a \ ery troublesome situation ” “I, nevei before saw fields so badly mixed in character of the plants growing in them One of the-worst features is that even the small’plants are, in many cases, shooting in the seed-pods before having half as many leaves as they have ” SYNTHETIC CHICKEN SOUP Chicken soup with no part of chicken, and owed none of its savoriness to the dexterity of a cook, was to be found, perhaps, only one place in the world, ac cording to a report made by a prominent scientist in 1907 The particular favored spot was locat- ed in the slate of Nevada, and the so-called soup was a natural product The report stated that a spring of calcareous deposits, located near Elko, produced by the hand of Mother Nature what the in habitants of the town regarded as a better chicken soup than could be found m any of the hotels along the neighboring line of railway The spring was named Soup Spring It was declared the spring con tained sulphur, iron, magnesia and soda, with some copper Its V’aters was dipped up by tourists, and a little saltand pepper add ed. During the month of July, 1907, some 4,000 boxes of celery was shipped from the celery growing area around Kalamazoo, Mich. This amounted to about 150,000 stalks daily, and most of it was shipped by express The growers received 12 cents a bunch con taining 12 stalks The shipper got 18 cents a bunch Nearly 300 per- sons were engaged in growing the celery on tracts ranging from one to six acres FARM HELP A PROBLEM Fifty years ago the securing of dependable young men and girls for help on the farm was a prob lem The question of indoor as well as outdoor help on the larg er farms was solved by erecting tenant houses and securing the services of a reliable married couple, but the smaller farmer had to depend chiefly on elderly men and women and shiftless young people for help during har vest seasons. One of Luther Burbanks ci ca tions, in 1907, was a plum as large as an apple had a pit stone like a cherry It was a cross be tween the Beech and a Japanese variety The plum was bright red m color and was claimed to be of good quality 25 Years Ago A disastrous fire wrought great loss on the Lancaster farm of George Cramer in the Mt Nebo section The blaze was discovered by Mrs Cramer. The barn, tobacco shed and chicken house were attached and This Week- Lancaster Farming ' tell prey to the flames, as did the hog-pen and about 30 head of hogs. Only three of the hogs were saved. A number of chickens also 1 were burned. 1 The mules, cows and steer§ in the bant were released and left roam to safety AH of the season’s crops were burned, including wheat which had just been threshed. An auto, farm implements, harness and the like were consumed in the blaze. West Willow- and Quarryville Firfe Companies responded to ,the call, but t)ie fire,was beyond con trol when.they reached the scene. WORLD’S. GREATEST NEWS The most important world wide news of the century came from Berlin during August, 1932 Two German scientists, Lang and Brasch, using an artificial “thunderbolt” of 2,500,000 volts, had split an atom -of lead, releas ing energy equivalent to fifteen million volts The scientists declared that the energy locked up in the atoms of oxygen and hydrogen .in two tea spoonfuls of water would drive the steamship Leviathan twice across the ocean, but advised in vestors not to sell their coal .mines or goad oil stocks because science moved slowly It was pointed out that a little steam engine had been shown in Alex andria in the Serapion, long be fore the With of Christ But man Bftckjrrottnd Scrlpt«r«: Amos Devotional Rekdinr: Amos 5 18-24, Crusaders Lesson {or August 25, 1957 WHEN Amos, the hired man, Amos the migrant worker, stood up in the city square at Bethel to make a speech, no doubt people laughed It looked funny to see a man in overalls making like a politician They laughed: but they did not keep on laughing. He did not talk like ihti' - n at all It was like nothing they had expected It was more like well, like a prophet, only there hadn’t been a prophet at Bethel since any one £ared to re- member. It was like a prophet, ® r - Foreman only Amos himself didn’t want that title. The country was full enough as if was, of prophets who were happy as June-bugs, and about as effective The one tune they hummed went something like “Eveiythmg Is for the best in the I best of possible world’s.” i What 1$ a Crusader? I I Amos did not see it that way He ( drew such a dark picture of the ' country and the times, and the | prospects, that the leading citi 'zens were won led Get that man I out of heie' they said. He’s not I good for business, he’s not good I for* the church, he’s not good, Ipenod But Amos kept right on We do not know how long he lived after those exciting days m Bethel, but his speeches are not dead yet We can call him an early type of ciusader. No popu lar occupation' : A ciusader is next door to a crank, and some ciusadeis are cranks, and all cranks are nui sances; so most people shy away fiom the veiy word. However, we have other words meaning much the same thing. To crusade —it’s no diflfeient fiom "stand up and fight,” "stand up and be counted,” “go out on a limb,” “carry a toich for—"go to bat (or to the mat) for—Words' waited for the steamboat and lo comotive. Twcnty-fxve years ago this week Lancaster Farm Women Society, No. 11, entertained members’ families at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Eshleman Mechanic Grove. A short business session was in charge of Mrs William Bucher. F ARMERS’ STRIKE IN FULL SWING Governor Warren Green, of South Dakota, issued a call'for a conference of the Governors of Ifi Farm Belt states to take place at Sioux City, lowa, to consider concerted action m connection with the farmers’ strike in full swing back in August, 1932 A single state \Vide coopera tive organization to control mar keting of farm products, and pos sible working together with simi lar organizations in other agricul ture states was proposed by Gov. Floyd B. Olson, of Minnesota, Gov. Olson stated “Into this single cooperative organization the 4,600 coopera tives in states could be grouped, and these, protected by law, they could control the marketing of agriculture products and make really effective the farm holiday plan ” Keller, Deputy Secretary of • the Pennsylvania Department -of Forests and all “Scotch” Santa Clauses, who, cut their Christmas trees from State forests or from privately owned land without the owners consent, “must be prepared to pay a fine of $25 for each tree removed”. change from century” to century, but the thing is always the same. The crusader is a man with two slogans. He does not always put It this way, but these two are' al ways samples of his attitude to life and the world around him! Something is wrong with thal world: fight it! i Something is wrong with thal world: right-it! Crusading From ihe Bottom If you think ill’* well with th* world you are no crusader. If you think a lot is wrong with th* world but nothing can be donaj about it, you are no crusader. But) even if you pan say Amen to thos*' two slogans just now mentioned, you are still no crusader if all) you do Is stand there and yell. A, true crusader wants other men] to join his fight. That was true, when the word began to be used, in the years when European army after army went out to the mid east to win back the Holy Land., It is still true, a crusader is »' rouser of men, not merely am aroused man. What makes a crusader tick?' They both feel the weight of the] world’s evil, but in different ways.; The crusader from the bottom Is a man who has felt the evil Amos' was in that class. He came from the very bottom drawer, a hired man in a submarginal area, next! to beggais, about the most under-, privileged of the underprivileged. He well knew what social and! economic injustice are; he had been a victim of both. So today and always, some -of the most] effective ciusaders are men andj women who have personally been victimized by the evils they set out to destioy Some of the great est temperance workers and cru saders have been men whose own lives had been wrecked by al-i cohol Crusader From ihe Top ( The crusader from the top, on' the contrary, is a man or vvomani i who has never personally suf-| 'fered fiom the evils they fight.. They »ie people with both sym-' pathy and imagination. Wilber-1 force in England and Lincoln in America had never been slaves, I neither had John Woolfnan; but they felt the evil of slavery more keenly than some slaves did. Fiances E. Willard, founder of tha Women’s Chustian Tempeianca' Union, had never been an alco-j holic. The gieatest crusader of all! time was suiely Jesus ChnstJ Should, we not say that he was a ciusader fiom the top 7 (Based on outlines copyrighted by th# Division of Christian Education, Na-I tlonal Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) That same week John W.
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