Triday! iNbvr>k'/lj9S7 4 ytncaster fanning 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; 50 Per Copy Entered, as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3,1879 Keep Bees With Ease Nov 28, 1907, as a day of general Saturday afternoon Twenty tnr , , , , thanksgiving and prayer, and oil keys, one pig, the season’s crops OOME OF THE GREAT labor requirements in beekeeping, day j recommend that the and most of the farm implements an industry that’s vital to pollination of fruit and seed peop } e s hall cease from then- were burned No estimate of the crops is being eliminated by engineering research. daily work, and, in their homes loss was given Studies by USDA and cooperating State experiment or in their churches, meet de stations have yielded important man-hour savings in both youtiy to thank the Almighty or eastern penna, hive handling and honey extraction Out engineers are f“taS?nd £ mTBrsTOKM making contributions to the general thriftiness and well- pray that they may be given being of bee colonies by protecting them from extremes of strength so to order their lives as winter cold and intensive summer heat. They’re investigat- t 0 receive a continuation of these mg other aspects of apiary management. blessings m the future. Beekeeping has one of the highest labor require .ments in the entire field of agriculture. In the unfavorable £ 0A ?1 A^ N *X E «r Si^ R « r market of 1954, it took 52 hours of labor to produce $lOO PLANNED BY W. v. H. u. s. oi product, and in the following year of better prices 41 The w Valley Historical hours per $lOO of product Only tobacco, milk, and cotton and Geologlcal society planned production have higher ratios. to celebrate the 100th anniver- Two-queen hives, stacked high with supers (extra S ary of the first burning of coal sections for honey storage), are common today. Working m a commercial grate The ob such stacks takes much energy and time. ARS agricul- servance date was set for Feb 1, tural engineers C. D. Owens and B I. Detroy and entomolo- 3 308. and it had been decided to gist C L. Farrar of the Wisconsin Agricultural Expert- strike off a medal in commemora ment Station at Madison devised four ways to lift and tip tl0 ” ° f v 1 ® ev t „ th „ rn „„ rr , c hives on their sides for easy access They utilized such t^itTcoal Was first success available devices as truck and tractor fork lifts and truck fully burned m a grate by judge hydraulic tail gates. - Jesse Fell, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa Uncapping combs and extracting honey from them At that time the coal was known also are time-consuming bottle-necks in apiary operation- as stone -coal Outcroppings of Honey and wax removed from the comb during uncapping anthracite coal weie aboundant become mixed, and removing that wax is another tedious in the area ’ but no one thougllt job The engineers have improved these operations. of using tol L d ° mest ' lc P u yP° s ® s Two nuisances in extracting honey - regulating “““t’iTld bTS the speed of the common radial extractor by hand, and He cons tructed a grate of iron frequent comb breaking from its accelerating too rapidly bars and imbedded it m bricks m have been eliminated by a new speed control device the open fireplace m the mam The engineering studies originally dealt with re- room of the Histone Fell Tavern quirements of electric heaters to keep colonies in good where the first experiment was strength under low winter temperatures in the North. A conducted There was a good up llexible, rubber covered heating type tape that’s wrapped draft the } arge chn J u ) e; (’ and around the hive proved satisfactory A positive relation- ship has been found between size, shape, and movement room • ol the bee cluster, and hive temperature Owens found that a temperature of 30 degrees F, is preferable to 35 de- Friday supersition grees to 55 degrees, and that* other colony factors are im- AN UNLUCKY day portant Owens is now experimenting with ways of reducing Is Fnda y an unluck day 9 Well, excessive heat from the Southwest summer sun. Overheat Gladstone, Washington, Bismark, is particularly a problem in moving colonies from shaded ,47Aty g^U“ s “ lo ar w e e^ \ards to unshaded fields for crop pollination. bom on Friday Other engineering studies are being made to im- Henry vm gave Cabot his com prove the methods 'of storing honey in the apiary and mission which”led to the discov ways of keeping honey hduses in a sanitary condition ery of North America Columbus actually discovered this continent "" and the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock on Friday Freedom to Question Sparks Progress rpHE ESSENCE OF AN EDUCATED mind is the tvel- « * come accorded a free inquiry into all of the subjects the same day ot the week with that touch the mental life of man, and the willingness of Charles Dickens Friday was a the individual t° question the real values that former favorite, generations have placed upon all things This does not mean that one should lightly discard the wisdom that has come to us through the ageless ex perience of the race, but, with all our confidence in ac cepted values, we should look openly at questionings that arise m our minds To fear the test of impartial intel ligence is to betray our own insecurity in relation to our opinions and beliefs The fieedom of the individual to explore the think ing and conclusions of the human race, and to weigh them in the scales of new intelligence, is the spark-plug of hu man progress No race moves ahead by blindly following the past and accepting, without question, thoughts which have*taeen handed down to us Without inquiries into the values of the past, human improvements would come to a standstill. STAFF The Cherokee County (Ala.) Herald Publisher Editor Advertising Director .Circulation Director in Lancaster Fanning BY JACK REICHARD administration In the common purpose of all of us I shall dedi cate myself to every possiole President Theodore Roosevelt helpful effort issued his Thanksgiving procla- , mation, through the Secretary of In Lancaster County assembly- State, naming the last Thursday man Thomas J. Brown Mount in November. The proclamation JW died at his home Nov 2, is given here in part 19 rf , , “A great demociacy like ours, a Browns name appeared on democracy based upon the pnn- the ballots to be used in the Nov. ciples of orderly liberty, can be » election that year He was a perpetuated only if in the heart candidate succeeding himself, ol the ordinary citizen there and was seeking a sixth term in dwells a keen sense of righteous- the Pennsylvania Legislature ness and justice We should earn- Death came in Mr Brown s estly pray that this spirit of 78th year He was well known as righteousness and justice may a manufacturer citizen and legis ever grow greater in the hearts lature. He was born in Yorkshire, ot all of us, and that our souls England, arriving in this country may be inclined evermore both when a small boy. toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and forbeaiance one Elsewhere in Lancaster County with another ' fire destroyed a large barn and “Now, therefore I, Theodore stoiage Shed on the farm of Rosevelt, President of the United Phares S Beamesderfer, near States, do set apart Thursday, East Petersburg about 530 on a 50 YEARS AGO (1907) 25 Years Ago Twenty-five years ago Franklin D Roosevelt and John N Garner were cained into the nations piesidential and vice president, chairs by a hugh majority, re ceiving sonic 400 electoral votes It was a Democratic landslide President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Curtis, Republican candidates, received some fifty electoral votes President Hoover - sent the following telegram to President-elect Roosevelt “I congratulate on the op portunity that has come to you to be of service to the country I wish for you a most successful On Nov 1, 1932, Philadelphia and sutmiban towns were hit by one of the heaviest rainstorms ever recorded in the area Buildings were unroofed and Background Scripture: I Corinthians 11. Devotional Reading: Colossiana 3-12- 17 , In Worship Lesson for November 3, 1957 \\7’HY do people go to church? * * There are very poor reasons, such as showing off a new hat, or keeping up a ( respectable front v There are reasons which are only middling-good, such as eajoyipg the music, or going to please your wile. There are also very good rea sons; the best of these is simply to worship God. There are differ- ent ways Chris- tian churches use in worship ping God, and it is rarely that one particular serv- ice makes use of one way alone Hymns are one way, and prayer Foreman is another, and offering is another. But the way_pf worship which most churches feel to be most sa cred is the observance known by the names of Eucharist, Lord’s Supper, Holy Communion. Lons Ycarsi Wido Road What Is the right spirit of wor ship’ In particular, how can we make the most of Communion? Saint Paul offers us some plain and valuable hints in the letter h« wrote to the church at Corinth. That church needed some plain spoken help, tor two reasons For one thing, the Christian religion was hardly thirty years old There W»* no long tradition, no prayer book, no New' Testament to go by. For anotnei thing, many of the Corinthians Christians had been outught papans till recently, and pagans had some very odd notions ibout how to worship their gods, such as getting drunk in their tem ples. So Paul had to' make some tilings clear One is that the wor shippers at the Lord’s Table are not alone, there is a tradition be hind them, there are hosts of other churches also at worship in this way. We worship best when we are mindful of the whole church of Christ. We are travelers on a road stretching through two thou sand year* now, not thirty yean only—a road wide enough to take otherwise f|sniiBged,J M'ftshs fteiji-' uprooted and poles snapped off, disrupting telephone and tele graph service. Parts of New Jersey also were hard hit At Atlantic City a large advertising sign was lifted from its concrete base atop the Million Dollar Pier on the Board walk and sent crashing to a roof below The sign was valued at more(_i .than $125,000 MARYLAND JAIL PRISONER ATTEMPTED ESCAPE • Blaine Swan, colored, attempt ed to escape from the jail at Elk ton, Md, and was caught in the act Swan, charged with highway robbery and awaiting trial, had scratched plaster from the wall of his cell ancLremoved a number of stones Slipping through the opening, he reached a thirty foot wall surrounding the prison and was m the act of attempting to .scale it when captured The prisoner had tore out electric light wire from his cell, and had fastened it to a hook made from a piece of pipe conduit He was preparing to toss the hook over the wall when seen by the guard. Back in November, 1932, mo torists were warned by the Penn sylvania Highway Patrol that they must comply with a 20-mile-an hour speed limit in sdhool areas throughout the Commonwealth “Every legal measure will be taken by the Highway Patrol to protect school children from the fe reckless motorist”, said Captain Wilson C Price, Superintendent of the Patrol, in a statement to newspapers In worshipper* from every country In the world. Remembering this, we shall be solemnly grateful that we too can share in -this age-old Remembiance of Christ. “In Remembrance of Me” v For tins Lord’s Supper Is a rite * of remembrance. How shall we best approach it? To come care lessly, thoughtlessly, is to cut our selves off from its meaning and its blessing. We should it remembering the One in whose Name it is celebrated. But how shall we remember turn 9 There Is something more here than simple memory. We do not well remem ber a good mother’s birthday by _ getting drunk, or by polishing off " ,a shady deal; or by being hateful to tnembeis of our family. We best remember Washington not by making speeches about him but by being patriots ourselves. So we can best remember Christ not by being suddenly reminded of mm by seeing that this is Communion Sunday, not by merely recalling that once such a Man lived and .died We come and worship m his name rightly when we come re ) membermg, and praying for, his spirit in, our liges. Those who get most out of Communion are usual ly those who have been keeping closest to their Lord. Renumbering Others Protestant churches take seri ously another thought in Paul's lines about the Lord’s Supper. That is, that this is not something we can best do alone. There is., room for pnvate worship of God, f and a necessity f&r it. But there is also room and necessity for the public worship of God, and the Holy Communion is public, social, communal, corporate, rather than, private and individualistic. That is the way theologians would put it For the plain worshipper, the point ts this; In coming to this sacred high-pomt of worship, we shall get the most out of it if we give thought to others not les ) than to ourselves. We need to re member the Church in whose com pany this feast is kept. We need to lemember the Body—not only tlie broken body of Chust, but the Church which Paul (in the veiy next chapter) calls the body of Christ. We need also to remember those who are in need. Most con gregations use the Communion time for special offerings for the poorer otheivvise needy. So agan f the light way to approach' this hour of \v 01 ship is to come already in the spirit of unselfishness It is a poor sort of Christian who has to wait for the Communion serv- Ice to remind him to love hi* neighbor as himself.
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