—Lancaster Farming, Friday,.Nov, 8, 1057 4 , < |ancaster farming 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 Why Not Limit Show Age? LAST SUMMER AT THE county Holstein Breeders Assn annual meeting, the speaker commented that in British dairy cattle shows, animals must be at least a year old to compete in open classes We have been mulling this over since that time, through more than a half dozen community shows and a couple of state shows, and have come to the conclusion that they have something there Most of us know that a six-month-old calf shows very little indication of what she will look like as a mature cow. Quite a few breeders will not show such young cattle and the majority of judges dislike judging such a class. Actually a heifer has to be fairly well along with her Back in 1907 Danish dncr first calf before she starts to show what she will be as a pro- had suceec i ec } growing eldelweiss, ducing cow And after all, this is what we are interested in an Alpine flower found only in ■ —confirmation with the ability to produce milk. the dizziest heights of the Swiss Junior — 4-H .and FFA — shows are quite something Alps The enterprising gardner else Here the boy or girl is being judged almost as much exported largo quantities of the as the animal. The training in fitting and handling an ani- fioweis to Swiss hotels, where mal, be it young or mature, is the most important item. tliey were sold at hlgh P nces That is one of the primary reasons for the use of the Danish , system. Of judging in youth contests „ , . Exceeded Supply Next year we would really like to see one of the fair boards take the step and set-a minimum age in the open Flf ty years ago there was a class We believe that exhibitors, spectators and the judge scarcity of a!llgators a i nd tbe 1 r l eas ' would all be happier with such a show The extra prize °'\, WdS ? n the , ( * lldreri money could be contributed to the junior show and thus pi ay thm«s ° USG em as give the young showmen a little more to shoot for with Amor * ag to ihe New York then young animals Times it was a common thing to see city children accompanied by Agriculture, Too, Needs Scientists gSb^t^tmfSgpSaS: nue The mouth of the creatures WITH THE EYES of the nation turned to the sky in an were wide open and were made effort to see Sputnik, the tremendous importance of as realistic as the art of the taxi mamtainmg a scientific and technological lead in the United demist could provide Most of States is emphasized. the staffed pets measured from 12 Volumes are being said and written now in Wash- 10 18 mches in Jcngth ing and other places on the importance of an adequate supply of scientists and the money to support research in in the Novembei, 1907, issue of the fields of’iocketry, nucleonics, astrophysics and space the American Review of Reviews medicine a writer had this to say But we are farmers How does all this affect us ? We are vitally affected Agriculture now is .in direct men Wol ' ked very long hours and competition with all other fields of industry for the best *' hcu children had to work, too, brains available in ord f r *° pi ? duce e ?°? gh , t 0 T r r , T A i „ . suppoi t the workingman s larmly Here are a few examples Let’s take the soil first Bu V lhe grov , Ul 0 | capital io consli net soil saving structures such as divor- the employment of machinery sions, terraces, tile systems and the like, the services of a have added so much to the effi civil engineer, or someone with training that approximates cicncy ot tabor that long hours the civil engineer, is needed These are the same civil for adults are no longer neces engineers that can build roads, bridges, or the multitude of sar y ancl lhe industrial employ other similar types of jobs In agriculture we call him an ment of chll dren under fourteen agncultuial engineer Good agricultural engineers are Cdn be enUrel> dispensed with’' getting scarce Going into what makes the soil produce and grow crops calls foi lesearch men that have extremely specialized training But at the same time, this training can just as easily be diveited slightly to be used in fields other than agriculture The soil chemist, the soil micro-biologist, and the soil physicist aie also good physical, organic or colloidal chemists, biologists are also bio-physicists and*bio-chemists, and physicists ot any type are in great demand The field crops specialist is usually an expert in genetics, the animal husbandly and dairy specialist are well versed in the fields of chemistry and biology, the forest ei is an expel t in land measurement and photo interpre - tation If the man is there on the fence, so to speak, be tween a caieei in aguculture or in industry, what do you think he will choose - ’ What would you choose, with industry offering wages that double or triple the usual research or taim service salary 0 So it would seem that if we are to continue to keep good men in research in agriculture, we aie going to have to start paying them what they are worth in terms of the going market Otherwise we shall have only second-raters in agriculture as industry skims off the cream of the crop f 1 i !»l 1 ' )!'(!■ 11. ' 1 i > I i STAFF Publisher Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) The hay bo\ was a popular de Vico with many housewives, a half century ago, not only from an economical point of view, but also as a convenience The box was a tightly built one, with a cover, so as to exclude the air as effectively as possible, In some cases a wood chest or old trunk was used These were lined on the bottom and sides with asbestos or Iclt and filled with hay, in which nests were made for pots, ket tles and pans or other receptacles A hay pillow was placed over them before the cover was closed down According to one farmwife, who operated a hay box in her kitchen in 1907, the food cook ed on the stove was brought to the boiling point, then transferred to the hay box, where the cook ing process was slowly completed potatoes and other vegetables prepared in the morning was nicely cooked by noon, while in the case of thicken and other boiled meat they were left in the box overnight It was claimed that chicken cooked nicely in this manner and only needed warming up to be ready tor Sunday dinner Before placing her dishes m the box the farmwife said she slip ped them into a sack which kept out particles of hay and dust ‘ A generation ago men and wo- In Lancaster, 50 years ago this week. Watt & Shand, the New York Store’, eornei East King Street and Center Square, feat uicd sewing machines at $l5 50 on a cooperative club plan. The advertisement slated “You pay $2 when you join the club, and $1 a week until paid No club lees, no interest charge, simply buying a sewing machine on the club plan at the spot cash price ” 25 Years Ago Ma\ E Davis nineteen, a sistei Mis Helen Lambert, twenty and her husband, Raymond Lambert thirty, all of Lebanon RD2, had been held lor court foi a sdhes o) thefts, and in default of bail set at $1 000 each They were committed to lail The trio were accused of steal mg n.nc chickens from the south- •-This Week 5 ' * Lancaster Farming '•***> ' ern Lancaster iarm of Howard Kirk near Wakefield, which they thiew out of then auto when chased The two men were charg ed with stealing a quantity of gas oline from Edward Neary, near Leach Bottom, and a bag of pota toes from William 8011, near Manheim Davis was charged with the larceny of 32 bags of wheal from Calvin Herr on Peach Bot tom Rl Unmasked Bau a its Get Cash At Lancaster Shoe Shop Twenty-five years ago this week two unmasked bandits robbed the Enna Jettick Shoe Shop, procur mg some $7O in cash The robbery took place while sc'ores of people passed in front of the store on East King Street. Accoi ding to Herbert B Smeltz store manager, he was being as sisted by Richard Shirk, a clerk, in the arrangement of stock prior to closing the shop for the night when two men entered One pull ed a gun and quietly ordered the men to face the wall, and then oidered Smeitz to open the cash register for him. Background Scriptural I Corinthians 13 —l4 Devotional Reading! Ephesians 4 4-18. Gifts, of God Lesson for November 10, 1957 'T'HE tiny patch of Paul’s letter printed in most Sunday school quarterlies this week is not nearly enough to give the fhll idea of what ha meant to teach on our subject. For this, the three whole chapters should be read The reader will please notice that the famous chap ter 13 is tied in both tothe chapter befoi e and the one following. However, there’s enough In the first baker’s doz en of verses in Dr. Foreman chapter 12 to give any one food for thought Every Christian Has a Gift The problem in the Corinthian church, to which these three chap ters turn our attention, was the matter Of “spiritual gifts.” Some of the church membeis had some rather spectacular gifts like woik ing miracles or speaking with tongues: others were good at ad ministrative jobs, and so on. Ev erybody with a special gift was in clined to look on his own as a mark of God’s favoi, something that set him “a cut above” other Chi istians. All these people combined to de- gav ® A man com plained to spise the poor ordinary mn-of- D L. Moody, a not too well edu rmne Christian, who in Counth (as f but ver y successful 19th cen in your own home chui ch) had no tury , 6V ??, ge^lst ’ tbat bls grammar special gift at all Coming out to ™ as ba( * * Br< >ther," said Moody, chuich once a week, and staying you Ve grammar, awake, was about all that could ai ar .f you * or the Lord be expected of him. w ‘ t T h lt? _ , , . , „ , , No one should read the 12th » r ? 01 ”‘ s OU . t ’ In efrcct > that chapter of I Corinthians without eveiy Chust.an has some gi t of reading straight on lnto th , die Holy Spmt Well, what about whjcb bnngs al] tblg t polnt these chinch-goers who don't seem No matter what , perlon % P g fts to have anything special about „„„ *-u P " them’ Paul would be asked “No * I.™ y ° ♦ be M,raculou f one can say Mesus .Led’ except ” ITS isTh eTrl Now that ofMim,e rT.l “ Ti thoTr T child, every new member, horn Division of ChrisiUn P Kiue*tion/n»* the humblest unsk.lled worker fT'l right up to the President of the rres * Se f *ic*.) Carl Seiler, a hustling left handed husker from Knox County 111, won the championship over seventeen competitors in the 9th national corn husking contest held before a shivering crowd of 40,000 spectators at Salia, 111. Nov 10, 1932 Seiler husked 36,914 bushels m eighty minutes to win by a com fortable margin over lowa’s state champion, Walter Johansen Beware of excess weight, espec ially as \ou get old ” That was a warning issued by Dr Barr, professoi of medicine at Washington University, of St. Louis, 25 years ago Speaking be fore a group, Dr Barr stated “Every pound of added weight means so many billions of separ ate cells that must be supplied with food, water, oxygen The heart of a heavy person is over worked and in old age often gives up and stops Get rid of as many billions as possible of surplus body cells and dimmish the un necessarily heavy load on your heart ” Reciprocal agreements between Pennsylvania and Maryland re garding the use of the highways by commercial trucks terminated Oct 31, 1932 A new Pennsylvania regulation, which went into effect Nov. 1, that year, prohibited any commer cial truck of any owner which made more than fifteen trips into the state between Oct. 15 and 31 from entering the state without Pennsylvania tags Maryland had taken similar ac tion against commercial trucks of Pennsylvania • * United States, on entering full church membership Is requited to acknowledge Jesus as Loid Now. says Saint Paul, whenever that is said sincerely, there is evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit. You may call this the Grace of Believ ing, or the Grace of Confession; whatever you call It, it Is a gift of the Holy Spirit For tho Common Good Theie are two wrong notions, among others, about gifts of the Holy Spirit, against which Paul sets the simple truth One of these notions is that gifts of the Holy Spint are bound to be something sensational, miraculous, spectacu- lar On the contrary, the truth is that the Spirit’s presence is shown by such simple things as confes sing Christ as Lord, or teaching, or simply having faith The other notion is that if I have a spiritual gift, something supernatural, di rect from on high, that is a sign of special favor to ME; that the gift is mainly to benefit myself. On the contrary,_Paul points out, “to each is given the manifesta tion of the Spirit for the common good.” (That is the R S V. trans lation of verse 7 ) Any gift of the Spirit Is like money put into our hands to be used for some'good cause; if we keep it, hoard it or use it selfishly, we are bad trus-- tees. One Spirit, Many Gifts Why doesn’t the coming of the "Holy Spurt into people’s lives af- fect them all alike? Why all the variety of gifts that Paul men tions’ Well, the reason is not hard to see; all these gifts are needed, in the church and outside. But one thing Paul emphasizes is that there is only one Spirit, and that all spiritual gifts, even the "hum blest,” are divine gifts No one hat any right to look down on any other Christian, certainly not if the other Christian is using “for tile common good” the gift God Carl Seiler, Illinois, N anted Cqm Hpsker
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