4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 39, 1957 |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 Farm Values Steady PENNSYLVANIA whch usually exceeds the national aver age in farm real estate value increases, tailed to respond to a national rise ot two per cent during the past thi ee months Most observe! s believe that this is due to the xe centdtouth , , , .. , The volume ot sales in the summer and early taU ot this year continued at the low level ot recent years, ihe number of tarm ownership transfers attributable to financial distress was less than in the comparable months ot 1956. There appears to be little prospect that the pressures to inciease existing farms will lessen within the next lew vears Thousands of commercial farms are still too small for the most efficient use ot presently known production techniques With the spread in net tarm income between the least efficient and the most efficient operators becoming wider, those who are most successful in adopting technologi cal advances can be expected to provide effective demand for the relatively tew tracts ot land that come on the market each year Market forces are likely to capitalize much ot the in crease in income realized trom fertilizer, irrigation and bet ter management practices into the price ot land Despite the rise in market values, the number ot farms offered tor sale has remained near a record low. Present owners appear to be in a generally strong financial position and few have been forced to sell in recent years. The capital gams tax and the fact that receipt ot rental in come does not affect eligibility tor social security payments have contributed to a tight supply situation Farm Income Up Second Year FARM INCOME IS UP a little more this year, making two years ot gam following lour consective years ol decline, according to the most recent Farm Income Situation repoit liom the USDA The increase is likely to be maintained m 1958, when larm income is expected to average much the same as m 1957, the report predicts Faimer’s realized net income the lirst nine months ot this year was up two per cent over the same peuod in 1956, mostly due to increased payments undci the Soil Bank program Although present prospects do not indicate any fur ther increase next year in total larm income, continued re ductions m the number ot taims and in the number ot peo ple li\mg on tarms, together with mcieasing income trom olf-taim souires might well result m some tuither advance in avoiage income per larm and per peison living on tarms. The net income tor tanners in the nation will be about 12 1 billion dollars this yeai, compared with 11 9 bil lion lot the piecedmg year Gross income is up about tw r o pci cent inventories are up production costs rose only two per cent Thus a two per cent increase in realized net in come is seen Getting a little closer to home in Pennsylvania, live stock and livestock products brought in a total oi £413,328,- 000 in the In st nine months ot tins vear This is an increase 01 £4OO 000 liom the same pieiod in 1956 Gi op values show an increase ot £2 million Irom a ■ eai ago giving the state a net increase ot £2 311,000 in cash 'eceipts in the hist nine months ot this year ilowmei in Septembei ot this year the etlect ot the diouth m the Kevstone State was seen in the tiguies Fann maiketmgs o! tiops chopped £3 000,000 horn the same month a veai ago August was neatly as bad with a£2 mil lion chop Howe'ci incieased income horn animals oliset those losses to a great extent Foi the coming veai the expeits predict that an in (i ease is expected in laimeis cash i eceipts Irom maiketmg cotton potatoes eggs and poultiv They also leel that the upwaid tiend m dany ieceipts will continue Total receipts tiom livestock and pioducts is likell to increase further next ' eai rolal ci op i eceipts mav show little change Hollvwood points out that ladical changes in fashions in womens clothes pi event the icshowing of manv old films. Ileie’s wheie the nudists can smile Aikansas Gazette, (Little Rock ) STAFF Problem There Publisher ... Editor Advertising Director .Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 200 GALLON DISTILLERY 50 YEARS AGO (1907) A north lowa farmer who ex perimented with raising mint in 1907 was so successful that he planned to put out fifty acres in 1908. Although weather con ditions throughout the growing season were not the most favor able, the crop gave him a return of $65 per acre. The mint was planted in rows one way, cultivated like any other ciop, cut with a mower, raked with a horse rake and hauled to the still in basket racks The mint was pitched into vots equipped with tight covers holding about forty barrels each and tramped down by one man When the cov ers were put in.place, steam was foiced into the bottom of the vat fiom a traction engine A pipe from the top led to a system of distilling pipes that v/cie cooled by streams of water flowing over them which condens ed the steam The distilled oil ol peppeimint was easily sepa rated from the water The oil was sold at $2 66 per pound and the entire cost of the outfit was about $BOO A cenlial lowa farm tenant stated that he and his wife had raised and sold enough poultry on the 160 acre farm they weie working in 1907 to pay the en tire yeai’s rent The proceeds ot the crops raised and dairy pio ducts sold were put in the bank, the farmer said A farmer living on a western rural route, wishing to surprise a close friend residing in a town some 60 miles away, sent him five pounds of honey by mail By the time the package had reached its destination it had sprung a leak, with the icsult that every parcel in the pouch was smeared In Lancaster County, Mrs Sara A. Neiman, -of Rapho Twp., had apples 33 years old In an issue of the Mt Joy Bulletin, 50 years ago this week, it reported that Mrs Neiman “has apples preserv ed with cloves, said apples hav ing been picked m the year 1874 ” The shortest ciop during the fall of 1907 was the supply of freight cais to transport the bumper gram and vegetable pro duct crops of the nation to the markets Fifty years ago this week the thiee story brick building of the Columbia Embroidery Co. locat ed along the Susquehanna at Wnghtsville was gutted by fire Ihc Wnghtsville Stai Publishing Co which occupied a portion of the structure also was burned out. Firemen placed the combined loss at $30,000 In Lancdstei County that week sleighs and sleds weie put into sci vice, with an average of six inches of snow covering fields and-ioads Sleighing on the pikes was reported good, while “on the lough loads not so good ” 23 Years Ago Twenty-live \cars ago the fin est steer in the world was sold at auction and brought only $1 25 pci pound or 81,675 25 The steer, a Hereford named Texas Special, was auctioned at the International Livestock Ex hibition in Chicago, whole it was uCi'iidgod gland champion of the world Texas Special was bought by Pfacl/er P.ios Packing Companj in Clncagc Men who had been nidging cat tle at the livestock show lor main }cais said the steel was the lines! cyei exhibited, but biought S 7 a pound less than the 1929 champion Lucky Strike Texas Special was owned by C W Largent & Compam. Merkel Texas W k FOUND ON LANCASTER FARM Four 50-gallon stills and 3,575 gallons of liquor were seized when State Police raided a farm in West Cocaheo Twp, negr Den ver, and arrested Adam Hertzog who occupied the farm, and Clin ton Bucher. The men were charg ed with illegal manufacturer, sale, possession and the trans portation of liquor The four stills were concealed in chicken houses, while an out building on the farm contained vats filled wifh 3,000 gallons of mash, which the officials destroy ed An automobile, in which 15 gallons of applejack was found, was confiscated It bore license tags issued to Bucher Bound for the deer country of Cameron County, three Pennsyl vania men were killed when the cai in which they were traveling clashed into a tree after striking and killing a large buck m the road near Yellow Springs Dead weie Clarence Simendmg ei, Summerhill, Louis J KurU Cloysburg, and John Ritchey, of Portage The men were traveling in a sedan The operator apparently failed to see the deer in his path until it was too late to stop. Background Scripture. Phihppians 1. Devotional Reading: Philipplansl 3-11. Full Courage Lesson for December 1, 1957 COME of the best of the Bible was written in jail In fact, the Bible was mostly wntten not only about, but by and for, people in trouble When Saint Paul wrote his famous little letter to the church at Philippi, he had been in a Ro man prison for some time If his trial went against him, he had nothing to expect but a death sen- tence. He was well along in years, too just at the time of life when a man welcomes com toils, Paul had to get along without them Paul need ed the prayeis of Dr. Foreman his fi lends, the help of the Holy Spmt But he was also confident that with this help, he would honor Chnst “with full coinage,” whethei in living 01 in djmg Never Easy It js almost never easy to stand up and be counted as a Christian Easy enough when nothing is in volved, but when being a Chustian gets one into tiouble, or even laughed at, that’s difleient The people these days who need our prayeis and deserve our honor are the Chustians in countnes behind the non cuitam We some times may think they aie not as good Chi-stians as they ought to be, but they aie bettei than some of us would be in their cucum stances Take a high school boy in East Germany, for example If he goes to chuich on Sunday, he will have to cut a youth meet ing, set by the government at chuich time, on puipose His ab sence will go on iccord and when he applies for a job or wants to go to college he will find doois closed against him, because lie was loyal to the chuich and not the government You might think that going to chinch once a week is not much of a “witness '