4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 39, 1957
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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.
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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
'<n Christ’’ but in a situation like
ii it it is nothing short of heioic.
Three cows and two calves
escaped from a truck operated by
Raymond E Kopenhaver, Eliza
bethtown when another car op
erated by Elwood R Snyder, also
of Elizabethtown, collided with
tno truck.
The rear of the truck was dam
aged in the collision and the
flightened animals jumped from
'the truck and fled to the neaxby
fields
Snyder and his wife, Maiy,
escaped injury
Elsewhere in Lancaster County
that night, thieves entered the
building used by the Lancaster
County egg auction in New Hol
land and carried oft ten crates of
fiesh eggs
RAT REVEALS
$250 CASH
Rats on the farm of Charles Ho-
Iscomb, near Bartley, Neb, were
an asseti They found $250 for the
faim owner Holscomb saw a large
lat run under the barn with a
silver dollar in its mouth He
investigated and found a hidden
cache of silver coins buried in a'
pail beneath the structure. It
was not known how the money
got there.
In Washington, D C, back m
1932, Uncle Sam' his credit still
good, went merrily along borrow
ing money In October that year
he was borrowing $450,000,000 for
four and a half years at three per
cent Part of the money was ear
maiked to pay off some 300 mil
lions of old debts, adding about
$117,000,000 to the public debt
One of Dicken’s most lovable
characters used to say, when he
paid oft with an old note with k
new note, “Thank God, that debt
is paid
Everything Against Him
“Joining the church” calls for
some stiffness of backbone, even
m America Young people who do
it know that on the fence there
is a gathering of vultures wait
ing for them to make their first
mistake, commit their first sin
as church members, —waiting for
the chance to make fun, to say
“I told you so ” But it takes even
more courage to confess Christ in
a countiy where Christians are
thought to be unpatriotic, and
Christianity a “foreigners’ reli
gion ” It takes most courage of
all in a fanatic world where a per
son who becomes a Christian runs
a risk of being killed for it
Paul would understand this,' for
he had everything to discouiage
him On the outside of his jail
there weie some “Christians”
preacheis who had their knives
out tor him, chaiacter-assassins
as they were And inside the pris
on, all the company Paul would
have were other prisoners and
Roman soldiei s,—no very sympa
thetic congregation' Yet Paul
went light on being « Christian
and speaking a goo(j word for
Jesus It was a situation that had
everything to dishearten him.
Many another in the same fix
would have thought: What a glori
ous testimony I can give when I
get out of heie'
God Brings the Best
We know (fiom Romans) that
Paul 1 had wanted very much to
visit Rome and preach there But
he hadn’t the slightest ambition
to go to jail there He was eager
to give a Chnstian witness, but
it hadn’t occuued to him that God
would provide for him a very
small chuich and a mighty un
piomismg congi egatiom a church
house no bigger than a jail cell,
a congregation mostly criminals
and prison guards And yet,—
faced with this, he made the biave
best of it, and was actually happy
over it God knows best, ha
bi mgs the best out of the worst sit
uations, the least likely people
For one thing, the Gospel had
made its way, only a beginning,
but still a real stait, in circles
that would have been very hard
to crash from the outside The
Praetonan Guard was made of
haid men. but they were begin
ning to catch on to the Gospel.
Timid Christians, one out
side the jail as well as in, weia
lifting their heads, catching the
contagion of Paul’s courage And
suppose the death-cell Is ahead?
Paul is not afiaid In death as in
life, Paul says, “I shall not be at
all ashamed ”
(Based on undines copvrtghted hr th#
Division of Christian Education Na
tional Council of (he Churches of Christ
in the ISA Keleased by Community
Press Service )