4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 17, 1958 l«lMtBr||Farining 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 STAFF It was generally believed that the coloring matter, giving dif terent hues to the various races of mankind, lay just under the skin. But in 1883 Dr. Maxwell, of New Castle, Pa., thought it came from the blood. He gave an ac count of an experiment which led him to his opinion. In 1872 a Negro named Jas Pearce was shot accidentally in the face. The wound was of such nature that a frightful scar would have resulted unless the dis figurement could be, in a mea sure, prevented by the engrafting of new skin upon the multilated portion of the face. This course was adopted, and with the pati- Farm Show Weather Late c 7 se v nt > ; Dr - Maxweii took cii-xA*. t grafts of skin from his own arm, FARM SHOW WEATHER came a day late this year, giv- Wl th other grafts from the ine 135 000 Pennsylvanians a chance to come to Harris- pa tmt’s am, placed them upon bure for the annual event on the first day. The second the surface of the wound, day! things went hack to normal _ rain with a predion for sleet and snow. , patient going on a spree, when The effects of the drouth in Southeastern Fennsyt- some 0 { g ra fts were destroy vania was apparant in the placings lists this year. The e d, but fortunately two were left, usual first and seconds for Lancaster County in many of one of them being white. The the classes were conspicuous by their absence. Part of the piece of white skin grew to cover dron is due to the lack of quality in many field crops a space of half an inch and for drop IS aue io me uu.* j j a time after the wound healed brought about by lack Of moistu e. could be easily discerned at quite Perhaps more important is that many Southeastern a (j ls tance. Pennsylvania farmers, knowing that their products were At the time close examination not up to their usual quality this year, declined to enter showed that dark-colored lines much of the competition. foimed a n£ t w + ork “ the skm, r , it.- - <• n„ giving a purple tinge to it A few In the dairy cattle show, things followed a P years later these lines, which that had been set this past summer. County Arysnire w , ere sim piy blood vessels, had breeders held their own and more in the competition, but mcreased to such extent that the in other breeds, dairymen had to settle for seconds and whole surface of the wound was thirds. While you can’t blame the drouth for this, a lack of uniform hue, the white skm of quality forage for dairy animals will show up when com- haung: last all its characteristics. J p,rm ctimii ic mot Fiom this experiment Dr Maxwell petition as stiff as at the Farm Show is met drew the c p onclusion that the Sheep and lambs provided a bright spot with a CO ]ormg matter which darkens county girl .winning the grand championship in the fat lamb the skm of som races was m the classes and the reserve champion also being fitted by a blood and not m the skm itself. 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 Lancaster County showman. _ Swine competition was spotty. The classes were BPWILnFR . s farmer large, very even and hard to place. One grand champion bewilder S farmer gilt and one reserve champion gilt were won by open class exhibitors and an FFA boy also won a championship. In the main exhibition hall, things are in a con tinual up-roar. The machinery exhibits are larger and more colorful this year as many of the major companies make their first showing of new lines. One of the most unusual pieces on display is a “tractor-of-tomorrow” com plete with bubble canopy, easy chair type seat, radio and mobile telephone. Also being introduced is a line featur- mg a torque converter drive. Bulk milk tanks take up a larger part of the dis plays this year. Most manufacturers are featuring tanks that can be integrated with a pipeline milker and offer the tank and milker as a package. Irrigation equipment dis plays this year also are enlarged as many more farmers show interest in their use. The 1958 Farm Show is more subdued, as Lancaster Countians are concerned. But it certainly ranks as one of the 'most colorful and exciting in its 42 years of operation Labor Squeezes Farmer IF jYOU’VE EVER wondered why the price of meat in the grocers case is so much higher than the price you receive at the stock yards, this may help explain. The American Meat Institute this week announced that the wages of meat packers just went up four cents an hour as the result of a two point rise in the cost of living index. However during this same period used for the cost of living index, the price index for meat, fish and poultry rose less than half the total cost index. Perhaps what farmers need is a cost of living clause attached to the demand part of the supply-demand curve. Then as the cost of living goes up, the demand for meat and meat products will follow suit. Of course this sounds silly. But is it any more silly than getting a pay raise every time Detroit raises the auto mobile prices and thus ups the cost of living a point? Packing house workers now average $2.41 an hour. This compares with a national average in all manufactur ing industries of $2,09 an hour. But farmers now, due to the price squeeze, probably do not average much over $l.OO an hour for their labor. Just what tack agriculture must take in combating the squeeze being placed on it by organized labor is not readily seen But this is clear. Something is going to have to be done to keep the farmer from being penalized in the market place for high food prices when most of the cost of the retailed produce is attributable to high labor costs in the manufacturing processes. Publisher Editor Advertising Director .Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago 75 YEARS AGO (1883) The custom of naming villages after certain persons living m the neighborhood had a disadvantage in his case A western Pennsylvania farmer had lived to a mature age but had never made a trip by railroad. In 1883 a new road was run through part of his land and he was per suaded to make a trip to Phil adelphia He purchased a through ticket at the nearest station, where he was assured that he would not have to change trains, then placed himself comfortably in the corner of his seat and soon went to sleep. He was awakened by the train’s slacking speed, and presently the brakeman put his head into the car and cried out in a loud voice “Madison- Madison'” The faimer hurried out of the cai In a moment the tram proceed ed on its way. Looking around, the man approached the ticket agent across the platform “How far is Philadelphia’” he asked. “Well, that train that just left will be there in six hours. Did you want to go to Philadelphia’” “Yes, to be sure. Here’s my ticket Don’t it pass me through to Philadelphia’” “Yes, your ticket is all right! Whj did you leave the train’” ‘ The man called out Madison, and that’s my name”, said the perplexed farmer. “Oh, Mrdison is the name of this station.” The farmer finally reached Philadelphia by the next train, and upon his return home found great joy in telling fi lends of his mishap. 50 Years Ago 50 TEARS AGO (1908) Back in 1908 an investigator by the name of Stanley Hall con ducted a survey m an effort to determine the intelligence of the child mind, but did not give the . mills at Shanghai, China, trniong WaAlfii whom were children that worked VYCCIv f or 3 cents a day and women at r* • 5 cents for a 13-hour day. ter r arming ages of the youngsters interview ed. However, of 48 children, 20 believed he sun, moon and stars were . living things. Sixteen thought that flowers could feel, and 15 believed dolls would feel pain if they were burned. God, of whom the children of half a century ago heard so much, played a large part in their con ceptons Most of the children in terviewed thought God was a big, perhaps blue man, to be seen in the sky, on the clouds, in church, or even in he streets. They de clared God made lamps, babies, dogs, trees, money, etc., and the angels worked for Him. The forty-ninth annual meet ing of the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Assn, was held in the Lancaster County Courthouse Jan. 23, 1908. Officers re-elected were: President, Gabriel Hiester, Harrisburg; vice president, Hon. W. T. Creasy, of Catawissa; secre tary, F. H. Fassett, Meshopper; corresponding secretary, Enos B. Engle, Waynesboro, treasurer, William P. Bnnon, Christiana. Fifty years ago Argentina was the largest exporting country of wheat to Great Britain. The Unit ed States held second place. Back in 1908 there were 20,000 workers employed in the silk Bible Matarlati Act# 3:43-47: Roman* 18:1-0; Ephesian* 4:17-32; Philippian* 1:3-11. Devotional Readlnti Galatians 8:13-24, Fellowship: Why? Lesson for January 19, 1959 IN a "Hamfest" everybody It there because of the same In terest: amateur radio At a phila telic convention everybody talks stamps. They have no other reason for getting together. At a funeral, or at a wedding, you sometimes see odd assortments of hr •> bein'- most of whom never saw one another before, all having only this one thing in common, having met the departed (by casket or by honeymoon car) at some time be fore. There are other kinds of Dr. Foreman gatherations, too. There are college fraternities, the main point of each chapter being that the boy», or girls, find one another good com pany. There are also fellowships based on some common expe rience, like a shipwreck, or having attended the same high school Unique Fellowship The Christian Church is a fellow ship. and when it is not, it has lost the right to the title of true church. But It is not like any of the fellow ships above mentioned It has been called the fellowship of the un congenial That is an exaggeration; two members of the church may have been 'close friends before they joined it. But natural con geniality is not and never was a necessity for membership. It Is a fellowship of persons who have all experienced God’s forgiving grace, whose loyalties are centered in Jesus Christ. It is said that on the same morning at the same service Chief Justice Hughes of the Supreme Court and a poor woman who took in washing Joined the same church. It is highly un likely that the Jurist and the wash erwoman could have had muo fun on a picnic together or would have made good partner* at a lance. But they both knew In their earts what it was te love the oid Jtaua. Fifty years ago this week, Pro fessor Udriski of the veterinary school at Bucharest, had success fully amputated a horse’s leg at the fetlock joint and replaced the lost portion with a leather artifi cial leg that enabled the animal to walk about. -i >i 25 Years Ago N C Maule, Quarryville, won a Gold Medal and First Place with his Guernsey milk in the milk judging contest at the Farm Pro ducts Show at Harrisburg Maule held the distinction of having the highest score of any producer sample at the show with a maik ol 96 6 per cent GAME COMMISSION ASKS FEEDING AID The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners appealed for cooperation in winter game feeding Darly snows during the winter of 1932-33 in all sections of the state covered-completely, for sev eral weeks, the usual food sources for animals and birds During that period the winter feeding activities were intensified by the Game Commission Commission officials pointed cut that rural mail carriers were permitted to carry grain and oth er feed on their routes A commission spokesman said: “To my friends of the wild, care of the rural carrier” was all the direction necessary to have contributions of grain distributed in rural areas Fellowship With a Purposo But It is not only a prst exp al ienee, however treasured, that binds together the fellowship of the family of God. It is both pres ent experience and a living inten tion: that is, what is happening to us and in us now, and what wo unite to do, that also makes this fellowship unique. Consider those four items mentioned in Acts about the earliest Christian church:. (1) the apostles’ teaching, C 2) fellow ship, <Z) breaking bread, (4) pray ers. The Christian church is the only gi oup, organization, or society in the world that stresses this com bination. It is the only fellowship where the Bible is regularly studied (the apostles’ teaching); whei* fellowship is based on relation with the Son of God; where the sacra ments are observed; and whera people learn to pray. (By the way, what does your church do to teach its members how to pray?) Harmony of Glory There are many expressions In the New Testament putting the purpose of the church, or one part of its purpose, into a single happy phrase. One such is In Romans 15 5 Abbreviated, it runs: “May God grant you to live m such har mony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may glorify God ” We said that the church is the fellowship of the uncongenial; but the mir acle the true church works is de veloping a divine harmony even among these many sorts and con ditions of Christians. But harmony for what? Not for its own sake, but to glorify God. This does not mean the church Is to be a hymn-singing society, though a church that won’t or can’t smg Is certainly in t- bad way. To glorify God does not mean simply to praise him It mean* (in the New Testament sense) so to live, as sons and daughters of God, that other persons will be attracted to God through you. Every church member ought to be one good reason for believing in God. When a Christian says “I believe m God," if he told the whole story he would add: “—be cause of So-and-so,—because of certain people I can name. I be lieve in God because I saw what God can do with people; what he made out of them." It is a terrible thing when it is the other way around, and a man says, “I should like to believe in God but can't. I’ve known a few church member* and if their God had anything to de with making them what they are, I for one don’t want anything te do with him." Let the church glo rify God, not slander him! (Bated tn ottllnci coprrlihM by Ik* Civilian ef Christian Education, Na tional Connell of the Cbarcbea ef Cbriit in Ibe K> 8 A. Boleatod by CnamnnUy Preit Service.)
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