4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 17, 1958
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Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4. 1955
Published every Friday by
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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
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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.
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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.)