4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 31, 1958
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Things Aren’t So Bad Here
According to Moscow sources, a soviet scientist has
come up with a new cattle breeding formula for assur
ing that Communist Russia will achieve its goal of produc
ing more meat and milk than capitalistic United States.
The substance of his theory amounts to the breeding
of small bulls to large cows of high milk productivity to get
small calves that won’t endanger the mother at birth but
will have the mother’s high milk potential.
How’s that for killing two birds with one stone?
Where he’s to get his large cows in succeeding generations
by that method, he doesn’t say. But, we suppose, they could
always be imported from the United States, thus proving
the infallibility of Soviet theories and the gullibility of
Americans who’d even part with large, high-producing cows
for enough Yankee dollars
Another tale from Moscow on the farm front indi
cates that the spirit or practice of capitalism by Soviet
farmers is not yet dead.
It seems that sugar beet production has been drop
ping for the last couple of years in the “Workers Paradise.”
Now comes the tale that the farmers have been converting
the sugar beets into the Russian version of “moonshine”
instead of sugar.
They were taken to task for this practice by none
other than Khrushchev, who, peculiarly enough, has never
been noted for his abstinance.
Old Sol Gets New Job
OLD SOL MAY be cast in the-new role of herdsman, it
appears A Purdue University ag engineer has devel
oped a device by which energy from the sun is harnessed
to operate an electric fence charger. Here’s how it works,
Silicon solar cells, located in a frame atop a conven
tional fence charger, collect radiant energy for the sun and
convert it directly to electrical energy. And it works just as
well on cloudy days, too, because those solar cells also
charge nickel-cadmium storage cells inside the fence charg
er. These operate the charger when Sol is hiding the
clouds and at night
It appears this would be just the ticket for those
fields which can’t be reached by the electric line and in
other spots where batteries must be relied on.
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultural Agent
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TO GIVE SPECIAL CARE TO SHEEP FLOCK
Lambing time is at hand on many farms or in the
near future The ewe flock should be given daily
outside exercise. One common problem with the
flock late in the winter is the “paralysis” condi-
Max Smith
tion just prior to lambing. Daily exercise, legume,
hay, and a laxative gram ration will reduce this problem. Individual,
lamb brooders will save many lambs in extremely cold weather.
TO PLAN HOME GROWN FEED SUPPLIES Effort should be ex
tended among all dairy and livestock producers to produce a maxi
mum amount of grain and roughage on the farm. Before the plant
ing season starts it is suggested that producers look into the future
and plan their crops in order to keep feed purchases at a minimum.
Too high feed costs have been the down-fall of many a farmer.
TO ADOPT MANAGED MILKING ROUTINE Progressive dairy
men will quickly realize what is involved m “managed milking”.
This practice should have the acceptance of many more herd owners.
It is merely using an outlined routine of preparing and milking the
cow each time a total time of seven minutes per cow. Full details
in leaflet No 40 titled, “Managed Milking’.
TO PREVENT MASTITIS IN DAIRY HERD
The emphasis should be on the prevention of
mastitis rather on the treatment. Using antibotic
udder treatments too often may endanger the
health of your cows; also, prevention is less ex
pensive than treatment. Proper feeding and
herd management are worthy of full-scale adop
tion; here lies the long-range answer to dairy
herd mastitis problems.
Publisher
Editor
Advertising Director
.Circulation Director
Twenty-five, years ago this
week, Lancaster County Fire
Marshall Paul Z. Knier, of Man
PLANET MARS heim, told members of the Coun
“TEASED” ASTRONOMER ty Firemen’s Assn, meeting in
Akron, that thorough investiga
Professor E C Pickering, Har rtion of 20 fires in the county
“Easy to get and hard to varc i’ s leading astronomer and during January, 1933, failed to
hold” sang the poet of gold scientist, m 1908, startled the determine the origin of many ot
and there was never more truly world of astronomy and astro them lie warned against mcen
words spoken in prose of poetry physics by declaring that Mars lansm.
F “teases” him, and that he was * • - .
jT 6 ! 3 fr r n °f “Zoning any further mVesti p Glftcd Boy owned , by
knowmg the Actual value of gatlon 0 f the much-mooted j y F Fret y Pipersville '
money The individual who has planet ”. Bucks County, was named Semo^
been compelled to earn his own . " , „ . „ „ „„„„„
bread from youth knows the 25 Years Ago and Grand Champion Guernsey
value of a dollar To most men Cotton was one 0 f the leaders !l“ b
fortunes come only by hard in American export trade. e
work, carried on through many. During the first eight months
>ears of unremitting effort. 0 £ 1932 the value of cotton ex ■ Out in St Louis, Mrs. Gladys
But there is another class ip or t s was more than seven times Moore testified in her divorce
who, when fortune drops into tbat 0 { wb eat exports. It exceed suit that her husband smashed
their laps -expected or unexpect e(J tbe va i ue 0 f the combined all her china and every window
ed, lose their heads and usually expo rts of all American machin and also broke her nose,
their money also A case falling eryi automobiles and parts, cot ‘ .
in this class involved the Tilden ton c i o th, wheat flour and rub Two new books had been added
boys, who made national front ber manufacturers whereas to libiary shelves which were ex
page news back in 1883 ; n the export value of tremely popular with teenage boy
Their father began his career articles was more than and girl readers, back in 1933.
as a peddler of varnish He work- double that of cotton They were “Calico Bush” by
ed hard for many years By It looked as if the cotton Rachel Field and “Ghosts of the
thrift and business sagacity he growers were entering a new Scarlet Fleet” by Rear Admiral
succeeded in accumulating two era Much of the credit for the E R Evans
and a-half million dollars. In increase was given to the cotton The former was the story of a
1869 he died, leaving his great cooper atives. These orgamza little French girl in the early
wealth to four teenage sons t ions had led m a movement to days who spent her life on the
Curing their frugal father’s ward more economical produc coast of Maine when the Indians
life the boys were kept down to tion a better product and more lurked behind trees,
a moderate allowance, perhaps pro fitable prices They had put The latter, a story of blood and
much against their inclinations new “fight” into the cotton grow- treachery, involved great fleets
(But at his death all this changed. erSj w h o , like all American farm- ot pirate ships on the Spanish
As the acknowledged heirs to ers ’ ba dk m 1933, were battling Main, secret underground pas
great wealth, the sons were not an econ omic‘ war.' sages and buried treasures,
compelled to work. They behev
BY JACK REICHARD „
75 Years Ago
ed that the money was intended
to be enjoyed, and through the
indulgence of guardians they
planned a European trip, employ
ing a traveling tutor at a salary
of $5,000 with all expenses paid.
Within a period of 13 years
this fortune, accumulated during
the life time of the hard-working
father, had entirely disappeared
in the hands of his children.
Back in 1883 the crew of the
life-saving station at Spring Lake
along the East Coast, discovered
in the undertow, near the station
house, a huge fish, which they
succeeded in killing. The fish
measuring -over nine feet and
weighing 800 pounds, was sent
to the Smithsonian Institution
where Prof. Balard stated that
fish represented a species never
before seen in the United States
or even in the Atlantic Ocean
According to the professor, it
belonged to a group of small
spermi whales characterized by
the absence of permanent teeth
in the upper jaw, and was one
of the greatest acquisitions to the
institution.
50 Years Ago
Fifty years ago the State of
Arizona apparently held a dis
like for children, according to
a New York City woman who had
taken up residence with her fam
ily in southern California. The
lady stated:
“Talk about children not be
ing wanted in New York apart
ments. Why, Arizona is the worst
place in that respect that I have
ever visited. You can hardly find
any one there who will rent you
a house if you have children We
tried various towns in the state
but there was no abiding place
open to us because of our little
olive branches
“We should have liked to set
tle in Tuscon, but not a landlord
would have us. Finally we had
to give up and go to Southern
California, where they are not
so hard-hearted. Wouldn’t you
think that a new country like
Arizona would be glad to have
settlers with children, who would
help to build up the region? But
it doesn’t seem to be so”.
In Rue Belliard, France, the
question of children, dogs and
pianos m apartment houses was
of utmost importance. Back in
1908 a company of house own
ers announced that all tenants
must be fathers of families hav
ing three children at least.
Week'
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Bible Material) Luke 4:14-21. I] Qlr-
Inthlan* 9 fl-8, Galatians 9:1-5; Hebrews
t:l4-l«i 10 23-2 S; I Peter 2:9-10
Devotional Reading) II Corinthians
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Chosen People
Lesson for February 2, 1951
\y|OST church member* do not
realize what • privilege It
Is to be one The Bible passages
for thl* week are extremely *ug
gestive and will bear careful study
As usual, there is room here for
comment only on two or three
points brought out in one of the
most striking
sentence* ever
penned to the
church —To the
church as well as
about the church,
tor most of the
New Testament
books were writ
ten as letters to
churches As the
reader thinks
over the words, he should keep tn
mind not “This means me.” but
“This means the church, in which
I am privileged to bo a member "
A Niw Kind of Peoplt
Saint Peter, writing to people he
had probably never seen, dares to
say to them some very high things
He could say these things because,
while he did not know them sepa
rately and personally, he knew the
church and what God intended It
to be “You,” he wrote, “are a
chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation ” A chosen race
The church, so far as it Is a true
church, is made up of persons
whom God has chosen. He has
chosen them not like separate little
pearls each in its own oyster, but
as the gathered pearls on a gleam
ing necklace Peter uses the word
“race’* rather than organization
or group-or society Race suggest*
blood brotherhood. It *ugge*t» a
common ancestor, a common life.
If each racfcof mankind ha* some
thing apecifl about it, so the Chris
tians, as the “chosen race,”- have
something special about them. A
church which cannot be told apart
from just any club, a church whosa
member* are not appreciably dif
ferent from people on the outside,
is a church in name only. Chris
tiana aa a family ara a naw kind of
In Atlanta, Ga., burglars
broke into (the residence of How
ard Lawson and stole virtually
everything he needed in the
course of his duties as a member
of the police force.
people They have been born anew,
they have a quality of life no other
people have.
God’s Personal Representative
Again Saint Peter says, You are
”a royal priesthood ” Remember
these woids wore not addressed
to any particular person or group
in the church, they were written
to the whole church The church
Is itself a priesthood; this is what
is meant by the expression “the
priesthood of all believers *’ Now
Saint Peter had been and still waa
very much a Jew. For him, priest
hood had meant a great deal The
priest, irv the centuries before
Christ, had long been the accepted
mediator between God and men.
He represented men before God,
he represented God in the presence
of men Now if the church, taken
all together, is the priesthood of
God, then it also is, or is expected
to be, God’s personal representa
tive in this world
Consider only one meaning of
this What convinces us that any
person exists, and really is tha
kind of person he is said to be?
Next to the person’s coming to see
us himself, the most convincing
evidence that he is real, and no
flying-saucer imp, Is some friend
or relative of his who can maka
all our doubts vanish by telling us
what he knows So the church, aa
a priesthood in this skeptical world,
ought to be representing God ip*
such a convincing way that people
no longer doubt that He exists.
One test of a true church, as of a
tiue Chnstian, is: Does this church
make it harder, or easier, to be
lieve in God?
Th» International People
Dr. Foreman
The chuich Is also a “holy na
tion ” It has not always been
clearly understood what Saint Pet
er meant by this Did he mean
that Christians must withdiaw
fiom the world to a little holy is
land or ghetto of their own. there
to “let the rest of the world go
by 7” Did he mean that Christians
are a supernation, empowered to
dictate to all other nations, owing
ellegiance to no flag but the Chris
tian flag? Unleas Peter was oi t o t
line with all the rest of the New
Testament, he probably meant no
such thing He did mean at least
this much first that the Christian
church lives by higher laws than
the “kingdom of this world “ The
church is the nation where the Law
of Love is the constitution Second,
since the binding force In this na
tion i* not race or tradition or -
geogiaphy but holy love, it will
not have any earthly boundary but
will spiead throughout the woild.
The chuicb is the great and only
completely international society.
(B«cei «n outlines copyrighted by tho
DUltlin sf Christian Education,
ItonKl Cssnill «f ths Chorcbss sf Christ
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