Current Farm Price Boom Works Against Drouth-Stricken Western Stockmen EVERY COIN has two faces This is true with the cunent agricultural boom Here, reproduced in part, is an editorial Irom the Farmei’s Exchange, published in Indiana It sums up very well some of the v lews from the other side of the fence. “Statistics dealing with farm prices and incomes may be enlightening and they may be cruelly deceptive. An example may be found in a typical headline, ‘Reports show farmers getting higher prices ’ “This is true for only a poition of our faim population, for some who produce i egetables and citrus fruits or livestock for market But good price per unit means good income only when the volume for •.ale is sufficient It is small consolation to thousands of vegetable and citrus growers of the south to know that prices are high for the crops they 'fried to grow, when all or most of their crops have been destroyed b\ frost and rains Where one grower profits by high prices, many more will lose their season’s work and possibly ownership of the very land they planted, or be forced bv losses to cease operations on leased (and They are obliged to join the ranks of the unemployed when jobs are scarce and through no fault of their own “Much of the same thing is true of the good livestock prices The benefits seem, at first thought, to be widely distributed But just a little analysis of the entire field re leals that this is not correct “A five-year drouth over 6 'l,',''. 2s~. by jack reichard 75 Years Ago An at tide appearing in Apple- Journal, 1883 gives some interesting facts- lelatne to the it anspoitation ol mails in this tountn In spite of the numerous i.ihoads and steamboats, three Quarters of a century ago the mails weie still earned thiee e.iles bv hoises to one mile by i.'ilroads Dut the mails in geneial weic U'creasmg in weight and delivery In the early 1800’s mails for the Smith left the New Yoik post-of nce earned b\ one man, whoiow ed a boat acioss the lenv then plated the mail m a wailing stage jti ath l Awa\ back in 1781 Postmastei (General Beniamin Fiankim had tnciea'td the speed ol letleis be k aecn Philadelphia and Boston b\ j educing the tunc lioin six to itince weeks 1 Seven’s live \cais ago Jenny Jf ’ud the 'a.nod Swedish soprano Juas Imng at South Kensington (fngJand in a mansion sin rounded tin specious lawiu She was sixty Ithiee then and note a wig She knpg only occasioiialh in the Bath jchon (minded in hei husband diio at local icquest She had two jniaiiKd daughteis and a son who Juas an ollitei in the BtiUsli 1 GeoigeW Di\on o! Bethlehem Jl'a had gi\en S2G GOO to the Lin Apathv and emnutv helween Jr’en ILil) I'tmale Seimnaiv at Lit the lush and Dutch was quite (ii/ Lancaster Countv The monev ewdent m Lancaster Countv's Ml pvas to lie n-orl lor 'he election ]o\ Township, back in 1000 Inf a Gothic Chapel as a memonal Chiisl Shoemakoi a supcmsoi, ho his daughtei Mai> Dixon who was saving things to his hoises in Jl <-0 giacluaUd liom the school Dutch An Irish hobo not under , stciulinq the dialect thought he ( S< noi Haifa Spanish Mimstei u lons before . “The free use of statistical averages in reporting farm yields, prices and in- i n human society, comes is legitimate, but may carry wrong so far as they are implications Plenty of illustrations can be good, will bo found Here is one top level source - ‘No seen t 0 be P ar * recession in farming’ It is based on the ticul , ar case * j- l xi. i. ° n u or applications of mere fact that the average farm price has som e one or an advanced 5 per cent in the last two months Other of the Ten Commandments' But even with this price advance the price These are universal, they are God’s level is only 87 per cent of parity Any tews for an, they are stai the basic other group of our population would regard pattern ° f ngl ! t in f’. themselves in a real denression if nrices Second aie the "statutes" as they memseives m a real depression ii prices , re sometimes ca u e d, the special were onlv 87 per cent of an admitted fair laws for anC ] ent i srae i, embedded the Great price—that’s what parity is -Tfiis Week* in Lancaster Farming initials which he cut on an apple tice m the oi chard behind the cottage were still legible, seventy ine jeais ago 50 Years Ago E/ia Reist, a Lancaster farmer near Manheim, had lor seveial seats grown Ginseng in a small wav Bock m 1908 he sold his List crop to a Philadelphia whole sale drug company, receiving $5 per pound foi a ciop of fifteen pounds of the dried roots which was taken from a bed 16 x 24 feet in sue Fifty years ago the root of Ginseng was highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese, ahd vas an item of cxpoit ftom Unit ed Slates to China Up to 1873 not more than ?25 000 yvas invested in the growing 01 oianges in California But as a icsult ol the introduction ot the ”a\el mange dining that year the industu had giown into an in vestment in the cultivation ot the oi.iiige amounting to over SlOO 000 000 m California alone m 1908 I’ll tv vcais ago this wck laim eis lioin all pails ol Lancaster <.nd Ymk Counties woie making ti ips daily to the Susquehanna Tin ei to procure the toothsome Susquehanna Shad’ which wei e being caught in unusual large nuinbeis Lise while in Lancaster Countv iiistt week a Warwick teenage gul had a hon living expel icnce She Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director Established November 4, 195 , j Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarry ville. Pa Phone SXerling 6-2112 or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 i Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa, Act of Maich 3, 1879 Subscription Rates' S 3 per year, three ’years $5, Single copy Price 5 cents a snake, eighteen inches long, laise its slimy form in the dish pan All preparations ended abruptly, and a hned man was called in to dispose of the reptile 25 Years Ago In the men) month of May, I't33, work at the Pennsylvania Fish Commission’s new trout rais mu and stream improvement de volopment on Spring Creek, near HU»t Ao AIIC J.IIIIC • • ■ Bcllefounte, was being pushed steadily to completion A crew of fuinteen wotkmcn had already laiscd the level of the giant spung that fed the nurseiy ponds and installed aerators Other woik well underway was the completion ol a diamage ca nal and temporaly ponds fed di lectly bv water from Spiing Cieek Small tiout were to he placed in these ponds lor experi mental purposes, to determine rate of growth and reactions to the water supply fiom the stream At the upper lip of the pioject, winch covered some ninety acics, a side channel had been construct ed to divert the water ol Spring Clock into a dam newly con st! acted The first unit included si\lj four trout ictaining ponds below the springs Each ol the' ponds measuicd 100 feet in length and eight leet in width Twentv-livc vcars ago this week a timeh remmdei tiom the Penn svlvania State College School ol Agi itullural cautioned all pci sons, laimeis in paiticular to be c'apeciallv vigilent in keeping a close check on blasting caps kept 01 then piemiscs It was pointed out that when waimei weather and school vacations hue young sieis out oi doois accidents to children lioni exploding blasting c..ps mu ease The authonties Said the oxplosivies and Caps should he sloied sepai atclv Morgan Cmliss, of New Yoik Cilv, provided m /ns will for a hole] banquet to mourners who at tended his funeral which took place 25 rears ago this week 4—Lancaster Farthing, Friday, May 23, 1958 Bible Material: Deuteronomy 6:11. , Devotional Readlntt Deuteronomy 80:13-20. Life, Law and God Lesson for May 25, 1958 in the books of Exodus, Leviticus. 'God’s Law Not God’s Whim Numbers an d Deuteronomy, in An Impor tant third point about vanosu legal codes. These are like' tbe Law of God i 9 sug gestea In the laws of any country or city these chapters from Deuteronomy, that no longer exists The law died It is the nght answer t 0 an old when the country died What is question: Could God have turned »UU living in the statutes is their ‘the Ten Commandments upside principles, and these are as good down, so to speak, if he had wanted as new. The third class of laws is t 0? Could be just as well have sa , d _ the great mass of regulations gov- Thou shalt have others Gods be einmg the rituals and the sacn- fore me . . . Thou shall kill, thou flees. These have no binding effect 'shall commit adultery, dishonor whatever today, because the Taber- | thy parentSi he and steal? Dld he na j le ..^ d are no mole > ,draw these laws, so to speak, out and Chiist our Passover” has ' o f a c ] olldi as tickets are drawn een once and for all sacrificed a t a raffle? In short, are the laws or USI {of God arbitrary, a matter of dl- God’S Law No Barbed*Wirt Fenco ‘Vine caprice’ Is all we can say What is said about the Law~ot {about “right” and “wrong” only God in Deuteronomy 6 and 11, not “He wants It that way, so shut to mention elsewhere, supports (Up!”? Absolutely not. God made three propositions. If we put each ,man, he made man in his own of these propositions negatively, it Image With man, and In man, God Is because the opposite pioposition created and implanted the laws of Is positive, but positively -wiong. (man’s existence. God’s will for First It must be said, against a man Is looted In his love tor us chorus of croakeis, that God’s Law his children. Is no baibed-Wlie Or any other sort (Based on outlines copyrighted by (he of fpnrp Tt lo not O U, n j Division of Christian Education, Ns- OI lence. it IS not a Chain, hand tlonal Council of Hie Churches of Christ cuffs, nor a prison wall. It doc I? ,he P s A Released hr Community Rtcaa Service.) By MAX SMITH County Agiicultural Agent TO SPRAY CORN PRE-EMERGENCE Spray ing the coin lield after planting and before the corn gets any lute leaves tor the control of gras ses and weeds is recommended The use of 1 to l’/a pounds per acre of the amine or the low volatile ester foim ot 2,4-D per acre is the dosage. This method is very good for the control of grasses on the row especially in case of wet weather following the planting The application ol this spray when the com is coming through the ground (spike stage) has given excellent results 1 1 TO KILL CANADA THISTLES All land own- Max Smith eis aie responsible for the control of Canada, Thistles on their propeitv. this in cities, small towns, or in the open country These thistles arc listed as one ot the noxious weeds in Pcnnsvjvania and laws state their compulsory control Spiavmg with 2,4 D or with Amino Tna/ole during periods of rapid growth will give good results, allow ten days to two weeks time for the chemical to get down into the loot system betoie plowing 01 c ultivatmg TO BE CAREFUL OF TOBACCO BEDS The weed spray chemi cal, 2,4-D ~ very dangerous on or near tobacco beds the drift or tunics from near-by helds will often cause some damage to the >oung plants Spiaycrs used on tobacco beds should be free from all 2,4 D residues, Ihoiough soaking and washing ol the sprayer with household ammonia will help icduce the danger This icsidue will last for several yeais m a sprayer TO SIDE-DRESS CORN WITH NITROGEN If side-diessing is io be done on a field of com; it should be made at the fust or second cultivation when the corn is under 10 inches tall, the earlier the bet tei after the coin is up Extra nitrogen at this time should increase vickls espcciallv wheie a legume sod and manure was not plowed down The nitiogen should be applied as deeply and as closely to the plant without culling an\ side loots fO SOW TEMPORARY FORAGE CROPS Mixtures of soybeans, ‘-udan glass and ioiage soigluuns should be seeded during late May or cai Iv June loi best results If these uops arc to be made into hay the curing conditions will usuallj be better during late August or September than later in the tall The value ol sweet sudan grass lor grazing must be icalizcd prior to time of killing frosts Fertilizer should not be applied at the same time or come in direct contact with anj of these seeds Drill the fertilizer separatelj and prior to the seeding operation ,not repress, it releases. Note how ■often In these chapters, and In the Bible, God’s will and law are con nected with life. Religion has been called (falsely) a “set of scruples.” —that is to say, all that religion can do for a man is to make him dieadfully uncomfortable in the re gion of the conscience. That is, definitely not the idea of Deuter onomy. The law of God sets man fiee. It no moie hmdeis him than a railway tiack hinders the tiam. God’s Law Not Superfluous Another pioposition suggested by Deuteronomy is that the law of God is not supeifluous Some peo ple think that because we live un der grace, as Chuslians do, the law is not needed any ,moie. A remark made by the great Saint Augustine is often quoted and en larged on: Love God, said he, and then you can do aa you please. Any act done out of love is right, theiefore all you need is love, and the law will take caie of itself Now it is not true that all acts done from love are right. A good many really vicious things have been perpetrated in the name of God by men who loved God with all their might. There have been some qiute benevolent tyrants The, New Testament does not suggest that we have grown beyond the law of God now that we know the. new law of Love, father, love shows us ways in which we may fulfill God’s laws You will find “Love God with all your heart” in Deuteronomy (6 5) and “Love your neighbor as yourself” m« Leviticus (19-18), But no writer or user of the Old Testament has sup posed that all the other laws but those two could be erased.