City Dwellers Can Extend Clean-up Work
To Rural Areas by Stopping Trash Dumping
DURING THE past week the mayor of
the City of Lancaster has been quoted
as saying that people in that city contrib
ute to the dirt and rubble by being care
less and thoughtless. He is starting a clean
up campaign in the city.
But we have news for you, Mr. Mayor.
If you think that the city dwellers can
make a mess of the city, come out and take
a look at some of the rural roads that lead
in and out of the city.
Some of them are so littered with
junk, trash, refuse and sometimes even
garbage, that they resemble a trash heap
rather than a public road.
One thing we’ll guarantee you, Mr.
Mayor, and that is that the junk didn’t
come from the farmers whose land lies
beside the roads.
Not that we are laying all the blame
on those people who live in the city of
Lancaster. No indeed! Some of the roads
leading to and from the various boroughs
in the county are just as bad if not worse.
Sometimes you see in the news about
a farmer going out with a truck along his
roads, filling it with the junk he finds there
and then dropping the whole load on the
city hall steps in some town nearby.
We can’t condone his method of pro
test, but we sure agree with him in his
thinking.
his Week 3 Lancaster Farming
. T?* _-.j- Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
aster r iullllUK Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert
E Best, Editor; Robert G Campbell,
Advertising Director, Robert J.
Wiggins, Circulation Director
™ i Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by OCTORARO
NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa.
Phone STerling 6-3132 or Lancaster,
Express 4-3047.
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the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., wder
75 Years Ago During that same week the Acto* m»«*3,
4 ® steamer Austrian arrived at Bos- three years s sj smeie copy Price 5
A thief who stole a horse from ton with 842 passengers from Ire- cents.
Amos Williamson of East Not- land, all of whom went to work ■ ~
tingham Twp , Chester County, in the mills in New Hampshire
Pa! and disposed of the animal . one of the fastes t growing de
in Lancaster County, was arrest- . velonments along the Pacific
cd at «» 50 YearS Ag ° 50 jears ago, w.a the sal
escape while being taken on t e mon pa ckmg enterprise. No sal
tram to West Chester by two ot- At a me eting of the Lancaster mon were packed for export until
licers of the law County Tobacco Growers, held jgr,Q wben two small canneries
According to a newspaper story dunng that week m j une , 1908, start ’ ed operatlons on the Colum-
Ihe thief “complained ot ieeim G the ques tion of acreage planted b River In 1908 there were
sick and made a number ot visits was the chief subject brought up tW enty-three establishments, 15
to the water-closet - While m ine for dlscusslon The report show- Qn the oregon and eight on the
men's room he raised the window ed lhat m some sections 20 per Washington slde of the river,
and tumped from the train wmen cent less tobacco was being plant- lh an annual outpu t of 1,000,-
was traveling at a speed . ot M ed than m 190 7, with potatoes QOO cages of £lsh> value d at $9.-
miles per hour He escapea, out planted ins tead. ?innno
passengers who seen e In other sections there was an
man flee re P°^ tad .® d increase in tobacco acreage. Tak
erably cut about th - ing the county as a whole, it was
* , * c believed the acreage to be about
POWDER BLAST REVEALS ig.OOO acres. It was also reported
UNDERGROUND KITCHEN that cutworms were doing consid-
BY JACK REICH ARD
erable damage, requiring replant-
That same week m Chester in g in man y areas
County, back in June, 1883, a re
markable discovery had been
made by Edward Brown, a quar
ryman at Johnson’s quarries, near
Poe op son In Lancaster, a bantam rooster
Brown had reached a depth of belonging to Adam Beittel, 201
>0 feet, and after drilling a hole west King St., began acting like
in what he supposed to be solid a “duck” and was finally given a
rock, charged it with powder, se ttmg of eggs. Twelve chicks
lighted the fuse and retired to a were hatched out, and the rooster
location of safety After the blast was as pro ud of his flock as any
he returned and instead of finding hen could be, and reported to be
stone, he discovered what looked “j US t as fussy”.
Jike a kitchen which had been „ * ».
struck by a cyclone There was a COLL g GE PROFESSOR FOUND
stove, lot of tm cans, an iron pot,
mason’s trowel, singularly shaped
axe and some bones.
Authorities who investigated,
stated the place had evidently
been a cave, the entrance of
which had been covered over, and
probably the hiding place of a
criminal in the early 1800 s, when
highwaymen were numerous in
Chester County.
It was pointed out that Joe
Hare, the notorious robber who
was hanged at Trenton, N. J., for
robbing the United States mails
near Lancaster, was born within
a quarter mile of the cave.
In June, 1883, farmers in Penn
sylvania’s Berks County, reported
the season’s wheat crop was re- American dairymen received
duced one-third by the ravages of from 4 to 5 cents per pound more
the Hessian fly. for their butter product in 1907
t - * than in 1906. While this did not
Horace Childs, a young man, mean a large increase for the in
was killed instantly by a freak dividual farmer, it meant an ad
flash of lightning while plowing ditional national income of from
in a field near Norristown, Pa., $20,000,000 to more than $25,000,-
We can image in our mind’s eye the
commotion that would take place if such
a thing were to happen. It would cause an
awakening to the problem in a hurry.
But there are better, more legal and
just as effective means at the disposal of
the farmer. If every farmer were to keep
an eye out for litter-bugs along his roads
and try to get the number of the car doing
the littering, he could give this number
to the township police for prosecution.
The local Justices of the Peace, most
of whom live in rural areas, and many of
whom are farmers, have shown a willing
ness to prosecute offenders of the anti
litter laws of the Commonwealth.
Township police, too, could be a little
more on the alert for litter-bugs. No one
will be too inclined to dump a bag of
trash in front of your lane if he thinks
that a township policeman may come along
and catch him in the act.
And last of all, you can write letters
to the civic officials of the town nearest you
protesting such treatment at the hands of
their citizens. You’d be surprised at what,
one good hot letter can do at a meeting of
a Boro council. Half a dozen in the same
vein can cause a panic!
Lancaster County is hailed as the
Garden Spot of America. Let’s not let it
look like the garbage dump of America.
15 years ago-this week
ROOSTER TURNS CLUCK
COW IN STUDY HALL
When the faculty at Delaware
College, Newark, Del., entered
the recitation hall that June,
1908, morning they were greeted
by the lowing cf a cow. The ani
mal had been led from a field
near Newark and placed in the
hall during the night by a group
of students.
That the animal might not suf
fer from thirst, the public drink
ing fountain was removed from
Newark’s main street and also in
stalled in the hall. It required
five men to get the cow out of
the building.
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25 Years Ago
In 1933 the State of Pennsyl
vania had 3,690 fewer one-room
schools than in 1920. A report
issued by the Department of Pub
lic Instruction showed there were
10,201 schools of this type in
1920, and in 1933 they numbered
only 6,511. The department re
ported that one-teacher schools
were being closed at the approxi
mated rate of 300 a year.
A barn under construction on
the farm of Mrs. Martha Ross and
Miss Fannie E. Boyd, two miles
east of CochranvUle, Pa., was de
stroyed by a fire that broke out
in a pump shed shortly before
noon. Carpenters were at work
on the roof of the new structure
when the fire started.-The build
ing would have been finished by
the workmen in about two more
days. It was leveled with damage
placed at $B,OOO.
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GOOD NEWS FOR
DAIRY FARMERS
Twenty-five years ago this
week, good news came for dairy
farmers supplying the Philadel
phia area in the form of price
increases amounting to 29 cents
per hundred weight for milk ship
ped to Philadelphia by truck and
34 cents for milk delivered to
area creameries.
Pasing her one hundred and are poisonous. Nightshade, water hemlock, and wilting or wilted
first birthday, “Grandma” Caro- wild cherry leaves are the most common ones in this area. In the
line Arnold, of St. Joe, Ark., gave case of the wild cherry leaves it is a good practice to inspect the
credit for her longevity to her pasture land under cherry trees after a wind or storm and remove
constant use of coffee, 25 years the limbs that have broken off. Livestock will eat these leaves re
sgo this week. gardless of the pasture condition.
4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 6, 1958
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*Dvr*tiraal Joihua *3il-0.
Into Tomorrow
Louon (or Juno », IMS
EVERY other preacher or pub-
Ua speaker tods it necessary
ko remind his audience here In
America that this nation was
founded In the fear of God. The
relifious foundations of this nation
are too well known to need com
ment (An interests ■ detailed hi f
torical survey
can bo found in
‘•Foundation of'
American Free
dom,” by A. Mer-
ry n Davies;
Abingdon Press.)
This can be great-
ly exaggerated.
There Is an often-
ouoted remark:
••The pioneers of Dr ‘ Forcjnan
South America came over to tod
gold; the North American pio
neers came to tod God.” But it is
also true that great numbers ol
our own ancestors came over, by
their own showing, to tod their
fortune. Still it is true that few
nations have had religion inlaid
with their history as our country has
"The Hand ef the Lord Is
Mighty”
i There are some Interesting par
allels between the situation when
Joshua was about to pass from the
scene o£ his triumphs in Canaan,
and the times in which we live
Three of them can be pointed up
In phrases drawn from the Bible
stones themselves First is from
Joshua 4:12: “The hand of the
Lord is mighty." Neither Moses
nor Joshua took personal credit
for their achievements; they gave
the glory to God The rude monu
ment of stones described in Josh
ua 4 was not a monument to
Joshua, to Moses, nor to any of
their captains; it was a commemo
ration of the mighty acts of God.
Many books have been written on
the theme of God in history Ac
cording to the prophet Amos, God
Is in all nations’ histones; yet notj
all nations see this And the trou
ble with Israel was, and continued
to be, that they supposed
eause God had once done mightyl
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultural Agent
TO TOP DRESS ALFALFA A very common
practice among good grassland farmers is to ap
ply around 200 pounds per acre of an 0-20-20 or
0-15-30 fertilizer immediately after the removal
of the first cutting. This will replace some of
the food elements removed by the crop and re
sult in larger yields of later cuttings.
TO SIDEDRESS CORN WITH NITROGEN
Corn yields have been increased by a side-dressing
of extra nitrogen at the first or second cultiva
tion. An application of 100 pounds of either sul
phate of ammonia or ammonium nitrate, or other
nitrogen carriers, per acre is especially beneficial
where corn followed corn. It is important that
Max Smith
the application be made before the corn gets a
foot high in order to get the fertilizer as close and as deep as pos
sible without shearing off the roots.
TO PROVIDE SHADE AND WATER All livestock will produce
more efficiently if they have plenty of shade and water while on
pasture; also, need ample pasture in order to get their fill with a
mimmum of walking. When animals have to roam over the field in
search of either grass, shade, or water (hey are doing it at the owner’s
expense.
TO CONTROL SILAGE JUICES Many owners of silos filled with
grass silage have a problem of preventing the seepage from the silo
from getting into water supplies, or from causing insanitary condi
tions around the barn and milk house If these juices are allowed to
run on the surface of the ground the fly problem increases and the
milk inspectors object. It is suggested that under-ground pipe or
tiles systems be placed to carry the juice away from the buildings
and barnyard.
TO BEWARE OF LIVESTOCK POISONING The pasture season
presents a number of chances for livestock to eat poisonous plants;
with other good forage to eat seldom will they bother the plants that
'acts on their behalf, ha never
Would ceasa to do so. God had
started them on their way; there
for# they were a religious nation,
(therefore he would never let them
Icome to disaster. How wrong they
jweie!
f‘|f You Turn Back..
■ Joshua’s farewell address, as
an aged man, to the nation whose
[beloved and successful leader ha
(had been, held up some big IF’*.
Continued success, eventual great
ness, was by no means to be them
without question. God is not a
puppet-master. He does not de
cide the fate of a nation and then
; no matter what the nation does or
’is, carry them right through by al
mighty power to the destiny of
their heart’s desire. God had chos
e« Israel; but the question Joshua
puts before the people Is: Will you
choose God? One religious chap
ter in a nation’s early history does
not guarantee that the nation will
be religious forever after. On#
chapter of obedience and loyalty
to God does not make it certain
that there will be no chapters of
neglect of God, of disobedience, of
darkness and defeat. One chapter
of success does not make impossi
ble any chapters of failure.
*‘Choos«, This Day • •«”
Maybe every reader has thought
•bout this before, but it Is still
more than a striking thought, it
is appalling: In one generation it
would be possible to undo and des
troy the Christian church That is
the strategy of the various com
munist regimes They do not now
attack the church very often. What
they do is to see that no children,
no young people, if the Party can
keep them from it, grow up know
ing and loving the church No gen
eration can choose God for their
children, even less for their chil-<
dren’s children. Each generation
must choose for God afresh.'
There is no riding to glory on
our grandparents faith So when
we ask ourselves: Is Ameri
ca a Christian nation’ We can
answer. The hand of God was
mighty in times gone by We can
look aiound and see church spires
on every horizon Almost every
family in Ameuca, the newly come
or the "Old Americans.’’ has a
legend or tradition of some ances
tor or lelative who was a praying
saint, a pillar of the church But
that is never the pomt Where ana
the praying saints today? When
the present living pillars of the
church die, are we bringing up our
childien to love the same God,
serve the same Christ, to live by
the same Spirit’ If not. we are
helping to de-Chnstiamze America
(Bused on outlines copyrighted br tho
Division of Christian Education Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
In the U S A Beieased by Community
Fress Service.)