- I 4—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, June 13, 1958 A Changing Agriculture Unfortunately Brings Unwelcome Revisions Sometimes A T THE RECENT meeting of the county The Congress has seen fit to appro- A agncultural extension association coun- pnate money to the Soil Conservation Seiv cil the program proiection committees ice to hire technicians specifically trained gave their leports In the\ reports were sug- in soil conservation work That is what gestions of new fields that should he open- they know how to do best and- they have ed by the agricultural extension service. the time for it. . , It was pointed out at the meetmg that With both agMoral extension and with the new work that needs to be done. SCS m the business at the same time it is some of the things now done by the coun- a duplication of included Abraham Bitncr C A Ditnei J P McCaskcn Homy Cdipcntei John Best John D Skiles Hugh S Gara Lewis S Hal tman B P Millei John I Hallman A Hen Smith D G I akci J B Kaufman and B F Bicneman all lesidents oi Lan c islu who held the 9 920 shales c, slock pal value ol 525 each This company took the pla< e oI tin ioimei watch tacton in the litth Waid and assumed the debts of the Lancastet Watch Compam, Limited which amounl cc, to 5223 200 Gcoige Cornelius mcssengci in the Pennsvivania Stale 1 Tieasiuv died suddenly in the icteplivc thambci ol the Executive Depait i,itnl a. Hal iisbuig June 12 1881, lt t 10 30 a m Cornelius, 55 was a i (side nt ol Philadelphia and pi eminent Republican politician in- death lemlted horn Inait dis i isc IKON WORKERS STRIKE: „\i l\nc\su:k Hdpus at tlu i’cim lion V, oik-, Lancaster w till on strike because the demand foi an in uiast id iivc coni'- pu hoal was it lust d The spokesman loi the (oikus who picscntcd ihui ic ones! wa-, dischaigccl and lh( ouddlc mill «a- shut clou n V, \f{ IMPUdIENT I VIIIKIT W EMEU, UHT-I’HI V In one i>l tlu window-, oi John u ached the conclusion lhat thoic Uanamakoi - Glm-Umit Slice! was an agieenunl between the t lahli'-hmc nl Ididadt Iphia wa- ncues ol the* goals spine pci i mien sting exhibit ol wai >m milting the turn exitemities to mi inents 75 seals ago this week act in unison and to wigwag svm 'l he ic we ie pikes and lances used pathetically -This Week* Lancaster Fanning b> the Confederates during the Civil War, flintlock rifles, pis tils and sabeis of the War of IW2 and four mortals used by the Poitugese in 1492 50 Years Ago peel and what gave promise of a gcod fiuit yield was declared a total loss In other sections ? Might put in its appealance and the loilage of fiuit tiers weie tinning biown LANCASTER FARM NOTED FOR HUGE CHESTNUT TREE On the Lancaster laim of John Heir ncai Fan new Providence 'Hvp stood a spreading chcstmP tu>c seventeen and a half feet in tntuinlcionce The ticc was in hu.lthv condition and coveied v ,th blossoms filly veais ago this week giving pionnsc of a large vicld ot theslmils in the fall That same week, on the Lan cntei faun ot Hauy Eschbach, in the Ravvlinsvillc aica, moio than 30 bushels of stiawberncs vveu gathered in one day by six pick C'b Back in Juno 1908 Flank B Amistiong shipped Join tons ol live idttlesnakes liom his snake f,n m at Brownsville Tex to vai" mis points in the countiy wheic the icpliles were placed in mu scums and distnbuled among cli ent pcifoimeis Armstrong had extracted the tangs and poison liom each one, icteiving SI .'l'iccc loi the snakes f.o vr with M IGGLING HORNS Amos (j Gieinei oi Milton Glove in Laneastei s Ml Jew iwp had a goal that could wig gle its hoi ns The wiggle appeal ed to be natuia] with the animal did was fust discoseictl b\ Giein ci at ib time \s (he goal switched Us tad (he hoi ns (lopped petceplihlv (iiemcr who was a scientist had 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, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quaiiyville, Pa Phone STerlmg 6-211.1 or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarry ville, Pa, uewler Act of March 3, 1579 Subscription Rates - ?2 per year, three years S 3, Single copy Price 5 cents. Twenty-five y cars ago this week a seveie wind stoim swept over Lancaster, Yoik and Chester Counties, damaging buildings, up rooting trees and blowing over telephone and power line poles Tiolley seivice was badly dis uipted many suburban cats run ning far behind schedule for hours alter the storm as workmen struggled to cleai the lines of tree limbs and other debris Bus schedules however were main tamed with little difficulty BIG FIRE AT COLUMBIA, PA The Hauly building on Locust Sheet, Columbia in which was located the Alto Theatic and a nunibci of apaitments was dc stioyed by fire at 5 pm that June aiteinoon, in 1933, resulting in damage estimated by the own ci at 575 000 The loss was part!' corned by insurance CONDITIONS ON MOON REPORTED BY GEOLOGIST Back in 1933 Dr Famngton g( ologisl ol the Field Museum m Chicago among other things dc claied that owing to the lighlci an on the moon a man there could pimp a distance ot 36 leet with case One newspiapei wnter com nicnted "Maybe thcic’s where' good pedestrians go when they die’ Ihe Juno 1933, session ol the Lancaster Tobacco Grower's Asn was held on the fourth floor of the Lancaster Newspapeis Build mg with S S Bard presiding A repoit on the delegation to Stale College was given by C II Good Twenty-five vcais ago this week All s Calvin Criswell at the age of 85 a charter mcmhci ol PcnnsyKama’s Highland Giangc i eceived the fifth degiee when Pomano Grange No 3, of Chester and Delauaic Counties met in special session in the Highland Grange Hall Mrs Criswell had been active m Grange work foi nearly 50 years 25 Years Ago Bibl« Material: Judges 2,11-23, 4 5, 21 25 Devotional Beading: Psalm 51 1-13 Time of Troubles Lesson for June 15, 1958 LESS than half the chapteis of J the Book of Judges in the Bible are considered to be fit to print,—as Sunday school lessons, that is, in quarterlies to be used by childien and young*' people It is only raiely that a lesson fiom this strange book appeals, and most of it never does come out as a lesson Thecun ous reader can easily find out why, by reading the book for him self He will find that it consists mostly of crime stones 01 adven ture stones, tied togethei by a sobei sided and re ligious editor (name unknown) who plainly believed that these stones, frightening or exciting or comic or disgusting as they might be, nevertheless taught valuable les sons What lessons can we of the 20th centuiy, fai removed fiom those lawless days, leaxn from these ancient stones 9 .. What Was Right in His Own Eyes” Fust of all, we can see what it would be like if we abolished the police and the courts, burned the law books, nevei said “Don’t” to anybody, but left eveiybody to do as he pleased Theie are silly op timists now and then who think that human natuie is naturally so good that all you need to do is to leave people alone, and then natuial goodness will anange eveiything yust light This is not tiue and it was never tiue The editor of the book of Judges moie than once appears to apologue, or oflei some explanation, foi the hornble events in some of his col lected tales Those weie the days, he says, wnen there was no king in Isiael, and every man did that which was light in his own eyes “Right in his own eyes” is the key phrase Here is puie individual ism, heie is anaichy Heie is tin paradise of those who thin' Now Is The Time . By MAX SMITH County Agricultmal Agent TO SPRAY SECOND CROP ALFALFA The contiol ot lealhoppeis on both second and third cuttings ol altalia is recommended tor top yields of quality hay The spiaying of the field with -i pints per acre of 25C0 Methoxychlor emulsion when the growth is 4 to 6 inches high should give good control In the past this application has re sulted in greater giowlh and less of the yellowing ol the leaves TO SEAL TRENCH SILOS After the trench silo is filled, it should be sealed within 48 hours in older to pi event top spoilage The top should be mounded when finished and packed thoroughly then coveied with black plastic or with building Max Smith paper and giound limestone The plastic cover is more populai at this time and should also be held down, preferably W’lth 4 to 6 inch layei of chopped weeds or pooi quality silage, the attempt to hold dowm the covoi with locks posts oi other items is not recommended r l O SHEAR CHRISTMAS TREES A bit early to be thinking of Chnstmas but gioweis of Chiislmas tiees should be on the job in the next several weeks trimming young trees in order to develop the pioper angular shape The pines should bo trimmed toward the end ol then growing penod so that new buds will develop Spruces may dc sheaicd at any time 'JO CULTIVATE CORN WITH CAUTION Clean cultivation is still a good practice on the modem faun, with the thousands of cul tivators being used these days it is important that the operators be caieful not to get too close and too deep to the corn plant, this will lesull m cutting oil loots and stunt growth With each cultivation the hoes should be set wulci because the mots spread faither At the last cultivation sweep shovels and speed should ndge the dirt in the low lather than getting close to the plants. TO ORDER DOMESTIC RYEGRASS Cover oops aie veiy useful in pi eventing soil and wind erosion dining the winlci and also, to build up soil oi game matter One of the best times to seed the cover ciop js immediately aftei the last cultivation of the coin crop. Either domestic i yogi ass or field biomcgrass may be used successfully, from 20 to 25 pounds per acic is the rale These covci crops are especially valuable where the field is to go back into corn or another row crop next year less law the better, and no law at 'all the ideal This is the stoiy G ( —not what can happen or might happen, but the tiue story of what did happen, when a whole nation foigot God and paid no attention ‘to his laws and just went on /'jags” of doing what they pleased, time aftei time It was mess aftoi mess It is good foi us (though un 'pleasant) that God’s Piovidenct has piescrved tor us these stone* of what lawlessness will do to a nation Leading lady ' There is a blighter side of the book of Judges The woid ‘‘Judge” in this book has nothing to do with couits (Samson, for example, was one of the least judicious men .known to histoiy ) The woid heie means Heio, Delivciei, Militaiy iLeader The judges weie not saints, as w»e undeistand saints, but they weie beheveis in God, they weie God’s Strong Men The stoiy of Deboiah in chapteis 4 and '5 shows that when men weie scaice, a woman might take ovei, with gieat lesults In eveiy case of the wai-like heioes we meet in these pages, we learn that God called him (or her) to his militaiy .achievement But we can see also that these men were not puppets on God s stnngs They „ thought and fought freely and bravely, put ting then tiust in God The stoiy of Deboiah is specially interesting, because she was not a stiange chaiacter, a soit of Joan of Aic, but a “legulai peison” a “moth er in Israel” as she called heiself Even in the daikest times when a teal leader appeals, people will follow Dr. Foreman Private Morals and Public Welfare Another very important lesson taught by the booh of Judges is that pnvate moials can’t be kept pnvate The entne community is made sti ong or weak by the strength of the weakness of indi viduals The whole stoiy of the time of the “Judges" is a kind of up-and-down cycle like a rollei coaster The nation would win freedom: but then it would get run down and weakened by lazi ness, loose living and vice - then it would fall an easy victim to one of the many nations that were al ways waiting for a chance to move in on them Then they would _ be, to all intents and purposes, slaves of that enemy nation for yeais Only when the people came back to God and his laws, did they re covei the moral sti ength which built up their national sti ength to the point wheie —under some new Icadei—they could thiow off the chains of bondage (Based on outlines copvrighted br th« l>i\ision of Christian Education Na tioml Council of the Churches of Chnst in the L S A Released by Community Press Scr\ue ) » •