- 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 <f ° r Lr
tv agent and his associates will have to be you and we pay for through 0“ r ta *f
dropped But none of the committees came A “ ot^ ei fie / d k nnp thdt
ab ° Ut dr ° P ' a tew years ago -
‘ Lof the ways to “ «
become unpopular is by suggesting that a ex t ension service is primarily an educa
project helping a farmer be diopped so . not a che ap source of techni
cal he will have to go elsewhere for his c&1 labor to the farmer
assistance and help. Q ne 0 £ program projection com-
But we are going to make a couple of m jttees, the one on integration, mentioned
suggestions that we believe will help light- that j n t h e broiler production business less
en the work load of the extension service anc | i ess help on the local level will be
while still giving the farmer a program nee ded from extension in coming years,
that will be to his liking. Various segments of the integrated poul-
The first of these is that the extension try industry will have their own advisory
service can now get out of the soil conser- personnel on hand This, on a commercial
\ation business. Now before you get all basis, is becoming more true for other
excited, we do not mean that the county phases of agriculture,
agent start saying that soil conservation is For agricultural extension we see the
none of his business. It is the business of time coming when the county agent will
everyone of us. be more of an agricultural economist, well
However there are now other agencies versed in contracts, tax structures, farm
that are better set up to handle soil con- management and the like, rather than the
servation projects production trained man now in demand
BY JACK REICHARD
75 Years Ago
W H Riler, thnU -three mark
ea the third inmate who died of
‘inallpox at the Lancaster County
Pnson Three otheis confined in
the tail were afflicted with the
disease Rilec bom in Chester news dispatch from Sharon
Counlv, was sentenced Nov 19 p a , reported wholesale ravages
1880 to a puson tcnn of five 0 f the army worm in various soc
ial s and eight months toi bin pons of Mercer County Apple and
c Ui i small fi nit trees wci e being slnp-
I \NCASTER WATCH CO
CHANTED CHARTER
Sen entv -live vears ago this
\ eck the State Depaitmcnt at
Timiisbiug gianted a chartci to
the Lancaster Watch Co with
capital oi 5248 000 The incoipoia
loi-> 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 )
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