—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novembr 20, 1965 4 From Where We Stand... The Thanksgiving Feast Is Truly American! Thanksgiving Day is a purely American feast, begun traditionally by the Pilgrims, and continued through the centuries as a national day of religious and gastronomic significance. Even today when all the foods of the world are available to enrich our daily diet, the Thanksgiving menu of the average household is still predominantly American in origin and production. A sumptuous feast can be spread with only the kinds of food that the pre- Columbian Indians knew and taught the white men how to raise and use. An All-Amerioan Thanksgiving menu is tempting to a gourmet’s taste and satis fying to a hungry, growing boy. Turkey, cranberries, both white and sweet potatoes, numerous sorts of boons, squash, pumpkin, tapioca, corn, including sweet corn and popcorn, -pepp ers, avocado, cocoa and chocolate, oys ters, pineapple, chestnuts, peanuts, bra zil nuts, cashew nuts, and while not strictly a food, the tobacco of the after dinner cigaret, cigar or pipe. All of these are of strictly American origin. Even without excluding non-Ameri can dishes, the usual Thanksgiving din ner, with roast turkey, cranberry sauce, string beans, corn bread, pumpkin pie on the menu, is American enough. Those who -wish can easily build in their kitchens a strictly Ttiade-in-Axnerica Thanksgiving bill of fare! The turkey that is the center of the usual Thanksgiving feast has a dual claim *to the 100 per cent citizenship. It is as native to the American continent as the Indians. Yet the turkey also has a record of early immigration from Europe. Cranberry sauce is as American as the roast turkey that it accompanies to the relish of the feast. Cranberries are found only on the American continent. The cranberry bogs of New Jersey are famous the world over. “Faxm’s” are indispensable to the turkey, and sweet potatoes are indispen sable to the “fixin’s ” Sweet potatoes, as well as the white potatoes, misnamed Irish, are American in origin. The sweet potatoes, “taters” south of the Mason and Dixon line, are pro bably of tropical origin. At any rate, they thrive best now in the warmer parts of the country. The white potato is not Irish but Peruvian in origin. It got its misnomer because it was so widely grown there and Irish immigrants in the early 1700’s brought large quantities of them to the United States For the salad course, there may be avocadoes, also called alligator pears, for these are native to this hemisphere The bread should be corn bread, of course Corn is the greatest of the agricul tural gifts of America to the world When the first settlers from England found this gram being cultivated by the Indians they called it Indian corn to Lancaster Farming Lancaster Counh’s Own Faim Weekly P. 0 Box 266 17543 Lititz Pa Offices: 22 E Mam St Lititz Pc 1T543 Phone - Lancaster 394 3047 o- Lititz 626 2191 Don limmon'- Editoi Robejt (i Campbell, AcKei tismg D ' ectoi Established lx ox ember 4, 1955 Published cxeiy S.itui day by LcnuAei Faiming, Lit itz, Pa. suffering from a disease, for which at that time th«m r i*Jil:jio known cure: the dreaded afflic tion of leprosy. To be a leper was to live under the visible . , . t . .. . .. . shadow of death. The little maid distinguish it from the use of the word had said there was a prophets corn to mean in British usage all kinds Israel who by God's help could of grain, wheat, barley, rye and all cure even lepers; so off Naapfan the rest. rode ' with bags full of silver Corn probably originated in the Now South American highlands but by the the Commands waSed the «£ time the white men came its cultivation a C n U;. r ’ ( C a :f|| to be done in noble style, like had spread as far north on this con- n «swiuios a shun * magic spell, and was angry tinent as the climate permitted. Lesson for November 21,1965 when he was given the single In the fields of Indian corn found command, “Go wash in the JOr by the early colonists, there were a«ck«r*u*a Snipiur*: u Kino* s 1-27. T?* orange - yellow pumpkins growing much »•«<»!■ ?03 - I ' l2 - JSSfcVß^t&rSL£Sto! as they are grown today, A RMY MEN and reUglon ara que ,tions today.* Doe^odSS Pumpkin pie is as Thanksgiving as not ordinarily thought of to- day ever cure persons without turkey, yet just 50 years after Columbus * ettier ; But some soldiers have treatment? Are miracles of hell, the American pumpkin had been so thi «fis of the past? God oi;d adopted in Europe that it was being J e ad« to run though tfe Bible N«ma*n dTaofrSe called the Turkish cucumber. and note the many soldiers-men- „ow God works mlraclM of hdS Beans of many varieties deserve a tioned there who ing through the genius and ridlla place in the American Thanksgiving were l as religious 0 f professional physicians. :God table, for they were extensively culti- B~;' ere is iu the hospital just as sillily vated by all the native populations of the ** 118 * s * n Jordan. the New World. same. One of the Faith and the halfway hoijse Nuts give Thanksgiving a double first things Gen- Naaman was sure that God-Sad dessert. Eisenhower cured him. But he was not agoiit America is a land of rich and to come out and live with^fjie varied food supplies, capable of sharing Israelites.- Instead he was going .. , * -K. f 5 Dr. Foreman be baptized.and to keep on going to the “irons* its bounty with other areas of the join the church . A n American of Kimmon,” th! teiSle SJ world and willing to aid other countries seminary recently had in its stu- the Syrian God Bimmon *V&s to raise larger crops of food, often of dent body a retired British Ma- worshipped. The startling western hemisphere origin. We are jor-general. And so it goes. One here is that the pr<«*elEli*«®d thankful for this at this .Thanksgiving of_ the most dedicated Christians not object to this but gsvs’fiia as it may help bring peace to the future ®*is writer ever Jpev was a re* blessing. “Go in peace,’’ his IS#!, of a' less hunerv world «ny captain. in farewell .Yon would have**- * ot a ess hungry worm. ; r ~ Pected that Elisha would roun®y . * . . falrtr andr humility . ' ' rebuke the Commander, perils * * " * It is humbling experience for laying, “Come all-out for {be • mmwith the habit of com- true God, the God of theproph. . Farm-City interdependence ' mand ana used,to giving order* eti, Elisha's -God, and don't stay to -enter th« "Kingdom -nStiGod' in the half-way .honse of a pig| n Once each year farmers and city like * child, aa Jesus expressed temple” But Elisha did not take folk officially take time out for a good ft. But the bravest can also this intolerant attitude. Naam«a look at each other. Theoretically, this he the humblest. The story of was coming as far as his situa aids understanding between these two Commander Naam?a*iltKings tion allowed. Full faith might nf enriptv Farm-Citv Week 515 * very .interesting case m have drawn him clear away from segments ot so harm city wee* point This mtll w#s , semnt his heathenhomeland.wouldhave is proclaimed throughout the land. This of Go 4 w jthout perhaps knowing made an Israelite of him, would year it will be celebrated November jt. At any rate the writer of II have made him in fact a traitor 19-25. Kings gives God the his own king, Elisha recog- In reality, the position of the Naaman’s victories over Israel, nized that this would have been American farmer has shifted consider- that was what he was, con- asking too much. Better a faith ablv over the years his shrinking of Israel. In his time he that stops in the half-way house number hi? greater nroductmn hi Was commander of all the “ f Rimmon than no faith at ail. number, his greater production, his armyj and by his victorious cam-. Better a faith unconfessed than dwindling political importance are all paigns ’had reduced-Israel* to-an'fio faith. God could see Naa well-known facts. But what image of unimportant and impoverished man’s heart. the farmer must the city and suburban province of tire Syrian ‘ dweller have? From what he sees in his Empire. An Israelite girl at Division o£ Christian Education, National daily paper and gathers through other “» ™ ***' STTtl'&gS'Sf'aSSM; jews media he may even believe the ™ d “ ?^ farmer is a federal employee. not eX pect a great commander Governor Scranton has said that to pay much attention to the ! as farmers prosper the Commonwealth’s ideas of a little slave girl. whole economy benefits. Unfortunately, this does not always work both ways. Farmers make a real contribution to the standard of living of the average consumer and to the total economy, Perhaps this point can be made most effectively during Farm-City Week while the consumer’s attention is direct- ed farmward, and while his mind is on plans for the Thanksgiving feast. According to Russell Larson, Dean of the College of Agriculture at Penn State University, agriculture and its re- lated businesses in Pennsylvania pump $l5 billion a year into the economy Total farm production expenses in 1963 accounted for $7OO million of this. Agri- culture continues to be one of the lead- ing industries in Pennsylvania • 4-H Judges (Continued fiom Page 1) ]'!'Ml He ‘.Vi The inu. i .in--. donated lean-a in, i \■>vh a (ti 01 Ma- I'ldiana, aid witn 1 ’ I,l' 1 i ji K\ Weather Forecast 1 1 mm i .itini s )oi tin liu . i! n p < i i i> (I . \\ < . .IK v\- ]x (1 1 (I to ,111 i lx lou i.i mi il. Il mil be i olili i < nr tin \wi K< nil .iiii] mill)- < i iboul .iiiil-im-i 1.. I‘n < •.|»il.itioii lor tlx- pci i <> I Hi.n .iiiioiint lo 1 i-i > ’i(li <i((iiimiy, .c i.mi suu '!<•' ii.ylit .mil Vml- iicml.ij The team, coached h> M AI Sm'th, Lancastei County Aniuultuial Agent will com pete in the 4-H judging ewnu- at the Intel national Dive S.ock L'position at Ch’- c,i-o on Voiembti 2b In l.i-t icai *, national competi tion the fuuim tra'n placed nationally in oiei-all IU(U n. Kf-n- • Grading Fees S.ll 111 d.i \ (Continued fiom Page 1) ance with this cost, C&MS otTicials said .Minimum fee and hotus chained on weekly contacts will he 5312 fot 40 hotus Regulations governing the meal giading seivice aie being amended to peimit the fee in- u ease, Faith and healing The Commander may have been in desperation, for he was Now Is The Time ... - By Max-Smith, Ea'ncaster County Agent To Meet Phosphorus Needs One of the most lacking soil elements thioughout the county and the state is phos phoius This is true in many parts of the countiy and in a recenJJ'fewJfbCk study it was concluded that farms”‘wrtlr a "high phosphoius level had highei laboi incomes The amount of money left for labor rose along with phosphoius levels in the soil This reflects gieater pioduction pei acre on land that is tieated to meet the fertilizer needs. Com plete soil tests can be secuied now befoie the ground fieezes and will give time foi planning the 1966 ciop piogiam To Care For Batteiies Cold weathei is haid on batteiies nisei vice 01 in stoiage At this time of the season it would be timely to clean the top ol the batteiy by lemovmg the white deposit with baking soda and wlei, then tieat the teiminals with giease 01 peti oleum icily. Ee sme the cells aie kept filled v ith watei at all times "and., cany the maximum amount of chai ge To Cull Cows Danjmen aie tuged to make an efioit to hate eveiy stall occupied with a liiyh yiodtic mg cow In past yeais it might he said that some stalls weie used by cows meiely to-help keep the bain waim so that the watei pipes didn t fieeze With high ovcihead costs and high pioduction costs, those days aie ovei and eveiy cow must pay hei way Only high pi educ ing cows will pay foi this large investment in (he daily busi ness Dauy herd testing is the Go To Church Sunday best wdv to learn of the actual pioduction and return on each cow. To Protect Evergreens One of the mam reasons for wintei loss among evergreens is the lack of sufficient soil moistuie With a shoit supply of the moistuie in the giound aftei it fieeaes, it is impossible foi the plant loots to diaw the needed moistuie to replace the amount of water lost thiough tianspuation This means that the plant dues out and dies. 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