—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. January 8. 1966
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From Where We Stand...
Fifty Years Of Farm Show Progress
The first official, state “farm show”
was held in 1917 at 10th and Market
Sts., Harrisburg. It was called “The
Pennsylvania Corn. Fruit, Vegetable,
Dairy Products and Wool Show”! How
about that? Since only the products list
ed in that title could be exhibited, aren't
you glad they didn’t stay with that idea
as swine, steers, honey, nuts, poultry,
eggs, etc. were added? We are!
About 5000 farm and city folk at
tended that first show. Secretary of
Agriculture Bull estimates an atten
dance of one-half million for this year’s
Golden Anniversary Farm Show. This
seems like a reasonable estimate since
at least that many people have visited
every Farm Show since 1938, with the
exception of the war years 1943-’46
when meetings, but no exhibits were
held.
The popular annual event finally
outgrew its early facilities, and in 1931
the new Farm Show Building was suffi
ciently completed to house that year’s
show. Additions came slowly over the
until the complex reached its pre
sent size We hope that further expan
sion and improvement, will be consider
ed as indicated
One needed improvement that was
very strongly indicated at last year’s
show was more effective ventilation to
ease the dust and odor problems, parti
cularly in the large arena.
Of an estimated 15 million persons
who have attended the Pennsylvania
Farm Show since 1917, only three now
living are known to have attended all 49
TOBACCO SHOW CHAMP Melvin S Fisher, center, examining a fine filler
tobacco leaf with judges Vincent Hurst, left, and Ben E Mann, right Fisher
look championships in both wrapper and filler classes at the Lancaster County
Tobacco Show Thursday. L F - Photo
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shows to date. These three gentlemen
are now all retired, but still living in
the Camp Hill area. They will be special
guests at this 50th anniversary show.
Highlights of the show over the
years have been compiled by the De
partment of Agriculture into a 64-page
historical booklet which will be placed
on sale next week by the Farm Show
Commission. A condensed version ap
pears in the colorful 40-page Farm Show
program book which may be obtained
from the county agent’s office or at the
Farm Show Bldg.
Form Show Weofher?
Farm Show weather over the years
has attained such a fierce, and depend
able, reputation that we now take it for
granted. But at this writing the Farm
Show opening is still a few days away;
the sky is clear; the national weather
map shows some snow over the Rocky
Mountain areas, but there’s no snow in
sight for us for the next several days.
Where is that rough, cold, white winter
the predictors promised?
Looking back at last year’s Farm
Show Issue of L F., we said pretty
much the same thing We suggested that
the Farm Show carries its weather right
along with it It did.
Only one thing is certain in this
respect. We’re going to have weather;
whether or not it’s good weather we’ll
be looking forward to seeing a lot of old
friends at the Farm Show, and, hope
fully, meeting some new ones
So see you at the Farm Show'
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• Tobacco Show
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E "Mann Lancastei tobacco
btokei and Vincent Hm st,
letned manasei ot the Bav
nk him
Show lesulh
OPEN CLASS
A\ rail) per
Lena leaf —1, Alehin L
Lons ,2 R W Alartm, 3
Alehin S Fishei , 4 Ross B
Denlmsei Alildied A Xis
slev
Shoit leaf 1 Alehin S.
Eishei champion, 2 Alitmer
I Rolnei 3 Eugene AI Roh
lei 4 Roj M Rohier, 1,
R \\ Mai tin
BukUw
Lons leal 1 Robert B
Leed champion, 2, Roj AI
Rolnei 3 1 C St oilman 4.
Aloh in L Long 5, Alelvm
S Fisher.
Slioit leat 1 Witmer J
Rohuei 2 9u.s.an L Rolnei,
3 iVlehm S Fishei , 4, Roy
If Roluei 5 J. A Hostet
tei
Fuller
Long le'at —1, Melvin S
Fis'hei champion 2, J A
Hostetler, 3, Eugene M Roh
iei , 4 Rov M Rohrer, 5,
Wal'tei K Gasset.
Short leal —1, Roy M.
R'ohiei, 2. Witmer J. Roh
lei 3. Ross B Denlmger,
4, Melvin Fishei. 5. Eugene
M Rolu ei.
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Wiappei —1, Clifford Bol
lingei , 2 Ricliaid Thoma’s;
3 Donald Xissle.v, 4, Dennis
Weavei, 5, Linloid D. Mar
tin
Fillei —1, Ricihard Thom
as champion; 2, Hairy By
eis. 3, Lany R Weaver, 4,
Dairy High, 5. Roy Bowman.
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Why We Believe
Lesson for January 9, 1966
Background Scripture Psalm 19 1-4 John
JO 31 Roirarvs 1 19-20, 10 5-17,
T I Tmothy 3M 17
Devotional Headings Psalm 19.
\\/’IIY DO PEOPLE believe any
' ’ thing’ Man is a believing
animal; indeed he lives by his
beliefs. But this is no place
and there is no room for investi
gating beliefs in general. Other
wise we should have to inquire
why men believe
all sorts of things
that there is
no life on the
moon, that pota
toes grow better
if planted in the
dark of the moon,
that the moon af-
fects the tides,
and so on and so
on. Our question is a shorter
one Why do Christians believe
as we do? Are our reasons good
or bad or do we believe without
any reasonable reason at all? Is
there solid giound under our
feet or is the Land of Faith
so to speak only a marsh?
Religious beliefs are not like
the beliefs of science The scien
tist takes the object he is exam
ining into the laboiatory and
analyzes it But no worshipper
would think of taking God into
the laboiatoiy and examining
him 1 You can dissect fiogs and
you can see. the spectrum of.sun
light, but it is -Impossible in the
same way to dissect the joy of
faith or to chait the spectrum
of the Light of the Woild. Fur
ther, religion, especially the reli
gion of Christians, is in a class
of beliefs of a peculiar and non
scientific (though for from non
sensical' ) sort, namely all beliefs
that involve confidence, as Chris
tian faith, does. Scientific belief
asks for proof first, then belief
will follow, but with anything
involving confidence, belief has to
come first, then evidence or pi oof
follows. For instance, when you
learn to swim, you have to be
lieve that the water will hold you
up, fat and clumsy though you
may be. You can wait forever
for proof, the only proof you
will ever get is to believe it is
true and then act on your belief.
Now Is The Time
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Attend Farm Show Meetings
Theie aie many events at State Farm
Show which opens at Harnsburg next Mon
day; many of them aie interesting, entertain
ing, and satisfying However, theie is great
educational values to be hai vested if pio
gressive farmeis will make an effort to in
clude them m then long and tnesome days
I lefei to the many meetings of farm
organizations and then educational progiams
These should be veiy beneficial and we’d
urge all faimers to be piesent in older to
obtain the latest mfoimation
To Be Prepared
Weather conditions have left out any
snowfall up until this time; howevei, we are SMITH
of the belief that Mother Natuie usually comes up with the
average for the wintei at one time 01 the other This means
that we might expect some very heavy snowfalls in the remain
ing months of the winter These might mean temporary isola
tion or the loss of power, preparing for such emeigency might
save considerable suffenng and loss of property and materials.
We uige some attention to this possibility before it happens
To Prepafro Brood Sows . .
Just before sows move into
■the fanrovving house, wash
the it udders with soa,p a,nd
warm water; then when the
pigs get thait first meal, it
Will be a cleam one, free
Pi om worm eggis and other
harmful bacteria. Goad sani
tation is veiy important.
To U><cr Cufiitiofu with Moldy
CO3ll . . . We don’t leoom
inend the feeding of moldy
grain to any kind of Inve
stO|Ck, but fatten ling hogs can
utilize limited amounts ot it
with little ill effects. Moldy
Vou don't know it now, you fam
to live in faith for many years.
Christian faith is like that; you
And the evidence by acting oa
faith.
Grounds for belief
Not that Christians have no
good reasons for their confidence.
But these grounds arc better seen
by a Christian than an outsider.
We look at the universe in all
its beauty and grandeur, and feel
as a famed astronomer did, that
the universe is more like a great
thought than like a great ma
chine. Such power, such splendor,
such order, can only be the prod
ucht of an Intelligence and Power
greater by far than the universe
itself.
God's witnesses
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There once lived an unbelieving
man named Augustine. His moth
er was a Christian, but not his
father and not he. His two great
loves were beauty and intellec
tual power. He found neither in
the church. But on his travels
he came on a man a bishop
whose sermons had the intel
lectual power and moral force
Augustine had been looking for,
and the worship service at his
church had the beauty Augus
tine had always missed. To make
a short story shorter, Augustine
became a believer through the
faith of Bishop Ambrose. It has
usually been like that. Most
Christians are such because of
their contacts with other Chris
tians. Every real Christian be
comes a rock or reliance on whom
others rest their faith. Not that
true belief is rubber-stamp or
secondhand! We come to per
sonal faith through the belief of
those we love and admire; but
this is only the first stage in
erecting faith that is personal
and first-hand. The testimony of
others becomes blended with the
divine whisper within, that we
are children of God. If you were'
God, what better reasons for be
lief in you could you give than
those God in fact has given?
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education. National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
V. S. A. Released by Community Press
Service.)
Go To Church
Sunday
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corn 0,1 any moldy feed®
should not be ted to breed
ing swine becau'se of danger
ot disuniting the reproduc
tive 'cycle It some moldy
corn is to be woiked into
the gi am mixture for fatten
ing ho/gs, then teed it free
choice lathei than mixing
with good grains The hogs
will eat only so much of the
lo,w quality grain, and this
wiW usually not upset their
digestive system. Be sure to
provide other gram and pro
teins with the poor quality
teed.