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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1927 THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA.
JED 1) 10 100
JULY REDUCTION
SALE
Be Sure to Get Your Share of
These Bargains At
BISAdOP’S
30 West Main St. MOUNT JOY, PA.
WOMEN'S OXFORDS LOT OF
LADIES’ OXFORDS
$3.98 and $4.98.
$1 25 a pair
Good Year Welt
Were Now
LOT OF
MEN'S AND BOYS’
CANVAS SHOES
4 © $1.75
Reduced
sizes.
Mostly all
from $3.98 to
$2.50 a pair
SPECIAL
Women’s One-Strap Pumps
$2.50 + pair
LADIES’ ONE STRAP
PUMPS
A LOT OF
LADIES’ AND CHIL-
DREN'S CANVAS
SHOES
With Crepe Soles from 98c to
98¢ to $1.60 pair at pair
SRE)
A Wonderful Bargain
I have just been given the sale of one of the “most value
for the money” realty bargains I have ever offered. Read
this over carefully.
18 ACRES BEST LIMESTONE LAND
With buildings second to none. This ideal farm is located
half a mile north of Maytown, along the macadam highway
leading to Elizabethtown. Large frontage on highway. Farm
divided into four fields, all level land, good cropper.
The buildings, which are in most excellent condition, are’
9-Room Frame House and Summer House, all under slate
roof, good heating plant, large front porch, open lawn, Bank
Barn for 8 head, concrete forebay, Pig Sty, dandy Poultry
“Houses, New Garage, excellent water, Two Fruit Orchards,
an abundance of Berries, ete.
All Buildings newly painted. This farm is located in
the heart of East Donegal township and is one of the best
and most beautiful that I have ever offered. The buildings
could not be duplicated for $10,000.
This is an excellent tobacco producer and can hang one
field of a crop.
Here comes the shock. The
Price is Only $8,500.00
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and half the money can remain at 5
closest investigation.
Jno. E. Schroll
Phone 41R2 MOUNT JOY, PA
percent. Will bear
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General Electrical Repairing
Bell Work Repair
Washing Machines All Kinds 3
Electric Fans of
Vacuum Cleaners Electrical
Lamps Equipment
Prices Reasonable. All Work Done Promptly.
Work Called for and Delivered
D. W. STRAYER
MT. JOY, PA.
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Abandoned Farm
Why the number of abandoned
farms in Pennsylvania is steadily in-
creasing is worrying
vania Department of Agriculture to
the point where it has started a
special inquiry through its census
enumerators to ascertain the princi-
pal causes.
Some of the officials of the de-
partment are of the opinion the a-
outcome of workings
law, They are of the opinion that
many of the farms never were suffic-
iently rich to contain “pay
but should have been left in timber. |
Others believe failure to use fer-!
tilizers systematically has been an |
important contributing cause. Soil!
was permitted to be “worked out” |
and necessary chemical elements |
were not replaced. |
A third group contends that farm
taxation has reached the point
where taxes are confiscatory, and
the farmer is surrendering rather
than continuing to fight uneven odds
Records in the "department show
all may be partly right. The sur
vey’s purpose is to establish exactly
what the facts are.
All that is known definitely thus
far is that in the last six years the
number of farms which have been
abandoned in Pennsvlvania has
doubled.
Each year finds an additional 100- |
000 acres, which had been under |
cultivation the year before, deserted !
with little growing but weeds. |
13,162 Farms Idle |
The latests records of the Depart- |
ment on the subject show 13,162 |
Pennsylvania farms either were un- |
occupied, or were idle but occupied |
by persons not engaged in agricul- |
ture. In other words, one of every
fifteen farms of the State has ceased |
to function.
It shows that 1,164,000 acres for-
merly under cultivation, are unpro-
ductive now. This is one acre of
every fourteen acres of farm land. |
Were these 1,164,000 acres un-
der cultivation and of average fer-|
tility and accessibility, they would
be worth $89,628,000, for improved
land operated fog farm purposes is
estimated to be worth $77 an acre. |
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A history of some of the aban-
doned farms appears among scat-
tered records of the Department.
They show that total abandonment
a very slow process, or astep
taken with much reluctance. An-
notations of reasons show some eco- |
nomic condition brings the condition
to pass, |
The records show
1S
farms in vary- |
ing degrees of abandonment. |
They show 5,643 farms have been |
entirely abandoned, the farm houses
vacant, the fields unplowed. These
farms, estimated to contain 500,000
‘acres, have passed into history as
actual farms, for agricultural oper- |
ations have been discontinued and |
probably will remain so. In many
instances, the dwellers of the farm- |
houses who tilled the soil, have gone
to cities in search of more remun-
erative employment.
There is another class containing |
5,911 farms at the last recording
and estimated to contain 506,000
acies. These are partly operated.
rangement,
On 1,608 other farms, 148,000
acres are under operation, but not |
by persons living in the farm houses.
The dwellers either are retired or
work in nearby towns. At least,
they are non-agricultural inhabi-
tants.
The Department’s
that,
or
records show
exclusive of housgs on partly
fully operated farms, occupied
by non-agriculturists, over 13,000
farm houses approximately 6.6 per
cent. of the total number in the
State—which once sheltered fami-
lies engaged in agriculture, are
now vacant or occupied by persons
not engaged in that occupation.
Where Soil Is Thinnest
The geographical distribution of
abandoned farms would see mto in-
dicate that where the soil is thinnest
or where the farms are nearest in
dustrial centers, abandonment in-
creases unless the farms are adja-
cent to good roads connecting them
to profitable city markets; and that |
where soil is richest and specialized
crops are produced by intensive
farming, the greater proportion of
farmers retain their grasp on the
plow-handle.
In the range of counties that
sweeps through the wooded and
rocky hills of the Northern Tier
across the antracite belt, and into
some of the industrial counties a-
long the northern part of the Dela-
ware Basin, the highest proportior
abandoned farms is found. In
twenty counties, one farm of every
ten is vacant, idle, or occupied by
persons not engaged in agriculture
This proportion, fifty per cent. high
er than the average for the State. |
is found in the district including
McKean, Elk, Cameron, Potter, |
Clinton, Tioga, Lycoming, Bradford. |
Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, Lack- |
awanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Schuyl- |
kill, Carbon, Monroe, Northampton
and Lehigh counties.
of
the conuties immediately north and
northeast of Pittsburgh,
per cent. of all farms are falling
into disuse. Some are industrial
counties. This district includes
Beaver, Lawrence, Butler, Clarion
Armstrong, Jefferson and Indiana
counties.
In the grape section, Erie, Craw-
ford, Mercer, Venango, Forest and
Warren counties, the percentage is
the Pennsyl-:
dirt” |
1
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The next highest percentage is in| ual, is very good
There 8.8 !The straw will also be
Situation
In Pennsylvania Being Studied
Number Has Doubled in the Last Six Years; Taxation Blamed
By Many For Fact That One of Every Fifteer
Lies Unoccupied
7.2
approximately aban-
doned.
percent.
Although the ‘large central sec-
(tion, with many mountains and
[many rough mountain roads, might
|be expected to rank high in aban-
donment, only 6 per cent. of the
farms there are idle.
| The southwestern section, ineclud-
ing Allegheny County, and all coun-
bandonment represents the natural ties south and southeast to the east-
of economic lern Somerset County border, has an
average of 4.5 per cent. abandoned.
This same percentage holds for the
southwestern counties, which include
the premier agricultural county,
Lancaster, and her fertile neighbor,
Berks, and counties which have- a
rich market supplying produce for
Philadelphia,
Abandonment has been slowest in
the counties skirting the Maryland
line, from York on the east to Bed-
ford on the west. There only 23.7
per cent. of the farms are aban-
doned. This is the principal apple
and peach district of Pennsylvania.
Although the record of abandon
ment has been grouped by districts
in the Department's effort to locate
the percentage fluctuates in
counties ‘within each district.
Department officials are not as yet
repared to place a finger on any
yne cause or group of causes for
forsaking the family farm,
Why They “Go To Pot”
One of the probable reasons may
be a figure hidden away in a statis-
tical table which the department
prepared for another purpose. It
causes,
the
shows that the gross income of
Pennsylvania farms averages be-
tween 20 and 25 per cent. of the
capital investment.
farmer has bought
fertilizer,
tivated it
By the time the
and distributed
planted his seed and cul-
afterwards, pruned his
orchards, bought and repaired his
machinery, repaired his buildings,
paid his taxes, taken his chances
with crop failure or damaging
storms, harvested his balance, paid
shipping costs to market, shared
with his tenant or paid costs of
farm labor, he finds his net return
considerably less than if he left his
farm “go to pot” and secured em-
ployment in a factory or mill,
Inability of aging farmers to get
laborers willing to work for farm
pay, or to get tenants to operate his
farm, while industries pay a higher
wage, is another probable cause. I
has been listed as the chief cause on
a number of the reports which the
Department has on file.
Another item in another statisti-
cal table bobs up to explain why some
other farmers give up the ghost.
The city motorist rolling along
well kept farms along concrete high-
ways does not realize that when the
1925 census was taken, three of ev-
ery five farms were on unimproved
dirt roads and that their inaccessibil-
ity to market made their lot harder.
In a number of instances refusal
of tenants to spend money to ford
ize another man's land is reflected in
reports that the land was abandoned
for agricultural purposes because of
low fertility of soil.
Farm taxation has occupied the
aftention of the Department, which
looked for results from a legislative
General
made
In many cases the persons who lived
Assembly. The commission
a report, but no action was
aken, leaving the task to ‘the State
in the houses on the farms, have | Tax Commission which now is out
left, making arrangements with | ,¢ existence,
nearby farmers to till a part of the| pow wages on farms, compared
«oil on shares or some other ar-
with higher wages in industry, how-
ever seemed to form the chief reas-
on the farm,
which prompted ab
probably are best des-
cribed by the following excerpts ta-
ken at random from Depart-
ment’s files of reports on abandoned
farms, The reasons the
tenants eave
task are:
for leaving
The motives
andonment
the
owners and
for quitting their
chosen
“Short
help”;
“Low
on
secure tenants’;
soil”: for
and ing
n ctory’’:
old and ean’t get ten
ants’’; 5 ano farm and
left the v nt one v price for
products”; “Poor dings and in
need of tenants” Machinery costs |
are too high”; “High wages for la-
bor"; “Principally for better em-
plovment”’ “Out-of-the-way farm--
back from the road”; “Planting for-
est trees”; (From Bedford County
report); “Rundown and unproduc-
tive”; “For speculation— building
lots”; “Make more money else-
where’; “Fire damaged building, re-
pairs cost too much for returns”;
“Bad roads--inconvenience”; “Prices
too poor to make living”; “Land-
lord’s terms too hard”; “Fewer
hours elsewhere”,
Although the abandonment situ-
ation is regarded as serious, i
culure in Pennsylvania is far from
“going to the ”
Ninety-three per cent. of Pennsyl-
vania’s farms, or approximately
200,000, are still hard at work
turning out food on more than 16,-
000,000 acres.
They contain land worth 8$555,-
145,549; buildings worth $615,026,-
005; machinery and implements val-
ued at $140,652,293; and livestock
worth $149,878,423.
A Geen,
Very Fine Wheat
The wheat crop thruout this seec-
on, although a little later than us-
. The stand is ex-
cellent and heads are well filled.
good as the
stalks are quite tall. Mr. Samuel
Reinhold, near Breneman’s School,
gave us two stalks that are 66 and
| 67 inches tall.
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The Mt. Joy Bulletin
$1.50 per year.
The Bulletin is always prompt in
the delivery of (all printing.
dogs.
costs only
Ordinarily he is.
For Fall Court
(From Page One) |
Clayton Shenk, Mt. Joy township.
John A. Fornhoff, W. Hempfield
township.
Common Pleas, Oct. 10
Adam Schlossman, West Hemp-'
field township. i
Ross E. Keller, Elizabethtown.
Joseph Tanner, Conoy township.
Richard W. Lever, West Donegal '
township.
George F. Shultz, Marietta.
Albert B. Barr, W. Hempfield twp
Common Pleas, Oct. 17
Monroe Gibble, Mt. Joy twp.
Ralph M. Nissly, Rapho township!
John Rahm, Sr., Mt. Joy.
Henry H. Eby, West Hempfield
township.
Samuel Eby, Salunga. |
Miles Backenstoe, Mt. Joy.
Stuart Litzberger, Manheim.
Amos Risser, Mt, Joy township.
Samuel G. Erb, Rapho township.
Frederick B. Smith, Conoy twp.
Harvey J. Brandt, Manheim. !
Amos H. Gish, W. Donegal twp. |
Elmér Strickler, Mt. Joy township. '
THE FARMER {
Much has been
said, and much
more will be said and written be-
fore November, 1928, about the
poor farmer and his discontent. Pol-
iticians are allowing crocodile tears
to roll down over plump-jowls
they pour out sympathy for
farmer in his troubles, and draw|
heartbreaking pictures of the dis-
tress in the corn belt and in the
dry farming States. /
Peculiarly encugh, everyone ap-
pears to be more wrought up about
as
the
the plight of the farmer than the
farmer is. From the diversified,
farms of Ohio through the corn]
belt and up into the great wheat
growing district, the farmer is tuck- |
ing the legs of his overalls into his |
brogans, settling his old hickory hat!
on his hard old head, and chewing |
a straw while the plow turns over
the richest land in the world.
He isn’t satisfied. He never has]
been satisfied. He has been through
a period of inflation, of deflation, of
high land prices, of low prices for |
his corn, his wheat, his cattle, and!
his hogs. He has fed $1.25 corn
into sixteen-cent pork. He has gone
through drought, through flood,’
through bool weevil, corn-borer, |
wild grass, cyclone, and hail, thru
rust and pest; and, instead of grow- |
ing discouraged, he climbs into the.
old flivver, chugs to town, renews]
the mortgage at a higher rate of in-|
terest, has Maw sew another patch!
on the seat of his overalls, and re-!
turns to the plow. His faith in the
land, his faith in the country, his
faith in the future, may have been
jarred, but it is not broken.
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Jurors Are Drawn
| commodated.
Local Doings
Around Florin
(From Page One)
accompanied a number of other
guests to Mt. Gretna where they!
spent from Friday to Monday. |
Mrs. Kate Winters returned to
her home here after spending two
weeks at Manheim, as guests in the |
family of her son, Charles Winters. |
The contractor is making good |
progress on the Peris building which |
is being erected in the east end of |
town. The third story is now under |
construction,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Geyer, Mr. |
and Mrs. Harvey Geyer and children |
spent the last week at Altoona as
guests in the family of Mr. and Mrs
Wm. Bennett.
Mr.
sition at Moose’
ed the general s
Schaadt, in this place. Mr. Forney
will take charge tomorrow, Thurs-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dick and Miss
Esther Mumma, of this place, and
Misses Naomi and Sarah Dick, of
Lemoyne, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ed his po-
and purchas-
ter Myers, at Greencastle over the
week end.
C. S. Wachstetter’s entertained
these guests over the 4th: Mr. and
Mrs. H. S. Shickley and son, Stan-
ton, and Miss Florence Chase, of
Glenolden; the Misses Rosetta and
Mary Shickley, of York, and Harry
Hess, of Lancaster.
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Gentlemen's
After Shaving
Powder
c
Is specially made for men’s
use; it's a creamy tint that
cannot be seen when used ,
and it’s only very slightly
perfumed—in fact it’s’ a
man’s tale.
Every man should have
a can handy.
E. W. GARBER
The Store
MOUNT JOY, PA,
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Garber and
two daughters, of town; Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Garber, of Blain, Pa.,
and Mr. Paul Diffenderfer, of Mt.
Joy, returned from a week’s trip
to Oxford, Md., where they caught
175 fish, consisting of ecroakers
and spots.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brooks, on
the J. S. Carmany farm, west of
town, entertained these guests Mon
day, July 4th: Mr. William S. Wil-
son and five children, of Wilming-
ton, Del.; Mrs. Linthurst, Miss Mary
Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Wolgemuth and three children, of
this place.
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Bridges Surely Pay
During the first year figures just
made public claim that 7,863,000
vehicles crossed the Delaware river
bridge, at Philadelphia, paying $2,-
100,000.
Guess such facts accoypnt for
great effort private individuals
making to build
Columbia,
the
are
a river bridge at
License Rush Continues
The rush for fishing licenses con-
tinued in the ‘county treasurers’
office. One man applied for a hunt-
er’s license but he could not be ac-
He sends his daughter to the State
Nor:al, his son and |
somchow, through lean years and|
fat, he manages. He raises his tribe |
in the fear of God and in the re-
spect of authority.
to college;
Politicians and orators hint dark-
ly that he is a bad business man.
Business methods
with him are simple. His golden
rule is to give good measure,
his debts, “get as
rate on the
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pay |
interest
possible,
low an
mortgage as
and as high a price for the things
he grows as the miller, the drover,
or the stockyards will pay.
He knows it enough; but,
having become accustémed to that,
he doesn’t complain much—under-
standing that, in spite of interfer-|
ence by middlemen and agitation by!
isn’t
prices or to lend him money as tem-
porary and believes that his
remedy is either to produce at less
only
expense or to sell at greater profit.
He was educated in the little
{ country school. His ‘mathematics
did not raise him into the realm of]
unknown quantities, and he is apt|
to think that the multiplication
table as it was right. The!
fact that most of his problems |
recent years have been in substrac-
o
has not convinced |
and
tion are out of existence. |
He is not satified with conditions.
is wrong and
of conditions—
the last economic force to be re-ad-
But he is not discouraied,
He
to complain—at least
laid by, the hay
wheat
tion and division
him that addition multiplica- |
He knows something
that he is a victim
justed.
nor is he complaining much.
hasn’t time
until the corn is
made, and the
Until then the politicians
his complaining.
harvested.
must do
Now comes the president of the
Northwestern Railroad, himself an
After a careful survey of
the entire district covered by his
railroad, he says that 70 per cent
of the agricultural population are
for Coolidge. He says that almost
70 per cent of those in his district]
—which is the one that has suffer-
ed most—believe that the McNary-|
Haugen _bill was impractical and]
that it would not'have helped them.
In other words, the old, hard-
headed farmer isn’t fooled. He got
wise to the patent-medicine fakers,
the lightning-rod swindlers, the get-
rich-quick confidence men long ago
and politicians attempting to catch
him by the same methods make
small progress with him.
He is too busy plowing to listen.
Next winter, around the stove, he
may have time to let them sympa-
thize with him.—Liberty Magazine.
rw locates
Ross Bros. umbrella factory at
Lancaster, had a $20,000 fire
Fourth of July morning.
Iowan.
politicians, the law of supply and
: ay : He 3 : ;
demand will at length prevall, He, wy, we are rendering
hasn’t much faith in legislation to :
“aid” him. He has been “aided” the people of our neighbor-
so often from the political stump hood a distinctive service in
that he is wise. Besides, he figures, our location. We
that God helps him who helps him- a
self, and regards any effort to fix are making it our aim to
Do Your
Neighborhood
Banking
With Us
BAY FOLKS
THE HEAT FOLKS ARE BLUE
BLOODS, THERE IS NO MIXTURE
WITH THE SLATE OR STONE
FAMILIES IN OUR FAMILY TREE
YES SIR, WERE FFFs=—
FIRST FAMILIES OF :
THE FOREST
Have you ever noticed -the
imprint of a leaf on a piece
of coal?
You'll find one sometimes,
a silent reminder of the pre-
historic forests from which
coal came,
Think of the
sunshine and
centuries of
fresh air that
must have been absorbed by
these forests before they
were finally buried!
That is the coal we offer
vou: wood mixed with con-
centrated sunshine and oxy-
gen, and pressed for thous-
ands of years!
No wonder it burns so well.
Call the HEAT FOLKS
for good, clean coal
Danie! M. Woigemuth
151R4 ‘ 174R6
FLORIN. PA.
serve those who pass our way.
our neigh-
get
When you are in
borhood call on 1 and
nr v DD
Money Barrels.
First
National Bank
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
$125,000
$229,000
one of our
Cap. tal
Su
wrplus
for you
THERE'S A
SURPRISE in store
here thi
One of
aren)
week.
| our customers was asked the other
{day which had the sweeter dis-
| position, blondes or brunettes. “My
| wife’s been both and I haven't
cooooocog
2 $5.75 Rey Sunday
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Atlantic City
SUNDAYS
July 17th, 31st
August 14, 28
SPECIAL THROUGH TRAIN
Via Delaware River Bridge
Standard Time
7:00 A. M.
Eastern
Leaves Mt. Joy
Returning, leaves Atlantic City
(S. Carolina Ave.) 6:05 P. M.
Pennsylvania Railroad
Permanent Waving
Genuine Edmond Process
$10
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MOUNT JOY, PA.
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