The Bulletin, Mt. Joy, Pa. Thursday, October 21, 1948 AMR NARA
The Mount Joy Bulletin
Jno. E. Schroll, Editor and Publisher
ESTABLISHED JUNE, 1901
Published Every Thursday at No.
9-11 East Main St., Mount Joy, Pa
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EDITORIAL
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There is always somebody on the
sidelines whe will tell you hew you
business, no»
an youn
sful a
cen better
baw suet business
matters
you may conduct.
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notice where agriculturalists
State College
new potato
We
at Penna.
veloped a
yield 1,028 bushels t
That will he
country’s political
Last ye:r they bought the
bushel
have de-
that will
the acre.
Lad news for the
agriculturists.
exXress
crop fer over $2 per and
this summer them to the
farmer for thirty cents per bushel
Thi; wes done to keep the price up
What
start producing
above rate?
resold
happen if
potatoes at the
will growers
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We free in saving that Mt
Joy he!” its best farm show last
week in the twenty-seven years
histery. It is ©s yet too early to
learn just bow much of a financial
was but the exhibits,
concessions crowds
yond all expectaticns, The display
of farm machinery and equipment
was outstanding.
The
individual
connected with the work, particu-
larly Superintendent Ted Weidler,
success it
and were he-
fact
any
management, in every
who was in way
great credit.
future
deserve
May
te grow.
the shows continue
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OBSERVING HALLOWE'EN
When
m: licicusly,
th vghtless'y, there is
tion. Altho Hallowe'en is
for fun-making, when youth turns
to vandalism, Hallowe'en
We aren't sg old we have forgotten
horns
property is
mischievously
law
and
viola-
tick-tacks,
Witches,
heads,
faces.
pumpkin
nd false
bobbing,
candy coin aren't out of date. We
fun
apple-
enjoy innocent
and other
diversions.
begger's night
Hallowe'en
parties,
‘pleasant
But when youthful exuberance
meens Costruction that is costly,
when undisciplined children be-
come iw licious, then law enforce-
ment takes a hand. It behooves |
local pareats to try to direct the
He'llewe'en enerzies into a normal,
happy participation of the holiday
merriment-making,
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LCCKING AHFAD FOR JUNIOR
thought ¢” senny grow-
We once
y up to become president of the
b:nk, the
1 up
cecuntry. of a best doc-
hi zaest ‘salaried
There
tor «i» lawyer, the
new
We
setting
movie preducer. are
Junior's future,
beard of
35 a day, of ‘assistant’ ditch dig-
Now a N.
Y. state court has upheld an arbit-
thoughts ior
have piasterers
gers making S11 a doy.
award that gives hrickiay-
trator's
ers a wage of $27. Expect
there ve col'ege presidents who
would like to he making this ware.
When we bought junior a mechan-
ical set hoping he might become 2
leading construciion engineer, a
chemistry set, anticipating him
beading an industrizi plant, @n
electric train, so he might head a
corporation, we might better have
Bought him a trpwel and a shovel.
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THERE
know
Squirreis
FIRST
wanen hickory
nuts are ready for
neath the
picking, and be-
tree the ground is iit-
tered with the hulls, marked by
their sharp little teeth. Man, too.
hunts for this fall favor, gathers
the green hulls, spreads them until
the hull
steres
loosens from the nut.
them in a
the lkter
that
they
basket to await
cracking for the kernel
tastes so delici us Ferhaps
are in a bowl ts accompany
apples and cider oy
into the
and
about
some will go
baking of cookies, breads
The
garnering the
such. principle trouble
hickory nut
hirvest, however, is to try and
beat the squirrels to them. And
bear in mind, you woodsy fo'k of
this vicinity that work
carly and late,
squirrels
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BLAMING THE FARMER
Now that we have harvested
next to the biggest wheat crop in
the country’s history, now that the |
eorn crop tolals the largest ever
and other crops have been gener-
destroyed, | ©
a time |
isn't fun.
fortune-teliing, cider and |’
in masquerade |
good, numerous consumers in
this
ally
why
non-rural areas, ask
chould not immediately and effect-
ively, bring the cost of living down.
high
Viany blame of
prices en the farmer. Farmers have
place the
r duced to thei limit, have
worked longer hours than any oth-
group, and they deserve a hear-
ing. Ask a farmer around here and
he will Department of
quote the
Agriculture for the statement that
far; production costs last year
amounted to mere than the total
farm income during any year be-
tween World War I and World War
il. He adds: before 1514, the av-
erage monthly wige for the farm's
hired man was $22.09, with board.
Peday it runs $105, with board.
During last January, cost of feed-
| stuffs was three times as righ as in
All comm: dities used in farm
stand st 254 per
cent of the base period, 1909-1914.
1539
vroduction now
weekly earnings of fac-
workers stand at 465 per cent,
So better think
twice the blame
on the farmer, for the high cost of
tory
of the same level,
before placing all
living
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LIKE WATER,
THEIR LEVEL
An authority on the
F RICES FIND
marketing
that
move
of mest recently observed
meat and livestock pirces
together—what meat packers pay
for livestock matching what
summers pay for meat.
con-
In other words, meat is governed
Sy the law of supply and demand.
1,000
They are
There sre more than meat
rackers in this country.
competing for the available supply
of livestock at all times — each
| must get a share of it if he is to
keep his plant in operation. And
meat packing is (ne of the most
| efficient enterprises in existence.
Almost nothing is wiasted—hides,
hoins, hair, hoofs and other ined-
{ ible parts of animals are used in
ranging
{ a Yergthy list of products
[fi n scap te medicines. Last year,
the profits of averaged
packers
ut 2-3 of one cent per pound—
a sum which had only a micro-
{ scopic infiuence on the price paid
by the
We
| total income of the
ultimate consumer.
of the enormous
and
hear much
farmers
i ranchers who preduce
st ick,
iced and
our
everything else the farm-
must buy te keep in business is
recerd levels, It
around twe years to grow cattle to
weights suitable for marketing, and
ilso at takes
about a year in the case of hogs.
So the investment tae producer
| hes in his is heavy by the
can sell it, and this must
be included in
time he
wholesale and re-
tail prices.
It cannot be repeated
that in cempetitive, free enterprise
too often
economy prices find their own lev-
el. This is true of a steer or a suit
ff c'othes or a
| Prices are an
h use and lot.
accurate reflection
of the econemic forces of the day.
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THE WEATHER!
BY KENNET{! DROHAN
The following is a brief summary
of the
day October 13 to Tuesday,
from Wednes-
Octoker
local weather
19, inclusive:
Temperatures
Lowest: 24 (19th).
Highest: 76 (17th).
Average: 49 degrees.
Lowest this month to dte: 24.
Highest this month to date: 77.
Type of weather
Clear days: 4.
Parily cioudy days: 3.
Cloudy days: None
Days with rainfall: 1.
Barometer
Lowest 29.82 (13th).
Highest: 30.22 (16th).
Lowest this month to date: 29.72.
Highest this month to date: 30.34.
Precipitation
Total rainfall: .73 in.
Greate 24 hrs.: .73 (18th).
Total this month fo date: 2.65 in.
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Announce Schedule For
(From page 1)
t in
practices they intend to carry cut
1948, and order lime and super=-
phosphate for next year.
These meetings will mark the
of the 1949 AAA program in
Lancaster County, which calls for
more lime and to
be made availakle and at a lower
cest to the farmers than was the
the 1948 prcgram.
Committee
case under
Community elections
re scheduled as follows:
District No. 1, Conoy, West Don-
gal and Mount Joy Townships, at
Friendship Fire Hall, Elizabeth-
town this Thursday, Oct. 21, at 8
West
2, East Donegal and
live- |
But today the cost of labor, |
HAPPENINGS
Of i
LONG AGO
I AAA Anand
“
20 Years Ago
Lane, C tobacco growers re=
ceted 18 and 5 for tobacco from
the first buyers in the field.
Youn B: Tire Shop wa
moved from the Grissinger Bldg,
to the East end opposite Browns
Mil
Mt. Joy entered the's pool and
billiard league organized at Eliza-
Lethtown
M. 8S. Hershey, the chocolate
king, is building a 170 acre goli
course
Markets, Eggs, 38-44; butter, 35;
lard, 15
Rheems farmers are paying the
village citizens 5 cents per bushel
to pick-up potatoes,
A. L. Nissly sold his 80 acre
farm near Rheems, to Paris O.
Brubaker of Salunga
“See You Lager,” a musical com-
edy was repeated in the high
schcol auditorium for the benefit
of the Pattersonian
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Patronize Bulletin advertisers.
Washington
Hempfield Townships,
Local Men Visit R h F introduced
Straw hat was introduced in Eng-
ca €n sit esearc arm land in 1779 by Admiral Nelson, | ing licenses.
» 3 a 4 who made it the summer uniform S— Wp
1 hat for his crew.
— Geer
ameng sheep and cattle
Democritus, the great physicist
of ancient Greece, was the first
man to discover the atom and re-
pert that it was the basis of all
matter,
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tures,
SIMON P. NISSLEY
MARY G. NISSLEY
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
More than 857,500 acres of State Mount Joy, Pa.
game land has been acquired for
into muddy corrals and wet pas- | A ee
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The progenitor of the Lee Date use Nils Sissel Tr
from the sale of hunting and fish- 1s
Foot rot is ikely to be prevalent |
crowded |
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HELP WANTED
MEN for
2 We eA el AB a
Purina Research Faim, Gray Summit, Mo.
D. B. Brubaker, Walter New- foothills of the Ozarks, they saw |
comer, Lewis E. Bixler, Harold | dairy heifers raised on dry feed |
Schatz, and Norman Kready, this |eady for breeding at 12 to 15 | CARD ROOM SPINNI ROOM
place, recently visited the Purina | months. They saw grade Holsteins
Research Farm at Gray Summit. | which for 20 years have increased AND PICKER R M
M:., where they saw many prac- their milk production at an average
tical operations to increase the na- | rate of 285 lbs. per cow per year, i
tion's supply of meat, milk and | which is 17 times as fast as the
eggs. [ normal rate of 16 lbs. per cow per WwW ME for
These men say it is possible for | Yeal |
most farmers to step up their pre-| For more than 20 years, practical
duction of these vital and protec- | research on this farm has deve! SPINNING 00M, ISTERS AND
tive focds so essential to the coun- oped programs on breeding, feed- :
try's welfare simply by following | ing, sanitaticn, and management |
more efficient management and | which have steadily increased the
feeding practices. With feeding | production of meat, milk and eggs For Firs Second Shift
profits on livestock and poultry op-| and at the same time contributed
With the College Crowd
|
pa pd
Brass eavy,
some g: and doggy,
put this Sun-
dial blucher, at the head: of
the style clas.
Jack Horner
School House. Florin, were elected | erations at an all-time high level, | in a substantial way to the farm- | MOUNT JOY COLUMBIA
last week such projects as year round rais- | er’s income. GOOD PAY -— .
No. 3, Rapho Township, Sporting | ing and marketing of turkeys and ets
| Hill School House, Thursday, Oc-]a hog farrowing program under| The iron reserve stored in the APPLY A BROS., |
tcber 21, 1948, at 8 p.m. which sows produce an average of liver of a pig at birth usually is ealfors
No. 10, Manheim and East | 18 pigs yearly on a two-litter-a- | exhausted after about seven to ten | 9 James RB. Haus, Agent
Hempfield Townships, Fast Pet- [year program, attract nation-wide | days when sources of iron other | y nc. whe 251
ersburg Fire Hall, were elected | interest. than the sow’s milk are not pro- Cor. Jacob Mount Joy Sts. |
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Monday, October 18. On this 738-acre farm in the vided |
‘ GENERAL
ou were the | resident REBAIRING
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LCCKS, MACHINERY AND
ELECTRICAL DEVICES
WASHING MACHINES
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