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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1956
Page
11
Lancaster Farming highlights state and local fairs expanding this year with growing budgets rising premiums and broad participation. The piece celebrates the role of fairs in livestock shows 4 H youth displays and garden exhibits while noting Lancaster County hosts regional sales and the hope for a future countywide fair.
The Ringling Bros. circus closed its doors and left for winter quarters after a costly downturn. The piece recalls the circus arrival, its gleaming wagons, and the crowd’s fascination, noting how the spectacle shaped both youth and adult perspectives on grand ambitions.
Secretary Ezra Tait Benson argued that price supports create surpluses and federal controls, yielding a static agriculture. He said temporary price increases are possible but controls shift farmer decisions to the government, questioning if a free farm economy can return.
A Lancaster area memory page recounts 1906 incidents including a horse on a Connecticut farm deemed incurably insane and a fire at a Sea Man Place barn. It notes crops saved by Ex Senator John Yeend’s family, harvest labor in 1906, a Decater church scare, and early 1931 floods in Johnstown. It also mentions an oats yield in 1931 and the Old Fiddlers Association convention at Parkesburg with Quarryville’s George Hensel Sr. as a central figure.
A 1950s church sermon warns that the United States has more drug addicts than other Western nations, citing a 30,000 name list, and discussing how youth begin with alcohol or narcotics. It urges self-control and parental responsibility, and questions the impact of upbringing on addiction.
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