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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1957
Page
11
The Weather Bureau marks spring at 4 20 p m on Wednesday but locals report earlier warmth. Farmers have begun spring plowing as winter wheat and barley recover their color and early flowers appear in beds. The season brings renewed activity after a mild winter.
The Department of Agriculture will designate 53 additional counties into the Corn Belt, bringing the total to 893 across 24 states. Most new counties lie in the South, with Georgia gaining 14 counties, Kentucky and Maryland three each, Tennessee nine, North Carolina five, Alabama four, and Mississippi one, plus additions in Indiana Minnesota Missouri New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The shift marks a move toward diversified Southern farming and growth in hybrid seed use and management practices, with an eye to meeting future grain and meat demand.
This week in Lancaster Farming surveys 50 year old notes: the Mennonite push into evangelism led by Rev. Noah Mack with Welsh Mountain missions in Swabenville. local incidents from Elizabethtown and Bowmansville. geese damaging Lehigh crops. oil line expansion near Lititz. a Manheim pearl discovery. a Rising Sun Jersey herd fire. Southern tornado deaths. juvenile case in New Jersey. a Chicago hoarder and a Los Angeles assault case referenced.
Twenty five years ago Lancaster Countians joined Moravians in God's Acre Lititz to greet the Easter Moon in a sunrise service despite overcast skies. It marked the 172nd annual sunrise service at the Moravian cemetery, echoing the early Moravian ceremonies in Herrnhut Saxony two centuries prior.
This prose piece explores hypocrisy in church family business and daily life. It defines a genuine hypocrite as one who knows wrong yet pretends to be good and notes many form the habit at home work and church. It cites Father Mother and children as actors and questions the integrity of social roles.
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