Day-OM Ames-In-Cross Chicks Fly
Into Lancaster County for Goldfus
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Forty-seven hundred baby
chicks—a day old—flew into
Lancaster Saturday afternoon
from lowa, hitting around 200
miles per hour at times at alti
tudes up to 13.500 feet.
These airborne, youngsters
hatched Friday morning, were
passengers of Bob Nelson in a
Beechcraft Bonanza, changing
residence from the Corn State
to the Garden Spot to provide
an Adam-Eve basis for a new
breed here- The plane which can
carry 10,000 chicks, took off from
Boland. lowa at 5:45 a.m. Stand
and Time. One refueling stop
was made in Findlay, Ohio, and,
ipceordinir to Bob, the specially
equipped .plane made the trip
almost half way across the con
tinent in seven hours, landing
In Lancaster around 2 rpm.
Future Breeding Stock
Today, the youngsters’ new
home is the Goldfus Hatcheries
at Lititz, where they will go out
to six Lancaster County flock
holders for breeding purposes.
First they will be graded then
this, the first shipment of breed;
ers from Ames In-Cross for Penn
sylvania, will provide future
breeding stock throughout the
Commonwealth.
That’s why they have been"re
ferred to by Paul Metzler, presi
dent of Goldfus, and C. J
(Chuck) Simmons, eastern re
presentatives for Ames-In-Cross,
as the Adam and Eve of a new
breed Mr. Simmons and Earl H.
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come hard: Remove from car
ton and put'sugar in an air
tight jar or cannister. Place
a slice of bread on top and
seal tightly. The bread will
become hard, but the sugar
will be moist.”
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Easter is coming soon, and
your choice may be poultry
or ham. Here’s an item from
the American Meat Institute
on the history of ham „at
Easter:
Please sen'd us one year’s sub
scription to Lancaster Farming,
writes Mrs. Raymond S. Bowman,
R 1 East Earl. We received sample
copies and are well pleased with
it, she adds. Here is a recipe for
peanut butter fudge, which we
all enjoy:
PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE
Two cups granulated sugar
Two tablespoons peanut but
ter
One-half cup sweet cream
One teaspoon vanilla
Boil the first three ingredients
Until it forms a soft ball when
dropped in cold water. Add va
nilla and beat until creamy. Pour,
into a buttered pan and cut in
squares when cold.
From Grace Chalfant,’R3 West
Chester, comes this interesting
recipe for
POPCORN CRACKERS *
Five quarts, popped corn
Two cups sugar
One-half cup light corn sugar
One and one-half cups water
One teaspoon vinegar
- One teaspoon vanilla
One-half teaspoon salt
Keep popped" com hot and
crisp in- slow oven, 300 to 325
degrees. Combine remaining in
gredients and cook to hard ball
state (250 degrees). Pour hot
syrup over popped corn, mixing
wel. Form in two-inch ball (pat
with hands if necessary).
. To make cracker favors, wrap
three balls three in a row in
cellophane and tie with ribbon.
Maes 10 cracker favor. This is
good to eat while watching TV.
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Keep those cards and letters
coming in your favorite poem,
recipe or household hint, to Lan
caster Farming, Quarryville, Pa.
That’s about it for this time,
and we’ll
See you next week-
Diehm, vice president of Goldfus,
were oh hand to welcome the
first Ames In-Cross.
There will be more chicks
flown in from the lowa hatcher
ies. This was the first of three
shipments totaling 10,000 to be
received here-
Already Ames In-Cross has
been installed in eight states of
the East: Connecticut, New
Jersey, (Maryland, Virginia, Geor
gia, Florida, West Virginia, and
now Pennsylvania.
Bob substituted for the re
gular Ames-In-Cross plane which
had been-grounded at Harrisburg
during the previous day’s storm.
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Farm Women 3
Mfeet April 21,
Rose Program
Farm Women’s Society No. 3
will meet April 21 at the home
of. Mrs Anna Wissler and hear
H. L. Erdman who is in charge
of the rose gardens at Harshey.
The group will also sew at the
Ephrata Community Hospital Ap
ril 17.
Meeting .Monday, the society
saw two films shown by Mr. and
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Mrs. Louis Trembly, New Hol
land, and donated $5O to the
Cancer Society and $5 to the
Crippled Childrens’ Society. The
meeting was at the Brickerville
Fire Hall.
Mrs. Charles Weachter was
hostess. Mrs- Harold Stuber,
president, presided- Fifty cancer
dressings have been delivered to
the Cancer Society,-Miss Mary
Royer announced.
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cleaning with fine, dry, steel
wool, Doris L. Snook, Penn State
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