14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 13, 1957
Rats Eat Big
The State Department of Agri
culture reports Pennsylvania
farmers are paying a big boarding
bill annually for rats that come to
dinner on farms. .
' l% Dr. Thomas L. Guyton, director
of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
'said’ each rat eats and contamin
ates approximately $22 in food
per year Since there are an asti
mated 170 million rats in the na
tion more than 3.7 billion dollars
in food is destroyed by the pests,
he pointed out.
There are no accurate figures
available bn the rat destruction of
grains in Pennsylvania, but Dr.
Guyton estimates that it costs
Pennsylvania farmers at least
one-half million dollais m losses
annually.
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breeze.
One day the banana boat was in
Kingston, a couple days later on
the north coast, loaded from
trucks or two-wheeled carts pull
ed by oi\e donkey in a double
shaft, sometimes with two don
kies—one outside the shafts on
the ditch-side of the road. Trac
tor-pulled wagons were also not
ed, with bunches carefully packed
to avoid bruising by use of banana
leaves
There’s a story that natives feel
as embarrassed without some
thing on their heads as the U.S.'
lady does without an Easter bon
net If it rams—and there is a
deathly fair in some of the islands
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of colds (in the knee, in the toe,
in the head) —ou may find one
with newspaper about her neck
Perhaps she’ll rush to the nearby
field for a banana leaf to use as a
ram hat.—Whatever it is on his or
her head, from an object the size
of a jewel box to a wash tub, it’s
in perfect balance—afoot, on don
key or bicycle.
Goats, biccles, burros these
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Since Kingston lacks true sarjdy
beaches, the map disclosed a nice
highway leading north across the
island to Buff Bay, through New
castle, Hardware Gap, 4,350 feet
up—spelled both Hardware and
Hard war crossing the Blue
Mountains, famous for coffee.
Checking out of the Courtleigh
Manor, we were looked upon with
askance by the deck, but an
other customer—an army man sta
tioned at Newcastle—assured us
anyone could drive the first 12
miles that boasted but 300 turns.
Bamboo and banana j|rew more
prolific the higher we drove—
some 40 miles in six hours, due
in part to innumerable stops for
picture taking, to view the magni
ficent vistas of Kingston and its
bay, to spot a long-tailed hum
ming bird or a mile-long stretch
of tiny white orchids growing
fiom the earth. The more showy
tree orchids (air plants) bloom
primarily in June, residents ad
vised. Vultures soared oveihead,
gallinules inhabited the swamp
lands, grassquits and bananaquits
flitted from bush to bush, while
doves of all varieties scurried ofl
the highway.
On the other side of .the moun
tain, vistas of the north shor ap
peared. Tiny huts cling tp precipi
tous mountainsides. Quite often
each home had a separate cook
house, an dsefdom were these
equipped with chimneys. Smoke
rolled out from under the eaves,
adding to the conglomeration of
odors you encounter in the trop
ics.
Along the shore a group of
workmen gathered about an open
fine Here was unmistakabi proof
of a crustacean—probably lobster
—cooking for the noon meal And
one of the later gastronomic de
lights of the trip proved to be
lunch featuring fried lobster—
excellent.
By the time we arrived at Port
Antonio, around 4 p.m., on the
northeast coast there was hunger.
No place between Kingston and
Port Antonio for food, no diner,
no Howard Johnsons The man
ager of the Titchfield Hotel—once
owned by Errol Flynn—took pity
upon us, and announced she
would seive us high tea at 4 A
shower to shake the dust of the
day, then tea in the huge ball
room converted to the hotel lob
by. a husky quantity of sand
wiches—turkey and ham—tea and
cookies.
To one side was the bay of Port
Antonio To the other a lawn
flanked by twin swimming pools,
connected by a concrete slide.
What quiet this was, compared
to the calypso of the night before
when the Delgados hosted us to
an evening at one of the Kingston
night clubs. At the big band’s in
termission, Mr. Delgado brought
aiound a three-piece native band,
guitar, a saxaphone handmade of
tin and bamboo, a marimba (or
mambo) box—a packing crate,
hole in one side, wire strung
across with five steel strap springs
of varying length. Each spring
gave a different tone. The sax was
most melodic.
Fortunately, some of the calyp
so words could be distinguished.
Some could not—fortunately. But
the evening of nightclubbing,
with hired band and all, came to
less than $1.50 per person.
Next week floating down the
Rio Grande by raft a bamboo
raft.
Farm Women
County Board
Holds Meeting
Mrs. Elam K. Buckwalter, new
new president of the Lancaster
County Society of Farm Women
presided over her first meeting of
the organization, Dec. 3 at the
SPABC Bldg, Harrisburg Pike,
Lancaster.
All past presidents and new
presidents of all societies were
piesent.
Mrs. Ruth Kimble Krebick,
home economist, gave a report on
what is to be expected from the
county agricultural extension
service.
Mrs Buckwalter appointed Mrs
Robert Good, Rohrerstown, to
represent the Farm Women on
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Secret Sisters
For Year Drawn
By Society 19
Farm Women 19 held their
Christmas Party with husbands
Saturday at Hostetters Banquet
Hall, Mt Joy.
The Rev. J. C. Wine of the East
Petersburg Church of the Breth
ern was the speaker.
A gift was presented to the
President, Mrs. David Yoder. Sec
ret sisters were revealed and
names drawn for coming year.
'Mrs. Earl Stauffer, Mrs. Leroy
Hottenstine and Mrs. Henry Leh
man sang accompanied by Mrs.
Scott Nissley.
The following were selected as
delegates to the state convention-
Mrs. Charles Musser and Mrs".
Charles Long, alternate, Mrs.
Lester Groff.
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