24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 6,1971
Bth Generation of Goods on Muddy Creek Farm Since 1738
(Continued from Page 17) their milk to Abbotts Dames in
frey leaves, eyebnght, hyssop, Philadelphia Miriam does the
fennel seed, catnip, black cohosh milking when .he men are har
root, raspberry leaves, scullcap, vesting
bops, chickweed, cayenne and She also drives the tractor to
dandelion root She says roasted the disk harrow and enjoys it
dandelion root tea tastes like Monroe planned and built a
coffee. hog house last summer to accom-
The children sav they are glad modate 600 hogs Goods have a
then- mother can treat illness contract with' Gehmans Feed
with teas, even though some are at Denver, Pa, to furnish
not very good tasting, because the shoats and the feed, then
they would rather taike the teas they sell the hogs to butchers
.than go to a doctor In some when they weigh -about - 200
cases she blends the teas for pounds. Goods expect to run -
dual effects or to improve the 1200 hogs a year. Before build
flavor. ing this hog house they iiad
1 Mrs Good gathers some herbs room for only ten hogs.
£nd dries them herself. Many of, They have 30 sheilbark trees'
the teas could be grown locally of several different varieties. The
but it is easier and cheaper to children gather the nuts and sell
buy most' of them at Health them.to a local man who shells,
Food stores. and sells them. .Last year they
I Monroe is the eighth gener- sold about 12 ’bushels. It’s a
. ation of Goods -to live on this race between them and the squif
fann ill the beautiful “valley near rels to see who gets them. ~
■the Welsh Mountains where Mrs. Good keeps the farm re-
Muddy Cfeek quietly winds its cord books and prepares their
way down through their mea- income tax’ returns She does
dow. Jacob Good, an emigrant most of the garden work and
fronj Germany, settled there in does a tot of canning and freez
-1738. 'However, the present ing
farm house was built in 1858 and Miriam, the daughter of Mr
is the second one The farm has and .Mrs Ben L. Landis, now of
88 acres - and they have been Lititz, grew up on a farm one
renting some additional ground mile west of Strasburg Her
They grow largely corn and al- younger brother, Ira, took over
falfa. the farm when their parents re- Mrs. Good made the shellcraft picture,
They have 50 Holstein cows tired She has eight brothers electrified the kerosene lamp and painted
and a few heifers and are in the and sisters, all of whom are in
Dairy Herd Improvement Asso- Lancaster County except one bro- has one sister, married to Paul Tidings Broadcast ” They, go Gary is- 9 and goes to Breck
ciation (DHIA). They have a ther who is a Mennonite minis- K Harnish of Washington Boro far and near Her" one brother nock Elementary School. .He
modern milking parlor and ship ter in Dover, York County. She who directs “Moments of Good is quite musical. He sang in a'wants "to play a guitar. Both be
4-H quartette for years and Kristine had calf projects
spmmer'and fall.- Baelfhad
impetos^ggh:.SchobL “She-wasf tw ,°: cal - Ves - and kept uncords ghd
a-' "secretary- at'Vjfevy -Holland lV6cel^ed loie ; P rofit them;
Machine Conipany for'five years -p h ' 6y teke care ‘ of lawn
'lieforemarriage --- andr sang-'hr™ 6 summer.
1 their chorus. She wenttonVstu-~ - Greg-is 7' and, also inJßreck
’(}en±, group- tour frrEurope also nock Elementary School:? Garth
r before she niarxiecL - is one and. a' half "years <Sd. - AL|
: Mojiroehas always farm'ed anil tlie family enjoys singing parti;
.is -ajskrlled cabinetmaker: - He'" cularl y when in the Cat they sing
Wnd r -his father work'together in together. - - i
* his-‘father’s shop ..’They 'turned
" but'a-beautiful hutch’top buffet
for their dining'room "
In fact every piece of furniture
•in that room depicts! the fwpik
, -manship of the family. Miriam
designed all of the pieces and
Monroe made them - She did re
yy finishing of the wood arid -did
upholstery work From am old
_ table .she designed a drop leaf
tea cart, from the headboard of
an old bed . they ‘made a: chest
A , type bench with-.upholstered
%„ cushion and they converted an
old gas light' into an' electric
f.,’ floorfable lamp. '
-f They also cut. down old'bed
headboards for modern Seds’and
•-/ Miriam finished-an unfimshed
"Jjli dresser.- The latest family pro
- f J ject is digging out the-cellar and_
\ they are going to panel it for a
. , ’ recreation room.
” She says “I -enjoy sewing, I do
, i* most "of my sewing for myself
'vv|| and daughter. I made drapes for
jty two bedrooms and the den.” She
s' made cushions for'an old rocker
I and upholstered .a sofa. In fact,
V4s if you toofcarouhd yob’ll see' oil
; paintings -she did, shellcraft pic
tures made from old fancy but
tons, beads and-prisms, decor
ated door transoms and flower
arrangements.
’ Monroe is treasurer of Garden
Spot Young Farmers'Association
and president of New Holland
ideal Interstate Milk Producers
Association . - t '
Mrs Good served on the Breck
nock Elemental y School PTA
program' planning committee
last.twb years. - '
■ Goods .have four Children
.Kristineis 11 and goes to Garden
■Spot Junior- High School She
likes to write and thinks it would |
be nice to be a writer • She takes
piano lessons and wants to take
, , r, , . . ~, , , ~ , organ lessons. She sews some,
Mrs. Good painted the picture and Mr. Good made .the table-floor lamp and converted made a bedspread for her bed
the gas light to an electric one* . room.
the antique scales and arranged artificial
fruit on them-.
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They enjoy capping. They rent ,
or use a friends They
frequently camp', near Sea Isle
City in New' Jersey. They have
gone as-far as Florida, It was
there that Mrs. Good collected -
m.any kinds of- shells and since
made shell displays' and labeled
them and also made pictures
from them.' ■ >
-jVles: Good enjoys, swimming,
ice skating and' cooking and
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