Mrs. Landis Likes Dairying and Many Other Farm Things
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Gladys Landis knitted her tan and brown poncho and a
red and navy one for her daughter this winter. With her, in
front of their fireplace, is her son Scott who is holding an
antique brass bell which has been in the family many years.
SECOND SECTION
Fulton Grange Observes
Youth Night at Oakryn
Fulton Grange 66 observed days and present a program for
Youth Night at its regular meet- them
ing April 12 at Oakryn. Young The Women’s Activities corn
people filled officers chairs and mittee seived over 500 people
presented the program at their turkey supper April 3
Miss Judy Longenecker, act- The Youth committee report
ing Lecturer, presented the pro- lve young people attended
g ram the regional youth conference
April 3 at Cedarville, Chester
The' Chester-Delaware Coun- County. They are planning a
ty Pomona youth ritual team, hike or picnic for April 25 and
which took part in the Penn- bus trips to ball games June
sylvania State Grange contest 17 at Baltimore and’August 27
at the State Grange conven- at Philadelphia
tion last October in Meadville Officers will hold degree re
and placed third in the state, hearsal at 8 pm April 20 at
showed how to conduct a the Grange Hall
Grange meeting in proper „ Assistant Ste
for the team Orange and past National
lor me team. Grange Prince, from Chester
County, gave brief remarks
Henry Huber, a member of
the State Grange Young Mar
ried Couples week-end confer
ence to be held September 24,
25 and 26, 1971 at Edgewater
Acres, Alexandria, Huntingdon
County
Third and fourth degrees will
be conferred at the next meet
ing April 26
Fulton Junior Grange 343
held its meeting, also April 12
Their roller skating party April
5 was well attended.
Members should bring aero
sol can tops and other can lids
one inch to one and one-half
inches across, m metal or plas-
The visiting Grange will tic, to their next meeting May
select a iiost. Grange, within 30 10 for crafts.
Richard and Clifford Hollo
way 111 read poems written, a
line each, by people in attend
ance.
James Huber, acting Master,
conducted the business session
during which Mrs. Jesse Wood,
a member of the State Grange
Lecturer committee, presented
a traveling gavel to Fulton
Grange Master, Richard Hollo
way, which will start the gavel
on its way to visit 69 Subordin
ate Granges in Berks, Bucks,
Chester, Delaware, Lancaster,
Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton,
Montgomeiy and Schuylkill
counties.
iHP vf VT
_ „ finds it challenging to seive all
By Mrs. Charles G McSparran t of people
Farm Feature Writer She saySt « People are very in .
Mrs John J (Gladys) Landis, terestmg and unpredictable
2648 Creek Hill Road, Lancas- Generally, the southern people
ter, in Upper Leacock Town- are more friendly, patient and
ship, is a very active farm girl appreciative You can almost de
who takes an unusual interest in termine where someone lives by
dairying what and how much he lets on
Mrs Landis says, “I really en- h ls plate ”
joy the cows, blood lines, de- She says, “While some mothers
velopment and records, along f ee l their place is in the home
with registration Records, ac all th e time, I think children can
counting and washing the ‘milk develop certain good qualities
house dishes’ is my lesponsibil- wh en not having their mother
ity lain or shine ” with the m constantly Th°y pei-
She also "figures the income haps become moie independent
t ax and responsible ”
Having had three years exper- Saturday is one of her work
icnce in office work at the New ln S day’s and she finds this very
Holland Machine Company (now satisfactory, because as a family
New Holland Division of Sperry they shy away fiom public paiks
Rand) before marriage, she en- and pools on Satin days Monday
joys keeping the farm recoids through Fiiday are bettor days
Landises have 35 registered t°‘ more privacy, they think
Holstein milking cows and about John, son of Saiah and the late
the same number of young stock Elvm M Landis, was bom and
They use the prefix '“Jo-Glad” grew up on this farm near
for their herd, being part of each Leola and is the sixth gen
of their names , eiation to own it It has 105
They are in DHIA and have acres on which they grow coin
one cow in particulai “Queen and alfalfa Thej sell some hay
Doia Fobes,” an Ivanhoe daugh- and sometimes sell corn The
ter, whose last complete pioposed new loute 23 will in
lactation netted 23,213 pounds of volve about 14 acres at the most
milk and 998 of fat in 368 days distant point fiom the farm
They used two of her sons in buildings
their breeding program and are The first Landis to own this
presently using her son sired f arm WPS Henry I-andis who
by Flashy Boy.
They ship their milk to In
- terstate Milk Producers Coopera
tive in Philadelphia and A&P
gets it
' They use very little hired help
on their farm. One neighbor
. man does the milking sometimes.
has always done quite a
bit of the feeding but three
- years ago John and his dad in
stalled automatic feeding equip
ment and free stalls so now she
spends much less time in the
barn She also works out in the
fields in the summer
Gladys grew up on a dairy
farm at Lincoln, being the
daughter of Mr and Mrs Ivan
G. Martin who retired from
farming four years ago and live
nearby that farm The Mai tins
had a high producing dairy herd
Gladys graduated from Ephrata
High School
Gladys work’, part time as a
waitress at Plain and Fancy
Farm and Dining Room She
works about 700 houis a year,
mostly between May and Novem
ber for the tourist season She
enjoys the work very much and
Youth Night
Set Tonight
Lancaster County Pomona
Grange will meet at 8 p m., to
night. April 17) at
White Horse Fire Hall as guests
of Salisbury Grange to observe
Youth Night
The young people will fill
officers chairs for opening and
closing the meeting and will be
taking part in the program.
Mrs. Jesse Wood, Lecturer,
will present a program with the
theme “Down Memory Lane”
featuring songs, dances, clothes
and famous people of the past
70 years A sing-along will be
assisted by the Pomona chorus
and there will be specialty num
bers
Gyles H Brown, Pomona Mas
ter, will conduct the business
session when Mr and Mrs Jose
ph G Hess will leport for the
visitation committee
Serving on the resolution
committee for this meeting are
Chester Eby, David Knight and
Melvin Boyce Sr.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, A]
Mrs. John J. Landis, at home at her sewing machine,
turns out professional looking clothes for herself and daugh
ter. She made the clothing she is wearing and her daughter’s
clothing is in the background
Send Asparagus Recipes Now
We want to make a special So send your asparagus
appeal this week for asparagus recipes right away to Lancaster
recipes for next week’s Favorite Farming Recipes, Box 266,
Recipe column. Lititz, Pa 17543
As of Thursday, we had re- Be sura to enclose your return
ceived two asparagus recipes, ac *dress in ordei to leceive %
but we feel we need a few moie P°tholder
Also, please double check to
make sine that join recipe is
. „ , , sent exactly as jou would like
Asparagus is one of the eail £ 0 bave lt a pp eai ln t be paper,
rest locally grown fresh foods Correction
Our a i tide on aspaiagus will be In the rbubarb , ecipe column
out at just about the right time a pp ean ng m last week’s “Favor
to meet supplies of fiesh locally R eci p e ” columns the amount
giown asparagus of lbubaib in jt ls Ammon G.
in ordei to have a representa
tive list for our readeis
Asparagus is one of the favor- Hubei’s recipe for Rhubarb
ite local vegetables and it has Manna Pudding should have
many possibilities for the en- lead 3 cups cut-up ihubarb, not
terpnsmg housewife. % cup as printed
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bought it in 1837 from a Wenger
family who had owned it for
several generations since 1917
In 1968 John E Fetzer, owner
of the Detroit Tigers Baseball
Club, visited the Landises as his
ancestors were these Wengers
who owned the farm before
Landises did He gave them an
8 x 10 portrait of himself and a
baseball autographed by all the
Detroit team, including Don
Wert, a Lancaster County native
who was on the team at the time.
This was a memorable visit and
the family is happy to have his
picture and souvenir baseball
This old buck faim house is
large enough tor two families
and of interest is a beatiful old
fireplace in Landises’ dining
room which has unsual carvings
on the wooden mantel There is
a beautiful old corner cup
boaid built in this room and the
bedroom directly ovei this room
has a fneplace and another cor
ner cupboard like the one in the
dining room, except that it has
solid wooden doors and the first
floor has glass doors
The house is in good repair
and has been modernized Mr.
Landis is pretty good with a
hammer and saw and has built
cupboards and closets
Mr Landis also does work i*
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