—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 19. 1972
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Mrs. Wen
Mrs. Debbie Wenger, wife of P.
Robert Wenger, Cardinal Drive,
Quarry ville RDI, has contributed
much to the operation of their 420
acre farm in East Drumore
Township known as “Wengdale
Farm ”
Wengers have 76 registered
Holstein cows and from 25 to 30
head of calves and heifers. They
raise all of the heifers and sell
some Last vear they sold 21 or 22
calves and heifers, four bulls and
one cow
They are in DHIA. One cow last
year produced 21,465 pounds of
milk with 6% pounds of butterfat.
Another cow may make 22,000
pounds of milk this year. They
raise corn, hay and some barley
on their 185 acres of tillable
ground.
They raise purebred German
shepherd dogs. They have one
male and one female dog and sell
about 16 pups a year. They sold
more pups when they had two
females. Some of the pups are
sold locally and some to Tim
berlea Kennels in York County.
They also have a stud service.
Mrs Wenger takes care of the
dogs mostly and says “they’re
my responsibility.”
Wengers have one full-time
farm hand, Kenneth Riehl. Mrs.
Wenger is farm bookkeeper, gets
the records ready for filing in
come tax and pays the bills
She goes to the barn in the
evenings and helps clean, washes
the milkers, helps Bob treat cows
and runs farm errands. She also
drives the tractors to the wagons
in the summer.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Wenger
have lived on the farm all of their
bves Robert, the son of Mrs.
Arlene and the late Paul Wenger,
always lived on the farm he now
operates and helped his father
when he farmed it. He had one
half the herd for two years, and
the past two years has had the
herd and machinery himself,
renting the farm.
He graduated from Solanco
High School, taking the
Agriculture course. He was
president of the local FFA
chapter when in school. He was
state secretary of FFA in 1963-64.
He was in the 4-H Dairy Club nine
years and in the Tractor Club
three years. He showed heifers
and corn at the Southern Lan
caster Co. Community Fair when
he was in high school.
Debbie graduated from
Solanco High School also, taking
the Commercial course. She was
co-editor of the Solanco Quill.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Byers who have a 200
acre dairy farm near the Buck.
They also raise about 200 turkeys
a year and raise tobacco. When
Debbie was at home she helped
with the tobacco and helped bale
and unload hay She helped with
the turkeys and still helps to
dress their turkeys in the fall.
Wenger has been serving as
chairman of the dairy committee
Mrs. Wenger collects salt and pepper shakers. The electric
mixer she is holding has the salt and pepper in the beaters.
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Mrs. P. Robert Wenger, Quarryville RDI, makes beautiful
colored and scented candles with these molds.
of the Southern Lancaster Co.
Community Fair and as a
director of the association for five
or six years. Mrs. Wenger helps
him with cards and the records at
the fair. Last year they had 90 or
92 head of cows and heifers in 4-
H, FFA and open class and prizes
in this department ran probably
over $BOO.
Wenger is a member of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association, the Lancaster
"County and the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association and the
Holstein-Friesian Association of
America. He has been a member
of the Solanco Chapter of the
Pennsylvania Young Farmer
Association four or five years and
is serving as secretary. They
have regular monthly meetings,
a picnic in the summer and a
tour. They meet every week this
time of the year. William Fredd
is advisor.
Wengers ship their milk to
Inter-State and it goes to A & P.
Robert and his father received a
25-year membership award in
1970. Robert is president of the
Inter-State Quarryville local.
He was the only one from
District 3 who competed in the
Inter-State Young Cooperator
contest at Cockeysville, Md. June
24, 1971 and placed third among
some 26 contestants who entered
the contest. At this meeting they
heard the president and general
manager of each of the three co
ops in Penn Marva take part in a
panel discussion on their dif
ferent problems and what to look
forward to. Contestants were
judged on their farm operation,
their community activities and
how they answered questions as
to their opinion on the promotion
Farmer
er Makes Candles# Collects Shakers
of milk. Contestants in the Young
Cooperator contest must be
between the ages of 20 and 35 and
must be an Inter-State member
or of a member’s family.
The first place winner won a
trip to the National Milk
Producers’ Federation meeting
in Miami, Florida, and second
place winner to the American
Institute Cooperative in
Colorado. Wenger’s were guests
of Inter-State at their annual
meeting November 23-24.
The top five winners for the
past three years and another
Inter-State member or director
make up a Young Farmer
Consultant Committee which
plans for the next year’s program
and their breakfast at Inter-
State’s annual meeting. They had
a meeting of the board of
management and directors in
September 1971 and toured
testing facilities and offices of
Inter-State. They attended a
meeting this week at the Host
Corral, east of Lancaster. The
wives of the committee members
or contest winners are included in
all but one meeting.
Robert was named Outstanding
Young Farmer among ten
competing in the Solanco area by
the Quarryville Jaycees January
20, 1972 at the Willow Valley
restaurant. He received a plaque
in recognition of exceptional
progress in agriculture and
contributions to the community.
He also received a $5O check and
the use of a Chevrolet pick-up
truck from January 22 to
February 5.
He placed fourth among 70
contestants m the state contest
held at Scranton February 5. This
is quite an honor and we think
Robert is to be congratulated.
Mr. and Mrs. Wenger are
members of the Mechanic Grove
Church of the Brethren. Mrs.
Wenger is chairman of the dining
room committee. They serve
wedding receptions, funeral
lunches, luncheons for meetings
and a father and son banquet in
the fall.
Wengers bowl in their church
league every Thursday night at
the Garden Spot Bowl, Strasburg.
There are 60 bowlers in the
league.
The church women made 750
dozen doughnuts for Shrove
Tuesday this week. Mrs. Wenger
was helping to take orders and
seeing that they were delivered,
as well as getting them ready for
delivery.
Mrs. Wenger was a charter
member of Farm Women Society
31. She is on their program
committee. They meet the third
Monday of each month at 7:30
p.m. in the homes of the mem
bers. They have 21 members.
They have secret pals which are
revealed at Christmas time. They
had a food stand at a sale and at
market recently to make money.
Debbie was in the East
Drumore 4-H sewing club about
four years. She makes some of
her own dresses.
She loves to read. Her favorites
are Agatha Christie mystery
books. She has expanded her
collection of paper-back books
from 50 to 320 in the past five and
a half years.
Another hobby is making
candles. She makes about 50
candles a year which average
about two pounds apiece. The
candles are scented and she has
five molds. Her largest mold
holds five pounds of wax and has
three wicks. It burns for 82 hours.
She colors the candles with
crayons. She has some beautiful
colors. She gives many of her
candles as Christmas gifts.
Mrs. Wenger has a collection of
72 sets of salt and pepper
shakers. She has some very
unusual ones, like sacks of feed,
frying pans, bowling pins,
strawberries and an electric
mixer, but her most prized ones
are a set that came from Ger
many.
Another past time she enjoys is
painting by number.
Like most farm women, she
freezes quantities of vegetables
and cans fruit.
She says “I like to cook all
week but have TV dinners or
sandwiches mostly on Sundays. I
think everyone needs a day off.”
She is not one to go too much by
recipes but here are some of her
best ones. The first one is her
husband’s favorite.
CHICKEN POT PIE
Boil one-half or several pieces
of chicken until tender. Cut in
small pieces and put in broth.
Pot pie dough:
2 cups flour
Shortening size of a walnut
V-k teaspoons baking powder
Mix above ingredients and add
enough eggs to make dough soft.
Roll and cut into squares. Put in
pan with broth. Add parsley.
Cover and boil one-half hour.
This can be salted at the table or
some salt could be added to the
dough as you mix it.
GREENBEAN
CASSEROLE
1 can (10% oz.) condensed cream
of mushroom soup
1 teaspoon soy sauce
Baco’s
French style green beans, cooked
In 1 qt. casserole stir soup and
soy sauce until smooth. Stir in a
little milk. Add beans and Baco’s.
Mix. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to
30 minutes.
STUFFED PEPPERS
Make stuffing as you would
make a meat loaf. Clean out
peppers. Put in pan with ap
proximately % inch of water in
the bottom. Cover. Bake at 375
degrees for 1 to 1% hours.
RICH EGG BREAD
Measure into mixing bowl:
% cup warm water (not hot—llo -
115 degrees)
Add, stirring to dissolve:
2 pkg. active dry yeast
Stir in;
1% cups lukewarm milk
Vi cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 eggs
V* cup soft butter
Half of IV* to 7% cups sifted Gold
Medal flour.
Mix with spoon until smooth.
Add enough remaining flour to
handle easily. Mix with hands.
Turn onto lightly floured board;
knead; let rise; and shape into
loaves. Bake at 425 degrees for 25
to 30 minutes. Makes two loaves.
SAUCEPAN PINEAPPLE
BARS
1 stick butter
1-3 cup sugar (granulated)
1-3 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup flour
1V« teaspoons baking powder
1 egg
% cup chopped nuts
cup drained crushed pineapple
Melt butter in saucepan.
Remove from heat, add sugar
and lemon and blend.. Stir in flour
and baking powder. Add egg and
beat well. Add nuts and
pineapple, stir. Pour into pan
rubbed with butter or greased
and floured. Bake at 350 degrees
approximately 30 minutes.
Recipe can be doubled which
makes enough for a 13 x 9 x 2
oblong cake pan.