Happy Homemaking
By BARBARA BAKER
Put two or three turkish
towels in your washing ma
chine when laundering plas
__ticjmrtains. Towels rubbing
against the plastic help re
move hard-to-get-off water
spots.
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Take the shade off a small
dressing table lamp, turn it
on for a few minutes to heat,
and “iron” the puffed sleeves
of a little girl’s dress over it.
In the kitchen of most
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modern homes, there is no
place with an edge where
you can fasten a meat grind
er. Try setting up the ironing
board for a quick grinding
job.
Use the small brush that
comes with an electric razor
for cleaning out lint that
gathers around the sewing
machine bobbin.
Before using a new hank
of elastic, pour boiling water
over it. Let it dry and then
cut to the required length.
Elastic shrinks as soon as it
gets into hot water.
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A method that prevents
SALE REPORTS
Roy Yarnall Sale
Farm Equipment
New London, Chester County
Wednesday, February 28
JD 300 Corn Picker $2800; Gehl
Chopper 2550; Generator 1000;
Gehl Grinder-Mixer 1625; Forage
Wagon 1700
Tractors- JD 4320 $8,630, JD
4020 with loader 5700, JD 1020
with loader 2790; JD 4010 4350;
JD 3010 3200
Patz Feeder $1025; 1000-gallon
milk tank 2,050
Auctioneers
Diller
Kreider and
Robert Shaub Sale
Solanco District
Thursday, February 22
Diesel Tractors
-1130 MF Tractor - $5,410; 65 MF
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 3.1973
one from forgetting an in
gredient while cooking, is to
get out everything that is
needed for a recipe, and
return to its proper place.
Tractor - 1,410
MF Haybine - 1,325, NH Baler -
2.600, NT Picker - 1,225, AC Corn
Planter - 620, JD Disc - 670.
First Cutting Hay - $69
Corn - $44 50 per ton
Milk Porter - 795
Auctioneers - Kreider and
Diller
Robert and Lois McGill
Sale
Mill Hall
Tuesday, February 20
48 Grade Holstein Cows
Averaged $520
One three-year-old Springer,
$750, One three-year-old, fresh,
$705, One five-year-old springer,
$7OO
Auctioneers
Carl Diller
Max Fraley,
E-Town Adult
Education Class
Open to Farmers
The Elizabethtown Area
Vocational Agriculture Depart
ment announces a series of two
adult education classes to be held
Tuesday and Thursday evenings
from7 - 30t09 - 30p m inthevo-ag
classroom The classes will deal
with cattle nutrition and farm
management
A series on cattle nutrition will
be held Tuesday evenings The
schedule is March 13, “How the
Rumen Works”, March 20,
“Feeds and Balancing Rations”,
March 27, “Feeding the
Aniamls ”
Farm Management is the topic
for Thursday evenings. The dates
and topics are- March 15, “In
come Tax”; March 22, “Com
mercial Record Keeping
Systems”, March 29, ‘‘Soil
Conservation.”
The cattle nutrition classes will
be taught by James White, a
former dairy science specialist at
Penn State now teaching
agriculture at Elizabethtown
High School The farm
management topics will be
taught by Elvin Hess, chairman
of the vo-ag department Various
ag business leaders will also be
participating
The program is introductory to
a full-year program of adult
education in agriculture to begin
in the fall Support of the
program is hoped to lead to the
formation of a Young Farmer
Chapter at Elizabethtown
Anyone interested in any of the
course topics is welcome to at
tend
To dust a stairwell with a
high ceiling easily, tie an
old towel on one end of a
clothes prop and reach all
those hard-to-get-to spots.
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