—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 10, 1974 38 l ADIES HAVE YOU HEARD? By Dons Thomas, Extension Home Economist WHICH TYPE FREEZER TO BUY More people are growing their own vegetables and looking into canning and freezing foods. If your family plans to buy a freezer, you’ll find that most freezers on the market today are stan dardized. Choice between brands may be of minor importance, except for servicing. Your most important decisions will concern the three types of freezers available-chest freezer, upright freezer with manual defrosting, and a frost-free upright freezer-and the amount of freezer space you will need. Upright freezers take up less floor space than chest freezers but all three types are available in a variety of usable storage space. Chest freezers vary in size from 4 to 25 cubic feet of storage space. Most have from 3 to 5 inches of in sulation. The evaporator coils, an integral part of the inside wall liner, provide for contact freezing-freezing takes place quickly when the food package is in contact with the walls. ELECTRIC FENCE CONTROLLER REPAIRS Authorized Factory Service on Most Shockers REPAIR THEM NOW Glenn M. Hoover Leola RDI, Oregon Pike 17540 656-8020 Manufacturers of Kafstals Veal Stalls Bale Wagons \ Wisconsin \\jJl ?u%~ \ yj^m l treated ENGINES •FROM 4 to 65 H P ALLIS CHALMERS & BRIGGS & STRATTON ENGINES ENGINE AND MAGNETO SERVICE BEAM L.P. GAS SYSTEMS PEQUEA BATTERIES AMOS L. FISHER R D #l, Box 108 Bird-m Hand, Pa. 17505 DEPENDABLE service —^3rr\ Two-Way Radio Dispatch Vijr FOR YOUR FARM NEEDS Gas Space Heaters Brooders Furnaces ALSO MAYTAG CALORIC rffpStops APPLIANCES RANGES &rnctltno MYER'S METERED GAS SERVICE, INC. MANHEIM PA 17545 Telephone (717) 665 3588 v ,y. y y y y »Vly.y.£«.v v ♦* Chest freezers are the least expensive to buy and lowest in cost to operate. Odd-shaped packages fit easily into the spaces and no space is wasted since there is no need for shelves or coils inside. Chest freezers have some disadvantages. You must bend to load and unload. It’s difficult to remove frozen food without moving other packages. And it’s not easy to keep the packages in the freezer arranged orderly. Also, if food to be frozen is placed near the top, it may be the warmest part of the freezer and not freeze properly. Upright freezers with manual defrosting vary in size from 4 to 10 cubic feet of space. The purchase price and operating cost are slightly higher than for chest freezers of the same size. With upright freezers, it’s easy to organize storage of different kinds of foods and package sizes. Shelves on the door provide extra storage space and keep packages within easy reach. But unless shelves have front guards, food packages must be carefully arranged to prevent their falling out when the door is opened. Odd-shaped packages may waste freezer space. Upright freezers need to be unloaded, cleaned and manually defrosted about once a year. Frost-free upright models are available in 12 to 20 feet models. They cost more to buy and operate, consuming almost twice as much electricity as manual-defrost models. With this type of freezer, foods to be frozen cm be placed anywhere in the freezer. They need only to come in contact with the moving cold air. Since heat from food being frozen is removed from inside the freezer, food that is already frozen generally maintains its frozen state and quality. The air circulation which keeps the freezer frost-free also removes moisture from poorly packaged foods more rapidly than in the other types of freezers. HOW TO SELECT BACON Recent regulations for sliced bacon packages require new back windows or bigger front windows so you can see at least 70 percent of a length of a slice of bacon inside. But what do you look for? Most people want bacon with a lot of lean. The distribution of lean within a slice of bacon affects its taste. When fried, bacon with several strips of lean distributed throughout the slice will tend to be more crispy. While bacon with the same amount of lean that’s concentrated in fewer but larger sections will tend to be more chewy. Since bacon comes in one pound, two pound, 12-ounce and half-pound packages, be sure to check the weight and compare prices, too. Society 28 Society of Farm Women No. 28 met recently at the home of Mrs. Elvin Hess, Jr. Co-hostess was Mrs. Harold Byers. After being given tips on bicycle safety, the group embarked on a six mile bicycle hike. Mid-way through the hike the group enjoyed tasty bag lunches prepared by the hostesses. There will be no meeting in August. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, Sep tember 17, at Crionle Creek 7:30 P.M. SOUTHEASTERN PENNA. 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Rules Easy Sewing Program Scheduled “Easy Sewing for Easy Living” is your invitation to learn new time and money saving ways to sew your wardrobe. This informative program, sponsored by the York County Extension Service, is filled with practical sewing tips from how to stretch your war drobe budget with coor dination, to how to stitch-in the-ditch. See and hear all about new easy sewing techniques like hemming with your iron, doing patch pockets without hand-sewing and putting in the Invisible Zipper in 5 minute or less. Grow Your Own? It S all designed to keep you Many people in less fortunate up-to-date on what’s hap- countries of the world must en pening in home sewing. gase in farming, part or full Ms. Nicki Antonacci, J r l e 5,. t 0 eat - ” ere ' n r-«j a.- the United States, research, edu- Educational Representative cation, resources and knowhow for the Unique Zipper Com- combine to release more than 90 pany will be presenting “Ea- percent of the population for sv Sowing for Easv Living” work othcr than producing their sy sewing tor tasy ijvmg own food E(riciencies in on August 19, 1974 at 10:00 culture are so advanced that a.m., at York County 4-H we’re not only able to feed our- Center. Besides telling you selves but also others through all about Easy Sewing, Ms. out the world SATURDAY 7 P.M.. WILL FEATURE 12.000 POUND STOCK 12.000 POUND SUPER STOCK 5.000 POUND MODIFIED 7.000 POUND SUPER STOCK 7.000 POUND STOCK 9.000 POUND OPEN Antonaccl will be available for a short question and answer session to help you solve your sewing problems. Be sure to attend this special one hour program. You’ll receive a com plimentary copy of the Unique Invisible Handbook. The program is free and open to the public. This is a great way to spend a mor ning so mark it on your calendar. Anyone is invited. Register by calling the York County Extension Office, Court House, York. Phone 717—354-9793