SO—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 10.1975 Green Pastures Sheep Club The March and April meetlnga of the Green Paature 4-H Sheep Club were interesting meetings for club members. The March meeting was a trip to the Montgomery - Bucks Farm Bureau in Souderton with 30 members and parents in attendance. The group first toured the mill to see how grain is •unloaded and stored. Then when an order is processed it is done by computer. The men use a huge panel board where they push buttons and the correct amounts of grain and feed are sent out to the loading area mixed ac cording to the customer’s requirements. The club then went to the meeting room in the building to hear Eugene S. Soliday, Truly effective ventilation re quires a well planned system of air exchange, designed for the particular needs of the building it is to serve, and incorporating quality, efficient mechanical fans and properly designed air inlets and controls. 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These requirements can be met by putting different mixtures together. Mr. Soliday had a sample of each type feed; grain or mixture that could be used in feeding sheep for the members to examine. At the close of the evening Mr. Sollday gave each family preaent a give pound sample of Blue Ribbon feed to take home. The meeting ended with refreahmenta being aerved to the group by Robert Blum and hla family. On April 8 the club had 17 membera attend the Shearing School at the farm of Warren Landia, club leader. Here the group watched Ben Morgan, Extension Animal Scientist from Pennsylvania State University, shear several sheep. Other sheep owners Cook Books Started by Farm Wives American housewives, today accustomed to obtaining most of their cooking needs from a well-stocked supermarket, would have been dire straits in the Revolutionary period. To day's foods are pre-cooked, convcnienced packed and al most ready to serve A far cry from what the colonial house wife faced when mealtime rolled around Her menu was seriously limited to what was available locally and this fact is one that has lead to the variety of localized specialties placed on the table in various parts of the nation Sausage and scrapple were Pennsylvania specials, seafood along the Chesapeake Bay; ham in Vir ginia and lobster stew in New England To prepare food was usually an experience in* innovation There were few cookbooks in the colonies Women who came up with a good recipe carefully kept it recorded and exchanged with other women those which brought them the most compliments from family and friends When collections of recipes began to appear in books there were also tips on preserving and salvaging food. Modem housewives, with abundant supplies of low cost food over the years, would find it easier to dispose of food than do what some colonial wives did to save food. A tip in one old MR. FARMER: CERTAINLY LASSO® PLUS ATRAZINE CONTROLS FALL PANICUM. Plenty of growers last season learned that the “foxtail’’ they thought grew through their herbicide was really fall pamcum. And plenty of growers this season will learn that if you tank mix Lasso plus atrazme, you won’t find fall pamcum Nor will you find giant foxtail, crabgrass and most other grasses or lots of broadleafs like smartweed, pigweed, cocklebur. Lasso plus atrazine gets ’em all in corn FOR PROMPT COURTEOUS SERVICE, GIVE YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT RED ROSE DEALER A CALL! BROWN & REA, INC. ATGLEN. PA 215-593-5149 from Montgomery and Bucks Co. brought their sheep to be sheared for a nominal charge. Under the supervlaion of Mr. Morgan and William C. Keck, Assistant Bucks Co. agent many 4-Hers tried their hand at shearing. The club sponsored a refreshment stand the proceeds of which went into the club’s treasury. The May meeting will also be held at the Landis farm where Jim Diamond, Ott sville, will show the group the principals of judging a sheep. cookbook listed this method of saving tainted venison "Bury it in the ground in a clean cloth for a whole night and it will take away the corruption, savour and stink " Those who found sugar an expensive item on the shopp ing list recently were at least able to find it. It was a scarce item m colonial America Molasses, too, was expensive and the honey business had not yet developed here As a result, early Americans were not used to sweet foods as we know them today Chopped apples, berries, pulp from near the seeds in squash and pumpkin provided sweetness and a special taste to colonial cakes Agriquotes . . . The aim of the farmers in this country, if they can be called farmers, is not to make the most they can from the land which is. or has been cheap, but the most of the labour, which is dear, the consequence of which has been much ground has been scratch ed over and none cultivated or improved as it ought to have been Whereas a farmer in England, where land is dear and labour cheap, finds it to his interest to improve and cultivate highly that he may reap large crops from a small quantitv of ground George Washington That's what you expect from your herbicide. WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER TO CORN ROOT WORMS? Butter Was Farm’s First Dairy Product Butler wan the main nourcc of dairy income for many yearn, and il'n said that ex cellent butler came out of Colonial npnnghounen Thin was true even though little was known of the nccensily for sterilizing ulunmln.-and no re frigeration was available but cold spring water and ice These methods of preserving were inadequate in the sum mer. when butler was salted down in wooden buckets and kept sweet in the spnnghouse until winter when the price was belter The farm wife of the day look competitive pride in the quality of the butler which she sold to year-round cus tomers ■ the village doctor, lawyer, hanker or to the vill age store Private customers paid her 15 to 20 cents a pound for butter, while the storekeeper paid only 10 to 12 cents either in cash or barter \ YAZOO/ M) J Yazoo Lawn Mowers Call (215) 445-6175 for Free Demonstration WE ARE A FULL SERVICE DEALER FOR HOMEOWNERS AND COMMERCIAL USERS. 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In 1825, the Philadelphia Sot iel> for Promoting Agn (illlure offered a gold medal worth S5O to any person who shall have corned on farming without using any ardent spirits on his property, except when prescribed by a phy sician. for a period of two vears There was no claimant lor the premium Products of home stills for many years was the chief cash crop of farming.
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