Homesteading Book on raising flowers, nuts and
. . hcrba and building a
fl h oo * greenhouse and family
, pr °l dc * a pr,ctical dwelling, the book offers
*** nC T country suggestions along with
dweller has recently come on telling personal views on the
the market. Written by subjects
Patricia Crawford, who The book Is available In
" ougl !*' 27-acre mini-farm paperback form from Collier
H ea r U>c book Books, 866 Third Ave., New
deals with her life on the York, New York 10022. Cost
land. Stuffed with chapters la $3,95.
Plastics may replace
needed body parts
UNIVERSITY PARK -
The Penn Stale chemist who
developed a new . ■ *
plastics says that they have
promising potential for use
in replacement parts for the
human body.
“Existing artificial
biomedical materials," says
Dr. Harry R. Allcock,
professor of chemistry,
"often trigger blood clotting,
wear out, irritate or even
poison body tissue, or fail to
degrade in the body when
their usefulness has ex
pired.”
Such defects can be
avoided, Allcock contends,
with new materials he has
designed and made over the
past decade: the first
inorganic plastics since the
silicones.
What’s more, he says, the
new materials are safe. “As
far as we know, none is
carcinogenic or poses any
other threat to living
systems.”
Allcock’s work is reviewed
m “What’s Happening in
Chemistry,” a January, 1976
publication of the American
Chemical Society.
The new plastics. Allcock
says, could be used for ar
tificial heart valves, blood
vessel sections, artificial
kidney components, sutures,
etc.
Allcock's discovery im
parts a versatility to plastics
which, he says, is achievable
in no other polymer system.
"Self-destructing sutures
could be made, for in
stance," according to
AUcock. “They could be
programmed to dissolve
harmlessly mto body fluids
after they have done their
duty as sutures."
Animal implantation tests
of various prosthetic devices
made with the new plastics
are under way at several
medical schools, Allcock
says.
TRIVIA
Horsepower
Horsepower is the power
needed to lift 33,000 pounds a
distance of one foot in one
minute—about one and one
half times the power an
average horse exert
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 13.1976
Ida’s
Notebook
On a sunny day last week, I
set out with my Aunt to find
the home-farm of John
Sprecher who lived one
hundred years ago in the
Bareville area. We didn’t
find it; but it was interesting
to see what other people
were doing on the spnng-like
day.
The first inquiry was at a
business place where the
man assured me that he had
lived in the area for 40 years
but had never heard of a
Sprecher farm. He sent me
to an Amish farm where the
ladies were washing bam
windows and the man was
hauling manure after a large
tractor loaded his horse
drawn spreader. Then on to a
neighboring farm where an
old couple with several 7 7
middle-aged daughters were 3
scalding and cleaning ducks. Farm Women Society 17
pey knew where another met last Thursday at the
Aimt had lived but not where Buck Ball Park for a
my grandmother was raised. progresslV e dinner. Mrs.
Two more stops and we gave Emest Shaus - s home was
up for that day. The one tlle first f or fnut dnnk
Amish home had 4 year old and cracke £ For salad the
twm boys who were swinging visited the home of
on a tire tied to a large tree; Mrs . John Le fever . The main
of course, they couldn t help course was served by Mrs.
me. The next lady had a Rlchard U{ever the
large quilting frame set up m dessert p rov j ded by Mrs.
her kitchen and was stit- Frank j
ching away merrily but
convinced me it wasn’t her During a business meeting
farm that I was hunting. which followed the dinner,
We did get to see the spot donations were made to
where five roads converage; Cutler Fund, Meals on
or maybe, I should say Wheels and the Easter Seals
where they go out like spokes Society,
on a wheel. It is an unusual Society 17 will be en
sight. tertaming Society 4 on April
«cx 1 at a meeting at Shady
My sister tells me she had Maple, Mrs, John Myer will
an unhappy experience with be the speaker,
her many potted plants as an
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Ida Risser
aftermath of her trip to
Florida this winter.
It seems she read that sea
water was very healthful as
it contains minerals and so
she brought a gallon jug
home from Florida and put a
tablespoon on her oatmeal
each morning. One day she
was in a hurry and mixed her
water jugs and unknowlingly
put sea water on her plants.
A few days later the
greenery was wilting and the
leaves were turning yellow
and she was most, unhappy
as she realized what had
happened.
She then flushed them with
fresh water and only tune
will tell what the results will
be.
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