Ida’s
Notebook
As I write this article,
about ten days before you
read it, the sun is shining, the
sugar peas are up, and I’m
looking forward to a day
spent at home doing little
things. After I’ve been “on
the road” for several days in
a row, I appreciate time to
catch-up with my work.
We took our daughter back
to college at Mansfield and
that was an eight hour drive.
Today my dentist ap
pointment was cancelled so
I’ll try to prune the
blueberries. Small jobs are
relished when you needn’t
hurry through them feed
the goldfish, water the
flowers, or cook a dessert.
I even took time to make a
patriotic bouquet of red and
white geraniums (now they
bloom, after waiting all
winter) and of blue
hyacinths.
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Ida Risser
I mentioned cooking a
dessert for my family. Well,
one of the dishes that con
sistently turns up on our
breakfast table over the
years is pudding. Now this
isn’t the mush and pudding
(a ground meat dish) that
my parents ate regularly for
breakfast.
Rather, I’m talking about
a dish which starts with one
quart of milk in a double
boiler. And what could be
more healthy and more
economical on a dairy farm!
Then we add 8 tablespoons of
cornstarch. All of my six
children learned to count
before they were two years
old by helping to cook this
dish.
Now the variations run all
the way from vanilla,
chocolate, lemon, pep
permint, butterscotch,
coconut and almond to blade
walnut.
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F & H scholarship bids due May 1
LANCASTER— One of the
objectives of the Lancaster
County Farm and Home
Foundation is to encourage
the higher education of the
youth of Lancaster County.
In this respect the Foun
dation is announcing the
offering of scholarship
awards in 1976, in the fields
of Agriculture, Home
Economics, and Nursing.
Depending upon the finan
cial need and ability of ap
plicants, a maximum of ten
scholarships may be
awarded.
Each scholarship award
will be in the amount of
$400.00 and may be used to
help defray tuition, fees, or
room and board expenses at
any accredited educational
institution, which offers a
course of study in
Agriculture, Home
Economics, or Nursing.
These Farm and Home
Foundation Scholarships are
earnings from an
Irrevocable Trust Fund set
in to Lancaster County s
up by the late Elmer L.
Esbenshade, one of the
founders of the Lancaster
County Farm and Home
Foundation. The income
from this trust fund will be
offered annually in the form
of educational scholarships
through the Foundation. In
addition, funds from the
Foundation treasury are
being used to help finance
the scholarship program.
All senior guidance
counselors throughout the
Lancaster County School
Districts are being informed
of these scholarships in
order to get prospective boys
and girls informed.
Interested youth are urged
to contact their senior
guidance counselor for
details and an application
blank. Additional in
formation is also available
from M. M. Smith, chairman
of the Scholarship Com
mittee, 1383 Arcadia Road,
Lancaster, Pa. 17601 (Phone
394-6851). Application forms
MEMBER F D.l C
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 17,1976
must be forwarded by May 1,
1976.
Senior students in public
and non-public high schools
in Lancaster County, Penn
sylvania, or Lancaster
County residents who have
completed high school
training are eligible.
Applicants must meet
scholastic and other en
trance requirements for an
accredited program in either
PFA meeting held
The Chester-Delaware
County Farmers’
Association Board of
Directors met April 7.
Meeting was brought to
order by president Horace
Mowrer with nine board
members present
Under old business,
evaluations were made of
several recent activities, (hi
April 5 local farmers went to
Harrisburg to meet with the
legislators. Chester County
had the largest turnout over
all the counties in the region,
with 35 men and women
represented. These people
had a chance to talk over
current issues with their
legislators.
The Legislative Tour to
Washington D.C. was also
evaluated. Response was
good.
Jim Smith, accountant for
FMBAS (Farm
Management & Business
Analysis Service) in this
area could use five more
accountants. Any PFA
member wishing to make
use of this service, contact
Smith at (717) 548-2600. It
was moved and seconded
iidents
agriculture, home
economics, or nursing at an
accredited college,
university, or other ac
ceptable educational in
stitution.
Children of members of
the Board of Directors of the
Farm and Home Foundation
are not eligible.
Winners will be notified
and public announcement
made by May 15, 1976.
that Chester County Far
mers’ Assoc, set up a booth
again this year at Goshen
Fair. Frank Hash is in
charge of this. Anyone-who
would like to run the booth
for an evening, or just help
out in any way, contact Hash
at 399-0418.
The last fruit order for this
spring will arrive May 10. All
orders must be in by April 23.
No more orders will come in
again until next fall.
Our sun is really a star
albeit a colossal one with a
diameter of 864,000 miles.
But stars don’t live forever,
and this one is already
middle-aged. The April issue
of Reader’s Digest
calculates that it will make
20 more turns around the
heart of the Milky Way
before the sun begins to die.
That’s some time in the
distant future though: each
trip takes 250 million years.
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