—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 3. 1976 72 Colonial American food was lacking CHICAGO, 111. - In spite of the celebrated Thanksgiving Day feasts of Colonial New England, and the bountiful table set by Virginia plan tation owners like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the food supply of early America was more often beset by problems of “inadequate yields, seasonal availability of produce, nutrition-robbing preser vation techniques, constant Take care of plants ft before vacations NEWARK, Del. - You can’t take your garden with you, bn vacation so take care of it before you go. A few minutes spent before you leave can save hours of work afterward. It’s ob viously much easier to remove small weeds now than larger, well-established ones later, points out Dr. Charles Dunham, extension horticulturist at the University of Delaware. After weeding, apply a good mulching material.' A layer of mulch two inches deep will prevent most week growth, keep the soil cooler and conserve water. Com mon mulching materials include grass clippings, pine bark, peat moss, licorice root, old hay and straw. After mulching, give the plants a good watering with the hose if the soil is at all dry. While you’re gone, your weed-free garden win look better to your neighbors than one which has become overgrown with weeds and it will be less likely to an nounce your absence to would-be intruders. If the weather turns dry in your a weed-free garden labor, continual attention to schedules and danger of contamination,” according to a new booklet called “Food of Our Father,” produced by the Institute of Food Technologists here. The Pilgrims found many foods they’ had never seen before when they landed in the new land, including corn (as every schoolboy knows), sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, peanuts, sunflower seeds and cranberries. They won’t lose as much water either. And rapidly developing weeds won’t be able to shade garden plants. House plants also need' some care before you leave,, says Dunham. Soak plants thoroughly the night before your departure and put them in plastic bags just before leaving. Try to keep plants from touching the plastic. A few sticks or wire stuck into the soil will support the plastic and prevent this from happening.' Never put plastic-covered plants in the sun. They may bake to death. Make sure, though, that they get plenty of indirect light. Don’t be alarmed if there are a few yellow leaves on the plants when you return. With normal care, they should soon recover. One word of caution - never leave plants soaking in water. This will rot the roots and you may have dead plants waiting for you when you get home. If you plan to be gone more than two weeks, your house plants will need more than this makeshift attention, hi this case, ask a friend or neighbor to water them for you. also found unfamiliar new ways of cooking, such as roasting meat on spits and slow baking in rock-heated pits for baked beans and clams. as colonists settled in other parts cf the country, and as settlers pushed back the frontier, other new foods were discovered, such as tomatoes, peppers, okra, crayfish* catfish and salmon. These foods were quickly adopted by the new Americans, and adapted into their diets. Creole recipes adapted tomatoes to French cooking, for example, and com found use everywhere in hundreds of recipes for main dishes, breads and desserts. Hie early settlers weren’t accustomed to eating much meat in their homelands, accordftig to the IFT booklet, yet it formed a large part of the in early American, where game was abundant. Many frontiersmen lived almost exclusively on meat they could kill as they went, or carried along dried as pemmican or jerky. Frontier 17TH ANNIVERSARY SALE JULY 6-17,1976 Polyester Double Knits 30% OFF Also Selection Reduced To Half Price & Less Washable Bonded Acrylics Reg. 4.79 Sale $2.79 Selection Bonded Acrylics $.99 Seersucker plaids Reg. 2.19 Sale $1.19 Whipped cream 2.19 1.49 Flocked Dacuor & Cotton 1.79 1.19 Ketcher cloth 1,98 j. ' 1.79 Also Other Close Outs Will have goods on lawn if weather permits. Close out of sweaters, hosiery & Christmas Items. Quilts, Pillows & Kits. Wool & Wintuck Knitting Yarns. LAPP’S DRY GOODS RDI along Rt, 340 Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505 wives even processed calves foot jelly into an early version of boullion cubes called “portable soup.” Despite the many new varieties of food - the diet of our forefathers was very limited and would have seemed boring by our standards. Climate played a major role in the availability of fresh fruits and' vegetables, and life for the housewife was very much oriented around preser vation techniques to help provide variety. Nutrition, of course, was an unknown science, and many of the processes used virtually destroyed vital nutrients and led to deficiency diseases. Typical winter diets of combread, molasses, beans and salt “fat back” led regularly to pellegra. Scurvy was common in the winter and on the frontier, since vitamin C was frequently lacking and preserved fruits and vegetables such as dried apples and sauerkraut had little vitamin content to relieve the diseases. LOOK FOR BERKS GO. N.U. FUCKER & SONS INC. Maxatawny Ph. 215-683-7252 STANLEY A. KLOPP INC. Bernville Ph. 215488-1500 MILLER EQUIPMENT Bechteisville Ph. 215845 2911 SHARTLESWLLE FARM EQUIPMENT Shartlesville. PA 215-488-1326 K. Daniel Wenier, Prop. ZIMMERMAN'S FARM SERVICE Bethel Ph. 717-933-4114 BRADFORD CO. WYNNE’S GARAGE Canton. 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