My Thoughts By JOANNE SPANN I stood there scowling as the slowly ap proaching evening surrounded me. Why is it, I thought to myself, that everywhere I go, I have to take my entire life’s possessions with me? I was standing, slump shouldered, hands in my pockets to keep them warm, in front of the Penn Harris Motor Inn last week contemplating my camera bag, typewriter case, tape recorder, and overnight bag. I’d come to do a story on the Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association Sweetheart Legislative Conference, and I’d come prepared—too prepared. lsn’t it bad enough, I continued in con versation with myself, that everywhere I go I have to lug around a portable U-Haul in the form of a camera bag-purse in which I stuff a 35 millimeter camera, three changes of lenses, an electronic flash, 29 pens, six pencils, two erasers, two notepads, kleenex, four extra rolls of film, and an ink stained, ripped dollar bill (which may or may not be legal tender at this point.) No, that must not be bad enough, I decided, because this time 1 had brought along a cassette tape recorder and a 35 pound portable electric typewriter, plus a change of clothes, hair dryer, and other miscellaneous items in an overnight bag. How, I kept lamenting to myself, was I going to carry all that heavy luggage into the motel? (1, of course, would never think of making two trips because that would be too much trouble.) Well, the only thing to do was give it a whirl Come see how tough Allis- Chalmers disc harrows cut and slice deeply into your soil to prepare a prop er seedbed Extra weight—7s pounds per blade in the 2300 make the pene trating difference Or choose the 3000 with 140-pound blades that are more than a match for heavier soils Let us show you how shock-ab sorbing spring-steel bearings give C. J. Wonsidler Bros. RDI, Quakertown, PA 18951 Phone 215-536-1935 215-536-7523 Grumeß Form Service A. J. Moss A Son, inc. QuarryviHe, PA RD2,oley, PA 717-786-7311 215-987-6257 Shorttesvie Form lh. Bruboker, Inc. Equipment Lancaster, PA Shartiesvßle, PA 717-397-5179 215-488-1326 No Interest On Tractors or Implements bought with tractors until March 1, 1977. Roy H. Buck, Inc. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Middle Atlantic Order Market Administrator Joseph D. Shine last week announced a January 1977 base milk price of $10.28 per hundred-weight and an excess milk price of $8.17. The weighted average January price is $9.98 and the butterfat differential for the month is 10.4 cents for each tenth of a pound of fat. The January base milk price is up one cent from December 1976 but is 68 years of protection against rust freeze ups and maintain alignment Wide choice of blade sizes with back-up plates that provide extra strength where it s needed Stop m for full details now Rang Power in raining A ALLIS-CHALMERS Ephrata, RD2 717-859-2441 So, I tried all sorts of arrangements and ended up with my overnight bag hanging around my neck with the bag in the back, knapsack style; my camera case on my one shoulder; my tape recorder in one free hand; and my typewriter in the other. Aha, I thought. I did it. Only I didn’t, because I didn't get more than a few steps before the overnight bag started choking me, the camera case slipped down into my elbow with a jolt, and I nearly dropped my typewriter because of the weight. Like a well-planned domino game, my sojourn to the motel room was over in a second. Another plan of atttack was in order. As I was mulling it over, however, 1 noticed a petite young woman hurrying toward me. “Here, let me help you,” twinkled the size five sophisticate. Decked out in a sleek brown leather coat, suede boots, matching gloves, and flowing, contrasting scarf, the stylish 5’2" little lady willingly held out her hands to tkae my lead weights. Lumberjack-type individual that I am, I looked Base milk price *10.28 for January BHM Farm Equipment, Inc. AnnviDe, RDI, PA 717-867-2211 Ag.-lndustrial Equipment *2, Rising San, MD 301-651-556? cents below last January. Order No. 4 prices are an nounced for 3.5 per cent milk f.o.b. plant location within 55 miles of Philadelphia, Pa. and also within 75 miles from the nearer of Washington, Dc. or Baltimore, Md. There is a six-cent direct-delivery differential applicable to producer milk received at plants located within 55 miles of Philadelphia. Shine stated that producer receipts totaled 465 million pounds during January, an WEEK FE8.19'26 Your Rjun^B/kd IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT k Lancaster County's Only Dealer Specializing in Sprayer Sales & Service RONKS, PA Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Feb. 19.1977 at the helpful, tiny person and thought simultaneously, “Gee, how nice,” and “I bet you never lifted anything heavier than your pet poodle in your life.” What I said was, "Thank you very much, but I believe these things may be too heavy for you.” “Oh, nonsense,” she retorted, “You ought to lift tobacco bales like I do then you’d know what's heavy." With these words, she was off like the bionic woman with my typewriter, camera bag, and overnight bag leaving me with the measly little tapie recorder. Sheepishly, I followed her m with my miniscule load. When we got to the room she introduced herself as a farm wife from Lancaster County who was at the Penn Harris to help with the legislative conference. Suddenly the whole image I had of her changed, and, once more I was reminded of a fact which never ceases to amaze me farm women have the talent of combining attnctiveness, grace, and poise with great physical stamina a rare combination, and one to be admired. increase of 0.7 per cent from the previous month and almost eight per cent above the comparable figure a year ago. Class I producer milk totaled 286.6 million pounds and accounted for 61.64 per cent of total January milk receipts, compared to 62.78 per cent in December and 68.25 per cent last January. Base milk accounted for 85.90 per cent of total producer milk receipts in January, down from 89.48 per cent a year ago. There were 7,979 producers sup plying Order No. 4 handlers during the month and the average daily delivery per producer was 1,880 pounds. Middle Atlantic Order pool handlers reported Class I in area milk sales of 243.0 million pounds during January, a contra-seasonal MEMO HAY, STRAW and EAR CORN SALE EVERY MONDAY AT 11A M EVERY WEDNESDAY 12 00 NOON NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC Phone 717 354 4341 Lloyd H Kr eider Auct Sprayer Headquarters Myers' solo LAWN-BOY LESTER A. SINGER drop of 2.4 per cent from December 1976. YOU CAN OWN A WESTERN AUTO STORE IN: LITITZ, PA. CARLISLE, PA. MIDDLETOWN, PA. 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