Gadget on market to ripen fruit
■LYNNHERSHEY
,jre Extension Service
ARK, Del. - Do you
iuy room left on your
0 counter? Are you
oth your newest toys
.maker, hot dogger,
| broiler, food
isor, fry baby)? Well,
& EVERY
P WEDNESDAY IS
Hp DAIRY
a DAY
NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
lyou need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from
'to 200 cows to sell every week at your price,
ly fresh and close springing Holstems.
7S from local farmers and our regular
ipers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
ly Bowser, Bill Lang, Blaine Hoffer, Dale
tetter, H.D. Matz, and Jerry Miller.
SALE STARTS 12:30 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday, Hay, Straw &
Ear Corn Sale 12:00 Noon.
All Dairy Cows & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
arrangements for special sales or herd
sals at our barn or on your farm, contact;
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341 -A
OR
Norman Kolb
717-397-5538
DALE L. SCHNUPP
R.D.6
Lebanon, Pa. 17042 717-865-2534
R.D.3
Ephrata, Pa.
shove everything aside and
make.room for a brand new
plaything. It’s called a fruit
ripener. Yes indeed, now
there is a bandy little item
you buy just for ripening
fruit. No well-dressed home
should be without one.
Go ahead and laugh. I did,
HIGH FEED COSTS
GETTING YOU Do,,
Try
ROASTED SOYBEANS
SOYBEAN SCREEINGS, Or
DAMAGED SOYBEANS
Available in small lots or trailer loads.
Soybean Roasting on your farm
because somehow a fruit
ripener represents the
ultimate in civilized
nonsense. We pick fruit rock
hard and green, then buy
something to make it edible.
It’s sort of like melting ice to
get water to make ice cubes.
But hang on, maybe the
inventor isn’t so crazy after
all. When supermarkets
offer tomatoes resembling
green golf balls, and peaches
you can’t slice, perhaps it’s
time for the best fed nation in
the world to market fruit
ripeners. In fact, the F.R.
could be displayed in
supermarkets right next to
the underripe produce. I’m
surprised they haven’t
thought of that already.
In case you are seriously
interested in this latest
merchandising marvel, look
in larger deparment stores
and specialty shops. The
F.R. is about 15 inches high
and 15 inches in diameter,
with a clear acrylic lid
appropriately pear shaped.
Vent holes permit air
circulation but concentrate
HIGH PRESSURE
WASHING
OF POULTRY HOUSES AND VEAL PENS
BARRY I. HERR
1744 Pioneer Road, Lancaster. Pa
Phone 717-464-2044
the ethylene gas naturally
given off by the fruit to
produce ripening.
Marguerite Krackbardt,
Delaware Extension food
and nutrition specialist, says
a F.R. is O.K. for ripening
green pears, apples,
bananas, mangoes,
avocados, tomatoes, plums,
nectarines, apricots,
peaches, some citrus fruits,
and melons (except
watermelons). She does not
recommend it tor use with
fruits gown locally or in your
own garden, since these are
normally picked at the peak
of ripeness.
Because the ripener works
quickly, it requires careful
watching lest the fruit
becomes overripe. For
example, green bananas
placed inside the F.R. in the
morning will be ready to eat
by earling evening. If your
forget and leave them there
all night, you can
conveniently throw them out
next day.
The F.R. is supposed to
work better than the old
fashioned brown paper bag.
For Lower Protein Cost.
CONESTOGA VALLEY
GRAIN
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25.1977
But I’ll stick to the old way,
thank you. Maybe you think
it’s stubbornness. Or thrift.
But it’s not. It’s just the
principle of the thing.
And in case you’re
Ag trade called
peace
TOKYO, Japan - Secretary
of Agriculture Bob Bergland
said here recently that “a
continued and growing
friendship between the
people of the United States
and the people of Japan”
remains “a key factor” in
the maintenance of world
peace and that “trade is the
cornerstone of our mutual
friendship and cooperation.”
To illustrate the
importance of the Japanese
market to the American
farmer, Bergland noted that
the United States trade with
Japan is “double that of any
single western European
country” and “equal to more
than a third of our total
trade with all European
nations, including the Soviet
Union.”
The Secretary also
emphasized that the
domestic agricultural
policies of the United States
“are geared toward
expanding foreign trade.”
“We have proposed a
system of reserves and
commodity loans which
provide economic protection
DEALER IN GRAIN
wondering, I don’t own a
crepe maker either - or a hot
dogger, a food processor, a
fry baby, a bacon broiler,
etc., etc., etc.
factor
for farmers, supply
protection for foreign and
domestic buyers and support
prices which which keep
American grain competitive
in world markets,” the
secretary said.
‘‘We firmly believe,”
Bergland continued, “that
the importing and exporting
nations of the world must
agree to establish grain
reserves as an emergency
supply and to dampen the
wide price swings which
trouble both consuming and
producing countries.”
After two days of meeting
with Japanese and American
agriculture, trade and
government leaders,
Bergland toured agricultural
areas in rural Japan before
departing for Hong Kong, the
second stop in his six-nation
tour.
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