Hey all you gardening buddles-isn’t this a really super time of the year! Every February I plan to plant the greatest flower and vegetable garden in history. Visions of spotlessly weed and insect free green rows of bountifully bearing varieties fill my snow-stunned brain. August brings reality back, with delight over a few successes and blushing embarrassment about the year’s disasters. Those doggone string beans sneaked up on me Farming .. . It’s Nurtured the Good Earth of Our America Let's remember the part farming has played and still does in the development of the United States. It has provided us with the essentials to achieve what we have today. By providing food for our millions . . . natural fibers for our clothing . . . jobs for many of our people. Let's practice conservation to preserve this land that has given us life. again. They always pick a week to suddenly ripen when our schedule calls for six new calves to feed, four daytime meetings and a weekend yard party. Now, cucumbers are something really fun to watch grow. First they send those creepy crawly runners around hunting the row of onions or lima beans to casually smother. One they’ve taken over the entire center of the garden, one of two things will happenn. First a horde of squash FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL COUNTY OFFICE. bugs may vote to build a condominium in your pickle patch, smashing overnight hopes of pantry shelves bending under jars ,pf crunchy, green gerkins. Or else, Mother Nature will deliver you a windfall and bushels of cucumers will swoop down upon your un suspecting kitchen. No matter how hard you search for every last ready cucumber, a little green man that lives under die leaves will hide a few. Then, on your next harvesting visit, you’ll be greeted by a half-dozen tough old yellow fellows to throw at the groundhog raiding the sweet com. When you really get in a “pickle” and never want to look another cucumber in the stem again, sneak them over to your neighbors front porch, knock loudly on the door and beat it into the hedge! The expensive cantaloupe seeds I sent for came up beautifully, took one look at the working conditions and went out on strike. Actually, cantaloupes are really the big fanner’s pet crop. He Keystone winners named YORK, Pa. - The .York County Agriculture Ex tension Service is proud to announce their 18 4-H Keystone winners. This means that in the program entered, these 4-H’ers records were selected as one of tiie best in all of Penn- takes the easy way out and buys started plants-how ego crushing to admit they do better than my special-order jobs. One sweet potato row is way over chatting with the beans and vacationing among the pumpkins. Alas, a later sweet potato patch across the way has turned sour. Gotta run now. I have an appointment with a delegation of visiting Japanese beetles about my “Made in America’’ grapevines. They’ll receive a gift-wrapped going away package of Sevin. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Juiy 30, 1977 sylvania. The 4-H’ers will go to Penn State July 22 for an interview with judges. The score on the record and the score on the interview will determine the final selection of the state winners, who will be announced in August. Those 4-H’ers receiving Keystone winner in two project areas are: Tim Beck. Seven Valleys, in Beef and Commodity Marketing; Beverly Brown, Delta, agriculture and horse; Karen Hemminger, Glen Rock, citizenship and foods and nutrition; Joyce Hemminger, Glen Rock, dairy foods and food con servation; Pearl Kneller, Brodbecks, home management and poultry; Brooke Palmer, Shrewsbury, food preser vation and recreation; Megan Shaub, Shrewsbury,achivement and gardening; Gary Welsh, East Berlin, automotive and safety; Tommy Welsh, East Berlin, achievement and dairy; and Joanne Zum brum, Hanover, home en viroment and leadership. The 4-H’ers who were selected in one project area are: Laurie Dobrosky, Glen Rock, wood science; Jonathan Myers, Thomasville, bicycle; Paul Myers 111, Thomasville, health; Kay Swartz, Hanover, health; Gary Thoman, Seven Valleys, field crops; Joey Welsh, East Berlin, petroleum power; and Bonnie Wire, Spring Grove, photography. Two other 4-H’ers who won in the specialized area of outstanding girl and out standing boy are Linda Ebaugh, Delta and Tim Beck, Seven Valleys. 4-H club meets KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Hoof trimming was the subject of a demontration given at a recent meeting of the Western Berks 4-H Club. Given in the barn, the demonstration gave each member a chance to learn the proper method of trimming an animal’s hooves. During the meeting, new business was discussed. Plans were made for the field day and Kutztown Fair activities. The next meeting will be held at the Kutztown Fair. 93
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