Ida’s Notebook We’ve received several seed catalogs in the mail recently and they certainly are colorful. Especially so, when one looks out the window and across snow covered fields to a woods beyond. The tendency in new plants seems to lean toward dwarf varieties in flowers and bush varieties in vegetables. The convenience of this is easily understood, as I well remember four and lickin' Good Nutrena Controlled Release CL so different, it’s patented Your cattle will like Nutrena Con trolled Release CLS and you’ll like the benefits behind this new devel opment in liquid supplements. The patented process controls the release of protein-building am monia nitrogen in the rumen com pared with a conventional urea based liquid supplement. This improves the feeding efficiency of the urea.* -nid, the slow-down 0 Nutrena Feeds S' s$ v \flK AVAI W.L. MUMMERT CO. Hanover, PA 717-637-6923 MARTIN’S ELEVATOR, INC. Hagerstown, MD 301-733-2553 RE. RUDISILL Sales & Distribution Manager Phone 717-854-2281 V" A Ida Risser five foot zinnias leaning against the meadow fence. Nowadays, you not only can buy any kind of plants but also “animals” from a garden catalog. What I mean is advertisements for ear thworms “which can be released directly into the garden without handling,” or praying mantis egg cases or even ladybugs to eat other destructive insects. Each year we try new and dif- feeding programs you can believe in IE FROM THE FOLLOWING DEALERS: H. JACOB HOOBER Intercourse, PA 717-768-3431 CHESTER WIEST Sales & Distribution Manager Phone 717-741-2600 BEACONFEEDS Beacon Feeds, York, PA—Phone 717-843-9033 ferent plants and tins year will be no exception. I’ve just refreshed my memory of the early years of our farming venture. And it really was a venture as there was danger of loss as well as chance for profit. You see, the first year that we began to farm with one cow, one heifer, one tractor, one plow and one wagon, we lost our bam in a fire. So in the middle of summer, we planted some cash crops. These included a field of sweetcom, one of cabbage and another of cauliflower. There also was a patch of watermelons and can teloupes to weed and spray. i A. r> t J When it was time to sell these back-breaking crops, my husband attended several markets each week and got very little sleep. We also peddled potatoes and celery. Besides helping to prepare these crops for sale, I also was tending a new baby and making butter to sell. In looking back on this means an extra margin of safety from urea toxicity-that’s import ant when self-feeding liquid supplement. Nutrena Controlled Release CLS liquid supplement-a product of Cargill research. It’s great for dairy herds as well as beef cattle on range, pasture, stalks, stubble or in the feedlot. THARPE& GREEN MILL Churchville, MD 301-734-7772 RICHARD B. KENDIG Special Accounts Representative Phone 302-478-3058 xxxxx window display HARRISBURG Harrisburg High School FHA Chapter, Harrisburg, placed first and received a cash prize of $75 for their window exhibit entitled, “Help your Child Get Hooked on Books,” in last week’s school window exhibit contest held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Second prize with a stipend of $65 went to Red Lion Semor High School, Red Lion, York County. The exhibit entitled, “Beautify Homes With House Plants”, showed a variety of com mon, easy to grow houseplants, various potting materials, and the procedure for using them m potting plants. On exhibit entitled, “A Cornicopia of Goodies”, featuring drying as a method of food preservation, placed third and received a cash prize of $55. Students of Garden Spot High School, New Holland, entered the exhibit which showed a variety of home dried foods, and the steps to follow in preparing them for processing. busy, bi.'.y life of neai poverty, I wonder how we ever managed. But gradually our herd grew and a new bam was built to house a dairy. Machinery was added over the years and sons and daughters grew strong and helped in the farm operation. However, now after almost 30 years, we are back again to having two people struggle to run a farm. Dauphin Co. FHA take top The top ranking exhibit suggested ideas to help preschool children learn to enjoy and respect books. TJ • ASCS FINANCING • Early Order Discounts Tam Agri Corporation Dillsburg, Pa. 17019 (717) 432-9730 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 14,1978 Do you ever get the feeling you’ve been “kept in the dark” about something? That oft-used phrase took on new meaning for me the other day as I attended an agronomy meeting. I went, all prepared to learn about alfalfa so that someday I can helpfully tell the big farmer what he’s domg wrong when supposedly green fields turn golden with dandelion and yellow rocket, or develop chronic cases of leaf-munching creepy-cra wlies. There I sat amidst the gathering of interested, knowledgable farmers, my ears forward, pen poised and a brand-spanking new tablet on which to record my newly gained learning. But then, the speaker made an announcement that left me feeling like the fox who just lost her rabbit: “And now I have a few slides to show y0u...” The whole world went pitch black. Where was my pen? Where was my carefully lined new tablet? How was I going to write down all this deluge of details? What were they trying to do to me, anyway? Boy-I needed a “bright” idea-and fast. Maybe a flick of my Bic would help. Ex cept that I don’t smoke. And I’ve never owned a lighter. So much for that possibility. I did have a camera flash, but my pen wouldn’t write that fast. One of those miners’ hats, or the kind that cave explorers’ use, might do it. Even a trouble light would be appropriate—l certainly was having trouble. Suddenly, a bright background slide came on the screen, shedding just enough glow on the paper to show me where I had blindly scribbled the last sentence. If enough of those kept flipping onto the screen, maybe I could at least avoid accidentally taking notes across the tabletop. Fate was on my side. When the lights finally came back on, what appeared to be a crossbreed between shorthand and chicken scratchings was faintly readable, with a hard working imagination. I snitched an Agronomy Guide as I left and hoped I could fake it. Please don’t let me get put in the dark again. Won’t someone hurry and invent a pen with a headlight? C *AIN BINS WIT! ADVANCED FEATURES Brock has a long line of grain bins that can keep you out of those long lines at your elevator Each bin is well designed with more safety convenience and construction features Every bin has high tensile strength prime steel components in farm storage dual purpose or commercial models BROCK GRAIN BINS & FEED BINS 51
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