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
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Hanover, PA
717-637-6923
MARTIN’S ELEVATOR, INC.
Hagerstown, MD
301-733-2553
RE. RUDISILL
Sales & Distribution
Manager
Phone 717-854-2281
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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