Ida’s
Notebook
♦ Ida Risser
One more month before we
may think too seriously of
Spring. Many children, and
adults also, wished for snow.
However, after struggling
with it for a while, they
seemed to change their
minds. I was surprised to
hear both our milk truck
driver and our feed truck
driver wish for snow. It must
be their youth that helps
them crave such weather.
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.
I A
O I
M
This is a month when I
hunt the pillow cases which I
never finished embroidering
and decide to complete
them. Only then do I find
that I need a delicate shade
of blue which isn’t among
my collection of rainbow
colors. After I’d walked all
over a large discount store, I
was told that they don’t
carry embroidery thread.
They seemed to have most
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everything else, though. So, I
got some at a speciality
shop.
Somehow I feel guilty
when I sit down to read or do
ornamental needlework. I
think that I should at least be
baking pies or changing
shelf paper or something
useful. Over the years, I’ve
been conditioned to work,
work, work and go, go, go.
As the oldest of seven girls, I
had to be both hired girl and
hired boy. Rush, rush has
been my philosophy, and I’m
sure that I miss some things
as I race through life.
But I’m determined to
have some other interests as
I grow older. A workaholic
can be a problem to his
family and to himself. Too
often health slows the body
and the mind isn’t ready to
take over with other ac
tivities.
I’ve always been curious
about many things and read
articles on nature, health,
horticulture, history,
genealogy, etc. In a way I’m
looking forward to old age,
when I’ll finally have all the
time in the world to listen to
Phila. grain terminals
now govt.
PHILADELPHIA -
Federal grain graders began
to inspect and weigh gram
Jan. 22 at two export
elevators here, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
officials announced recently.
USDA’s Federal Gram
Inspection Service (FGIS)
assumed inspection and
weighing duties at the
Girard Point Elevator,
operated by Tidewater
Grain Co. and the Port
Richmond Elevator Co.,
Inc., operated by Bunge
Corp.
Leland Bartelt, ad
ministrator for FGIS, said
that inspection and weighing
at the two export elevators
the classical music which I
like, read books, and visit
without feeling guilty.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1978
inspected
had been handled by
Commercial Exchange of
Philadelphia. The
designation of the firm as an <
official agency was can
celled Jan. 22.
Dr. Bartelt said official
inspection and weighing
services to the two export
elevators is provided
through the FGIS field office
at 1002 U.S. Custom House,
2nd and Chestnut Sts.,
Philadelphia.
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