st— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2,1978
Home on the Range
(Continued from Page 57)
SWEDISH CHRISTMAS COOKIES
% cup brown sugar
% cup molasses
1 teaspoon ginger
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
% teaspoon baking soda
% cup butter
legg
5 cups flour, approximate
granulated sugar for topping
Heat butter and molasses to boiling point. Add baking
soda and pour over butter in large mixing bowl. Stir until
butter melts. Add egg and sifted flour, enough to make a
stiff, workable dough. Divide dough into small, flat por
tions, about six inches in diameter, % of an mch thick.
Wrap each portion in waxed paper until ready to use. Roll
out on lightly floured board or pastry cloth. Dough may be
chilled before rolling if necessary. Cut with cookie cutters
and bake on greased baking sheet at 325 Degrees F. for
eight to ten minutes.
Note; The cookies are best rolled very thin. They may
be sprinkled with sugar before baking or decorated after
with white icing made from one cup confectioners sugar
and one egg white.
SPICE PEAR BARS
2 cups all purpose flour ‘
1 cup quick cooking rolled oats
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter
4 medium pears, peeled, cored, and chopped, (2 cups)
% cup chopped nuts
% cup granulated sugar
Vt teaspoon ground cinnamon
V* teaspoon ground ginger
3 tablespoons butter
In bowl stir togethr flour, oats, coconut, brown sugar,
baking soda, and V* teaspoon salt; cut in one cup butter
until mixture is crumbly. Pat half of the mixture into a
greased 15% x 10% x 2 inch pan. Cover with pears.
Combine nuts, granulated sugar, and spices; sprinkle
over fruit. Dot with three tablespoons butter. Pat
remaining oat mixture over all. Bake at 375 Degrees F. for
45 to 60 minutes. Cut into bars while still warm. Makes
four dozen.
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wilderness.
Does anyone hear? Or
care?
The voices are those of
young farm families,
struggling to grasp hold of a
way of life, watching as that
chance slips from their
fingertips and is lost in the
wilderness.
The wilderness? It’s a
jungle of sky-high land
prices, fast-growing
machinery costs, interest
rates with a stranglehold
that threatens to choke the
existence of agriculture
credit.
I listened to the voices of
frustrated young fanners,
pleading for help in finding a
way through the financial
jungle maze during a Young
CLICK'S
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ROOFING & SPOUTING
Handler & Installer Of
BAKED ENAMEL TIN ROOFS
Colors: Turquoise, Red, Olive Green, Rust,
Brown, White and Piain.
Sizes: 5 ft. up to 36 ft. All in one. Also cut to
exact length.
SAMUEL B. CLICK
R.D l.Kmzer, Pa PH: (717)442-4921
Call in Morning Before 6:30
and Evenings after 6 00 P M
No Sunday Calls
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I Chambersburg, Pa. ->7201
jOLLENBEROER Ph0ne 717 264 9688
CONCRETE
"H” TYPE FEED BUNKS
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Featuring
: String enough to support
• Steel Reinforced a ro °f ar| d fesder
• Movable for future expansion • No corners to retain spoiled feed
INSTALLATION OF BUNKS
We have the necessary equipment to handle and install these heavy bunks.
„ Customer shall make roadway to feed lot passable for our delivery truck.
, f spt Grandpa paid $2OO an acr
recently by the Baltin; re for land and probably
District of the nationwide thought he’d been taken
-Farm Credit system. Today, a buyer counts bis
Farm Credit includes the blessings if the price stops a*
Production Credit 12,000
Association and the Federal Grandpa paid $lOO for a
Land Bank Association, a milk cow. Today, you
self-supporting agriculture might get a decent grade
credit cooperation, owned Holstein - not a purebred
and operated by the farmer- with registry - for $l,OOO
members which it serves. Grandpa' had a tractor
Although ' the federal too. Ii probably cost him
government loaned seed
money in 1916 to get Farm
Credit off and running, those
funds have, been paid back
for ten years. Today, we
obtain opr lending funds
through the money markets
of the world.
And, you know what shape
our dollar is in on the world
market. And, it’s going to
cost each one of us more just
to plant and harvest the food
supply.
These young farmers
aren’t asking for a handout.
For public assistance. For a
tax-free grant. All they seek
is the chance to borrow
capital, to raise their
families on the land, to prove
themselves.
Maybe a hundred acres of
productive ground, with s
barn and a house on it. Th°
beginnings of a herd of in
come-sustaining hvestocr.
Enough basic machinery 10
plow, plant and gather.
$2,000. Today, you won’t
touch a new one for $20,000. .
Grandpa’s prices ar*
gone. Grandpa’s financing'
methods have got to go, too.
We must have dependable
“borrow power”, available
when needed, at reasonable
rates and payback times.
Understanding and
knowledgeable agriculture
lenders and financing boards
were never needed more
than they are right' now,
whether they be through the
Farm Credit system or
through commercial
banking.
Many young farmers need
Farm Credit to survive.
Without the support of those
same young people, in a few
years, Farm Credit won’t
survive.
After all, isn’t that what
cooperatives are all about?
have a
nice weekend...
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