—Laacaswr Faming, Saturday, March 17,1979 122 Society has suddenly begun focusing on, the problem of wife abuse. While not totally unheard of, .it’s rare to hear of a farmer who beats his wife. They have more socially acceptable ways to keep the little woman in line. It’s called letting us “help” around the farm. A black and blue farm wife suffers perhaps, not from the fist, but from the feet The feet might be those belonging to a thousand pound heifer, who the farm wife was supposed to help round up for a yearly cold shot Or, maybe it was the feet of a three-hundred-pound pregnant sow with an edgy temper who took an instant dislike to file new farrowing pen. It might even have been the nimble pointy little hoofs of a hundred sheep stam peding to the grain and hay filled dinner trough, leaving our farm wife with ankle abrasions. By this time, if the farm wife is not headed feet-first to an X-ray technician, she Let the Friendly First make your dairy farm a land of milk and mQney. You know all those great things you'd do with your dairy farm "if you only had the money?" Well, the time to do them is now with help from the Agricultural Loan Division of the First National Bank of Strasburg. The Ag Loan Division is headed by Bob Badger, who really understands your unique and complex money problems. He'll gladly sit down with you and work out a special dairy loan package that gives you exactly what you need. Bob will use the Friendly First's flexible payment schedules to make sure you get a loan you can live with...comfortably. So for the new cows you want to add to your herd, the up-to-date milking machinery, the bigger barn, the additional pasture acreage any improvement or addition contact the Friendly First's Ag Loan Division. You'll soon have your "land of milk and money" and some new friends besides! THE AGRICULTURAL LOAN DIVISION OF ‘Thje ‘Trierjdly Tiigt THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STRASBURG Lancaster County’s Oldest National Bank trill have at least become a critically addicted band-aid junkie. A band-aid will comfort a throbbing thumb afflicted while bending a nail over the bam door to hold it in place after the hingest fell'off. Still another band-aid will stop the flow of blood pouring from the inch-long slit in your arm left by an army of razor-sharp com leaves that attack you as you chase those escaped cows. And yet another band-aid will cushion your big toe, which you dislocated when you kicked the disk, which filled up with clumps of ground, which were im possible to remove, which left you standing in the middle of a field furious with frustration. So, you see, there are already many rural homes for abused wives. Trouble is, we have to dean the doggone things. Prsfa 4-H doings reported FLEMINGTON, N.J. - The Easy Riders 4-H Horse Club is planning a bake sale for April. The annual Coggins Clinic will be March 31, and the rain date will be April 7,1979. The Vet will be Dr. Eenyolds of Quaker town. Chairmen and committees for the Horse Show are as follows: English: Nancy Haver; Western: Ann Hellyer. The Window Display chairmen are Lisa and Christa Hurst. A demon stration was presented by Wendy DeMarco. The next meeting of the Easy Riders 4-H Horse Club will be on March 20th at 7 p.m. at the Town and Country Bank. The Hunterdon County 4-H Sheep Club held their monthly meeting on March 3rd at the Extension Building. The host family for the meeting was the Goedeke family of Flemington. The dinner committee reported on plans for the annual dinner to be held at the Stanton Grange on April 7th at 7pm Ticket information may be attained by contacting Mrs. Philip Crommelin at 236-2324 prior to March 24th. Any former members of the dub are invited to attend this dinner. Scott Goedeke presorted a demonstration on Docking and Castrating Lambs. The movie, 'The ' American Sheepman-A Way of Life, was shown. Members were en couraged to participate in the County demonstration contest to he held on April 6th and 7th. Also, it was dedded to have three dif MEMBERF DIC fi®wi 11