Economics Assoc, recently elected officers for
1980. Robert Berkheimer, R 2 Mechanicsburg, left,
was elected president and Eugene Miller, 515
Garland Drive, Carlisle, was re-elected vice
president of the Board of Directors. Shown with
the two officers is Rosemarie Peiffer, who will be
representing the Cumberland Co. commissioners.
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The Cumberland Co. Extension recognized past County Commissioner
Raymond Sawyer, Jr. for his support at their annual meeting held recently at the
South Middleton Fire Hall, Boiling Springs. Past president, Mark Naugle, right,
and Marion Deppen, Regional Assistant Director, left, made the presentations.
With Commissioner Sawyer is his wife, Gladys.
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Town meeting
Agriculture Department and
ag organizations were on
hand to ask questions and
make comments.
Labor problems held sway
from the beginning.
Leon Wilkinson, Chester
County, urged the Deputy
Secretary to push for better
interpretation of labor laws.
He pointed out the damage
done to the state’s
mushroom industry by
bureaucrats who don’t know
where their fields are and
who make farming difficult
for growers
Alan Bair, of Atlantic
Breeders Co-op, and John
Brubaker, representing the
State Meat Processors
Association, brought up the
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problem of workmens
compensation.
Individual fanners and
farm employers both are
burdened' with high
payments for workmens’
compensation and unem
ployment compensation
Heim said the problem
was liberalized benefits.
“The only way to correct the
problem is to correct the
abuses,” he said
The two state senators,
Richard Snyder and
Clarence Manbeck, pomted
out there is a package of
eight bills in the Senate, but
all are bottled up by labor
sympathizers
Snyder, who is on the
Labor committee, said there
are six hearings on the
matter scheduled for March,
April and May.
He said those who oppose
the measures are likely to
“hearing them to death ”
But he added there is a
parliamentary way to get
the bill package moving as
soon as they have the 26
necessary votes.
“The back door is the way
to get it done,” he said.
Donald Hershey, Manheim
farmer, asked Heim why
farmers can’t get money for
farm stills when the
Department is making such
a big ado over their potential
for gasohol production
Heim admitted banks
regard such loans as risk
capital But he noted the
government is going to help
farmers obtain money and
said he believed Farmers
Home Administration may
make funds available for
this purpose.
Dr. Everett Denlmger, a
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vet who formerly practiced
in Paradise and who served
as a regulatory vet for the
Department of Agriculture,
questioned whether the
Department could handle an
outbreak of contageous
disease.
He noted a shortage of
veterinarians in the
Department.
“I think we could control
it,” Heim said. But he added
the Department is concerned
and needs additional help
He did not look happy
when he mentioned the
Department budget and said
salary scale for vets is a
problem
Heim said the Department
is working to assure enough
fuel for agriculture’s support
agencies, both suppliers and
haulers
But he admitted there is no
firm plan. “We would hope
the Energy Council can work
it out,” he said.
John Chapman, a Lan
caster County farmer, asked
why the youth and 4-H
livestock display area at
Farm Show was cut He said
he felt the worst place to cut
was in the youth exhibits
Heim said ail livestock
exhibit space was cut by 8
percent, commercial space
by 10 percent.
“From an economic point
of view the commercial
cutback was worst,” Heim
said. “We lost $30,000 from
the commercial exhibitors ”
In reply to a question from
County Agent Max Smith
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Sprouted grams and beans
have about three tunes the
vitamin C and protein of an
equal weight of iceberg
lettuce. True, some stores
sell sprouts fresh; but home
grown sprouts cost about
one-tenth as much. You don’t
need soil or exotic seeds
according to Greta C. Vairo,
Extension Home Economist
with The Penn State Ex
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buy dollars worth of special
contraptions, but it is all
unnecessary because all you
really need is a 1 or 2 quart
jar, even a large empty
peanut butter jar; a screen
of wire or nylon net or
cheesecloth; and a canning
jar ring oi a rubber band.
And you can sprout lentils
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Peppery lentil sprouts
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Heim said parking at Farm
Show would be unproved
next year.
He said the parking
security “did a lousy job.”
He said they could have
parked 20 percent more cars
and because they did, not the
Farm Show lost $6OO a day.
When asked about the lack
of funding for tile drainage
from ASCS, Heim pomted
out it was a federal program
The question of utilities
charging high rents for land
under rights of way was
raised.
“Keep the pressure on,”
Heim advised as a way to
correct the problem.
Heim concluded
meeting by saying
Department hopes to
other town meetings in
future.
He called the program “an
attempt to run a
bureaucracy like a
democracy.”
Other meeting sites
around the state mcluded
Erie, Warrendale, Carlisle,
and Tunkhaqnock—perhaps
the most firey of the
sessions. There Heim found
himself the target of
questions on milk security
from 125 farmers and State
Representative Carmel
Sinanm.
At that town meeting,
Sinanm accused the
Department of agreeing to
sit down with co-ops and talk
about milk security but
never following through
garden
beans. These have a milder
taste that sometimes ap
peals to the beginning sprout
eater. Mung bean sprouts
are the kind you find canned
m your grocer’s Chinese food
section. But once you try
them fresh, you may never
go back to the canned. As for
smaller seeds, you may need
to buy sprouting seeds from
a health food store; regular
packaged farm and garden
seeds may be treated with
fungicides that are difficult
to wash off.
To sprout seeds, nnse one
fourth cup of the lentils or
beans or nnse 1 tablespoon
of the small seeds. Remove
all broken and
seeds. Then soak the un
broken seeds overnight m
the jar with some warm
water to cover. Attach the
screen with a rubber band or
jar ring. Invert the jar;
dram the seeds; and nnse
and dram again.
Rinse and dram the
sprouts two to four tunes
daily until the sprouts are
one-half to 1 inch long. For
alfalfa sprouts, that’s two to
three days; for mung beans,
three to four days
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