Conodoguinet Sheep
NEWBURG The fourth
meeting of the Conodoguinet
4-H Sheep Club was held at
the home of Clark Capozzi of
Carlise with president Rick
Cleland in charge.
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Club meets
meeting, Ray Holtry and
Mindy Brandt gave a sheep
demonstration.
Next meeting of the club is
Wednesday May 21 at Paul
Wynn’s home, R 1 Newburg.
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Pass the brown corn, please.
Whenever I think about
summer time, I think about
making hay on smoldering,
hot summer days. Memories
of cold, messy watermelon,
lemonade in the shade, and
yellow, delicious sweet com
come quickly to mind.
Com on the cob—the hot
weather dehcacy that is
torture for any youngster
missing two front teeth and
any older person blessed
with failing denture cream.
Did you know the first
references to sweet com
were made way back in
1779? That’s a fact, ac
cording to the USDA. They
say that sweet com is
believed to have originated
here m-North America—a
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mutation of regular field
com.
Actually, USDA says, an 8-
rowed, red-cob type called
Susquehanna, or Papoon,
was mtroduced that year in
Plymouth, Mass.
It wasn’t long until the new
com was showing up in seed
catalogs and gardening
books.
We all know why we like
sweet com. Simply because
it tastes good. Like its name
implies, our taste buds
notice that sweet taste of
sugar that this type of com
uniquely manufactures.
Most of us are familiar
with the traditional yellow
com. And many of us have
tried, and some prefer, the
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white varieties or a mixture
of white and yellow.
But did you ever hear of
brown sweet com? That’s
what one of our readers
asked me to find out.
Do you know of anyone in
your area that raises old
time brown com? What I
mean to say is do you know
of anyone that sells the
brown com seed?
Leonard V. Rahilly
285 Rahilly Road
Wrightstown, NJ 08562
Smce you didn’t specify
whether you meant sweet or
field com, Mr. Rahilly, I
decided to assume you were
looking for the sweet stuff.
Unfortunately, no one I
spoke to in the area had any
idea of where the brown seed
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theastern 4-H Club held its
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view United Church of
Christ.
The club participated in
the Keep America Beautiful
Day in April. Reports were
given on that day by Lisa
Grain holdings
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million bushels were 46
percent above last April. Off
farm stocks totaled 580
million bushels, up 24 per
cent. Both farm stocks and
off-farm stocks are at record
high levels for April 1.
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com could be purchased or
what it was.
The closest I could come to
anything in any other hue
than yellow or white was a
hybrid sweet com sold by
Gurney Seed and Nursery
Co., Yankton, South Dakota
57079.
Gurney has a 62 day
variety they call Black
Mexican. They boast this
bluish-black com to be the
hardiest they have ever
grown. Black Mexican is
creamy white in its edible
stage and turns to its dark
color as it matures.
I hope you were looking for
the black variety, Mr.
Rahilly, rather than brown.
Good luck in your quest.
Hoover and Greta Gross.
The program was
presented by Linda Brown
and Brian Palmer, the 4-H
King and Queen. They
presented slides and gave
the club information on up
coming 4-H events. Reported
by Lisa Hoover.
totaled 16.2 million bushels,
29 percent more than last
year’s 12.6 million bushels.
On-farm rye stocks at 10.2
million bushels were 18
percent more than a year
ago and accounted for 63
percent of the total April 1
Sorghum gram in all
positions on April 1
amounted to 394 million
bushels, six percent less
than a year earlier and five
percent less than April 1,
bushels, six percent less
than a year earlier and five
percent less than April 1,
1978.
Farm stocks of 142 million
bushels were one percent
below a year ago and off
farm stocks, at 253 million
bushels, were down nine
percent from last year.
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