C32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 12,1980
Yoo hoo - you out there
Mother Nature. This thing
I’m waving is a white flag It
means surrender. Mother
N., whatever it is that we’ve
done that you’re holding us
under siege for, we
surrender.
Could you just give us
some normal weather for
once’ Whatever that is.
While two and a half inches
of ram m a half hour are
ripping through our fields
and re-landscaping my
gardens, our poor friends in
Texas are swollen, parched
and cracked in an
unrelenting, almost un
precedented heat wave
Our neighbors across the
county and the state are
scratching their heads and
examining insurance
policies for coverage on
tornado-twisted doors,
gaping holes in roofs and
suddenly open-air bams
They’re also muttering in
disbelief over fruit split
apart on the trees, vine and
vegetable crops denuded of
their leaves and corn
hanging m shreds like so
many acres of John
songrass And then, you just
never know when a volcano
might go berserk and bury
us in a foot of grit
In other words, Mother N ,
we know you’re out there
M;
Rt. 191, 5 miles South of Bangor, Pa.
July 23 - 7 00 P M Class C PTPA 4x4 Wheel Truck Pull
Music by Joe Reichel's Group & a Pie Eating Contest
Exhibits of Clothing, Flowers, Baked Goods
and Vegetables
July 24
July 25
July 26
o Chicken Barbeque on
Friday & Saturday, 25th & 26th
Parking and Admission
On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
Now lay off, will ya’ 9
Is this oddball weather
punishment for the loose
society in which we’re
living 9 Some would say yes.
Is it part of the upcoming
1982 configuration of the
planets that’s to wreak
strange magnetic hap
penings across the solar
system 7 Some would say
yes
Or is it good old Three Mile
Island’ Some would say yes
But whatever, Mother N ,
that’s all gotta’ change
We’re reporting you to the
bureaucracy
Henceforth, you will be
expected to file an En
vironmental Impact
Statement for volcanic ash
disbursements Droughts
are forbidden without the
proper permits, filed at
local, state and federal
levels, naturally, and pen
ding relevant and
retroactive legislation
Appropriate littering laws
will govern the careless
tossing about of hail balls
and fines will be levied based
on the damage And before
one single dark, rumbling
thundercloud can sneak onto
the horizon, a heavy storm
hearmg must be held
If the rest of us have to do
it Mother N , so should you
It’s only fair
10 00 A M
700 PM
Black and White Dairy Show
Class B PTPA Farm & Modified
Tractor Pull
Antique Engines & Farm
Equipment on display
Youth Dairy Show
10 00AM
7 OOP M
Class B Garden Tractor & Mini
Rail Pull
4-H Fashion Show
Cake Walk & Music
Sheep Show
Steer Show
Community Fun Day
Watermelon Eating Contest
Music by Willis Meyers
Cake Walk
9 00 A M
200 PM
6 OOP M
8 30 P M
Order 4 milk price rises to
ALEXANDRIA Va -
Middle Atlantic Order
Market Administrator
Lebanon looks
for biggest tree
LEBANON Forest land
covers about one-third of the
land area in Lebanon
County. Nestled in among
these thousands of acres of
forest land and in the yards
of some homes are a few
exceptionally large trees
that have been spared the
woodmans ax.
“We would like to locate
and measure these ex
ceptionally large trees,”
says Gene Odato, Forester-
Naturalist with the Lebanon
County Conservation
District “These trees can
then be nominated for the
County’s big tree program.”
It’s possible we may find a
few specimens to nominate
for the state’s largest tree
program. At the present
time, the largest European
Beech m the state is growmg
here m Lebanon County.
“It is very possible that
the largest tree of other
species could also be located
in the forests or yards of
some county residents,”
says Forester Odato
It would be of interest, he
adds, if there is any event of
historical interest associated
with the tree For example, a
large White Oak tree
growing in Lancaster County
known as the Donegal
Witness tree was the scene of
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WE’RE GROWING BETTER
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Joseph D Shine Thursday
announced a Class I milk
price of $l4 46 per hun-
a Declaration of Loyalty by
the people of that area in
1777
To nominate a large tree in
the big tree program, con
tact Odato at 272-3377 He
will then schedule a time to
photograph and measure the
nominee
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dredweight for August 1980.
This price is up two cents
from the July price and is 92
cents above last August
Order No. 4 prices are
announced for milk testing
3 5 per cent butterfat, f o.b.
plants located within 55
miles of Philadelphia, and
also within 75 miles from the
nearer of Washington, DC or
Baltimore, MD
There is also a 6-cent
direct-delivery differential
applicable to producer milk
received at plants located
within 55 miles of
Philadelphia.
Shine announced a Class II
milk price of $1159 per
hundredweight for June 1980
ZIMMERMANS LIQ.
SERVICE
$14.46
and a butterfat differential
of 16 0 cents for the month.
The Class II milk price in
creased three cents from the
previous month while the
butterfat differential was up
three tenths of a cent.
These class prices are
based on the June 1980
Mmnesota-Wisconsm man
ufacturing milk price of
$11.68 per hundredweight
adjusted to a 3.5 percent
butterfat content
The USDA reported that
the wholesale price of Grade
A butter at Chicago for June
was $1.3895 per pound and
the nonfat dry milk price
was $.8917 per pound, f.o.b.
plants m the Chicago area.
Rehrersburg, Pa
Ph 717-933 4360
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