Cl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 9,1980
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
I’m sure most of us have
been listening to chain saws
buzzing these last few
weeks. The recent wind
storm that damaged many
farm buildings also brought
down many trees.
We were lucky in that
when a large branch broke
off of our 4 foot in diameter
white mulberry tree, which
is just a few feet from our
new kitchen, it hit the
building and glanced off and
only broke one board. My
garden didn’t fare as well as
the tree collapsed on it. How
Allen and I did work to cut it
up and carry all those limbs
away to be burned
The job fell on us as our
son was at the shore for a
week and our daughter was
attending a National Con
ference of Christians and
Jews at Millersville College
last week. When you need
them, they aren’t home. So,
we bought another chain saw
and got to work.
This wasn’t the only tree
that came down during the
storm. A large ash fell
across the lane and several
tops were tom from linden
and walnut trees m our
woodland. At one time, no
one would have bothered
about the fallen trees but
now things are different!
Our eighteen cottagers vie
with each other as to who
shall have the privilege of
sawing the wood It can even
cause hard feelings Our
neighbors in a nearby
building development get
into the act also and ask for
permission to cut their
winter’s supply of wood from
our meadows
Trees can mark
milestones in one’s life as
they are often referred to
when stating when
something happened. We
might say that was before
the plum tree fell or after the
Bartlett pear tree came
down. Many photos of my
childhood include a family
group posed beside a fallen
tree m our yard. A gift of a
tree will remind one of the
donor many years later
This year for the first
time, the papaw trees that
my father and I planted are
bearing fruit
I’ve always thought of
trees as my friends, as I can
name each one that I see, but
recently they’ve been
causing us trouble.
Seed firm pays
$1350 fine
LANCASTER Grosman
Seed Corp , East Rochester,
N Y , has paid $1350 to settle
a case involving shipments
of lettuce, parsnip, and
chives against alleged to be
in violation of the Federal
Seed Act.
The case was settled m an
agreement between the
company and officials of the
U.S Department of
Agriculture’s Agricultural
Marketing Service. In
agreeing to the settlement,
the company neither ad
mitted nor denied any
wrongdoing.
The case mvolved eight
shipments made into
Virginia, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Florida
from June through August
1977.
Alleged violations, while
not the same for all ship
ments, were failure to show
the germination percentage,
date of test and words
“Below Standard” for
vegetable seeds germinating
less than the prescribed
standards. Other alleged
violations included false
labeling of the date of the
germination test and failure
to keep required records
The act is a truth-m
-labelmg law designed to
protect farmers and con
sumers who buy seed The
Agricultural Marketing
Service administers the act
with the help of state seed
agencies.
Seed regulatory officials in
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New
Jersey and Florida
cooperated with the
Agricultural Marketing
Service m the investigations.
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The
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R D 1, Herndon. PA
717-758 3915
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Rt 309 i 100
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215-767-7611
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8422 Wayne Hwy
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717-762-3193
GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE
Quarryville, PA
717-786-7318
BHMFARM
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Annville, RDI, PA
717-867-2211
LH. BRUBAKER, INC.
Lancaster, PA
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PETERMAN FARM
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225 York Road
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