CS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 18,1980
Ladies
Have You
Heard?
By Doris Thomas
Lancaster Extension
Home Economist
A PICTURE MAY BE
WORTH $l,OOO
A picture may be worth
sl,ooo-or considerably more
if you ever need to prove
your side of an insurance
claim.
Good records are essential
for proving losses in the
event of a fire or burglary.
The day after a disaster is no
time to list your possessions
and try to remember their
value. 1 would encourage
you to make records now,
before disaster strikes.
Most insurance companies
have forms available for
listing personal possessions.
Revise records as you buy or
sell furnishings, jewelry or
household goods.
If you have a special
collection, fine antiques, a
large amount of silver or
other valuable items you
may consider having a
professional appraisal.
Many homeowners un
dervalue their property.
In addition to a written
inventory, you should keep
receipts Tor valuable items
and take photographs of
each room from several
angles. Take individual
photographs of major pieces
showing their condition.
Labeled photographs of
furniture, stereo
equipment, silver, china
and special collections will
be invaluable if you have to
document a claim.
Be sure to inventory the
contents of your garage,
attic, basement, closets, and
cabinets.
Keep your inventory lists,
the labeled photographs and
your homeowner’s insurance
policy away from your house
in a safe place. A safe
deposit box is your best
choice.
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APPLIANCES ON
THE LEVEL
Many minor and some not
so minor appliance problems
can be the result of equip
ment that wasn’t properly
leveled when it was in
stalled. Always check your
appliances with a spirit level
to assure maximum ef
ficiency and long life.
Top-loading washers have
a suspension system which
holds the tub in place, and
the washer must level so the
tubs can rotate evenly. Some
washers on the market are
equipped with a warning
buzzer, which alerts you if
the load is uneven. The
washer then stops until the
load can be rearranged. If
your washer has such a
warning system and it
frequently sounds the alarm,
double check the appliance
to see that it is level.
An imbalance is in
tensified by the added
weight of wet clothes. The
shifting weight inside the
machine can cause it to walk
several inches during an
operating cycle. Even more
damaging is the resulting
stress on the ball bearings of
a top-loading tub.
Front-loading washers and
dryers have belt-driven
drums so that an uneven
rotation is not as harmful.
If the floor beneath a
washer and dryer is not
firm, the appliances can
gradually slip out of level
again. It’s a good idea to
check them at least once a
year.
Although an uneven
position won’t permanently
damage a refrigerator, it
can raise your operating
costs and increase the need
for defrosting. If the front is
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Limber up your shaking
at-people finger, ladies. It’s
time for us farm wives to hop
on our soap boxes and
deliver our annual safety
sermon on the horrors of
carelessly hurrying through
the harvest.
Last year agian, there
were a Couple of you men out
there who didn’t pay at
tention to our female pleas to
be careful around the har
vesting equipment.
And I recall one farmer
friend who glared at his
bandaged hand and ad
mitted he hadn’t paid at
tention to our tirade m tnis
space about removing
wedding rings. So another
reminder: Hang onto the
wife but hang up the ring.
Of all the farm safety
angles I seen, one ofthe most
membrable was done by the
John Deere firm. It featured
■a super-busy, careless,
lower than the back, the door
may remain ajar, and a
slight crack that goes un
noticed may result. Warm
air and moisture enter the
refrigerator, increase the
frost inside and, con
sequently, operating time.
Another problem may be
small output of ice from an
icemaker because an uneven
position will interfere with
the flow of water.
Are your baked products
lopsided? Check the level of
your range, too, although the
efficiency of an uneven
range is not affected.
Most appliances, except
for some ranges, have
leveling feet on the front so
you can easily adjust the
level yourself.
Generally, you’ll need a
wrench or pliers to turn the
screw legs. Then check the
spirit level on top of the
appliance to make sure it is
even from front to back and
side to side.
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On being
a farm wife
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-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
animated cartoon farmer
who rushed from one
disaster to another. The
cartoon style endeared it to
our youngsters, who still
laugh when they recall the
misadventures of the little
farmer they just call by his
stock-in-trade phrase:
“Gotta Go! Gotta Go! Gotta
Go!
Gotta Go never took time
to shut down a piece of
machinery. Instead, he’d jab
his fingers or tools into .
whatever was stuck, or go
carelessly flying across a
field, or up a very steep hill,
or over a cliff.
My memory isn’t clear on
all his disasters, but once
Gotta Go plunged through
the baler and came out
neatly bundled and ready for
feeding, for instance.
Another time, a combine
header, left on for repair,
gobbled him up, tossed him
around the innards, and
ejected him out the straw
spreaders.
F. ERNEST SNOOK
RD 3 - Box 84. Mifflinburg, Pa. 17844 - Phone: 717-966-273
Switch
fertilizer tanks
to a Calumet vacuum tank
with soil injector
Liquid hog manure can save thousands of dollars in
commercial fertilizer costs. So it makes sense to
preserve that value with good management.
That’s why Calumet recommends pairing our
vacuum tank with a 2 or 4-shank Calumet soil injector.
Soil plow down retains about four times the nitrogen
lost with surface spreading, plus reduces odor and runoff.
Stop in to see the full line of
Calumet vacuum tanks in
capacities from 1180 to 4500 gallons
and choice of two vacuum pumps.
And ask about the benefits of using
a Calumet 2 or 4-shank soil injector.
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The Calumet Company, Inc.
CALUMET &
NESSETH ,
DISTRIBUTOR
In typical cartoon style, „Okay. So maybe
Gotta Go unbaled'himself, “gotta go” and hurry >
walked away from the the harvest. Maybe y
combine and bounced back"' behind schedule. Bui
after failing over cliffs or go in Such a rush that j
rolling upside down. On ' careless. Or your “goi
animated film, it’s hilarious. ' may turn into gone.
In real life, it’s heart
breaking.
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