C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 11,1981
and some say resembled Christ
mas trees These trees were
fashioned from evergreen trees,
trimmed with blown, dyed eggs
and often filled with candy A loop
of contrasting nbbon was glued to
the broad end of the egg and served
as a hanger Often gifts were
placed under the trees
In the early 1900’s this custom
became popular m the Umted
States, especially m areas with
large concentrations of German
people, and even today it remains
popular among the Pennsylvania
Dutch The bright eggs light up the
spring landscape
T he parents of three children,
Lloyd and Darlene are members of
the Pequea Brethren in Christ
Church One son attends Penns
State, and one son and daughter
are married.
Darlene is very active in Farm
Women Society 22, of which she is a
charter member. The Society will
celebrate its 30th year, and
Darlene has served in every
elected office. She is currently
acting as cookbook chairman and
cookbook treasurer, no small job
smce the Society has two cook
books which they are actively
selling. Her primary job is to keep
track of the money and see that
members always have cookbooks
to provide to the outlets which
distribute them. Darlene says,
“It’s busiest in the summer when
the tourists are here. It is a very
successful project. I really enjoy
the Society.”
Much of her time is spent
working at Cloth World, a job
which she enjoys because she has
sewed smce she was very young.
She observes, “More people are
sewing now than ever before,.
mostly because of the high price of
garments.”
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She especially enjoys arranging
fresh flowers and grows an
abundance in her yard. She has
started her marigolds and pepper
plants for the summer and she’ll be
busy canning and freezing once
local produce comes in
Darlene enjoys learning new
crafts and says she can usually
follow instructions tor something
new. She adds, “I find something
and experiment ” With another
Farm Women member. Pat
Landis, she learned to make waste
cans adorned with a Holly Hobby
type girl and a fishing boy After
learning to do the craft, she taught
members of the society to do them
at two workshops and helped her
daughter make nearly 25 of them
as gifts
Each Christmas she tries to
make something new for her only,
grandson, l l rz year-old Nathan He
has received a waste can, a stuffed
teddy created at her sewing
machine and a playful yarn kitten.
Darlene also needlepoints and
says, “Crafts are really becoming
more popular. The younger girls
are interested in these things.”
For Darlene, her Easter
decorations are just another
example of the extra touches she
adds for each holiday. She stores
them in tissue in shoe boxes As she
carefully unwraps each egg she
shares in that ancient wisdom
which shows the eggs as a symbol
of the rebirth of the earth from the
bleakness of winter into bright
promise of spring.
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Lately, it seems that most days
here on the farm are akin to boxes
of Crackerjacks; there’s a surprise
in each one.
Of course, some of those sur
prises we’d just as soon torget, like
a cow with a twisted stomach, a
mam bearing out in some piece of
cranky equipment, or heifers
headed for the Paradise of the
outside of the pasture fence
But then there are the more
pleasant and memorable sur
prises, like the one that arrived
last Friday evening.
Honey freshened. Honey’s one of
our very best registered Holstems,
a strapping big cow with records to
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25,000 pounds of milk and over 1000
pounds of fat.
Naturally, she’d been given
orders to bring forth a heifer calf, a
female offspring to contmue her
bloodlines and production
potential, and to enhance our
breeding possibilities from this
family.
The infant’s pink nose was a
deepening purple from delayed
birth when the farmer came to
Honey’s rescue. From the fine
boned leg he found upon
examination of the cow, he was
sure the presentation of a valuable
heifer calf was imminent. Quickly,
he pulled the calf.
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It was a bull. He’d been
weakened in the delivery, but vA
strong enough to respond to
Honey’s motherly cleaning of her
new son.
But wait. Further examination
confirmed the presence of still
another set of feet in the birth
canal.
A second quick delivery.
A second bull.
And here was the real surprise
The second baby arrived with
bright rust-red splotches of hair
scattered across the white
background.
Red and White Holstems are a
mutation of the normal coloring,
with certain bloodlines more prone
to producing the unusual colored
cattle.
Resembling the Aryshire breed
in coloration, Red and Whites have
gained popularlity in recent years,
due to their “collectibility” and the
relative scarcity of the breeding
lines.
After a quick reflection on
Honey’s pedigree and breeding, we
realized that, unintentionally, we’d
bred the daughter of a " red
factor” sire to "red facte
mating.
Result: our very first surprise
Red and White calf.
And it appears that “Surprise"
will be the pampered novelty pel of
the calf nursery for the next
several weeks.
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