# Ida’s Notebook Ida Bisser Late last year my husband and I went to an open house sponsored by the Pa. Fanners Assn, in Lancaster County, We visited several farms but felt that the highlight of the tour was the Mount Hope Estate and Winery. It is located on Route 72 and is about five miles north of Manheim. It was lavishly decorated for the Christmas season and the 28-room mansion of quarried red sandstone still maintains some of its federal style from 1800. , It was known as the Daisy Grubb mansion for many years, because it was built by her grandfather Henry Grubb. His father Peter ■MS FIELD DRAINAGE TUBING IO" 57.95 COPPER PIPE =*=—• AH -fittings in stock. • Coils available. Vz." [ 3/ 4 * RIGID ■ tji 10'Length 4# 5 5 L RIGID 10’ Length Available QenO\Mu Plumbing Supplies bought the original 2,500 acres of land in order to use die forests to keep his ironworks supplied with charcoal. At one time he owned a dozen red stone homes in the area which his workers occupied. There is an ancient elevator in the house and many fireplaces. Some are constructed of black marble and others have elaborate ornamentation and special tiles. A very large ballroom, added in 1895, has a stained glass skylight There is also a dome-roofed greenhouse. The billard room has been changed to a - wine-tasting room with a gleaming copper bar. Hollowed out cedar logs brought • Flexible polyethylene. 0 Zo‘ lengths. IE" 81.95 NEWARK, Del. Last June, health food and drug stores were stocked with more than 100 brands of a product which purportedly keeps the digestive system from absorbing starch.'Starch blockers sounded like the answer to every springwater from a nearby hillside and the Grubbs had flush toilets almost one hundred years before other families. The gardens contain very old boxwoods and an ancient cork tree. They also had an ice house sunk 20 feet into the ground which held ice for the entire summer. My husband Allen was especially interested in seeing this property because his three times great grandfather, Jacob Kraybill, sold this same tract of land to Peter Grubb on November 20, 1784. It was then that he moved to what is now known as Donegal Mills Plantation where he built a mill and continued in the milling and fanning business the rest of his life. And here we are at the other end of the county, but still in the far ming business. 8" 26.95 15" 114.95 Starch blockers raise ms PR AIN @ HOOSI6R PUMPS OTHER SIZES OF PCIMP-5 $ SYSTEMS fIUAILRBLE dieter’s prayer pills that permit indulgence without weight gain. But to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), those “magic pills” were drugs whose safety and effectiveness had to be proved under the Pood, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. In,July, the*FDA asked manufacturers to stop marketing the pills until testing could be completed. The majority of manufacturers complied voluntarily, but some have resisted, claiming that starch blockers are a food supplement rather than a drug, and therefore not subject to regulation under the act. The FDA is working through the federal judicial system to have the remaining starch blockers removed from the marketplace. Advertisers claim that one starch blocker pill inhibits the ab sorption of up to 100 grams of starch (400 calories). They say the pills work by funding with amylase, an enzyme the body uses to break down starch into an ab sorbable form. The proclaimed ac tive ingredient in starch blockers is pbaseolamin, an extract of raw kidney beans and wheat. In sol id or slotted. ( (ineof f/tt(n£s. SUBMERSIBLE POMP • % H.P. •8 Stages w/Controls $ 270.89 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 26,1983—817 PIPE 23^PerFt* in 250'Coils questions laboratory tests, phaseolamin has been shown to inhibit amylase ac tivity. However, its effect on the digestion of starch in humans is a matter of controversy, points out student dietitian Dawn Thomas, who is working with University of Delaware extension nutrition specialist Marguerite Krackhardt. A number of questions have been raised regarding the safety of starch blockers, Thomas points out. Numerous side effects have been reported, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and cramping. There are also concerns about the purity of the bean extract, since kidney beans contain at least three other “anti-nutrient” substances addition to phaseolamin. ’These other substances influence mineral ab sorption, blood clotting, and pro tein digestion and utilization. Thus, an impure bean extract could have several adverse consequences. -Jili l* STRIKE IT RICH! SEU IT WITH A LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED METAL DETECTORS INSTOCK See Us For A FREE DEMONSTRATION OFF-SEASON PRICES IN EFFECT NOW BOWMAN’S STOVE SHOP RO3 Napierville Rd., Ephrata, Pa. 17522 Follow signs from- light at Hinkletown on Rout? 322 Phone 717-733-4973
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