* Ida’s Notebook Ida Kisser Having just spent a long day at our local polling place, I feel dis appointed and disillusioned with the public’s view of the importance of a primary election. The purpose of the primary election is to choose candidates to represent their party in the general election. It seems that a presidential election is the one time that most LOOK MISTER FARMER! Flies are a problem! Fogging, larvicides and spreading chemicals around the barn can only offer you a temporary solution... 1 An automatic fly control system from COASTAL FLY CONTROL takes care of flies all season long, automatically. None of your valuable time is involved. <a: Call us today before the spring rush! COASTAL FLY CONTROL RD 2 Box 281 Conestoga, PA 17516 717-285-3979 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmd ■ people remember to vote. Maybe they think it is more important. Maybe they vote because more publicity is given to this election. It is an expensive outlay of taxpayers money to have several people at each polling place and then only have 20 to 30% of the registered voters turn out to show their preference. In my township for £rcc SEAL CRETE, 'estimate INC* We also install and service your system! Heights To 120 Ft. “The Farm Painting Specialist" Quality Workmanship and Quality Materials have pro duced a proven list of satisfied customers since 1961. Allen B. Shirk 717-872-8358 alone there are 19 different districts with people waiting to help you to record your vote. It is a long day and just because the polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. doesn’t mean that we can go home then. Even with the voting machines, the votes must be tallied, write-ins noted and then everything is checked and checked again before we can go home. When I left home early on election day, I had to scrape a lot of ice off of the car windows. Then during the day, when we weren’t busy, my mind drifted back to my garden and 1 wondered if the frost and cold had hurt the big bean plants and my tomato plants. The next morning I hurried out across the wet grass and past the starling nest in the hollow trunk of the pear tree and found them standing there proudly and apparently unharmed. The tiny peas hanging on the vines made me feel happy to be home again in my own garden. RD2, Ephrata, PA 717-859-1127 Polled Hereford Assn . plans field day Les Burdette of Penn State University on “Forage Production and Nutrition.” Meat and beverage will be in* eluded for a noon meal and all participants are asked to bring a covered dish. MARIANNA - The Pa. Polled Hereford Assn, plans a fun-filled field day on Saturday, June 4, at Flat Stone Lick Farm, here. The theme of the program will be “The Importance of Fertile Females,” with sessions centering around the APHA Benchmark Dam Program. Registration will begin at 9 a.m., and speakers will include Dr. Charles Wood on “Home Veteran Practices,” and Dr, Franklin 4-H Shepherds CHAMBERSBURG The The June meeting is to be a Franklin 4-H Shepherds met family night at the Kenner home in recently at the Extension Office for Nyesville, and will include a film workshops by members David on 4-H Congress and State Capital Keener and Marty Clemmer. Days. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 28,1983-817 The field day is being jointly sponsored by the Mason-Dixon PHA, the Pa. PHA and the Pa. Junior PHA. For additional in formation, call (412) 267-3325. hear workshops
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