BlS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1,1983 Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser October Ist! Most people’s vacations for 1983 are behind them. Somehow ours never materialized this year. What we did manage was two afternoons on Blue Marsh Lake near Reading. We came home with a few small fish and a Waukesha GENUINE PARTS (D*£SS£R) i MERICAN, INC. 7815 AIRPORT HIGHWAY PENNSAUKEIM, NJ 08109 (609) 665-8484 Look for the “REAL’ Seal on Milk sunburn in places that working in the garden and field doesn’t get us. Allen enjoys using his electric motor to find new fishing spots, and we always take a picnic lunch along to eat in the boat. Sometimes I feel that our childien made up for our lack of travel. One of them spent two weeks in Hawaii in February and another spent a summer vacation in Canada. Others went to the seashore or to the New England states in the fail to see the histone cities and the beautiful foliage. Philip and a friend from Penn State spent a week hiking and camping in the mountains of Montana. It’s good that they were young and vigorous as their trip was arduous. They camped one night with three mches of snow on the ground and awoke the next morning to see eight mches of snow and this was the beginning of July. A rattlesnake almost bit him and a grizzly bear killed a man in the same area three days before. They saw elk and discovered a lake that wasn’t on the map and decided laughingly to name it after themselves. Jeffrey who lives in Marne didn’t need to go away to see wildlife. He was visited by a bear on several occasions and right in bis own backyard. You see, it really came to see tus beehives and splintered one to get some honey. Even though he moved the hives to the back of tus house and left a floodlight on all mght, it came again. He finally had to spend a lot of money to put up an electric fence and was advised to hang bacon on it so that the bear would get his nose against it as otherwise he’d simply walk right through it. Let’s hope that will help to keep the bears away. NOW DOUBLE OR TRIPLE YOUR OPERATION With Farmer Automatic's Fully Automatic Quad Deck Cage System... Without increasing your building size! QUADDECK CAGE SYSTEM FEATURES & ADVANTAGES • Automatic feeder < No special floor or • Automatic egg pit construction collection • Energy Savings • Automatic watering • Easier ventilation for system all seasons • Exclusive egg saver • High bird concentre • Double or triple your tion operation without in- creasing building size • Lower Cage Height • Easy Installation FARMER { NAME AUTOMATIC I ADDRESS of America. Inc. j I CITY ► 1 A l”*Wnte (or free Information I and FREE brochure or aJL I Reynolds and | Yellot Co. Inc. I 12802 Goret Mill Road I Reistertown. MD21136 • (301)833-1840 STATE PHONE L_zjp_ _ |
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