B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1984 °n being a a farm -And Joyce Hupp Ah, February, Month of such diverse distrac tions from the seasonal blahs as the birthdays of two of our greatest presidents and the celebration of love with silly cards and calorie laden heart-shaped boxes of candy. And at this point of winter weariness, even a groundhog earns his day in the sun - or whatever - depending on the weather at Quarryville or Punxsutawney. Personally, I’ve always figured any groundhog worth his weather wisdom will play it smart the beginning of this month and stay put in hibernation. Frankly, its pretty tempting some days to me to do the same. For in February, there’s little more enticing to my mind than settling down with an afghan over my toes, a cup of hot chocolate steaming at my elbow, and a stack of seed catalogs on hand. Man that’s living. Besides, it’s high time to get down to the serious business of decision making about spring planting. 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With just the turn of a brilliantly colored, glossy cover, I can escape to a world of “radiant rose-pink with a touch of salmon,” “gorgeous leaves in variegated colorful patterns,” and “juicy flesh, deliciously sweet and fragrant ” There, in that wishbook haven between the pages of perfect petunias, pansies, peas and pumpkins lies a wonderful Never- Never Land. Never any cutworms not whitefly. Never telltale signs of tobacco mosaic, mildew, Ver ticillium wilt. Never a cabbage looper nor a nematode. Never roosters scratching out the spinach seeds, or cows clomping through the cantaloupes, or pigs rooting through the rose bed. Even if you’re a realist rather than a romantic, the seed catalogs HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania’s commercial red meat production for December 1983 totaled 105.3 million pounds, up three percent from the previous month, according to the Penn sylvania Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. January-December 1983 total red meat production was one billion pounds. Cattle slaughter was 85,100 head with an average liveweight of 1,816 pounds. Calf slaughter was 26,600 head with an average liveweight of 170 pounds. The 313,500 head of hogs slaughtered, had an average liveweight of 231 pounds. The number of sheep and lambs slaughtered totaled 11,700 head with an average liveweight of 103 offer a boutique of fascinating hardware and helpers for both the novice gardener, as well as the drought-or-dampness hardened veteran. You might find anything from a full-size plastic greenhouse (just match part A to part B and fit into part C), to canning labels, from earthworms to nutcrackers, Hotkaps to mole traps, realistic looking plastic snakes (forget it!) to soil acidity computers. It almost makes you want to rewrite the lyrics to that old sop; “summertime... and the livin’ is easy,” by scratching out the word “summertime” and inserting “February.” No weeds. No gnats. No guilt about hitting the garden at dawn’s first light or hanging out there picking the peas by flashlight. (I have a friend who once did that.) Just a stack of seed catalogs on a snowy, cold night. Now that’s living. Yes. Morton Buildings designs and erects all types of buildings! l To meet your building needs from farm buildings to those designed for industrial use trust Morton Buildings You'll recognize our Red meat totals pounds. Nationally, commercial red meat production during December 1983 totaled 3.39 billion pounds, down two percent from the previous month. Production during 1983 totaled 38.9 billion pounds. Commercial red meat production includes slaughter in federally inspected and other plants, but excludes animals slaughtered on farms. doing scherenschmtte, she says, “Work out from the center when cutting. It’s very easy to cut the wrong thing.” Once the cutting is done, pin pricking may be done to add some detail to parts of the picture. The actual paper used is calligraphy parchment, and to create an old look, Janet has her students brush coffee water onto the paper. The liquid is made by using 1 teaspoon instant coffee and 1 tablespoon boiling water. After it is brushed lightly onto the paper, it should be turned upside down on another paper which will absorb the extra liquid. Placing a pane of glass over it will help flatten the work. The final step is using water colors to add color and interest to the design which is then glued on mat board, and can be framed. Janet says the interest in paper items, like Valentines, has in creased tremendously over the last 10 years. “In the last ten years paper things have come into their own. 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