Heard. Buy Cool Corn For best tasting sweet com, there is a lot of truth in the old say ing ... “Fifteen minutes from the field to the kettle.” But there are not many of us who can follow that adage. Sweet com, like so many other vegetables, must be fresh to have the best flavor. Flavor is best if the com is used as soon as it is picked. ■ Up to 26,000 CPM agitation capacity ■ Standard 28 foot length extendable to 38 feet for really big lagoons ■ Choice of cutter blade or propeller options to match biggest agitation needs ■ Exclusive internal shear bar chops even straw laden manure ■ Semi-cupped impeller paddles for high capacity pumping Rodger By Doris Thomas Lancaster Extension Home Economist Sugar in the kernels gives com its sweet flavor. After the ears are picked, the sugar begins to turn to starch. The higher the temperature, the faster this process occurs. For best tasting sweet com, buy from an iced or refrigerated dis play or from a source that sells lots of com. In selecting individual ears, look for bright green, snug husks. Badger BNIBS uper Trail Pump/Agitator G & Q ‘JazmezA Supply ROUTE 8 BOX 4 HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA 22801 (703) 433-8582 - Dry ysiloW.iy,4ttaW.CPl defu«»<cl-«oon after arc an indication of age or damage, picking and this helps to identify Mature com has dried silica unma~ color Quickly tore com has damp silk. Besides background color, look Background Color Key f or peaches that are plump, well- To Peach Ripeness shaped, and free of bruises. Blush on a peach is a poor guide Bruises may come from customers to ripeness. The background color pinching the fruit to see if it is ripe, is the best key to ripeness. Learn to thereby damaging the fruit, tell ripeness by the background if you buy peaches that are not color characteristic of the variety ripe, do not refrigerate them, you plan to buy. Instead place them in a brown pap- Some peach varieties never er an d allow them to ripen at have a blush; others develop a deep room temperature. When they red color long before they are ripe ripen, use them immediately or enough to pick and eat. That s why refrigerate them until you are a pale peach can be riper and s wee- ready use diem ter than one with a deep red color. An overall cream to gold color under the blush indicates peaches will continue to ripen. But fruit with a green background color are immature, will not ripen satisfac torily, lack flavor, and often shrivel. Most peaches today are Drop By Our Booth At The Pennsylvania Ag Progress Days The Name SECURITY It Also Means • EXTRA MONEY Eastern is offering above-order premiums in a number of markets for production, quality and protein. To find out if. Eastern can help you make more money. Calf our PA Representative Robert Coleman 717-934-2192 (Toll Free) 1-800-253-0003 in N.Y. State and 1-800-448-0910 Elsewhere Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative 2401 Burnet Ave., Syracuse, N.Y. 13217 315-463-0781 Handle New Potatoes Gently Researchers report that potatoes can withstand up to 80 percent more jostling one month after stor age than they can at harvest time. Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative has meant «*«•/ Since most of the potatoes now on the market are freshly dug and have spent no time in storage building up a resistance to rough handling, treat potatoes as gently as apples or eggs. Buy only what you can use in a week or two. The new potatoes on the market are Eastern round white types from Pennsylvania and New York farms and those on Long Island, and long white potatoes from California. One difference between new and old crop potatoes is their appearance. The skins of new potatoes are often ragged and feathery and easily marked. This does not affect quality unless they are bruised and decayed. The Cooperative Extension Ser vice is an affirmative action, equal opportunity educational institution.
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