fhm Philosophy m \ Newton Bair A _ V .* X _ _. T J GET READY TO SPRING It’s really funny. I used to get mad when the Ag news articles, written by “experts” of course, started to remind farmers that spring is coming. Heck, I didn’t need reminding, I could feel it in my bones. You probably need no prompting either, but what else is there to be both sad and glad about at the same time? My wealthy neighbors have returned from their winter flight to A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTS! Phone: 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164 FREE STALLS DONT BUY UNTIL YOU SEE OUR NEW QUADRABEND FREE STALLS NORBCO EQUIPMENT P.O. BOX 267 WESTMORELAND, NY 13490 315-853-3936 Florida, some of the other birds that like to migrate are eating at the feeder in the back yard, and the cows are looking over the barnyard fence at the tufts of green in the night-lot. Maybe it’s only garlic green, but that doesn’t matter to them. It is time for a change. Those mixed feelings about the arrival of spring are understand able. The silos and haymows are showing some hollow spots, and the com must be shoveled out of the comer of the crib. Some of .*. wa wk denly feeling their oats, and should be trumpeting the mating call any time. And besides, the long under wear gets itchy about now. There is also a certain sadness about the passing of winter. Long, after-supper evenings, that gave us enough time to read all the adds in Lancaster Farming, (after the evening snooze) were real wel come. Just a few minor freeze-ups traumatized the winter chores, and we only had to plow the snow twice for the milk truck. The wint er TV was better than usual, and we gathered plenty of fat, plus a few essential facts, on the Farm Banquet circuit. WeTe going to I miss the winter. But spring brings more than the fever. No need for sulfur and molasses when the seed catalogs flood the mailbox. Onion sets are already on hand, and the free space along the garden fence that I spaded last fall is nearly dry enough to stick them in. The grapes over the back porch, and the red raspberries behind the glass house are ready to trim. Any day now, a package of hope and hard work will arrive from Burpees. Honeycombed wheat fields are --ready, for clove? scsdv)(e.s^scint£«Qf ? - - «i us still stait the hay crop that way, ® season, a flexible elastic device, a although there arc ways thought to wa V descend from ancestors, a be better and more efficient I’ve fl «w of water from the ground, a seen clover broadcast on the leap into the air, a leak in a pipe, a wheaifield in March, grow so thick lighthearted way of stepping, and a that the ole’ binder would hardly tide lhat encircles the Earth. It has cut the wheat in June. Jack frost, so man y meanings, none of them opening and closing the pores of had (except when a water pipe the earth, occurs only in spring, ‘springs a leak’)! The Quittapahilla Creek never So, get ready to Spring, with all freezes over. It is fed by too many the implications of that good Engl springs, whose water flows in at 58 ish word. Everything about the degrees. It takes several miles of word implies life, renewal, prog exposure before it loses heat and ressandoptomism.Thereisanew freezes along the banks. The ness in its meaning, creation in its length of the Swatara and the width activity, new miracles of openness of the Susquehanna will finally and life. And the First Sunday after dispel the heat from the Quittie’s the first full moon in late March springs. captures the whole range of mean- I think of the word “Spring”, in ing implied by . the word it’s many forms and meanings. It is “SPRING”. Atlantic Lykens Valley Local Elects Officers SOUTHAMPTON The president, and Michael Miller, Lykens Valley Local of Atlantic Hamsburg, secretary/treasurer. Dairy Cooperative District 7 Paul E. Clugston, Halifax, was elected officers during its annual appointed delegate to attend the dinner meeting Feb. 29. cooperative’s annual meeting. Elected as president was Ernest Calvin Mauser, Elizabethville, Klinger of Klingerstown. Steve were named alternate delegate. Snyder, Pitman, was named vice The Premium Green Difference. "The diesel r ' Charles Altemus appreciates the superior quality of Premium Green DieseU from Agway Energy Products -, Specially formulated and seasonally blended, Premium Green Diesel delivers fast starts, more power and better mileage in all types of weather. That’s the Premium Green difference. Every 10th gallon free! Become a new Premium Green Diesel customer today. For every nine gallons you buy on your first delivery, you’ll get the tenth gallon free. (You’ll save 10%.) Offer expires June 30,1988. Minimum delivery required. Free offer equivalent to 100 gallons maximum. Available In The Service Area Of: LANCASTER, PA Phone - 397-4954 MIfIRIAIfIV Toll Free Lancaster County MfIDUCTVii _ . , n . fuels service equipment Residents Only Our people make the difference 1-800-223-9111 Charles Altemus, Penn Run, PA
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