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RD 5, Box 1A Shippensburg, PA 17257 717-532-5511 fields nearby for a few hours, none ever stayed for long. So what was wrong with our pond, anyway? Wild mallards come, enjoy our meadow ameni ties and occasionally raise fami lies. Lately, though, even they have been fewer and fewer in number. One problem we suspected is our abundant fox population. Fox es grin wider than usual at the prospect of a sitting duck - or goose - hunched tight to a nest of eggs. That’s the fox equivalent of petty shoplifting. Only surrounded by water would a nesting spot in our pond be relatively safe. An island. What we needed was an island. Now, islands most commonly form from nature when a volcano or earthquake-created cataclysmic event reshapes Mother Nature’s face. In the absence - thank good ness! - of either, any island here IN STOCK was going to have to be manmade. An anchored raft of locust logs was fashioned mid-pond last year - promptly sinking after it had soaked a couple of days. So much for the theory that our common types of wood float. When several Canada geese began hanging out at our pond in recent weeks, and one pair return ing daily, the island plan got a jump-start. That first wonderfully-warm Sunday afternoon found us pond side, adding final touches of camouflage brush and branches to our creation. Already in place were four pilings driven into the pond’s soft bottom, onto which the wooden-pallet-foundation would be fastened. Ever try to launch an island? It took the pushing and pulling of both of us to get the first comer over the low bank, at which time it promptly hung up in the mud of the shallow edge and began soak ing up water. By the time we’d maneuvered the rest of it onto the water, that first comer was already listing like the gashed side of the Titanic. Strategy was for The Farmer to paddle the launch craft, the canoe, from the front. I was the towing hookup, hanging onto the heavy, taking-on-water island with my right hand, while trying to remain firmly seated mid-stem in what is not the world’s most stable float ing object. Sewing and Crafts For Profit DAUPHIN (Dauphin Co.) — Do you have a desire to turn your craft or sewing skills into a busi ness venture? Or are you already working as a home-based sewing or craft business person? If so, “Sewing and Craft For Pfofit” Seminar will be of interest to you. Joyce Smith, Ohio State Uni versity clothing specialist, will speak on “Is Home-Based Busi ness For You?” Also, leant about Taxes and Record Keeping from a representative of H & R Block; and Russ Powell, business man agement agent of Penn State Cooperative Extension, will help you with Business Resource and Pricing in the morning. After lunch, L. Jeffrey Patton, marketing agent of Penn State Cooperative Extension, will dis cuss “Marketing Your Product”; Surface Drive Silo Unloader It’s belt wh< of New stronger, faster and built to last a long, long time. JAMESWAY® QUALITY IN A PACK DRIVE SILO UNLOADER - THAT’S HARD TO BEAT! *42* LAPP’S BARN EQUIPMENT 6935 OLD PHILADELPHIA PIKE. GAP, PA 17527 PHONE: 717-442-8134 ■ r T i nr ~-°— Radio Ditpttchtd Truck* Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 31,1 While I didn’t completely dis believe our ability to pull this off, let’s just say I removed my non waterproof watch and laid it on the pond dock before climbing into the canoe. And I hoped none of our neighbors happened to glance out their back windows. After at least an hour of groan ing, grunting, leaning, stabilizing, paddling, back-paddling, one claw hammer had sunk to the pond’s bottom. It took several trips back bankside to the pickup for more long spikes and haling twine before the island was secured. Actually, it looked more like a duck blind with a front and back porch, rather than something designed to offer a secure nesting spot. The Goose Hotel I dubbed it. Twenty-four hours later, we heard the first returning geese. They glided toward the pond, hon ked loud and furious, and franti cally winged back off in the direc tion from whence they’d come. In fact, it went several days before a duck or goose would set a single webbed foot even on the bank. This morning, as the sun cast sparkling diamonds across the pond’s waters, one of the two geese climbed onto the “hotel” and sat in the sun. Later, as the mallards paddled around its edges, the geese swam by and bullied the smaller ducks away. We think our island has finally been discovered and is already the site of territorial dispute. “Legal Issues” by John Becker, attorney of Penn State Coopera tive Extension, and a panel discus sion of persons currently operat ing a sewing or craft business will conclude the afternoon’s program. This seminar is sponsored by Penn Slate Cooperative Extension and will be held at Penn State, Harrisburg. The one-day seminar is set for Tuesday, May 1, 1990, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Advanced registration by April 20 of $2O is required. This includes lunch, all materials and .5 Conti nuing Education Units from Penn State University. For more infor mation, contact the Dauphin County Cooperative Extension Office, 1451 Peters Mountain Road, Dauphin, PA 17018, (717) 921-8803. SURFACE DRIVE SILO UNLOADER
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