84-Lancaatar Farming, Saturday, April 4. 1992 Onbei a farm -And o hazar Joyce B “Attitude shirts.” That’s what the department story sale advertisement flyer labeled them. It struck me as a catchy description for the classic tee shirt bearing a snappy, upbeat (perhaps occasionally smart aleck!) message. Spring fashions may come and spring fashions may go - but the tee shirt lives on indefinitely. And hem length, neckline style, waist location, and shoulder pad inclu sion all are irrelevant for tee shirt selection. True, color is important But it’s the message that really matters. A tee-shirt can relate your opin ions, outlook, preferences - your attitude - without your ever having to say one word. One of my personal favorite “attitude” shirts sums up our dairy farm lifestyle: “Some of my best friends are cows.” The youngest enjoys wearing a hunting humor tee shirt with no printed words, just a colorful picture of two buck deer dressed as hunters relaxing in deer camp, with “people” trophy heads hanging on the wall. Pondering “attitude” shirts while milking last evening, I fig ured some of the more appropriate ones for around here haven’t yet been printed. “Put your foot down!” is an assertive attitude message that would come in handy while work ing one’s way down the milking string. This sentiment is aimed at that handful of cows that like to dance their way through milking, occasionally removing the milk ing unit in the process. CONCEALED FASTENERS WATER TIGHT DOUBLE LOCK Color that shirt a bright, attention-getting'red, please. “You’re all wet” would be a most useful attitude shirt - if wear ing it could just make it happen. Hopefully, this shirt would be appropriate about one day every two weeks through the upcoming planting and growing season, when we would ideally get some thing like two inches of steady, soaking rain on a bi-weekly basis. Otherwise, we may be in for another season in which the timely tee-shirt for tractor and field work asserts: “Leave ‘em in the dust.” “Dig it!” seems a real appropri ate “attitude” shirt for us garden ers. In a bright, spring-like-green shade. With garden tools and a couple of colorful flowers and veggies. Or an alternative to that message might be “Hoe, hoe, hoe!” Nest building seems to be get ting underway in every direction, from the sparrows flitting around with long pieces of grass trailing behind to Mother Goose who reg ularly re-inspects the mid-pond nesting platform. Come to think of it, our backyard mother hen hasn’t put in an appearance lately. Nor mally she’d be stalking out a cozy spot in the straw for a nest - except that the barn is nearly barren of straw, hay and everything else. She may have to rent a nest-site from a neighbor. And for all our soon-to-nest feathered friends, we’d readily don a tee-shirt encouraging them to "Sit on it!” Then there’s a special-guest award-attitude tee-shirt that we’d like to present to a deserving Strickler Metal Roofing SPECIAU7ING IN STANDING SEAM ROOFING ROLL FORMED PANELS FOR CONTINUOUS UNIFORM SEAMS Galvanized, Aluminized and other materials available. Restaurants Take Big Bite Out UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) —An increase in meals eaten away from home has greatly con tributed to a 25-year decline in tot al milk consumption, says a Penn State researcher. “In 1965, consumers ate one meal in four outside the home,” says Dr. Blair Smith, associate professor of agricultural econom ics. “Now we eat one meal in three away from home an increase of about 33 percent. “In restaurants, people don’t always eat the same kinds of foods that they do at home. In particular, they are not nearly as likely to drink milk, a phenomenon that is costing the dairy industry an esti mated loss in sales from 3.8 to 13.7 billion pounds of milk annually. “At a price of $12.50 per hun- recipient Honored (well, that’s debat able) recipient is our co-op Held man and dairy inspector, who deserves this special recognition after his most recent routine inspection of our dairying opera tion. Part of the procedure is to check the water supply. When he opened the door to the spring, he was a little surprised to meet face-to-face a “three-foot long snake curled up inside, that had no intention of leaving.” A sort of resident “watch snake,” it’s made the springhouse vicinity its home for several years. Lucky for us, the dairy farm inspection sheet lists no specific point deductions for close encoun ters of the reptile kind. So to Jay Waybright, we award a “S(n)akes Alive!” tee-shirt for so calmly greeting our favorite springhouse security guard. He’ll need it if the rest of it’s family (at least two more) all show up for his next inspection. TAX & ACCOUNTING SERVICES Individual Partnerships Farm S Corporations Business Reasonable Rates As Low As $25 John Gundzik Accountant Call for appointments (410) 374-4481 Willing to do taxee in your home. Servicing Centra) MD and PA GOOD FOOD OUTLET STORES See Our Original Line Of Golden Barrel Products Plus All Kinds Of Nuts, Beans, Candies, Etc. 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By 1989, that number had dropped to 30 pounds, a decline of 21 percent. “Thus, as the number of meals eaten outside the home increases, milk consumption per meal decreased even more sharp ly,” says Smith. In a 1987 Penn State national survey, close to 73 percent of 1,147 consumers reported they weren’t as likely to drink milk when eating away from home. FDA Labeling To Change YORK (York Co.) —Labels on more than 257,000 food products are in for a dramatic makeover this year. Among the important features: Nutrition Labeling: The new labels must list, among other things, the percentage of calories derived from fat and the amount of saturated fat, cholesterol, complex carbohydrates, sugar and dietary Gber. Serving Size: Portion sizes will be standardized to prevent manu facturers from making beneficial If your local store does not have it, SEND FOR FREE BROCHURE Si gs <■■lllXlll HvitaMr Of Milk Sales “While they offered a variety of reasons, the overall message con veyed was that they consider milk consumption an at-home activity,” says Smith. About 50 percent reported they simply preferred other beverages, and 16 percent said milk in restaurants wasn’t cold enough, was too expensive, didn’t include free refills or the kind of milk they wanted wasn’t available. Fifteen percent said they just didn’t think of drinking milk when eating out, and 4 percent said they were reluctant to order milk or be seen drinking it in restaurants. 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