Onbei a farm -And o hazar Joyce B When you stop learning, you’re dead. By fate or by design, we learn new things everyday. Or should, if we’re paying any attention to life swirling around us. Fact is, with each passing year, I realize how little I know about an increasing number of things .... and how impossible it is to ever keep up with the exploding amounts of new material to leant. A tribute to the quest for conti nuing education is the number of classes offered everywhere from our area colleges and high schools to institutions like the “Y,” com munity organizations, even local department and specialty stores. A bulletin arrived a few days ago from our local school district, outlining the evening classes available for the spring semester. From ballroom dancing to stock investment, from computer educa tion to photography, from craft classes to tennis, there’s some thing for just about everyone. When the kids were younger and I had fewer barn chores, I went with friends to various clas ses. We learned tennis through windy March evenings that some times nearly blew the balls away and tole painted assorted items from around our households. With the family grown, more of • Agricultural • Commercial • Residential Beef Operation Featuring 8’ Deep Manure Storage System With Waffle Slats • Retaining Walls • Bunker Silos • Manure Storage, Etc. LET OCR EXPERIENCE WORK FOE YOU-ESTABLISHED SINCE 1979! WE ORIGINATED THE CONCRETE SYSTEM! Sizes And Layouts To Your Specifications We Work Hard For Customer Satisfaction! those hours are devoted to farm responsibilities. After scanning the adult education lineup, I just couldn’t find any that really addressed the kind of learning my lifestyle currently demands. For instance, there is no class being offered on emergency bam plumbing repairs. That knowledge would have been most useful a few days ago, when evening chores opened with a lively stream of water gurgling down the cows’ feed trough. It lent new meaning to the term “high moisture com.” Source of the indoor brook was obvious a gush of water arched above a separation in a drinking cup hookup, thoroughly rinsing the stall’s cow mat as well as flooding around the piles of freshly-fed haylage. Plastic water pipe runs along the curb of the feed trough. “Tee” hookups tap into the pipe to supp ly water to the drinking cups, located between .every two stalls. On occasion, a cow will get her foot up over the curb and knock the hookup loose. While I knew where the shutoff valve was, I couldn’t make it work; switching it the opposite direction from “on” left the cas cade pouring out as fast as before. In desperation, the separated plas- INC. 430 Concrete Ave.,Leola, PA 717-656-2016 tic pipe was finally forced back onto the ‘Tee” resulting in a bath of cold water in the process and tied in place temporarily with (what else!) plastic baler twine anchored to the metal stall divider. By the time the gusher had worked its way loose again, The Farmer was home from a broken part errand. He demonstrated how to shut down the waterline by turning the valve .... only half as far as I’d been switching it. When it comes to health prob lems such as high blood pressure and heart disease, is salt at fault or not? Experts say it depends on whether you’re “salt sensitive.” There are SO million Americans who have high blood pressure and an estimated 2S million of them are salt sensitive. There are also another 20 million who don’t even know they have high blood pres sure. That’s why it is often called the “silent disease”: you may feel fine while high blood pressure is damaging your arteries. So, how do you know if you are salt sensitive? Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing, unless you do extensive testing while on a salt restricted diet. So to protect youf heart health, it’s best to assume you are salt sensitive and reduce your intake, as well as lose weight, exercise and reduce your alcohol intake. The British Medi cal Journal reported that even a modest reduction of sodium in the typical Western diet will reduce the risk of stroke by 22 percent and heart disease by 16 percent. If you’re a woman, keep in mind that reducing salt can also reduce your risk of osteoporosis. Authorized Dealer For KEYSTONE CONCRETE PRODUCTS • H-Bunks • J-Bunks • Trench Silo Wells • Hog & Cattle Slate Groan. And, while craft shops offer classes on grapevine wreath decorating and fabric painting, where can you find a single semi nar on “Handy Shortcuts With Duct Tape”? We duct tape spe cialists have to just muddle through, with no expert advice, on taping storm windows back in after 50 mph. gusts have rattled them loose from bam windows. And doing it with four heifers chewing at your elbows. Is Salt At Fault? To help you reduce your sodium intake to a recommended 3000 mg. per day, here are some lips: • Start by eliminating salt added at the table. • Next, eliminate salt added in the cooking process. • Experiment with herbs, spices, wines, vinegars and aromatic vegetables. • Look for low- or no-sodium foods at the supermarket. Del Monte, for instance, has a No Salt Added line of vegetables and is currently introducing a 50 Percent Families Churn (Continued from Page B 4) HAWAIIAN DELIGHT the orange Juice. Stir this into the 2Vi cups sugar custard mix and add sweetened 6 Tablespoons cornstarch condensed milk. Let custard mix ’/i teaspoon salt turc cool, then add whipping 5 cups milk 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 6 pasteurized processed eggs 2 cups whipping cream 2 cups light cream 2 packages unflavorcd gelatin 1 cup orange juice 1 Cup crushed pineapple 1 cup mashed,ripe bananas 'A cup maraschino cherries, chopped t Vi ;cup macadamia nuts (coconut or pecans can substitute) 1 teaspoon vanilla In a heavy saucepan, heal milk until it scalds. Mix eggs, corn starch, sugar and salt. Stir into milk until forms into a soft cus tard. 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