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Summer is the time for travel
ing and vacations. Thus several
grandchildren have come to the
farm with their families.
One Georgia family started off
their week’s visit with an ice
cream party at our home for some
friends. Our freezer had not been
used for ages. The first ice cream
was hand-cranked but the next
two batches were made the easy
way in an electric freezer loaned
by our son.
You can look at and play with
calves, cats, and a puppy just so
long and then other entertainment
is necessary. I had the opportunity
to go along with them to two local
museums. The Heritage Center of
Lancaster County is located in a
building on Lancaster Square
while Landis Valley Museum is in
the country and consists of many
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demonstrated. We saw the raw
flax plants transformed into thread
and then woven into materials for
clothing and bedspreads just as
they did long ago.
The Conestoga wagon was used
to convey flour, whiskey, butter,
cheese, fur, com and bacon to
Philadelphia. On the return trip it
brought gunpowder, spices, salt,
tea, coffee, tools, sugar, and mo
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One day we traveled to New
Jersey to visit another daughter.
They have a large swimming pool,
which was a big attraction for the
adults and the children. The water
was too warm as this was a very
hot week. On the way home the
children slept on their grandmo
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Branchville, New Jersey. Her par
ents, Jake and Sally Tanis, own
Ideal Holsteins, a 200-cow and re
placement herd which includes the
full capacity milking herd of 85.
Rachel’s older brothers Jacob, 23,
and Adam, 22, farm the Ideal herd
also.
“When I was real little I didn’t
want to have anything to do with
animals,” Rachel says. But that
certainly has changed. She has ex
perience showing 4-H beef and
pigs, but her dairy ribbons,
plaques, and trophies steal the
show the 1993 PA Farm Show
Grand Champion of the Junior Di
vision, Junior Champion fitter
awards, Junior Champion show
man awards, county Milk, Fat,
Protein Awards. Junior All Penn
sylvania Awards, Breeder of Ex-
without a visit to Hcrshey’s Cho
colate World. They told me this
too was a hot trip but ice cream
cones helped them cool off a little
bit.
On their way from Georgia,
they bought a basket of peaches
for us and now I had better can
them before they become too ripe.
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cellent Cow award, and Junior
Progressive Breeder Award.
“I don’t like doing things half
way,” Tanis says. Since her May
26th coronation, Tanis has visited
Altoona’s Lakemont Park on
Dairy Day, visited preschools,
spent two days at the Special
Olympics, promoted dairy pro
ducts at Burkholder’s Market, vis
ited the Logan Grange, and the
Boalsburg Memorial celebration.
“I hope to see and meet a lot of
people,” says this part-time Penn
State student. “I want kids to
know they grow on it (milk). And
I’ve learned a lot.”
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QUESTION—Anna Newswanger, 185 S. Pool Forge Rd.,
Narvon, PA 17555, would like to purchase the book “Ada and
the Wild Duck,” by Edith Brecht. Please state price when
answering.
QUESTION D. Newsom, Cooperstown, N.Y., would like
to know where to find kegs for Saint Bernards to wear around
their necks. He needs real kegs, not miniature knick-knacks,
that live Saint Bernards wear.
QUESTION D. Newsom, Cooperstown, N.Y., would like
to buy an Aladdin Lamp that is either electric or oil or ker
osene, but not the Aladdin mantle type. He wants the shape,
the kind rubbed for a wish in the story of the Magic Lamp.
QUESTION D.Newsom, R. 2, Box 530 Copperstown,
N.Y. 13326-9606, would like to purchase soft fake fur or plush
large pieces In 6 to 8 yard lengths. Can be new or used. Send
source and price.
QUESTION A subscriber from Lehighton would like to
know where to purchase plastic lids for soft plastic quart con
tainers for freezing produce. If lids cannot be purchased sepa
rately, where can she purchase wholesale a case of plastic
quart containers.
QUESTION Nancy Cummings, Bolivar, would like to
know why celery plants go to seed. She has grown celery all
her life and the last two years, some of the plants go to seed
instead of developing a nice stalk.
QUESTION —M. Carver writes: What a surprise in our gar
den when we discovered the local nursery supplied us with
cabbage plants instead of brussel sprouts. We would like to
know how they are handled while fresh and also a pepper
slaw recipe for canning or other recipes for cabbage. Please
check pages B 6 and B 8 this week for recipes.
ANSWER A reader from Thorton wrote that families of
Canadian geese have taken residence in their pond. How can
the geese be encouraged to leave the pond? Thanks to E.L.
Cehula of Phoenixville for suggesting the following: First you
must love dogs. Get a border collie, which is born with an
instinct to herd. With a little training and your time, the dog can
be taught to patrol the pond by herding the geese into the
water and keeping them there. In order to dry off, the geese
will fly up and if they return, the dog will once again chase
them into the water. When they find out they cannot get out to
dry off or graze, the geese will leave. Make sure all goslings
are ready to fly before using the dog as a guard. Always praise
your dog and reward him with a treat. A border collie is always
eager to please and will reward you with much devotion and
tireless work.
ANSWER Barb Gayman wanted more explicit instruc
tions for a question she had asked previously. She asked
what to do about food sticking to the plastic trays of her food
dehydrator, Thanks to Eva Brubaker, Myerstown, who said
that Original Pam No-Stick Cooking Spray, no substitutions,
works.
Tanis may be learning a lot, but
she’s also giving a lot She’s out at
the bam at 5:30 every morning to
milk and feed calves. Her dairy
princess activities are usually
scheduled for mid-day, and her
spare time is spent helping young
4-H’ers with their calf projects be
cause, says Tanis, she doesn’t
want them to lose interest
Tanis expects a very busy year
combining her dairy princess
schedule with her showing sche
dule. But when her year is finish
ed, Tanis plans to continue to be a
spokesperson for the dairy indus
try and it’s wholesome products
as a full-time dairy and animal
science major at Penn State with a
minor in communications.