84-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 6, 1994 Consuming Thoughts Fay Strickler Penn State Extension Home Economist For Berks Co. If you want to grow up big and strong, you need to eat your fruits and vegetables! Most of us heard our mothers give this advice and as usual Mom was right! It turns out that it is more than just a mother’s good idea, because now there is solid scientific evi dence that a diet rich in fruit and Virginia Championship Apple Butter Contest WINCHESTER, Va. - The Virginia Championship Apple Butter Making Contest will be held on Saturday, September 17, in the Winchester Recreation Park. The annual event is held in conjunction with, the Rotary Club’s Apple Harvest Festival and affords the participants an opportunity to win more than $7OO in prize money. The contest is sponsored by the Frederick County Extension Office and the Winchester/ Frederick County Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with area apple producers and support HThe Tradition __ Continues Bringing farmers and businesses together to invent their future Farmers and their supporting businesses have long been stewards of the environment. Visit this year's show and get a glimpse of the ways and means to continue to meet this ever changing challenge. HOST FARM FAMILY: Rodman Lott & Sons .# i>M USE# ♦•u -ES <f_ i —w MVjc , s ■ i »- Wannw [-M;tfn,j*T!fcin | v JO 5»» ' I EMPIRE FARM DAYS :l RODMAN LOTT fc SONS SPONSORED BY Empire State Potato Club, Inc. IN COOPERATION WITH American Agriculturist • New York State College of Agriculture St Life Sciences • New York Equipment Dealers' Association • New York State Farm Equipment Club • Cornell Cooperative Extension • New York State Electric Sr Gas Corporation • Rochester Gas Sr Electric Corporation vegetables, and the nutrients they provide, leads to a lower risk of a number of major diseases. Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamin C and carotene but they are also important sources of vitamin E, folate, and fiber. So, if these foods are so healthy businesses. The apple butter must be made in the park on the day of the contest and can be sold on both Saturday and Sunday during the Festival. If you are interested in trying to unseat the 1993 Virginia Apple Butter Making Champion - Mt. Olive United Methodist Church - contact the Frederick County Extension Service by writing to: Second Floor, Frederick County Courthouse, 20 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA 22601; or phoning (703) 665-5699 for rules and an entry form. AUGUST 9,10, & 11,1994 Farm Show then why aren’t we eating more of them? Recent studies have shown that only 20 percent of Americans eat even one fruit or vegetable rich in vitamin C or carotene on any given day. And only nine percent eat the recommended two fruits and three vegetables. Wjth intakes that low, a great many people are not getting the optimal levels of vitamin C, E, and carotene. To change your diet so that you include more fruits and vegetables (5-9 servings daily) try some of these ideas. • For lunch or dinner, make a low-cost easy to prepare salad or dessert out of fruit Don’t just serve it for breakfast. • Bake apples the night before and store in the refrigerator for an easy dessert the next night • For vitamin A include dark green and deep yellow vegetables such as spinach and carrots or serve cantaloupes, yellow peach es, and apricots. • Pep your morning and your scrambled eggs with bits of fresh bean sprouts, sliced water chest nuts and a little chopped onion and green pepper. Add a dash of soy sauce, if you like. Vegetables can be fun for breakfast! • Want a nutritious economical sandwich to perk up lunch time? Mix chunky peanut butter (1 cup), chopped raisins (1 cup), and shredded carrot ('/ cup) for six snappy sandwiches. • Enjoy dark-green leafy vege tables, raisins, or prunes and get an extra bonus of iron. • Add fresh or dried herbs to ve getables during the cooking per iod. Lima beans with marjoram or sage, snap beans with basil or dill, broccoli with tarragon, or cabbage with caraway seeds are all good The tradition continues.... What began as summer farm show in the North east-Empire Farm Days. The '94 Empire Farm Days continues the tradition with more exhibi tors and activities than ever. General Slats • 325-acre site • 75 acres of displays • 500 agricultural exhibitors • More than 1,000 agricultural compa nies Show Hi 9 am-5 pm Tue. & Wed, 9 am-4 pm Thur Daily Field Demos 10:00 am-11:30 am: T illage/ Seeding (includesprimary & secondary; seeding) 11:30 am-1 pm: MIX OFF (Total Mixed Ration Demo) NEW IN '94! 11:30 am-1 pm: Wheat Har vesting & Global Position ing System. NEW IN '94! 1 pm-3 pm: HAY (includes mower conditioning, bal ing, handling) Special Events Each Da; DemoTertt Activities, Deep Tillage Display, Water Quality Project, Composting Project Wed.: Environmental Stew ardship Award Presenta tion - Thurs.: Salute to Young Parmer Day For more information: Empire Farm Days PO Box 566, Stanley, NY 14561 • 716/526-5356 Antique Tractor Display Commemorative Display Historical Look at 61-years of shows Collectors' Toy Tractors Sc T-shirts Farm Health & Safety Center Live Demos: Plus Free Skin Cancer & Spirometry Screening, Auditory Testing North American Farm Show Council Endorsed by the NAFSC for its dedication and commit ment to excellence. Farm Family/ Women's Programs NYS Grange and NY Farm Bureau present programs and activities geared toward farm families Airport Adjacent to Show The Finger Lakes Regional Airport; 315/568-9139; Free Shuttle to show. combinations. • Watching your weight? Sprinkle lemon juice or herb vine gar on boiled vegetables for sea soning, instead of butter or mar garine. • Baking acorn squash halves? Add a sprinkling of cinnamon for new zest • Get vitamin C from oranges, grapefruit strawberries, canta- Pigeon (Continued from Pago B 3) Skykennels are wooden, stackable boxes divided into small side-by side sections literally, pigeon holes. Current flight rules allow two skykcnnels per customer and freight reservations must be made ahead of time for the feathered fliers. Pigeons are sensitive to temper ature changes in their environment and are stressed by extreme heat and cold. Angle has lost birds after moving them from California to southern York County during cold weather. It may take as long as a year for pigeons to adjust to extremes of a new climate, during which time they often will not breed. ‘‘Southern states do better at raising babies earlier in the year,” Angle said, “But quality of pigeons are good all over the country, not any one particular location." The Avian flu poultry epidemic a few years ago was devastating to pigeon breeders, according 10 Angle, even though pigeons do not get the disease. “It just about destroyed us,” he said, explaining that shows were simply shut down completely for a period of time. Exhibitors self certify their birds health condi tions for show purposes, but all pigeons are checked at shows. GENERATOR SYSTEMS 1-800-779-8809 New & Used 5 to 2500 KW Diesel • Propane • Natural tias 24 Hour Emergency Service Sales - Installation Maintenance Contracts • Rentals 10 To 150 KW 1800 RPM Brushless Tractor Driven Generators DYN ; DYNA-TBCH INDUSTRIES 602 E. 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He is an office holder in five separate local and regional pigeon organizations. Following in his father’s foot steps, Kevin likewise has been honored for pigeon breeding and showing accomplishments. At 15, he became the youngest person in the National Modena Club to win a certified champion award, which recognizes a lengthy series of top showe accomplishments. His dad has three of the awards to his credit. Both Marvin and Kevin are now gearing up to help host an all breed show to be held July 31 at the York Fairgrounds. As show secretary, Marvin is helping organize the entries for the 40 to 50 breeds expected to be repre sented at the event. For additional information on the show, Angle may be contacted at Miller Road, Rl, New Freedom, PA 17349. ECHI Dynamic Technologies
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