You try to do your best with your youngsters. Feed them. Coddle them. Tend them when they’re sick. Give them the best care you can. Expose them to culture. Like a variety of reading materials. And what do they do? Chew on the newspapers. But then, no one else we know of has figured out how to get a calf to read the daily news instead of nibble it, either. Bedding our calves and young heifers with paper contin ues to be one of my favorite, small ways of doing something personal to help the planet. And, it's good for our little girls. Unlike many users of newsprint for bedding, we do not run ours through a shredding machine. We do have a shredder from earlier years, but the rela tively small amount of paper used for several dozen young heifers isn't worth hooking the machine up to a tractor every few days. So our paper gets /V\ BED CLOSEOUT Full Size * Brass or White > Headboard & Footboard ™\ iTfe*-* Reg. 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The soft paper - no shiny stuff or catalogs - soaks up lots of liquids from the pens. Layered with alternating bed dings of straw, it makes a solid and dry bedding pack on which our calves stay warm and clean. The insulating qualities of paper - as well as its "sponge" effect - are both well-suited to bedding use. And in a bedding pack, the twi: puxr Trailei Red teg Ret teg Low 1329.95 ROLL-TOP rOMPIITFR —. DESK CLOSEOUT If Cherry Finish - Brass Fixtures .f— 1 ■ -n. j Reg. Retail $1649.95 V . i; Our Reg. Price $709.95 I HM CLOSEOUT PRICE ' ~#2 MATTRESS BLOWOUT 3 Pc. Mattress Set King Only Mad* for Large Hotel Chain Reg. Retail $l,OOO Our Price $ 249.95 King Mattress Only Manufacturer Cloeed Local Factory Reg. Retail $599 95 Our Price $ 1 29.95 UNBELIEVABLE PRICES! Sold As ls#2 . j I' BEDROOM CLOSEOUT Bl |" i iff ] I Etched Mirrors Of) f j | Brass Fixtures I Jh, Beautiful Bedroom Suite ,i. Reg Retail $2109 95 I SlSl I Our Price $789 95 I Cash Price $739 95 *s3f.fs Ooseont Price #2 i——“———— newsprint quickly composts down into tiny bits of manure rich • organic matter, which loosens and enhances the soil. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, plant growth ultimately back to plant growth. Just one of the cycles of life. Bedding our youngsters with paper offers rewarding feed backs beyond the satisfaction of recycling back to the land some thing otherwise of waste. Tossing the paper around is absolutely wonderful therapy. Here's something you can throw around, pitch with a vengeance, wing into the far comers of the pens, cause no physical harm....and actually be benefi cial. It's a perfect solution for those frustrating days when one just feels the need to throw something. The same sort of physical frustration outlet that jogging offers. Then, there's the added plea sure in watching the calves. They respond to layers of fresh bedding - whether it be paper or straw - by running about, kick ing up their heels, butting it with their heads and invariably, chewing away at it. Like any other youngsters cutting teeth. Their pure exuberance always brightens my day. Occasionally, our recyclers bring us large sacks of shredded office paper. After playing with that stringy stuff for awhile, a pen of calves resembles a bunch of black and white meatballs tossed with spaghetti. They'll have paper draped over their ears, trailing from all four feet, hanging from around their neck. On occasion, useful items will turn up in the paper bundles. Untouched and still timely gro cery-coupons inserts. A newspa per or magazine of particular interest (though we prefer no magazines due to the shiny paper finish). An unused cross word puzzle book. Kid's art work. When Blue Cheese Goes Bad How do they make blue cheese? How can you tell if it's gone bad? Like all cheese, blue cheese starts out as milk that's thick ened, sometimes with the use of special bacteria or rennin, an enzyme from a calfs stomach. The milk separates (as on nurs ery-rhyme character could tell you) into curds and whey. The watery whey is drained off, and the curds are used to make cheese. Fresh cheeses, like cottage or farmer's cheese, are unripened and have milder flavor than aged or ripened cheeses. Ripened cheeses are aged in a number of ways, depending on the variety. Blue cheese is treated with a mold called Penicdlium. Some forms of this mold form a liquid, penicillin, when they grow. Others just turn stale bread or decaying fruit a pretty blue or green. Still others are used to manufacture blue cheese, giving it its characteristic blue veins. Manufacturers actually punc ture wheels of blue cheese with needles to give the mold enough Custom Spraying/Spreading of Biological products. RESTORE-SOIL MICROBES: Product used to build life in soil. 44 different types of micros ft 12-3-6: Liquid foliar feeding for many different uses. k ☆ 15-30-15; Ar Very pure product for the biological farmer. Dry-water soluble (Not certified) * ,V GARLIC BARRIER: An organic insecticide - can be mixed with other products NITROSTORE 19: An excellent source of nitrogen to foliar feeding crops ft 3-4-3; A dry granular fertilizer. kjv FOLIASTORE: A foliar fertilizer with excellent performance and growth promotant properties. ☆ GYPSUM (Calcium Sulfate): High quality Can be delivered in a bulk spreader or bagged PELLETED CALCIUM; An excellent source of calcium, with no magnesium High availability Bagged, bulk or spreader * Note All products are certified unless otherwise noted Contact your local dealer for pricing and availability. Spraying can be done in the Spring, Summer or Fall. No chemical products will be used in sprayer Winterizing alfalfa fields, foliar feeding, and helping to control pests For more information contact Melvin & Merlin Stoltzfus Elvin Ranck Cochranville Ag Service Mifflmtown, PA Cochranville, PA 1-717-436-9142 1-610-869-9627 Don Weaver Homestead Nutrition, Inc New Holland, PA 1-717-354-4398 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 14, 1998-B9 During extended periods of wet weather, our small paper supply is depleted quickly to help keep pens dry. A mild, sunny weekend, with folks cleaning out their garages, usu ally replenishes it. And, we're grateful for that resource. Besides, it's always fun to watch people's faces when you suggest to them that you paper train your daily calves. If only we could. air to grow and produce the typ ical blue cheese flavor. You might not be aware of this, but there are a number of types of blue cheese. One type, Roquefort, is sometimes referred to as the "king of cheeses," hav ing been around since the Roman times (it supposedly was a favorite of Charlemagne). Anyway, Roquefort is made from ewe's milk and is treated with Penicillium roquefortu, and aged for at least three months in limestone caverns near the vil lage of Roquefort in southwest ern France. (Other types of blue cheeses are usually made from cow's milk, must be aged at least 60 days, and they can do so in less imaginative places, like refrigerated storage areas. But most are produced using the same mold, Penicillium roque fortu. Since blue cheese is permeat ed with mold anyway, you might think it could never go bad. Unfortunately, that's not true. Different types of mold can easi ly find your brick of blue and decide to start their own feast, ruining yours. Watch our for any out-of-the-ordinary flecks or flurry patches. Blue cheese usually can last two to four weeks in the refrig erator after being opened or cut into. If used for salads or cook ing, blue cheese can be kept frozen for several months. Freezing does make it more brit tle, but that's OK for most uses. An ounce contains about 100 calories and 8 grams of fat. Steven (Amos) Lantz Leola, PA _ 1-717-656-6648 “We care for you Naturally” «tV
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