pr fo tsk Lbs EINE. However, INT ard wmand see an. Ve - RED ROSE VALLEY FARM & HOME NEWS The Mount Joy BULLETIN SECOND SECTION SECTION VOL. 63. NO. 25 “Over the Back Fence” by Max Smith HOW MANY COWS should a dairyman milk? question has often been asked of our Rather difficult to answer, we'll admit, but the should be based upon the production of the cows and the labor supply. It's easier to get “big” in the dairy business than it Under modern dairy methods, we're told that each man should produce 250,000 pounds of milk per year. This can be done with 18 to 20 good cows is to get “better”. or with 35 to 40 of the other HERE'S A COMMON question this time of the year, “Does it pay to do ing”? For several years I've had the opin- This dairy authorities. answer kind. Forage Test- I Max Smith ion that too few County farmers are taking advantage of the forage testing service For a cost of $5 per sample the hay and the silage quality should control the kind and a- mount of grain fed. with the report if requested. I feel that many farmers can save far more than the cost of the test if they actually knew the value of their roughage and follawed the recommendations. MANY ACRES of clover and alfalfa have been sprayed during the past month for insect control; this fall spray- ing program has given good control of the forage insects live- stock producers should re- frain from grazing their ani- mals on this land until next spring. WITH THE great contribu- tion of electricity in our modern farming methods, we are nearly stopped with- out it. Many of our mechaniz- ed farm operations depend upon electricity. With the snow season approaching and possible icing conditions, we again mention the place of the stand-by power unit to be used in case of emergency. Generators that may be op- erated by the farm tractor could fulfill a very useful purpose. COURSES OFFERED by the Penn State University are av- ailable to every Pennsylvan- ian; these courses covering a large variety of subjects in both agriculture and home economics are not expensive and provide an opportunity to learn during leisure hours. These courses are becoming more popular each year and local folks are urged to con- sider some of them during the winter months. For addi- tional information, write to “List of Courses”, Box 5000, University Park, Pa. BOOKMOBILE FIRST TUESDAY Mount Joy Memorial Park 1t08 pm. SECOND TUESDAY Mastersonville Fire Hall 10 to 12 a.m. and Manheim Square 12:30 to 4 pm. THIRD TUESDAY Bainbridge Post Office 10 to 12 a.m. and Marietta Square 12:30 to 4 p.m. FOURTH TUESDAY Landisville Fire Hall 10 to 12:30 a.m. and East Petersburg Bank 12:30 to 4 pm. Mount Joy, Penna., Wednesday, November 20, 1963 Manheim Classes To Present Play Junior and senior classes of the Manheim Central high school will present the mur- der trial play, “The Night of January 16,” at the school auditorium Friday and Satur- day nights, Nov. 22-23. An interesting feature of the presentation will be the fact that the jury for the “trial” in the play will be selected from the audience and will sit in the jury box on the stage. Included in the cast for the play are Judy Martin, Jay Weidman, Jack Wolli, James Hollinger, Dennis Dennenberg, Don Hollinger, Elizabeth Brantley, Tom Greenawalt, Michael Clair, A free feed recommendation comes Karen Newmann, Sherry Mil- For Good Thanksgiving Eating If your Thanksgiving din- ner is to serve just a small number, you probably will not be serving a big turkey. That is not to say, though, that your meat problem wiil be a difficult one. There is available at your meat coun- ter today small turkeys, roasting chickens, turkey or chicken parts, or for some- thing elegant, rock Cornish Game Hens. Turkeys or chic- ken can be bought already stuffed, if you so desire. In the following recipe we are using a ready-stuffed bird. ROASTER WITH SPICY PINEAPPLE AND SQUASH Roasting Chicken with Wild Rice Stuffing 6 large pineapple slices 1 Cup pineapple syrup 2 tablespoons lemon juice 6 whole cloves 1 cinnamon stick 3 cups mashed cooked squash Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon brown sugar Roast the already-stuffed chicken according to direc- tions on wrapper. Drain pine apple slices. Combine pine- apple syrup, lemon juice. cloves, and cinnamon stick in a saucepan. Heat 15 to 20 minutes. Add pineapple slices and simmer 15 minutes. Drain. Arrange pineapple slices around roast stuffed chicken. Season squash with salt and pepper. Mound hot squash on pineapple just be- fore serving. Sprinkle 12 teaspooi brown sugar on top of each mound. Spiced pineapple and squash may be assembled and heated in the oven with the chicken the last 20 minutes of the roast- ing time. * *® ® If you like to make your own stuffing, try these— SAVORY CORN BREAD STUFFING 2 15-0z. packages of corn bread mix 1 cup chopped celery 1% cup chopped onion 1 cup raisins 2 teaspoons salt 15 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon ground sage 1 teaspoon thyme leaves 1 teaspoon rosemary leaves 1% cups melted butter 1 cup milk (Turn to page 7) me WORRY CLINIC Case Records of a Psychologist By - George W. Crane, PhD., M. D. If you parents wish to break up an the psychological Don’t open a frontal attack and thus force your mance, follow today. unwise ro- technique described child into more active defense of his prospective sweet- heart, but change her setting and she may jolt him out of his sentimental blindness. CASE M-472: Charlene F., aged 19, is a waitress in a small town restaurant near an army camp. “My son Charles is smitten with her charms,” thy Chicago woman informed “But his father and I are afraid he is simply overcome by loneliness and is thus glamorizing the girl unduly because he sees so few elig- ible young women. “We haven't met Charlene, though we have read about her charms in letters from Charles. She may be a fine girl, but we are afraid this romance is based on propin- quity. “Dr. Crane, what should we do to prevent our son a weal- me, “and wants to marry her. from making a tragic mis- take in his marriage?” Diagnosis When large groups of men are relatively isolated from normal social life, they tend to grow unduly hungry for feminine company. If they then encounter a few girls in a specialized type of environment such as a lumber camp or army dance hall, they may quickly (Turn to page 4) ler, Donald Bentzel, Pat May- be, Donald Herneisen, Ever- ett Mitchell, Phyllis Sides, Alice Rohrbaugh, Judith Mik- ota, Carol Metzler, Cathy Dis singer, James Hoffman, Lin- da Nelson and Carol Enter- line. Curtain time is 8 p.m. * * * Membership Drive Officers of the Manheim fire company are now con- ducting their annual drive for memberships for the year 1964. In charge are J. Harry Carper, Leroy Peiffer, Med- win Barto. * . » “ AtP.T. A. Student teachers presented the program for the Manheim P.T.A. meeting held Tuesday, Nov. 19. They told of their (Turn to page 9) News Notes from E'town Receives Award The Rev. Raymond L. Fet- ter, pastor of Christ Luther- an church in Elizabethtown received the Distinguished Service certificate from the American Legion in District 10 Veterans Day activities at the Hotel Brunswick recent. ly in Lancaster. The certificate, the highest honor the American Legion can give to a non-Legion- naire, was presented for the Rev. Fetter’s service to Le- gion activities and to his community and state. The E-tonettes, popular singing group, were present first and second teams in hoe- key, which completed in the Mid-East tournament at Wil- son College in Chambersburg Julie is a student at Lock Haven state college. ® * * Gets Scholarship Dale Garman Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Garman of Elizabethtown, is one of 42 Wittenberg University stu- dents to be awarded an alum- ni honor scholarship. Stip- ends of the awards range from $100 to $1,300 and are renewable for four years if the recipient maintains an academic average of 2.8. ed with cerlificates for ‘partt*“ate is a freshman this year. cipation in Legion activities on a state and community level. Se * * On Hockey Team Julie Dickson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dick- son of Elizabethtown, has been named as a member of the Central Pennsylvania '63 Exposition Sets Records The 1963 Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition, biggest of these events that have been held each year since 1957, continued to set new high records last week. Three hundred Pennsyl- vania 4- youths from 50 coun- ties, nearly double former participation, staged a 22- number horse show that highlighted exposition enter- tainment. Twenty-three judging teams from 19 states, another rec- ord number, competed in in- tercollegiate and junior (4-H and FFA) contests. Michigan State University, East Lans- ing, Mich., won the intercol- legiate event and Virginia (4-H), the junior contest. Market steers averaged 29.- 97 cents a pound, wethers, 23 09 cents a pound, and bar- rows, 17.81 cents a pound at auction. Steers in the sale to- taled 61 head, lambs, 222, and hogs, 179. Seventy-six feeder calves averaged 37.89 cents a 1b. the top animal going for 61 cents. Portage Farms, Woodville, O., received $2.01 a pound for a 1050-pound Hereford that took the steer grand championship. George's Food- liner, Bethlehem, was the buyer. CHECK! “One has to be a little crazy to write a book,” ob- served an author, and some- times one has to be a little crazy to read some of them. * * x Received Award Anna Mary Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miller M. Hess, Mount Joy R2, was pre- sented with the Student Lea- dership award, class of '64, at the third annual conven- tion exercises of the Capitol City School of Nursing, Dis- trict of Columbia, General Hospital, Washington, D. C. The award is based on princi- pals of personality, high mor- al character and leadership in the various non-academie activities of the clfass. NONE OTHER That ‘“villanous” charact- er you heard described dur- ing the political debate is none other than the nice neighbor who decided, in a weak moment, to run for po- litical office. MAY BE Much of the lost faith in heaven may be due to the assumption that marriages are made there. Don’t cuss the climate. It probably doesn’t like you any better than you like it. Marietta Notes == Becomes Brownies Eleven girls were invested into Brownie Troop 34 at the Marietta Community House recently. Receiving the “Brownie” pins from the troop leader, Mrs. Robert Spangler, were Cecelia Miller, Jennie Hies- tand, Carol Frymoyer, Lisa Geesey, Lauralee Baker, Anne Spangler, Marlene Shope, Rosetta Cramer, Lou- ise Harner, Deana Libhart and Marcia Johnson. Other members of the troop are Jody Sargen, Linda Frick, Joyce Ruby, Leah Edye, and Lynn Weaver. Mrs. Melvin Hiestand is assistant leader.