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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1956
Page
16
Reader requests old clothes for a needy family and thanks donors who sent packages. A appeal seeks more donations and covers postage reimbursement by return mail. The article then shifts to cooking with pork sausage, offering four menu ideas including sausage balls in clove-studded peach halves as a featured dish for different meal courses.
Pick a leaf to judge maturity by fruit. If the inner leafy spikes pull out easily, pineapple is ripe. A fragrance from the fruit also indicates ripeness, notes Elsie Bamesberger of Pennsylvania State University.
A tested recipe round up featuring sausage stuffed peach halves with cloves, oven baked until browned, plus guidance on sausage stuffed mushrooms and pineapple skewers with pickled onion. Includes storage tips advising buying fresh pork sausage for short-term use.
The Selective Service plans to draft 13 000 men in July for the Army. This is 1 000 more than the May and June requests. Other services do not plan significant drafts this month.
Gale Hartley and her dog Pal presented a training display for the Society of Farm Women 6 at Mrs Harry Sloat’s Lancaster home. Miss Hartley’s father Gilbert H Hartley narrated. A bakeless sale raised 45 dollars and Carolton E Lutz showed color slides of a Pacific Northwest trip. Home products were sold, devotions led by Mrs John Habecke, and plans set for future events including a July 19 bake sale and August 15 vaccine lab dinner.
The American Meat Institute notes housewives influence meat trends and prices as leaner pork gains market share. Through 1956 hogs marketed rose about 18 percent while pork volume grew 13 percent, with reforms toward lean cuts and spread marketings to stabilize prices.
Farm Women 23 gathered at Mrs William Hess home in Washington Boro on June 28 at 1 30 pm. Devotions led by Mrs Hess, with a wedding date and place song, then wedding pictures. President Mrs John Heir Jr presided as plans were made to host Society 1 at Central Manor Camp Grounds July 26 at 1 30 pm. A miscellaneous auction followed with Mrs Glenn Hershey as auctioneer and refreshments served.
The Society of Farm Women 17 held a picnic and swimming party at Forest Green Maryland on Tuesday. In charge were Mrs Martin Eshleman and Mrs Robert C Burkins.
Ten Future Farmers of America from the Manheim Chapter undertake a six week tour covering about 10 000 miles en route to California. A truck chassis was purchased and rebuilt into a bus under Hugh Workman guidance. Funds were raised by seniors selling tobacco wheat hay corn vegetable seeds and calendar advertisements. Participants include Kenneth Boose Kenneth Brandt James Farmer Henry Falls Henry Givley James Graybill Eugene Heisey Reid Hummer Donald Nolt and Olval Shelly.
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