Down on the Farm with Farm Bureau's First Lady Introducing Michigan Farm Bureau's Newest Service to Member Program What is The Family Saver? The Family Saver "Quik Quote" System is a service that was designed to help save you Most major brands available at discounts up to hundreds of dollars on major purchases that 60%! you may make in the com ing years. Appliances Photography equipment Freezers lawn and garden equipment We can be your purchasing agency by Dishwashers Power tools eliminating much of the middleman's high Washers and dryers lamps mark-up and pass these savings on to you. No Refrigerators Fireplaces Ranges Wood furnaces pressure to buy, only our help in saving you Small appliances luggage money. Microwave ovens Watches Electronic Equipment Musical equipment Stereos lawn furniture Scanners Sporting Goods How can we Televisions Miscellaneous Archery equipment Hunting equipment Pool and game tables Furniture do this? Carpeting Box springs and mattresses Rods and reels Very simple. We order merchandise direct All merchandise is brand new and carries full factory from the factory or distributor and ship it warranties with nationwide local service. directly to you or to a warehouse near where you live. We do not have the high cost of in- ventory, or large warehouse and showrooms, sales commissions, etc. As your purchasing ------- ...---------------------- Michigan Farm Bureau Buyer's Service Enrollment Form agent to help you save money, we also have some retailers who are interested in increasing Please complete and mail along with your check or their volume and thus giving them larger buy- money order to: ing discounts by brokering their product Michigan Farm Bureau through our great purchasing power. Member Service Department P. O. Box 30960 Lansing, MI 48909 What does it cost? Date This NEW member service, costing only $25 for Membership Number the first year and $15 thereafter annually, allows Farm Bureau Membership Name you to get unlimited pricing information via a toll (as shown on membership card) free number. This program compares favorably with ones costing up to $795 annually. For details on this new member service refer to the Service to Member Program brochure included with your Address dues notice or contact your county Farm Bureau secretary. City State and Zip Telephone No. Amount Enclosed JUNE 1983 FARM NEWS VOL. 62 NO.6 THE COVER A publicat~on Lynde Smith introduces a "Fabulous Food Friend" to of the Chad Wheeler, 4, during a Michigan visit by the Kentwood Com- munity Education Preschool. Farm Bureau Photo by Cathy J. Kirvan In this issue: Down on the Farm with Farm Bureau's First Lady Lynde Smith is a mother, grandmother, surrogate mom to dozens of future farmers, dairy booster and the lady behind MFB President Elton Smith. 8 The Life They Save Could Be Yours Rescue teams and farmers respond enthusiastically to ag accident rescue training. 12 Is School Out on Vocational Agriculture? Reduced funding emphasizes the need for active community support for vo-ag programs. 14 County Communications Rate Recognition AFBF studies Kent County FB information program for national guidelines; NW Michigan FB celebrates 15th anniversary of "Accent Agriculture." 21 COLUMNS Rural Route - page 4 County Newsletter - pages 18-19 Country Ledger - page 5 Farm Bureau Market Place - page 20 Legislative Review - page 6 Agrinomic Update - page 26 Front and Center - page 16 Discussion Topic - page 28 Letters to Rural Living - page 17 IIIlcblgllD F8rm l'tew. RURAL LlVIl'tG (ISSl't 0016,1161): Michigan Farm News Rural Living Is published monthly. on the first day, by the Michigan Farm Bu- reau Information and Public Relations Division. Publication and editorial offices at 7373 West Saginaw Highway, lansing, Mich. 48909, Post OHlce Box 30960; telephone. lansing 517-.323- 7000. Extension 508. SUBSCRIPTIOl't PRICE: $1.50 per year to members. Included In annual dues. $.3.00 per year non-members In Michigan. $5.00 per year non-members out of state. Publication No . .345040. Established Jan. 13. 192.3 as Michigan Farm News. name changed to Michigan Farm News Rural Living Dec. I. 1981. Third-class postage paid at lansing. Michigan and at additional mailing oHlces. f:DITORIAL: Connie Turbin. Editor; Mar. cia Dltchle. Associate Editor and Business Manager; Donna Wilber, Contributing Editor; Cathy J. Klrvan, Copy Editor. OFFICf:RS: Michigan Farm Bureau; Presi- dent, Elton R. Smith. Caledonia; Vice President, Jack laurie, Cass City; Administrative Director, Robert Braden. lansing; Treasurer and Chief Financial OHlcer, Max D. Dean; Secretary, William S. Wilkinson. DIRECTORS: District I. Arthur Bailey, Schoolcraft; District 2. lowell Eisenmann, Blissfield; District .3. James Sayre. Belleville; District 4, Elton R. Smith. Caledonia; District 5. Albert Cook. Mason; District 6. Jack laurie. Cass City; District 7. Robert Rider. Hart; District 8. lyle leCronler. Freeland; District 9. Donald Nugent, Frankfort; District 10, Margaret Kartes, West Branch; District II. Bernard Doll. Dafter. DIRf:CTORS AT LARGE: Dave Conklin. Corunna; Michael Pridgeon. Montgomery; Robert Rottler, Fremont. FARJII BUREAU WOJllf:l't: Faye Adam. Snover. FARJII BUREAU YOUl'tG FARJIIERS: Mark Smuts, Charlotte. POSTMASTER: In using form .3579. mall to: Michigan Farm News Rural Living. P.O. Box .30960, 7.37.3 West Saginaw Highway, lansing. Mich. 48909. Reduced Spending - Not More Taxes - Will - Remedy Budget Deficits While emotional, divisive is- elimination of the 10% personal so hard to gain. We simply must sues within the agricultural in- tax break scheduled for July 1, not let Congress renege on its dustry have made demands on and elimination of the income promises! our time and efforts these days, tax indexing designed to pro- I urge each and everyone of there's one that affects every tect us from inflationary tax you to join me in sending that farmer - no matter what his or bracket creep. message to Washington, D.C. her major enterprise might be It also includes a freeze on Tell your representatives and - and one which, I fear, is not estate and gift tax exemptions senators that the remedy for de- receiving adequate attention. and reductions as authorized in creasing the budget deficit is Put into proper perspective, it the 1981 tax act. For many less government spending - makes all other issues minor in years, farmers and small busi- not increased taxes. Increased comparison. ness people fought for estate taxes will speed up government Certainly, we're all aware of and gift tax reform to assure spending, not slow it down. what is going on in Washington, that farms and businesses More taxes and more spending D.C., with much media atten- could stay in the family. The at a time when our fragile econ- tion focused on the current freeze would halt the six-year omy is trying to kick-start itself budget discussions. But, are we phase-in of the $600,000 estate can only delay or even destroy concerned enough about the di- exemption as it nears the half- the recovery. rection in which those discus- way mark, and the scheduled Tell them how the proposed sions are heading to temporari- decreases in the tax rate itself freezes on the July 1 tax cut ly put aside other concerns to would be frozen at 60% instead and income tax indexing will af- launch an all-out attack on ef- of 50%. fect you personally and how vi- forts by a liberal Congress to These proposals illustrate the tally important the estate tax preserve its tax and spend hab- twisted economic reasoning exemption is to keeping your its? that abounds in Washington. family farm in the family. Tell If only each of us would "put Congress seems bent on slam- them the freeze you need is a a pencil" to the proposals that ming the brakes on the econo- freeze on federal spending. are being considered and evalu- my just as it begins to show Right now, the tax action we ate what they would mean to signs of recovery. If Congress is all need is a freeze on our con- our own families and farms and successful in its efforts to ad- gressmen's ability to put their their futures, I'm sure there dress the budget deficit by in- hands in our pockets. Get in- would be a grass roots outcry, creased taxes, you and I will volved in influencing that ac- the likes of which Congress has end up paying the government tion. Your future, the future of never seen before. But, if every- more and ourselves less, so your families, the future of your one takes an apathetic, "let Congress can keep on feeding farm businesses, depend on it. George do it" approach to this its insatiable, undisciplined ap- very real threat, that outcry will never be heard. The proposals that should be of such concern to us include petite for taxing and spending. Farm Bureau member involve- ment in getting the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 pass- ed was intense and effective e~~~ Elton R. Smith, President Michigan Farm Bureau and we must act immediately if we are to keep what we worked 4 RURAL LIVING, JUNE 1983 COUNTRY LEDGER Becoming Computer Literate After 30 By Connie Turbin our word processor and began And while many Michigan entering my first "document." farmers and agribusinesses I recently read that learning That was a mere 90 days ago. have already taken the step to use computers was about as Since then I have become com- toward the computer age with threatening as learning to drive fortable enough with the equip- AgriCom's computerized infor- or use a typewriter. Just an- ment to do some weekend work mation system and microcom- other tool, the article read. I al- without the watchful assistance puter systems which allow lowed as how that was probably of our staff expert. recordkeeping, inventory and • so. If I'm not yet completely fa- analysis functions, students at Nevertheless, I didn't find miliar with all of the capabili- the Branch County Career Cen- much solace in that analogy ties of the "software," I am at ter are keeping pace with the since I have almost total recall least familiar enough with the new technology as subscribers of my first years of driving - a equipment to know that it is in the AgriCom system. These threat to the orderly society at not my adversary in a new vo-ag students in southern best. And although I recall ex- world of technology. Thank Michigan are receiving daily ( ecuting a perfect demonstration heaven! market updates, daily reports of of parallel parking on my first In fact, thanks to the com- agricultural news, legislation try, it was a feat I was unable to munications capabilities of the and weather reports. duplicate for many years after. word processor and our photo- Learning to use computers as In fact, five years after gradu- typesetting equipment, articles tools alongside of farm equip- ating "cum mediocre" from for Rural Living are composed ment to get tasks accomplished , driver's training, I posted a sign and edited without using a more quickly and efficiently is above my typewriter (that's single sheet of paper. The first all part of the education for another story), proclaiming "hard" or paper copy we see is tomorrow's agriculture. parallel parking as the only true the typeset page of the article. For those of you who are just art form. And it's fun! A line of copy so a little wary of the computer Since then I've had a re- poorly written that it should age and your ability to adapt fresher course on the subject. disappear off the face of the and use the new technology in Crunched fenders while exiting earth - does! your everyday life, the analogy • the garage and a variety of Perhaps what is the most re- of computers as a tool, not a lurching starts and stops have warding for a person who still system you must understand, is punctuated the first four or five cannot type an error free enve- apt. After all, as the article I months of driving for my two lope, the word processor can read suggested, you need not 16-year-old daughters. If that's "blip" away the x's and .f/.$/& be able to understand all of the not lesson enough, another that dotted the "stone age" component parts of your auto- , daughter is coming along ready typewritten Rural Living copy. mobile to use it effectively - to take the wheel of the Char- I may not have been "right learning to parallel park is a lotte High School driver educa- there" when the kids were sufficient demonstration of tion car, and ultimately the learning new math, and they skill. And I'll be satisfied with family "bomb." practically never need to call on the computer equivalent of the So I'm not lulled into a false my three years of Latin, but three point turn for my next notion that one simply sits thanks to my growing computer plateau of accomplishment. down at a computer terminal literacy and my vast driving ex- Just for now, I'm staying out and performs expertly any more perience, we have whole new of computer centers, where 10 than I am ready to view parallel worlds in which to relate to one and II year olds hang out and parking as a routine accom- another. program computer games, in- plishment. That's something to consider vent computer riddles and gen- That's why, although I de- if your own youngsters are erally make those of us who are layed the confrontation for as among the junior high and high not yet computer literate feel long as possible, I felt a real school students who are work- strangely out of synch and not surge of accomplishment when ing with and learning about just a little anachronistic. I pulled up a chair in front of computers in their classrooms. RURAL LIVING, JUNE 1983 5 LEGISLATIVE REVIEW FH Campaign Fights Tax Increases partment decides on a wheat annual increase until 20% of all program next year. Deadline for bulk commodities are carried comment is June 6. While the by U.S. ships. statutory deadline for annouc- "Transportation costs are ing a 1984 wheat program is likely to increase by $40 to $80 Aug. 15, USDAsays it will per ton for grains shipped in Signaling an all-out fight release details "well in American flagships," Berg said. against increased taxes, AFBF advance" to give farmers more "Extending cargo preference re- President Robert Delano told time to make planting deci- quirements to agricultural trade presidential advisor Edwin sions. would substantially reduce agri- Meese that Congress will be Among the issues for public cultural exports and farm com- hearing from the American peo- comment are whether there modity prices, in direct conflict ple in opposition to the tax and should be another Payment-in- with overall U.S. economic poli- spend practices of Congress. Kind program in 1984; acreage cy objectives of expanded agri- "Higher taxes are never used to reduction or set-aside pro- cultural exports and higher reduce deficits, they simply grams; loan, purchase and tar- farm income," underwrite more spending," get prices; farmer-owned re- With only the 5% cargo pref- Delano said. serves; conservation and land erence requirement in effect, he Of particular concern to farm~ diversion allowances; crop said, per bushel prices for corn ers, Delano said, are proposals acreage bases; and other mat- would fall 7 to 10 cents; wheat to freeze scheduled reforms in ters relating to a 1984 wheat by 10 to 15 cents; and soy- estate tax laws, efforts to can- program. beans by 10 to 13 cents. If the cel the July 1 10% tax cut and 20% requirement was applied, threats to rem~ve tax indexing prices could drop by as much that could prevent "bracket as 42 cents for corn and 61 creep." cents for wheat. Cargo Preference Increases Delano said farmers support Export Costs - A bill requir- reductions in the federal budget ing all bulk commodity ex- deficit, but believe the way to porters to ship a portion of do it is by reducing federal their cargoes on domestic ships Compromise Preserves spending, cutting taxes and would cut farm income by at Marketing Order Concept - moving toward a sound, bal- least $1.1 billion, and possibly Following a cabinet level meet- anced budget. as much as $6.4 billion, AFBF ing to discuss federal market- In a plan of action to oppose spokesperson George L. Berg ing orders, Agriculture Secre- tax increases, Farm Bureau testified before the House Mer- tary John Block sent a letter to leaders are urging the organiza- chant Marine Subcommittee. selected members of Congress tion's 3.2 million members to Berg, who is assistant director and Federal Marketing Order send letters and cards, or to of national affairs, said that Administrative Boards stating make telephone calls, to mem- proposed legislation (H.R. 1242) that White House review had bers of Congress in opposition to expand existing cargo prefer- resulted in a reaffirmation of to the increases. ence rules would hurt U.S. agri- administration support for the cultural exports at a time when marketing order concept, for the farm economy needs to policy guidelines issued in 1982 compete aggressively for access and for the secretary of agricul- Early Start on 1984 Wheat to foreign markets. ture to administer the pro- Program - In an effort to get The measure, called the Com- grams. the jump on any 1984 wheat petitive Shipping and Shipbuild- However, Block outlined pro- program, USDA is calling for ing Act of 1983, would require gram changes which he said public comments on what 5% of bulk exports to be ship- would further define the mar- should be included if the de- ped on U.S. flagships with a 1% keting order guidelines and would make the marketing 6 RURAL LIVING. JUNr; 1983 I order concept even stronger. Say "Yes" to Michigan Commerce The changes are as follows: • Phase out entry barriers to producer allotment programs over the next five years . • Require that primary mar- kets have available a quantity equal to 110% of recent years' sales in those outlets before ap- proving secondary market allocation or pooling . • Analyze prorate programs with the intent of providing greater flexibility. A Douse Government Oper- ations Committe~ has urged USDAto make an early an- nouncement of its intentions re- garding the PIK program for 1984, to facilitate advance planning for farmers. The USDA has stopped short of the one Paula Blanchard was interviewed at the 1,500.acre livestock farm of Saginaw County FB members, Dale announcement that would help ~ Evelyn Irish, during her Michigan Week tour to call farmers with long-range plan- attention to good things happening in Michigan. The ning, namely whether there will farm was the second stop on Blanchard's itinerary, be a PIK program next year. which included a supermarket, auto plant, U.P. lumber and copper industries, state park and two USDASecretary John Block Grand Rapids manufacturers. has said he is "90% certain" that a PIK program will be of- fered to wheat producers in 1984. USDADeputy Secretary made to local governmental $592 million higher than the Richard Lyng said details of the agencies (cities, counties, town- current budget. This is the por- 1984 wheat program would be ships, school districts, etc.). tion of state spending that is announced well in advance of Funds would be disbursed controlled by the Legislature. the Aug. 15 deadline. through various state depart- When earmarked programs are ments including agriculture, considered, the expenditures natural resources, labor, etc. for 1984 will total nearly $11.9 Other parts of the plan in- billion. While costs continue to clude 20,000 summer public rise, the large reduction in infla- service jobs for unemployed tion is an important item. workers, free job training, hous- The MDA received an increase ing programs, etc. from the 1983 budget of about State Jobs Program - Gov. Funding will also include $18 million, to $19.6 million for Blanchard has announced a $75 $300 million in housing and 1984. In reality, this is a "con- million Summer Youth Jobs Pro- transportation bonds and $500 tinuation" budget when in- gram for 60,000 youths be- million in federal funds for creased costs and added re- tween the ages of 16 and 21. public works and construction. sponsibilities are considered. Some $16 million of the fund- It is not yet known where all of The budget includes $2.9 mil- ing would come from the "Kam- the state's share will come from lion for a Plant and Soil Science mer recreational land trust during this fiscal year. Building at MSU.This will con- fund," the rest would come tinue the project approved a from federal and other funds. couple of years ago. MSU's Ag Grants for hiring would be State Budget - Gov. Blan- Experiment Station and the Ex- chard's general fund budget tension Service received a 9% totals $5.3 billion, which is (continued on page 32) RURAL LIVING, JUNE 198:3 7 Down on the Farm with Lynde Smith - Farm Bureau's First Lady By Donna Wilber and vice president of the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation. She's been fondly and respect- Located outside Caledonia in fully identified as Michigan Kent County, Lynde's home re- Farm Bureau's "First Lady" ... flects her own personality - she was also once cruelly refer- warm, charming, stylish yet in- red to as "Mrs. PBB:' She's com- vitingly comfortable. There's fortable at a social gathering in homemade muffins, fruit, the White House rose garden ... cheese and milk or coffee to or in a straw-lined pen showing welcome visitors to her sunny a city youngster how to bottle kitchen. And outside the kit- feed a calf. She confesses to a chen window is a view of the Lynde Smith enjoys a rare mo- sinking feeling of loss when her well-manicured lawn that's her ment of relaxation with her bull husband was elected vice presi- "territory," and the maternity dog under her "hunkered-down" elm tree. dent of the nation's largest field where she can keep an eye farm organization ... yet glows out for expectant "moms" who with pride in his record of ac- might need help. us," of Roy, the farm mechanic complishments. She shuns the Lynde doesn't spend as much who is in charge of the field limelight for a backstage, sup- time as she once did in the ac- work and who "fixes my lawn- porting role ... yet takes a tual operation of the farm, mower when it breaks down," speech class to help her handle which has grown from its origi- and of Karen, their herdsman leadership responsibilities. nal 125 acres to 800 and boasts who also serves as official tour She's Lynde Smith, who swore a world-renowned Red and guide for farm visitors and as she'd never marry a farmer White registered Holstein herd. artist of the original "My Visit when she grew up. She's the She and Jerry Good, the Smiths' to Med-O-Bloom Farm" coloring gracious mistress of Med-O- partner in Med-O-Bloom Farm, book for school children. Bloom Farm, and one of the key still do the farm accounts She remembers when Jerry reasons why Elton R. Smith together, but other work is Good first came to work on the grew through the years to be- handled by - not hired hands - Smith farm while he was still in come a nationally-known agri- but what Lynde calls "members high school. cultural leader. "No one who of the Med-O-Bloom family:' "He'd practice on the old decides to climb the leadership She speaks affectionately of John Deere tractor, putt-putting ladder can do so without the Jerry who is "just like a son to around the farm. I'd take him to kind of strong support she has 4-H and haul his calf around in given me," says the president of the Michigan Farm Bureau 8 RURAL LIVING, JUNE 198:3 Another thing she misses are the many young MSUag stu- dents who lived and worked on the Smith farm and raided Lynde's always well-stocked re- frigerator. She wishes now that she'd kept a written record of those years so she could write a book about "all the boys we've had." Now and then, she said, the doorbell will ring and there will stand one of those young men asking, "00 you remember me?" The Smiths had two daugh- ters of their own, Virginia, who died in 1965, and Barbara of Ashland, Ohio, who has given her parents three granddaugh- ters, "of whom we're very proud," says Lynde. They spend most holidays together and when the Smiths travel to Ohio, Lynde reports, "Barb usually gets Elton a good book and hopes she can keep him for 24 Lynde and Elton, who have been partners in marriage for 45 years, team up for a square dance at the Michigan Farm Bureau annual meeting jam- hours. boree. "He can't sit still; he's just got to be doing something. That's his make-up. I've tried, the old truck to the various ac- Lynde has seen a lot of but you just cannot slow him tivities." After graduation from changes during those 45 years. up!" high school, Jerry went to Mich- "1 can remember when my dad And while she maintains that igan.State University where he used to take the old bull down the president "does what he met his wife-to-be, Judy, who the road to the neighbors. Then wants to do without asking for worked for Dr. Clint Meadows in came artificial insemination, my approvaL" it could be that the dairy department. Jerry be- and now we have the embryo her initial reaction to his steadi- came a full partner in Med-O- transfer. It boggles your mind ly increasing commitment to Bloom in 1969 and he and his and you wonder just how far Farm Bureau responsibilities family now live in the home scientific advances will take us had an impact on what Med-O- directly across the road from in agriculture." Bloom is today - a dairy farm. the Smiths, where Lynde was While these changes in tech- "When we started out, we had raised with her six brothers and nology and lifestyle have freed horses, pigs, cows and chick- four sisters. Lynde for more involvement in ens," said Lynde. "There was a It was a mutually-shared Un- county Farm Bureau, Extension, time when we were making cle Roy - Elton's half uncle and community and church activi- more money on hatching eggs Lynde's mother's cousin - who ties, for learning to play golf, (my responsibility because men helped the Smiths get started in for taking a "Speaking on Your don't like working with chick- farming. When Lynde married Feet" class at the "Y" and for ens) than we were on milk, and the boy who "lived down the walking two miles a day with we were thinking of expanding road six or seven miles and "the girls," she still misses that part of the business. Then, used to go by our house in a some things about the early when Elton got so involved in horse and buggy on his way to years. Farm Bureau, I said, 'I'm not go- schooL" she had only to move "Elton and I used to register ing to stay home and clean all across the road. It's a house all the cows, and together we'd that's been home to the Smiths think of names for each. Now throughout their 45 years of they're given a number," she marriage. said. RURAL LIVING, JUNE 198:3 9 those eggs while you're travel- to just take it as it comes," she The president's fast pace has ing around the country,' so we said. "When he was elected provided some highlights for got rid of the chickens." AFBF vice president, my first Lynde, among them the annual Lynde has seen her husband thought was 'Oh, no! Now he'll AFBFconventions which are continuously respond to leader- be gone more than ever: But held in various parts of the na- ship challenges and oppor- then I thought how proud his tion. tunities throughout the years - folks would have been. And, of "There's been something nice from Community Action Group course, I was .proud of him. I about every place we've visited offices to county Farm Bureau was proud of him when I mar- and, of course, Farm Bureau board service to MFB director, ried him and he wasn't a presi- people are special no matter vice president, then president dent or vice president then:' where you go. I like to get right - and on to the national level What the president loves to out on the farms and see the as an AFBF board member, then do when he's not tending to different operations - the the executive committee and Farm Bureau business or carry- sheepherder in Montana, the finally, in 1982, vice president ing out the responsibilities of Oregon strawberry farmer who of the three-million-member his many appointments, Lynde dried off his fields with a heli- family farm organization. says, is to take a thermos bottle copter so the workers could "Each step has taken a little and lunch bucket and "take off pick, the cotton fields in the more of his time and I miss him on the tractor. He loves to see south and the pineapple planta- when he's gone. But you learn that soil turn over:' tions in Hawaii," she said. TUANKS FOR TUE MEMORIES Following their field trip to "Thank you for letting us see "/ liked the big cows and Med-O-Bloom Farm, Kentwood your bull." feeding the baby cows." Community Education pre- schoolers expressed their ap- "Thank you for the ice cream It's simple, sincere responses preciation to Lynde Smith with bars made of miJk." like these that make the invest- pictures of the day's highlights, ment of time and effort worth- along with special thank you "/ liked the baby cows in their while to the Kent County Farm messages: cribs. " Bureau Women's Committee, chaired by Kathy Kosters and Beth Finkbeiner, to Karen Eaton, Med-O-Bloom's herdsman and official tour guide, and to Lynde. In addition to the farm tour, the children viewed the slide- tape presentation, "Fabulous Food Friends," ate ice cream bars and received "Our Field Trip to Med-O-Bloom Farm" col- oring books developed by Karen Eaton, and "I Like Milk" buttons to take home. To illustrate that they knew who their "Fabulous Food Friends" were, the children, led by teachers Connie Frances and Lynda Fife, had a special song for their hostesses: o / eat green grass, / chew and chew, Then / say Moo Moo. I /',ke~ And when it is milking time M,l