Lancaster farming., July 03, 1976, Image 16

16—Lancaster Farming' Saturday, July 3,1976 .
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sponsored wagon, the har
nesses and horses are hers.
“There’s ho reason in the
world why I shouldn’t do it
all myself,” she drawls.
“I’ve done this sort of thing
my whole life.”
Overall, Hazel is a “catch
all” woman who has done
“everything you can name”
in her lifetime, but she really
enjoys ranching the most.
“I put all the crops in last
year, honey,” she belts out
with pride. “Went over every
inch of that farm by myself.”
There are a lot of inches
involved in 730 acres.
The history Hazel has
made goes further than this
“once in a lifetime”
Bicentennial event. She
made history for her family,
also, in Tennessee when she
retraced a part of the same
path her grandparents had
taken 110 years earlier on
their way down to Texas in
their own covered wagon.
“Oh, my, it was excitin’,”
she continues with an
animated face. “There I
was, doing the same thing
the same twelve-mile stretch
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my grandpappy made,”
she exclaims.
When Hazel made this
historic 12-mile trek,
publicity brought her
another welcome surprise
a previously unknown third
cousin brought out to her a
family tree which the cousin
had been tracing for years.
“My grandpappy was the
one who went to Texas on the
wagon train and then
disappeared you see, he
died down there,” she ex
plained. “And, I sewed up
the whole kit and kaboodle,
and solved the mystery of
the vanishing ancestor.”
So, altogether, she solved a
mystery in the family tree,
made history for her family
by reliving her granddaddy’s
travels, and made history for
the nation by participating in
this Bicentennial event.
She’s a pretty satisfied
woman.
~ “Oh, yes, I loved it. I loved
every minute of it, honey,”
she emphasizes with a sitake
of her head.
But, she has a desire tq get
back home. She says when
she left Tazas on January 4,
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CASTING ON YOUR FARM
For peak feeding value have your
soybeans roasted. (To kill toxic enzymes
in raw soybeans.)
Roasted soybean (not just cooked), increases
digestibility by 15 percent.
Increases weight gam for beef & hogs.
Increases butterfat in milk & egg production.
Improves animal health, reduces vet bill.
Eliminates hauling to the mill & back to farm.
Feed your own grown gram (Not exchanged
with others).
Beans remain whole. Store for months without
losing any feeding value.
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trip is really over. July 4 will
be a big day to remember,,
but in general, the event has
come to a climax already.
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children.
“Oh, yes, I’ve got
waiting,” she says.
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