81 This farm (Continued from Page 58] trucks, especially, Jjothers Hetrick at night, andT he’s “not too happy” about the stream being taken off his land. But, there’s a stubbomess of tradition left in them. They have bucked a few trends and held onto a few practices of the past that they feel comfortable with. One thing they do is butcher their own meat, and another is they do their own canning. And, they don’t have telephone communications in their home, although children and neighbors allow the Hetricks the use of their phones. However, just because they cherish some ways of the past does not mean that the Hetricks are not modern farmers. They are, and according to Hetrick, always have been. The first Hetrick to pur chase the property was Roy’s grandfather, William Hetrick. He bought the property on an estate sale. That was March 29, 1873. That was the year the first bam was built. The present day house had stood two years before that. Actually, three different sets of buildings were on the peoperty before the Hetrick name was set to' the deed. There are three springs to the farm and this is where the older buildings were erected in order to utilize the water natually flowing to the surface of the land. Each of these different sets disap peared, however, and the Hetricks built on a hill. However, they still em ployed the one spring in the hollow to cool their milk. “Mark would carry it down and sit it in the spring to cool,” recalls Hetrick. This is the spring that Hetrick has had a stone wall built around m order to preserve it in its natural state. Then, m 1900 the Hetricks had trouble with a bam fire. TRY CLASS! A FI I - Electric Generating Systems 3uilt to Your Specifications Manual or Automatic .. P. Gas - Diesel - Gasoline USED 25 KW 31 2 KVA Gen. Set, P&H 2 cyl. dsl., 1200 RPM, 1 ph., skid $2500. 30 KW 37.5 KVA Gen Set, IH 4 cyl Dsl., 1200 RPM, 3 ph., skid $l5OO All 3 phase units can be used as single phase units. Martin Electric Plants Isaac W. Martin, Owner Pleasant Valley Rd , RD2 Ephrata, PA (717) 733-/S6S “Seven years to the date of when it was built, the bam was struck with lightening and burned down,” relates Hetrick. And, then, he adds, “But, that old walnut tree standing beside the bam stood through it all.” So, in 1900 a new bam was built to replace the old one. Four years following that, Hetrick’s grandfather sold the farm to Harry E. Hetrick, the present owner’s father. Under the ownership of Harry Hetrick some changes took place. One of these was the addition of a tractor to harness power already employed. “I drove the first tractor when I was a 10-year-old boy,” says Hetrick. That was in 1918. The Hetricks held onto the. practice of using horses along With the tractor up until 1943. By that time, tractors were the accepted mode. Another change in the farming operation came in 1920 when Hetrick’s brother, Mark came to farm the land on shares with his father. At that time he farmed on the half. All this time, the Hetricks were adding new farm machinery and staying up with the times. Then, in 1924 Mark pur chased the farm from his father and started fanning on his own, at which time Roy started working for him. “My place was behind the loader,” he recalls. “One summer I loaded 100 loads of hay, and then I quit!” he says with emphasis. And, then in 1932 Roy purchased the farm and he and his wife started farming right in the heart of the depression. “I think times were easier then,” says Hetrick without a blink of an eye. “We got food cheaper and equipment cheaper and we got $1.75 for our wheat. In WWI my father got $3.40 for our wheat and now we’re only getting $2.59 (give or take with the fluctuation of the markets). At the same time bran was $l5 for two tons and now it’s 'sl4o for the same amount. As time progressed, so did the farming operation of the ED Sales - Service + ,J <4S<X*+* V. jautiful in its starkness, this walnut tree has survived lightning and fire and remains a marker to the past. Hetricks. During their years they have added two tin sheds, a butchering house, a garage, a piece to the corn bam, and two steel sheds— one 40 x 48 and the other 24 x 72. Hetrick also kept modernizing when it came to tractors. In fact, most of the money he and his wife spent went to improving the farm. “We decided early that we had to spend money where we got income,” explains Hetrick. As a result, there were no conveniences in their home until about 10 HUSKEE-BILT MAN! 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