—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 12,1977
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By DIETER KRIEG
Much of life on the farm is gone
now, and a lot more will fade away in
weeks to come. The country is a quiet
place during this time of year, in
comparison to just a month ago.
You can still hear the sounds of
equipment rumbling over the fields,
and animals bawling at feeding time,
but that’s about all.
Gone are the endlessly chirping
insects which thrived during Sum
mer’s prickly heat and were as
plentiful as the blades of grass they’
jumped back and forth from. Gone is
the soothing concert of frogs and the
pleasant scent of alfalfa drying in the
field. Lightning bugs have quit their
nightly aerial shows as the last
golden maple leaves float gracefully
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to the ground. Now the lawn - which
was like a green carpet all Summer -
is covered with a carpet of a different
sort.
Just as the trees are now
naked, many fields are already bare.
Gone is the beauty of the growing
season. Birds which haven't already
left are swarming across open fields
by the thousands in practice for a
southward migration.
It’s a time of year for which the
farmer can feel both sad and happy.
Watching so much life disappear and
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McGuier wins sheep shearing
HARRISBURG - Jay
McGuier, an 18-year-old
from Prosperity R 2,
Washington County, won the
Pennsylvania Junior Sheep
Shearing Contest Sunday
night at the 21st Annual
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition.
Second and third places in
the contest went to Clark
Kevin, Clarks Mills Rl,
Mercer County, and Susan
Brownless of Claysville R 3,
Washington County. Jay
McGuier had placed second
in the 1976 Pennsylvania
Junior Sheep Sheep Shearing
Contest.
Contestants are judged on
tuning, absence of second
bringing a jacket back into use is no
fun. But knowing that three seasons
work is nearing completion and that
a time of comparative rest is at hand,
a farmer can feel satisfied. There will
still be plenty of things to do anyway.
Life on the farm would be sad,
indeed, however, if we wouldn’t have
the assurance of a new dawning of
life next Spring. Thank God for that.
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cuts in the fleece, condition
of the fleece, absence of cuts
on the sheep, their methods
in handling the shep and the
final appearance of 'shorn
sheep. Each contestant must
shear two sheep in the event.
Most of the contestants,
eight boys and two girls, had
participated in sheep
shearing schools in the state.
Pennsylvania Junior Sheep
Shearing Contest entrants
must be between 15 and 20
years of age.
As the winner of, the
contest, McGuier will
receive $35 and will
represent Pennsylvania in
me National Junior Sheep
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