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' I suspect that it’s because life ... and death ... are so real on a farm. Each spring"" a farm comes back to life vegetatively after dying in late fall. There’s evidence of new life emerging con tinually kittens in the bam, calf or new litter of pigs. Rt 9 Box 125 Hagerstown, MO Ph.(301)733-0515 ABRACZINSKA’S FARM EQUIP. INC. RDI, Catawissa, PA 717-356-2323 (South on Rt. 42) Farming’s past (ANNUAL M. M. WEAVER & SON N Groffdale Rd. Leola, PA 17540 Ph: (717)656-2321 Likewise, death is a common occurence. The unfortunate bunny that gets caught during the first cutting of alfalfa, the calf turned the wrong way or the big, black cow that just couldn’t take that final difficult birthing. But nothing makes life more vital and real than death. Farms are the foun tainspring of all life through the foods there produced. That too, is why an aban doned site is all the more contrasting to the bustling activity that normally takes place through long days and well into the night seven days a week. Walking through this abandoned site also brought back memories of a small family farm of a bygone era. Barely visible through the Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1980—C29 debris of what must have been the kitchen were faded colorings of a floor covering commonly called oilcloth. It brought back memories of similar multi-colored geometric blocks on a floor of that other farm kitchen. I can remember sitting in the kitchen of that other farmhouse on a hot July afternoon waiting for the milk to be strained in order to quench a youthful thirst, or getting awakened later that muggy July night to sit around the large wood table until the noise and fireworks of an electrical storm passed and everyone could go back to sleep knowing the bam was again safe. Outside, this abandoned farmhouse rose a couple of wild cherry trees the smooth hark and fragile leaves nestling up the rough stonewalls. I can recall my first in troduction to homemade wine as a very small tot several decades ago. My farm from the past was located near the Nor thampton and Bucks county line in the hills between two small hamlets called Wassergass and Springtown. It was the farm of an aged German couple who tran sported a bit of the homeland to these hills. My first taste of homemade wine came on VE day. As we listened to the news on the big old parlor Pbilco radio, the huge man in the bib overalls told his wife in his best “Hoch Deutsch” to get the bottle of wein. • • # • \ I ' V\\' V ♦ Lancaster Farming has over 37,000 subscribers ♦ ♦ Jlfe Let Us Help You Maintain The Beauty And Health Of Your Trees TREE SPRAYING Complete Prevention of All Insect Damage Pesty Flying Insects Can Ruin Outside Gatherings Such As Church Groups, Family Picnics, Reunions, etc. THERMAL FOGRING IS THE ANSWER Kills Gnats, Mosquitoes, Bees and All Flying Insects Silently, a small glass was poured for each person present as the couple prayed for peace to come to the land they left and the land they now worked. On the abandoned farm stead, the pointed tip of my boots kick a small lead object. It’s the top of‘a Ball canning jar. Oh, how I remember the massive, delicious meals that poured forth from these jars. The only other “beings” with me at the vacated farm site are the tiny flies that buzz annoyingly round my head. They used to be real pests when a sweaty little boy was stuck up on the second floor of a bam to fork the hay back into the comers of the mow. The sun filters through the trees that have almost overgrown the abandoned farm location. I remember the sun as it filtered through the cracks in the wood walls of the bam, sending the hay dust shimmering and dancing like a million little lights. The silvery-grey aged wood of the wagon shed comcrib is tom loose in spots and falling in others. But there’s such character in that wood. In the deep lines of the wood I can still see the lines that creased the faces of that couple from the farm of long ago. Yes’ there’s nothing so sad or lonely as an abandoned farm. ♦ SOMETHING | TO : CROW t ABOUT... ♦ 1278 Loop Rd. Lancaster, Pa. 17604 717-397-3721 Since 1928 Pest control is too important to trust to anyone else
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