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Joyce B
As storms go, the blizzard that
dumped on us last week proved to
be an exceptionally noisy one,
filled with worrisome sound ef
fects. Or maybe it just seemed that
way because I was snowed in at
home, while the rest of the family
was snowed in at a Harrisburg
cattle show.
It began with dripping sounds,
the innocent patter of rain on the
windows. Maybe the late news
forecaster’s dire warnings would
be wrong. Show classes were
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Plastic Pan Wastes
Drainage System for
Farrowing Crates
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One frame shown
above without woven
wire flooring
Two frames are show
with plastic pans
joined together The
frame in back has a f - - -“* l
farrowing crate in Side view of pan
position atop the showing collars that
woven wire flooring join adjacent pans
Nursery
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scheduled lo begin early the next
morning, and the last thing I
needed to face would be snow, as I
planned to join the rest of the
family after morning barn chores.
Rising winds altered the drip
ping to a bumping racket. The east
windows of the house rattled as the
wind relentlessly hammered at
them, then swept upward to
wrestle with the writhing maple
limbs overhead.
Stuffing a fat log into the
woodstove, I silently hoped the
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SALE ‘179.95
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coals would .UK mi,) g i<n
ashen death by morning’s chili
Sleep came slowly, w«m <,
worries nagging at my pe<u e of
mind. There are miles ot swaying
electric power lines - and shallow
rooted trees - between the milker
pumps and our electric
cooperative’s power substation
some distance away
Wham! The ancient latch on our
old wooden door to the bedroom
snapped open and the door swung
inward, waking me instantly from
deep dreaming. Horrified that a
window had blown in somewhere
downstairs, leaving the unabated
east wind to rohck ui the post
midnight darkness of the house, I
stumbled down two flights of
stairs.
All windows and doors were
secure, but just standing in the
upstairs, it was possible to feel the
draft of the wind forcing through
the old nouse s i tacks and cran-
Constant pinging sounds rapped
a staccato rythmn against the
glass. Ice. Ice that would cling to
tree limbs. To power lines. Weight
and wind on power lines add up to
problems for power companies and
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A return to sleep came slowly, to
again be interrupted by the
unlatching of the door from air
pressure forces within the house.
Still, the pinging against the
windows hammered away in the
blackness outside
A jangling telephone woke me to
the pale shadows of early morning.
In the limbo-land of being sum
moned from slumber, it took a
couple of seconds to realize that it
was a farm wife friend on the
phone, not a call from the barn for
milking assistance.
Flashing lights outside confused
me. Lightning? Arcing power
wires? At least the power was still
steady and milking underway.
At the barn, even the cattle
seemed restless with the storm’s
fury, heifers and calves huddled in
the farthest corners, away from
the wind-driven snow blowing
through every opening.
Thunder 7 Maybe. Or was it snow
cascading off the metal roof of the
house 7 A pile of snow outside the
basement porch confirmed that at
least part of the rumbling was a
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 7,1984—821
riiini-avalanc he off the house roof,
cascading harmlessly to the
ground
But not totally harmless.
Ducking into the greenhouse to
escape the wind and check plants,
the unwelcome tinkling sound of
breaking glass came from under
my feet. The roof avalanche had
spilled off a corner and onto the
greenhouse, shattering two glass
panes and slicing through the
inner-lining of plastic.
Melting snow dripped through
the plastic ungraciously onto my
head, a sarcastic “belly laugh”
from Mother Nature’s bag of
practical jokes. Is it too much to
hope that it was her parting final
punch for the season 7
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Reg. SALE
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B”xl4’ Gravity Box Auger $868.00 *779.95
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1 ring 2 7 ton
1 ring 3 3 ton
2 ring 535 ton
3 ring 6 ton $ 786 00
1 ring 455 ton S 84100
1 ring 531 ton $ 879 00
2 ring 8 1 ton $ 985 00
3 ring 10.9 ton $1.092 00
4 ring 13.7 ton $1,304 00
5 ring 16 48 ton $1.444 00
1 ring 897 ton $1,244 00
2 ring 13 59 ton $1,360 00
3 ring 18 2 ton $1,512 00
4 ring 22 8 ton $1,687 00
5 ring 27 4 ton $2,004 00
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$ 628 00
$ 637 00
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•1,039“
• 895“
• 979“
•1,088“
•1,214“
•1,445“
•632°*