B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 19,1984
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Obsolete.
That’s a scary word, applied
regularly to the technology that
invades our lives on all sides.
Automobiles become obsolete.
Airplanes become obsolete.
Who’d ever believe it could be
applied to a farm wife?
Still, more and more, I find
myself wondering if that adjective
won’t soon follow my name, sort of
like a degree.
Like the bulky, first-generation
of computers, today replaced by
hand-held $lO calculators, yours
truly is fast becoming obsolete and
outdated at various farm tasks by
newer and better parts.
For instance, my once steady
use seat on the tractor, lugging the
disk, the harrow, and the rake, has
been replaced by 15-and 12-year
old operating mechanisms, of the
same basic design, but perhaps
more streamlined.
Admittedly, they do perform
rather well, seem conscious of
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precautions, and possess an un
tiring operating mode that they
would claim - endures longer than
this original.
Besides, this old model never
pursued studies in 4-H tractor club
which instruct in the proper why’s
and wherefore’s of sensible
equipment operation.
My gearing mechanism, which
regularly locks into the steering
wheel of the family car, is still
allowed to perform on a continuing
basis, especially on the evenings
when there is softball practice, 4-H
meetings, or after-school ac
tivities.
Even that position, however, is
getting a critical evaluation as we
face a birthday looming ahead in
just a few months on which that
landmark 16th (driving age,
Mom!) year is marked.
And lawn mowing chores,
monkey-on-the-back of
generations who faced greenery
cutting via the push-method,
command the attention of this pair
who squabble over who shall roar
around the soggy back yard on the
riding mower.
The pattern is repeating with
regularity, spreading each year to
bigger and better chores around
the farm;
They run the lawn mower. I
move piles of grass with a bamboo
rake and wife-powered
wheelbarrow.
They maneuver the baler and
wagons. I throw down bales of
hay... and miss the elevator more
times than I care to admit.
They zip around on the motor
cycle. I ride bike, my brother’s old
one. My motorcycle is still in
pieces up in the shop.
They feed the cattle with silage
carts and chuck wagons. I dump
bags of calf feed.
Fact is, our second-generation of
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and willing - well, most of the time, bawling their heads off in the
It’s downright welcome to have a nursery,
son who can bring you a bucket
loader of stones or topsoil as This being obsolete could
neeHpd, or a daughter willing to become deliciously habit-forming.
The Perry County 4-H Dairy
Club met recently at the Ben Dum
farm. Mr. Dum demonstrated the
proper way to trim a cow’s hooves.
Nancy Dum explained several
brushing methods and showed
members the different types of
brushes used.
Jane Benner reported on the
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test, where the club’s team placed
third. She also announced the
club’s top placing members of the
Hoard’s Dairyman Judging
Contest. They are: Joan Brofe,
first; Nancy Dum, second; and
Vance Kretzing, Jenny Kriebel and
Judy Kriebel, tied for third.
The next meeting will be on May
31 at the Ken Benner farm. The
topic will be “showmanship.”
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