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Spring Cleaning Is Treasure Hunting cleaning has become more of an instict than a tradition, especially in the female of the species. Now I’m sure that our modem houses can’t be compared with a cave, and we might be able to live in the same house for several years without the kind of cleaning that Mama does every spring. But how would we find the little goodies that got lost during the past year, if the house didn’t get tom around, everything that is downstairs moved up, and all things painted, scraped and dusted? Nothing gets thrown out, but everything is moved somewhere else. Nothing is permanently lost, just shuffeled and repacked. It’ll turn up next spring if we forget where we put it. Housecleaning turns up some long forgotten treasures that were carefully stuck away in the attic thirty odd years ago. Like the old DHIA books, and milk check statements that had to be saved. In my case, they have been carried along on several moves since we quit the farm. With every flitting, they were carefully dusted off, packed in a fresh carton, and pushed way back under the eaves behind more substantial stuff in the ledges of the new cave, -uh, house. They turn up every spring, prompting the perennial question of why do we save this, and should it be pitched out with the bones and hides? Well, the inevitable has hap pened. The check stubs and milk statements from 1953 have finally hit the garbage can. But not before I carefully sifted them for a few choice bits of nostalgia that sur vived thirty three years of housecleaning. Interesting stuff, but not World shaking. For example, Ryders Dairy in Lemoyne Pa. paid $4.73 for 3.6% A great raka... and... a great tedder. Taro machinee in one! KUHN'S advanced equipment technology comes through again • Easy on the crop - minimum leaf loss • Simple changeover from rake to tedder • Side delivery raking for quicker dry down • Easy maneuvering in the field. Why buy two machines when one will do both jobs? See your KUHN dealer now. With the KUHN GRS 25, you’ll know what we mean when we say "well done." "— i ■ Distributed By ' ' ~ ■ HAMILTON EQUIPMENT, INC. 567 South Reading Road, P.O. Box 478 r T Ephrata, PA 17522 Telephone (717) 733-7951 -J Please Contact Us For Your Nearest Dealer Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1986-A35 milk in August, 1953. That was the blend price for milk that was 57% class One, and 43% class Two. Hauling charges came to $0.39, leaving a net price of $4.34 a hundred pounds for 3.6% milk. That looked pretty good then, considering that prices were climbing slowly but steadily. Farming was a tough job, but optimism was high and we took chances, knowing that things would get better. That was the year that we put up a new Unadilla silo. It cost $710.00 without the hoops. We salvaged the hoops from the old one which it replaced. The charge for erecting the structure came to $105.00, making the total cost of the new silo $815.00, which was paid for out of the next milk check. So much for the trash and gar bage from my attic. If it has any relevance to the present, it must be that, when we root among the artifacts and junk from the past we usually find that things are somewhat better now than they had been in the good old days. The cost of the essentials we buy are still proportional to the prices we get for our products. Notice that I specify the essentials, not the luxuries. If we include the many things that once were luxuries but are now considered essentials, the income-outgo difference is somewhat tighter than it was. So maybe it is a matter of sorting the needs from the wants. Maybe a little spring cleaning in the Bam or shop might turn up a few lost items. Or better yet, un clutter the work spaces and brighten the passageways that we walk and work in every day. Or sort the needs from the wants. Even our mind and spirit will benefit from a good dusting and cleaning occassionally. wsgssi Jo,n,n9 ! er 160 y"* , #ch no.ofly
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