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a farm wife
-And other
hazards
No, it wasn’t Friday the 13th.
Good grief, it wasn’t even Friday.
But it was one heck of a good
start on the next one.
Looking back, the Friday -the
13th-like string of wackiness ac
tually took root a couple of days
before.
Those roots were sunk deep in
the soggy soils (not so soggy this
year) of our meadow below the
house and bam. That meadow is
the site of a smidgen of remodeling
at the moment, this farm’s bit part
toward a cleaner Chesapeake Bay.
At least the super-dry summer
had been beneficial in drying up
the swampy sections, and skirting
the expanded manure storage with
tile drains would be less hassle
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Richland, PA
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Chambersburg, PA
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since we wouldn’t be digging in
muck. Just dust.
Until n backhoe bite suddenly hit
water the drainage ditch was
unexpectedly in full flow.
The farmers’ dismayed
suspicion of where the water
originated was pretty much
confirmed in short order.
Frighteningly little extra water • a
mere trickle - was running away
from our underground farm
supply. And, we soon discovered,
when the thirsties hit the herd of
dairy cows, none ran away.
With the extreme dry conditions,
the usually abundant water had not
been anything impressive in
volume to begin with. A diversion
of a good portion of it wasn’t
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Carlisle, PA
717-249-5338
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Lititz. PA
717-626-4705
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Milford, OE
302-422-4837
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New Ringgold. PA
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Bechtelsville, PA
215-845-2911
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Bloomsburg, PA
717-784-7731
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Hagerstown, MD
301-733-0515
exactly helpful.
Introduce Alternate Plan A.
Across the lower yard went a re
diversion ditch, aimed at coaxing
the underground supply back
toward where it originally flowed.
Backup Plan B followed shortly
thereafter. The reserve area would
be enlarged, holding more water
for those peak usage times when
the cows were guzzling.
An extension of the pumping
system into the expanded reserve
area was deemed a further bit of
insurance, and would require
shutting down the farm’s complete
water supply for but a brief
duration, I was assured.
The kettles of tomatoes cooking
on the stove for canning and the
load of laundry underway in the
washing machine would be
basically unaffected, only delayed.
Four hours later, suppertime,
the pump system extension was
still cranking only air bubbles, the
laundry sat in stagnating water
and the tomatoes had long been
cold.
Supper - such as it was - came
and went. Waterless. Fortunately
there was plenty of cold milk in the
milk tank.
The cows bawled for admittance
to the barn, figuring the dry out
side watering troughs could be
forgotten while gulping at the bam
fountains. The accusing looks we
got when they repeatedly shoved at
dry fountains weren’t pretty.
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We females of the family milked,
keeping a wary eye on the rum
bling black cloud front descending
over the barn. Meanwhile, the two
mud-and-clay coated males of the
family doubled their efforts to fill
the farm water system pipes with
the precious liquid we normally
take for granted.
When the fury descended,
sheeting rain, blowing wind, and a
fireball of lightning that turned the
woods next to us a momentary hot
pink shade, there was plenty of
water. It blew through the barn,
cascaded into the manure storage
area, and tumbled gallons of
muddy runoff into the diversion
ditches - one of which, of course,
diverted the muddy cloudburst
runoff right into our water sup
plies.
As we finished the milking, the
cows began eagerly lapping at the
trickles they were finally finding in
the fountains. A defective pipe
extension had been the air-bubble
culprit.
Eventually the muddy runoff
diverted through the water supply -
YORK - Eight York County 4-H
clubs gathered Aug. Bth at the Red
Lion Senior High School track to
test their athletic abilities. The 4-H
Olympics, which consists of events
such as, 50 yard dash, wheel
barrow race, volleyball, mile
the
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 23,1986-17
via Alternate Plans A and B and
the unexpected storm - would
settle.
But, left behind were bits of
gravel which jammed valves in
several fountains scattered
through the barns and, by the next
morning, had created mini-floods
here and there in the cattle
housing.
Storm past, cattle finally
watered, milking finished and
calves fed, I headed for the house
to tackle the supper remains, left
petrifying on the kitchen table
while we had coped with more
pressing “challenges.”
Fritz, terrified of storms, had
cowered underfoot while we
milked, then finally sneaked ad
mittance to his favorite storm
refuge, the house, just before I got
there. I found him soothing his
trauma with a piece of supper’s
leftover roast beef.
Here’s hoping the Chesapeake
blue crabs appreciate our efforts in
their behalf. I’ll never again feel
guilty when I steam ’em.
York Clubs Compete
In 4-H Olympics
Mmaniz
898-2241
394-7217
relay, balloon toss, and softball
throw, to name a few, is a day full
of fun.
The top scoring club was AirviUe
4-H, second place Club was
Hanover 4-H and in 3rd place was
the Loganville 4-H Club.
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