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BANG! The loud sound echoed
around the farmstead in the 90-de
gree humidity of mid-morning.
“What was that?” I wondered
aloud to the two cats underfoot
The sharp, pronounced crack
had sounded like a gunshot. Per
haps a groundhog sharpshooter
had taken aim at one of the numer
ous “chucks” that excavate
haybine-eating burrow-mounds of
ground in the alfalfa fields and
chomp off hundreds of baby soy
bean plants.
Or perhaps an equipment tire
had blown. We’ve had an epidem
ic of those this spring. They blow
with a thunderous “booooomm!”
that has sent us scurrying a couple
of times to see what disastrous
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explosion had taken place.
But.this had not been a
“booooomm!, but a distinct
"BANG!”
When nothing unusual
appeared around the farm in the
next few moments, the sound was
pushed from my mind by a mental
schedule of what needed done and
which had to be done first A few
minutes later, the back door
slammed and The Farmer came
hustling through the house, cov
ered with dirt, his T-shirt wet, and
an old milkhouse towel at his
head.
And quietly made one of the
scariest statements I’ve ever
heard.
U A battery just blew up in my
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Frankly, I don’t remember
much of the next few seconds,
except he was peering toward the
bathroom mirrow, trying to see
dirt in his streaming, red eyes ....
and groping for the eyewash ....
and I repeatedly asked a couple of
times in growing terror “Can you
see?”
I do recall answering that he
could and my asking him to lie
down on the floor so I could better
wash out his eyes and in case
for some reason he might pass out.
“Can you see? Does it bum?”
Strangely enough, he had no
burning, just a terrible scratching
like his eyes were full of dirt.
Which they surely had to be, since
the battery was near haylage and
feed dust While I flooded his eyes
with eyewash, he recounted mov
ing the battery to work on it after
having recharged it some minutes
before when it just exploded.
“Can you see?”
Knowing he’d probably been
sprayed with acid, he’d had the
presence of mind to keep his eyes
tightly closed after the explosion
to prevent further contamination
from whatever might be clinging
to skin and clothes. Instead, he
called dairy bam assistant John,
who was working nearby, to guide
him to the milkhouse, where he
had flushed out his eyes with cold
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water for a several minutes before
coming to the house.
“Can you see?” Enroute the few
miles to York Hospital, I asked it
again a couple of times. Each
affirmative seemed an answer to
some hastily offered prayers.
After nearly two hours of flush
ing his eyes with saline solutions,
doctors were still removing tiny
bits of dirt from his badly
reddened, abrasion-laced eyes.
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recycled organics like mulch and
compost, the Directory of Organic
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been looking for. The directory,
developed by the Recycling Edu
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Montgomery County Cooperative
Extension in Creamery, lists SO
sites in southeastern Pennsylvania
which recycle, or will recycle in
the near future, a variety of organ
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clippings, manure, woody brush
and branches, lumber scraps, tree
stumps and logs.
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Three separate physicians who
examined him agreed he would be
uncomfortable for a couple of
days but would probably have no
lasting damage.
Yes, he can see. And we truly
thank God for that
.This was not his first emergen
cy room visit for farm-related eye
injuries. I’ve worn out my “wear
your safety glasses” nagging tape.
Anyone have an extra one I can
borrow?
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die directory will help link people
who have excess organic materials
with organic material recyclers
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Each recycling site in the direc
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have organic material to get rid of,
you look first at the map in the
centerfold to locate the nearest
recycling/composting sites. Look
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phone number are given along
with a list of materials the site
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recycled organic end-products
like mulch and compost available.
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pick up and delivery, directions,
hours of operation, and costs.
If you would like a directory,
send a self-addressed #lO business
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age on it to: Recycling Directory,
Montgomery County Cooperative
Extension, P.O. Box 20, Cream
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