A22-Lancntw’ FotSho. Saturday, Juns 10.1995 A Visit To (Continued from Pago At) the most interesting farm antique pieces you can find anywhere. The wide floor boards, the chair rail, and the plain rough plaster walls provide the setting for an old restored kitchen table set just like grandma would have done it A wood fire in the old kitchen range with the black stove pipe vis ible from firebox to wall chimney casts a comfortable warm glow throughout the well-lighted room and provides the baking and cook ing power for many of the extended family’s holiday dinners. The deli cious tasting cake verifies the assertion that baking in an old range makes better tasting goods than any modem appliance ever could. A Sellers kitchen cabinet adds to the functional part of the room. Anda 1911 DeLaval cream separ ator in the comer and many other De Laval pieces such as an agate farm sign, wall posters and tin pro duct cans bring out the nostalgia of the farm. In fact, De Laval pieces are a speciality. One of the most unique pieces in the collection is a De Laval parts cabinet that still has some of the original parts in the compartments. Many pieces of literature are in the De Laval collection. And all three of the breed tin cow and calf advertising pieces (Holstein, Guernsey, and Jersey) are in the collection, as well as some of the paper cow pieces made in the late ’3os and early ’6os. “This all started,” Shirley said, “when we jacked up this old sum mer kitchen to the level of the house. At the time, junk was stored in it, but we got the idea to restore the room to its original condition. When that was done, we needed U.S. Hosts 14th World Jersey Conference REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio “World Focus on Jerseys” was the theme of the 14th World Jersey Conference held May 7-16 in Monterey and Modesto, Califor nia. International guests were in attendance from Argentina, Aus tralia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Germany, Guatemala, Island of Jersey, Ja pan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zea land, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, Uruguay, and Zim babwe. Conference participants met to discuss recent research focusing on Jerseys and milk marketing. A “Farmer’s Forum” chaired by Dan (Many Items of interest are included In the collection. Pasture Green Farm Provides Lesson In History pieces to complete the setting, and that’s how this collecting business all started.” Before the kitchen was even completely restored, the old cook stove was in place and used to make a family meal. That was back in 1989. About the same time, an elderly man’s farm museum col lection in Union County was sold at an eight-day auction. Many of the tools and cream separators ended up in the Womer’s new/old summer kitchen. Of course, antique collecting becomes contagious. Soon Scott, at the encouragement of his parents, began collecting old com shelters, two-cylinder John Deere tractors, farm toys, and two old Ford trucks. Scott has a lot of work to do on these antique vehicles to have them ready by next year when he gets his driver’s license. In 1992, the youth’s collecting interest took him to the National Two-Cylinder Club Expo 111 in Waterlou. lowa, as an exhibitor. At this show he received a limited edi tion exhibitor’s toy tractor. Since only 1000 of these models were made, it is now worthrover $6OO. Shirley’s parents. Gene and Janet Willow, Millerstown, share in the antique fever too. The num ber of pieces became great enough that the Willows and the Womers built a two-story 30’ x 90’ steel pole building on the Willow’s farm to house the collections. Among the store; treadle sewing machines, an old dog treadmill, cherry seed ers, meat grinders, an old John Deere manure spreader with a wooden apron chain that is also the floor, and a horse collar bench. Actually, they don’t know how many pieces they have, but every thing has a story behind it In furniture, they refinish every Bansen, Oregon, had panelists from Denmark, England, New Zealand, U.S.A. and Zimbabwe discussing the question, “What are you doing on your dairy farm to maximize profitable milk produc tion?" Farm visits were arranged in Oregon prior to the conference. Farms in the Central Valley and Femdalc areas of California host ed visitors during the conference. Sightseeing tours frere held to San Francisco, the California Red woods. Napa Valley. Monterey area and Yosemile National Park. Approximately 600 people at tended the Pride of the West sale held during the conference. thing themselves. Scott’s bedroom suite is the work of the family. An old oak ice box in the kitchen shows this handiwoik too. “We should all have a hobby,” Shirley said. “The stress of fanning is too great not to have an outlet For us, this is also an investment.” An early 1900 s model country store has been set up in one area of the new building, complete with a sign, old door, and shutters from the house. Inside this historical store are old boxes, tins, a copper kettle with apple butter stirrer, and a butter chum. On weekends the family can be found at an auction or visiting flea Terry and Shirley show Pasture Green Enhancer Regency, the supreme champion at the Beaver Fair last year. To add a little family fun and color to the Holstein string, Scott shows his two year-old Guernsey, Crown Stone Smokey Cindy from William Schnebly’s herd In Clear Spring, Maryland. Scott takes a ride on his restored two-cylinder John Deere antique tractqr. markets in search of that piece in the collection that is still missing. But of course they don’t venture very far from home because they need to be back for the evening milking. Even so, they havea great time together as a family and have assembled a remarkable collection in a very shot time. “In a few yean the “kids” won’t know what this stuff is or what it was used for,” Shirley said. “How many know what this stuff is even now,” Scott counten. “We even have some things we don’t know what they are.” But Scott knows what a lot of this stuff is. He’s a step ahead of his peers when it comes to completing school projects. For example, in one of his 10th grade assignments, he produced a video on the subject of the history of farming. Needless to say. with all the history sur rounding him at home, the project turned out well and captured a per fect 100 for his efforts. “We concluded that for us. cows were not going to consume every moment of our lives,” Shirley said. “We enjoy cows, but we also enjoy being part of the educational pro cess that helps the next generation know what happened on the farm in years past. To do this, we collect farm antiques.”
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