Santa Gertrudis Cattle
(Continued from Pago 04)
Road, which adjoins the farm
she grew up on and the first one
they bought, had been sitting
vacant for 30 years.
“When we bought it in 1986 it
had no plumbing or electricity.
We think the one part was built
about 1840 and the big house
and barn were finished in 1880,”
she said.
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(610) 369-9778
1995 JD 450 G dozer 10' blade $38,000
1995 JD 310 D backhoe 4WD turbo $32,000
1994 JD 7775 skid steer loader $12,000
Attachments for JD 7775:
Kent 5G breaker $5,000
12" hyd. auger $3,500
Hyd. sweeper $3,500
Kubota 2150 4WD hydrostatic 72” belly mower,
'96 model $12,000
Kubota 2150 4WD hydrostatic 72" belly mower,
'94 model $10,500
JLG miniature skid steer loader (Little J0hn)..55,000
All 080.
215/766-3866 (ask for Sheldon)
1984 TCM, 8,000 lbs. Triple Mast,
propane, side shift,
recent overhaul, good tires.
$9,800
Phone (717) 667-2141
Ask for Cliff.
Gene, a former builder,
restored the house to its current
4,000 square foot status working
m the evening after he was fin
ished with the farm work. And
that includes all three floors of
the house plus an addition that
connects the old homestead and
the big house.
Linda said with a chuckle
that it took so long “I thought we
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The bams were falling down
and the fields were “so grown up
with honeysuckle and multiflora
rose that when my husband
mowed, all you could see was his
hat going down through the
field. There was not a fence on
the farm. We spent the next
three years building fence, try
ing to get the pasture estab
lished, and rebuilding the
barns,” she said.
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54,100
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were never going to live long
enough to get moved into it.”
In 1992 they bought their
third farm on Cunningham
Road, about one mile from the
first two, and this one was in
disrepair. They have since
restored a very old home on the
property that was probably used
as some sort of facility during
the Civil War and continue
working to get the fields into
shape.
“We feel strongly about pre
serving old historical houses and
Jt breaks my heart to see a barn
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1988 JD 455 G crawler
loader, excellent condition,
$27,900. (301) 371-5500.
1989 John Deere 590 D ex
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1990 Case 580 K, 4WD,
cab, E-stick, 4nl bucket,
auxiliary hydraulics, VG
condition, $25,750.
(301)371-5500.
1994 Bobcat 763, skid
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$13,750/obo.
610-380-9826.
205 CAT track hoe, 1988,
good condition, $29,500.
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burn because you know you’re
never going to replace it. We feel
strongly about the land, too. We
believe in organic fanning and
believe the land is good to us
and we should be good back to it.
“Our farm has a lot of weeds
that probably shouldn’t be there,
but we’re getting it down natu
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ing or using herbicides or pesti
cides. It shows, but it’s a healthy
place to live,” Linda said.
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