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BHM FARM EQUIPMENT
717-867-2211
Auburn. NY
MAIN & PINCKNEY EQUIP.
7033 Mutton Hill Road
800-232-0838
Beavertown. PA
B & R FARM EQUIPMENT
RR 1, Box 2424 (Rt. 522 South)
570-658-8175
Bloomsburq. PA
NICHOLS FARM EQUIPMENT
RR #9, Box 87
570-784-7731
Carlisle. PA
CARLISLE FARM SERVICE
260 York Road
717-243-4419
FARM SVC., INC.
975 South Main St.
717-264-3533
COLUMBIA CROSS ROAD
RD 2, Box 62
717-297-3873
Denton. MD
SHAFFER EQUIPMENT CO.
26193 Burrsville Road
410-479-1477
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HERNLEY’S FARM EQUIPMENT
2095 South Market St
717-367-8867
Fontana. PA
UMBERGER’S OF FONTANA, INC
8 Miles East of Hershey on Rt. 322
717-867-5161/800-261-2106
Frederick. MD
KNOTT & GEISBERT, INC.
White - New Idea
3432 Urbana Pike
1-800-255-5549
WERTZFARM EQUIPMENT
RD#3, Box 458 (PA Route 516)
717-235-0111
Inaleside. MD
GIBSON FARM EQUIPMENT
3120 Goldsboro Road
410-758-0262
Jamesvllle. NY
N. PALLADINO & SONS
3140 Sweet Road
315-667-3141
Kiingertown. PA
STANLEY’S FARM SERVICE
717-648-2088
Martinsburo. PA
BURCHFIELD’S, INC.
112 S Railroad St
814-793-2384
Qneonta. NY
SHARON SPRINGS GARAGE
184 East St.
607-432-8411
Pgnn Run. PA
manor motors
Route 1
724-254-4753
Punxsutawney. PA
LONDON FARM SUPPLY
814-938-7444
BasburjL-EA
HOLTRY’S WELDING & REPAIR
Mam St
717-532-7261
& REPAIR
Rt 20
518-284-2346
PA
LINCOLN SUPPLY & EQUIPMENT CO.
422 Riggs Road
814-443-1691
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Washington. PA
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Route 18 North
2075 Henderson Ave
724-222-3780
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GRUMELU FARM SERVICE
929 Robert Fulton Hwy (Rt 222)
717-786-7318
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
The grass has turned a deep,
vibrant green.
Daffodils gaily nod their
cheery heads in the breeze
Forsythia bushes glow golden in
the sunshine
Giddy with the joy and
promise of Springtime, we glad
ly dig holes in our pocketbooks.
Fertilize our gardens with liber
al spreading of bucks And bask
in the daydreams of color-coordi
nated annual borders, picture
perfect perennials, and baskets
overflowing with mounds of
dewy, homegrown vegetables
“Grow it. Pick it. Eat it l ” pro
claimed a gardening ad that
cracked me up as I thumbed
through a publication while
enjoying my early morning
breakfast bagel with cream
cheese.
Yeah. Right. Just like that.
Oh, golly, gee whiz, if it were
only that simple.
Because the advertisement
had to do with planting fruit
trees.
Years ago, when we first
moved onto the farm, there were
a couple of old apple trees scat
tered around the farmstead
Age, building, re-landscaping,
even a fire in one started by an
electric fence, which slipped off
the insulator, took their toll over
the years
Grow it Pick it. Eat it
A fruit tree is a commitment
Just ask your local professional
orchardist Every plant problem
in the book with an inclination
toward fruit will know in a
moment just the right moment
your pet tree is susceptible to
bugs, blights, blisters, fungi and
assorted infestations.
“Do you really want to fiddle
with having to spray and prune
and fend off frost,” queried The
Farmer years ago when we first
tossed the fruit tree idea
around “When we have
orchards a mile up the road?”
He reiterated the idea again
last year, when I lamented the
demise of my strawberry patch
and mused about replanting
more And, he’s nght With cows
to help milk every day, bawling
baby calves, and a computer
relentless flashing an impatient
cursor to “get with it'” our
strawberries this year will be U
pick. Or, he suggests, pre-
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picked.
Then there are the blueberry
bushes. I’ve planted at least a
dozen over the years. Some large
potted ones. Some small mail
order slips. Some my mom even
got for me. We do have one blue
berry bush of a few feet high to
show for the effort. Despite all
gardening admonitions that
blueberries need to be grown in
pairs, to this bush’s credit, it
does bear some fruit in its state
of singular bliss. The backyard
mockingbirds generally find the
berries before I do
Fruit cultivation is a commit
ment; I obviously don’t have that
commitment. Nor do I particu
larly relish gnarled, wormy
apples or frozen peach tree blos
soms or tending to a pear tree
which may or may not choose to
yield
I have grown soft and depen
dent on the efforts of our good
neighbors who as professionals
do this so efficiently.
Last mid-summer, The
Farmer came home from one of
his parts-and-repairs-stockup
trips to town with trees in the
back of the pickup Apple trees
“You bought WHAT 9 ” I
exclaimed
Hey, the apple trees had been
reduced on sale to 90% off the
original price, for goodness sake
(Yes, they were still alive) And,
shortly before, our West Coast
daughter has been reminiscing
on the phone one night about
how she used to love picking
apples off those old trees when
she was a kid And how it would
be nice for her kids to be able to
do that on visits to the farm.
We now have a couple of
“yearling” apple trees happily
thriving in the meadow fence
now
“The deer will enjoy them,”
justified The Farmer of his fruit
tree planting, after years of rea
soning why planting fruit trees
made no economic sense Since
deer are still a rare pleasure to
watch on our farm, it’s an
acceptable excuse
And, if our “little dears” enjoy
them too, why that’s just an
added bonus.
.Wound here, when it comes
to grandkids and animals, eco
nomics and logic go out the win
dow
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