84-Lancasler Farming, Saturday, July 24, 1999
Sattazahn Family
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even when it is dry.” A crop
saving characteristic many years,
and especially needed during this
year’s drought.
Ray’s first tractor was a 1937
Allis Chalmers. Today he is
delighted that his son Clarence and
wife Marlene have had the tractor
restored and enter it in local tractor
shows.
The transition from horses and
mules to tractors was a welcomed
one.
“When it was hot, we no longer
needed to take out the horses,” said
Ray, who has a picture of him
using Belgian horses and mules.
In 1956, Ray remembers pur
chasing his first combine.
Although his wife Elsie died 24
years ago, Ray refers to her often.
“Look around here," Ray said of
the 140-acte farm, now owned by
son Dennis and his family. “My
wife deserves the credit for every
thing you see. If it wasn’t for her, I
wouldn’t have gotten this. She
husked fieldcom by hand and was
right up there with the best of
them.”
Because he is in good health at
90 years, people often ask him abut
his diet.
He said that he ate a dozen eggs
on Easter. “But I can’t cat cheese,”
he said. “Know why?” I don’t like
it," he explained.
But don’t wony, this dairy far
mer said of consuming his own
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product, “What I don’t eat in
cheese, I make up in ice cream.’’
He also claims to be a heavy
drinker. “Of water,” he clarifies.
He uses honey, not sugar.
“I drink some liquor but don’t
overdo it,” he said.
While most people rely on
clocks for telling time, Ray said, “I
can tell the time by where the sun is
positioned at the locust tree.”
In addition to his son Dennis, his
other children include his oldest
son Ray Jr. and wife Betty, retired
fanners; son Clarence and Mar
lene, who farm two adjoining
farms; Mary, who is retired and
lives in Virgina, and son Robert
and Jane, who farm in
Womelsdorf.
Marlene and Clarence live in a
house built in 18S4. The German
bank bam is made of stones with
vent holes. The former Amish resi
dence had no electricity, when
they moved in so they milked with
a tractor generator until electricity
was installed.
The couple started out with 24
cows tied in a stauncbion bam,
using a dumping station and bulk
tank.
In 1973, the couple was the first
in the township to install a carousel
milking parlor on wheels. They
also erected adjoining bams and
three silos.
Son Kevin and his family live on
an adjoining farm, and Kevin
works as the herdsman for his
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