On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard;
Joyce Bupp
As we humans go about our
daily labors and responsibilities,
most of us relentlessly watch for
that which makes our jobs easier,
more efficient, more productive.
Laborsaving devices, if you will.
Well, mebbe.
Our house has ’em. No doubt
yours does too. Society’s eager
embrace of laborsaving devices,
gadgets and gimmicks has devel
oped whole new industries, some
times spiraling creative inventors
of them into the 10-figure person
al wealth level.
Not having a “real” job which
gives me a paid holiday off this
weekend, I always find myself re
lating Labor Day to this new, im
proved stuff which makes our
lives less complicated.
One of our early laborsavers in
the kitchen was the dishwasher.
Which turned up more or less
under an early Christmas tree
of ours in response to my ad
amant refusal to return to a trac
tor seat before the lunch dishes
were cleaned up and put away.
To this day, I dislike a sinkful of
dirty dishes, but you can hide
them very effectively in a dish
washer.
A microwave oven followed
not too many years later, serving
us faithfully until just a few years
ago, when it nuked itself into
oblivion. Most interesting is that
it’s replacement cost a fraction of
the first one.
That is one particularly re
warding side of modern laborsav
ers. Mass production technology
and cheaper electronics puts
them within the reach of most
households, another reason to
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celebrate Labor (saving devices)
Day.
On the down side, if you will,
we have few excuses for not get
ting all this stuff done. Stuff we
maybe never even knew we
needed to do or have before and
now can’t live without.
Like e-mail, faxing, VCR’s
voice messaging, pagers, and try
ing to respond to bombardment
with more information than we
have time to sort out. Not to
mention having to leam to “pro
gram” even the simplest things,
like a wrist watch.
No doubt, probably the largest
labor management leap came
when computerization crossed
society’s threshold. And today’s
brain “chips” have enabled
downsizing bulky, backbreakers
with just a few megs of memory
to palm sized pieces with the
storage space of a small library.
Now we can take it all with us,
even when what we really need
more than anything is to get
away from it all.
Just last week, after hooking
up parts, plugs and assorted
pieces of plastic attachments, I
re-programmed myself to operate
a new fax machine. Our first
well-used one had begun drawing
long black lines on each sheet it
received or sent before finally giv
ing up the ghost. Like others,
we’ve gone from barely being ac
quainted with the word “facsim
ile” to not being able to live with
out a push-button, life-sized
version of it to transport instant
information.
Not to mention the most
perhaps übiquitous develop-
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NON-SELLING MARKET GOAT
Lightweight preview market goats: 1.
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Middleweight preview market goats 1.
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Light heavyweight preview market goats
1 Stephen Geib. 2. Nathan Eisenhower 3
Tyler Esh.
ment of all laborsaving improve
ments: the mobile phone. And
while farmers adopt technology
at a fairly fast rate even while
poking fim at it, mobile phones
have proved as much a boon to
agriculture as milking machines,
GPS crop-tracking and round
balers. I can actually track down
The Farmer when he is off-site
and some critical component
like a dead water pump or milk
ing system glitch develops and
needs to be fixed now.
That, friends, is real progress.
The Farmer still chuckles
about one day, not too long after
I equipped him with a mobile
phone for my peace of mind,
when he realized he been shoved
into a new level of accessibility.
Picking up supplies, he was
somewhat inwardly laughing at
folks walking through the supply
establishment talking on theft
cell phones. Until his rang with a
message that a bearing had out
on some piece of equipment at
home and could he please pick
one up on his way home.
Reality is, we got along for
years without all this “stuff,” and
could again. If we had to. But the
booming sales of new, improved,
laborsaving gadgetry screams
loud and clear that it isn’t
going to happen.
However, in observance of
Labor Day, and really taking a
little time to relax, excuse me
while I unplug some of it for at
least an hour or two.
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SELLING MARKET GOATS
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GRAND CHAMPION
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RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION
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OVERALL GRAND CHAMPION
MARKET GOAT
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OVERALL RESERVE
GRAND CHAMPION MARKET GOAT
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Reserve champion: Bethany Keener.
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MARKET GOAT SHOW
Selling division (lightweight): 1. Nate Ei
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Selling division (medium weight); 1. Brian
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Selling division (heavyweight): 1. Ste
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Lightweight; 1. Amanda Grube. 2. Caro
lyn Kenslnger. 3. Marietta Ulrich.
Medium weight; 1. Rachel Keener. 2.
Jennie Ream. 3. Nate Eisenhower.
Heavyweight; 1. Stephen Gelb. 2. Betha
ny Keener. 3. Amanda Grube.
Champion; Stephen Qeib.
Reserve champion: Amanda Grube.
BREEDING OOAT SHOW
Alpines champion; Jennie Ream.
Alpines reserve champion; Jennie Ream.
LaMancha champion: Amanda Grube.
LaMancha reserve champion: Amanda
Grube.
Nubian champion: Ton Whitehaus.
Ream. 3. Kyle Ream.
Alpine doe kids: 1. Kyle Ream.
Alpine mature does two years and older:
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Reserve champion champion Alpine doe:
Jennie Ream.
Meat breeds doe kids (never kidded)- 1
Kyle Ream.
Meat breeds mature does two years and
older 1. Rachel Keener. 2 Rachel Keener
3. Jennie Ream
Champion champion meat breeds doe.
Rachel Keener.
Reserve champion champion meat
breeds doe: Rachel Keener.
ORAND CHAMPION
Jennie Ream
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Junior division I (8- and 9-year-olds): 1.
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Intermediate division (10 to
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Senior division (13 and 18-year-olds). 1.
Jennie Ream. 2. Amanda Grube. 3. Rachel
Keener.
Champion showman: Jennie Ream.
Reserve champion showman: Amanda
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Nubian reserve champion: Tori White
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Sannen champion; Cynthia Foulke.
Saanen reserve champion: Rebecca
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Toggenburg champion: Jennie Ream.
Toggenburg reserve champion: Amanda
Grube.
Crossbred champion; Kyle Ream.
Crossbred reserve champion: Kyle
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Champion show: Jennie Ream.
Reserve champion show: Amanda
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13-15 years: 1. Kyle Ream. 2. Bethany
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