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There's More To A Barnyard
By Gary Bryant
If you're looking for a break from garage sales
and shopping malls, take a ride into farm country. No
matter where you live in America, somebody somewhere
has a farm.
And what do farms have to do with classified ads?
I'm glad you asked. From farms comes the very milk of
the connoisseur second time shopper. Farms yield forth
fruits and vegetables, little bunnies and big Rhode Island
Reds. The American family farm spews forth tons of hay,
pre-kitchen cattle, a veritable cacophony from the mouths
of cute kittens. Ah yes, the American farm, and what do we
treasure more than all of this? A lot of neat old farm junk.
My uncle's farm gave me the first clue. Before my uncle
had his farm, my uncle's father had it, and his father before
him. So what? You may very well ask? So what indeed! A
rare view behind the barn of my uncle's farm revealed almost
two hundred years of accumulated neat junk!
He had an actual horse drawn sleigh minus the horses
sitting out there in the barnyard. A nearly comlete nineteen
twenty-one Ford kept it company. Just inside the door of
the barn hung an assortment of horse tack and hand tools,
lanterns and lights.
After that visit, I began to notice barns and their
yards more often. I soon lost my timidity and began stopping
to chat with farmers as they sat on their mowers. I talked
about the '47 Chevy being choked by weeds just a few feet away.
I actually bought a two-man saw one fellow had hanging from a
nail in a tree by his driveway! Oh sure, farms produce beef,
grain, produce and poultry, but let's not forget the real value
of farming...neat old stuff!