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- There's More To A Barnyard
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- By Gary Bryant
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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!
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