Re: What happened to farming pride?

Posted by jeffcat on February 11, 2005 at 10:30:52 from (216.107.36.48):

In Reply to: Re: What happened to farming pride? posted by B Watson on February 11, 2005 at 09:40:07:

AMEN- Rough Rider had the right ideas. It makes me sick when I see how much I knew as a kid is gone! The GLF now AGWAY now AGCORP had a mill in Flemington, NJ. When I was 8 years old and had the chicken pox my dad took me to town so we could watch the NEW grain towers go up. They brought them in on the Lehigh Valley railroad. The steel tubes were lifted up and then welded.
GLF was bought out I guess in the early 70s and I still have a feed bag. The mill part closed in 1987 or 88 and it was pulled down. Now in the year 2005 the town wants to extend the access road in from the HI-way and the warehouse of the mill is in the way. I took my pro video camera and Nikon camera and took a bunch of pictures and video. A few items are now in my kitchen and I choke up to look at them. How many times did I stand at that front counter and order "Sweet Sixteen" cow feed or a bag of crack corn for the chickens. GOD I want to just cry! The rail spur was pulled up in the early 80s, and the Lehigh was long ago gone. After Boy Scouts on Wednesday night in the late 60s my dad and I would go watch the switcher bring in the feed cars.
I was brought up on a dairy farm with 32 milkers, and that was a good size one in 1948. I hated the cows cause of the 24/7-365 deal. Loved to farm but when you wake up on the other side of the barn and there is a pile of metal that used to milk.....
At 54 years old I still love chocolate milk and at the small remains of a farm fair in Burlington, NJ I stop and chat.
Enough of this. If you want to farm GOD love ya. This contry is a shadow of what was once a proud people!!!! Jeffcat

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• Re: What happened to farming pride? tractorptsguy 10:44:57 02/11/05 (1)
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