Farm illustrated
A selection of new and old pictures of life on the farm. Scroll down for pictures of maple sugaring, farm animals, showing cows, barns, and more.
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Maple Sugaring
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Ed drilling, Lee tapping, and Ethan lugging buckets.
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Hot dogs! A bucket setting ritual. (Ed, Kate, and Ethan)
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One down, 1200 to go...
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Margie and Henry filling the 300 gallon tank, two pails at a
time.
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Clear, cold sap is what it takes to make Fancy syrup.
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Take us home, Kate! (on the 2940 – our workhorse tractor)
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Back at the sugar house, unloading the sap.
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From the tank on the ground, the sap is pumped into the 1000
gallon storage tank. Controlled by a float, the sap flows by gravity into the
evaporator inside the sugarhouse.
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Inside the sugar house, boiling the sap down. It takes at least 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup!
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Ed checks the density of the almost finished syrup with the hydrometer to see if it is time to draw off.
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You start a little dense (sweet) and draw off until the density is just right.
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Filtering the finished maple syrup to remove the sugar sand before briefly reheating for filling the containers or “canning.”
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Farm Animals
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The girls out to pasture on Turkey Hill
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Brown Swiss (l), Holstein (c), and Jersey (r) heifers
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Margie on Princess Polonia, our retired race horse
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Barley the hunter!
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Summer is the season to be showing cows!
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Kate took her favorite cow, Mere, to the National
Holstein show in Louisville, KY.
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Back home again at the Big E, showing Neda this time.
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Many years ago, Ethan, Clint, and Kate together with, Nell, the illustrious “number 99” – one of our all-time greats.
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“The White” – our old ride to the fairs. Fun to chug up and hurdle down Huntington's County Road in.
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Diversity in the fields!
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These are just a few of our farm buildings
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Free-stall barn and parlor
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Old tie-stall barn
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New commodity shed
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Old sawmill
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The bird's eye view
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