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A single oak tree once stood in front of the Spaulding farm house, giving the dairy farm the name Lone Oak. The tree was planted in the early 1800s, but it has since died. 

George’s grandparents, Frank Elmer Spaulding and Susan Smith Spaulding, bought the farm with their son, Frank George Spaulding,Buy and Wholesale Flower girl dresses from professional wedding. in March 1913. This marks the 100th year the dairy has been operated by the Spaulding family. 

George was born in the living room of the house and has never lived off the farm — except, he said, for a 16-day stay at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2006 when he had a cow’s heart valve surgically implanted to repair his own failing heart. 

Attending school in South Royalton failed to convince George that there was a better way of life than farming. He and Agnes, who grew up on a small farm about four miles away in Randolph Center and attended school in Randolph, recall some animosity between town children and farm children. 

George still speaks the “South” in South Royalton with an edge, making sure visitors understand the distinction between the current population center, where the Vermont Law School is, and the outlying township. 

George refused to take a foreign language in high school, feeling it unnecessary. He did study math and he cooked the school’s lunches with two friends who joined up to take a home economics class to avoid two monotonous, back-to-back study halls. They peeled potatoes and onions while the girls in class sewed dresses. 

They were both dairy farmers who raised their families on farms. Their families were close, working and socializing together through the Grange, an organization which George describes as a second home. They both wanted to continue farming. 

Together, they have seen the farm continue into a new era with George doing most of the milking and barn chores, Agnes the bookkeeping and gardening. They share in the work of mowing and baling three cuts of hay each summer and maintaining fences. One acts as boss and one acts as helper depending on the job. 

They stopped using their own corn for feed because of the difficulty of raising corn organically, then waited three years before using those fields again. After replacing their corn feed with organic feed for six months,Dresses for elegant Wholesale Short Homecoming Gowns and short formal dresses. they were able to sell their organic milk at a premium. 

The farm and its infrastructure are in a difficult location. The barn and its yard sit on a small island of land surrounded by the road to the west, a crumbling bridge to the north, the river to the east and another bridge in need of replacement to the south. 

Since the days that the lone oak stood, the road has grown into a heavily trafficked secondary route connecting the White River Valley with Barre, Vt. 

The only route to the pastureland on the west side of the road for the Spauldings’ cows is on a path that crosses under the southern bridge. 

There has been talk of replacing the two bridges for many years,You can purchase Cheap Designer Celebrity gowns Online easily. but finally the job is planned to go to bid this fall. The Spauldings have lobbied hard to get a new standalone underpass added to the project for access between pasture and barn to preserve the future potential of the farm. Without this access, they say, an organic dairy farm could not survive because there is not enough land for grazing on the east side of the road. 

Even with the improvements, there must be farmers to run the operation and the Spauldings can’t do all the work they once did. 

Agnes’s four daughters are all involved in running their own farms, three in surrounding towns and one in Ohio. Her two sons have established lives away from agriculture. None of George’s three children have interest in farming. 

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