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The Rural Voice, 1997-11, Page 30draulic 'ump Hoses Bearings Hydraulic Pumps Cylinders SNOWBLOWERS Designed for Strength Built for Durability Made in Canada • Hydraulic Cylinders repaired, rebuilt & manufactured • High test cap screws in English and metric sizes to 25 mm. or 1" • Taper, ball, roller and thrust bearings • V belts in A,B,C, multigroove and timing belts CALL FOR PRICES AND AVAILABILITY OF NON -STOCK ITEMS. BW BARFOOT'S WELDING AND MACHINE INC. to 517 Brown St., Marton (519) 534-1200 1-800-265-6224 26 THE RURAL VOICE economies. My own reading and travel have produced no more encouraging examples of this sort of effort than the Community Farm Alliance, the Commodity Growers Co-operative, and Partners for Family Farms. One of the most promising recent developments is the awakening of some of our urban neighbours to our plight. Those of us who have been involved in various efforts to strengthen our state's rural economy have been much encouraged by offerings of support and friendship from urban consumers, business leaders, and public officials, from individual physicians and from medical organizations, from some churches, from some grocery stores, restaurants, and chefs. Efforts to preserve our rural landscapes and rural communities have received sympathetic attention from some of the states' newspaper writers. All of these people are acknowledging that there are not two separate fates, urban and rural, but ultimately only one fate that is shared. Ultimately, a city cannot be better than its surrounding countryside and vice versa. The recent history of agriculture in Kentucky has thus produced an outline of hope for a revival of the Kentucky history has produced an outline of revival through the local economy principle of local economy in this state. I admit that I am astonished to have seen this happen so quickly. Because of these various efforts it is becoming possible to imagine a return of solvency and good maintenance to our small farms, and of prosperity and paint to our country towns. But now, having confessed to so much gratification, I must remind you that the word I used was "hope". At present, we are a long way from celebration, let alone optimism. We had better not forget that when we talk about farming, we are talking about a rural economy that has been depressed for a long time. 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BW BARFOOT'S WELDING AND MACHINE INC. to 517 Brown St., Marton (519) 534-1200 1-800-265-6224 26 THE RURAL VOICE economies. My own reading and travel have produced no more encouraging examples of this sort of effort than the Community Farm Alliance, the Commodity Growers Co-operative, and Partners for Family Farms. One of the most promising recent developments is the awakening of some of our urban neighbours to our plight. Those of us who have been involved in various efforts to strengthen our state's rural economy have been much encouraged by offerings of support and friendship from urban consumers, business leaders, and public officials, from individual physicians and from medical organizations, from some churches, from some grocery stores, restaurants, and chefs. Efforts to preserve our rural landscapes and rural communities have received sympathetic attention from some of the states' newspaper writers. All of these people are acknowledging that there are not two separate fates, urban and rural, but ultimately only one fate that is shared. Ultimately, a city cannot be better than its surrounding countryside and vice versa. The recent history of agriculture in Kentucky has thus produced an outline of hope for a revival of the Kentucky history has produced an outline of revival through the local economy principle of local economy in this state. I admit that I am astonished to have seen this happen so quickly. Because of these various efforts it is becoming possible to imagine a return of solvency and good maintenance to our small farms, and of prosperity and paint to our country towns. But now, having confessed to so much gratification, I must remind you that the word I used was "hope". At present, we are a long way from celebration, let alone optimism. We had better not forget that when we talk about farming, we are talking about a rural economy that has been depressed for a long time. In our country, neither the land nor the people of the land ever have been