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Talbot auctioning farm items from 1800s
Antique tractors, buggies, cutters and ringer washers sold from Kippen-area farm
Crystal Stewart
Ernie Talbot has moved away
from the Kippen area farm where
he spent most of his life, farming
first with his father and then on his
own.
And if the move isn't change
enough for Talbot, he's also auction-
ing off the old farm and household
equipment that has been gathering
dust in the barn over the years.
From the 1800s to the 1980s,
Talbot's huge collection includes
everything from ringers used for
washing clothes and an old car
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windshield, to a restored 1937
Massey -Harris tractor which Talbot
operated in county antique plowing
matches.
The oldest of his discoveries is
likely a buggy and cutter, which
were once used for horse drawn
transportation in the summer and
winter respectively.
"I imagine dad and mother bought
(the buggy) when he was married
probably. He never drove it that
much," said Talbot. "The cutter
would go back to almost the 1800s.
I've never seen it used."
The cutter isn't the only item 81 -
year -old Talbot has never seen in
action. One of the several barns
houses a shingle mill, which Talbot
said was used for sawing cedar
shingles before his time.
Some of the more recently utilized
items are tractors from the 1980's
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An old buggy, once used by Talbot's father and dated to the early 1900s, was one
of the many items up for bids.
and a 24 -foot cultivator and harrow.
There are also several small gas
engines Talbot bought over the
years to help with his chores.
"I used them for pumping water
since there was no hydro," said
Talbot.
"We didn't have hydro when we
were married," added wife Dorothy
Talbot. "It didn't come until the war
was over."
Karen Alexander, one of Talbot's
daughters, who has spent months
helping arrange the items for auc-
tion, said the items are so numerous
"nobody can believe they're going to
do it in a day."
She said many of the items are of
interest to local Mennonites who
still use the equipment. But she
added some are finds for collectors.
An old, school bell, which was used
to call families in for dinner,' and a
copper bathtub from the 1800s are
probably not ideal for use today, but
serve to highlight a little bit, the
way things were done in the past.
Even more demonstrative of farm
technology from days gone by is a
hand -operated corn shelter, which
Talbot believes could still be put to
use with a little bit of fixing up.
One thing the old and new
machines have in common is they
have all been owned by a member of
the Talbot family.
After coming to Canada from
Ireland in 1836, Talbot's father
Melvin purchased the farm in 1922,
and it has been in the family ever
since.
Talbot won't have to worry about
missing the home he has lived in
since birth though.
As is becoming, tradition, Rose
Cottage Farm has been taken over
by someone close to the family,
Talbot's daughter.
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Ambulance bases in
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County are being
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In a report accepted
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The county agreed to
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or bases, at locations
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An ad hoc committee
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concerning additional
bases and the proposed
ambulance stations in
the future.
By Mark Nonkes