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cents on some time aged wooden carpenter planes the show was on. Next a hand-cranked corn sheller went for $1.50, then a circular saw blade with table and power pulley brought a little higher price. With the glorious just-right temperature of a May sun smiling through a covering of ash trees, dispositions were mellow and the bidding brisk.
Auctioneers conduct *a sale according to pattern; first the stuff then on to the more desirable items. So, following the sale of old wheels and a grindstone, Mr. Jenkins waded through the orchard grass now ready for mowing to an old farm wagon. Some of the braver and more interested souls followed, but he lost a passel of timid ones who were mindful of bumble bees and copperheads. The group viewed the old wagon buried among a rash of briars and young sassafras trees with some hesitancy, but it was finally knocked down to a man for $5. He allowed that he would be able to find out what he bought next week when he pulled his purchase out with a tractor.
Hog prices have been static around Virginia lately, but the old farm bell is on the iuirm. and
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