Transition of platforms in british education 3201

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:31:04 -0400, Donald Tees

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You don't need electricity in order to have refrigeration. There are at least 17 different plain sects here in Lancaster County, PA, and and consequently at least 17 different sets of rules (the Ordnung) to follow, but many here have gas refrigerators. When I lived in Indiana two decades ago, gas refrigerators were uncommon; they had iceboxes. There was a vending machine at Love's Market in Cuba Corners that sold big blocks of ice for iceboxes.

At the time, there was a big controversy because Indiana wanted to insist that milk be cooled to a certain temperture within a certain number of minutes. There were a lot of protests that it would be unduly burdensome on Amish dairy farmers, and that they generally were not a source of health problems, because they tend to be scrupulously clean.

I knew some Amish construction workers who were pretty ripe by the end of the day, but they didn't have facilities to clean up on the job as a dairy farmer would have, and using deodorant doesn't make you cleaner, it just overpowers one smell with another.

Seems to me that my father didn't use computer for herd management back in the 1950s, and none of my neighbors did, either. I guess those Guernseys and Jerseys and Holsteins weren't cows?

The Mennonites I buy raw milk has modern John Deere tractors with steel wheels, but they have rubber tires on the manure spreader and on the Bobcat. They also have a bicycle shop on their farm.

When I was in Indiana, my nearest neighbors were Dave and Marie, who were old order Amish. Their kids had a bicycle, but that was forbidden to them, and they could only ride it in circles inside the barn.

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