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Life is Simple
        Life is Simple
                                                                                                 The Midwest Cattleman · October 21, 2021 · P5

        Copyright 2021,                  day, and being excited about       in some memories.  Time and
        Jerry Crownover                  spending the day watching          weather has not been kind to
                                         him and Euell, a neighbor he       the old edifice, as some of the
                                         had hired, meticulously erect      owners, in between us and the
                                         the  gigantic  (in  four-year-old   current ones, failed to keep it
                                         eyes) structure. It turned out     up  with  the  care  that  it  de-
                                         to  be  the  largest  building  for  served, but it still stands.
                                         several miles, in any direction,     As I travel the country, I see
                                         and was a source of pride for  new barns that cost hundreds
                                         the entire family. Sixty-five  of  thousands  of  dollars.  They
                                         years later, I often drive by  are designed to protect machin-
                                         the old barn, when visiting the  ery, house livestock, store hay,
                                         area, and often stop and soak                   continued on page 24




         A barn is more than just a
      building.
         I first realized  this at  the                                                       Genetics
      tender age of four, when, as
      my family prepared to move
                                                                                Tha
                                                                                That Mattert Mattert Matter
      their farming operation from
      Arkansas to Missouri, my fa-                                              Tha
      ther spent a great deal of time
      and money to construct a huge
      barn  on  the  newly  acquired
      property—months before work                                  16  ANNUAL Bull & Replacement Female Sale
                                                                     th
      was started on a house for our
      family to live. There had to be
      priorities.                                                  RANBURNE, AL November 13, 2021 11:00 AM CST
         I can remember riding with
      Dad, on the 25-mile trip, each                                            175 Fall Yearling Bulls  - 200 Bred & Open Replacement Females



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