November 06,1980 - Enjoying the Night SkySECOND SECTION The 61iffolh TMO
Enioying the Night Sky
'There are advantages and disad-
vantages of owning a dog, and most of us
own a dog because the advantages far
outnumber the disadvantages. The small
disadvantages, such as having to take the
dog out at night and in the morning, can
often be turned around to your advantage
if you enjoy the outside world.
For instance, each night I walk the dog
down in the pasture, which gives me a
chance to check the weather and the sky
for the coming day. It's a pretty good in-
dicator as to what's coming up. It also has
the extra advantage of giving me
something to do while the dog is running.
Just last night I knew for sure we were
going to have a heavy frost by morning
because the sky was clear and the tem-
perature was crisp and, of course, it was
that time of year.
How the stars sparkled! and how
friendly the old familiar constellations
were to me as I stood there looking up. I
have always marveled at the slow
movement of the heavens through the
seasons and the shifting positions of the
moon and planets,once I got to know them.
I remember when in the service many,
many years ago; aboard ship on those
lonely watches the stars seemed to fill the
sky from horizon to horizon. The Pacific
Ocean seemed to have clearer days and
nights than we have here in the Northeast
and spectacular stars at night were always
there. I got to know Orion's Belt, Scorpio,
Pleiades, the Dipper and many others so
that today when I look to the heavens I
recognize these familiar friends. Perhaps
that is why I enjoy the outdoors so much.
You can count on it always being there.
Sun Blots Out Stars
I had occasion to get up before sunrise
this morning and, sure enough, the first
task was to take the dog out. By the time
we got out there was a bit of glow in the
east which put out the lesser stars and left
only the brighter ones and a crescent moon
above. These too would fade out as the
giant sun rose. Yet they're still up there
and I'm told that if you view them from a
deep dark hole you can see stars in the
daytime. It's just the sun that blocks them
out. Probably there are many others who
get up early and have to do it every day
and curse this early morning. But this
morning that quiet and predawn light cast
a spell over me and the land.
I could tell my frost prediction had come
to the garden in the morning, for I could
feel it through my light shoes and see it on
the grass. The horse trough alongside the
fence lay in darkness, and to test for ice I
plunged in my outstretched finger. Sure
enough it broke through and cracked a thin
layer of ice. Probably this is not the very
first frost of the season, but for our part of
the world it was.
Reminders of Cattle Era
Walking up back in those early hours I
looked across the vast potato fields, now
green with their newly -sown rye. One of
the houses a mile away had just turned its
lights on. Someone else was up, but still
warm inside while I walked with hands
deep in my pockets.
How different it would have been years
ago. Some part of this farm would have
had long rows of corn stacks. This would
have been the curing cattle corn left in the
field until needed. I can remember John
Wickham collecting truckloads of corn to
be brought in for his cattle. What milk we
used to get from those cows -- with cream
half way down the bottle... and all for 12
cents. Right down the road from us there is
still one of the old barns that housed the
last cow I can remember around here. It
was a passing era.
Our farms phased out the feeding of
animals some 30 or more years ago. The
first to go were the horses. The tractor
took their place; then the cows, and the
milkmen took their place. In place of the
cattle corn that was so familiar in those
days we now see another type of corn,
sweet corn raised for human consumption.
The visual difference here is that it is
much shorter in height and when finished
producing is no longer stacked in the fields
but disced up into the ground.
Yes, there's a little bad in almost every
good, but with a little imagination and
thought we can sometimes change things
around to our advantage. The next time
you walk the dog at night stop and look at
the sky above. Make an effort to become
familiar with this wonderful world, and if
you do, you'll reap the reward.
PAULSTOUTENBURGH
NOVEMBER 6, 1980
CORN STACKS - -A sight rarely seen today, for it marked an era of
feeding cattle. Today we still grow corn but it is sweet corn for human
consumption. Photo by Paul Stoutenburgh
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