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Wed Apr I Changing traditions The changing agricultural scene In Helton Is often reflected In the bams that dot the landscape with diminishing regularity There are still the well kept barn the sign of serious farming and often unique In thefr architecture that ranges from the pioneer stone to the more recent styles But there are also the barns propped precariously being stripped of their decorative barn board at unheard of prices There are also the farms where only Indicates the site of an earlier bam As ruralflrestakethelrtollthenumberofbarnsdecreases Todaya bam raising once a social highlight of a pioneer community unheard of Bams In Helton are reflections of a changing agricultural Influence Staff photos by Steven Dills