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Show oe ——— Week Raises Family Of 21: B 1omic NEW°GATE, La. (UP)— Ecorecession or not, John and Falls bakery can feed 19 chil- loaves of it. “I also bring home | dren “in these times.” two gallons of milk a day,” Burg | Lorraine Burg are raising 19 chilA. large garden produces | said. He buys a bushel of potatoes dren of school‘age or younger on enough for Mrs. Burg to can| ) rd “ | about» 500 quarts a year, enough a week. |about $85 a week. They live in a white frame building of four bedrooms, kitch- {en and living room. It’s far from fashionable but every ‘inch a home. Burg built it himself that {first year of marriage before | ) vegetables to feed the family. i They get enough to keep them | ¢ Another section houses “35 to healthy, anyway, Burg said, and | #% 40 hens, good for two dozen eggs if childhood illnesses strike “We! a day, Burg sell any.” Otherwise, said. | “We don’t ' just let them take their course.” | *’ _. | And if the parents get sick? “We 4 there’s meat and po- don’t get sick,” he said\ | tatoes and milk and bread. | “There’s always a way . Bobby was born — Bobby’s. the ||__ “Two years ago, by boss told things always seem to turn out Oldest. at 18. vee eT, : me ‘You don’t pay for the bread!... I’ve never had an ulcer... Since then, Mrs. Burg has given anymore,’” said Burg. So there,come what may ... God probirth to another 10 sons and is the daily Bread, four large, vides.” : a ‘ eight sets of daughters, twins. including five Twelve are in school, the youngest is three| | weeks old. 3 There’s also a dog — a playful pup called “Pretty,” who “She's sleeps under the porch. got to stay outside,” Burg ruled. How do Burg and his wife manage? —t yt rr fe ‘ (2 : Pris this rural pert” baby sitting neighborWashington County : hood, and from Bobby who will} keep his job as power mower re-pairman after he graduates irom Burg et ESS next School os © = Burg said.) confirmed, he has 20 tax deductions. He has no barber bill because of a “make | chair in the base- shift” barber “I ‘get. them where ment ro in Bend High Besides, po “ex- do scme the older girls who month; Ese es BABY SITTING | Income supplements come from West SSS as oa all to- gether and give 19 haircuts once every three or four weeks.” As clothing for needs, ‘“‘We’ve and make got a lot of relatives, the most of hand-me-downs,” said Burges: : Burg said he likes “to have the kids around where I can keep an} eye on them, and have the neighThat’s why | -|bor children over. 'we fixed up a ball diamond next to the house.” Burg has a two-acre which helps explain or at a nearby working i property, how 64 night-time Le a man hours| Menomonee | | 4 |