The Rural Voice, 1979-10, Page 3This month
Special features
Riding the Range on Horseback . . P. 5
Horses -a way of life P. 9
A love for horses P. 10
Shoeing a horse P. 12
The Farmer in theFall P. 13
Oxford County Tornado P. 15
Photo Feature - Fall Fairs P. 32
Crops - Onions, Flax P. 34
Regular features
Guest Column
Mac Bolton P. 13
Farming in the Past P. 17
Keith Roulston P. 20
Voice of a Farmer P 22
P. 24
P 26
P. 40
P. 42
P. 45
P. 46
P 49
P. 51
Rural Voice Want Ads P. 54
Bruce Federation P. 55
Huron Federation P. 56
A Matter of Principle
Rural News in Brief
Mailbox of the Month
The Rural Family
Up & Coming
Gardening
The directors say
The Young Farmer
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Inside the Rural Voice
Rural Voice focuses on horses this month. Once essential on all
local farms, they're making a comeback as people raise horses
for show, sale, work and even for horse meat.
And although few of us use horses as essential workers on the
farm any more (although one man we interviewed predicts we'll
Igo back to it as the energy crunchtightens), they are still
important to a lot of people. "The outside of the horse is good for
the inside of man" is how one person described the relationship.
We look at horses on a ranch in Bruce, heavy horses in Perth,
and specially matched pony teams in Huron and talk to a
travelling blacksmith, who says there are more horses in North
America now than there even were before the age of tractors.
Next month Rural Voice looks at farm equipment, those who
sell it and those who use it. If you've had some interesting
experiences, good or bad with any of your equipment, we'd like
to talk to you.
Call Alice Gibb at 527-0240 or write Rural Voice at Box 10,
Blyth and we'll set up an interview. Or alternately, write us a
letter with your story. We need to hear from you by October 12.
In December, Rural Voice will feature stories on "funny
farms", what we've been jokingly calling the operations that
specialize in fancy chickens, worms, bees, rabbits and all the
other smaller commodities that are becoming popular.
In our continuing attempt to make Rural Voice more
interesting to our readers we inserted a readership questionnaire
at random in about ten percent of the August issue copies.
The answers we got are interesting .and we intend to use your
constructive suggestions as we plan our coverage for future
issues.
"The best put together small magazine I read, and I do a lot of
reading," one respondent told us. We also heard that you'd like
more stories on poultry "considering Huron is a major egg
producer". Too much on livestock, was another reader's
comment while someone else requested more on rabbits and on
farm safety.
"Thank you for your terrific service to Huron County", was a
comment all Rural Voice staff are proud of, while another
thoughtful reader asked for more stories to try and bring farm
and town folk together. "After all, we are all consumers," this
respondent wrote. Physical fitness for farmers was another topic
suggested.
The staff here also cheered when we read one reader's
comment: "An exceptional magazine. Good quality stories,
articles and pictures."
Stories that reflect some readers' concerns are already in the
works. There should be something for the person who asked for
farmers opiarins on products or machines they like or dislike in
our November issue when we take a look at farm equipment.
A couple of readers want to see more in Rural Voice for the
farm wife and there's a story in the family pages of this month's
issue asking you for suggestions on that topic.
Almost everyone who answered the Rural Voice questionnaire
said they had patronized advertisers they've seen in our
magazine and most of you read most of our columnists
regularily. No one thought Rural Voice features are too long;
"not long enough", one reader wrote. About half of you would
give Rural Voice subscriptions as gifts to family and friends for
Christmas . . . we'll have a coupon announcing details in our
November issue.
We at Rural Voice learned a lot from these questionnaires and
thank all of you who took time to send one in.
And we'll try our darndest to take the advice of one reader who
said, "Real good. Keep it up."
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