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Dave Crovetto, a 17 -year-old student from Kitchener. -Waterloo, is getting his first taste of
farming- on the Leo Miltenburg farm while participating in the Junior Agriculturalist
program sponsored by OMAF. Driving the tractors and learning about the various farm
i inplements are his favorite farm duties. [Man Rivett photo].
City youth farming f summer
By Alan Rivett
This summer, Dave Crovetto,abandoned
big. citylife to experience the sweat of
working ina hayfield and the smell of
shovelling manure while working on a
farm.
Dave, a 17 -year-old Kitchener -Waterloo
highschool student is part of this year's.
crop of youths who have left the city for the
summer to experience the farm way of life
under the Junior Agriculturalists program.
sponsored by OMAF. Dave is working for
the summer at the Leo Miltenburg farm at
RR 7 Lucknow. e
Number of jobs
In his third week at the Miltenburg farm,
Dave says he has been handling a number
of jobs on the farm, everything from doing
the morning chores to haying to painting.
Since it's his first time working on a farm,
there were a number , of misconceptions
about farming which were promptly dispel-
led.
"I didn't think haying would be so hard
and strenuous. And shovelling manure - I
thought it would be quick, but it seems to
go on forever. It isn't just a few shovelfuls.
I didn't think doing the chores would take
as long as it does," said Dave, who found
out about the Junior Agricultural Program
at a Canada Manpower Centre, in the city.
The day begins at about 5:34 a.m. with
the milking of the cattle and the doing of
the chores, said Dave, adding that he's
now starting' to get used to rising at an
early hour. For the chores, which take five
to six hours, he usually takes care of the
feeding of the cows and heifers. While he's
enjoying and finding the dairy chores to be
exciting, he said in time they could begin to
get boring.
Chores exciting
"Chores are exciting to do, but it's
something that you have to do every day.
They're kind of a setback because you want
to learn more, but you can't do anything
else until the chores are done," said Dave,
who has always wanted to try farm
work.
So far, Dave says he has been adapting
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to farming., rather, well, ..with driving the
tractor and learning about the various farm
implements the most enjoyable part of
farm. living. However, the learning process
has not been without a few mishaps..
"Leo told .ane to get the rake and take it
(to the back of the farm). I thought I knew
how to' take it back,, but I. didn't know to lift
the blade up so it wouldn't cut the gravel.
About half way down the lane I found out I
was doing it wrong. I felt pretty stupid.
Everybody had a good chue de, anyways,"
he said. °
Mr. Miltenburg, a first-time participant
in the "Junior Aggie" program, says the
arrangement with Dave has been working
"pretty well". However, the original
youth slated to work at the farm was less
than enamoured with farm work.
"We had him for four days and he
didn't like it. He didn't want to work. He
had no idea how to use even the simplest
tool like a hammer. You might as well have
given him a fry pan .instead," he said.
Responsibility"
He said he has found the program useful
in giving young people a sense of respon-
sibility, common sense and a feel of how to
do things.
"It's a real good chance for the younger
people from the city to see what's up. The
older people in the city imay have a brother
in the country, but the younger kids are
`total city', They never spend much time in
the country," he said.
Dave says he likes the country living and
the farming, but he's too oriented to city
life ever to consider living on a farm frill
time,
"I guess 1 could put up with it, bu. 1
couldn't live withit for very long a 1 wissl 1
could, live the solitary life of a farmer. Now
that I'm born and raised in the city, 1 don't
think I could adapt to this kind of solitary
life," he said. -
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