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The Rural Voice, 2002-12, Page 38•r t From all of us to you and yours, thanks and best wishes for the Holiday Season. Wishing you a successful New Year. MULLIN'S FARM ALLIS WHITE HESsnn (AOCO/ wkcAR SERVICE POLARIS Chepstow, Ont. Belarus (519) 366-2325 1-800-561-1801 www.agdealer.com/mullins mullins@log.on.ca 34 THE RURAL VOICE Bluevale station. Fat cattle could lose weight if they were hurried. At the station they were weighed and then loaded onto the train to be shipped to Toronto. This was payday for two years of work and care. Chores became easier at the barn once the cattle were out to pasture or gone to market. The cows were pastured on the home farm so they were available for the twice daily milking. The feeding and cleaning routine was quickly replaced by spring seeding. The really busy time was when the seeding started before the cattle were out of the barn. That was when mother took over a far greater share of the barn chores. Dad visited the cattle on the grass about once a week. He'd look them over and count them. Sometimes one would wander through a fence to the next farm. Dad never needed to check the ear tags to know his own cattle. After seeing them in the barn every day all winter Dad knew each one Seeing cattle in the barn all winter made them easg to identifg and could tell which one was missing. Once in a while one got sick and needed to be stabled for treatment. The old barn stood near where the golf course's putting green is today. And once every year or two a steer got hit by lightning. Cattle and golfers have very similar habits — they stand under trees during thunderstorms. Dad often checked the cattle on Sunday afternoon. Checking the cattle was a family outing and if we had company the men went to look over the cattle. One of the familiar routines that I remember was all the men scraping their boots on the woven wire fence after visiting the pasture. The advent of feedlots and trucks have changed all of this. Cattle are seldom tied any more, even many dairy cows run loose. Cattle aren't pastured as much any more either. Mix mills on the farm have replaced most of the chopping mills. Trucks move the cattle from place to place. The Bluevale stockyards have long gone and the trains aren't used to take cattle to market. Nit So many changes in one Iifetime.0 J -Lo iday Greetings ��/.owia ,N, j L ..-. • - — •_ w<"- May you enjoy the richness of our heritage with friends and family this special season and throughout the coming year. GERMANIA FARMER'S ritlMUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Ayton Ont. NOG ico 519-665-7715 •r t From all of us to you and yours, thanks and best wishes for the Holiday Season. Wishing you a successful New Year. MULLIN'S FARM ALLIS WHITE HESsnn (AOCO/ wkcAR SERVICE POLARIS Chepstow, Ont. Belarus (519) 366-2325 1-800-561-1801 www.agdealer.com/mullins mullins@log.on.ca 34 THE RURAL VOICE Bluevale station. Fat cattle could lose weight if they were hurried. At the station they were weighed and then loaded onto the train to be shipped to Toronto. This was payday for two years of work and care. Chores became easier at the barn once the cattle were out to pasture or gone to market. The cows were pastured on the home farm so they were available for the twice daily milking. The feeding and cleaning routine was quickly replaced by spring seeding. The really busy time was when the seeding started before the cattle were out of the barn. That was when mother took over a far greater share of the barn chores. Dad visited the cattle on the grass about once a week. He'd look them over and count them. Sometimes one would wander through a fence to the next farm. Dad never needed to check the ear tags to know his own cattle. After seeing them in the barn every day all winter Dad knew each one Seeing cattle in the barn all winter made them easg to identifg and could tell which one was missing. Once in a while one got sick and needed to be stabled for treatment. The old barn stood near where the golf course's putting green is today. And once every year or two a steer got hit by lightning. Cattle and golfers have very similar habits — they stand under trees during thunderstorms. Dad often checked the cattle on Sunday afternoon. Checking the cattle was a family outing and if we had company the men went to look over the cattle. One of the familiar routines that I remember was all the men scraping their boots on the woven wire fence after visiting the pasture. The advent of feedlots and trucks have changed all of this. Cattle are seldom tied any more, even many dairy cows run loose. Cattle aren't pastured as much any more either. Mix mills on the farm have replaced most of the chopping mills. Trucks move the cattle from place to place. The Bluevale stockyards have long gone and the trains aren't used to take cattle to market. Nit So many changes in one Iifetime.0