The Rural Voice, 1990-06, Page 41It's often been said: "The more thing's change, the more they stay the same."
But farm life has certainly undergone dramatic and irreversible changes.
Writer Wayne Kelly provides evidence for both views: one, the changes in
farming and rural life have been so thorough that the past seems quaint; two,
"modern" problems reallyaren'tso modern after all. Either way, the "voices
from the past" haven't lost their relevance.
DURABILITY
The De Laval Separator Co.
173-177 Williams St.
MONTREAL
VANCOUVER—WINNIPEG
"Although I am only in the
prime of life, 1 am eati.fted my
DE LAVAL
CREAM SEPARATOR
will last longer than I will.'
M. TREBELL,
Canoington, Ont.
That • only one of the things
you get in De Laval quality.
Send for Catalog.
Agents everywhere.
advertisement from The Farmer's Advocate, August 1911
THE COWS
by Helen M. Richardson
Into the barn at the close of day
The mild -eyed cattle come, one by one;
Soberly into the stalls they stray
Munching their cuds, at the set of the sun.
Bess and Daisy stand close behind
Switching their tails in a friendly way;
Molly and Susan with quiet pride
Into their stanchions at random stray.
Maud and Nancy in awkward haste
Stumble in turn through the wide barn door;
Wandering Gypsy is homeward chased
The last to blunder across the floor.
Swish, swish, swish into waiting pails
In rhythmic motion of hands well skilled;
Splashes the milk, while the nervous tails
Flap and flop till the pails are filled.
Then quiet reigns and the cattle rest;
Through the dark the barn rat roams unawed
All undisturbed in its midnight quest
By Bess or Daisy or mild -eyed Maud.0
Identifying each animal in a
dairy herd is a simple matter
these days. Numbered tags and
even computer -sensitive im-
plants can provide the "history"
of the beast instantaneously. The
poetic reflection reprinted on the
left calls to mind the days when
each member of the herd was
known by her personality (from
The Farmer's Advocate, October,
1911).
TING r..g
Ow.t. Nothing
eat.digested —
rn:. m t-.
all th• year round—actually -
in<raaset the percaetare of
feed that pays tor auNt
Livingston's Dairy Oil Cake
\V.tfree ump'e.ml rt...
THETE DOMINION LINSEED OIL CO.. LIMITED. BADEN. ONT.
advertisement from
The Farmer's Advocate, March 1911)
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