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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1995. PAGE A15.
.7- -7- AGRICULTURE f95 .> .>
Love of animals lures city boy to the farm
The best part
Though Brenda and Dave Linton have built a thriving
farrow to finish operation, they both agree they wouldn't
want to get so big that they didn't have the time to enjoy
the animals they both love.
• By Bonnie Gropp
You can take the boy out of the
country, but you can't take the
country out of the boy.
There is probably no adage that
holds truer. While young people
may not always carry on the tradi-
tion of farming, there is little ques-
tion that the nostalgia for country
living is ever present. It's a way of
life, one of carefree memories,
steeped with tradition and values.
There's a freedom about growing
up in the country that, while it may
not keep the boy there, is forever
cherished in his recollections.
Continued from A13
and be organized."
Fred agrees. "I look at it this way.
An off-farm job is going to take
time so that what you make away,
you're going to lose at home. That's
obviously not the way for all farm-
ers, but that's the way it would
work for us."
There is no doubt that this part-
nership is a success, with a total
commitment on each side. Like the
equal partner she is, Teuni gives
100 per cent to the job, knowing
that her contribution makes the dif-
ference. The couple sees to the
overall operation of their business,
This charm, this allure, however,
is not something normally under-
stood by city folk, who often con-
sider rural life a backwoods
existence, a social wasteland of
dirty work and simplicity.
There are of course exceptions.
For some, like Dave Linton, grow-
ing up in a city didn't blind him to
the positive aspects of the business
and the life of agriculture.
Mr. Linton may have been raised
in London, but there was little
doubt even from an early age, that
his heart was in the country. "I
don't remember ever wanting to do
even down to the maintenance.
When additions were built to the
barn Teuni was right beside her
husband doing the cement work.
One of the best advantages of
working together on the farm, says
Teuni, is the support. "When the
two of us are working, the prob-
lems never seem as bad. You share
them and talk them over. It makes
the burdens a little lighter," she
says, though the two jokingly agree
that the bales of hay seem to be get-
ting heavier as the years go on.
And does being together 24 hours
a day pose any special problems for
these two? "I wouldn't have it any
other way," says Fred.
anything but farm. I had an aunt
and uncle who lived on the farm
and I took every chance I got to
visit them. In Grade 7 a teacher
asked us what we planned on doing
when we were older and I remem-
ber saying I wanted to be a dairy
farmer."
It was his love of animals that
first drew him to agricultural life.
"When I was about six or seven I
had chickens in our garage at
home, but because of the straw in
the garage the mice moved in and
my mother said I had to get rid of
them. I was heartbroken for
awhile."
Mr. Linton's enthusiasm was not
necessarily understood by his
peers; he recalls one classmate ask-
ing him if that was cow dung on his
shoes; but the advantages of a farm
experience were not lost on them
either. He attributes his summers
on the farm with steering him in the
right direction, noting that many of
his friends made less of their spare
time and ended up in trouble with
the law.
Also, the physical benefits of a
summer of manual labour were evi-
dent when he returned each fall. "I
wasn't soft, I had built some mus-
cles which showed up when I came
back and played sports."
After high school, Mr. Linton
attended Centralia College where
he took Agricultural Business Man-
agement. Despite how quickly
farming has changed over the
years, the knowledge he accumulat-
ed at Centralia, he feels, continues
to be useful.
"A lot of kids at Centralia said
that what we learned isn't going to
work, but I have found it has
helped with things like problem
solving, and the contacts have been
invaluable. There may be many
things I have forgotten, but I know
Farm Stress Contributes To
Accidents And Health Problems
The suicide rate for fanners is 40.6
per 100,000 compared to 18.1 in
the general population.
where to find out."
Two years after his graduation in
1971, he bought his first farm, a 50
acre property in Morris Twp. By
this time, Mr. Linton had met his
future wife, Brenda, who had been
raised near Winthrop. "I had
always liked this area better than
the rural area near London so this is
where we started looking. To me
where I worked didn't matter, what
was important to me was where I
lived."
Two years later, he and Brenda,
whom he had married in 1974, pur-
chased the larger farm next door to
the one they had first bought:
While farming Mr. Linton had also
worked as a trucker and for the
bean producers co-op. "I never
worked for a career, just to support
my habit of farming," he says.
After two decades, it would seem
that habit is thriving. Now a pork
producer with a farrow to finish
operation, he recently added anoth-
er 50 acres of neighbodring proper-
ty to his business. Every step he
has made, he said, has been done as
he felt he could afford it. Brenda
added a full-time nursing income to
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Wife gives 100% to the job