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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1991-03-27, Page 15Becker hosts fair Fair and garden show Times -Advocate, March 27, 1991 Page 15 • i Com heaters - Becker Farm Equipment Ltd. of Exeter employee Gord newest in heating technology to prospective buyers. For a hundred years, mining was ranked right at the top of the dan- gerous occupations scale alongside lumbering and construction. Not so anymore. Farming now goes hand in hand with lumbering as a dangerous way to make a living. The industrial death rate for farmers is now higher than that of -miners and construction workers: The bucolic picture of contented caule grazing quietly in a green meadow smacks of working slowly through the sunny days of rummer and $fe beauty of autumn. Stressed - out city -dwellers see this as the per- fect place to relax, get away from it all, become at -one with nature and to put your feet up. It usually comes as a surprise to many urbanites when they learn I that farming is a stressful way to make a living. Farmers take great risks and end up with less profit than most of their city friends. Farmers do not have the services that are available to much of the rest of the population if for no oth- er reasons than they are miles away from those services. City smog and dirt and dust can affect populated areas but statistics prove beyond doubt that farmers are much more likely to contact bron- chitis, asthma or pulmonary ende- ma than city dwellers. Riding on noisy machinery for many hours at a time throughout the sowing and harvesting seasons is a great way to bring about acute hearing loss, too. No definite proof is available yet but there is some evidence to indi- cate that farmers may face an in- creased chance of getting some types of cancer because they are &sling with pesticides and herbi- cides. The problem is compounded by the fact that farmers work long, long hours with heavy machinery at � certain times of the year. They be- come tired and unwary, prone to ac- cidents. Whether city dwellers are aware of it or not, tractors are hazardous ma- chines. Take a look at them. They topple much easier than a car. Asa young reporter working fore weekly paper in a rural area, I re- member vividly some of the farm. • accidents I reported and wrote about. Iremember a few tragic pictures taken that were used for insurance purposes, too, pictures showing horribly maimed men as well as a couple involving children who real- ly were too young to be driving a tractor. Farming today involves the whole family because most family farms cannot afford a hired hand; therefore, everyone has to pitch in and help. That is why, too often, children are involved in some of theseidenjs.. Times have changed on the farm, though. Twenty years ago, few precautions were taken when deal- ing with chemicals. These days, nearly every farmer has had some training. In addition, farm safety organizations have been diligently working to warn and train farmers in the use of heavy machinery and the hazards involved. Some years 1 agog I penned a column suggesting that these safety organizations were not having much of an effect. I am convinced now that these organizations have been as effec- tive as possible. They worked, most of them, on stingy budgets, trying to reach as many farmers as possible. Dedicated men and wom- en tried their hardest to get the message across that farming was a hazardous, dangerous occupation. Only now is that message hav- ing an effect throughout the agri- cultural community. When it pene- trates all the way, perhaps farming will not be at the top of the danger scale. Just remember when you drive past those beautiful fields this summer that it took lots of sweat and maybe some blood to get those fields in production. 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