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` FARMING VS. MEDICINE
For Marcy Gill the nine weeks
she is spending on the Peter
Campbell farm in Morris
Township could be a preview of
what she will do in later life.
Mercy, who has lived in London
for the past 11 montes after
immigrating to Canada from
England, said she wants to be a
farmer, but her older brother,
who sponsored bar immigration,
wants her to be a doctor. She is
still deciding and in the mean-
time is gaining some practical
insight into life on a farm.
She lived behind farms all her
life in England, she reported, and
used to "pop down the fields" or
watch cows.
Last year at school she asked
her guidance officer to find her a
Job on a farm and was presented
with two alternatives: Agricrew
or the junior agriculturalist
program. She wasn't too keen on
Agricrew and so chose this, she
said.
This is the first job she's had
and she declared, "It's great!"
Although she has been getting
up at 6 a.m. to help with the
milking and has also taken a
hand in the haying she still in-
sisted: "It's not like working. It's
like a holiday." She said she
expected the work would be
much harder and that farmers
worked 12 solid hours each day,
but noted she's had a lot of free
timeW� for horseback riding,
swimming or attending the
theatre at Blyth.
One of the tiighpoints of her
summer was seeing a Caesarean
section performed on a cow and
watching a steer being butchered
and her only complaint was that
the summer is going too fast.
This is the first time the
Campbells have been host far-
mers for the program, but Mrs.
Campbell reported they're en-
joying it and would apply again.
She said they did apply once
before, but the program had
already been filled for that
LIKE A HOLIDAY --Mercy Gill, 16, said her summer has the cows. With Mercy are her hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Peter summer.
been like a holiday, in spite of getting up at 6 a.m. to mllk Campbell, and Brian and Gayle, two of their eight children.l Althoughunior uaagriculturalist
nt can t for only one
summer farmers can hire them
back on their own the next year,
Miss Hansen noted. She said she
hao of a lot of farmers doing
Junior i1cuftudift that, so they must like the people
they're getting.
Onthe other hand the success
of faren li f a herratedi not always m per cent. In
students a tasteher district this summer three of
cety
, the 38 junior agriculturalists
le a chance to earn some have had to return home for one
By Henry Hess There are 280 students seen- reported that most of the mop reason or another: one with
They come from different ding the summer this way across students9 come from the large money and to get an idea what severe allergies, another with a
homes and backgrounds, even the province, a drop from 300 the centres—London and Toronto— they might like to do with their minor injury and a -third because
from different cultures, but all year before. However the but some come from smaller lives. she just didn't suit the host
have one thing in common: they decrease doesn't signify a towns and villages, including one It also gives them some insight fie,
are getting their first taste of slackening of interest, but is from Lucknow. Even in an into the problems fsoi4, by # f Under the program a host
mets, she added. "They learn the
farm life—and loving it. simply, a cut in quota by the agricultural area some of the farmer pays six dollars a day
`They', in this case, are three ministry, Area Coordinator urban dwellers know little -about other side and we learn about city tow8rd the student's salary and
high school students from London .Laura Hansen said. farm life, she noted. life. provides room and board valued
beenl
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they've always who are living and working for Miss Hansen, responsible for She is herself a product of the She saidat an additional six dollars. The
the summer on farms around this administering the program in program, having worked as a pleased with the students government matches this with
area. Huron, Bruce and Middlesex junior agriculturalist during the assigned to them and still keep in six dollars a day and looks after
i aey are participating in the counties, reported she received summer of 1975, and is serving as touch with some of them. The Workmen's Compensation and
Ontario ministry of agriculture 70 applications from host far- coordinator for the summer supervisor made a great choice other benefit payments.
and food's junior agriculturalist mers and interviewed 60 students before returning to the Ontario in assigning them Katharine, she
program and both the students for the 38 places available in the Agricultural College at Guelph declared, noting she has a good MRS. DERRILL HALLMAN
and their host farmers are en- three counties. Quotas for each this fall. sense of humor, is willing and
joying the ,.:, :. .. greatly• area are set according to their sees things to do. Lakele
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The junior agriculturalist size and the farmer response, she INTERESTED IN ANIMALS "You can't get a much better
program takes students from the said.Katharine MacLeod was born combination than that."
city and places them in farm She interviews both the in Scotland and has visited her MECHANIC OR FARMER? Mrs. Irvin Reidt, accompanied
homes for nine weeks during the students and the farmers and grandfather's sheep farm there, For Scott Bennett, studying to by Mrs. Esther Jacques and
summer. They share in the home then tries to matethem in the but her first real taste of farming be a mechanic, the weeks spent Melvin Milligan, returned home
life and the chores, with their best combinations. So far, at has come this summer on the on the Elmer and Lloyd after spending several weeks
wages paid jointly by the host least locally, she appears to have Millan Moore farm outside Sleightholm farms have been a with relatives in Manitoba and
farmer and the ministry. done an excellent job. 'She Whitechurch• chance to see how the other half Edmonton.
She is already more than lives. Master Ian Huth spent several
halfway through her nine -week Like Katharine he had visited days with his aunt and uncle, Mr.
stay and both she and the Moores farms before—his uncle has and Mrs. Harry Engeland,
are enjoying the experience. She horses—but never to live and Stratford.
said she helps with the milking, work. Since June 20 he's been Mr. and Mrs. Joe Snyder of
haying, feeding, gardening and haying, feeding cattle and Scarborough and Mr. and Mrs -
cleaning the separator and has mending fences and "I think it's Ralph Snyder of Willowdale were
enjoyed it all except, perhaps, for great!" he said. visitors with Mr. and Mrs.
cleaning the separator. He spends most of his time William Wye and all visited
"I like the country a lot and I helping Lloyd, the Sleightholmes' the Ontario Agricultural Museum
like animals," she said. She is son, at his farm in Bruce County at Milton. Marilyn and Glen
thinking of going on to study where he has 250 head of cattle, Snyder are holidaying this week
y veterinary medicine when she but stays with Mr. and Mrs. at the same home.
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LEARNING TO r'ARA"cott Bennett, 17, of London is living with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Sleightholm and working with their son, Lloyd, this summer. He said he liked the area of
farming and wanted to see how the rest of the world lives. With Scott Is Elmer
Sleightholm.
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frmshes mgh school. Elmer Sleightholm at their home -
One of her memorable ex- midway between Wingham and
periences so far has been seeing Whitechurch.
a calf being born; another time He said he likes the work and
- she found a new-born calf in the commented that farmers seem to
What a Great
" 1 gutter and "just reached right in be their own bosses. "They set Century
t t thout t t t eth' d d
and teed to pull i ou , wt
thinking", ending up in manure
up to her elbows.
Farm life is "pretty well what
I'd like", she commented, adding
she had thought it would be
harder. She said when she visits
home every second weekend her
father, who has always lived in
the city, looks at her "like I'm
weird or something" but her
mother once lived in the country
and she understands its at-
traction.
She said she heard about the
program at school, filled out an
application and went for the
interview. Before being placed on
their host farms she and the other
students in this district spent a
weekend orientation at Centralia,
visiting farms and learning a bit
about livestock diseases and
farm safety. All the students
were instructed to take rubber
boots, safety boots and hardhats
with dwn to the farms, she said.
Millan Moores are veterans of
the junior agriculturalist
program, having been host
farmera for six of its seven years
ou o ge som Ing one an
they get it done, no matter how
long it takes."
He also mentioned the sense of
accomplishment that comes with
being able to see what you've
done, such as filling the mow with
hay.
One incident he remembers
well is piling bales in the mow
and just as they got to the top of
the barn the pile fell out and they
had to do it again.
Scott said he never had a
summer job before, he usually
just went for avcations, but he
liked the idea of farming and
wanted to see how the rest of the
world lives. So when the notice of
this program came around at his
school he jumped at the chance.
He noted he is following in his
father's footsteps by studying to
be a mechanic, "but whether i'll
end up as one i don't know."
"If I had the chance to farm I'd
give it a good shot," he said, but
noted it takes a lot of money to
get started. Mechanics enters
into farming too, he commented.
For the Sleightholms this is the
The 100 years since Wingham's birth have
been a long' record of achievement. For 99 of
those years the Hanna name has been associated
with Wingham, its dreams and its growth. Han-
na's is a family tradition - closely interwoven with
the proud traditions of a fine community.
But no business can make it on its own. Han-
na's today is the net result of the loyalty of a good
community to a sound business.
We would like, now, to say "Thank You" to the
thousands of loyal customers, without whom
Hanna's would never have been able to stay it
business.
To all of you ... our present customers .. .
and the many former customers back in town -
THANK YOU
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of existence, and Mrs. Moore first time as host farmers. but
declared she thinkk► it's a Yrs. Skillabiholm said they will Men's
�. splendid program. deanfhdbel)► try it They're Ha
She d her husband run their very pleased with Scott, she said _. Boyt
FUTURE VET?---i+Catharine MacLeod, 16, of London Is dairy farm alone, she noted, and reporting that he caught on to the
speftding the summer as a junior agriculturalist on the the students have been a big help skills required, especially using
Millan Moore farm new Whfteclnirch. 'She �s enjoying the with their muemer work. At the the loader to feed cattle, very
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experience ahopes to go en to study velerNry IimIlIcIne. same thine it gives the Young quickly.
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