HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-08-10, Page 16Page 16 Citizens News, August 10, 1977
City youth finds difficulty
adjusting to farm living
Adjusting to rural life is dif-
ficult after living in the city say
Larry McKillop, 16, London.
Larry is one of three hundred
students involved this summer in
the junior agriculturalist
program sponsored by the
ministry of agriculture.
"It was really hard to adjust",
said Larry after six weeks on
Robert Broadfoot's RR 1
Brucefield farm. "There's
always something to do in London
but not out here".
Finding something to do is not
always that difficult, though, and
Larry finds rural living much
more irregular than the city life.
"Some days you get up at seven.
and don't stop work until nine
and other days you have nothing
to-do".
Larry helps with chores on the
200 -acre farm where 100 sows are
the main farming operation. A
typical day for Larry involves 11/2
hours chores followed by harvest
work or farm maintenance.
Eggs have to be gathered at 4
o'clock and the day's work is
usually through by 6 unless the
wheat or barley is being har-
vested.
Larry has also been helping out
with the wheat and barley har-
vest. The wheat crop at the
Broadfoot farm ran about 71
bushels to the acre this year but
the barley yield hasn't been
calculated said Larry.
JUNIOR AGRICULTURALIST -
Larry McKillop, 16, London,
watches another Load of barley
dome in from the field, Friday.
Larry will be staying on the farm
of Robert Broadfoot, RR 1
Brucefield, until August 20 as part
of the Junior agriculturalist
program sponsored by the
Ministry of Agricultrue.
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an awful lot, depending upon the
type of operation they're on", she.
said. "They also find out a lot
about rural farm life."
There were 64 applications
from farmers to host junior
agriculturalists this year but only
45 applications could be fulfilled,
she said.
The junior agriculturalist
program was expanded this year
from 200 students to 300 currently
involved in the program. The
program begins June 20 and ends
August 20 with the student's
wages shared by the Ministry and
host farmer.
The ministry pays each junior
agriculturalist $6.00 a day and the
farmer pays $10.00 per day. The
junior farmer returns $5.00 a day
,to the farmer for board. -
The junior agriculturalist
program, formerly based on the
rural -urban exchange format, is
in its fifth year of operation,
Bob Broadfoot sees the
program as being two-sided. The
program provides his own son
and daughters, 17; 15, and 13
years old, with some association
with people outside the
agricultural community and an
opportunity for someone from the i
city to see a rural community,
Corlette Rutledge, co-ordinator
for the ministry program,
London, says the response to the
program has been "really good."
"1 think they (students) learn
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