HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1984-12-05, Page 20A20 — THE HURON EXPOSITOR, DECEMBER 5, 1984
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Canada surprises New Zealand visitor
Huron County -played host to a visitor
from New Zealand this week,
Murray Donald, a 23 -year-old delegate of
the New Zealand Federation of Young
Farmers' Clubs, an equivalent to Ontario's
Junior Farmers, spent the week ii! Huron
County as part Qf a Six week tour of Ontario.
During that time, he spent a week in each of
Tamiskaming, North Bay, Barrie, Norfolk
and Huron Counties studying agriculture.
TOUCHING HOME BASE — Murray Don- " learning tour of Ontario agricultural areas.
atd, a delegate from the Young Farmers He was housed by a member of the Seaforth
Organization in New Zealand, was in ' Junior Farmer club. Murray Is shown
'Seafdrth this week as part of a six 'week sending a letter to hie family, down under.
(Mcilwraith photo)
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Saturday, Dec. 8th
Santa's vleit to Seaforth Is arranged through the
co-operation of the Seaforth Lions,
Recreation Committee and B.I.A.
He is now in Essex County before heading
to Eutlope for a holiday. While in Huron
County he stayed with John Van Vliet.
Prior to coming to Canada Mr. Donald
spent six months in the United States on a
similar mission.
The agricultural exchange brought two
delegates from New Zealand to North
America. Two Canadians will travel to New
Zealand from Dec, through March and then
head on to Australia for the three month
period from April until June.
The purpose of the exchange is to give
young people the opportunity to study the
agricultural similarities and differences
'between their country and the one they are
visiting. It also tries to promote an
understanding between people of different
countries.
Mr. Donald is a sheep farmer living
approximately 15 miles from Invercargill, a
city with a population 01 54,000 located in
the centre of a prosperous farming
community. it is there that he and his father
run a 550 acre farm where they raise sheep
for wool and fatten Iambs for_food export,
During the winter months, Mr. Donald says
he and his father will keep approximately
3,200 breeding ewes and 800 replacement
new lambs.
After almost eight months of travelling,
Mr. Donald says he does get a little tired at
times, because he is never in one place for
very long.
You try and see everything you can in
one place, so you are always on the go. And
sometimes because of that it's hard to keep
up the level of interest. Sometimes yq,i have
to concentrate too much," he says.
But he -admits that doesn't happen often.
"You just• remember that this is a
oncer. You know you're 10,000 miles from
home so you go for your opportunities. You
try things just to try them."
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'To qualify for the exchange, Mr. Donald
had to go through a series of selection
interviews. He was grilled on his agricul-
tural as well as general knowledge of both
his own country and the country he'd be
visiting. He also had to verse himself on
world eVents, Five a speech and prepare a
written exercise entitled, "Why Me,"
outlining bis reasons for wanting to make
the Trip.
"The judges were the sponsors of the trip
so they grilled us fairly well. Because we
were to be going as ambas§adors of our
country they had to make sure we knew
what- we were talking about,"
In general, Mr. Donald says he was
pleased and intrigued by what he saw in
Ontario. What he saw in the United States,
however, he said disappointed him.
"Although I'm here at a bad time of year I
sensed a certain air of confidence , in
agriculture in Canada. There's no doubt
Canadians are up against the -winter.
There's six months of winter and six feet of
snow to deal with. They can't grow cheap
feed and have to endure the extra expense
of having to provide • shelter for their
livestock. '
"There are a lot of guys with their backs
to ttie wall, but you still have ypung guys
taking on the farm, clearing the land and so
forth," he says witfi obvious admiration.
Mr. Donald says he didn't have much
faith in the American way of farfning, as he
saw it•
'Maybe I was disillusioned, but 1 wasn't
impressed by what I saw in the States. Most
of the farmers down there get their income
from something other than farming. Farm-
�ingg.was more of a hobby."'
Mr. Donald says the big difference
between Canada and New Zealand farming
is the Canadian farmers frequency to
diversify their crops.
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"A lot of' farmers here are growing
different crops. Down home we -grow one or
another, not two or three different crops.
But I guess When you have only six months
to make a living you like to spread your eggs
in different baskets."
In general, he' says New Zealand only
produces enough of each crop to make itself
self-sufficient. 1e says its exports are more
limited pan ia'Canada.
. Outside of agriculture, Mr. Donald has
seen a few sporting events during his stay in
Canada. Some of those events aren't
common to New Zealand.
"I never heard of broomball till I got to
Ontario," he says, obviously still in
• disbelief that such a game existed.
"And we don't have ice hockey, we play
.field hockey•in the winter."
And asked how he enjoyed hockey, Mr.
Donald's only commmnt was that it is a
"pretty vigorously c tested sport."
His general imps ssion of Canada was
one .of surprise. But he. has learned a few
things to take back and try in New Zealand.
"Of course, as a sheep farmer coming to
North America I'm not going to see,a lot of ,
the same things here. But there are a few
things I can take home to think about what
people are doing here and why."
Perhaps the most education Mr. `Donald.
gained while here had to do with his
conception of Canada and .the United
States.
"1 expected Canada just to be an
etftension of .the States. I was wrong. It's , .
more like homey Maybe that's because of
the English influence, the Commonwealth,
the Queen. The settlers are more English
stock here than they seemed to be in thg
States."
T was disillusiohied with what 1 saw in
the States, but I liked what I saw in
Canada," he says. t
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