The Rural Voice, 1979-06, Page 14David has been told that if his father is
blowing snow, he's supposed to stay away
from the snowblower.
"And if dad is crop -chopping, I'm not
supposed to get in his way," David said in
answer to questions relating to farm safety.
David has never been teased about living
on a farm either and enjoys the farm life
because "You've got lots of room to play in
and bike around in." He said for his future
career he had thought of being a policeman
but his mother said he might get shot if he
did that, and suggested that he try farming
instead. David is still thinking about that.
"You've always got
something to do."
Twelve year old twins Keith and
Kenneth Carter enjoy living on their dairy
farm. Keith enjoys it because he says,
"you've always got something to do and
when you live in the town you're always
bored, I think."
Kenneth enjoys it because, "you can go
to the bush and go camping and there's a
lot more space to play in, and there's also
fresh air."
The two boys help out on the farm by
feeding the cattle, getting down the hay
and straw, bedding the cattle and feeding
their rabbits and hens.
"Sometimes we have to clean them out.
That's the worst part," the boys said.
They've also had some of their own
experiences with farm hazards. They've
been warned not to ride on the swather and
to stay away when the corn and things like
that are being done.
Even so, they sometimes still do ride on
the forage wagon. They have also been
warned against horsing around in the hay
loft because that's how Kenneth fell on top
of his arm and broke it.
Keith enjoys living on the farm and some
day he says he wouldn't mind being a
horse farmer and Kenneth thought he'd
like to be a paramedic or a helicopter pilot
or he would like to live on a dairy farm.
At Brussels Public School, children from
grades 1-8 were interviewed by the Rural
Voice.
Steven Marks is a 12 year old Grade 7
student who lives, on a hobby farm where
they have 25 steers and about 50 pigs.
There Steven helps his dad clean out the
pigs, cleans out the cow pen and forks
silage to the cattle.
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Steven has been warned against silage
caving in while he's forking it and that
when he's up in the mow where there's
loose boards to try and avoid them. His
future plans so far are to become a hobby
farmer. He too enjoys the farm life.
"You can go fishing
whenever you want."
"I think it's a lot better than the town.
You get a chance to go fishing whenever
you want." And he likes going back to the
bush and finding things he said.
Although most of the pupils up to this
point said they never got teased about
living on a farm, Kevin Tyermann was a
different story.
"They say I'm a dummy living on a
farm," Kevin said. Even so, he enjoys the
farm life because, "you can go fishing and
that."
Kevin, a seven-year old grade 2 student
said theirs was a chicken farm with maybe
about 240 chickens. Kevin helps out at the
farm by gathering the eggs and putting
them in boxes.
Scott Johnston is a seven year old Grade
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