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Comparing Jersey and Holstein
organizations, West says there is more
of a "family atmosphere" associated
with the Jersey group because fewer
people are involved. "I think I know
just about every Jersey breeder in
Canada," he says.
Involvement with numerous
organizations has West's calendar of
meetings vying with his carefully kept
breeding charts for number of entries.
He is president of the Perth -Huron
Jersey Club, a member of the Can-
adian Jersey Cattle Club's Genetic
Improvement Committee, on the board
of directors for Western Ontario
Breeders, a past representative on the
Perth County Milk Committee, former
vice-chairman of the local United
Church, member of the North East -
hope Pipe Band for 12 years, and a
minor hockey league coach.
The Westlandyn barn itself has
achieved a certain level of celebrity by
appearing on the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food's Christmas
card a few years ago.
The Wests employ one full-time
hired man and one part-time to help
with the seven hours of chores each
day. This has allowed Jack and his
wife, Margaret, a former teacher, to
enter gracefully into semi -retirement.
"As young farmers growing older,"
says their son, "we often forget that
our dads are growing older too. We
think, 'why shouldn't he be out on the
cultivator,' when maybe he doesn't
feel like it anymore."
Living on the family property
within a mile of Westlandyn, West
foresees no great changes on the farm
if his parents decide they want to
move. The youngest members of the
West family, Amy, 13, and Adam, 10,
are not at the point where they must
decide their future relative to the farm.
In fact, Gary, 35, says he has not
ruled out the possibility of applying
his talents to yet another line of work.
Given his extensive public involve-
ments and outgoing manner, some-
thing just might catch his interest and
entice him away from the farm.
Undoubtedly, West's theory
about lessons learned off the farm
would apply conversely to lessons
learned on the farm, helping him in
any endeavour he enters — should
that day come.0
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