Bareville IFYE Delegate Describes Life "Down Under” By: J. David Lapp, IFTH In New Zealand Editor’s Note: David Lapp, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lapp, Bareville 81, is on a six month tour of New a member of the International Farm Tooth Exchange program of the national 4-H clubs. The following article is from a re port which David sent to the local sponsors of the program. The concluding part of the re port will be printed next week. Well, in these last several l’ve been moving around quite a bit The strange thing about it, I move 100 miles and the climate is different and the pi oblems that the farmers have are just as different Most of my stay so far has been in the South Isand with the sheexi farmers They are an easy-going type of people that came out from Great Britain One of their favorite expression is "She’ll be right" meaning "Don't worry, everything will he OK." I came to the conclu sion that ithey are quite well to do because they can buy land at 100 to 200 dollars an acre. 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DAVID I/APP This last spring, which they had in August, September and October was a good year for them and their sheep lambed at 130%. They will be selling these lambs after Christmas at Kirkwood the live weight of 55 to 65 lbs. This will be a dressed weight of 28 to 34 lbs., for which they will gat paid thg average of 18 cents per lb. dressed weight bringing the value of the spring lamb to about 5 dollars. 'Since Britain is joining the common market the farmers have fears about their produce because they are afraid Britain won’t take it They are looking for other markets and would like to come to the United sta tes, but at present the Ameri can sheep farmer doh’t allow it. The farmers down here feel that they could help the US farmer by providing lamb wh en the US farmer doesn’t have any to sell Since the spring down here is when we have fall they would be able to pro vide spring lamb all winter for us This would provide lambs all year round for the house wife They feel it would boost the price for the US farmer. They are also looking to Japan for a market but find they will have to educate the people how to prepare the lamb. I said that’s what they would have to do to the American housewife because she can rarely go to the store and get a cut of lamb, therefore they never have it and don't know how to prepare it properly I stayed with one family that eats 52 wethers a year. That’s one a week and I found it to Millport Roller Mills Millx)ort H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc. lieola and AVitmer S. H. Hiestand & Co., Inc. Sulanga. Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 16, 1963—13 be very good. It is better and more tender than their beef. They fatten their beef on grass and not on grain. The lamb is fattened on milk and grass and therefore is quite tender. After the lambs are sold they will shear the mother sheep and get an average of 10 lbs. of wool per sheep and this gets sold at an auction after it has been graded and goes to the highest bidder. He exports it -to make woolen products This wool is worth 40 cents per pound which makes $4 00 wor th of wool per sheep per year. It they are lucky they can gra ze 5 sheep per acre so if you figure it out you get the return of ?50 00 per acre on sheep al one and there is only about two months of hard work involved six weeks of lambing when the sheep have to be watched very close and two weeks of shearing The idea of shearing really ap pealed to me I guess it is be cause there is a lot of money in it The farmer pays a person, suually a young guy, 40c a sh eep for shearing A good per son can shear as many as 200 a day But you just can’t th ink of the money There is a lot of hard back-breaking work in volved I tried my hand at it, but I don’t know what the sh eep thought I was trying to do. I sure had to sweat to keep him lying flat while I chopped at the wool I thought it look ed easy but I think a little dif ferently since I tried The rest of the year the sh _eep farmer devotes to a b'it of Start 1963 right with 1963 H & N “Nick Chicks” are improved models of the H & N “Nick Chicks” which earned an award* for highest income ($3.12 per hen hous ed) *USDA summary report ARS 44-79-2. Order today. Write, or call by telephone - 653-9891. FLORIN Mount Joy, Po. RFD #l, Box L-176 PROFIT WITH Ortho Unipel Fertilizer The unique Ortho Manu facturing process gives you two different forms of ni- trogen and phosphate fast acting and long last- ing. Available in the follow- ing analysis 16-16-16, 20- 10-10, 10-20-20, 13-34-10. Contact Us for more information. Ortho Unipels is a Registered Trade Mark P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC - - - - - - - - Phone 397-3539 cropping, hay making and sp orts. Some of the farmer* have wheat and they get as high as 80 to 100 busbies of wheat per acre and get $1.50 per bushel. I didn’t get any information on it as yet but I think it is a ty pe of soft wheat and that ex plains why their bread isn’t as good, because if I underst and correctly the hard wheat makes the better bread. Their bread is quite hard and it com es to the house unwrapped with the mailman, so it gets tossed around quite a bit befor* the housewife gets it, therefore it is usually stale and hard as a rock The farmer also makes from 2000 to 5000 bales of hay a year Sometimes it is alfalfa. At the place I'm staying now they aie making clover and meadow hay. Their field is on top of the hill and takes about 30 minutes to get there with a tractor and when we do get there I’m afraid the tractor and baler will fall down to the bot tom again, it is so steep. It isn ’t possible .to tow a wagon be hind the baler so they use a sled and put 8 to 10 bales on it, then push them off on a heap My job was to go around in the truck and help gather these bales up and tie them on to the truck before they would fall off This is a bit different than what I was used to back home on level ground, but fo und it to be great fun because there was plenty of help and we got about 2 loads away be fore it was time for a tea break or dinner More Xe\t Week H & N LEGHORNS Day Old Pullet Chicks and Started Pullets (10 to 20 weeks) FARMS, INC. SMOKETOWN, Pa.
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