1 Hm Dimmore (Continued from P«f©33) dairy cows. The cows, he sre were some people who «***&!**• “ oke some English, and th his small German ed n f lth icibulary he managed to milk ins poured into SnSte. Hesadd the milkansandtonsfemdto nn director spoke fluent a i ,u^t * an * c w^ere Jt was >nnan . picked up by s tank truck. Xbe farm had 19,000 acres, Bach worker in the dairy id one big industry was 900 1 had a spccific job. For in- authorizeddistributor for A FAIR PRICED DIESEL WITH IKEAR WARRANTY IDEAL FOR MOUNTIN6 ON EQUIPMENT Let Us Know Your Service Problems. HOOVER DIESEL SERVICE PH: 717-656-6133 2998 West Newport Rd. Ronks r Pa. 17572 DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED HE SYSTEMS PEOPLE Also available in our PITLESS MODULAR construction The base of the pitless buildings is con structed with 2" x 10” treated timbers across the width on 24" centers. They are fastened with joist hangers to 2"xl0” timbers running the length of the build ing on each side. We also have flat plate which is fastened to the peri meter of the base and is mechanically fastened to the wall of the concrete pit i'i when installed. SOW CASTLE E/MH stance, one worker might be assigned 20 cows, and he was responsible for milking, them. Others were assigned other chores which went with managing the dairy herd. Tim said that Holstein type cows were used, just for milk production. Beef wa4 also raised on the farm, in a very modern, minimum labor building. He said the beef animals were ' crossbred, with seme Angus and some Charolais. Tim feels that the farm work was not as highly mechanized as here, adding, “Some was modem, some was primitive. They have a lot of manpower on the farm.” While the farm owned some horses, they were not used for held work, but lor small chores around the buildings. ... Crops raised on the collective farm included com, wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, sugar beets and grass for hay. Equipment used was mainly from East Germany. Tim observed, “The workers were dedicated to their work, but they didn’t have to work exceptionally hard.” The houses the workers lived in were government-owned, and most of the men working on the farm were fed their lunch at the dormitory, with the option of taking their lunch home to eat. The H.P. Look at some of our outs: ■Porch 11} hookttf up to running vtr Alum) •ulttrlnj feown*p*i provide •left fee Box-type design pirn laminated panel construct means super strength =:Tn wages were not high, he , said, but most, homes., had refrigerators and.-radios. Television sets were more scarce. The government paid Tim while he was living on the collective farm, about the equivalent of |SO per week. The only restriction was that he needed to spend it within Poland. This was not dif ficult for him, because he spent his free time traveling. Tim said he felt quite free while in Poland, adding, “I could go whereever I wanted to.” He frequently traveled to visit Hie other American in Poland on the same program, and they would travel together, often by steam-powered train. “As long as I traveled with somebody, I had no problems,” he said. The Polish people “thinka lot of America,” Tim said, and he feds the majority of the people don’t like Russia. He mentioned that the people need two passports, one which they carry with them for travel within the country, and one for travel in another country. In their free time, the Poles enjoy shopping or swimming. “A few had cars,” he observed. While he couldn’t un derstand the news or read the newspapers, be said his Polish co-workers would tell him about things which happened of interest to him. AGSiy&i CONFINEMENT BUILDINGS ★ PITLESS OR SELF-CONTAINED Vanlilatlon system a «<r tntaka It adjustable to provide prapar air PIG CASTLE Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December S, 1971-39 He said they all seemed to high quality soil. know a lot about America. Language was not a Sometimes he said he problem for Tim in Finland, would feel “a little out of He said, “Almost everyone touch, but after awhile, you speaks English in Scan get used to it, and it doesn’t danavia. It is quite bother yon.” remarkable to find people From Poland, Tim who speak so many traveled north to Finland to languages.” His host family a hog and crop farm. The had bad other FFA boys farm was located in south work on their farm in the central Finland. He past His host mother was a described it as having “pine children's dentist trees everywhere, with The home they lived in was gently rolling hills.” Before just nine years old, and he left Finland the pine trees “very modem.” It was were covered with snow. He equipped with a sauna just said the country was “very like “every home” in modem and very beautiful.” Finland, Tim said. They also Tim’s chores consisted of had an indoor swimming feeding the 100 feeder pigs pool. The sauna is a small every morning and every room with wooden walls and; evening. He said the farm a small firebox which is fired' consisted of 100 acres, with with wood. “You sit about wheat and barley and about three feet off the ground.” l ten acres of oats. Tim explained, and oc “Tbe farm was self- casionally someone would supporting, although the throw water on the big' weather was not that good stones to create steam. He for agriculture. Every said they enjoyed the sauna farmer has his own grain about twice weekly, and it dryer, because it won’t dry was a pleasure. “It opens up in the field.” Tim said the your pores. We would sit on grains grown woe brewing the sauna, then go swim grains, used in a malt fac- ming, then go back to the tray. Some of the soil in that sauna.” part of Finland, he said, “is Every morning his host like pure peat moss, father and be would take a sometimes three feet deep, coffee break at 10 a.m. and When itrained in one field, it scan the newspapers- and was like a sponge.” just rest. There was also a Taxation in Finland is regular short rest time after' high, according to. 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