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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
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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.
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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. Tim. the noon meal, the biggest
Property taxes are high, and 1 meal of the day. “They lived
people pay more in taxes fra quite good,” he remarked.
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