Al2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, march 21,1981
Farm
Calendar
Today, March 21
Pa. State Ayrshire Club, Carlisle.
Third Blue Halter Guernsey Calf
Sale, followed by 50th An
niversary Sale, 12.30 p.m.,
Guernsey Sales Pavilion.
Bucks County Unit of NFO annual
dinner, 7 p.m., Plumsteadville
Fire House.
Monday, March 23
Home vegetable gardening, 7.30
p.m , Lancaster Farm & Home
Center.
fled Lion Young Farmer cattle
meeting, 8 p.m., Red Lion Vo-
Ag Dept.
Potter County Holstein Directors#
8 p.m., Uylsses Bank, Ulysses.
Chickies Creek Watershed annual
meeting, 7.30 pm, Manheim
Community Bldg 15 E. High St
DHIA Workshop, 1 p.m., Cum
berland County Extension
Bldg , Carlisle
DHIA Workshop, 7.30 p.m,
Shippensburg Jr High School
Vo-Ag Dept
Tuesday, March 24
Thomasville 4-H Club, 7:30 pm ,
York County 4-H Center, pro
gram by foreign exchange
student.
Wednesday, March 25
Penn State Milking School, con-
tinues tomorrow.
Atlantic Breeders Co-op meeting,
10 a.m , Quality Inn, Centerville
Rd.
Del swine reproduction meetmg, 7
p.m., U of Del. Georgetown
Substation.
Thursday, March 26
4th annual Pa. Ag Safety Council
meetmg, Nittany Lion Inn,
State College, 10 a.m -3 p.m
York Junior Holstein meetmg, 7:30
p.m., York Extension Office.
Pequea Valley FFA Chapter an-
nual banquet
Tulpehocken FFA banquet, high
school
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Dear editor
I’ve just finished reading your
editorial on paying farm hired
help. It is easy to see you’re a
payed employee and not a farm
manager.
I am convinced that for every
underpaid hired helper there are
two over-worked and underpaid
farm managers If you will take
the time to read Joyce Bupp’s
article in the same issue of Lan
caster Farming, her view was
certainly true to life on the farm.
Farming is not a job it’s a way of
life You have to be willing to do
the little extras even if the tune
Pa Bth performance tested bull
sale, noon, Penn State meat
evaluation center
Franklin County Guernsey
Breeders annual banquet, 7
p.m., Edenville Community
Center.
Cloister FFA Chapter banquet, 7
p m , Mt. Airy Fire Hall
Solanco Young Farmers banquet, 7
p.m , Quarryville United
Methodist Church
York Farmers Forum meetmg,
6 45 p.m., Avalong’s Dining
Room.
Berks County Horse Expo, 9 a.m -6
p.m., Penn State Berks Campus
Student Learning Center.
Maryland Co-operative Milk
Producers annual meetmg, 10
a.m.. Hunt Valley Inn,
Cockeysville, Md.
Red & White Holstein Sale, 12:30
p.m , Guernsey Sales Pavilion.
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Letters To
The Editor
Friday, March 27
Saturday, March 28
clock says it’s tune to punch out or
your won’t really be getting paid
for it. Certainly if the boss has it
like that why do you expect any
less from those working under
him'
If you feel a man running a
$50,000 machine should be paid
according fine! So we pay him $2OO
the first day The second day he
breaks a part, call it inexperience,
unconcern, bad luck or worn out
equipment The parts still cost a
hard, cold $5OO And that’s not
counting down time and repair
labor May we pass that on to the
bird hand too '
This past year it has cost most
farmers good money for the
pleasure of raising pigs Does that
mean then, that they may start
charging their hired help for the
pleasure of helping to feed them'
You talk about hired help not
staying at the job long as if it were
always the boss s fault I’m sure
most bosses know a quite different
story Their might be a few unfair
slave drivers, but most farm
bosses started at the bottom and
hung in there till they worked their
way up
It’s hard to find people, willing to
work, the way you have to on a
farm, to make a go of it. Blame it
on parents for over working the
child as it was growing up, if you
can I’d be more willing to believe
it’s the result ot the child being
spoiled.
Fanners just aren’t being paid
enough so they can operate the
same way most other Americans
do It’s because city people don’t
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know how to go down on the farm
and buy a steer. Have it butchered
and put it into their own freezer.
After all that takes a lot of money.
But they’ll probably pay four times
that week by week over the next
year. There are just too many
middle men taking home a
paycheck between the farmer and
consumer
Now I don’t want to say that it’s
impossible to find good hired help,
because we’ve done it several
times. But if a man knows how to
be efficient and conscientious on
the boss’s time and money,, cer
tainly he can run his own
household efficiently too. He’ll
probably have a wife that works
with him.
In about two years he’ll be ready
to venture out on his own. Then,
unless your a real hard-hearted
boss you’ll feel obligated to help
him. Lend him your tractor and
plow in the spring You remember
your own first year and how hard it
was to get started without help
Then lend him your .harvester in
the fall He knows how to run it.
You spend two years teaching
him And paid him for the
pleasure
If you want to be a vet you go to
school several years, pay several
thousand to the college You do the
same for a lot of other jobs too
If you want to be a farmer you
step out ot high school, find a
farmer that’s got half a million or
"iopp tipd up in land cattle &
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MARtJEYSVtLLE
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equipment and get a position as
general manager #2.
How comes hasn’t anybody
called the college professors slave
drivers? Or why have 1 never seen
the average wages earned by vets
when they’re in training?
It sure is a shame that there isn’t
one farm manager in this area
with enough of tune to write a
weekly column. I’m sure most
farmers would enjoy that as much
as farm wives enjoy Joyce Bupp
The Boss’s Wife
Newnanstown
Dear Editor
I am a retired farmer of 62 years
of age. So I have plenty of tune on
my hands and I go around and visit
quite a few farms.
The point I am trying to make is
I love a tall cool glass of milk. So
now here is the kicker.
I have 10 grandchildren who will
not touch a glass of milk for love or
money.
The reason? They have seen
these farms & how dirty they are
with manure, and 1 don’t blame
them. Some of these farms have
not been inspected for a year
It seems as long as they have a
stainless steel tank in the milk
house, it is all that is required.
Please don’t believe me, but put
a reporter on one of the pick-up
trailers and smell for yourself.
Friend of the Farmer,
Reading
HU. HALL
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Phone (717) 724-3147
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STEVENS
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