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Equality. We’ve heard that word
so much over the past decade, as
the feminist movement continues
the crusade for men and women to
be treated as equals in rights, in
services, on the job and in the
marketplace.
Most farm women of my
acquaintance, while leaning
toward feminism, aren’t die
harders about the issue. That’s
undoubtedly somewhat due to the
fact that most of us are already
doing such “manly” things as
helping to tend livestock and crops
along with the garden, yard and
household.
There are, though, some farm
jobs that just naturally seem to fall
to one sex or the other. Never have
I, thank goodness, been asked to
service a tractor (I once greased a
disk before heading out over the
field), crawl inside the bottom of
the silo for repair work, or help to
mechanically stir up the manure
lagoon.
Our very “macho” son contends
that certain chores are “women’s
work.” Nevertheless he hasn’t
completely avoided being forced to
occasionally pick up his muddy
shoes or help set the table for
supper.
And one job that everyone
readily leaves to me is handling
the calf chores. In fact, they’re
often referred to as “mom’s
calves.”
Am I complaining? Never. I love
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those baby calves.
Surveys have recently shown
that baby farm animals raised by
females consistently show a higher
rate of survival and better thnf
tiness and health than similar ones
cared for by males. (Before you
men calf feeders hit the ceiling,
there are doubtless some ex
ceptions. You may be one of them.)
No matter how tired you are, or
frustrated, or disgusted, just
stepping into that calf nursery is
enough to give you what’s
currently referred to in a popular
country song as an “attitude ad
justment.” All those bright,
shining, alert pairs of eyes eagerly
watch your every move, and bawls
of welcome sing out.
Each one, like a class of
children, is an individual. Some
are exceptionally loving, and there
are a few, always, that seem bent
on creating aggravation.
Sometimes just their unusual
patterns of black and white color
are fascinating and really set
certain ones aside as individuals.
One little heifer bom here in late
summer has long black eyelashes
over one eye, and long silky white
lases over the other, lending a sort
of endearing, crooked look to her
face.
Yoko, one of the older nursery
heifers, bawled for her first
several days there in what was
probably the loudest voice I’ve
ever heard come out of a calf’s
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mouth. Her mother once belonged
to a group of investment cattle
owned by members of the Beatles
singing group maybe that’s
where her loud music ability
originated.
After Yoko finally came to grips
with the fact that she and her
mama were separated for good,
she pouted and sulked in the comer
for a couple more days before
settling down to behave like a good
calf should.
Pushover should have instead
been named Push Around. Day in
and day out she clamps her jaws
shut like a vise, and you have to
Wayne Co.
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you to make if you’re a hobbyist or
a “crafty-type.” This fair-weather
group is forming for the purpose of
exchanging ideas, showing and
telling about your work, and
learning more about improving a
craft or hobby.
The group will also plan and
arrange bus trips and outings to
various craft shows and places of
enrichment. Meetings will not be
held in the snow months.
The first get-together will be
held on Monday, Oct. 22 at 7:30
p.m. in the Extension Office in the
Wayne County Courthouse,
Honesdale.
A chairman, secretary and
treasurer will probably be the only
officers necessary. Different
committees will be set up to plan
activities. As this is an enrichment
program sponsored by the Wayne
County Cooperative Extension
Service, plans will be implemented
by the extension.
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pry them apart to get her to take
the bottle. After two sips of the
warm milk, Pushover nearly
flattens you in her eagerness to
drink. After two weeks of this, you
think she’d finally learn?
Then there’s Marvina. Mar
vina’s mother was the proverbial
“holy terror” heifer, shown as a -
H calf in competition, but never
really taming down into a puppy
like pet like most 4-H calves do.
Then, to boot, her sire is well
known in the industry as having
fathered some extremely high
strung, jittery animals.
general, the foresters and scien
tists agree, 1984 promises to be a
previous mountain pine beetle year of less than staggering losses,
outbreaks. The dead trees fuel a gut foresters think in long terms,
massive forest furnace, which of gypsy moths, for example,
needs only a spark to become an Hofacker says, “It’s going to be
inferno.” bad somewhere every year. Some
McGregor’s forecast proved years it will be worse than others,
tragically accurate when August It’s extremely explosive. We aren’t
blazes seared thousands of acres of very good at predicting what it’s
Montana forests. going to do. It can be relatively
Potential Harvesting rare> an( j the next year there’s just
If infestation is caught early bugs all over the place.”
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pines of Texas can be harvested Despite the defoliation the gypsy
and thus not totally lost, because moth already has caused on its
they are usually more accessible southward march, “We ain’t seen
than the remote giants of the West, nothin’ yet,” says Hofacker. “It’s
Then a buffer strip cut around the the V ast hardwood forest that
infested stand will usually stop the extends down the Appalachians
spread of the beetles. way i n t o the South that really
But if the infestation has gone too hasn’t been attacked yet.”
far, the answer, in forestry Inevitably it will be.
parlance, is to “cut and leave.” one of those who takes the long
The spruce budworm poses a view is Dr. Gerald W. Anderson,
different sort of problem, par- director of the Forest Service’s
ticularly in Maine, the nation’s insect and disease research,
most heavily forested state, where Although he recognizes the
lumbering is the principal in- problem of lag time - perhaps 10 or
dustry. 15 years to come up with a solution
Insects can t read boundary to a particular problem —he is not
markers, and the 100 million pessimistic about the future of our
budworm-inf ested acres extend far forests.
into the confiers of Csnsdfl. In both k4 The trees out there nre
the East and the West, a joint remarkable in terms of their
Canadian-U.S. program is sear- ability to endure,” he says. “They
ching for ways to control the pests. have to be very competitive.
All these omnivorous insects are, They’re m a fixed position. They
to some extent, cyclical. The ex- have to endure drought. There are
tent of their ravaging vanes just all kinds of things that can
widely from year to year. In challenge them along the way.”
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Thus, Marvina was fully ex
pected to be one of those calves
that keeps at least one eye on the
feeder at every second,•waiting
until just the right moment to lash
out with one of those sharp, hard
little hooves.
What a surprise when she turned
out instead to be a real honey, who
has to be awakened for her bottle,
and then lays right back down and
goes to sleep, never making a
sound.
That’s the neat thing about
animals. You just never know how
they’ll turn out.
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