Editor’s Note: Here’s the final installment of this six part series. THE JOYS OF BEING A FARMER BOY written by Daniel Luke Fisher, an Amish boy from Franklin County has given many of us a chance to remember our own experiences of early life on the farm. When you get home from school you don’t know what to expect around here. Like the other week, we were home from school awhile, when I saw one of my brother Stevie’s year and a half old Belgian colts were out in the yard grazing peacefully. I scared it and it ran up behind the bam. My nine year old Brother, Samuel and I went back HOWTO MILK A KUBOTA. A Kubola tractor can do a whole herd of chores on a dairy farm. I* •• % _j i v ip. 'j|pri M»«r, J' W '' *fV. . ■ %U,„ ~il t, . » -to.- Out in the hayfield, it can plow, till, mow and bale. Apply fertilizer or pesticide. Help repair an old fence. Back in the barnyard, it can haul feed from the silo to the trough at mealtime. Then clean out the corrals. In fact, it can do almost everything except milk the cows. Because it’s loaded with hardworking features. Some come standard. A Ej Dairy Month is a natural time for Q W a real “Thank You" Your Participating Kubota Dealer Invites You To Come In And See The Full Line Of Kubota Tractors & Implements The Joys of Being A Fanner of the bam after it. I chased Bobby (That’s the colt’s name) and he ran over the Hog House where Steve built a stall for them. Then we saw that Bobby’s mate, Judy was loose in the Hog House eating feed. We chased Bobby in the pen. Then we tried to get Judy in. She started down the ailse between the Hog pens and the wall. That aisle is pretty narrow and she’s so big that we couldn’t turn her around so we tried backing her out. She backed back to the feed bin. Then she bumped in it and didn’t trust going farther, so we tried to have her go forward. We got her pretty far when liquid-cooled diesel engine. A bevel gear system on every 4WD tractor. Plus a neatly designed operator platform. Or choose a model with more advanced features. For example, a 5-cylinder direct injection diesel engine. It’s fuel-efficient,lt runs more smoothly than a 4-cylinder engine. And more quietly. That can help reduce both operator fatigue and noise related stress on the cows. Of course, any Kubota suddenly she didn’t do it to move. There was a door near her that led out to the hog lot. We opened it and tried to get her going, finally she went out the door. We turned her around in the hog lot. Then we tried to get her in forwards so she could see where she’s going. But she didn’t do it to come in the door again. I had to stand at the door and try to keep the pigs outside while Matthew and Samuel were trying to get Judy persuaded to come inside. At least 8 sows managed to get in while I was guarding the door waiting for Judy to come in. The pigs would run over to the feed box and gobble the feed up ‘till I came around and chased them tractor works hardest with implements also designed and built by Kubota.The quick-attach front loader on the L4ISODT you see here is a perfect example. A Kubota dealer can show you all of our tractors. You have more than 15 different choices from 23.5 hp to 85 PTO hp. One should be just about custom-made for your needs. So start imagining all the chores a Kubota could do around your place .There’s really only one thing it won’t do. Head for the barn before the work is done. Nothing like it on earth: out with my B-B gun. Meanwhile Matthew and Samuel were trying to get Judy in the door, all she did was run back ahd forth right past the door. She really gave Matthew and Samuel a chase in circles. One time Judy was running toward Samuel, he climbed on a gate and lost his balance. SPLASH! He fell right in a dirty pig water puddle. Matthew finally got the bright idea to open the gate in the hog lot out to the heifer meadow. So we did that. She ran out in the meadow. Then we opened the gate that leads to the hog house from the meadow. She went in the hog house and of course right past her pen. oy “Whew!” I didn’t know if we’d have to go through the whole same performance. But this time she was in a dif ferent wider aisle. Matthew went up ahead of her and backed her back a little, and she went in her pen as nice as could be! We quickly closed the gate of her stall. -By Daniel Luke Fisher Susan Akin, Miss America 1966, says her favorite pig-out food is apple pie and ice cream. See These Dealers For 8.5% APR Financing Good Thru June 30,1986 PENNSYLVANIA Alburtis CANNSBILCO 215-966-3733 Avondale THOMAS POWER EQUIP. 215-268-2181 Biglerville O.C. 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