A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 5, 1993
Blossomelle Stewart Mandy EX Just flntshed her four
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farm. That didn’t work because the
kids would get on the tractors and
scare the calves. So, Rhelda called
some of the mothers and said that if
they wanted the kids to come down
to the farm, it was Ok as long as the
mothers came along. That didn’t
work, so Rhelda met with some of
the key mothers and asked them to
spread the word. “I told them, I
don’t mind if they come, but don’t
send the kids alone,” Rhelda said.
‘Too many things can happen, and
I don’t want to be responsible, and
I don’t have the time ”
Now the neighbors watch out for the faun.
Kids from another development came riding
on mini-bikes in the Royer Helds. The neigh
bors investigated who it was and called the
Royers to let them know it was not one of their
kids.
To show how the farm is venerated by the
neighbors, Rhelda likes to tell a humorous
story about herself. When a neighbor was try
ing to sell his house and the Royers were inter
ested buyers, the man used the farm as a sell
ing point. Not knowing who he was talking to,
the man showed the open Helds by his house
and said it was farmed by a little old lady who
probably would never sell it for developemnt
Everyone got a good laugh when the Royers
identiHed themselves as the farmers in the
lane.
Living with urban neighbors takes some
creativity. And it’s not always easy. A group
of kids in the neighborhood built forts in the
Royer’s com field, but eventually their antics
became known. Lynn called some of the
parents and complained. The parents asked
what they owed for the damage.
Instead of asking for money, Lynn sche
duled a Saturday gleaning day when all the
kids involved were required to help in the
fields. By the end of the day, everyone was
very tired, but they had learned a lesson about
the hard work of farming. And the group of
kids made sure the two missing members of
the fort-building gang took their turn at glean
ing com Helds the next Saturday.
Forts in the com Held were never again a
problem. The kids learned a lesson, the
parents were impressed with the way the Roy
ers handled the situation, and neighbor rela
tions improved.
‘The whole thing is that you can’t get them
mad at you,” Rhelda said. “Many farmers
think they will discipline their neighbors, and
they get the neighbors against them. One far
mer we know spread chicken manure in the
woods where the kids played. He also threw
rocks into a neighbor’s lawn because the
neighbor had put junk in his fields. But that
just got worse. The farmer should have talked
to them.
“We don’t have fences between us and the
development If you have a fence, the neigh
bors can throw things over it out of sight But
if you don’t have a fence, they too must look
at the junk they throw in your field.
“Our neighbors know we haul manure in
the spring and fall, and we drill or disk it in
right away so there is no big deal. We don’t
haul manure on Saturday if it is possible to
haul it some other day. We just don’t agitate
them, and they seem to appreciate that. They
all kind of watch out for us now; we call them
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A new neighbor moved into the
development and when he changed
the oil in his cars, he dumped the
spent oil in Royer’s field. Not only
did Lynn ask the neighbor not to
put oil in the field, he gave him a
plastic three-gallon jug and said he
would haul it away when it was
filled. The oil dumping in the field
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