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“It’s the weekend!” says the
perky voice coming from an area
radio station.
“No alarms! No hassles! No
bosses!” continues the upbeaC
excited disc jockey. “bosses” I’m directing to stalls, I
I glance around the dairy bam. laugh out loud.
A hundred cows are waiting to After nearly three decades at
enter their stall for evening milk- this profession of farm wifery,
ing on this particular late June Fri- experience tells me that Murphy’s
day. From the calf nursery comes law applies more intensely to
the sound of a dozen calves weekends than any other period of
already impatiently bawling for time. Anything disruptive will, by
their evening bottle feedings. laige probability of fate, happen
Forty acres of grass hay lay dry- on the weekend,
ing under the baking sun and When you can’t get repairmen,
93-degree heat The Farmer and can’t get parts, can’t get anything
crew are busy baling and stacking shipped, employees are more like
heavy bales in the hay mow of a ly to be off—it will break down,
humid bam. Their day will stretch bust up. shut off, die, get a calf
even longer than ours in the bam stuck midways through delivery,
as they toil feverishly to put away break a leg, or develop a twisted
the last of first-cutting grass hay. stomach and need emergency
And then The Farmer will surgery. Nearly every time the
return, at dusk, with several trips power has gone down in recent
left around the bam to feed the years, it’s been a weekend.
cows, attend to any health needs We have a standing joke around
we may find during milking and the farm about the silo/feeder drag
perhaps artificially inseminate a chain mechanism. If it’s broke, it
cow or two before the long day must be Sunday morning. That
ends. chdin has surely broken on as
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field woik, all the dairy choes still
need done. So the announcer’s
weekend celebratory pronounce
ment strikes me as hilarious. In the
middle of the bam surrounded by
in memory far more clearly.
Regardless of when, if the cows
are to eat, which they loudly
demand, it must be fixed.
Also, it seems about 40 percent
of our baby calves arrive at the
calf bam so that their fust bottle
needs to be given on a Sunday
morning. And giving that first
bottle manually often proves to be
an adventure in which I get butted,
slobbered upon, knocked into a
comer (I once flew right out with a
gate when a calf took offense to
my presence). I did make a resolu
tion sometime ago to stop grunt*
bling about Sunday morning first
feedings and instead count the
blessing of a healthy calf.
A few Saturday evenings ago, a
fellow dairy producer called ask
ing if we knew of any used bulk
milk tanks available for sale. His,
while operating for-the-half at that
moment, was failing to the point
whero it could cease to continue
cooling milk at any given second.
On a weekend, naturally.
Even more enticing to trouble
than plain, ordinary weekends are
holiday weekends, such as this
one. Vividly impressed in my
memory is a Labor Day weekend a
few years back when we had
everything lined up to fill silo. The
weather was ideal, we had adequ
ate manpower and the forage
harvester broke down. Late on a
Friday afternoon.
Parts had to come from a source
in the mid-West. But neither the
postal service nor the private
delivery services were operating
until the following Tuesday.
We do enjoy the special things
planned for weekends and try to
set aside at least an hour or two to
relax even if it’s just sitting by
the pond at dusk on Sunday
evening.
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collapsed on the couch with a “It’s the weekend!” gleefully
snack just in time for the late announced our favorite television
night news. Hay had kept him in weatherman on the late night
the Held again until dark. Then, news.
after several feeding trips around “Yeah," agreed The Farmer,
the bam, he’d spent nearly an hour with a tired grin. “It’s the weekend
wrestling a huge bull calf from the maybe we can get done at nine
heifer mother straggling to give instead of eleven.”
birth.
Perry County Chooses
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June 8. Marel Raub, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Raub of
Duncannon, will be promoting the dairy industry over the
next year, and will represent Perry County at the State
Pageant in September. Emily Dum, right, Dairy Ambassa
dor, and Abby Dum, Little Dairy Miss, will be assisting
Marel at local promotions. Anyone wishing to have Marel
speak at a function, please contact Brenda Hollister at
(814) 834-4578 (day) or (814) 834-3298 (eve).
Lancaatar Farming, Saturday, July 3, 1993-B7