Although the Gross’ raise calves primarily for their steer
fattening enterprise, Becky occasionally, grows a heifer
calf, like this Angus crossbred.
(Continued from Pago B 2)
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ly credits his mother for her help.
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can do the things I’ve been able to
do. She’s the kind of person who
will give me an honest answer to
things I ask her. She’s more a
friend than a mother-in-law. She
helps keep Nevin when I go away.
And she’s taught me to value time
by myself,” Becky said with
appreciation.
Being a mother to 3-year-old
Nevin has made her team to prior
itize in her life, Becky believes.
“I never realized before how
much children mimic adults,” she
said. Smiling, she said, “Nevin is
such a miniature of his father.”
Along with handling the book
work for the family’s cattle opera
tion, Becky raises the bay calves
to weaning. She usually has IS to
20 calves to milk at a time, Wean
ing them at several weeks of age,
when they’re consuming adequate
levels of dry feed. Her favorites
are the crossbred calves, which
she feels gave more durability in
comparison to purebreds.
Though both her RULE class
and her term as chair for the state’s
Young Farmers’ and Ranchers’
committee will soon end, Becky
looks ahead to other challenges.
She would like to see the YFR
group start a state-to-state
exchange. She’s helping to orga
nize Penn’s Agri-Women’s annual
Ag Day activity at the state Capi
tol. And, with Nevin headed for
kindergarten in two years, she’s
become interested in the workings
of the local school board.
“The whole farming experi
ence,” she said, “has changed my
life.”
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Ida’s
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Ida Risser
As I sit and mend some clothes
and sew on a few buttons. I’m
reminded of a job that my mother
had many years ago.
My parents started farming in
1919, one year after they were
married. Their farm was 55 acres
and they had two horses and a cow
and a pig plus a few chickens. My
father cut a lot of potatoes, by
hands to plant the first year.
After the hay was harvested, he
decided to put his horses out to eat
some of the grass. So, he put a
barbed wire fence around the field
behind the barn. Well, those horses
ran and ran right through the fence.
At that time people did not put
white strips of cloth on the wire.
Fred ran through into the next
field without any more than a few
scratches but Ben tore a large flap
of skin loose on the underside of
his belly.
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The next thing my mother knew
she was told to get her needle and
thread and sew the three-comer of
skin fast to his body. Believe it or
not, that good tempered horse
stood quietly and let her crawl
under him to repair the damage.
Fred had a different temperament
and probably would have kicked
her.
I’m surely glad that my hus
band never gave me a job like that.
But, my son did the same thing for
his dog when he was hit by a trac
tor. Jeffrey got needle and thread
and sewed the loose skin fast to the
rest of the coat on the Irish Setter.
At least that was not as bad as
when he had to have loose skin
sewed to his own head. You see,
his heifer dragged him and he was
determined not to let go of her.
That was one of many escapades
that he had.
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