810-UncMlw Farming, Saturday, Saptambar 2, 1995 I % a LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff LEBANON (Lebanon Co.) Recently 6-year-old Scottie Smith went to the shore for vacation. He spent tip whole time digging in the sand. Several people nearby com mented on his diligence in digging by saying, “My, you are a hard worker.” His mother said, “He’s from the farm and thinks he needs to work all the time.” His parents. Scott and Sara Smith, and a sister Lydia, 14 months old, live on a fam owned by Sara’s Uncle Glen Krall. Scot tie’s parents help out with milking and haymaking when needed, but Scoltie makes his rounds from sunup to sundown wanting to help with everything around the farm. “Sometimes he awakens three to five times during the night and asks if it’s time to get up and milk,” his mother said. Scottie hops on his trusty moun tain bike and pedals from bam to field looking for something to do. At the heifer bam, he sweeps the scattered feed into the feed bunk. He helps feed the calves. But his most favorite job is pick ing up rocks and putting them on the skid loader. “You won’t like that job when you get older,” his mom warned. His mom grew up on a farm. She likes cows but doesn’t consider picking up rocks much fun. Her husband was from the city, but now helps on the farm also. But he doesn’t think picking rocks out of works full-time on the farm. Scottie is allowed to ride on the ib t' Mr but r heavy snows of winter and wishes he could cool off In the snowbank like this fellow. ids tittle Farmer' the soil is much fun either. “I always will love picking up rocks,” Scottie insisted. “Only one thing I don’t like to do,” Scottie said. That’s bringing in the cows. His mother said, “He doesn’t like that because he can’t ride his bike to do it.” “I tried but it’s a big hill,” Scot tie said. Scottie rides on the tractor with his cousin, Jason Krall. “He’s only allowed to ride on the cab tractor for safey purposes,” his mother said. During a recent stint on the trac tor, a severe storm arose. When hail some as large as three inches in diameter pelted the area, Jason told Scottie to curl up on the floor of the cab tractor and he covered him with a coat They were afraid the windows on the tractor would break from the large hail, but they made it back to the bam safely. When Scottie isn’t working on the farm, he often accompanies his great grandpa to antique tractor pulls. “I like the steam engines. They make a lot of noise,” Scottie said Some of the tractor shows have tractor pulls for children. Scottie likes to enter the competition. At the Lebanon Fair recently, Scottie took first place in his age group in the kiddie pull and third place in the Big Wheel Race. Although Scottie doesn’t like to spend much time inside the house, when he does, it’s usually playing with toy tractors and implements. / * E> Keeps Right On Working “You must be careful not to walk favorite shirt with a tractor design mates plenty of stories about life on on his fields,” his mom said of the and new shoes. He s ready the farm, imaginary cornfields that Scottie school. Although he won t be If my parents move off the plants in the house. able to spend as much time on the farm, I’m staying here,” Scottie Recendy Scottie dressed in his farm, Scottie plans to tell his class- said. Scottle sweeps the haylage in the feeding area for the heifers. Scottie is shown with his mother Sara Smith and his cousin Jason Krall. Sometimes Scottle takes a break just to admire the farm. ornet**
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