Kids There are lots of kids to play with at Katarina’s grand parents’ farm. vVj-O Korner Three-month-old foal Tigger gets a special apple treat from Katarina. Summertime Fun On Grandma’s Farm JOYCE BUPP day. The milk is sold at the farm York Co. Correspondent to families who often use it for NEW PARK (York Co.) Ka- feeding to their young children tarina Warner may have a town an d babies. address, but she spends lots of Sometimes Katarina helps her time being a “country girl.” with the goat milking, washing, Most of Katarina’s weekends and drying the goats’ teats very and summertime days are spent carefully before attaching the at the farm of her grandparents, special milking machine. The Jim and Norma Warner. The Warners use soft, wet baby-wipes Katarina washes a goat while helping grandmother Norma with milking chores. Warner family raises potatoes, to wash their goats before each hay and grain crops and have a milking. After each goat is fin variety of animals at their farm ished, Katarina helps to dip their near the town of New Park. teats in a special iodine solution, Katarina often helps her which helps keep them clean and Grandma Norma tend her herd free of bacteria until the next of 13 dairy goats, which she milking. milks morning and evening every After milking, the “kids,” or Residential Environment Asthma In Children The prevalence of asthma in creased by 75 percent during the 1980 s and early 1990 s in children under the age of 5. The disease now affects four million children in the U.S. To investigate the association of household allergens with asthma, researchers surveyed the parents of 8,257 children younger than 6 and found that almost six percent of the chil dren had been diagnosed with asthma. Children exposed to dogs were 1.6 times more likely than others to have asthma. In addition, those exposed to ciga rette smoke or the use of a gas stove or oven for heat each had a 1.8 times higher risk of being diagnosed with asthma. The re searchers calculated that re baby goats, must be fed and given fresh straw bedding. Katarina likes to help feed the kids their hay and grain and play with them. Sometimes she tosses them one of the giant plastic balls the Warners keep in the kids’ pen as toys for them to push and butt. At the Warner farm there are lots of animals to enjoy. Katari na’s favorite of the five horses is April, a brown-coated mare that she sometimes rides. Llamas, guinea pigs, pigeons and wood duck also have pens around the farm. A large pen with a high fence, trees and bushes is home for a buck and doe white-tailed deer and their two fawns. When chores are all finished, Katarina sometimes rides the four-wheeler or the golf cart be tween the Warner farms, or plays with the dogs and kittens. One tiny kitten that became separated from its family is being raised in the house by Katarina and her grandmother. The kitten drinks milk from a baby bottle. Soon, the long summer days at the farm will end for Katarina, when school vacation ends and her classes in the second grade at the East York Elementary School begin once again. But there will still be the weekends when she can visit her grandparents and spend time with all her four-leg ged animal pals at the farm. moving such risk factors should prevent 39 percent of asthma cases in children under Parents of children under 6 may wish to avoid household risk factors for asthma such as dogs and other pets, cigarette smoke, and the use of a gas stove or oven as a space heat er. <►< #4
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