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Re: Another look at it all - farmers don't take it wrong
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Posted by Glory Days? on November 08, 2001 at 19:44:48 from (130.74.184.124):
In Reply to: Another look at it all - farmers don't take it wrong posted by David on November 07, 2001 at 17:28:26:
Many of us fondly remember those summer days on the farm. I also remember the men who were chained to the front porch because they did not have the lung capacity to walk across the yard. Most of these men were in their mid fifties to early sixties in the early 1970's. They had destroyed their lungs applying pesticides on their crops in an attempt to make a slightly better living for their family. I also remember the men with missing hands and arms lost in corn pickers when they worked day and night trying to get the crop in before the weather turned bad for the winter. I also remember the frustration of many of the old farmers when there active days were over and their social security checks were not enough to live on because they had a good existence, but not much more for their working years. There is a major difference between the joy of doing something as a hobby and depending on it for the security of your family. We won't even go into how often a third of the children in a family would die before they were ten or twelve years old. I miss the farm (still have one, but can't afford to use it). Id like to send you a big hoop of cheese to go with your whine, but I don't know of any dairy farms or dairies still in buisness within 100 miles of me. I used to have at least twenty dairy farmers within two miles and a cheese plant about ten miles away. Do you ever have to milk your cube at 5:00 a.m. in the morning or stay up all night for it to calve.
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