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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] cattle farming was ???
  • Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:13:36 -0500


Wow, there is more do do in the winter, for a cattle farmer, than watching the woodstove. That was a great story, Lynn. Like Bev, I would like to see a youtube of such. stay warm..................

I never know what I'll be doing on any given day...resuscitating an animal, pulling an animal out of the mud, fixing a fence, checking to see who is bellowing at 2am and why (last time it was apparently just for the heck of it...I didn't see any problem, but I have to check and make sure). Any kind of emergency can take hours to deal with.

I don't do youtube. Except for the internet connection, this farm is quickly devolving. No cell phone, video camera, etc. etc. I double dig instead of using the tiller. I'm giving up the gas mower for a scythe, and I'd get rid of the tractor if I didn't need it to move hay bales (the tractor is over 50 years old and driving me crazy...it can take 15-20 minutes to get it started...check this, clean that, charge the battery, etc; if the temp is below about 10 degrees, it isn't going to start no matter what I do). I very much prefer doing things by hand to fighting with a gas engine or some high-tech thing.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA




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