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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Here it's minimum wage and no benefits (my ex did dairy work for a short 
time). Conditions on farms are terrible, the equipment is always breaking 
down, there's no money to fix anything; farmers lose money every day. 
Everywhere I go, barn cleaners are broken and the help is hauling manure in 
wheelbarrows, or it's piling up in the gutters. Even with the sky-high 
unemployment here, dairy farmers have trouble keeping help.

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Irony


> Dairy farms here (Sonoma and Humboldt County, at least) want live in
> workers.  They pay minimum wage, plus a cabin with utilities (pay your own
> phone and cable), a veggie plot and when a cow stops producing enough to
> justify her being in the line, they slaughter her and share the meat with
> everyone on the farm.  We had five dairies we cut and wrapped for and
> sometimes it got crazy because of having to keep track of home much of 
> what
> to package.  One farmer made it easy and had the whole blooming cow ground
> up and packaged in one pound packages.
>
> Lynda
> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
> are
> to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
> servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theordore
> Roosevelt, 1918.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
>
>
> > No wonder they DON'T come to Tioga Co. PA!! I've been looking for 3 years
> > and can't find even a minimum wage job. I've applied for everything I've
> > found, and there are dozens of other applicants. I'll do anything except
> > work on a dairy farm (way too much work for minimum wage, and a split
> > shift, > like 6-10am then 4-8pm)
>
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