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38 - DECKS AWASH stead of subsidizing those who can't compete any other way. Let people live where they want to live: vou don't tell a bird where to build Its nest. We've got too smart for our own good. "Good solid advice is not easy to come by anv more either. The only sheep specialist I know of was Mack Greening and he died several years ago. There's nobody I can turn to really. Last fall I experimented with a Suffolk ram , but the lambs aren't born as stro ng as the Cheviots. I can compar e the weights of the Cheviot a nd Suffolk lambs and both of my Suffolk lambs died. A lot of what you get is based on what has been going on in other parts of the world. My neighbor brought back some sheep from Cape Breton and they had foot rot. It costs all kinds of extra money to treat the sheep and once the land is affected there are alw ays enough carriers to keep it going. The xova SCotian farmers weren't concerned because they could just slaughter the sheep and start again, but it's a bad thing here. I can keep it down, but I can't get rid of it. Sheep follow eac h other on a trail and all of the m pick it up." Clarence a lso has his own views on rea r ing lam bs for ma rket. "If you raise ewes for just one lamb you're lost," he says. I' ve been a firm believer in the twolamb cro p, the second one being your profit. Some people will tell Farming and fishing under pressure J im Hilliard represents a dying breed of <strong>Newfoundland</strong>ers, descendants of the fishermen-farmers of pre Confederation days. Now Jim, who lives in the small community of Cape Anguille just north of Codroy, is under pressur e beca use of policies th at discriminate against the part-time inshore fisherman. "There's a strong possibility that. I will lose my salmon licence," Jim tells us bitterly. "If I lose tha t, 1 might as well quit farming as well. I'm a pa rt -time fisherman , fishing for three or four months a yea r with two boat s an d 15 sa lmon nets . That's the only money I ca n mak e in the vou twin lambs will never reach the size of a single lamb, but the weight difference betwee n a single lamb and a twin is very little in the fall. "There's no secret to how I ensure twins. To start with I Ilush my sheep and provide extra feed in the fall. In October I put the burlap jacket on my ewes a nd let the ram loose. He ca n' t do any damage but he gets them in better breeding conditio n when I take the jackets off in tbe middle of November. Most of our sheep had twins; the only one that didn't had a lar ge lamb early, but I don't know if it was my ram or not. If you' re keeping a few sheep, the ext ra meat makes it worthwhile." summer. I fish longer than a fulltime fisherman and,in the winter I do some logging, What we mak e in the summer, $3,000-$4.000.sees us through the winter . If we can't fish, we're not going to make it at all. We couldn't hope to make it on far ming a lone. The few sheep and cattle we ca n keep on our land and the crops we can grow in our ga rde n provide us with food, but they don't offer us a living. "My young fellow ca n't get a licence and he's out of school in a vear. He can fish for cod this ).'ear, but I can't transfer my salmon licence to him . I can get a job in the summer, but wha t is there for him? He'll have to leave I Iewfoundland to get any thi ng at all. I have enough in fishing gear and livestoc k for both of us, He wants to work on the farm and there's a ll kinds of land. but the government gives it to people on welfare. I could keep 50 head of cattle, but I've only got enough land to keep 25," Jim ca n' t understand why the government spen ds taxpayers' money on non -productive programs. "Those that have the jobs don't seem to understand the needs of
DECKS AWASH - 39 th()5e who are trying to make a living," he surmises. "The decisions aren't made in Ottawa. They're being made in Corner Brook and St. John's. I'm not looking to make large amounts of money. I'm happy with $4.000 from fishing in the summer and whatever I can make from the farm. If I can't fish I might as well burn my boats and salmon nets beca use there will be no one to buy tbern . I just spent $10,000 on one boat and motor. but it's money down the dra in. "The way we are, we have our QYm fish a nd our own vege tables and meat. That keeps your money needs down. We make our own butter a nd we have wool from the sheep, but you can't make a go of it alone. Government money seems to be there for the big farmers to build barns, but there's nothing for Manpower and horsepower Wlltt a hand plow on the H Ihard farm peop le like us. I've done all Ute building here myself and it's the US fish and work the land the wayITake away the licences now and fishing that pays for it. If the we always have, there's no trou- there'll be no fishermen here in government left us alone and let ble to make a living around here. five yean." I!! TerraTransport A TOTALLY INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM 51. John's Grand Falls Corner Brook 737-5948 489-2292 634-8246 737-7896 634-4381 ONE OF THE CN GROUP OF COMPANIES
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