I had got your letter. So you want to know all about farming life
in Ireland.
Well in a week or so the cows will be going out for
summer and autumn until the start of winter. At the start of winter the
grass stops growing so me have to bring in the cows to the sheids
over the winter farming is hard work for me because I am only 14
years old but I try my best.
In the 15 MAY I will be going to the barmillagh show it has
every thing to do with farming it has all the machinery for farming
I am realy looking forwed to it I just cant wait.
Near christmas
we get turkeys and fating them up and sell them so if you wan't a
turkey just call me.
In the summer when the cows are out we get
old bad spuds and put them in to the feilds with the cows the
cows like them very much.
I live about five miles away from the
farm I love working on the farm but in two years I will have to
leave the farm to start my career after school.
Slan
"A DAY IN THE LIFE......"
Ireland
by Karl Doherty, St Peter's School Derry
Dia daoibh, a chairde
mi all of you in Opotiki
At the end of the summer we go to
get hay for the cows geting hay is very hard work you have to lift
1000 bales of hay on to a trailer and then lift them off. At the
start and end of the summer we cut silage for the cows it takes
a long time you have to cut the silage with a trackter with a
cuter on behind it and then it gets blowen in to a trailer with
hi sides on it to hold the grass in a then we dump it into a
silage pit and then we cover it with plastic a few months later we
pull the plastic a cut a bit off it down and feed it to the
cows.
On saturday and sunday I was rowing the
feilds it can be very hard work. You drive the trackter with a
rower on behind it and row the hows in the feilds in so the
silage cuter will not lift the muck. All the feilds in the farm
have to be rowed even if it is not a silage feild. After you row
the feild the big tracter comes and fertilizers it so the grass
will grow qicker and better.
Karl Doherty :) St Peter's School Derry
