| Show Jr Poulsen's Machinist Farmer Too Too What does a farmer study at Utah Technical College at Salt Lake Im a machine shop student student student stu stu- stu- stu dent says year 18 old Dennis Poulsen Im a farmer first then a machine shop student I figure I fit in both places I love farmin but could get just as used to working in a machine shop if I had to Besides you learn a lot lotin lotin lotin in machine shop that you can put to use on the farm he add add- ed Dennis has had experience Ive been a farmer all my life and have acres of my own to work now He has been a machine shop student at Utah Tech since September I 1 guess Id I'd have to work about acres and get every bit of use I could to make a machinists machinist's s sal a I a r ry y Poulsen guessed a good m machinist a c chi h i n i s t makes a year Hes He's close Wed have different schedules schedules schedules sched sched- ules he added Theres nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing regular about farming on a day-by-day day schedule As a machinist Id I'd work from 8 am a.m. to pm p.m. all day five days a week and 52 weeks a year Id I'd be stuck in a shop with that schedule As a farmer Id I'd drill plant wheat between Sept 1 and Oct 15 liMy goal would be to get 40 bushels to the acre Then you let it sit It will ripen between July 10 and 24 Then you pile straw and winter cows on it You could winter beef cattle on acres and fatten em up good Poulsen explained What does a farmer do while his wheat is ripening You fix machinery and repair buildings Th Theres res re's always plenty to do You can always plow up stubble and prepare ground that is 1 t L' L CAI 1 r n s 0 r. r f f. f 1 a l J r 7 I IL i F 4 4 1 1 Dennis Poulsen is machine shop student farmer too placed in rotation Theres There's al always always always al- al ways enough Morning Glory weed to keep a farmer busy he added Poulsen's acres is part of his fathers father's acres in Northern North North- ern Utah's Promontory Point fun To have enough good equipment to handle acres of ground a man would need about 50 That doesn't include theland the theland theland land that you farm the labor to work that land seed that is planted or the buildings on the farm Theres more to farming than meets the eye he concluded concluded concluded con con- secure in the knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge that if he doesn't want to tobe tobe tobe be a farmer one day hell he'll have himself a skilled trade |
