The Independent-News, Volume 108, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 February 1983 — Page 9

Their Songs Spread Country Sunshine (C ontinued from EXTRA page 1) started singing when she was about 2. Now the girls are 8,7, 5 and 3. They frequently sing at their church—Waldo Mennonite—and about twice a year sing at Kentuckiana Campground near Minier, 111. where they do a variety of numbers, including some comedy. “When Phil and I got married.

Kids' Window to Farming...

(Continued from EXTRA page 1) for and about America’s farm and ranch kids. The slick, full-color magazinepublished six times a year and edited by former Wichita (Kan.) EagleBeacon reporter Janet Halfmann—is called Country Kids but is really aimed at both rural and urban youth, Mr. Reiman said. The first issue came out in December. For the rural kids, it’s designed to help build an appreciation for life on the farm, he said. “Maybe that will help them want to stay on the farm later, instead of leasing for the city.” But, he said, perhaps the more important task of an agrarian kids magazine is giving cits kids a window to what’s happening on the modern farm. “America has become so urbanized that most kids never get a “My kids were told farmers gathered eggs by hand...” chance to see a farm,” Mr. Reiman said. “And most of the material about farms that schools have is pretty outdated.” Mr. Reiman, an lowa farm boy, (“1 just can’t get the manure off my boots”) said his children were recently told in school that farmers still gather eggs by hand. “And this is suburban Milwaukee, not New York City,” he said. Now he goes to the school once a year to talk to fourth-graders about farm life. “It’s kind of my own National Agriculture Day activity,” he said. One of the main features of the bimonthly magazine is a “pullout section”, brimming with facts and anecdotes about a certain animal or crop. In the premiere issue, Country Kids reveals all anyone would want to know about swine, told from the

we moved back to Minonk, so he could farm with his lather, who has since retired,” Linda adds. “I taught school in Elanagan until our daughters started arriving!” “Hartzler's Hams" have sung original birthday greetings to elderly aunts, and songs to dozens of banquet and picnic gatherings. 1 inda made all the outfits they perform in. I here are western fringe skirts and vests, farm caps trimmed with pig ears and tails for Daddy Says H e Gotta Eat Pork, and cowboy boots and prairie dresses for other numbers. Denim bibs, red

hog’s point of view. Arnold, the porky narrator from the Rommel farm in Illinois, is chock full of facts about hogs and the pork industry. (Even some that a farm writer didn’t know!) He dispels a lot of myths about hogs, revealing that they are not overeaters or sloppy and really cannot sweat. (Did you know that a hog can smell a buried truffle at a distance of 50 feet, or that mature hogs have 44 teeth?) Next One Features Horses In addition, Arnold (the hog) tells the kids that today’s hogs—and pork—are a 10l leaner than they were 10 or 20 years ago. That’s something the nation’s hog and pork associations have been trying to communicate to consumers for several years. The next issue’s “pullout section” will feature horses, with other major farm products like corn and cattle on the agenda for future issues. Like his new magazine, Mr. Reiman is up-to-date on what it’s like down on the farm these days, namely the tough economic times. “We’re concerned with the farm economy, and we’re concerned whether farm folks have another $11.95 (the 1-year subscription rate) to spend,” he said. "That’s why we allow them to order a single cops at $3.95 so they can ‘try it’ before they subscribe. ’’ The magazine can be ordered by writing Country Kids magazine, P.O. Box 572, Milwaukee WI 53201. To get the magazine off the ground, Mr. Reiman has sent it to 50 juvenile book stores around the country, in both rural and urban areas. He also sent complimentary copies of the new publication to elementary schools, to state Earm Bureau officers, to county agents, and to state leaders of the Porkettes, the national auxiliary group of the National Pork Producers Council, calling to the latter’s attention the “pig pullout section”. “*

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T-shirts and braids, pinafores and parasols.. .the girls always look adorable and get a lot of laughs. Dressed for one of their favorites, the girls and I inda wear bib overalls rolled up to the knees, bright-striped socks, work boots and red shirts. With oversized freckles penciled in, a couple of teeth blacked out and illfitting wigs with wires to send their pigtails straight out from their heads, the five bring on hoots of laughter with their country song. Out Behind the Barn, for example, is a favorite while 1 inda and the girls wear the duds just described: "He ger our education, out behind the barn—we am't fools to any other, pass examinations out behind the barn, and we almost make a wreck out of my mother. “My pappy likes to tan my hide, out behind the barn. He wants me to get dignified, out behind the barn. When he takes his strap to me, and turns me down across his knee, ” sings Jennifer, “he sure does hurt my dignity, out behind the barn. ” Since the Hartzlers raise corn, soybeans and hogs, the country lyrics always seem right To the tune of Yankee Doodle, the girls sing: “Our daddy dear lakes care of pigs, at nighttime, noon and morning; and so he thinks we should eat pork to keep the money rolling. ” Next, one daughter sings: “McDonald's is the place for me, oh, ‘Steak 'n ' Shake ’ / love you; bur

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hot dogs, bacon, sausages are all on Daddy's menu", followed by the chorus: “He like pizza, Twinkles, too, spaghetti rolled up on a fork, ice cream, burgers, fries and shakes, BL T OCR DADD} Ss> S H I GOTTA I \T PORK “Iverybodv knows a farmer needs a son ..right ’ H rong'“ Linda. “You can imagine the teas mg and jof mg Phil takes'” Our Daddy’s a farmer, which starts out by setting the scene of 1 inda and Phil’s marriage, goes on to check off each new arrival, with that particular daughter chiming in with “Guess what, it was me'” Just One More Deduction In the song, just before the fourth daughter’s birth, the lyrics are “Daddv then gave the warning: ‘One more Irv’s all you gel, if this one's a female. ..we're just gonna quit!' Just one more deduction, oh what will it be 7 Another pink bundle—you guessed it, it was me'" sings little Carrie. But you can sum up the whole clan’s attitude with Linda’s finale: “\ow don 'l give any suggestions on trying for more, al the cost of production, we’ll settle for four'" Then, with all the girls joining in, “Cuz we ’re all very happy and doin ' just fine, we don’t have a brother, but we reallv don’t mind. H e think we’re quite lucky and have all that we must—Cuz we've got our daddv, and our daddy's goi L “

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