The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 August 1977 — Page 11

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Burkes retire after missionary life

Grandpa and Grandma Burke are living the life of retirees on Waubee Lake, near Camp Mack, until someone demonstrates a need for their experience and services — again. To some they are known as gramma and grandma, to others as Dr. and Mrs. Homer Burke After serving as missionaries for several decades and retiring several times, only to return when needed, the Burkes agree they are currently retired. Their life together began in 1924. After Dr. Burke finished his studies at the Northeastern Medical School, the couple journeyed to Nigeria, Africa, as missionaries. A doctor was

Sixth generation runs farming feedlot operation

By SUSAN BENNETT The sixth generation of Gradys is working their ancestors land, south of Syracuse, with a few changes. Currently working are three generations of the six-generation family: father, Glen Grady; Jerry Grady and his four sons, Mark, Mike, Max, 14; and Dale, 9. The older two are the Grady’s married sons, with Mark working full-time on the farm, and Mike farming on the week ends. The Grady’s great-great-grandfather, Jacob Grady, originally cleared the land, which has always been a livestock farm. It is located on 800 N. The operation is a 1,065 acre farming production which raises 1,200 head of black-and-white face cattle from the 500 pound mark up

needed there and Dr. Burke decided to go, “Partly a matter of conviction.” Mrs. Burke is a nurse. It took between four and five weeks to get to their new home, crossing the Atlantic by boat, taking trains and other forms of transportation. Once in Africa, the Burkes drove a model T Ford pickup To cross streams and rivers, about 100 natives were enlisted to pull the truck through the water, minus a raft, then one day would be spent waiting for the truck to dry out. Through the hardships and inconveniences, Mrs. Burke says, persevered. “And never was sorry.” Dr. Burke said at

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to 1,075 pounds for market. The young cows are bought from Lugbill Brothers, Archibald, Ohio, fattened and returned to Lugbill or Sandusky Dressed Beef, Sandusky; Dinner Bell Packing Company of Ohio; or to Cross Brothers Packing Company, Philadelphia. Jerry Grady explained the marbling content of the meat determines how good it is. His operation raises 75 par cent choice, 20 per cent prime and five per cent good, USDA grades of beef. The good and choice are sold in markets, but the eastern coast will receive the prime beef, as that is where the market for that grade is. In order to raise the young cows from Kentucky. Tennessee and West Virginia, the Gradys farm 465 acres and rent another 600 acres. Com is planted in 800 acres of the total, all of which is needed to sustain the feeding. Another 400

IMa.l II r~ ~ B to ’ GRADY FARMS — Gradv Farms, a joint effort of three generations of the Grady family of Syracuse, to a feedlot operation raising cattle for market on 800 N.

times he got fed up.” “It’s entirely different than it was 50 years ago.” Dr. Burke says of Nigeria. He said since their independence was gained and the discovery of oil, the country has entered the modem age. He illustrated this point with the mat made in Nigeria, from not a natural materal but plastic filaments, they brought back from their last trip there in the 1960’5. To Bremen The Burkes returned to the states and settled |in Bremen after their first Nigerian visit. A nursing home was converted into a hospital and an obstetrical hospital was built in the Burke’s office. Amish people and others became their patients Three children bom in die hospital were not wanted and the Burkes adopted the two boys and a girl. Several other children were “adapted” by the couple, leaving their parents and coming to live with the couple. These adopted and “adapted” children contact the couple on a weekly basis and their children call the Burkes grandpa and grandma. By 1946, with most of the doctors and nurses working for the military, the couple spent grueling hours in the hospital. A Dr. Otis R. Bowen approached Dr. Burke that year and asked if there was an opening for a doctor. “He was just worked to death," Mrs. Burke said of her husband at that time. So, it was agreed. Dr. Bowen would assume the Burkes' practice. After leaving his practice, the couple went to Puerto Rico, where they worked in a hospital for seven years. Another year was spent trying to start a private practic* there, but the need for a public health doctor nearby, prompted Dr. Burke to work another seven years in that capacity. The couple retired from missionary work then. But, they returned to Nigieria in 1967 for a time and also returned to Puerto Rico. It was in Puerto Rico that Mrs. Burke had a friend who made “rag rugs” from plastic bread wrappers. Mrs. Burke is known to neighbors and visitors as one who makes these rugs. Teachers and friends in school systems save bread wrappers for her, along with Camp Mack. She estimates she has made 725 of the rugs and I can't make them as fast as people walk them," she explained. The wrappers are tom into strips, sewed together on a sewing machine and woven using a crochet hook. Small ones are given to friends and family, but special order ones, of larger sizes, she charges for. She worked on them while watching television or while riding in the car. To vary the colors, she will

to 500 acres is cut for silage and the rest left to become highmoisture grain. Both are later mixed with a molasses-based supplement to feed the cattle. Grady said they fed the land here in the com belt is too high in richness to put brood cattle on and let them produce the young cows. It’s being tried by some area farmers, he explained, “It’s just really never got going.” The machinery used on the farm has mobile units which can contact up to 40 miles on a UHF channel. The “very helpful” system was built up by son Mark, the electronically-inclined son. Mother, Jane Grady, appreciates the system, reduces her worry. “You know your son’s old enough to do these things." she explained. "But you worry your head off.” The system is also used to radio for equipment and supplies needed in the fields.

sometimes use plastic trash bags also. It takes between 300 and 400 wrappers per rug, but, “To me,” she says, “it’s not hard work.” Since retiring to Milford, Mrs. Burke, who speaks Spanish, has turored local Spanish families in English. They call her grandmother too. Dr. Burke is still called on to use his medical knowledge, by giving physicals at Camp Mack or when neighbors are ill. Several citations presented to the doctor from the Bethany Health Center in Chicago and an offshoot of it, the Tri-Community Day Care Center are displayed in the couple’s home. He is also the recipient of an alumni award from Manchester College, where he did undergraduate week, '-‘in recognition of significant achievements and services which reflect honor upon Manchester College.”

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Mark also invented the lighting system on the feed mixing wagon. The wagon mixes the three substances used to feed the cattle and a set of scales inside it weigh each ingredient of the mixture. But those loading would have to get off the loader to see if the scales were measuring the limit of the ingredient. So, Mark fixed a set of lights so the wagon operator and loader would see them lit when the ingredient was to capacity. Planting and harvesting time find the Gradys feeding toe cattle as soon as it’s day light, then they go to the fields. Mother Jane brings fuel for the equipment and lunch at noon, and as she fills the equipment, the men eat. Dusk is quitting time. Bud Watkins and Dennis Darr help them harvest the silage and in return, the Gradys help them harvest their silage. Around Labor

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Day, the silage harvest begins and it will take four to five weeks to fill toe massive Grady bunker, where it is stored. The feedlots, all 68,000 square feet of them, are cemented. Grady explained by not having the cattle walking in mud, they don’t use any extra energy and fatten faster. The operation markets 1,500 cattle per year, on a rotation basis. Each head costs about $175 to fatten up and will eat one wagon load of silage during his stay. Os his sons who work the farm, Grady said, “We sure haven’t made them fed they have to stay.” He said he hasn’t had to promote the idea. “They grew up here with it,” he said. Disagreements between those working on the farm are minimal. “We usually are pretty much in agreement with what we want to do,” Grady commented.

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