Farm Safety Day Held at Elgin High School
September 19-23 was farm safety week and on Friday the agriculture classes presented instruction and demonstrations to elementary students from Elgin Public schools and St. Boniface. Elementary students learned about how to be safe around many different types of farm and ranch machinery and animals. Tractor and grain safety was the focus at one station as the students learned about staying safe around large tractors and also about grain safety as a grain cart was present. Four-wheelers were also there and students were told about how to always wear the proper safety equipment. Ewe lambs, buckets calves and a colt were at another station and the students were told about how to move and talk around livestock. They also were taught about the importance of giving livestock vaccinations and the dangers of being around animals that have just given birth. Students were also able to feel wool that had been sheared off a lamb. Some thought it was pretty cool, while others were kinda skeptical about touching it!
The main attraction was a demonstration given with the weed eater. The ag students demonstrated how dangerous a weed eater could be when they stuck a hotdog in the machine. Students saw what happened to the hotdog and were very surprised at how dangerous they can be!
