Many different kinds of animals live in the farm, standing side by side with the farmer. Some of them are used as a source of meat, or milk, which can be turned easily into other dairy products, such as cheese and butter. Those animals such as cows, buffalos, cheeps and goats are fed by the farmer and had a lot of his care. The farmer knows that the more he gives them is the more they will give hem .
Other animals such as donkey and ox are used for different tasks . The donkey is the most co-operative animal at the farm its day is very long and full of multifarious work, it used for riding, irrigation, carrying crops, replacing the wet soil from the barn with the dry soil from the farm. However, the donkey does most helpful for hem the farmer gives it little of his care. He feeds it after all other animals and doesn't give adequate food . Although it has little care the donkey doesn’t complain .
The most difficult function for donkey is to water from the level of the Nile to the surface of the field using The " Halloufa " in the past it was named " saqiyah" .It is one of the most important methods used for raising water. The process started with making dams to challenge the water and take a branch before the dam to the farmland directly. I works successfully at several times, but when the water cant reach the farmland, the farmer must work hard to irrigate his farm using "shadouf'". It is a very simple instrument consists of a long wooden branch in contracted with a bucket by a rope on the other side of the long branch there is a stone as much weight as the full bucket . the branch is leaning on a standing on the ground. It looks like the scale. the farmer stands on the edge of the land and swings down the bucket into the water and over to the field. It has been working for a long time before using the "tambour". It works successfully on the wells
When I was four years old, I have seen my grandfather work on the "shadouf" and he did a magnificent work . While my father was building his house, suddenly, the water was stopped . It means also the work will end. We have to find another source for the water to mix the concert and continue the work. Fortunately, my grandfather was there , sitting in the shade of balm tree across the street . He realized that the worker's sound was stopped . Their songs which they used to say while the work were vanished . did the work finish ? surprisingly, asked my grandfather .
No, but there is no water . anxiously, answered my father.
Confidently, my grandfather said, don't worry, there is a well with a shadouf near here , you have only to dig a pool and to make a channel between the well and the pool .
Quickly, my father started working in the channel , and my grandfather started also his work on the shadouf . I went with to see the well and to know what he will do with the shadouf . The well was narrow and deep, it was build with stones in an old style . In the edge of it there is a long stone one of its sides is in the land, but the other half is inside the well . My grandfather was old , he was in his seventieth . he stood on the stone , grasped the rope , and sent down the bucket inside the well until it reached the water , when it full in with water, he raised it up carefully and spilt it in the channel . One after the other one , I saw the water started to run , I thought that is more interesting to follow the water in the channel until it reach the pool. The worker also were waiting for the water . When they saw it coming through the channel and entering the poll , they started their work and sang their songs . when my grand father heard their songs, he knew that his work has succeeded .
My father was so happy and proud of him , and I was so proud of all of them .
