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Life on the farm
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Last pic showed dad opening up this field, it's all done, and we are about finished with the last pasture off to the top right of this picture.
other angle of the last pic
I figured we mow about 50 acres of the 195 acre farm. I usually round it up to 200, but recent surveys have shown it's a little smaller.
other angle of the last pic
I figured we mow about 50 acres of the 195 acre farm. I usually round it up to 200, but recent surveys have shown it's a little smaller.
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This part that I mowed last week was cleared in 1971. Was pasture in 2nd 1972 picture. The part still left to mow (top right in 2nd and 3rd pic), was not cleared yet in these pictures. Not sure why pics got switched from the order I added them.
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1972 we had corn in the field behind the house. It all got picked by hand.
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Started the Chimney on Nov 1976. Picture taken either Thanksgiving or Christmas time, as my brother was home with his Firebird. Sister bought the Orange Vega in November. The back porch was built in Sept 1976. Wood furnace bought day after thanksgiving.
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1970 The chicken house where we kept the laying hens. In front is lumber pile on stickers, left over from when dad built the house in 1962-1963.
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Bought this 5 HP riding mower 12 Aug 1975 at Bargain City. Our first riding mower. My brother mowing in the orchard, aka right field in our front yard baseball diamond.
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Fun times! This was about the time that we ended up picking a couple fields of corn by hand but it wasn't by choice though. Between old equipment (corn pickers) and wet fields we ended up picking it by hand. By the time the fields froze enough to get into them the corn had started to fall over so the picker wouldn't work then either. I was only 9 or 10 at the time and the corn is what we needed for feed. We ran it through a belt driven hammer mill into our little feed shed. Talk about a hazard!
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I recall 1 year when dad borrowed someones corn picker, all the other years we picked and husked by hand, throw it into piles, come thru later with trailer and pick up the piles and shovel into the corn crib. we also planted pumpkins in the corn, and we would take them into town and sell in front of my grandmothers house.
This 1972 picture shows corn over on the point, the field below the "big hill". Other years we planted potatoes here. there are also strawberries planted where you see the strip of dirt uphill from it, and it looks like maybe some pumpkins also.