Grew up on a 240 acre farm my grandpa bought in the mid-30's here on the plains of NWIA. We raised corn, oats, hay and some soybeans at the time. We walked every acre of the corn and beans pulling weeds until dad started using 2-4D on the corn. After that we only walked the beans.
Dad milked one Short Horn cow for our dairy needs. Dad never let me crank the Montgomery Wards table top separator. He claimed I'd crank it too fast. Saturday mornings in the winter my job was to crank the butter churn. My reward was the sweet butter milk. After the butter was made it was time to grab the pitchfork and clean buildings. I did some corn shelling during my school years but it was mostly during the summer months but by then most of the corn had been shelled out for the year. Got into a LOT of corn shelling after I graduated.
Summer meant the usual baling with our neighborhood baling ring. When I was maybe 12 I started driving the baler. 14T Deere pulled by a Deere 60. Then we updated to a 24T pulled by a 730 gas. Did that till I was in the 16-year-old range and then I 'graduated' to the other end of the baler-the flat rack. The owner of the baler and I rode the rack and stacked hay together for maybe ten years or so and by then the baling ring was beginning to dissolve. He was thirty five years older than me, smoked, drank too much sometimes and was overweight but he could out-work me. Course I didn't admit it at the time. Went to large rounds after that and I've never missed riding the rack.
I still live on that 240 acre farm only it has grown to 640 now, plus a few rented acres. The livestock is long gone, our family is raised and now the grandkids are running around the farm. Jim
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