In the fifties when i was a kid we did not have electric or phone or running water, no tv or radio either. we still used an outhouse in summer and in the winter we used the gutter behind the cows. We had no tractor car truck or anything with an engine on it. we did have horses though and a couple bicycles
We milked the 24 cows by hand. hay was custom cut but the hay was pitched with the fork on the hay rack and from there in the hay loft. Everything was done with muscle power and hand tools.
Heating was with coal or wood.Water for the house and cows was pumped by hand pump from a well.
Our weekly bath was done in a masonry cooling tank which doubled as milk can cooler and water storage tank for the cows.
A hot bath was washing from a pail lukewarm water outside in the sun on a warm day. :wink:
Believe me, i can do without a lot of these electric gadgets of today but I rather not go back to the old days/ways.
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