Posted by rrlund on December 21, 2018 at 12:55:22 from (173.225.203.235):
In Reply to: Re: Traditonal Farmer posted by Ellis Kinney on December 21, 2018 at 12:09:07:
Dad had 16 cows when I took it over in 1971. I added another 12 in 1975 when a neighbor with a factory job decided he didn't want to go to the barn all winter another year. I ended up with a 44 stanchion barn. I would have kept it up if the boys had wanted to. I would have even done whatever I had to to help them expand,but the older boy had his own passion and the younger boy said he saw how rough it was for us some years when he was growing up and that wasn't how he wanted to spend his life. I don't miss milking cows,but I miss working with Dad and the boys and I miss how the whole neighborhood was engaged in the same enterprise. Kinda like tractor collecting I guess,when we say it's not about the tractors,it's about the people who do it.
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