Being born in the last week of 1960, I can tell you what our farm was like during my childhood. Dad took over the farm from Grandpa in 1945 after the war. He farmed with horses the first few years. Electricity came down our road in 1948, and dad had the house and barn wired. He also bought a Case V tractor and plough that year. By the earliest of my memories, the Case V had been replaced in 1950 with a Case VA , and in 1956 dad also bought a Cockshutt 35 Delux. He milked cows and separated the Cream on the farm. Cream went to a butter plant, and the skim milk was fed to fatten pigs at home on the farm. There were always sows and chickens too, several hundred laying hens. As a kid I remember well cleaning and crating eggs to ship. In 1970 dad turned 52, and quit milking cows and feeding pigs and chickens, and just kept some beef cows. We had threshed all our grain until 1970, when dad bought a used MH combine. He then grew more grain to sell. Was a very small operation by todays standards, but my folks did very well, never knew debt, and raised 5 kids. Yes times on the farm were better
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