Born in 1942 and attended a one room school house for a couple of years then the district built a new two story brick school house with indoor plumbing, and a kitchen and electricity and after a couple of years hired a cook and we had hot lunches. Dad started farming after grandpa retired and I think he was farming about 500 acres, some of which was pasture as he had a small beef cow herd. And, we hand milked about 8-10 cows, and the milk was separated, cream was shipped to Beatrice, Nebraska on the railroad in 5 and 10 gallon cans. Dad had a 37 JD D and a 46 JD A which he and his brother bought new. In about 1951 Dad bought another JD D tractor and we started running two tractors. Mostly raised wheat and milo and we also raised forage sorghum which we field chopped and put in a trench silo. We continued to grow silage feed until about 1980. All silage feeding was done by hand. We usually had a small field of alfalfa which was baled with a JD pickup wire tie baler which he used to do a little custom baling with also. We had a '41 1/2 ton pickup and dad bought a new Chevy 2ton truck in 1948 which was used to haul wheat to the local elevators, closest was 5 miles and furthest was 7 miles. Dad retired the '41 Chevy and bought a new 1/2 ton Chevy in 1955. In 1959 dad traded the old '37 JD D for a new JD 730 diesel tractor and I thought we were really in tall cotton then. Started farming on my own in 1964 and still do a little hobby farming with a small bunch of beef cows.
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