When We Farmed With Horses (A/B Roll)

I was always just a small farmer we were farming in the hills and I could use a big disc or big plow but most of my famine was done with force what was Barney bill invited him up together then we had one dick yeah that Victor of mother was in we had more than Kate in Molly Jack and weirdo Bill and then we had one we named after neighbors girl and her name was Shirley and I always got in trouble for yell and Shirley one that we'd drive by their farm when they grand it and with all farmers all the way up come over here from England homesteaded down there and one day will come I died on homestead button after my attorney most the farms around our area with quarter sections of line hundred sixty acres and we had to meet he crossed the road John Lee wounds is 240 and that was a big farm you know you go to breaking up new ground that hadn't been broke up took a lot of horsepower to get that turned over and they tried first of all with cast iron plows which didn't scour yeah that the steel breaking plow had longer moldboard so it tipped it on over more you see these short ones your size was the tough they tipped back on you when you got a crop residue of corn or wheat or whatever the crop was that you're going that's quite different if you went to plough on the spring and that wouldn't scour wide it was an awful for a job just rode along like an old home you know for years and years you see we we had a thing about whether or not a dad was a good farmer and one of the criteria was how clean he could probably feel which meant he wanted to plow all of that stuff under and they worked quite hard at this can you still have an oil can on the end of the field and oiling for the night in case for the drain so they wouldn't catch so noah rothman they didn't want to scour so would portuguese flour was generally pulled by our team of horses and 16 is required to horses that was customary pushpop time you started to move very well you know what happened you hit a rock we dug that out then you keep on going i furnished a team of picked up rock if you worked hard like i made 50 cents a day I'm sorry I thought I was really rolling the money we get those don't go closer than we'd head for the fence line where we at a rock pile we they said before my time that was the main crop for we had to just fence their crops and I was all because you couldn't fence your whole farms because everybody had open rains and let the cattle run they branded them all of course at that time there was raised the cattle cattle done a little bit in my knees then older stories about all the livestock to be cut up and everything else but that word wasn't gonna be either but it was anyway the rhythm of person uses when they use in the side is beautiful to watch dad had a hand corn planner stickman boom well I remember their little 12 acre field he went out and marked he planned that whole thing by hand I'll never forget that he told me that that's where all the coin was planned but his father when he first arrived here I remember him telling about those planners that they would jerk it every time to try and get him straight cross ways so they could call available place but after I went to plan boy we had the wire and of course that was kind of a skill to the chip had to know now how to September you'd have it's a crooked cross ways you couldn't cut rate you look at these planner wire you could tell Billy are you free well tell the neighbor by how he planted yes we used to watch that quite a bit who had the straightest roads and cross roads and they took pride of that sometimes that gathering they would argue with that we've got the straightest rather than crossroads and so forth oh yeah we'd watch that all the way to town and you'd always hate it if you got your rows crooked and somebody else would be going by and look at yours dad's were never straight dad claims he got more corn per acre that way very few farmers say that call of ACORN they plow corn she my dad thought the horses are too tired and then we can walk one of the big problems that you had early was weed control now with a check roll approach then you could cultivate in both directions and get between the plans the always when you went will crossways you was sure to go lengthwise again to leave it you had to go three times or five times otherwise when you picked corn off your wagon need to go up and down the road you go bumpity-bump over your rows you see the fear the Lord the dead put fear to that old bore bar disengage but if it gets floods and all this business in them we were frightened because we do the damage it could occur guidance break to the dump break and you don't in rows then again way ed watch so you got them straight and and then you turn the straddle those rows and open into piles hey cocks we called him daddy he would pick up that bunch mostly in one heap I think one of the heartbreaking things is to have it down and look over see a great big black cloud coming up and it's so good so you can go out after dried apples there so later soaked again sometimes we hauled in red clover stems once any leaves you knew then that things weren't very good that winter Oh but right after that one first for water the water side delivery rate and I hail order before that be pictured by hand one time I loaded up a bunch of bumblebees and that wasn't so good it eyes your file to hate on them pretty fast I got him Trump down yeah that's just always the wife's job is to pull up the hey why is she had that okay take a hold of the rope and hold his elbow trees out so they wouldn't step over and when she turned around or hard as dad would sent us up one of us up in the hay mound and my brother used to hate find a window where he could peek out and get a little air and he'd wave at me and dad had let her yell out are you my own that back I can remember that and he'd be waving at me generally so oh its first the discontent Weiss things still remember getting the discount dad sharpened his own displayed see what a little disdain in cutting so deep they didn't even cut out all the stumps originally discs at twice and ragged ones then daddy was sold a small seat he thought it to get too deep you can come up it was mostly Timothy seed and little clover yes every year see I would put in oats and then been grass seed harvest my oats and the next year I have the hay by rotating that way part of your farm was underside all the time the Daisy Reaper you bunched it up on the platform and now this would kick off just bunches and then this led then to tying the rice and the old binder come out of that my brother and I I tried to shock fast enough so try and keep up for the minder and my dad says I don't think you can keep up we said when you got done will be picking the last one off of the bundle carrier but one thing we never finished the head of him you've looked down the role and set him straight your head pride in your work and then you cap month they kids hanging to the north so the Sun didn't shine on us much we'd put Isis in and eat supper milk cows still a little daylight left glove shock I can hardly walk early dimes they had a turntable and then you've used horses you could use these then to pump water with them you could use a threshing device yell we've done a lot of recharging depends what kind of weather it was that did very little shot but he inspected shot see my call month August rash and rain it was really a social firm sometime they had to go cross rivers but President bridges wouldn't hold them that's pretty big machines and then if one of them got stuck was quite a job well we start just as soon as the dew would get off in the morning you you got a pearly milk the cows custom a way because a long day made about four o'clock in the morning have to get steamed up you know he'd keep their middle low so your load tipped in all the time and that way your bundles wouldn't slip off and then when you got finished your Lord you put a few rolls down through the middle and trap them good so they stayed on yeah sometimes you know he lost bundles and I even seen when they upset it and that was in it some hard man that somebody needed help and they hired him but uh farmer it caught a big disgrace if you lose bundles or upset if it was a side rent those smart alecks they would try to get off the clean side my dad hated one over two touches Angeline he's a very contented they're six o'clock in the morning you start your pies there we used to dress her chickens before we had dinner that was a big job I always water them before and after they'd eat so they didn't drink too much each time sometimes some kids would splash one on the other than the other one to scratch your back on him and that was anything those ten another one this when I went through three tables one time yeah I didn't do it again because everybody made so much fun of what three pieces of pie go remember that oh the same over here for you know a lot how much left out there Nettie bill Oh Conn third or fourth you're supposed to get done with it that sure five five thirty you can move on down the road an engineer show them what you belong in an hour he's up our engine was his and Tara was the other two guys hit his way if the bushel needed dump and then that let all growl made two dumps to the bushel unloading the heads now had to be all in the same direction there was some nasty I think the dirtiest job that the whole crashing rain was a land that built the sky well trashing no matter how you looked at it was a little berry but I've always marveled at their we had one neighbor he was crazy he's never seem to get dirty old guy that I worked with had a great deal of pride in his ability to build a load of bundles better than anybody else it's a great satisfaction that last round more than once I had the whole coop I would catch few chickens I meant to town and bought the groceries and a few cents left goodbye nine sacks flowering time last quite a while but other times we were just a few groceries buyer the egg money we had a neighborhood all dollies manure and the first twelve rows along the road that was his tall corn but you can look it over that and see some y'all a little short ones half as big half mile rose with the sake and three old horses you didn't make much remark I'd plow all day long in peak hour the next morning I I don't think I did anything one job I liked the best of any was plow drove three horses in front and two behind if he was leaving an over winter and put some axle grease on it the beauty I should come to our farm it was a guy up here had several stallions you had your own feed and you raised your own horsepower we'd pick corn was enforced instant bushel at the time get out there early as soon as you can see the ears I don't know a trouble box three times a day always rather than to have a bigger box because when you're gonna pick on over 100 push for the day that's a lot of rollin ears and a foot higher make a difference my horses very shut up and walk from far away once in a while they got an audiogram to run up to him and jerk him live it on their line cuz I killed off a triple bark slowly out quick you could start at the back of the load would never stop and he got to the front seven minutes each cook that off for noon and doing need pick till it was dark those saying was that whether for conflict and his until Thanksgiving Day he fed the Hogs the bigger hogs out in the whole yard within yet quatrain pick up cobs always didn't was kid they made a hot fire and they said it good cook could cook breakfast on three corn cobs it was like we were always late to change you know those are great days you