Always had jobs for kids on the farm, put kids on payroll once old enough, boys could drive tractors before driving cars, "Every kid should grow up on a farm", keeps them from doing drugs or selling drugs
FARMING METHODS
Fruit is now imported because of seasons. People have to eat so there will always be farms. A lot of hand labor now & mechanization can only go so far. Hand picking of peaches and strawberries will always be necessary. Comments on cost of produce will be going up to pay for the production & increasing mechanization.
REFLECTIONS
Comment on pleasures of Farming. Opines that it would not be easy to start orchard business without family. "Nothing more satisfying than looking out the door and saying that's mine."