SEGMENT: NON-FARM WORK & LIVESTOCK
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 8
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- NON-FARM WORK
- Honey Bend was developing into milk shipping point. Discusses development of milk business in Litchfield & Honey Bend & milk transport on trains. Bert got 10% of each milk ticket that he shipped on train. Pevely built milk house, refrigeration, loading platform, etc. at Honey Bend. Dairy business made that country. Milk in 5 & 10 gallon cans. Name of dairy farmer on collar of can. Describes railroads & Pevely's billing procedure & payment of dairy farmer.
- LIVESTOCK
- Dairy farmers raised Jersey, Guernsey, & Holstein cows. Many shipped only cream. Milk went into sewer or fed to hogs. Then developed way to make cottage cheese & then Pevely used the skim milk. Discussion of livestock transport on railroad. Rail line got tired of having livestock facilities at depot & tore them out. Hogs transported in wagon to railroad depot. Very few hogs went through Honey Bend. Very few beef cattle went through Honey Bend. Most hogs went through Litchfield & Raymond. Mentions cattle rancher ("cattle feeder") who had side rail line built to his ranch. Describes train billing of 16 cars of beef cattle.
- NON-FARM WORK
- Special ticket ($1) to St. Louis on weekends. Sold hundreds of these special tickets. Had 4 railroads out of Litchfield that handled passengers, Wabash, Illinois Central, NY Central, & the "Q" (C,B, & Q).
