SEGMENT: FARM WORK, FARM FACILITIES, & TOWNS
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- FARM WORK
- People put in as much garden as they could work with a one-horse cultivator and a double-shovel.
- FARM FACILITIES
- Produce such as root crops was stored in a mound dug into the ground and packed with straw. Describes how to make one.
- TRANSPORTATION
- Before local township took over road maintenance, farmers were paid for grading the roads using their horses.
- WOMEN'S WORK
- Grandma dried fruit on henhouse roof in the sun. Picked blackberries and canned 100 quarts.
- TOWNS
- Went to town to buy coffee, sugar, tobacco, bologna, cheese, or crackers. Nice change from pork.
- HOMESTEADING
- Grandma had the goatskin homestead deed to her farm. Lived on it 95 of her 99 years, only occasionally going to town.
- FARM WORK
- To get enough wood for all home uses, each week they had to crosscut saw the trees down, saw them up, and haul them home.
