As a Small Child, My Grandmother Worked on a Farm
As a small child my grandmother worked on a farm. She feed the animals like the chickens, hogs, cattle, horses, mules, dogs, and cats. The horses were used to plow the gardens, pull stumps, drag logs, used to mow. The horses had to have blinds so things wouldn’t scare them or so they wouldn’t be distracted as they plowed in between the rows. They had a type of muzzle so that they couldn’t eat the corn. They would also use mules for plowing. They would butcher hogs and salt the meat so it would keep all winter. They would gather eggs every morning. They would milk the cows early of the morning a after they ate there supper.
They usually cut the hay with a horse dragging a mowing machine; they had one person throw the hay on a sled, a person to scatter the hay on the sled, and three people to stomp it down so more could be piled on. There would be a person to drive the horse that pulled the sled. Then they would take it home and had a pole set in the ground to stack the hay around. They stacked it very high and covered it a certain way so the rain couldn’t damage it. Later when they would feed they had to recover the hay every day.
The corn they would leave to dry in the fields. After it dried they shucked the corn. They used the corn to cook with and to feed the animals. To feed the animals the corn they had to shell the corn for off the cob that is when you take the kernel off the cob. They would use the cobs to start a fire in the wood stove. They had one stove for the kitchen and one for the living room. They rarely wasted anything.
To cut fire wood they used an ax to cut down the trees. Then they would use a mule or horse to pull the log out of the woods. After it was out of the woods they would use a two man saw. a two man saw can be described as one man on one side and another on the other side, while one pulled one pushed, back and forth they would o until the piece was cut.
My grandpa would go and get maple sap to make maple sugar. To get the sap the he would make a hole in a tree by drilling it with a hand drill. He put a spout that he whittled out of wood in the tree. Then he hung a melt bucket off the spout to catch the sap. He took the sap home and my grandma would boil it until it thickened up and turned in to sugar.
This is how my grandmother spent every day of her life. Although it was hard it was fun and memorable.
Author Unknown
Ripley High School FFA
As a small child my grandmother worked on a farm. She feed the animals like the chickens, hogs, cattle, horses, mules, dogs, and cats. The horses were used to plow the gardens, pull stumps, drag logs, used to mow. The horses had to have blinds so things wouldn’t scare them or so they wouldn’t be distracted as they plowed in between the rows. They had a type of muzzle so that they couldn’t eat the corn. They would also use mules for plowing. They would butcher hogs and salt the meat so it would keep all winter. They would gather eggs every morning. They would milk the cows early of the morning a after they ate there supper.
They usually cut the hay with a horse dragging a mowing machine; they had one person throw the hay on a sled, a person to scatter the hay on the sled, and three people to stomp it down so more could be piled on. There would be a person to drive the horse that pulled the sled. Then they would take it home and had a pole set in the ground to stack the hay around. They stacked it very high and covered it a certain way so the rain couldn’t damage it. Later when they would feed they had to recover the hay every day.
The corn they would leave to dry in the fields. After it dried they shucked the corn. They used the corn to cook with and to feed the animals. To feed the animals the corn they had to shell the corn for off the cob that is when you take the kernel off the cob. They would use the cobs to start a fire in the wood stove. They had one stove for the kitchen and one for the living room. They rarely wasted anything.
To cut fire wood they used an ax to cut down the trees. Then they would use a mule or horse to pull the log out of the woods. After it was out of the woods they would use a two man saw. a two man saw can be described as one man on one side and another on the other side, while one pulled one pushed, back and forth they would o until the piece was cut.
My grandpa would go and get maple sap to make maple sugar. To get the sap the he would make a hole in a tree by drilling it with a hand drill. He put a spout that he whittled out of wood in the tree. Then he hung a melt bucket off the spout to catch the sap. He took the sap home and my grandma would boil it until it thickened up and turned in to sugar.
This is how my grandmother spent every day of her life. Although it was hard it was fun and memorable.
Author Unknown
Ripley High School FFA
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