I don't know, lot of guys up here got up, did chores and went to the field. Then they came out of the field to do chores in the evening and then went back to the field till 10 or 11 if they had lights and if not till sun set. Yesteryears farmers also worked on equipment, cut wood for heating and mended fences when it was too wet or there was nothing else to do. They didn't finish up harvest and take the winter off. When we first moved up here a lot of those old timers were around and still farming. They started farming with horses and mules and later went to tractors. Those old guys knew how to work. In the summer of 72 I helped an 81 year old farmer put hay in the barn, no elevator. We carried each bale up a ladder. He said he was too old to be spending money on something like an elevator that he might only get to use one or 2 haying seasons. When dad bought this place he was on a budget and the first 2 years he plowed and planted he did the plowing with a 2-12 plow. Lot of time in the field between chores and after. Those old guys did what they had to do to get the job done.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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