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theoldtexasfarmer 01-12-2013 11:53:27 108.71.188.64 Report to Moderator	More......Gras control in yard was the milk cow and her calf.....father milking cow twice a day,mother pasturizing milk with a modern electric pasturizer,mother making cottage cheese and butter,making ice cream in deep freezer out in an outside barn and running out to stir it....washing clothes in a wringer washer on the back porch.....watching uncle knock a calf in the head then cutting its throat,then father and uncle pulling it up on a block and tackle,skinning it and butchering it ,then freezeing it in their Sears Coldspot freezers.Liver and brains werent frozen but were for supper on butchering day.......salting the hide to sell at the hide house.....My wife says I should write these memories down as the kids dont believe me.......I still have and use my fathers and uncles tractor,1949 farmall super A,along with an assortment of mule drawn implements. [Reply]   [No Email]
pete black 01-12-2013 12:20:15 166.205.55.37 Report to Moderator	Re: in your sixties? in reply to theoldtexasfarmer, 01-12-2013 11:53:27   i was raised on the edge of the city but in the fifties there was rural ways. when i was about 12 i had walked up the street to a friends house where his dad cut hair on the back porch for 25 cents. walking back home there was a group of men around an old shed with a calf tied to it. i walked up just in time to see a man draw back with a sledge hammer and hit it right between the eyes. the calf just sorta blinked and looked at him. he drew back and hit the calf again and this time the calf just crumbled down dead. man i left scared to death and never told anyone about for a long time. [Reply]  [No Email]