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Thanks for the photo. It's amazing to think that the fields that take me hours to till, took my great grandfather weeks to accomplish.
And before he could plow the first time, he had to cut trees and pull stumps. In this regard, times have changed for the better.

Horses might make a comeback sometime in the future when farmers can't get there electric tractors charged

Great photo.
My grandpa farmed all his life and never used a tractor.
I knew other farmers in our area that never sat on a tractor.

Beautiful photo.

It's hard to believe how much farming,
and life in general, has changed from
two or three generations ago.

We might learn something from the Amish.

From the look of that team that farmer looks to be pretty well
off. Seen many a acre plowed with just a single mule.

I'm 74 and I can remember our team, Bob and Jack. Bob was a big black Percheron.
There were actually two Jacks. We got rid of one and got another Jack. Both were
sorrel Belgiums. Bob was my horse an Jack my younger sister's. She never knew
they were switched. We (when I say we or mine or ours it actually means my grandad
and uncle) did a lot of work with those 2 horses. Walk behind single furrow plow,
sinle row walk behind cultivator, 2 horse riding cultivator (luxury), riding
International 5 foot mowing machine etc. Was a lot of work for horse and man. I
was probably about 4 when my uncle bought his first tractor. A Case VAC. I can
remember my grandad arguing about the way the tractor plowed. I was allowed to ride
on Bob during all the work except mowing. We brought in a lot of loose hay and
would unhook one horse in the barn and use it to operate the hay fork to unload the
wagon into the mow. I helped tramp down the hay in the mow. We had Bob until I was
in high school. I still have a lot of horse equipment and harness and other old
farm things but I unfortunately got rid of the riding cultivator and mower. So much
for this nostalgic rambling. The old days we remember romantically but I really
don't want to work that hard now. I complain about hitching up 3 point equipment.
Phil

I'm 73 and can remember the day the horses were sold. Can't remember their names and the only time I remember them working was
opening up corn fields. I rode in the wagon dodging ears of corn flying. There's a picture around here somewhere of them standing
in front of the barn waiting for the truck to come, seemed to be a sad day as I remember.

We have a bunch of pictures of my
grandfather farming with horses. I
remember the neighbor with his team
pulling a bottom dump wagon, he also had
a trotter and would go up the road with a
sulky. As I said in another post one
local fair had a big horse pull
competition.

The Horses have Halters instead of Bridles. In my area we had Bridles with blinders.

At 86, I remember working a two-horse team. Duke and Lucy. They were replaced by Don and Prince but only a few years when tractors replaced all of them!

Dad farmed with horses for a lot of years. I never remembered the houses. Dad told me their names were Molley, and Polly. When he got his tractor, the
horses were no longer needed. He sold them to the San Dirgo Zoo, to be used as animal feed. Dad told me he cried all the way home. I still have the harnesses. Stan

My grandfather farmed with horses until the early 50's. Even after he had bought a Ford 8N and all of the implements for it in 1949.

My dad, at the age of 10, walked the last team of horses that my grandfather farmed with 7 miles to the fair in town to have them shown and judged. My dad won a blue
ribbon!! Can you imagine in today's world a 10 year old kid walking a team of horses 7 miles to the local fair in town? The local authorities would be after the parents
for child endangerment.

My dad said the only time he ever seen my grandfather cry was when he laid that last team of horses to rest.

Tough way to survive, much less make a living....but beats a shovel. Wow, our ancestors were tough folks. My hat is off to
them!!!!!!!