Category Archives: animals
on foods that cramp the tongue
They had two black heart cherry trees and then they had another cherry tree – I don’t know what the name of it was. It was a white cherry. And my grandmother made the best desserts out of those cherries. … Continue reading
“We growed pretty well every crop you could grow.”
Farmers … didn’t have big acreage, but they always had something coming off. … Strawberries was the first crop – they come off in the spring. Then, we have string beans. We grew two crops of them a year, string … Continue reading
Filed under animals, economy, food, technology, transportation
on horses, mules, and tractors
Franklin: You had two mules or two horses, either one. One of them would work down in the furrow and the other one worked where it hadn’t been plowed. It would probably be eight inches or ten inches lower, and … Continue reading
Filed under animals, economy, progress, technology, transportation
on horses and mules
Everett: [We had] horses mostly. Franklin: Mostly horses. They were cheaper to buy. Everett: Work ‘em six days a week and then we’d ride ‘em on Sundays. Franklin: That was a pleasure. We’d go to church Sunday afternoon and we’d … Continue reading
Filed under animals, economy, entertainment, technology, transportation
“You find me a cow … and I can milk it”
When Pat was born … she cried. I thought she was crying a lot. Old Dr. Dick Fletcher, down to Sanford, I carried her down there – he was our doctor, you know. He examined her. He said, “I can’t … Continue reading
on turkeys, eggs, and afternoon naps
Daddy raised chickens and he sold eggs. And he said that he didn’t go by the market price on eggs. He said no egg was worth more than five cents, and he wasn’t gonna charge anybody more than five cents … Continue reading
very few people, when I was a boy, had tractors
[They] had horses and wagons. [would] load them in the field and take them out to the broker. Unload them and back to the fields to reload. Horses and mules. Very few people, when I was a boy, had tractors. Very … Continue reading
Filed under animals, progress, technology
on slop buckets and homemade scrapple
Richard: My daddy never did have a sow. But there would always be one or two or three people in the neighborhood … one would have three or four sows, and another would have one or two boars. So, you’d … Continue reading
Hog killings were big days like Christmas
I was born in 1932 …. and I can remember my mother saying that we fared a lot better in the country than the people did in the city during the depression years because we had our own food. We … Continue reading
