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Show vowwessvomery AE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS November Life on the Farm Note: This story was told by William Garner for Jane McVaugh’s gh grade Valley Elementary school project, a collection of historical accounts that the students published several years ago. The booklet is called, The Valley's Treasures.” Another thing I had to do [on the farm] was milk the cows. We did not have an automatic milknemae hae and we did not have milk sheds. had a lot of cats. We’d get through aitieing in the morning then we’d give the cats a quart or two of milk. We wanted a lot of cats around because they’d keep the rats down and kill all the mice. We had a stool you sat on and had a bucket you’d hold between your legs. When you’d have fights with your brother, you’d squirt him. Before we had a separator, we would put the milk in pans then the cream would come to the top and we’d skim it off. The milk we sent to the market was in large ten-gallon cans. They were heavy so in the winter we put the milk cans on sleds and pulled them down the long driveway. The best sled you could have was the “Flexible Flyer” because you could guide it. Later on, we finally bought a milk separator. You would put the milk in and turn it by hand then the milk and Id sep d Fin We used a little grinder to grind our own hamburger. We killed our own beef and pork, then put the meat in the grinder. Grinding hamburger was a very hard and tedious job. We didn’t always have the money to buy coal. In those days you could go down by the river and cut up as much wood as you wanted. That was our job every weekend and every school holiday; we had to go down and cut wood and then chop it up. We used atwo man-saw. We would pull itit back and forth and you could cut more forth with a power saw today than we could cut all day. Kids ask, “What did you do in your spare time?” We never had any spare time. Every minute was work and you worked hard on a farm. My grandfather used to go cut ice with an ice He’d go down to the pond in the winter and cut out big blocks of ice. The blocks could weigh uch as 300 pounds. They would put them in a shed and put a lot of sawdust around it. Then they’d have ice for most of the summer. Along toward the first of August, it would all get melted and that would be the end of the ice until the next winter. We kept the ice in an icebox, and the ice would melt so you had to keep a pan under the icebox. We had to be sure to empty it every few hours or there would be water all over the floor. Very few people had refrigerators. You could go down to Ogden and buy blocks of ice at Farr’s Dairy or Fairmont Dairy. I can remember what a glorious day it was when we got an electric refrigerator so we didn’t have to worry about ice any more Another task we had was to clean eggs. We raised a lot of chickens. Every night we had to clean a case of eggs each; my brother cleaned one, my mother cleaned one, my dad cleaned one, and I cleaned one. When we got through with supper, we’d go downstairs before we did anything else YOU As the Holiday Season's begin, our work jis over . another busy year “making it black” is gone. It's a privilege to live and work in this Valley, and we appreciate the support and business. We have more time. to answer questions about Paving and maintenance in the winter, so feel free to call Before Spring rushes around again. Happy Holidays! WASATCH PAVING 745-3006 15, 2006 in Huntsville zero, Mrs. Bingham would call us and let us wait in her house. Since my father was a farmer, he used to wait for me to come home. He’d wait at the house as I came up the driveway and then come down and greet me. He’d tell me all the things I had to do that night. I can remember telling my mother, “I wish just one night I could come home without him standing there waiting for me.” Butas I look back on it now, it was a good thing that he kept track of me. If 1 didn’t come home by the right time, he was in the car and he headed down to find out where Bill was. Did Bill get kicked off the school bus for misbehaving? If wasn’t there, he was looking for me. In the summer after we got through hauling hay or working on the thrashing machines, we’d come down to the dam. There was nobody around the dam in those days so you could go swimming without a swimsuit. We used to go We didn’t have bathtubs. We had to carry the water in five-gallon buckets so we took baths in the tub we used to wash our clothes. We put it right in front of the kitchen stove and opened the oven door. Then you’d get in and stand and wash the top of yourself then sit down and wash the rest of yourself. In families that had large numbers of kids, the last kid had pretty dirty water to take a bath in. I was lucky there were only two in my family—just my brother and myself. used to hate UEA days. I had to dig up potatoes. We raised a lot of potatoes and did not have machines to pick them up. We went down the rows with a fork and a plow and plowed up the potatoes. Then we took a large basket and picked up the potatoes and put them in gunnysacks. The other thing we used to do was pick apples. So UEA days were just hard, hard days. We raised a lot of cabbage. Boyd Shupe’s wife used to come around the Valley and make sauerkraut for people. We had a wooden stave barrel with a wooden lid on it. She’d chop the cabbage and put it in the barrel with a layer of cabbage, a layer of salt, a layer of cabbage, a layer of salt until it was full. She put some vinegar in it then put the lid on it with some rocks that would weigh it down. The sauerkraut was good, but I didn’t like the smell of the juice. My brother liked the juice. It would get a green skim on top of it. He’d push the skim back, take a cup, dip it down, and drink it. Historical Photo Sai: tae “~— — ee ey = is ‘ © a “a pir « Marion Stallings and grandmother Charlotte Hussey Stallings on George's (Stallings?) 1919 Dodge. Photo courtesy of Blaine Gardner. Celeste C. Canning PLLC conn! THANK Ruin VRE LSARGQAVHARVRAL, different places. The people who bought milk in stores got it in one-quart bottles. Many times the dairies didn’t separate the milk from the cream, so thick cream was at the top of the bottle. We made our own butter. We would put it in a churn and put the churn over by the stove. The secret to churning butter is that it has to be just the right temperature. It can’t be too cold and can’t be too hot or you won’t get the butter to come. We'd put the cream in and put it over by the stove and let it get just the right temperature; then we had to sit there and pound it up and down till the butter startd h fo had t 1, hs d, zen e 5 ed to come. When it was just the right temperature, We had a little sandpaper block about the we’d throw some ice cold water on it and it would size of an eraser and we'd keep rolling the coagulate. Then you take the butter out and put it in egg. Then we’d candle it by putting it under a large bowl and press it with a paddle to get as areal bright light and turning it to see if there much water out as you could. We would also salt it was a blood spot in it. If there was, you’d put at the time. At my house, my brother and I made those eggs aside and feed them to the calves. the butter. After we had all the milk pushed out of as a good time as I look back on it now. the butter, we'd put it in a butter press then we’d It brought families close together because for push it through the block and a nice cube would about an hour every night, I sat there with my come out. The milk that was left is called buttermother, father, and my brother, and as we milk and some people liked to drink it. cleaned eggs we talked. Sometimes we’d listen We were very self-sufficient on our farm. In to the radio and we’d talk over family problems. the fall of the year, we’d buy a couple of hunThe next day we'd ship the eggs to Ogden to sell. dred pound bags of flour, a couple of hundred When I Wi tidn’t come right pound bags of sugar, and we didn’t have to go to up to our house. It came up to the road where you the grocery store for anything else. We had our turn to go to the monastery and that’s as far as they own vegetable garden and put up our own vegwould plow it in the winter. 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