[blam]

"As a 13 year old, I worked on the neighbors farm. I helped bale hay all day (10 hours) and at the end the farmer paid me."

I was a little younger but I'd spend all day chopping bitter weed from the pastures of Barnes Dairy for $1.00 a day.

BTW, when I was young, there were 86 dairies in this county...today there are none.

[Cloverfarm]

When Hubs was younger, every farm on the mile had milk cows.

After we’d been married a few years we were the last ones left. We sold out a few years ago due to low prices. We still have the kids’ 4-H show cows but they looked good in the ring because they hardly used their udders. Kinda like liberal brains ;-) Raise a few beef cross calves out of them. Also down to just 5 chickens, just enough for breakfast every day.