Times were really tough back in the 1930s. The economy was pretty harsh and the years of dust storms and things like that, even though they were supposedly confined to Texas and the southern state area, we still had some of the effects all the way up in this area.

We grew mostly hay crops and grain crops; the corn crop was primarily for storage facilities. We didn’t reap any hard grain from it or anything like that. Oh, we had…the cash crops were probably mostly potatoes and in those years you had your eye on the weather.

There wasn’t any irrigation or anything like that available at the time. I remember the year that I got – the year before I got married, I had five acres of potatoes and we had a very dry year. I think I got about $30 out of the five acres.

You know when you look back at it, we got married, my wife and I, in 1935. I didn’t have any job outside of helping my dad on the farm and she had a secretary’s job for a county agent. Wages weren’t anything like they are today (Laughs). That was also the years of the WPA and one thing or another, when you tell people that they are working for .35 cents an hour and something like that and they throw up their hands and say, “Impossible!”