He had one horse and he drew a plow and he farmed with that. I would disk. Daddy bought a tractor. It was an old John Deere and I drove that and worked outside and got sunburned. Good! And I sunburn easy. I sat out when they were shredding wheat and corn, I sat on the tractor. We had the farmers; they come in groups around and they’d husk the corn.

I sat on the tractor and I’d get – first we had horses. They had to run it by horses. And, I helped when Daddy would shovel the oats into the wagon. We did not have big high wagons then they were just flat beds, and he’d shovel it by hand into the bed. I’d walk and push the wheat down or oats – oats is sticky – and, or corn. We’d put it in the machine and daddy would have to shovel it into the bins and that was a job. I’d push it back.


Yes, but the hardest of all was making hay. I would help make hay. At first we used horses and we had a sling that we had the horses pull the sling up into the barn and back to mow it back to the barn.

They’d put it into a sling on the floor and then they’d drive the horses out. They’d trip it up and mow and then we’d have to mow it back.

Then daddy got an old hoopy, I called it (Laughs). It was an old truck and had it so we’d pull the hay up in the barn and I’d drive the old hoopy with a buck rake. They had a buck rake on the back of it and I’d drive that, and I learned to drive that way better backwards than forwards, because I’d drive backwards to pull it in the mow. And that was what I used to do.