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FRAZIER DAILEY wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 (PDT):
  • I REMBER THOSE DAYS WELL. MY "POP" ALWAYS SAID "" PUSH YOUR WORK DON'T LET IT PUSH YOU "
    Les Brubaker wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 (PDT):
  • What memories you have evoked!!!! Several that I would add include hay and straw stacks in the barn yard, chopping fire wood, digging new pits and moving the "outhouse" etc
    Samuel Kennedy wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 (PDT):
  • A really enjoyable article. Were these 'The Good old days'? In spite of all the backbreaking chores farmers had time to talk to their neighbours. Today with all those 100HP+ tractors time seems to be getting scarcer. Thanks from the Emerald Isle.
    Dsl wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO! What a trip down memory lane, and I don't regret one second of it, either. Thanks for such a great article.
    Old Sarge wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • Beautiful article. It's sad that the way of life that we grew up in is fast disappearing into oblivion with the advent of factory farms where animals, thousands of them, are raised in environmentally copntrolled facilities, leaving no chores excepty the flip of a switch to turn on the feeders. Sure brought back memories of better days, when one of the goals of parents was to teach the golden traits of responsibility, and accountability to the youth.
    The Red wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • That was a well written article! I remember Grandpa telling me similar stories when I was a kid.
    Chuck Saunders wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • Wonderful narrative of a time that was the definition of bittersweet. Thanks
    MHaberichter wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • Great article. Although some of it was set slightly before my time, (we baled and combined instead of loose hay and threshed. I can still see many of these events adn have some fond memories of these days gone by. I guess we chose to forget the bad ones...
    Dan Tomlinson wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • Thanks for reminding me of those wonderful times.
    Frank Young wrote on Monday, April 02, 2001 (PDT):
  • From the author; How very gratifying to hear the kind comments from you, the society of my peers. If any of you would like to contact me directly, please feel free to do so..Deerefrank@aol.com , many thanks to the YT Magazine for giving me the opportunity.....Frank Young
    Ken Nelson wrote on Friday, April 06, 2001 (PDT):
  • Thanks, Frank Your article was a real treat to this office-bound worker. Growing up, I had the distinct advantage of experiencing these things often as a city-boy-visiting-the-country. My hat's off to the sturdy folk who grew up and who live like this.
    Neil Halverson wrote on Friday, April 06, 2001 (PDT):
  • "Are your chores done?" was what my folks always said when I wanted to do something, and if they weren't I knew better than to ask! I did all of the after school chores and evening work from the time I was in 6th grade until I went to college as my Dad worked swing shift in town. I felt fortunate that on school days I didn't have to do much in the morning as he would do the milking (2 to 5 head, by hand!) and morning feedings. We sold raw milk to many families in the area and kept our customers for years. We got many compliments on how very clean our milk was--we drank the same milk, of course. I didn't know that Dad was saving almost all that we made from the farm, which financed my College. All those chores paid off! I really enjoyed your article. Maybe I will write one myself sometime.
    "Country" Elliott Domans wrote on Saturday, April 07, 2001 (PDT):
  • GREAT article. Your words painted a picture that I could clearly see. It's a gift to be able to choose words like that to convey feelings and emotions so well ! Keep writing, and let's see some more stories !
    Dan wrote on Monday, April 09, 2001 (PDT):
  • WOW! what a terrific article, I can still smell the hay. It almost got me misty eyed too. I grew up with the A-C All Crop and the Roto Baler but remember the chores too.
    Dianne wrote on Wednesday, April 11, 2001 (PDT):
  • I'm only 51 but the area of my youth was pretty poor so even though some of the memories shared were a trip down memory lane, there are other memories I have of an even earlier time. Few people had milking machines. I distinctly remember the sound of the first few squirts into the bottom of an empty 2 gallon galvanized pail - the same sound that brought the barn cats running in hopes of a few "shots in the face" directly from the cow. When it comes to fresh milk, the cats seemed far less dignified! We also threshed at the barn in the early days. My main memory here is being VERY hot, VERY dirty, and as itchy as a good case of Poison Ivy! (Barley still makes my skin crawl!!!) For as much as I didn't appreciate farm life when I was young, it gave us one HUGE advantage over the city kids - we could all bust our butts from daylight until dark at a job where the city kids wouldn't last an hour. Now THAT'S "work ethic"!!!
    Murl Summerville wrote on Friday, April 13, 2001 (PDT):
  • A very enjoyable article. I can relate to each one of them. I made hay starting with horses and mowing machine thru using a tractor and disc mower. From using horses and hay loader to the big round baler. It is so true that a way of life is fast disappearing. Keep up the good work and let's see more articles that are so well written.
    David Gray wrote on Sunday, April 15, 2001 (PDT):
  • This is a piece for the record books! It is a record of my past, right down to the hay handling slings. We did, of course, use a thrashing machine for years before going to a combine, and we didn't have a silo, so there is a fair trade. It didn't seem a hard life at the time, but looking back, it must have been. When we laid down for a noon nap it was instant deep sleep for thirty minutes, and then back at it with renewed vigor. Thank you for the great discription!
    Al Dickey wrote on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 (PDT):
  • Truely a great piece of writing. I have for years tried to capture the essence of the family farm experience, and failed. If it were not for the blessing of memory and ability to relive in my mind the old days, it would be sad indeed. My father and grandparents are now gone but I relive those tough formidable days in my dreams and I thank you from the depths of my heart.
    Dave Delebreau wrote on Thursday, April 19, 2001 (PDT):
  • What a wonderful way to remember the past! As the years roll on we tend to remember the good times more so than the bad times. Makes us think, to emphasize the good times today with our present families, rather than the bad times. I still remember my times on the farm like it was yesterday. My best times were after the evening milking during the summer. We had finished feeding the cattle and all you could hear was the munching of the hay by the cows, the whirr of the vacuum pump while the milk transfer system washed and the tinkling of the metal numbers beneath the cows necks. How many times I fell asleep on the bags of ground feed with a kitten in my arms listening to that wonderful concert! Tired from a full days work! Bring back the good 'ole times!
    will sick wrote on Wednesday, July 24, 2002 (PDT):
  • This was a beautiful essay about chores that brought back many memories for me.
    Fred Martin wrote on Friday, October 04, 2002 (PDT):
  • So true...so true...but if those aren't enough chores...we did custom baling, combining and silo filling and still had time to be ornery boys. Like fighting bats in the barn, having egg fights and fighting every nest of bumble bees that we could find. How about going swimming after a day in the hay field? We drove tractors, trucks, motorcycles, old Patsy the horse...and none of us were old enough to have a drivers license. We always found time to go fishing, squirrel, rabbit, pheasant and quail hunting, ice hockey, gigging through the ice in the winter and especially coon hunting and occasionally cutting a bee tree in the winter. Honey was used for all types of things in the kitchen...but fit a biscuit the best. Life was never dull...it was what you made of it. Last but not least...living up to being ornery boys...our favorite ornery thing to do was to fix up a baling wire across the bench seat in the leanto implement shed (where we had an old pin ball machine) and attach the other end of it to an old Famous James motorcycle and when the neighborhood girls would get to playing it...we would give that old James a few cranks with the kick starter and make 'em cry. Never a dull moment for us...those were the good 'ol days for me...there were the serious times though and we met up to those too. One last comment...I always thought that you had to be at least 18 years old before you could graduate from a three tine pitchfork to a four. Remember???
    Will Sick wrote on Friday, October 04, 2002 (PDT):
  • One of the best articles I have ever read. My life almost exactly except we didn't fill a silo. Really a beautiful essay.
    mike s wrote on Thursday, November 06, 2003 (PST):
  • This is what I'm trying to re-create for my family of nine children.
    Paul Twehues wrote on Thursday, February 26, 2004 (PST):
  • What a great article; I'd like to see more of these.
    Matt in WA wrote on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 (PDT):
  • Thanks for a really great piece of literary work about the old times that made America great. I lived in the city, but my mother's brothers were all farmers in Sedgwick Co., KS, and we frequently went back for harvest, to help do chores, and get exposure to to " the farm life." I'll never forget those memories of cutting wheat, driving the 4020, riding the dump trucks to the COOP elevator, and all the really great food my Aunts would make! I have 10 acres now, a Farmall M, and my own JD 4020, and am taking weekly lessons from my neighbors and friends on how to work my New Holland baler on the alfalfa. Hopefully I can make some memories for my 2 kids, so they some day pass this way of life on to their kids. Thanks again for the article, and to Kim, and all of you fine people who run this website. God Bless.
    Highlander wrote on Thursday, November 02, 2006 (PST):
  • Well said! Evokes experiences many of us in the hobby never "enjoyed." Good writing, too.
    Bob Bower wrote on Friday, November 02, 2007 (PDT):
  • Really enjoyed your writing at 74 I often return to yesteryear.Oh how true are your words.I still can smell all those aromas in my mind.I truly wish that I could return to those times. Today all you do is push a button or flip a switch.Hard work seldom killed anyone.I'll close now and daydream of yesteryear Bob God Bless
    Dan wrote on Friday, November 02, 2007 (PDT):
  • Absolutely wonderful writing! This decribed my early life on the farm in SD. You forget how many others had exactly the same experience.
    Mike Smith wrote on Friday, December 04, 2015 (PST):
  • It was a great story. Enjoyed it very much.
    Russell L Boehmer wrote on Monday, December 03, 2018 (PST):
  • Nothing said about letting that cow out of the barn with the strap still on as you hurried to that hot date in town.
    dean zeisloft wrote on Tuesday, December 03, 2019 (PST):
  • loved this article

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