1958 was a dark year for dairy- milk price completely collapsed. Dad couldn't afford alfalfa at $35 a ton, so he got a Case hand-tie baler, and we put up hay. He shoved the needles (and tried to cope with that *%&$ Wisconsin engine), I tied (age 10), cousin (13) drove the tractor, another cousin (13) pushed the hay in with a pitchfork when the anemic feeding system didn't work. My mother thought it was child abuse, I thought it was great. I got to drive the truck picking up bales, because I was too little to buck them.
Of course, it was a pretty slow operation, so took all summer, and toward the end, we were putting up some pretty sorry stuff. Milk production fell off the cliff, of course, and 2 years later we were broke.
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