Dad was born in 31. He said that things were O.K. on the farm after the stock market crash of 29 untill the dust bowl hit a few years later. He said during that time you couldn't raise anything and it wasn't worth anything even if you did. He said things stayed not good till the U.S. got involved in WW2. During the dust bowl in particular, he said they burnt ear corn in the stove cause it wasn't worth selling to buy coal. They slept in the yard in the summer cause it was to hot to sleep in the house. They continued to farm with horses cause they couldn't afford to buy a tractor. They didn't get a tractor or get a better car till after the war was over. Their house didn't get painted for about 15 years and it needed it when things started to get tuff. If it wasn't for the chickens, milk cow, and the hogs they would of likely gone hungry alot. They were one of few that didn't lose their farm. About the only good thing that happened during those years was they got hooked on to electricity in 37. They couldn't afford to buy very many appliances but atleast they had lights in the house, an electric cream seperator, and a electric pump jack for the well. A few years later they got a refrigerator.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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