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<blockquote data-quote="Mountaintown Creek Ranch" data-source="post: 1829523" data-attributes="member: 42313"><p>I grew up on a farm in Southern Illinois in the '60s. Most people worked oil field related jobs. Our house was the first sawmill in the area in the mid 1800s and the wind coming off the lake blew right through it. We had three wood stoves for heat. This was back when it was still cold for four months in that area.</p><p>It was a small farm with hogs, chickens, horses, ducks. We were never row croppers but did raise all of our own food. We ate everything that came off the land or out of the woods. We had a massive garden and canned for many weeks.</p><p>When Mom would go to town she would buy the necessities like salt, pepper, coffee, Vodka, and cigarettes lol. She made wine and pop made beer.</p><p>We done all of our own butchering on the farm. Never forget the first time we scalded a hog or dunked a chicken in boiling water.</p><p>We never got an allowance and we're very poor. I ran a trap line for many years as that was my only source of income, parents didn't spoil their kids rotten back then... at least where I grew up. If you wanted something you had to go earn it and I was okay with that. Bought my first car with the money I had made from trapping.</p><p>In the summertime I bailed hay for Miller's Angus farm. I also got to work the cattle with the</p><p>"old guys "and that's when I first became addicted to cattle. I made up my mind that one day I would have a ranch but that sure seemed like a pipe dream because I had $0.</p><p>So I decided I had to leave that one horse town at 18 years old and go make some money so I could build my ranch before I got too old.</p><p>Well it took 43 years before I was ready. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😐" title="Neutral face :neutral_face:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f610.png" data-shortname=":neutral_face:" /></p><p>We are very active in trying to educate the young kids about farming and ranching. We invite local school kids and the youth from our church to our ranch for a field trip so they can learn the satisfaction you get from being a rancher or farmer.</p><p>If we can inspire one child to get into</p><p>4-H or FFA or any program that could help them become a rancher or farmer then we've been successful !</p><p>Mountaintown Creek Ranch will never be big or famous or make us rich, but we are very proud of the quality cattle that we produce.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mountaintown Creek Ranch, post: 1829523, member: 42313"] I grew up on a farm in Southern Illinois in the '60s. Most people worked oil field related jobs. Our house was the first sawmill in the area in the mid 1800s and the wind coming off the lake blew right through it. We had three wood stoves for heat. This was back when it was still cold for four months in that area. It was a small farm with hogs, chickens, horses, ducks. We were never row croppers but did raise all of our own food. We ate everything that came off the land or out of the woods. We had a massive garden and canned for many weeks. When Mom would go to town she would buy the necessities like salt, pepper, coffee, Vodka, and cigarettes lol. She made wine and pop made beer. We done all of our own butchering on the farm. Never forget the first time we scalded a hog or dunked a chicken in boiling water. We never got an allowance and we're very poor. I ran a trap line for many years as that was my only source of income, parents didn't spoil their kids rotten back then... at least where I grew up. If you wanted something you had to go earn it and I was okay with that. Bought my first car with the money I had made from trapping. In the summertime I bailed hay for Miller's Angus farm. I also got to work the cattle with the "old guys "and that's when I first became addicted to cattle. I made up my mind that one day I would have a ranch but that sure seemed like a pipe dream because I had $0. So I decided I had to leave that one horse town at 18 years old and go make some money so I could build my ranch before I got too old. Well it took 43 years before I was ready. 😐 We are very active in trying to educate the young kids about farming and ranching. We invite local school kids and the youth from our church to our ranch for a field trip so they can learn the satisfaction you get from being a rancher or farmer. If we can inspire one child to get into 4-H or FFA or any program that could help them become a rancher or farmer then we've been successful ! Mountaintown Creek Ranch will never be big or famous or make us rich, but we are very proud of the quality cattle that we produce. [/QUOTE]
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