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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1728608" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>The first cattle we owned was 5 yearling Hereford heifers. They cost $150 each, so we borrowed $750 from the bank, on our family's good name, I guess. Why else would a bank loan anything to someone with nothing?? Anyway, it was a big deal to us then. Mr. FH laid awake at night worrying about how we would pay for them. The guy we worked for was very good to us, he provided a place to live; we could run those 5 heifers, a milk cow and chickens and our horses and he provided the feed (hay, pasture and grain). So we milked a cow and sold milk, eggs and cream. I had a regular milk and egg route. That really helped. We left a job where we were paid $200/month in summer and $150 in winter. Winter was 9 months and summer was 3 months. At next the place, where we could run our 5 heifers and milk cow, horses and chickens, we were paid $225/mo. I'll never forget that a check for the month was $216.83 after social security was taken out. Then in 1965, that same guy helped us get the lease on that place and we got to buy some cows and machinery with a FmHA loan. After a couple of years, we were able to add more cows. It was a place with the best water right, even better than town so we put up a lot of hay. We didn't have the best equipment, so was broke down a lot. Finally, we were able to buy a new swather. In 1970 it cost $7000 for brand new International 12' 275 self-propelled swather!! It could really cut hay!! Of course, small squares were all that was used at that time. We hired kids for the summer to stack the hay with a Farmhand with an 'H' International tractor. Mr. FH taught the kids how to stack hay and we had some good stacks, LOTS of good haystacks. We had about 500 head of deer that would come into the meadow in the evening. Mr. FH guided out-of-state hunters for many years on that place, neighboring places and up in the mountains. He saved the deer coming onto the meadows for older people or veterans. He took the hunters out into the hills to hunt. I remember we charged $100 for a 3-day hunt (deer and antelope) and provided food and lodging. So many of those hunters became friends and they would send us lots of things at Christmas time as they knew we were a young family without much. It was a great time in our life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. We were there 10 years, until the ranch sold. Then we went on to Chapter 2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1728608, member: 17524"] The first cattle we owned was 5 yearling Hereford heifers. They cost $150 each, so we borrowed $750 from the bank, on our family's good name, I guess. Why else would a bank loan anything to someone with nothing?? Anyway, it was a big deal to us then. Mr. FH laid awake at night worrying about how we would pay for them. The guy we worked for was very good to us, he provided a place to live; we could run those 5 heifers, a milk cow and chickens and our horses and he provided the feed (hay, pasture and grain). So we milked a cow and sold milk, eggs and cream. I had a regular milk and egg route. That really helped. We left a job where we were paid $200/month in summer and $150 in winter. Winter was 9 months and summer was 3 months. At next the place, where we could run our 5 heifers and milk cow, horses and chickens, we were paid $225/mo. I'll never forget that a check for the month was $216.83 after social security was taken out. Then in 1965, that same guy helped us get the lease on that place and we got to buy some cows and machinery with a FmHA loan. After a couple of years, we were able to add more cows. It was a place with the best water right, even better than town so we put up a lot of hay. We didn't have the best equipment, so was broke down a lot. Finally, we were able to buy a new swather. In 1970 it cost $7000 for brand new International 12' 275 self-propelled swather!! It could really cut hay!! Of course, small squares were all that was used at that time. We hired kids for the summer to stack the hay with a Farmhand with an 'H' International tractor. Mr. FH taught the kids how to stack hay and we had some good stacks, LOTS of good haystacks. We had about 500 head of deer that would come into the meadow in the evening. Mr. FH guided out-of-state hunters for many years on that place, neighboring places and up in the mountains. He saved the deer coming onto the meadows for older people or veterans. He took the hunters out into the hills to hunt. I remember we charged $100 for a 3-day hunt (deer and antelope) and provided food and lodging. So many of those hunters became friends and they would send us lots of things at Christmas time as they knew we were a young family without much. It was a great time in our life. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. We were there 10 years, until the ranch sold. Then we went on to Chapter 2. [/QUOTE]
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