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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1683421" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>My parents were older when I was born. One grandfather had passed by that time and the other was born in 1894 and passed in 1979 when I was 4 so I vaguely remember him. He was a tenant farmer for much of his life did a lot of work with horses and mules. My grandmothers were both born in 1903 and 1905. They both lived to see the turn of the century in 2000, but one passed that year and one a little over a year later. I grew up hearing them and other older family friends talking about how it was. I grow a garden, and use many of the same varieties of seeds and plants that my mother and grandmother used, then I have changed some varieties, but still plant yellow crook neck squash, cushaws, mustard greens, black seeded Simpson lettuce. I did did change the variety of beans from half runners to Roma 2 ( love the taste of half runners but dang them strings). </p><p>Was looking over some old county property maps the other night, and noticed that back then most of the cattle here were shorthorns. Ever stock farm was listed as Shorthorn breeders. I guess then in later years Herefords had the day for a while. Used to be most farms had a few cattle some sheep and hogs. People didn't go to town much. My grandmother would go to town and look at dresses to get a pattern then come home and make clothes. She worked the garden of a morning then came in and cooked. After my grandfather took ill with cancer and she had to take care of the stock, they said she soon got rid of the horses and mules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1683421, member: 24816"] My parents were older when I was born. One grandfather had passed by that time and the other was born in 1894 and passed in 1979 when I was 4 so I vaguely remember him. He was a tenant farmer for much of his life did a lot of work with horses and mules. My grandmothers were both born in 1903 and 1905. They both lived to see the turn of the century in 2000, but one passed that year and one a little over a year later. I grew up hearing them and other older family friends talking about how it was. I grow a garden, and use many of the same varieties of seeds and plants that my mother and grandmother used, then I have changed some varieties, but still plant yellow crook neck squash, cushaws, mustard greens, black seeded Simpson lettuce. I did did change the variety of beans from half runners to Roma 2 ( love the taste of half runners but dang them strings). Was looking over some old county property maps the other night, and noticed that back then most of the cattle here were shorthorns. Ever stock farm was listed as Shorthorn breeders. I guess then in later years Herefords had the day for a while. Used to be most farms had a few cattle some sheep and hogs. People didn’t go to town much. My grandmother would go to town and look at dresses to get a pattern then come home and make clothes. She worked the garden of a morning then came in and cooked. After my grandfather took ill with cancer and she had to take care of the stock, they said she soon got rid of the horses and mules. [/QUOTE]
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