[AT] O T calf in car

[Ralph Goff]

On 3/27/2015 11:48 AM, Dean VP wrote:
> Farmer,
>
> I too remember the days in the 40's and early 50's when farmers traded machinery and labor since very
> few if any one farmer was able to do all his own work or had all the implements needed.
>
> Rambling now...
> Model A Fords became a very popular vehicle here during the years of the
> war (1941-1945) especially about 1943 until about 1947.
> Until about then an awful lot of farmers didn't own a full set of
> implements, mostly just the bigger guys..
> Different times...
>
I missed the 1940s and have only dim memories of the late fifties. But 
the sixties are clear and just as some of you have said. My dad never 
owned a baler or side delivery rake but always worked out a deal with a 
neighbour that did have them. Dad had a new mower in 1961 and he cut 
lots of hay and crop for the neighbours that dry year. Cutting firewood, 
butchering beef, putting up a building or a host of other jobs that a 
little kid couldn't help with, call in a neighbour and they always 
seemed to be available.
I was thinking also today how the small towns have changed. Looking down 
main street at the scant few vehicles parked. The one cafe/coffee shop 
what normally would have a line of vehicles parked outside at 3:00 had 
only one car today and I never saw another person on the street. Used to 
be you would always meet someone at the post office to talk to but not 
today.
No bank anymore so everybody either goes ten miles south to the next 
town or does online banking. No rail line so no grain elevators with 
their steady procession of single axle trucks coming in to unload grain.
Its good to remember those times and I wouldn't have missed them for 
anything. Progress moves on and we can't stop it. We don't have to like 
it though.

Ralph in Sask.