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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values
Every Farm Tells a Story A Tale of Family Farm Values Author:Jerry Apps Fork handle$.65 Mash for chickens$7.15 One milk pail$1.15 Horse collar and pad$8.15 Gloves for Herm$.52 "Chores started on the home farm when you were around four years old, depending on, as Pa would say, how much meat you have on your bones.. . . " So begins Jerry Appss "Every Farm Tells a Story... more »," a collection of true tales inspired by entries in his mothers farm account books. The values recorded in the account books prompt recollections of Jerrys childhood and the traditional family farm values and ethics instilled in him by Ma and Pa. Running a Wisconsin dairy farm in the days before electricity or indoor plumbing, Jerrys family used kerosene lanterns, gasoline engines, a team of draft horses, and a homemade tractor converted from a truck. During Jerrys growing-up years, he witnessed the second great revolution in farmingthe arrival of electric lines to rural areas, running water in barns, and new farm machines like tractors, balers, and combines. Illustrated with 50 vintage advertisements from catalogs and farm journals, "Every Farm Tells a Story" traces that revolution by way of costs for everything from the familys first Sears, Roebuck and Co. milking machine to the used telephone pole that supported their first electric yard light.« less