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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In Missouri in 1943 most farms were 160 to 200 acres. Seeders planters plows cultivators reapers and oh yes manure spreaders were pulled by draft horses or mules. Tractors were coming in but most farmers used horses or mules to pull the machinery. Most of the farms included about forty sheep six sows twenty beef cows eight horses or mules and a milk cow. The harvested grain was used to feed the lambs pigs and calves which when fattened were sold. Cash from the sale of livestock made up the primary source of income for heartland farmers. Wives and daughters washed cloths on Mondays ironed on Tuesdays mended on Wednesdays cleaned the house on Thursdays and baked on Fridays. Heat was provided by wood burning stoves and light by coal oil lamps. Husbands and sons took care of the livestock tilled the fields and harvested the crops. On Saturdays evenings during the crop season-the family went to town where the wives shopped the husbands shot the breeze with other farmers and the kids went to a ten cent movie to see the Green Hornet serial and a Hopalong Cassidy movie.