Farming in the 1930's

[bergere]

www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/machines_02.html

[auntieemu]

Interesting site.

I remember reading in Nostalgia magazine about the memory one man had of his mother standing on the front porch watching them sink electric poles down the road. Electricity was coming to rural Texas and she was crying because it was going to make her life easier. Electricity to run a new well pump meant that she would not have to pull up buckets of water every day for drinking, washing dishes, laundry, baths, etc.

[bergere]

I like reading sites like that.

My acadian French Great Grandmere went from walking, horse's an buggies only to cars and the space shuttle! That was an interesting stretch of living during that time.

Then my Dad in Greenmountain NC/Johnson city, TN area...only had two seat out houses. No running water to speak of.
When I was younger that would never of bothered me. Now that I am older,, I love bathrooms!

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Its all a bunch of BS. They say (no tractors had starters in 1930. Moline Universal had starter and lights during WW 1. Thats 1916 . Tip toe wheels refers to the skinny back wheels with big lugs on them, not the fronts. Steel wheels didnt have near the grip on them as rubber, and if you spun in sandy or gopher ridden ground, youd drop like a rock with skeliton grip steel wheels. (Hooking up plows was heck in the 30s) BS. 98% of all plows in the US in 1930 was pull type, and all that was required qas to drop a finger thingie on the hitch of the plow into a twisted clevis, and that was it. Now, what few mounted plows that was around then were heck to mount, but Ive never seen them, Just heard a few old timers tell that theyre dads had such a plow. (Farmers had to get off their tractors at the end of the row, raise the plow or cultivator, get back on, turn around, and repeat the process in reverse and start out, BS. All that was done on a pull type plow was to pull a rope. On a then mounted plow, you would hit a lever with your foot to raise the plow, planter, or cultivator, tho there were many cultivators that had hand lifts, but you didnt get off the tractor to use them. (A harrow had a series of concave sharp discs set close together) BS. A harrow had teeth of either the railroad spike variety or spring steel. A DISC had the sharp disc wheels. The basic design of corn planters goes back to the 1880s. BS They went back to before the Civil War. With check row planting you could cultivate 4 ways, not just 2. (Go Digs) were called go devils in NE Kansas. I had a tractor 2 row, and my dad has a perfect IHC 1 row horse one. But they were RARE, and after using mine I can see why. I couldnt hold them in the row. Theyed slide down and slice into the rows. (In 1921 Labor costs were tween $86, and 116 per day. BS. People worked for a buck a day clear up into the 40s. My dad worked for a farmer for $28 per month. At a buck a day, the labor costs without counting meals, which might equal a buck each, the thresh operator, which equaled up to so much a bu grain trashed. The labor costs might equal $25 total, counting meals. In 1930 Gleaner Baldwin sold the first corn combine. Maybe so. But givin all the mis representation of previous facts, I doubt it. BUT the corn PICKER was first sold in the 1890s

[bergere]

It very much depends on where in the country one lived. The, pay, prices and equipment where different in different parts of the country.
Sorry you are so negative and angry.
My Mom had indoor plumbing and an indoor toilet growing up. My Dad didn't. He had outside water and a 2 seat out house.
Both were correct during their time period.
Niether one is BS.

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Without doing the research, I could not honestly say what the average wage for that was around here in the 30's. Grandad is gone now, or he'd have been a perfect one to ask.

But it'd be easy to research the other "facts" of the article. Intresting article, regardless of it's accuracy, it set me to that nostalgia thinking. One of these days when I have time... I'll go do a lil research and find out the details of facts. I like doing that anyways. The 30's really wasn't that long ago.... in that there are still people alive who remember it back then...

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