The boys were all expected to arise at 5:00 am to go milk cows and do chores. We were milking 25-30 cows twice each day. It would take about 2 hours each day to milk the cows and do the chores.
Then in the summers months we drove the cows, morning and night to the pasture which is .5 miles away. Three times a year during the summer we loaded bales of hay on the wagon which was then hauled to the dairy and we hand stacked in a large haystack to be used to feed the cattle.
We also hauled straw one time per year to be used for bedding for the cattle.
In November we would harvest the sugar beets. We would dig them up with a plow, then using a sugar beet knife which had a hook on the end we would reach down and hook the beet, lift it to our waist, and hold it while we cut the top off with the knife. We would then load it into the wagon to take it to the sugar beet factory.
We also raised peas and we would harvest those in June each year and haul them to the cannery which was run by the Pleasant Grove canning company which was processed into cans of peas.
Some years we also raised pumpkins. They were hauled in September/October to the Pleasant Grove cannery to be processed into Pumpkin paste.
We harvested field corn and it was chopped to corn silage for diary feed for the cows.
We also raised barley and oats and when it came time to harvest it we would use a thrashing machine combine which would separate the straw from the grain and then the grain would be augured into a bin on the combine. When the bin was full it was augured into a truck then hauled to the dairy where most of the time we would hand shovel it into the grain bins.
For many years we raised sweet corn which was used to save money for taxes. In the early years we would haul it to the Pleasant Grove cannery on contract. In later years we stopped selling to the cannery and would load the pickup truck every morning. We would pick enough corn to fill the truck bed, then we would drive out to the Orem bench where there were approximant 20 fruit stands and each fruit stand would buy several hundred dozen ears of corn to be sold to the public.
We farmed approximately 100 acres each years.
