Every Farm Tells a Story: A tale of Family Farm Values

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Before World War II, farmers had few of the conveniences that were common in cities. Many farmers continued to milk cows by hand, pump water with windmills or gasoline engines, light their way with kerosene lamps and lanterns, heat with woodstoves, and plant and harvest with horses. And lots of had no indoor plumbing. After war’s end in 1945, change on the farm came unexpectedly. Electricity replaced lamps, lanterns, and gasoline engines. New tractors replaced horses. Hay balers made loose hay a memory. Grain combines replaced threshing machines. Not only was once farm work transformed from 1945 to 1955, but so was once life on farms and in rural communities. Threshing, silo filling, and corn shredding bees, where farmers gathered to assist every other, became memories. Card games and neighborly visits were replaced by television. Young people left the land because mechanization required less labor. Large farms crowded out circle of relatives farms. “Each and every Farm Tells a Story” is a first-person account of a small Wisconsin farm all over and after World War II. This “”living history”” is a collection of true tales inspired by entries in Jerry Apps’s mother’s farm account books. The values recorded in the account books prompt recollections of his childhood and the traditional circle of relatives farm values and ethics instilled in him by Ma and Pa. About the Writer: A professor emeritus of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Writer Jerry Apps has written more than 35 books, many of them on rural history and country life. Up to date titles include “When Chores Were Done” and “Humor from the Country.” His writing has earned awards from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Library Association, and Barnes and Noble Booksellers, among others.

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