Life on the farm.

Max & I had always worked together from the beginning of our marriage even when we started living in the same house with his parents ,most of his brothers & sisters still at home.We
would start each day reading from the bible and taking turns leading in pray for guidance & the needs of each day ,with thanks giving. We attended church on Sunday & prayer meetings.Our neighbourhood consisted of many of Max relatives who were a close family.As his family left to be on their own and his parents had their own home in town.Max & I did many farm chores together. I learned to help with farm chores such as,helping in the field work when needed. I learned to drive the tractor and the grain truck during harvest time. I chose to drive the self propelled combine while Max backed the truck up to the auger to empty the grain then return to harvest another load. I found it hard to back the truck up the the grain auger but found it easier to drive the combine for a few rounds in the field.
Max loved doing his farm chores & we had lots of evening & morning chores. We kept 200 laying leghorn laying hens as we sold eggs year round to our customers in town. Each year we
sold the hens, oven ready to friends in Brandon for a dollar each ,then each spring we bought another 200 baby chicks.
In a few years later we bought 200 baby turkeys which took a lot of care. We also killed cleaned & marketed them to our customers in Brandon. We also worked together with two of our neighbors , the Paterson & Johnas familys as we took turns working at together at each farm also having great fellowship as we worked.The last few years the Paterson bought a picker which helped to get the birds feathers off quicker & easier. Our way of making a living can not be done this way now days as it is not legal to market your produce this way, as all farm produce has to go through a government inspection board. We were working every fall well into November & Dec to market our poultry for the Christmas market.We were putting the grain we grew on the farm through our poultry in order to receive a better return for our produce thus making a better living for our children also teaching them to work together in helping us. Max had several hives of Bees, to help when sugar was rationed in war time. We all worked together to extract the honey, first in our large kitchen .Max had built a wash house which was used in the summer when his folks were still on the farm. we would now used to extract out honey. We also sold this honey in 8lb pails to customer's in both Oak Lake & Brandon.The family all helped with the sale of the honey.The money became theirs to spend for as they pleased. We all learned to work together as well how to spend their money wisely.
We are still keep in close contact with one another as a family.