Posted by Bill(Wis) on December 17, 2010 at 17:18:40 from (24.152.238.35):
In Reply to: Re: Horse vs. Truck! posted by matthies on December 17, 2010 at 16:38:34:
My grandfather was truly a great horseman having served as stablemaster for one of the early Wisconsin paper mill owners. They made a trip to France to pick up a beautiful stallion one time. I think that was about 1885. My grandfather purchased the farm I now operate in 1901 and used horses exclusively for the first 20 years and then bought a Fordson tractor. This supplementeed the horsepower and in 1936 they purchased a new WC Allis Chalmers which took over the major farming operations but they still continued using horses for cutting and raking hay, hauling manure, pulling haywagons, etc. My grandfather also purchased a Model T Ford in 1914. That was because he sold my grandmothers morgan horse and used the money to buy some farm machinery. Was she ever pissed! He bought the Model T and taught her to drive it as a consolation of sorts. That followed with a Model T truck and several more Ts until the A came along and then the V8s. Those were his favorites! We continued using horses through the end of WWII (THE BIG ONE) because of rationing but were by that time down to two. "Sam and Daisy". After the war ended we retired the horses and they became pets. A new WD in 1948 added to our tractor fleet and we, including my grandfather, never looked back. The horses were a lot of work and their eventual demise made room for 6 more head of youngstock. I personally look back with nostalgia but wouldn't want to go back there. My younger brother gets a big kick out of thinking back to those days and marvels at how someone could grow up there, driving horses , not for fun but to do honest farm work, attend a one room country school and end up graduating from West Point with three masters degrees to boot. God Bless the USA!
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