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uogb, poultry, urcnarus, corn, wheat and oats were grown on almost every farm.
Most of the work was done by man power. Tractors were in the experimental stages and had little practical value. Grass was cut every summer and stacked outside around poles in the shape of a cone to shed water. Chestnut trees were split into rails which were used to construct fences. All of the crops were planted by hand and most of them were harvested the same way.
Commercial fertilizers were unknown. Farmers depended upon recently cleared forest land, which they called “new land”, to grow most of their row crops. Good farmers would clear a certain amount of new land every year and cultivate it until most of the natural fertility was gone. Com and small grain had to be hauled by wagon to grist mills to make flour and meal. The grist mills, powered by water, were located along most of the large streams. A grist mill was within five or six miles of most any farm.
The rural people cared for each other partly out of kindness but it was also a necessity. A man who needed meat in the winter could expect his neighbors to furnish him a cow or hog until he could replace it. When a bam or house was needed, the neighbors were called together to construct it.
The early 1900s were a period of transition for the farm worker. The soil on the steep hills had been cropped repeatedly and
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