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There were seven in this extended family. The children worked in the corn fields, milked cows and fed the hoys and chickens. In the typical family farm cycle that started with corn, the family fed corn to the cows, chickens and hoys, milked the cow and fed the extra milk also to the hoys, made cheese and butter, raised a la rye garden and sold extra dairy products for cash.
Cash needs were few in this self-sufficient operation: coffee was ten cents a pound. Families also needed to pay cash for sugar, salt and goods for clothes.
For cottage cheese: "put some clabber milk in a bag and hang it up and let it drip until it gets dry. Then you take it out and put you some cream and salt in it."
Potatoes, turnips and cabbage would last through the winter in trenches covered with dirt. Bread was from eornmeal - mountain families didn't raise wheat for the most part. In exchange for grinding, the
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