Farm Horizons
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Dec. 5, 2016
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The Lachermeier kids even remember the town kids
tractors, too, and we all plowed and baled hay.”
coming out to help bale hay on occasion.
The Lachermeier kids remember baling the hay, even
“City kids came and helped the farm kids,” Sue said.
on hotter days.
“When we’d bale hay and it was 100 degrees, [mom
Farm work
and
dad] would bring a salt shaker up, and they’d have
While the Lachermeius eat salt, so we’d drink
ers lived and worked on
more water,” Sue said. “To
the farm, they had dogs
keep you hydrated, because
and milk cows, though the
you’d get thirsty.”
sheds and other buildings
The Lachermeiers also
on the property indicate that
recalled
stacking the hay in
at some point, goats, pigs,
the
barn,
which was built in
–
Sue
Hoenbrecht,
former
Lachermeier
farm
resident
and chickens were some of
1932.
They
had to make sure
the livestock former owners
to
stack
the
hay properly and
might have had.
not
too
full,
to
avoid
a
barn
fi
re.
“I remember us going out to get the cows when they
“We had to watch it, because it always got so hot, so it
were way out in the pasture, and we’d have to go out with
wouldn’t
start on fire,” Sandy said.
the dogs to bring them in,” Sharon said. “Sometimes the
“Just
think
how strong that floor had to be to hold all
tractor would take them in, but sometimes we’d walk out
of
that
hay,”
Sharon
added.
to the field.”
The
Lachermeiers
remembered waking up early to do
The Lachermeiers also farmed corn, mustard, and hay
their
chores,
sometimes
alternating who did what tasks.
while they lived on the farmstead.
“We
would
take
turns
with chores. [Sandy would] go
“We went out into the field and did that by hand,”
one
day,
and
I’d
go
the
next
– feeding the cows, doing
Sandy said about harvesting mustard. “We all drove
the milk. She’d go one night, and I’d go the next,” Sharon said. “Then, on Saturdays we all had to clean.”
According to the Lachermeier kids, their dad was
“very particular” when it came to keeping the barn
‘It was fun to see our
names on the walls and go through
[the house again].’
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1015 W. Hwy 212,
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