Writes Sleepless from St. Paul (in Minneapolis): “Another account about threshing, written by my mom’s Uncle Harland Knauss in 1949. My great- grandfather’s farm was located in Mo… ...

Ios News Farming out power in the olden days The vlei on Ken Buchanan-Clarke’s childhood farm that has been flooded by Albert Falls Dam and was once supplied with power from a private producer.

The olden days were tough. When I was in grade school, I lived on a farm near Sterling, Colorado, and we were mired in a work until one day about 1953 when our load was miraculously lightened.