From the rear cover
Uncomplicated when compared with the task of managing today's highly mechanized agricultural complexes, life on the early twentieth-century small farm entailed hard work and afforded simple pleasures that brought satisfaction and enjoyment to the farm family. Farming on that scale and in the same manner has now become almost completely infeasible, yet in those times a good farmer could prosper and become independent. Wheeler McMillen's father, Lewis, did both. Relying frequently on his father's account books and concise diaries, for this is primarily his father's story, McMillen recounts the immense labor that farming demanded before the advent of the tractor and the combine harvester. He evokes the special excitements of having company for Sunday dinner, attending the annual oyster supper at the Grange Hall, and gathering on the Fourth of July with the interminable wait for darkness to fall. McMillen also portrays the quiet peace and ineffable joy of private moments, such as resting the horses during spring plowing to watch bronzed grackles search for food in the freshly turned furrows.
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- Title Ohio Farm
- Author Wheeler McMillen
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ohio State University Press
- Date 1997-01
- ISBN 9780814207352 / 0814207359
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.03 x 0.73 in (23.01 x 15.32 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Ohio
- Library of Congress subjects Farm life - Ohio, Farmers - Ohio - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96048321
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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