As I believe I said before, Mr. Jones furnished us a house so we could keep a cow and chickens, but we said nothing about the pigs. We kept the pigs because we had to have the meat for the winter. In the summertime, we raised a lot of watermelons. We fed those to the pigs. In the fall, we’d go out through the cornfields that had been gathered and pick up stray corn that we could find lying on the ground. And we might have taken an ear or two now and then from Mr. Jones’ corn crib. We had a bumper crop of potatoes one year. My mother boiled those potatoes and fed them to the pigs and it sure made them fat. I recently talked to Ralph and he told me he was talking to a fellow in Platte City who owned 6000 acres of land in Western Kansas. He sold it to an oil company during the dust bowl. They must have known that there was oil underneath that is still producing oil today. Now, back to our ball games in Waldron School. One day at noon when we were playing ball, a train went through Waldron carrying nothing but scrap iron. Our teacher, Mr. Stafford told us that trainload of iron would be going to Japan and that they would be sending it back to us in bullets. How right he was.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:32:13 +0000
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