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Down on the Farm

By Ralph R. Look

8006 Watson Lane, Wichita, Kansas 67207

I was born in 1927 on a farm near Stockton, Kansas. We started out without electricity, wood being our main source of heat and for cooking. I remember the saying that a person received heat twice from wood first from cutting it up and then from burning it. I recall the Monday washing routine. In the warm season, water was heated in a cast iron kettle by building a fire around it and, in bad weather, heating it on a wood cook stove. The washing machine was a hand powered one, with hand powered wringer. The only source of water in the house was a pitcher pump, with water coming from a cist'em if there had been enough rainfall to collect in the cistern. It was dry a good share of the time in the thirties. Our water supply was furnished by a windmill. On windy days, it would pump water into a supply tank that was made from an old steam boile...

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