Steve R. the former elementary principal, had cows at Ike’s farm near the Centennial Mine. We had our horses out there also. The animals had to eat during the winter months and grazing wasn’t an option. Steve and about a dozen neighborhood kids helped us make hay the old-fashioned way, by hand. Dad had a Farm-all A International Harvester which was the traditional red and a converted horse-drawn mower. He had the drawbar shortened so
we could use it behind the tractor. Dad would drive the tractor and Steve, or I would ride the mower and raise and lower the blade as needed. If you were the operator you had to watch out for rocks or anything that would damage the cutting blades. If a blade was damaged or broken, then it needed