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Hastings‘Everything was done by hand’John Hastings, 88, was born on the East Mahoning Township farm where tie lives now, as was his father before him.His earliest recollections from the farm are of working with teams of horses.The farm was a beef-cat-tle and hog operation when his father ran it, but they also had a few milk cows and chickens.Everything was done by hand,” Hastings said. It was fairly standard in those days, he added, that the women on the farm did much of the milking and took care of the chickens and gathered the eggs. And the women baked the family's bread.Electric service was installed on the farm in the 1930s.“That made a world of difference,” especially when electric pumps ran the water systems, he said.The farm now raises replacement dairy heifers and grows corn, oats and hay. — Handy Wells
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Indiana Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Mar 30, 2003
Page 78
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