Farming as I Have Known It - Contents

• Title Page
• About the author and the book
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Prospect
• Chapter 2: Earliest Memories: 1. Sheep
• Chapter 3: Earliest Memories: 2. Horses and the Tractor
• Chapter 4: Earliest Memories: 3. The Barn
• Chapter 5: The Hay Mow
• Chapter 6: The Apple Business
• Chapter 7: Ecological Changes
• Chapter 8: Earliest Memories:4. At First I Hated Farming
• Chapter 9: How Haying Changed
• Chapter 10: Nostalgia: 1. Making Silage
• Chapter 11: Machinery Changes with Time
• Chapter 12: Mowing Grass
• Chapter 13: The Dairy Industry
• Chapter 14: What Happened to the Dairy Business
• Chapter 15: Pigs
• Chapter 16: Doyle Kittle
• Chapter 17: FFA, Future Farmers of America
• Chapter 18: The Model 8N Ford-Ferguson Tractor
• Chapter 19: Is Farming Boring?
• Chapter 20: Our family and the Jesse Run farm
• Chapter 21: Labor
• Chapter 22: Cuttin’ Filth
• Chapter 23: Danger, Memorable Accidents
• Chapter 24: Danger from Animals
• Chapter 25: Water
• Chapter 26: Nostalgia: 2. Blackberries
• Chapter 27: The Oldest Things I know About Our Land
• Chapter 28: Clothing
• Chapter 29: Coal I
• Chapter 30: Coal II
• Chapter 31: Changes in Strip Mining Techniques I
• Chapter 32: Changes in Strip Mining Techniques II
• Chapter 33: The Old Folks
• Chapter 34: Oysters
• Chapter 35: Ground Hogs
• Chapter 36: The Oldest Things I Know About Farming in Our Family
• Chapter 37: Rats
• Chapter 38: The Education of a Farmer, Values and Practical Learning
• Chapter 39: Timber
• Chapter 40: Water Quality
• Chapter 41: Milk and What We Ate
• Chapter 42: Where We Marketed Our Farm Products and Where Our Materials and Equipment Came From
• Chapter 43: Some Generalizations
• Chapter 44: Dealing With the Gas Company
• Chapter 45: My Friend Jack Shock
• Chapter 46: CLANRO, Inc. I, The Beginning
• Chapter 47: CLANRO, Inc. II, The Ideals
• Chapter 48: CLANRO, Inc. III, The Gritty Part
• Chapter 49: CLANRO, Inc. IV, The Decline
• Chapter 50: When the Interstate Came Through
• Chapter 51: Colorful Language
• Chapter 52: Four Wheelers
• Chapter 53: Borrowed Money
• Chapter 54: Going to the Sale
• Chapter 55: Farming Schemes - Changes with Time
• Chapter 56: Fencing
• Chapter 57: The Chapter I Almost Forgot to Write
• Chapter 58: Short Short Stories About Farmers
• Chapter 59: More Nostalgia 3. A Trip Down Memory Lane, Route 19 from Clarksburg to Jane Lew
• Chapter 60: The Spankin Room
• Chapter 61: Our Old House
• Chapter 62: Postscript
• Appendix: Changes in farming technology
• After Thoughts