Farms: A Summer at Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm - 1960's
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Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm - City children spend a summer with Uncle Jim, Aunt Helen and their kids on their dairy farm.They are introduced to the cows at milking, cleaning cow udders and farm chores. They tend the garden, feeding cows, minding the baby animals and learn the ways of the farm.
Just 15 years after this was made, toward the end of the 70s and early 80s, a lot of these beautiful farms were in trouble for a variety of reason.
And 15 years after that, in the mid 90s, many of these people were long gone from farming and there were no relatives where ones children could summer 'on the farm'.
Sad.
The products back then were more wholesome.
I remember my cousins farm in 1979 and early 80s. It wasn't so wonderful. They were milking but everything was in disrepair. Back then you could buy an 80 acre farm for a couple hundred dollars an acre. I remember seeing all the abandoned farms and farmettes. Frankly, it was nice. Didn't have all these suburban people bringing their dirty ways into the country. Wanting to tear everything down and build a ridiculous mcmansion eye soar.