Daily Farm Life
I am a farmer, and I live about a mile outside of the city of Childress in Childress County, Texas. Life is hard in the year of 1938. It’s been nine years since the Stock Market crashed. For awhile the family and I were doing well, but then this drought hit, and it has been hard to grow enough to support my family. My wife keeps nagging me to move the family into Childress, but I can’t leave this farm. It was my grandad’s, and his before that. If my family were to move, it would be a disgrace to generations of hard work, and that is not the American way.
Besides, I don’t know what else I could. I’ve been farming my entire life. It was what I was born into, just like my father, and his before that. Farming is in my blood, and I am not no good at anything else. To get a new career so late in life does not make sense to me. There is no rationality to it. But my wife keeps saying it would be for the best of the family. I don’t know what I should do. I think my wife just wants to return to the city.
"There is electricity in town after all ," is argument she keeps using against me. But I hard from old Mr. Ray from down the road that the County is planning on putting up some electrical poles. To have electricity out here would change the lives of many farm families like my own. I have a hard time believing that. But Mr. Ray is rarely wrong, so I have total faith in what he says. If the he says the County is putting up poles out here, then I am going to believe him. But I have also heard that it’s going to cost us folk out here ten dollars for every mile of wires and poles every month. That’s the plan for up in Kansas, or so I’ve heard. I have also heard that families up there are also banning together so each family has to pay roughly three dollars for the electricity.
But my family can’t afford three dollars a month to pay for electricity. Like I said, we can hardly afford enough for ourselves. And it’s no use for my wife to get a job in town, it’s too far, and I just sold our family car to pay for this months groceries.
The future for this family seems uncertain and I don’t know if we can survive out here much longer. Something needs to happen soon that will get the economy of the United States of America rolling again so average, hard working, farm families like mine can get some security back. I just don’t know what to do.
I am a farmer, and I live about a mile outside of the city of Childress in Childress County, Texas. Life is hard in the year of 1938. It’s been nine years since the Stock Market crashed. For awhile the family and I were doing well, but then this drought hit, and it has been hard to grow enough to support my family. My wife keeps nagging me to move the family into Childress, but I can’t leave this farm. It was my grandad’s, and his before that. If my family were to move, it would be a disgrace to generations of hard work, and that is not the American way.
Besides, I don’t know what else I could. I’ve been farming my entire life. It was what I was born into, just like my father, and his before that. Farming is in my blood, and I am not no good at anything else. To get a new career so late in life does not make sense to me. There is no rationality to it. But my wife keeps saying it would be for the best of the family. I don’t know what I should do. I think my wife just wants to return to the city.
"There is electricity in town after all ," is argument she keeps using against me. But I hard from old Mr. Ray from down the road that the County is planning on putting up some electrical poles. To have electricity out here would change the lives of many farm families like my own. I have a hard time believing that. But Mr. Ray is rarely wrong, so I have total faith in what he says. If the he says the County is putting up poles out here, then I am going to believe him. But I have also heard that it’s going to cost us folk out here ten dollars for every mile of wires and poles every month. That’s the plan for up in Kansas, or so I’ve heard. I have also heard that families up there are also banning together so each family has to pay roughly three dollars for the electricity.
But my family can’t afford three dollars a month to pay for electricity. Like I said, we can hardly afford enough for ourselves. And it’s no use for my wife to get a job in town, it’s too far, and I just sold our family car to pay for this months groceries.
The future for this family seems uncertain and I don’t know if we can survive out here much longer. Something needs to happen soon that will get the economy of the United States of America rolling again so average, hard working, farm families like mine can get some security back. I just don’t know what to do.
1 comment:
Very good!
Like the pic also. Always smart to put a central pic in there.
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