Agriculture
Major recording updates were done in April 2015.
Last Name | First Name | Click to Hear Recording | Description | Click for Transcript |
ALLEN | MERLE | 1984 | Mr. Allen discusses his many years of experience in farming, first with his father and later on his own farm. | Transcript |
ALTENBERND | FRED | 1985 | Mr. Altenbernd has been farming since 1960. He discusses his experiences as a farmer in Wilkin county and later near Sabin, MN. | ** Available for Adoption |
BENNEDICT | EWALD | 1985 | Mr. Benedict shares some of his many experiences as an onion farmer. He discusses the crop failure of 1936 and the use of German prisoners as laborers. | Transcript |
GRETTUM | HENRY | 1985 | Mr. Grettum relates his many years of experiences as a farmer in Minnesota, and also of his service on church and school boards and in farm organizations. | ** Available for Adoption |
HOLTE | MELVIN | 1989 | Ninety-six year old Melvin Holte discusses his years of farming, as well as his involvement in some farm organizations. | ** Available for Adoption |
Johanson | George | 1985 | Mr. Johanson talks of farm life from 1918 to 1985. He describes the hard times of the 1920s and his parents' experiences. | |
OLSON | E. ROBERT | 1984 | Mr. Olson describes his early life on a farm. He discusses changes in farm operations and his attitude toward credit agencies and farm organizations. | ** Available for Adoption |
ONAN | GRACE | 1984 | Grace Onan tells of her life growing up on a farm, and her early education in a small country school. | 1** Available for Adoption |
SHERMAN | LAWRENCE | 1984 | Sherman describes his experiences as a local farmer from 1925 to 1974, including his experiments in farming and his early use of fertilizer in cultivation. He also discusses his activities as a member of the Farm Extension Board and as president of the Farm Bureau in this area. | ** Available for Adoption |
THOMAS | AUBREY | 1985 | Mr. Thomas describes his boyhood on the family farm, his grade school education in a one-room schoolhouse, and also discusses how machinery and economic conditions have changed over the past thirty years. | ** Available for Adoption |