| 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. |
|
| 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. |
|
| HOLTE |
MELVIN |
1989 |
Ninety-six year old Melvin Holte
discusses his years of farming, as well as his involvement in
some farm organizations. |
|
| 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. |
|
| ONAN |
GRACE |
1984 |
Grace Onan tells of her life growing up
on a farm, and her early education in a small country school. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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. |
|
