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Threshing Time

I grew up on a dairy farm in the Blue Hills of northern Wisconsin. In the 1950s, our farm was typical of the farms in our area. We milked about a dozen Holstein cows and farmed 120 acres of land. Much of our land was in pasture and woodlots. The crops we planted were oats (with alfalfa/timothy grass for hay the following

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