![]() When the crops began to grow each row had to be hand weeded and a hand hoe was used to loosen the soil and chop the weeds and pull the loose soil up around the vegetable plants. Here we can plainly see this took a lot of time and hours of labor. When the planting started it took a person to put the fertilizer in each row and when cow manure was used it meant that a person had to load the cow manure from the manure pile by the barn and haul it to the plowed area where it was spread or put by hand in each row before the seed was put in the ground. The horses were used to pull the plows that turned over the soil and to pull the dish harrows which chopped the sod into fine soil, which then could be turned into long rows and then be planted. They did have oxen and horses to pull their work wagons, moving machines, hay rakes, and hay wagons. When we think about it, most of the work on the farm was done by hand labor. ![]() In turn, this would make the farm sound and profitable. The farmer and his wife needed the helping hands of many children who provided free labor in many different ways throughout the dairy farm operation. The answer and truth to this question is very simple. Why did the average Maine and local dairy farmer here in Lincoln County have such large families? In this article we will answer a question asked by so many people.
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