I was born and brought up in a small town in the South West of Quebec, Canada. My father was a farm machinery dealer and my uncle farmed near by. At an early age I helped with both enterprises, in the late 1930' rubber tyred tractors began to replacesteel lugged wheel tractors and pto drives and hydraulic mounted implements were becoming available. Before leaving for college I undertook high tech jobs, such as servicing milking machine pulsators and binder knotters. My Uncle's farm had around thirty cows, all milked by hand. There was no electricity and the only mechanical power, a gasoline (petrol) engine driving a water pump. The milk was cooled during the summer using ice which was cut from the river in winter and stored insulated by sawdust.
展开▼
