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Recalling those good old days
by Tie Cuamiag
In 84 years Jim Kelly has seen a
lot of changes.
The Seaforth resident has experi-
enced life on the farm and in town
and recently sat down with a mem-
ber of the local media to discuss
some of his recollections.
His first experience with farm life
was at the age of 10. He lived in an
orphanage in London until he was
taken in by Patrick and Margaret
Kelly, of Morris Township.
"It was a good life in them days,"
Jim recalls. "The routine then was
you got up and went out and fed
the caule and pigs and did the
milking and came in and had a
square meal of bacon and eggs,
home-made bread and porridge."
After that, he said, one was ready
for a good day of work.
"After breakfast was over I went
back to the bam," he remembers,
noting that he would help clean the
stables, which were far cleaner than
the barns of today.
When Jim Kelly grew up children
would walk to Morris #1 school in
the summertime and in the
wintertime, if they were lucky, they
could catch a ride on a sleigh.
"There were no roads ploughed
then like today."
When the boys came home from
Seaforth resident Jim Kelly
(Cumming photo)
school there were always a few
chores to be done.
Jim remembers a time when the
foods, like pies and cakes, were
always home-made. People would
kill a cattlebeast in the fall and a
pig in the summertime. Rural
people made their own butter, their
own soap, their own bread and their
own apple butter.
"We had our own meat and
chickens we could eat at home."
The grocery wagon would occa-
sionally come around to pick up
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eggs and cream and people would
in turn buy flour, sugar and baking
soda.
"It didn't cost so much to buy
groceries but they were dear enough
from what we were making."
In the early days, Jim remembers,
meat was grown less quickly and
there were fewer chemicals and less
prepared food. Farming was done
with horses, not high-powered
tractors. Mixed farming was the
order of the day, not the single -
commodity farms of contemporary
times. Farmers would grow wheat,
barley and oats as well as other
things.
"If you had a 100 -acre farm you
fenced off every 10 or 15 acres,
you'd have 40 acres of grain, 25
acres of hay and so much for your
cattle to graze on in the summer,"
he said. "We used to keep about 6-
8 horses...It took two weeks to put
the crop in whereas today you
could do 100 acres in half a day,
things have changed that much."
Farmers today depend on one
crop, observes Jim, and they require
expensive equipment like tractors
and combines.
Society may have acquired a great
deal of technological advancement
but in some ways, perhaps, we have
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