Flowers and Stock

On the east side of the barn, near Jack's door was a small greenhouse that was heated by the furnace in Jack's house. In here we grew many flowers and vegetable plants that we used to decorate the lawns and gardens.
We had as many as twenty milking cows and that many more of the young stock that we were raising to replenish the herd. This required a lot of hay and grain to feed all that livestock over the winter and we traveled all over the township to find and bale hay. We had enough help and equipment that it was not hard or boring work.