Sunday. September 1, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

September 1, 1963, The Frances Hubbard Diaries  

Sunday, nice day.  We went to church and Sunday school.  Ronnie and Deanna went with us to church.  We went to LaVerne’s and Roberta’s for dinner and supper.  Girls and I went to the parsonage at night to a gathering for Donna and Betty Jean who were leaving soon for school.

Comment:  Interesting, went for dinner at noon and supper in the evening.  Ronnie must be Ronnie Schemerhorn and girlfriend.  Must be Donna Brown and Betty Jean Kingsley leaving for school.  Another week gone.....This is how the house that LaVerne and Roberta lived in looked when Dad bought it for $1200 in 1948.  We moved there when he became Town Superintendent .  To the left of the house was an out house surrounded by a massive lilac bush.  LaVerne did a lot of renovations and it was very nice when we visited in 1963..he even put in bathrooms....that's Marilyn and Wayne sitting on the tree stump and I think David is sitting to the left of the stump......

August 31, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 31, 1963

Saturday, nice day.  I cleaned house all throughout.  Boys went with Clifton to look at cars, gone all day.  Girls and I went to shower for Joan Hallock at night at Pearl's with Myrtie at night.

Comment:  Another weekend on the hill but chores and other work goes on.  The only day we did only mandatory chores like milking and livestock management was Sunday.  While I was there, I don't recall any vacation or excursion lasting overnight. But, at the time, it didn't seem to matter much and still doesn't.  There is a picture of the first three kids at the Catskill Game Farm and I in short pants. I hope I'm not wearing a diaper..... double click on the picture if you want to see it enlarged....

August 30, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 30, 1963

Friday, nice day.  I washed in am.  Had letter from Marilyn.  No AWANA at night.  Mother called.

Comment:  Letters and phone calls from family.  Not much going on on "The Hill". 

Hurricane Ida reminds me of the 2011 flood in Prattsville and the loss of O'Hara's brought back memories of another flood in 1948 where Tom narrowly escaped with his life and other memories of Tom, Betty and the station.  I have lots of memories of Prattsville, carousing in the bars till all hours, swimming at Red Falls, chasing the "Prattsville" girls,  and generally cruising the Prattsville-Windham roads with Donny Cornell, Tom Haskins, Kenny Clark, Leonard Haskins, Bobby Pickett, and my brothers, David & Doug.  Here are some links to those previous posts and a picture of the Tom O'Hara family in that era.


Tom O'Hara And The Deluge:  http://gerryhubbard.blogspot.com/2010/12/tom-ohara-and-deluge.html

Music At Tom O'Hara's Garage:   http://gerryhubbard.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-28-1963-frances-hubbard.html


Fixing My Car At Tom O'Hara's:  http://gerryhubbard.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-22-1963-frances-hubbard.html

August 29, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 29, 1963

Thursday, cloudy, cool. Wayne and girls went to Oneonta in pm shopping and  got home 7:30.  Letter from Dougie.


Comment:  They sure seem to do a lot of shopping, must be getting ready to go back to school.  Just ran across these pictures of Wayne on the Gilboa 990V bridge in the early fifties during a flood then,  a picture of the same bridge during a flood in 2011

August 28, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 28, 1963

Wednesday, becoming cloudy in pm. I made Carol's blue dress and finished Sue's.  Wayne worked.  I wrote to Doug.  David worked on the car at night.

Comment:  I wonder if the dresses were for a special occasion..whenever I think of Mom making dresses, this picture from the Vermont State Fair in 1941 comes to mind. Mom's dresses were not so obviously homemade.   Looks like this Mom has seven kids.

August 27, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 27, 1963

Tuesday, 42-70,  clear, bright, partly cloudy in am.  Picked blackberries with Sue. Wayne worked. The federal gas tax came $31.  Clifton went to a union meeting.  Took David's car to Raymond's to have the transmission put in.

Comment:  Probably a beautiful day with fall scents and colors in the air. The $31 would be worth $265 in today's money so, not bad.  Looking from the other side, what cost you $4.42 in 1963 would cost you $38 today.  David still struggling with his car..." the road goes on forever and the party never ends..."

August 26, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 26, 1963

Monday, cool,  42 - 60’s.  Partly cloudy and cool.  I picked beans and cucumbers and made pickles.  Leaves are starting to turn, have been noticeable for a week.  Wayne, Linda, Carol, and Sue went to Jamesway at night.  Wayne worked for Carlton.

Comment:  Jamesway was a large discount store with agricultural and farm supplies along with all the other typical discount store stuff.  It went bankrupt in the mid-nineties.  Autumn is on the way with the leaves turning.  "The mountains in Autumn were like purple haze that muted fall colors soaked through".

August 25, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 25, 1963

Sunday,  42 in am, clear 60’s.  Went to church and Sunday school.  Grandpa and Lousie here for dinner and we went to Scotts Patent to church in afternoon and Flat Creek at night.  Carol and Susan sang without music.  Joyce played piano and organ.  Ronnie over at night a minute with David.

Comment:  End of August and 10 degrees above freezing.  Triple Church Sunday.  Here is picture of the Scott's Patent Church.  There is also a cemetery with lot's of Maces and Haskins buried there.

August 24, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 24, 1963

Saturday, clear and cool, 60’s.  We went to Earl’s and Granpa’s in am and payed them.  I went to Saugerties and Catskill in afternoon looking at cars.  LaVerne, Roberta, Wayne and Linda spent evening here.

Comment:  Not sure what they paid Earl and Grandpa Elmer for..Saturday night on the hill with the family.  Probably pretty good time.  I think Wayne was working for LaVerne at the time hauling mail.  Mom used the more archaic "payed" rather than paid..of course both are correct.  Must be struggling to find the car they want...late August, getting cooler,  fall on the way....

Early Autumn On Hill

August 23, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 23, 1963

Friday, warm and humid, partly cloudy, 70’s.  I washed in the am.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh shopping.  David, Wayne, and Bob went to Albany for transmission for David's car.  We went to the Fair at night.

Comment:  Bob is Bobby Segeritz, Uncle Earl's stepson. David's car still having problems.  The Schoharie County Sunshine Fair held in Cobleskill, NY:  Link to the 2021 fair:

https://www.news10.com/news/schoharie-county/schoharie-county-sunshine-fair-wraps-up-successful-year-sunday/

August 22, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 22, 1963

Thursday, lovely day,  upper 70’s, clear.  I picked peas, cucumbers and made pickles.  Clifton home about 4:30.  Carol and I went to prayer meeting at night.  Wayne was to take cows to Oneonta but couldn’t find them.


Comment:  Damned cows gone again.  Garden must be coming in.  Weekly prayer meeting.  Dad didn't work ten or twelve hours..... and in 1902 on this date President Theodore Roosevelt became the first US President to ride in an automobile, in Hartford Conn.  POTUS in a car, cops and secret service on bikes and horses.....

August 21, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 21, 1963

Wednesday, cloudy in am,  nice day, 70’s.  Sue went to the fair with Becky.  I sewed on her dress and fixed one for myself.  Picked Sue up at night and Carol came home from Oneonta.  Wyckoff's haying here.

Comment:  Sue must have gone to the Cobleskill Fair.  The Fair was a big deal when we were kids.  The school used to take us for a day when we were in seventh grade or so and the rides, cotton candy, candied apples, and general din were, to me at least, amazing.

One vivid memory is riding on the tilt-a-whirl with Donald Tompkins and upchucking my candied apple during the ride.  Also, when  I was sixteen, and before tattoos were chic-cool, Bobby Pickett and I got $2.50 tattoos from a drunken tattoo artist at the fair.  Back then, mostly sailors, hoods, and pachucos got tattoos so mine was not exactly well-received by family and acquaintances.  And here it is in all its glory along with a picture of Elise Roberts Hubbard as an infant.  If I knew then what I know now, I might have spent a few more bucks and gotten a better one.....Two years hence from this day, August 21, I would marry Mary Ann Hallenbeck and stay married for 56 years as of 8.21.2021.....

August 20, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 20, 1963

Tuesday, cloudy,  58 in am.  I wrote to Dougie.  Cut out Sue's pink dress and started it. She went to Becky’s at night.

Comment:  Slow Tuesday.  Doug has not been home for a while, might be on a cruise somewhere.  This is Mom's sewing and laundry room after she moved out.  Previously, this was a bedroom that I slept in for awhile along with Doug and David sometimes.  Not very big by today's standards....

August 19, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 19, 1963

Monday, 40 in am.  Partly cloudy and becoming warmer,  upper 60’s.  I did a big wash in the am. Wyckoffs cut and baled hay below the  road and part of the Kane place.  Wayne, Earl and Bob took our two calves to Amsterdam.  I called Carol (Hubbard) at Oneonta and the tax office about Doug's taxes.  I cleaned stove pipe and chimney.

Comment:  Busy Monday, but 40 degrees in the middle of August?  The Kane place, (I always thought it was The Cane Place, but who knows,) was a 44-acre parcel of land to the west of the original Hubbard place starting just at the top of the hill running down into the creek.  Dad had farmed the deserted property for years and sometime just after I got out of the Army in the sixties it went up for back taxes and Dad told me to go to Schoharie and buy it.  I got 44 or so acres for $400.00.  Somebody bid against me but, since we had been farming the land for years, the judge gave my bid precedent.   I eventually gave Doug 22 acres where he resided and also an acre and a half to Susan when she married.  I've still got 21 of the acres. The acreage was rather un-fertile and it grew mostly "Whitehorse", a wispy type of hay.  And mom nonchalantly states she cleaned the stovepipe and chimney..........this is what the chimney look like from inside the house..don't think this met any too many building codes.....

August 18, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 18, 1963

Sunday, clear, cool, windy.  Sue and I went to church and Sunday School.  Went to Earl's in the afternoon and went to Clarksville with them to look at houses. We went to church at night, Howard Schrumph of South Jefferson preached.

Comment:  Don't know if Earl was looking for a place to live or invest in.  He did build several cabins around the ponds he developed and also built several houses in Florida.  LaVerne went to Florida with him several times and I went once just after I got out of the Army.  Elmer and Louise went on my trip and I recall a lot of tension between Earl and Elmer that had something to do with Louise but not sure what.  Clarksville is a small hamlet just outside of Albany..Here is picture of Elmer and Louise.  Elmer was always in pretty good shape.  He must be in his late seventies in this picture:  

August 17, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 17, 1963

Saturday, warmer, windy, rain toward night.  Clifton, Sue and I took Carol to Oneonta in pm to visit Joyce Knapp.  We came back to Mothers and were there for supper. Wyckoff's  bailed both big fields behind the house.


Comment:  The family visits Mom's mother in Richmondville several times a month.  This is how it might have looked "behind the house".  

August 16, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 16, 1963

Friday, nice day.  I worked in am and girls and I went to Middleburgh in am.  I made slip cover for Gerald's car in am.  Wyckoff’s started to cut hay on the field behind the house.

Comment:  Don't remember the slip cover, not sure which car it was.  The lot behind the house was about 20 acres and some years, probably in the forties, we planted corn.  I have a distant memory of Uncle Merel, while cutting corn in that lot by hand,  slipping with the corn knife and severely cutting his forearm.  The corn knives had a curved blade that was used to "pull" cut several stalks at a time and then the cutter would bundle the cut stalks into a "shocks" and these would be loaded on a wagon and taken to a ensilage cutter to be ground up and blown into a silo.  Now,  if you Google corn cutter, the only things that comes up are kitchen utensils for getting the kernels off sweet corn cobs......

Dad on Tractor, Uncle Johnny Haskin, Albert Reed
Marilyn & Me....1940 in the lot behind the house

August 15, 1963, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 15, 1963

Thursday, clear, partly cloudy, windy, and cool high, 62.  I did some ironing and mending.  Wayne worked for David Hallock in pm.  Mr. Mayo was here in the am. The girls and I went to prayer meeting.

Comment:  Mr. Mayo was the minister at Flat Creek Baptist, must have talked with Mom about something with the church.  Prayer meeting again, they don't miss many of those.  Wayne must have been "haying it" for David Hallock.....How they used to do it.

August 14, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 14, 1963

Wednesday, chilly, strong wind.  Still very rainy and windy, 52 in am and 50’s high for the day. Clifton did not work, he and Wayne and I went to Catskill and Albany looking at cars.  Carol and Sue went over to Linda K’s and spent the day in Stamford.  Wayne worked for Carlton 1 hr in the am.

Comment:  Don't remember why they are looking at cars.  Guess the rain stopped both Wayne and Dad from working.  Could get pretty dreary on the hill during the cold and damp weather.  Middle of August and only 52 degrees and strong wind.

August 13, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 13, 1963

Tuesday, cloudy and cool, 60 high.  I picked peas and carrots and made pies.  Norma Ackely and husband were over at night a few minutes.  Girls went to Linda Kinsgley's, they picked them up. Rained nearly all night.

Comment:  Oh the pies...not sure what she made but she was famous for her apple pies and one she called "sour cream pie" that must have had thousands of calories per piece.  Not sure of the ingredients but it did include lots of raisins, meringue,  and of course, sour cream.  She never used a recipe, and before the Home Comfort Gas Range, she baked them all in a wood stove.  I guess she did it so many times that the whole thing became second nature....Not sure who the Ackelys are....  

August 12, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaires.

August 12, 1963

Monday, cloudy in am,  clearing around noon and becoming cloudy later,  60’s.  I washed. The cows and calves gone again.  Wayne,  the girls and I found them but couldn’t get them.

Comment:  Not sure why they couldn't get the cows.  Sounds like there may be a renegade leader in the herd that is leading them off.  Could be a new cow.  They were probably driving around the roads and saw them but could not get to them for some reason.  They may be very skittish and running from humans.  So, the only thing you can do is lure them in with grain or get behind them and herd them in the direction of the barn..Pain in the ass..lot's of times it was a good thing we were not carrying guns when we were herding cows..there would have been a lot more dead ones....

August 11, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 11, 1963

Sunday, sunny in the am, becoming cloudy and cooler in pm, 68 and low 70’s.  Mary Ann, LaVerne, and Roberta here for dinner.  Cooked steak over charcoal. Called Mother and invited them but they didn’t come.  Girls and I went to church at night, had a chalk artist, Mrs. Paul Mayo.

Comment:  Char-coaling steaks started when LaVerne started working for Timberland Charcoal.  Before that, I only remember frying steaks in a pan on the stove and they were pretty much always well done.  I remember us kids blanching a the sight of a rare steak with bloody-like juices.  This was right around Mary Ann's birthday, August 8, and it might have been a birthday get-together for her.  She didn't mention my name so not sure what's going on.  I might have been hauling charcoal or bark.  Double church Sunday one more time...

August 10, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 10, 1963

Saturday, sunny clear day,  70’s.  I cleaned house Clifton and I picked up girls at Mid State camp at noon.  Imer Wyckoff was here and bought out hay. We went to LaVerene’s for supper.  Took Carol to Dr. Lyons for a bug in her ear at night. Talked to Billie at night.

Comment:  Imer Wyckoff and his brother Walt,  ran a very large dairy farm in Gilboa just above the Gilboa High School.  They had a picnic pavilion and had a refrigerator with keg of beer with a tap running through the refrigerator door.  They also always had the latest in farm equipment and tools for just about anything that might come up.  After I got out of the Army and was hitting the local bars, I would often see Imer at the Waterfall House and he would always buy me a couple of beers.  They also had a swimming hole under the bridge at Wyckoff and Flat Creek Road and our kids would often swim there.  Both brothers are gone now........Although I do not have a picture of their spread, it kinda looked like this.....

August 9, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

  August 9, 1963

Friday, mostly sunny,  70’s.  I washed in am.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh shopping in the pm.  Louise and Grandpa called at night.  Marilyn called at night,  they had a telephone.  Girls went camping with AWANA at Mid State.

Comment:  Grandpa Elmer was about 82 at this time and only had a little over a year to live.  He will die on September 21, 1964.  This is the only picture I have of Louise Ferris Hubbard, his second wife, taken in 1981.  She was quite a lot younger than he.   Marilyn must have moved and had just gotten a phone.  

August 8, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 8, 1963

Thursday, lovely day,  70’s.  I finished the beef and went to the missionary meeting at Hersey's in pm.  Sue and I with Madelyn.   Carol was at Lindseys for the day.  We went to prayer meeting at night.

Comment:  Madelyn was Madelyn Blakesley, married to Lyle Blakesley who owned a farm about a mile and a half away on Blakesley Road.  Lyle was the Uncle to My Uncle Rudy Blakesley.  We used to buy eggs from them about once a week or so.  Lyle was kinda bunged up and limped a lot when he walked, not sure what happened to him.  They were both very nice and very devout Baptists.  Here is a picture of  Madelyn in 1981 at the 150th anniversary of the Flat Creek Baptist Church..she is on the right....

August 7, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 7, 1963

Wednesday, nice day. David and I worked at the beef all day,  got it all done but one front quarter.  Clifton cut that up at night.

Comment:  Big job completed and lots of meat for the coming winter.  One year from today in 1964, the Gulf Of Tonkin resolution would be passed that resulted in 58,220 dead Americans in the Vietnam War and Vietnam becoming a Favored Trading Nation of the United States in 2002.  I remember how exhilarated I was when the first air strikes were made by US forces on Vietnam and then how soon that exhilaration turned to disgust as the torrent of  lies from our government and military became so painfully obvious..."When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn..and the same applies to our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.....

August 6, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 6, 1963

Tuesday, nice day.  I did a big wash in am, then Wayne, the girls and I went to Prattsville after the beef.  Worked at that some in pm.  Earl and Lillian over for supper.

Comment:  Brought the butchered cow home probably in large pieces.  It was probably in pieces like this picture when they picked it up and all these pieces must be cut into servable portions and made ready for freezing.  Big job, probably with some cut fingers.  The butcher knives were like razors and it very easy to cut yourself with them.  They probably also had quite a lot ground into hamburger from some of the smaller parts in this picture.

August 5, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 5, 1963

Monday, 52-58 high, cloudy, rainy, cool.  I sewed and mended.  Clifton started work at Jefferson. Our cows still gone.  David and Wayne looked for them.  Mrs. Bolen called 4:30 and said they were down there.

Comment:  Damned cows out again.  This time they headed south, not north up the mountain.  Sound like they were gone about a day which is a pretty long time for them to be gone.  The cows played a major part in our lives on the hill.  We were always doing something that revolved around the cows,  haying, fixing fence, cleaning the barn, butchering, going after calves, selling the calves, de-horning, going after them, spreading their manure, buying cattle feed and salt blocks and always milking them, twice a day, seven days a week, year around.  The cows had different personalities and we came to know which were the rebels that we had to watch and which were the docile critters that would always go meekly to their stanchions and wait to be fed and milked.  But we also learned that they were always animals and as such, could act totally unpredictable in any situation and it was very dangerous to anthropomorphise them.   Many a farmer learned that the hard way when a pet bull or cow with  calf suddenly turned them and either injured them severely or killed them.  "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 1992-1997, more than 
75,000 workers received injuries and 375 workers were killed from animal related injuries. Cattle are responsible for most injuries caused by farm animals."  So, as the old Texas Ranger said when asked by a city dude if his loaded and cocked six-gun on his hip wasn't dangerous:  "Dangerous?  You damn betcha!"


Here is a song about an injury my cousin Paul Ellis suffered from "the Ayrshire on the end"

Kicked By Cow Talking Blues, Three Chord One Take And To Hell With It

Kicked, Original By Gerry Hubbard

“Paul’s been kicked”, Aunt Madeline said, through the old crank phone we had
“A window’s broke, an artery’s cut and he’s bleeding pretty bad.”

“He was in the barn just doing chores, gettin’ milk ready to send
When he got kicked through a window by that Ayeshire on the end.”

So Mom came running to our barn where we were milking cows
And said, “LaVerne, go get the car, Paul needs a doctor now!”

So we pulled off the milk machines, shut down the vacuum pump
And in a fifty-one green Chevy, both of us did jump

We made the mile to Uncle Earle’s, the peddle to the floor
And came up fast to a skidding stop beside the red barn door

Paul was there beside the barn, both arm’s were wrapped in white
We could see the bright blood seeping through and his eyes and lips were tight

“I should’ve killed her long ago”, he said with a rueful grin
“That bitch gets out and kicks like hell now see the shape I’m in.”

The nearest doc in Middleburg was twenty-miles away
And we’ve never drove that Guinea road as fast as on that day

We took him to Doc Lyons, got his bone deep cuts all stitched
And he mostly said on the ride back home, “I’m gonna kill that bitch”

But he healed fast and has the scars and he never killed that cow
But I’ll bet it all comes back to him when he thinks about it now

That summer night, the shattered glass, those bruised and bloody arms
And the times that only can be had by working on a farm

And I bet he shares with a lot of us a kind of soothing fact.
If you’re raised up on a dairy farm, life’s easy after that.

August 4, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 4, 1963

Sunday, 60’s,  showers in am and toward night.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School  and church at night.  Lillian called in pm about cutting this hay.

Comment:  I think Lillian is Uncle Earl's wife and she wants to cut the hay for her horses.  Church morning and night as usual on Sundays...quiet on the hill....How it looked after haying:   Looking west toward Grand Gorge

August 3, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

August 3, 1963

Saturday, fair in am, becoming cloudy in afternoon and hard thunder shower and rain at night. Carol came home from camp.

Comment:  Not much going on except the weather.  On this day in history:  

1914	Germany declared war on France.
1923	Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, one day after President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.
1943	Gen. George S. Patton slapped a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
1948	Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist, publicly accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist underground, a charge Hiss denied.
1949	The National Basketball Association was formed.
	No comments: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 August 2, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries August 2, 1963 Friday, cloudy 58 in am, ’70s.  Clifton went to work at Oneonta for day.  Wayne and Linda here at night.  Wayne, Sue and I went to Middleburgh shopping. Comment:  The union must have called and Dad got at least one day of work.  Sounds like steady work on construction in the summer of 1963 was an "iffy" thing.  When I think about it, the Village of Middleburgh played a large part in our life on the hill.  It had the closest movie theater and a kid's ticket was 25 cents.  Dad would let LaVerne take us there quite often to the movies before he was 16  and he never got caught.  I went one time with the younger kids when I was fourteen and the Middleburgh cop stopped me after the movie.  He was good enough to let me drive home after a warning.  He was quite nice about the whole thing.  That put an end to those episodes.  Just outside of Middleburgh is Vrooman's Nose that we always have to climb every time we return to the area.  This is why:   Monday, August 01, 2011 August 1, 1963 The Frances Hubbard Diaries August 1, 1963 Thursday, hard thundershowers in am, some sun in pm,  showers again at night.  I ironed nearly all day.  The girls and I went to prayer meeting.  Wayne and Linda brought us home.  Clifton was laid off Cairo job.  He took Angus heifer to packing house in pm to have butchered.  Home late. Comment:  Looks like they are going to have some steak to eat.  Probably the heifer was too big for Dad and the boys to handle so they are having it done at the Prattsville slaughterhouse.  I remember going there several times.  This was before all the hi-tech killing stuff.  The calves and cows were hit in the head with a sledgehammer.  The moment they went down, one man put a  hook through a rear leg hamstring while another man slit the animals throat and it was hoisted up to a conveyor belt and was bleeding out on the way the gutting and skinning operations. The whole killing floor was awash in blood and body fluids.   Not a pretty sight...to find out why the Food And Drug Act was passed in 1906, read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.  It will curl you toes.......  Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) You're always young in your mind it is said, No matter the face in the mirror, That you see with surprise then say to yourself, "What is that old man doing here?" 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