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after the squeezing then the waterbed- LOL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl MacEachron" <karlme@earthlink.net> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:40 PM Subject: [NYMADISO] This Topic > This topic is being milked for all it worth but it brings back memories - just squeeze and pull! > > > > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > Search the list archives: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put NYMADISO for > the name of the list > >

In a message dated 2/28/2005 6:00:45 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, hjaquay@twcny.rr.com writes: say goodnite Laurence goodnite Laurence

sounds like milk shake to me- LOL- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Meddaugh" <lpmj@juno.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: [NYMADISO] just for the heck of it > Hi gang, > > Since you all were talking about cows etc. Ya want to hear a good one? > A friend of mine has a relative that sells water beds to farmers for > their cows. Seems to do quite well selling them. > Guess the cows must be quite contented. > > Joan > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > >

say goodnite Laurence -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005

LOL thats funny In God We Trust

In a message dated 2/28/2005 4:38:59 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, hjaquay@twcny.rr.com writes: And that's no bull !!! Guess we'd better cool it or we'll be in trouble for non ancestor dialogue, but it's fun. Pat Yeah, Pat you're probably right cuz I'm sure you wouldn't give us a bum Steer! Laurence

No, I'm not soooo young! But my Dad grew up on a large farm (until his Dad died when MY Dad was only 12), then they had to move to the village. Anyway, he'd laugh if he knew I'd asked such a question! I'm so happy to see all of the wonderful memories that it brought up for everyone! Isn't this list great!?! Best, Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <ElaineDecker@cs.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:13 PM Subject: RE: [NYMADISO] Beebe > Carol, > You must be very young... and I am so very old. > > "Carol Bain" <cbain44@twcny.rr.com> (by way of Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net>) wrote: > > >"A Century Ago" has from the Madison County Times, Feb 24, 1905 the > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com >

This topic is being milked for all it worth but it brings back memories - just squeeze and pull!

And that's no bull !!! Guess we'd better cool it or we'll be in trouble for non ancestor dialogue, but it's fun. Pat PS and with miserable weather headed this way, it's time to chill out. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005

In a message dated 2/28/2005 4:10:48 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, hjaquay@twcny.rr.com writes: One might say "udder-ly content" Yes, but it could also be a "Moooooo ving" experience Laurence

One might say "udder-ly content" Pat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005

Greetings to the Madison Co. list Forgive me if this is "off topic" but this list is usually open to memories. I've been thinking about haying after reading about the familiar cow stanchions. One of the most fascinating aspects of haying in the early 1950s (for me, a pre-teen girl) in Madison County, was being around the hay barn as my dad brought wagon loads of hay down from the fields. He would drive the tractor into the barn with the haywagons hitched behind, rev up some kind of engine/motor just outside the barn doors, and carefully set huge hay prongs into the hay on the wagon. Then the engine/motor would grind and complain as the prongs carrying their load of hay would ascend into the heights of the barn, magically carried along on ropes and pulleys. Sometimes I would get to manage the motor's clutch, but it was pretty dicey. At the precise moment, the long rope would be "tripped" (sometimes I got to do that too) and the hay would fall into the hayloft with a thwampf to be spread around at a later time. It was magical to me, but probably not to my dad. I was only 12 or so when I started driving the truck with the hay rake hooked on behind.....and later I drove the tractor with the baler while my dad stacked the hay bales on the wagon....we used the same pulley system to carry the bales into the upper reaches of the barn......it didn't leave much time for fun. ~Deb

This discussion is very interesting. I was glad to hear Charles' description of the home-made stanchion designs. I remember the stanchions in "our" barn (Eaton, Madison County, NY in the 1950s), and I think "our"stanchions must represent a slightly later manufactured version using, I think, iron or cast iron parts. I don't remember my dad replacing any or talking about them much. What I've been especially thinking about during this discussion are the watering "containers" (for lack of a better word) that each of our cows had to its right as it stood in the stanchion. Yes, that's right, each cow had her own water source. All it took to get drinking water was the slight pressure of that soft, silky, gentle muzzle on the pressure plate. We didn't know how good we and the cows had it. It was difficult when the temperatures dove down below freezing, because of course the cows were without water until the freeze let up. This is a great list! Can anyone elaborate more on the watering devices? Debbie Smith Zorach. > From: "charles Page" <cpage@americu.net> > Reply-To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:50:46 -0500 > To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Missing > Resent-From: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:48:26 -0700 > > Pat, Were you referring to me? --about not being on the list lately? If > so --we are doing fine, (or finely, Heh!). > I got a chuckle out of the question about stanchions. Not that I > blame anyone for not knowing what they were. Even many of the modern farmers > don't use them any more, what with loose hausing and milking parlors, etc. > I have built many of the old stanchions when I was farming.(my grandfather > called them "stanchals"). We built stanchions after we moved to our present > farm, and I still used the old design in my grandfather Jones' barn. They > were simple and cheap. I always used 1" x 6" basswood boards if I had it. It > was soft wood and not "splintery" and soon wore down any sharp edges that > might bother the cows. A leather strap was used as a hinge on the block of > wood at the top of the frame, to lock in or unlock the cows. The left side > of the stanchion was a stationary upright board. The right hand board was > fastened by a single bolt at the bottom so it could swing free when the top > opened or closed. Very simple but effective. > Once in while a bull or a cow with horns would learn to twist its head > around, hook the locking block up, and open the stanchion, and then have a > good time running freely around the barn where they could get into mischief. > Grandma Jones told in her diary about this happening with a dangerous bull > when the "men folks" were away once. ( See the story "Minnie LLoyd Jones" on > my web site.) > Nice to recall times long gone, Doggone! > Chas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harold Jaquay" <hjaquay@twcny.rr.com> > To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:41 AM > Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Missing > > >> I haven't seen Charles on line lately, does any one know if he is OK? >> Sincerely hope neither he nor his wife are ill and they are just away on >> vacation. >> >> Pat J. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005 >> >> >> ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== >> To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the > list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com >> > > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list > with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > >

Wondering if anyone on this list has a Henry Hamilton in their family. Henry lived in Eaton, and, along with his son Courtland, moved west to Adams County, Wis. in time for the 1870 census. Courtland was born in 1839 and died in 1883; he was a graduate of Cazenovia Seminary in 1856, served in Co. C, 11th NY Cavalry, and married Clarissa Celestia Clark; Lois L. Hamilton was born in 1835 and died in 1866 and was married to Giles Luke Clark. I can't find a reference to Henry Hamilton in any of the online Madison County sources. Thank you. Doug

Hi gang, Since you all were talking about cows etc. Ya want to hear a good one? A friend of mine has a relative that sells water beds to farmers for their cows. Seems to do quite well selling them. Guess the cows must be quite contented. Joan

Yes I was referring to you, so glad you are OK and you know what, I guess it doesn't take but a word and we recall something connected with it, way back in our lifetime. They are indeed such pleasant memories, I try not to remember some of the more trying ones. Too many good memories to look back on. One of the privileges we have being in the senior division!! Pat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005

Pat, Were you referring to me? --about not being on the list lately? If so --we are doing fine, (or finely, Heh!). I got a chuckle out of the question about stanchions. Not that I blame anyone for not knowing what they were. Even many of the modern farmers don't use them any more, what with loose hausing and milking parlors, etc. I have built many of the old stanchions when I was farming.(my grandfather called them "stanchals"). We built stanchions after we moved to our present farm, and I still used the old design in my grandfather Jones' barn. They were simple and cheap. I always used 1" x 6" basswood boards if I had it. It was soft wood and not "splintery" and soon wore down any sharp edges that might bother the cows. A leather strap was used as a hinge on the block of wood at the top of the frame, to lock in or unlock the cows. The left side of the stanchion was a stationary upright board. The right hand board was fastened by a single bolt at the bottom so it could swing free when the top opened or closed. Very simple but effective. Once in while a bull or a cow with horns would learn to twist its head around, hook the locking block up, and open the stanchion, and then have a good time running freely around the barn where they could get into mischief. Grandma Jones told in her diary about this happening with a dangerous bull when the "men folks" were away once. ( See the story "Minnie LLoyd Jones" on my web site.) Nice to recall times long gone, Doggone! Chas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Jaquay" <hjaquay@twcny.rr.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Missing > I haven't seen Charles on line lately, does any one know if he is OK? > Sincerely hope neither he nor his wife are ill and they are just away on > vacation. > > Pat J. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005 > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com >

It is tales like these that make our genealogy books come to life--every day people doing every day chores but that was life and all of us at one time or another wish for "the good old days." I did not grow up on a farm but had friends that did, and I enjoyed the barn (not the smell) and loved to watch them milk and squirt milk at the barn cats and kittens, and then fill their bowls. It was a simpler life--. We may have gotten older but I don't think we've gotten any better. Dorothy