This shows how we stored corn on the farm a hundred years ago! My ancestors would cut trees on one part of the farm and remove the branches. They would then stack the trees like Lincoln Logs to form a square crib to hold the corn. This photo also shows how sometimes they would use wire fencing to hold back the ears of corn in a circular crib.

No trucks back then! This was when "horsepower" meant something entirely different when everything was done with horses and mules. I believe that the corn was scooped by hand using a heavy scoop shovel into the storage cribs.

We used to be in the fruit orchard business. The apples were picked, sorted and packed into barrels for shipment while still in the orchard. We primarily produced different varieties of apples but we did grow some peaches, pears, plums and even grapes.