Ewing News

The beginning of autumn came in beautiful and this is the time when a lot of silage was put away back when I was a kid and there was a lot of milk farmers in the Dover area and Lewis County. That didn’t mean a herd of forty or fifty milk cows, maybe only five or ten cows. A local milk truck came every morning picking up cans of milk and taking it to the local creamery likd Producer’s Creamery in LaGrange. There were two men that picked up our milk in the Dover area, They were Bill Hicks and Harold Vaughn and they would take it to LaGrange. So a lot of cows got silage to eat. LEt me tell you how conr silage day went around our home when I was a child. I remember my mom would cook and prepare food several days ahead, dressing  four or five chickens, baking six or seven pies and several loaves of bread just getting ready for silage day which meant we would have several men coming for dinner. This is where working as a good neighbor starts. Everyone brought their horses, tractors and wagon and started cutting corn and bring it up to the silo outside our barn where a silage cutter set. They threw the stalk, leaves and everything in and the machine chopped it and blew it into the silo where someone would level it out and pack it down and that’s making silage to feed the milk cows. My mom got to visit with her mom, sisters Eva and a couple more neighbor ladies as they cooked a large dinner for everyone that was there.

This past week was pretty calm, only one doctor appointment, but we did to the LaGrange School reunion at the LaGrange Lions club on Saturday afternoon and it was a lot of fun. I wish more of my class would have attended and as we are all getting older and not many times left to see old friends as 65 years have passed since our graduation. The committee that planned this did a really good job. They said they would do it again in two years. Wonder what that will be for the class of 1956, let’s hope everyone