Dave---Where I grew up, very few people farmed---as in real farming. The land was by and large, all pine trees and rocks, and the growing season was just that little bit too short to really get any decent crops. But---everybody had a few chickens, either a cow or a goat for milk, and a couple of young pigs bought early in the spring and slaughtered at freeze up (no electricity, remember). The wealthier families had a working horse---(we didn't but one batchelor uncle had a nice team of Greys that "lived" at our place).---That particular uncle was okay in the camps where he could be kept away from the booze, but once the ice went out in the spring and the big log drives were over, the men came home from the camps for the summer and fall, and he would stay drunk untill the next freeze up.---If the horses hadn't lived at our house during the summers, God knows what would have become of them!!!