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JA: And so what was a typical day for you working on the farm?

MH: My typical day was really rough sometime, because I had to get up at five o'clock and help Dad with all the harvesting or anything that has to be done in the morning shift. I tried to get all that done for him, as much as I can being the oldest. And so I helped him and get things ready. And then, then I have to go to school at eight o'clock, catch the bus and go to school, and then sometime I would walk home because it's faster than the bus. That bus made too many stops coming home so that's the reason sometime I walked home and made a shortcut through every place and got home. And then, that way I could help Dad more on his job because he's got a lot to do. And a lot of time in tomato season we had to sort all those red tomatoes in the greenhouses and that's a night job. So we had to all that tomatoes sorted, packed, and everything at night job. Then I got my homework done at midnight, is what I did, but I got it done. And my dad used to drive the horse in the middle of the night sometime, and I said, "How can the horse see?" He says, "Well if the horse can see, I can see so we can make it." So he used to cultivate the strawberries at pitch dark nights with a lantern hanging on the cultivator, but they had to be done for him to get all that work done.

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