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JA: So, did any, did any, did the Nikkei work off the farm, particularly during the winter months?

MH: The Nikkei, yes, they did work off the farm during the winter months when there wasn't anything to do on the place. Like some of my brothers and thing they went over to skin mink. Skin the mink is what it was. They had that kind of job, and then they went to Kemper's Holly Farm, which was on Yarrow Point. He hired a lot of Japanese during that winter because, see now, they ship all that holly all over United States, so the Japanese was hired there. And some of the people went into Seattle and found any kind of job they could just for the winter, just temporarily, and that worked fine. And the women all went out to do housework all over. There was plenty of housework in Bellevue, so all the young ladies and mothers and everybody did housework during the winter months, too.

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